That said, I recall years back Jack White was being interviewed by someone in the legacy media, and he was asked if he used cannabis. He said he did not, and added that he considered that 'cheating', meaning the cannabis is doing the creating, not the writer.

I thought about it and found that I strongly disagree.

The analogy I thought of was a skier. Does a skier go to a football field to ski? No, he goes to the mountain.

Does the mountain HELP him ski? Sure. It may even in a sense CAUSE him to ski. But is the skier who skis.

When you see someone do an amazing slalom course, would you jeer and say 'he couldn't do that without the mountain, it's the mountain that's skiing'. No.

Sometimes cannabis is the mountain that your creativity finds its groove in.