Effects of Marijuana on Chess Performance


I wish people like Ian Rastall would listen to people like your wife and my school friend who became a consultant psychiatrist.
I thought I'd go and see if I could figure out who you are. Turns out you've only played one game. What are you even here for?

I am not marijuana user, but I know many people that use it to keep calm.
I suppose it will withdraw the anxiety and willingness to play, making you give up the game for consider it insignificant.

Comparing cannabis to opium is like apples to oranges, cannabis has been proven healthy for the body and the mind, heroin not so much...but that being said, in countries where people are allowed access to safe pharmaceutical grade heroin the people are not overdosing, that's due to the poor quality that comes from criminalization.

Comparing cannabis to opium is like apples to oranges, cannabis has been proven healthy for the body and the mind, heroin not so much...
Yes. They're two different examples of the same thing, each with their own set of properties. The fact that they're both of that class doesn't make them equivalent.

Anyway, I know how to put myself in the same state without using it. It's cheaper and healthier.
This, right here. Any drug is going to stimulate the production or inhibit the reuptake of feel-good chemicals. That's what they do have in common. It means two things: one, that the body will eventually have trouble doing that on its own, and two, that those chemicals are already there. It's just how you get there that makes the difference. Meditation and exercise are both great ways to achieve that naturally.

I just want to get in here and lament the locking of the thread. It keeps bugging me that I won't get to say it after it happens. It's weird that it's still alive. It's rather cheering, if it's not just that they haven't noticed.
I will say, though, if it's legal where you are, it's better to get it from a dispensary. If you think about it, those two rules are another way of saying, "I'll only smoke it when it's around." That defeats the purpose of not trying something else, as with those unknown people is the anything else, if it ever is with anyone around him. There's a possibility now for a society in which those worries are in the past. (Although Robert Downey Jr. credits his addiction as stemming from the times he would smoke with his dad. He called them some of the best moments of his life, which he would then go on to try and recreate for decades.)
Two things to respond to. Oh well. First off, using the dangers of heroin to illustrate the dangers of weed is indeed ridiculous. Secondly, meth is specifically the drug known for making your teeth fall out. It also is just a different example of the same thing.