Why intelligent people use more drugs
The human consumption of psychoactive drugs, such as marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, is of even more recent historical origin than the human consumption of alcohol or tobacco, so the Hypothesis would predict that more intelligent people use more drugs more frequently than less intelligent individuals...
Given their extremely recent origin and thus evolutionary novelty, the Hypothesis would predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely to consume all types of psychoactive drugs than less intelligent individuals. Once again, as with alcohol consumption, the fact that the consumption of psychoactive drugs has largely negative health consequences and few (if any) benefits of any kind is immaterial to the Hypothesis. It does not predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely to engage in healthy and beneficial behavior, only that they are more likely to engage in evolutionarily novel behavior.
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The author should read a bit about psychedelic therapy, which has helped thousands of people. Or about pain management (also done with psychoactive drugs, the opiates).... Or about all the people who have opened up emotionally on Ecstasy, maybe met the love of their life, with no bad consequences at all. This is so lame, this endlessly repeated statement, that "drugs" are useless and bad for you.
Supposedly because they are illegal... While the same or very similar drugs, if prescribed by doctors, are means of healing - what logic is this? The author should also do some reading on the history of the illegality of drugs. Which has very little to do with them being so especially bad or dangerous. It's all politics, financial interests, cultural and religious intolerance and so on. Very little rational anything. I would not get angry about this statement, if some Mr. Smith who only knows about drugs from the TV told me. But what on Earth is it doing at Psychology Today ?
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