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/^t/The third reason for people to use drugs is the wish to increase their creativity. It concerns mostly the people connected with so called high art - poets, writers, painters, etc. Drugs give such people a possibility to look inside their minds and find there something new that could be used in their art - new visions and images to be described and new ideas to be developed. Quite many great pieces of art (especially contemporary) were either inspired by or created under the influence of hallucinogenic substances. Without drugs they would probably never have been created. Some writers, composers, and painters openly admit that while writing their novels and songs and painting pictures they often "opened their minds" with such substances as LSD, cocaine and marijuana. There may probably be hundreds of other artists who do not want to admit that they used the dope to create their masterpieces.