SpiralusSancti
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Do you ever wonder what is biggest/heaviest and what is smallest/lightest substance that could be called a drug? Let’s focus on psychoactive drugs as defining records is more interesting that way. If we focus even more specifically on recreational drugs, even better as otherwise we could definitely go subatomic; think magnetic field affecting brain or ECT and as big as micro-organisms; both potentially affecting mood and potentially curing certain psychiatric disorders. Well even sound definitely affects mood, be it in form of music or in form of noise pollution.
So where are we concerning drugs as people usually use that word on BL? Is Xe on one end? Is Xe smallest only at normal atmospheric pressure and some other element possibly recorder at elevated or lowered atmospheric pressure? Considering that some general aesthetics don’t really work above certain elevation and considering that after certain depth N becomes psychoactive causing divers high.
Is there possibility that there are psychoactive subatomic particles? Is it possible that something produced in CERN if we could produce enough of it and ingested it would result in psychoactive effects? If so what are implications of that? Would that mean that theory implicating that conciousness is quantum phenomen is right?
What’s the biggest molecule that can get you high? Biggest that can cross brain blood barrier? There are certainly some active molecules that can’t cross bbb but would produce psychoactive effects, in fact there are some in brain like GABA that would produce effects by itself if concentration of it would be raised high enough.
Another interesting thing to consider is radioactive psychoactive drugs, potentially heaviest psychoactive drug would be radioactive and if so can we even conclude for sure it would be dangerous because maybe amount to produce effects is so low that radiation produced by it would not cause any problems, at least no more than radioactive isotope in banana for example.
As interesting would be to consider if there could be some substance with so long half-life and with such potency and mechanics of action that amount needed to produce effects would be so small that even most potent drug known today would be considered requiring enormous dose compared to it while on the other end it would be interesting to find least potent but non-toxic or relatively non-toxic at effective dose. Is ethanol currently recorder in that sense as hundreds of grams can be consumed before really dangerous effects? I think not, especially if considering usage over X hours or days some general aesthetics beat it.
So where are we concerning drugs as people usually use that word on BL? Is Xe on one end? Is Xe smallest only at normal atmospheric pressure and some other element possibly recorder at elevated or lowered atmospheric pressure? Considering that some general aesthetics don’t really work above certain elevation and considering that after certain depth N becomes psychoactive causing divers high.
Is there possibility that there are psychoactive subatomic particles? Is it possible that something produced in CERN if we could produce enough of it and ingested it would result in psychoactive effects? If so what are implications of that? Would that mean that theory implicating that conciousness is quantum phenomen is right?
What’s the biggest molecule that can get you high? Biggest that can cross brain blood barrier? There are certainly some active molecules that can’t cross bbb but would produce psychoactive effects, in fact there are some in brain like GABA that would produce effects by itself if concentration of it would be raised high enough.
Another interesting thing to consider is radioactive psychoactive drugs, potentially heaviest psychoactive drug would be radioactive and if so can we even conclude for sure it would be dangerous because maybe amount to produce effects is so low that radiation produced by it would not cause any problems, at least no more than radioactive isotope in banana for example.
As interesting would be to consider if there could be some substance with so long half-life and with such potency and mechanics of action that amount needed to produce effects would be so small that even most potent drug known today would be considered requiring enormous dose compared to it while on the other end it would be interesting to find least potent but non-toxic or relatively non-toxic at effective dose. Is ethanol currently recorder in that sense as hundreds of grams can be consumed before really dangerous effects? I think not, especially if considering usage over X hours or days some general aesthetics beat it.
... so maybe it is bigger?