That said... I have noticed a persons abilities reaction times dropping drastically, from smoking too much weed.
Interesting. For regular or long-time users of weed there is no or negligible effect on reaction times or (for example) ability to drive safely. Not that I want my bus driver stoned, just saying.
Noob smokers are in another category altogether! Too busy laughing to hold the wheel.
By comparison, alcohol has a dramatic effect on your reactions regardless of your tolerance.
Bank Panic is a great game for testing your personal reactions in these different scenarios. If I play it while drinking my reactions just get steadily worse, 3-4 beers and I'm done. But the other thing has no effect at all, maybe even helps with the focus.
Well, the one dude I used to work with when I was a young kid, was so spaced out... that there was an actual long pause
between when you would ask him a question, and when he would actually respond. He was doing weed nightly, at the
restaurant we worked at.
The other dude grew his own.. and also was a daily user. He was the one that I noticed some delay with.. but I cant
know for 100% certain, if it was the drug. Spy Hunter is a brutally difficult game... I just noticed that in certain days
he had lightning quick responses... and on others, he was delayed, and kept getting worse and worse in performance.
Far worse than his typical average level performance.
(of course, maybe he also had something to drink those days, that I didnt realize or remember)
As for Bank Panic... I believe there is a minimum threshold in the timing of the basic responses. So long as you stay
within that range... its then all down to what you chose to shoot or not-shoot. IMO, its a decent test.. but.. its not
as intense as something like a game of Robotron... where you are a pixel away from death, like every 3 seconds.
(IE: "millisecond reactions" rather than "1 second" based reactions)
I have been around some that went into Paranoid states, that were kind of flipping out.
My uncle was both a drunk, and a drug user. While staying at my grandmothers place, he used to have
"Parties" when she stayed the nights over at her BFs house. One night, at like 3am.. dude was talking to
this female on the couch. His voice was always way too loud, so I could hear him through the walls.
She asked him a question, and he spat out this long 2 min response. Then, she asked the same question
again... and he repeated, "Word for Word" the exact same long response. This happened at least 3 times
in a row... back to back. I was blown away.. that they both could not recall the last 2min, and went on
a perfectly Looped cycle of questions and answers.
My overall guess, is that the drug may effect certain peoples brains differently.
I only tried the stuff once, more recently. I didnt get to feel much of anything... as I just got so
messed up, that I was either completely unable to move, or was throwing up. Eventually passing out
completely.
When I have the cash, Ill stick to Long Island's, instead. Three of those, and I light up
the dance floor... or I start doing some random "Drunkin Kung Fu".