dunno..Wesley's such a do-gooder. Most characters are too "by the books" uptight. l'd guess Bashir. Or maybe Rom and Leeta sharing a bowl after a long day.
Amy Poehler watched DS9... on marijuana...
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This thread is making me wish they had done a marijuana scene in TNG. Maybe at one of Riker's poker games, everyone sitting around the table getting high and starting to giggle and laugh at random and nonsensical things. And Data is just sitting there getting increasingly confused and perplexed which just makes everyone else laugh even harder.
I don't see many Star Trek characters having smoked marijuana any later than high school. Successful Starfleet officers need to be driven, also it's probably strictly against the rules to be impaired any time you may need to be on duty. Also none of my experiences around people who are high have been very pleasant ones. Maybe synthabbis.
Riker and Bashir probably used mind altering drugs on Risan vacations.
Riker and Bashir probably used mind altering drugs on Risan vacations.
What do you think the Benzites were really inhaling from those devices...?
^^ This made me LOL because it's just so true.
I agree that watching Trek after having a smoke is par for the course. In fact since 1996 when I was 15 the ritual was that I would walk up to the local video shop (which was the only one around that had EVERY SINGLE Trek on VHS - literally a whole wall devoted to it), and have a couple of pipes in the park on the way then come home and watch. Now I'm 33, hardcore back into Trek, reliving the ritual of the same video shop, same park on the way
and this time wearing a QMx Voy/DS9 Starfleet communicator badge. Sometimes I wonder if the hard-working and straight ideals of Starfleet are compatible with a stoner lifestyle, I mean if everyone building Earth's (and the eventual Federation) future sat around smoking weed then not much would get done unfortunately, but on the flipside it takes those who see things from a different, open and fresh perspective (ie smokers) to be able to envision the kind of possibilities featured in Trek.
Trek (and bong) on.
And none of that "muchies" business afterwards.
I dunno, I've met a lot of stoners who think they're more creative when they're stoned and none who actually are.
I wouldn't think that it holds true for everyone, but the guys in my avatar (including the one who wasn't in the scenes filmed that day) did their most legendary work during their marijuana and LSD phases.
The Beatles were creative people who happened to get high a lot. 
They started using marijuana and LSD at around the same time they decided to break from their image created by the record company and around the same time they were influenced by their trip to India.
They started using marijuana and LSD at around the same time they decided to break from their image created by the record company and around the same time they were influenced by their trip to India.
The trip to India was later...they mostly got off LSD while there, IIRC. A rough breakdown....
Marijuana: Help!, Rubber Soul
LSD: Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, new songs from the Yellow Submarine soundtrack
India: The Beatles (The White Album--they literally wrote the bulk of the album's material while there)
It's well documented that they got high while spending their increasingly long and odd hours in the recording studio...so it's not like they were just toking up in their spare time.
Marijuana: Help!, Rubber Soul
LSD: Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, new songs from the Yellow Submarine soundtrack
India: The Beatles (The White Album--they literally wrote the bulk of the album's material while there)
It's well documented that they got high while spending their increasingly long and odd hours in the recording studio...so it's not like they were just toking up in their spare time.
And before that: Prellies in the Hamburg days.
More relevant to the specific topic...a recent commercial has Amy's cohort Tina Fey sniffing dryer sheets for comedy-writing inspiration. There's probably a grain of truth behind that.
Sniffing dryer sheets? Seems like a Weyoun thing.
They should do a That 70s Show reunion where the characters spark up for old times sake, and Erik imagines everyone as TNG characters. (Fez would be Data, of course.)
In that case it seems like their most heralded music was written under LSD, not marijuana.
Correlation does not imply causation. Being good at making music gives you better access to mind altering drugs, mind altering drugs do not make you better at making music. Clinical studies testing the relationship between drugs and creativity show that when you are high, creativity stays about equal but technical prowess diminishes.