<story><title>Gmail Creator Joins Facebook Co-Founder, Donates 100K To Legalize Marijuana</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/marijuana/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roadnottaken</author><text>Are there any hackers out there that like to code stoned?  My marijuana-days never really overlapped with my coding days, but I can&apos;t imagine that would be a very good combo.  I&apos;m all for legalization tho I no longer partake -- I&apos;m just wondering if it&apos;s a regular part of the lifestyle of many successful hackers...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evo_9</author><text>It&apos;s funny but I&apos;m hesitant to answer this truthfully.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not sure if that&apos;s because I have aspirations to submit to YC at some point and wonder how PG might view this (and whether it would affect any decision making one way or another). Or if it&apos;s just the general concern with unnecessarily putting myself &apos;out there&apos; somewhat publicly.&lt;p&gt;So yes, I do smoke and code. I don&apos;t know if I would say I&apos;m &apos;stoned&apos; though; I find that if I have just a wee bit I&apos;m more focused and on point. It&apos;s similar to when I play music; not for the &apos;creative release&apos; often claimed (though seldom experienced by me), but rather for this deep-focus aspect.</text></comment>
<story><title>Gmail Creator Joins Facebook Co-Founder, Donates 100K To Legalize Marijuana</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/marijuana/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roadnottaken</author><text>Are there any hackers out there that like to code stoned?  My marijuana-days never really overlapped with my coding days, but I can&apos;t imagine that would be a very good combo.  I&apos;m all for legalization tho I no longer partake -- I&apos;m just wondering if it&apos;s a regular part of the lifestyle of many successful hackers...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JeremyBanks</author><text>I find it isn&apos;t as terrible as you&apos;d expect if you&apos;re caffeinated at the same time. I think it can be genuinely helpful while initially thinking them out certain things on paper. When I&apos;m actually writing code it sometimes causes me to lose sight of the big picture and to spent forever &quot;perfecting&quot; a function or two. Fun, though not overwhelmingly productive.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&apos;t recommend doing most of your coding high, but if you do so every now and then it might help you think about things in a different way.</text></comment>