I could never beat that guy when he was baked. Granted, I wasn’t very good, but Mike would always swear he played better when he was stoned.
How appropriate, then, that marijuana and video games are being used as a possible means for treating Alzheimer’s Disease.
The medical marijuana lifestyle magazine Culture reports on a recent medical study that uses both video games and marijuana to treat Alzheimer’s patients.
The Groningen Mental Enhancement Department in the Netherlands recently conducted a one-year study to see how gaming and cannabis can affect the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. All the test subjects played increasingly challenging games each day, but half the group was also administered smoke. Would you believe that the marijuana test group scored 43 percent better memory retention than the control group?
That’s good news for Alzheimer’s patients, but contrary to what the marijuana mag would have you believe, it isn’t conclusive proof that smoking up makes you a better gamer.
Hazell
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 7:44 AMWhere else but the netherlands…. When I play cod online its a two come minimum.
kami
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 8:18 AMer… shouldn’t that title read as marijuana improves video game perfornance?.
Unless video games alsto make you more high.
I’d be curious to see though if the performance enhancement through mj was carried on post dose or only whilst they were high. If the latter, what’s the point?
Matthew Kermeen
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 8:32 AMWhen I first read “Video Games Improve Marijuana Performance 43%” I thought it meant that playing games while smoking makes you get high faster.
Brewer74
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 9:13 AM4:20 is the ONLY way to game. Can get expensive when you die a lot in TF2 and have a quick one while waiting to respawn. think I have crahed a few people on iRacing as well, trying to spark one while going down the straight halfway through a long race. Maybe I should go in the pits for that one…
PhatJockey
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 8:16 PMhahaha, iRacing and trying to spark up… classic
Ezkaton
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 10:26 AMPosted at 4:20am… :)
Intercept
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 11:11 AMDunno about anyone else but I choof on and off but when I do I barely loose a game lol.
Who would have thought pot was a performance enhancing drug?
MasterSys
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 11:47 AMYeah I find when smoking up that I concentrate a hell of a lot more than if I were sober, I find that it sucks you into the game and everything around you blocks off, definately needed during an intense game of Black Ops :)
mccawsome
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 10:27 PMHave either of you lads seen that family guy ep where Peter and Lois get wasted and play a concert?
They remember being amazing but the reality is they were horrible.
I think ther may be Some of that happening here ; )
Wisp
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 12:07 PMIf the point of this article was to say this is a good thing I’d like to point out that I thought stuff like that would be generally considered cheating. Not winning.
NinjaCatfish
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 1:07 PMITT: stoners
Gavin
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 3:42 PMI can vouch that “back in my stoner days” Sonic Adventure 2 on Dreamcast was off it’s tits!
Jarvgrimr
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 4:44 PMHehehe brilliant!
Simon G
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 7:04 PMi struggle to play SC2 baked but when I really get into it my macro is crazy good. and wow pvp is so much more fun high.
Cham
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 9:57 PMIs it considered a performance enhancing drug in pro-gaming circles?
matt
Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 2:18 PMthis works because when you smoke up you attention is much more focused on what your doing, but you will find that it takes longer to shift your attention to other things. so yeah, i game stoned all the time its fantastic, you get 100% more immersed in the game and end up playing till like 5am, but trust me that in general weed does not help your memory, in fact i see i a noticeable difference of how quick my memory is when i havent smoked to when i have, given a day or so.
Cypher
Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 4:05 PMI finished Dark Sector in about 7 hours on Brutal while punching cones in between levels. Never missed a headshot with the Glaive whilst baked. Having not smoked for about 6 months now i’m finding my abilities dulled somewhat. Coincidence? I think not :-p
DENAz
Monday, July 11, 2011 at 11:21 AMAgreed, except in games that require you to remember shit… then it becomes a bit of a struggle :P
glennc
Monday, July 11, 2011 at 5:12 PMRPGs are tough when you have no idea what you did in your last sitting (or even half hour ago i ‘spose but at least you have a chance).
Andy Carloff
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 1:07 AMThis Marijuana is performing awesomely! I gotta thank the video games.