Lets run with the cocaine allowances.
Humans run on a hedonic system regulator.. There are many limits to this system, and all of our social organization problems are due to such limits..
IF we can eventually keep people always happy and always motivated, even by pharmaceutical means, I don't see why that is so wrong an approach.
The drawback to today's technology in this area, is receptor reduction and neurotoxicity.
But a strict, anti-drug approach is short-sighted because hacking our brains is going to be EVEN MORE CRITICAL when we have to compete with the uprise of Skynet like machine intelligence.
A machine intelligence may not rest, may not become disinterested, may never stop improving.
Meanwhile, every human has to sleep for 8 hours a day, and at best do 3-4 hours of meaningful brainwork each day.
They'll wipe the floors with us..
The receptor trimming and neurotoxicity, we should be researching this rather than AVOIDING designer pharmaceutical highs..
We do this not for pleasure's sake, but to rise above our primitive pleasure centered system, by removing that limit..
-- The natural lifespan of a vegan human is 80-90, I don't see why it's so impossible to slowly escalate low dose amphetamines during this entire span..
-- Yes more research is needed, but to push for au-naturale is just being a scientific hippie..
Some would even argue the modern productivity explosion was due in large part to cigarettes and coffee.
Nothing is without shortcomings, but we should solve the problem instead of avoiding a very necessary evolution..
