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I can't really relate to this. There is a spectrum of how high you get. Maybe we should distinguish between getting super stoned, just sitting on the couch watching TV and smoking half a joint, going for a walk in nature and listen to music or cook or bake.


With psychedelics some refer to a "museum dose" — that amount you can use that would allow a person to visit an art museum and enjoy the experience. There are similarities with cannabis and other drugs (including alcohol of course).

That said, sometimes a little dab is enough to throw things off — fun story: I was practicing the Filipino Martial Arts and my teacher had a hit off a blunt some fellows practicing kinda-wushu in the same park were passing around. His ability to count out our drills went to hell, but in generally all other ways he was fine. It was very humorous at the time.


> a "museum dose" — that amount you can use that would allow a person to visit an art museum and enjoy the experience

This feels sad to me, and sounds like another angle on the same issue raised above.

You should be able to enjoy/engage with culture while sober; I'd describe needing to be high to connect with art as a dependency and a problem.


I think what they meant was a dose that still lets you enjoy it, not a dose required to enjoy it.


Stoned is the former, high is the latter.




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