Drugs and alcohol are almost always portrayed enticingly, especially some drugs that are supposed to enhance the creative process. I hang out with an artsy crowd, and more than a few of them do drugs and drink and who knows what else. I know a lot of artists who create beautiful things while on psychadelic drugs and musicians who write wonderful songs while drunk, and some of them claim that drugs and alcohol are what give them their ideas. Personally though, as someone who has never done anything worse than smoke marijuana ONCE and smoke a lot of cigarettes, I think that people use this as a crutch and an excuse to keep doing drugs. If someone is creative while under the influence, they are creative while not on the influence. Maybe they aren't creative in the same way, but what they create is just as wonderful.

On the otherhand, though, I can't imagine the world without the writings of Edgar Allen Poe or Ernest Hemingway or Lewis Carrol or Jim Morrison. However, I do wonder what some of these great artists could have done without the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. . .

Peace--Keli