, I said what a lot of people have thought but you don't want to say. If what you got addicted to is alcohol, probably that's not going to go well for you unless you're a functional alcoholic and you're in sales. If you're a functional alcoholic and you're in a sales profession it might be pretty good. I mean I wouldn't recommend it but it could work out well. In fact I know several people who are clearly functional alcoholics who have tremendous lives as far as I can tell from the outside because they just funnel that drinking into sales. They're very social. They make a lot of sales. Have a good life. And they're drunk all the time and they don't seem to be any the worse for wear. So some people apparently can make that work. Now I'm not recommending that. It's a special case.

But it's also true that people can be more creative depending what they're taking. They can relax. They can, you know if they're on Adderall or other performance-enhancing drugs, sometimes they need them. Sometimes they get them recreationally or just for performance. But the point is Silicon Valley is run on drugs. You know if that wasn't clear enough let me say it as clear as possible. Silicon Valley runs on drugs. And not the legal kind all the time. Some of them are illegal. You know Adderall is legal etc. But Silicon Valley is a drug-fueled industry.

Now that's something that you don't see in the news so much. You've seen stories about it but it's not really emphasized. But the fact is I don't know what percentage but the people in Silicon Valley who are using drugs are using it not recreationally exactly. They're using it functionally. So the Silicon Valley people who are using drugs and also successful, it's because the drugs they're either addicted to or choose to use are productive.

I'll use myself for an example. I'm not, yeah technically you can't be physically addicted to marijuana but I'm certainly psychologically addicted. And I can guarantee you from my own experience that my creativity goes through the roof when I use it. In fact a lot of the ideas that you've seen coming out of me happened when I was enjoying a good 4/20 afternoon. And so would I be more or less successful? I don't know. It's hard to know. But I will tell you that a lot of the most successful people have simply chosen the right kind of drug that works for their particular situation, their particular genetic makeup, their particular whatever.

Now the reason that I don't recommend any of this is that it can kill you, right? Do you need a better reason? How about this: don't do it. It could kill you. That's it. That's a little recommendation. I'm not a doctor and if you're not a doctor don't be playing around experimenting with drugs to make you a better person. You know I'm not going to recommend that. I'm just going to say some people have for whatever reason have discovered that there are some types of drugs that make them better. Other people have found drugs that just make them worse. If you're taking a drug that just makes you worse that's where you're going to end up.

Somebody says pot doesn't kill. Yeah so there's a little bit of disagreement on that. I'm on the side of saying that you know marijuana doesn't kill you but there are other people say well but if you're doing marijuana and try to ride your motorcycle really fast you know I'm suppose you could do something foolish. Somebody says stop taking any marijuana for a while and see if you have physical results. Well I've done that of course and I know the difference. I'm very aware of how different it is.

Often drugs are a fix for an underlying mental issue. I would say every time. I would say that all drugs, unless you just you know trying them on a weekend or something you're just experimenting, but for people who are using them regularly I would say that that statement is true. That people do it to fix something that wasn't giving them enough happiness or something.

I can't drink or get high during work. It's a waste of a good buzz. Yeah most work is not compatible with marijuana but some is.

Somebody says I should plug locals.com. Yeah I will remind you that I've moved a lot of my video content. All the Periscopes will be reproduced there. I'll keep doing them here. This won't change but they're also on the Locals platform. So if you went to scottadams.locals.com you'll find my page. You can look at my Twitter profile to see it as well. And for a small subscription fee you can get extra stuff and you could have everything in one place and the algorithm will not rule you.

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