Re: Mild psychoactive drugs

From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 04:00:01 MST

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    AR

    Max M wrote:

    > Even though I am much to chicken to experiment in these sort of
    > endavours myself, I have an academic interrest in Psychoactive Drugs.
    > Even though I am not really shure what my opinion is on the use of
    > these drugs.
    >
    > Probably I share William Gibson view that todays drugs are like using
    > an axe, and that future drug should be like using a scalpel.
    >
    > The effects of todays drugs seems to broad to be really safe and
    > usefull, and there are too many side effects.
    >
    > I have searched the web for information, but it seems that all the
    > drugs mentioned are of the axe kind. The only "newer" type of drug,
    > afaik is ecstacy, and even that has a to broad and powerfull effect.
    > Codeine also looks a little in the right direction.
    >
    > If I drink coffe I it makes me alert and awake. But on the other hand
    > it also gives me the jitters and I loose my focus. So it really isn't
    > of much help.
    >
    > What I would find usefull would be drugs with a single effect. Ie if I
    > had a deadline I would pop one pill that made me focused and one that
    > made fresh.
    >
    > I am not really interrested in drugs giving a "high". I find it more
    > interresting if there are any drugs that just has a sort of "everyday"
    > effect, that can be used rationally to help acheive ones goals.
    >
    > And no ... chocolate won't do ;-)
    >
    > But unfortunately it seems that all the drug research is going for the
    > more extreme effects. Or perhaps there simply isn't a black market for
    > these kind of drugs, so there is no information avaliable. To bad really.
    >
    > Does anybody know something about this? I would think that in time
    > there could be a really big legal oportunity for these kind of "smart"
    > drugs.
    >
    >
    > More information about psychoactive drugs:
    >
    > Vaults of Erowid (Psychoactive Vaults)
    > http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/psychoactives.shtml
    >

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