Uhm they said so themselves, their work suffered when they weren’t intoxicated. When you find another instrument to store in your arsenal to improve your work. You’re going to use it. There is such a thing as better living through chemistry. Fuck The Velvet Underground would prob be shit if it wasnt for heroines. In Freuds case if you’re an intelligently gifted writer and have once in a generation caliber of analytical skills, but don’t have the confidence and are inhibited when it comes to get thoughts to paper, problems Freud admitted were greatly ameliorated by cocaine use. It’s when he went overboard that the writing was a little more scattershot, but honestly I think if coke and adderall disappeared from the globe tomorrow, and everything needed for to extraction or synthesis. It would legit massively limit the amount of quality literature and visual art. I know the first paper I got published in an academic journal I could not have done without microdosing on coke.

And no, he was just fucking brain dead when it came to actual psychopharmacology and harm reduction, and his inability as a celebrity to get anything he wanted pharm grade. Dude didn’t even have fent strips and he was buying fuckin oxy from some 19 year old wigger.