Posted on Jun 22, 2012
Why Intelligent People Use More Drugs
Intelligent people don�t always do the right thing
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nightmist
Katie
Interesting article, but it doesn't particularly answer why intelligent people are more likely to use, despite the question being in the title.
Posted on Jun 14, 2012
BenZyl
BenZyl
Starts with 'Opium and cannabis are the only âoenaturalâ psychoactive drugs' and lost me there - no mushrooms and there is a great deal more than that I could pick locally for starters.
Posted on Apr 27, 2012
samannie
samannie
I don't support this fact as i believe less intelligent people are more prone to use drugs because they fail to cope with their everyday life problems so they started consuming drugs so that they may find some diversion from their problems instead of facing them and finding ways to deal with them.
Posted on Mar 24, 2012
malliorb
Malliorb
Derp. drugs make me smart. Derp
Posted on Nov 9, 2011
somavibhute
Somnath
I agree it because it releases stress
Posted on Nov 6, 2011
amarch32
Adam
The article cant really support its point that well but my own views are the same
Posted on Oct 31, 2011
dans88
dans88
this is so shocking!
Posted on Oct 25, 2011
mariongb81
Marion
What a bunch of nonsense! A guy who has never been on drugs is as much an authority on drugs as a priest who had never had sex talking about it. Intelligent people such as myself use drugs because we want to broaden or consciousness and our minds. And yes, life is pain, but we dont try to escape from it, we try to understand it. This japanese guy has his brains charred of watching too much tentacle rape hentai
Posted on Oct 17, 2011
Serotonergic
Solaris
Very interesting...
As for my 2 cents about this jazz:
Highly intelligent people are more aware of the fact that life is suffering... And sometimes reading Haruki Muakami just won't help to forget this.
Posted on Sep 11, 2011
ifsck
Largo
Can't say I disagree with all the the hypothesis' points, but what about the correlations between intelligence and income compared with drug use and income?
Posted on Aug 29, 2011
nontskylo
nontskylo
This doesn't prove that more intelligent people use more drugs, it just proves that people have been retarded longer than we though.
Posted on May 4, 2011
ava
ava
This is utter nonsense. The use of tobacco (300 years old) is not older than the use of opium (5000 years old). Morphine and heroin are both opiates, which the author doesn't seem to realize. The graphs are based on "Latent" factors, which the author never bothers to define... but given that "latent" means "potential", and "potential" factors are by definition not currently present, I think we can safely conclude that this article is nonsense.
Posted on Apr 24, 2011
geoglyph
geoglyph
From the page: Opium and cannabis are the only "natural" (agricultural) psychoactive drugs. Other psychoactive drugs are "chemical" (pharmacological);
fact checking here: you can take magic mushrooms, also psychoactive, after they've been dried. no modern chemicals required. among others, of course. there's plenty of peoples living traditional lifestyles that take psycoactive drugs made from plants & animals, besides those two. today is a bad day for fact-checking.
Posted on Feb 16, 2011
brandta2
brandta2
The article says earnings was not associated, but it has to be. More intelligent people may use more drugs more frequently because they have the means and resources to obtain the drugs more frequently. Intelligence is, a sad truth, related to household income. Smarter kids have access to better school districts, private schools, books and technology. Better school districts maybe in higher income areas because of the amount of taxes paid to the district. I think this study should be interpreted with caution.
Posted on Feb 15, 2011
insanityrising
insanityrising
From the page: "Opium and cannabis are the only 'natural' (agricultural) psychoactive drugs."
Posted on Feb 12, 2011
rachel1231
rachel1231
From the page: People - scientists and civilians alike - often associate intelligence with positive life outcomes. The fact that more intelligent individuals are more likely to consume alcohol, tobacco, and psychoactive drugs tampers this universally positive view of intelligence and intelligent individuals. Intelligent people don't always do the right thing, only the evolutionarily novel thing.
Posted on Jan 19, 2011
treasure83
Renee
an interesting question but a fairly silly article. i think there could be quite a few reasons why intelligent people use drugs, like being more likely to self-criticise and take more stressful jobs. also maybe the belief that they can be in control of their drug use where less intelligent people might believe the continual anti-drug messages.