While chucking psychedelics at a 13-year-old brain is generally regarded as a very, very , very bad idea by medical experts, Seth Rogen doesn't have too many regrets.

During an interview with Vulture, Rogen chatted about his youthful experiments with magic mushrooms, and how it has effected him since.

"What I do know is that I’ve started reading more about drugs as I’ve gotten older and what I’ve read has made me think, Man, I did a lot of shrooms when I was like 13 and 14 years old - dozens of times at a formative age," he said. "It’s a real consciousness-expanding drug, so maybe it’s had pretty deep effects."

Rogen says he still occasionally takes shrooms, and that he finds them "a very insightful drug - very introspective."

In fact, his voyages into the unconscious help him to make career choices to this day. "I did shrooms recently and then quit a job the next day," he said. "So yeah, I’ve made some real-life decisions as a result."

Anyone who's seen any of Rogen's films would assume - correctly - that he's a stoner, but the actor says weed has never knocked his work ethic. In fact, he's found the opposite.

"What I’ve found, more than anything, is that weed makes me willing to work," he said.

"When I was young I found that a lot of people I knew were trudging through the workday. They were just waiting to go home so they could do what they really wanted to do and smoke weed.

"At some point I was just like, 'If I smoke weed while I’m working, then I don’t have to do the trudging part.'"

He also revealed that a plan to get Nicolas Cage to play the villain in The Green Hornet fell apart because Nicolas Cage went just a bit too Nicolas Cage with it.

Before a dinner at producer Amy Pascal's house to talk over the character, Cage revealed that he wanted to play the villain as "a white Bahamian or Jamaican", Rogen recalls.

Despite Cage's full-blooded rendition of his vision for the character and his accent during the dinner, Rogen and his collaborators decided the idea was "a little worrisome" and shelved it.