When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves

Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by leesec on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:10AM (#18345807)

I definitely benefit from this. I find pot to be a great context switcher. Formerly after working on a problem for long hours, when I would go home I would still be immersed in the problem and unable to take my mind off it. Now when I come and have my things in order I warm up a vape bag and put on some jazz and am able to completely detach from work and really just enjoy my nights.

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by Tor3 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:50AM (#18346139)

I use a completely different method (to detach from whatever it is - work or something else). I pick an instrument and play some music. Something anyone can do, as long as you don't fret about being good or not.

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by xkcd-sucks on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @01:48PM (#18347792)

I always end up coming home from work, eating dinner, showering, queuing up a movie, smoking weed, having some random insight on a work related problem, and never getting around to the relaxing activity I had planned!

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by nashashmi on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:32AM (#18345984)

I have never understood this concept of detaching from work only to wake up the next day and having to face it. Why would you detach so much?

Relaxing is overrated. It deprives you of powers you have developed or will develop, only to make you a more powerless person.

And a powerless person can never and should never relax.

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by leesec on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:47AM (#18346103)

Haha, you are on some hyperbole stuff my dude. If you want to work super hard your whole life go for it. I am very satisfied working my 8 hours and then putting that work aside and enjoying my leisure time.

I still of course work extra some times or do productive things in my time off, but yeah unless there's a deadline I'm not gonna worry about some work problem on off hours when I can't even make progress until I get back to my work computer anyways.

Fear/worry/anxiety is the mind killer and often helps nothing.

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by thecatspaw on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:59AM (#18346217)

And I never understood slaving away for your employee while you're not getting paid for it.

Relaxing is not overrated at all, it improves your ability to focus, and even makes you more productive. Far from depriving you of any powers or skills.

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by Kadin on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:33PM (#18347134)

To each their own, but I'm not paid to work 24 hours per day, and doing so would undoubtedly affect my outside-of-work relationships and interests.

My experience is that there is not a linear relationship between effort invested and output. It's a diminishing returns problem after 8-10 hours per day, so it's not even productive for me to spend all day and night churning on a work problem, even if I wanted to do that.

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by madamelic on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @01:05PM (#18347426)

Working 24 hours a day is a good way to burn out. Sometimes you need to switch contexts and look at the problem in a new direction.

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by nickdandakis on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:32PM (#18347129)

Do you also think you don't need to make your bed in the morning since you're gonna sleep in it later that day?

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by nashashmi on Thursday November 01, 2018 @01:06AM (#18351578)

I don't make my bed in the morning. But when my bed happens to be made, it is so refreshing to just come at night and sleep soundly. Like a reset button was hit.

I get it now. Sort of.

But the problem doesn't go away.

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