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I would very much disagree. I haven’t smoked up in years, but playing while high on marijuana definitely let go of inhibitions and left-brained thinking (for lack of better way of describing it) and really let me relax and play more intuitively. It works best in an improvisational setting, but it works with very formal music as well. Of course, YMMV.
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I found it useful for composing and sometimes just jamming, but while playing gigs, the short-term memory thing came into play, and I would sometimes forget lyrics (I sang as well as played) or lose my place in the song (especially during solos) or even forget what song I was playing mid-song. I could alsmost always recover pretty quickly, but another characteristic of being high is that every mistake seems amplified (and you become acutely aware of the slightest mistuning as well), so I eventually made the decision to play all gigs completely straight and sober. I had to front as ell as play, so I needed to be somewhat coherent.
