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...oftentimes smoke marijuana before going to the seven hour VES classes or before I work on a piece,” says one student, “but less for creative inspiration than for getting the mind and body into a sort of a mode for allowing the creativity to come. It helps you not get fixated on a certain idea or color and allows a little more flow in the creation of whatever you’re making...
...Sometimes I drink just a little bit because it is a way to break consciousness,” he says. “I don’t think drinking makes me more creative. But I think it makes me less afraid to say the creative thoughts that I already have...
Psychology professor Shelley H. Carson affirms the notion that drugs may be less present on our campus in comparison to others. “I would expect there to be less drug use in the artistic community at Harvard, because their ability to be an artist depends on their ability to stay in school,” she says...
...psychological effects differs according to one’s genetic makeup. In her research review, “Creativity and Psychopathology: A Shared-Vulnerability Model,” Carson argues that creative individuals tend to respond more positively to the high that drugs induce, since their naturally less inhibited state is more conducive to artistic production. “Genetic vulnerability factors... may predispose certain individuals to experience altered mental states that provide access to—and interest in—associational material typically filtered out of conscious awareness during normal waking states,” Carson explained...
...information gleaned from Mohammed was coerced by CIA investigators, who according to documents waterboarded the al-Qaeda operative 183 times. In a Nov. 13 press conference, Holder said he "fully expects to direct the prosecution" to pursue the death penalty for the five alleged terrorists. For Bharara, securing anything less - in a courtroom just blocks from the site of the devastation the accused wrought - will likely be judged a failure. See "Photos: The Challenge of Memorializing 9/11...