Awesome! Informative [i]and[/i] fun. I love the mouse on heroin -- he's so wasted.
To stimulate some extra discussion... I wonder what the future of drugs will be? As science progresses, surely must chemistry and the like. Could nanotechnology perhaps play a role in new drugs? Imagine microscopic nanobots which can swim through the receptors in our brains and actually pump their own serotonin molecules into receptive areas, or mess with other areas of the brain in crazy new ways… nanobots which can dig their mechanical claws into our visual cortex and launch us into new worlds, perhaps.
It's interesting to me that it is our brain itself which causes most of the effects of drugs. The drugs merely simulate a naturally occuring molecule and bind to e receptor or two - it is our brains' response to this which gives us all the highs and lows we experience.
Perhaps new drug types will be downloadable in P2P type networks, hackers all over the world blending together new drug experiences to be uploaded into people's neural nets. Imagine if you accidentally downloaded a virus and wiped your memory clean, techno / nanodrugs to this scale would require a safety margin well outside anything we can imagine now. You'd have to back up your brain every morning just to make sure that the hardcopy was not the only one...
much sf has been written on the topic.....did you know lsd operates at sub molar doses, tecnically it shouldn't do anything. and it's out of the body in 25mins, before the effects begin. so the whole trip is the brains reaction to a microstimulus. ah, happy memories!
