Not, however, the reported experience of users of substances that are known to cause psychosis. Psychosis may involve reversals of facts, saying things are so when they aren't and a number of other things. Since I already recognised an incorrect statement in the passage quoted, assumed to be by experienced people, that prompted me to make this warning.
After all, you're already implying that the woman who tells you you don't need protection is experienced. 
Does THC improve thinking capabilities playing chess?
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Too much THC does have a negative impact, your perception may be distorted if the quantity of THC in the blood stream is too much affecting therefore our concentration. One joint after the game should be the ideal thing to do.
Nov 20, 2019
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Although chess increases creativity, it may have an inverse cognitive effect with regard to calculations and memory for some. Here is an interesting article but does not adequately answer question. Think of top chess players;who, if anyone, uses cannabis to enhance their chances of winning?
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sighart_Golf/publication/280741588_Doping_for_Chess_Performance/links/55c5d21808aeca747d61ab38/Doping-for-Chess-Performance.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sighart_Golf/publication/280741588_Doping_for_Chess_Performance/links/55c5d21808aeca747d61ab38/Doping-for-Chess-Performance.pdf
robmo wrote:
It could depend on the strain you use too. I can concentrate intensely at times. Other times I just can't get into it. The only thing that changes consistently is the strain I'm using. I'm sure there are plenty of other factors too.
Thats true...I avoid using high THC % marijuana unless I am in extreme pain...Low dosage thc has worked for me on chess playing skills for decades now...
It's just a question of your ability to concentrate. If you can concentrate well, it can make the concentration more intense. If you can't concentrate it will make it even worse. That's ignoring negative effects. Other negative effects of cannabis use include extreme mood swings, sometimes including extreme aggression. The belief that it makes you passive all the time is an invention. After all, who were the assassins and why were they called that?
Thename_isBond wrote:
Although chess increases creativity, it may have an inverse cognitive effect with regard to calculations and memory for some. Here is an interesting article but does not adequately answer question. Think of top chess players;who, if anyone, uses cannabis to enhance their chances of winning?
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sighart_Golf/publication/280741588_Doping_for_Chess_Performance/links/55c5d21808aeca747d61ab38/Doping-for-Chess-Performance.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sighart_Golf/publication/280741588_Doping_for_Chess_Performance/links/55c5d21808aeca747d61ab38/Doping-for-Chess-Performance.pdf
Interesting....I believe there has never been any doping testing before tournament play...I just have been reinterating all along that it works for me regardless of what clinical studies have found...For most probably not...
I confess to having used it for tournaments and club match-play chess but that was decades ago, before I had any inkling that it was even against any rules. After all, I reasoned that drinking alcohol was legal, smoking cigars can be an aid to concentration. So, probably, can aspirin, which is legal. I don't touch the stuff nowadays. Eating it can cause very extreme experiences too.
Nov 20, 2019
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Optimissed wrote:
Not, however, the reported experience of users of substances that are known to cause psychosis. Psychosis may involve reversals of facts, saying things are so when they aren't and a number of other things. Since I already recognised an incorrect statement in the passage quoted, assumed to be by experienced people, that prompted me to make this warning.
After all, you're already implying that the woman who tells you you don't need protection is experienced.
Yea...I have a past, and a lot of it im not proud of.
We most of us have a past, citizen!
Nov 20, 2019
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ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
And we haven't even gotten to terpenes yet!
Ben Terpene one of my favorite silent film stars....
Nov 20, 2019
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ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
and the inventor of Terpentine!
A true visionary!
um op
who said anything about booze?
smoking weed can put you in a good state of focus and concentration but if that gets snapped it is very hard to recover
pretty sure i have smoked weed longer than you have been aive
who said anything about booze?
smoking weed can put you in a good state of focus and concentration but if that gets snapped it is very hard to recover
pretty sure i have smoked weed longer than you have been aive
ElleJohnson wrote:
Its so weird to be having this conversation linked to chess... will FIDE be testing players soon?? I mean surely it will come to that? Maybe MAGNUS has been smoking weed this whole time?
Hah..No elle...Nobody needs to smoke weed to get high for that slight chess advantage if there is an alternative such as edibles to be descreet so who knows and who cares if these high rated chess players are stoned in tournament play...
Optimissed wrote:
congrandolor wrote:
Optimissed wrote:
It can help concentration but it is addictive and long-term use can cause psychosis and memory loss.
So I wouldn't recommend it if you want to learn the Botvinnik Semi Slav
LONGTERM use causes LONGTERM memory loss (and psychosis)
Wow...Reminds me of our popular president Ronald Reagan who continued the war on drugs epitah decades ago when asked a question from the past he could not remember...A sure sign of psychosis...
When using THC I just think I’m playing better!
I was a teen in the 60's. Many of my friends were and still are into weed. They're basically still healthy and productive. (A couple of them play chess.) Sorry, but I can't say that about my boozing and tobacco abusing friends.
Hi
From a "pro-pot" website...
Weed and chess – an unusual duoWeed probably doesn’t enhance your chess skills – regardless of how convinced you are that it does when you’re high. Cannabis has the potential to eliminate distraction (or pain) long enough to help you into a play-ready headspace – though your focus may waver as the game goes on. As long as you’re not attached to playing your best game possible – and you’re not playing in a tournament with anti-doping rules – a game of chess could be a fun and interesting addition to your next cannabis session.
Thats true..The longer I play chess the more sleep induced I become...Of course during face to face tournament play doping is not allowed...but over the internet those rules do not apply...
Just take it for granted that pro-pot people never know what they're talking about and you won't go as far wrong as when you assume they do know what they're talking about. Psychosis, remember?
I only converse through my experience playing over 3000 games on this chess site...You are a fool to believe what others tell you without experiencing yourself and thats where knowledge comes into play...
I know overdosing is dangerous. I know driving drunk is dangerous. I know setting myself on fire is bad. I know trusting a woman that says: "its ok, you don't need protection." is a bad idea. There are a lot of things in life i know are dangerous, unhealthy, or just pan bad/wrong. And i dont need to "experience" them myself to know that. And sometimes, trusting others experiences in things is the best course of action.