[Zarathustra]

It's all relative to what you are trying to accomplish at a given moment. As a songwriter I have found that THC facilitates the creative mechanisms of my brain, but tends to curb my overall energy and motivation, even when vaporized (though I highly recommend this consumption method over any other).

It also seems to come down to how much your valuation of a drug is deluded by addiction or dependence. A drug that you had initially begun using for a distinct and valuable purpose may eventually evolve into an onerous vice, especially if subconscious mechanisms begin controlling usage.

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No.

We have evolved to be optimally "enhanced" as is in our natural condition.


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As we begin to better understand how the brain works drugs will be synthetically tailored to the individual and without detrimental side effects. Claims that the brain has been naturally enhanced to an optimal state are scientifically baseless. Tell this to the man whose life is thrown into utter chaos by bouts of schizophrenia. Evolution produced distinctly human brain mechanisms that permit elaborate creative and dissociative cognition. When certain DNA variations produce brain mechanisms that are excessively dissociative, insanity results. Insanity is hardly optimal.