gwern comments on In which I fantasize about drugs - Less Wrong
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I want a drug that's like marijuana but is 1) substantially less potent and 2) doesn't impair memory. The reason for this is that I've noticed that while under the influence of small amounts of marijuana, the "connection-making" circuit in my brain is far more active. Of course, if it's too active then this is an impairment (everything becomes "connected"). But I'd rather have to reject spurious connections than to not have access to potentially insightful connections in the first place.
Jonathan Lehrer in the excerpts from his new creativity book mentions that alcohol has been shown to help 'insight' problems.
He's probably going off research like http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2012/03/mild-intoxication-aids-creative-problem.html