No offense, it's purely one of my random thoughts after taking too much vitamin C and sleeping over the weekend. Just watched an episode of Curiosity, Drugs on Your Body. It illustrates how drugs affect your physical and emotional reaction. Some scientists conduct some experiments to four drug users. They take different kind of drugs: meth, cocaine, heroin and marijuana. The drug users are asked to perform activities which require them to focus, follow instruction, deal with tense situation and perform physical strength test.
Spoiler alert for those who haven't watched and are planning to watch it! Long story short. Cocaine and meth users tend to be more aggressive, always in a rush and pay less attention on details. Although they have shown a little bit different response especially from the strength test. On the other hand, heroin and marijuana users tend to be more calm, focus and work more efficient but both work slower and often lack of urgency. I cannot remember all the details so you should not use to this as reference for drug user behavior guideline (anyway, who will?).
However after watching the episode, I came to think and relate Buddha to marijuana users as to me they posses similar attribute: extremely calm.
(Jan'12. Looking forward to experiencing real meditation)
