These threads always get closed. It's still a good question, though. No one should be thinking of adding it in to improve their game. It only helps if you're used to it, and not having it would become irritating. Whenever you're irritated your play will not be as good.
It doesn't help if you're used to it.
It doesn't help if you're not used to it.
It doesn't help.
It's basically just a carcinogenic stupefier which makes your teeth fall out.
I'm thinking that chess players are people too, and some of them have experience with this topic.
That said, I can't imagine anything wrong with combining two wonderful things.
Marijuana is a highly addictive drug which makes its users bored, angry, depressed, boring, apathetic, boring, lethargic, stupid, useless, boring, slow, boring, and boring. One of my best friends from school ended up becoming a consultant psychiatrist, and the locked ward he was in charge of was full of marijuana casualties.
LOL Lets just say its also good for stomach cramps. glaucoma, temper. and mental anxiety but horrible for physical anxiety, could even make it worse I agree.
Right, so your argument is:-
1. X has some medical applications
ergo
2. X is ok for recreational use.
Try running this argument with heroin.
Long-term use noted for making people subject to temper tantrums and uncontrollable rages. They weren't called the Assassins for nothing. That was a cult from the name Hash-hashins. Oh hash, forgot that name. Very early 70s.
Quite so.
Africa.... Its the center of the map for a reason.
Yes, and the REASON is that the Pacific Ocean covers more of the Earth's surface than all of the continents combined (165,000,000 sq km vs 148,000,000 sq km), so the Pacific Ocean is the logical spot to place at the outer edges of the projected view.
That puts Africa at the center.
It's basically just a carcinogenic stupefier which makes your teeth fall out.
It's methamphetamine that makes one's teeth fall out.
I'd like to see the results from an experiment with a large number of players with money on the line. the stoned games along with the not stoned games (many games). then compare.
Try running this argument with heroin.
That's not a proper analogy, as heroin and weed are two examples of the same thing.
Try running this argument with heroin.
That's not a proper analogy, as heroin and weed are two examples of the same thing.
Read this comment back to yourself. It makes literally no sense.
It's basically just a carcinogenic stupefier which makes your teeth fall out.
It's methamphetamine that makes one's teeth fall out.
Ask your dentist about the effect of smoking on bone density.
I'm thinking that chess players are people too, and some of them have experience with this topic.
That said, I can't imagine anything wrong with combining two wonderful things.
Marijuana is a highly addictive drug which makes its users bored, angry, depressed, boring, apathetic, boring, lethargic, stupid, useless, boring, slow, boring, and boring. One of my best friends from school ended up becoming a consultant psychiatrist, and the locked ward he was in charge of was full of marijuana casualties.
Only moderately addictive, compared with heroin and some others. I found moderate use went well with playing table tennis, chess, playing the board game Risk!, cycling fast, walking long distances, playing table football (fussball?) but not tennis or other such sports.
That cannabis is relatively less addictive than heroin is hardly a ringing endorsement of its suitability for recreational use.
I'm thinking that chess players are people too, and some of them have experience with this topic.
That said, I can't imagine anything wrong with combining two wonderful things.
Marijuana is a highly addictive drug which makes its users bored, angry, depressed, boring, apathetic, boring, lethargic, stupid, useless, boring, slow, boring, and boring. One of my best friends from school ended up becoming a consultant psychiatrist, and the locked ward he was in charge of was full of marijuana casualties.
LOL Lets just say its also good for stomach cramps. glaucoma, temper. and mental anxiety but horrible for physical anxiety, could even make it worse I agree.
Right, so your argument is:-
1. X has some medical applications
ergo
2. X is ok for recreational use.
Try running this argument with heroin.
well heroin is not good at all imo because you can easily overdose and die.
The example of heroin demonstrates the invalidity of your argument from X's having medical applications to X's suitability for recreational use.
It's basically just a carcinogenic stupefier which makes your teeth fall out.
It's methamphetamine that makes one's teeth fall out.
Right, so now your argument is:-
1. Methamphetamine makes your teeth fall out
ergo
2. Weed doesn't make your teeth fall out.
Your argument is invalid. The conclusion doesn't follow from the premise.
Try running this argument with heroin.
That's not a proper analogy, as heroin and weed are two examples of the same thing.
Read this comment back to yourself. It makes literally no sense.
He might still be talking about a different argument .... that of drogues and chess. However, they have very different properties and effects from one-another.
My wife, who's now a psychotherapist/counsellor, started her working life as a Registered Mental Nurse. She has quite strong opinions on the long-term, detrimental effects of cannabis. She must have seen a bit of it. I know she worked variously on an acute psychiatric ward of a big hospital in Bolton and also on the long-stay psychiatric ward.
I wish people like Ian Rastall would listen to people like your wife and my school friend who became a consultant psychiatrist.
I find it usually just makes me less efficient with my time... best to play against the person you're smoking with to minimize that disadvantage 
The original "dope" was the sealant used on airplane canvas (wings, fins, body panels). Easily huffed and easily obtainable. Used for a cheap high, same with ether or chloroform.
I'm thinking that chess players are people too, and some of them have experience with this topic.
That said, I can't imagine anything wrong with combining two wonderful things.
Marijuana is a highly addictive drug which makes its users bored, angry, depressed, boring, apathetic, boring, lethargic, stupid, useless, boring, slow, boring, and boring. One of my best friends from school ended up becoming a consultant psychiatrist, and the locked ward he was in charge of was full of marijuana casualties.