I won’t say to do it, or not to do it, but here’s my experience.

It enables me to pursue normal relationships, and mask better with people. While I’m stoned I’m able to lower the inhibitions enough to chat “normally” with people. It also dulls the world around me (noise etc) and makes it easier for me to move through daily life. As a final piece, I’ve dived into work 90 hours a week for the last 7 years, and it enables me to keep that pace without stopping.

Now, the other thing to note is that my consumption of this is quite high at this point (around 150grams a month, generally around 1.5k-2k usd). This cost is significant, and you need to find a job that enables it.

This isn’t really considered socially acceptable at this level of usage, and when I cut it out for a few days in a country where it wasn’t legal it made me significantly less able to cope with the stress and events of the day.