A lot of people recoil from the word "drugs" - which is understandable given today's noxious street drugs and their uninspiring medical counterparts. Yet even academics and intellectuals in our society typically take the prototypical dumb drug, ethyl alcohol. If it's socially acceptable to take a drug that makes you temporarily happy and stupid, then why not rationally design drugs to make people perpetually happier and smarter? Presumably, in order to limit abuse-potential, one would want any ideal pleasure drug to be akin - in one limited but important sense - to nicotine, where the smoker's brain finely calibrates its optimal level: there is no uncontrolled dose-escalation. David Pearce
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  1. I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
  2. I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
  3. When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!
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