The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
and I would be entirely remiss if I didn't include a conversation about cannabis, meaning THC, CBD, hybrid strains, et cetera in creativity and different modes of thinking, because as many of you probably know or at least have heard about, cannabis can impact the way that we think, the types of memory systems we can access and what's called convergent and divergent thinking, which is one way of conceptualizing what is commonly referred to as creativity.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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many of the ideas that people come up with when under the influence of cannabis in particular high THC containing cannabis does lead to enhanced divergent thinking, but so enhanced it turns out that oftentimes those ideas can't be constrained by the convergent thinking process.