"Higher Ceilings of Human Nature" (Maslow)

Wow...All the readings were so interesting and eye opening I guess i can being with creativity and chemistry. Hughes make clear that many artists linked with drugs were artists before they became heavy users and they had spend many years developing their particular style or medium. This involvement of drugs will only enhance their creative process but not better or worsen the piece of art they are trying to convey. "For many crative artists, however, art is a passion that cannot be replaced by drugs, although it can be extinguished by addiction." (Hughes 161)
Opium was imported and used as a house-hold drug for children and raw opium was sold in forms of pills and penny sticks. Opium acts like natural painkiller, first producing a feeling of pleasure and euphoria. After continued use the body will want more to achieve the same or greater feeling.
Author, Arthur Conan Doyle, super-detective creator of "Sherlock Holmes", was a frequent user of cocaine and another known user was American animator Walt Disney. I know it may sound silly but I wouldn't ever known that unless I researched about it...what are the chances.

Also, the amphetamines such as Benzedrine was very popular by college students who wanted to cram for test and wanted to stay up and have this great extra energy. I remember in n episode on "Saved by the Bell" (TV show in the late 90s) one of the girl characters who was studying for her big test and juggling between aerobics and school, she took this drug to her be more awake and be able to do it all. At the time I didn't eve have a clue of what this was!