Opinions on smart drugs - immoral/unfair?

[Angrboda]

All you need to access your reward system is yourself. You sit back and meditate. With some skill, the body will produce cannabinoids, similar to, or even better than THC.

Citation needed.

Anandamide's effects can be either central, in the brain, or peripheral, in other parts of the body. These distinct effects are mediated primarily by CB1 cannabinoid receptors in the central nervous system, and CB2 cannabinoid receptors in the periphery.[7] The latter are mainly involved in functions of the immune system. Cannabinoid receptors were originally discovered as being sensitive to Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC, commonly called THC), which is the primary psychoactive cannabinoid found in cannabis. ... Endogenous anandamide is present at very low levels and has a very short half-life due to the action of the enzyme fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), which breaks it down into free arachidonic acid and ethanolamine.

... the half-life of anandamide in vivo appears to be on the order of minutes ...

http://www.pnas.org/content/98/16/9371.long

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You're still gonna die.

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