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drugs of the (cyberpunk) future

9mmCensor

9mmCensor

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What are drugs that could become popular in the future? Scores of years to centuries from now.

I am looking for something that is chemically synthesized because growing crops to make drugs will be tough in a cyberpunk world where space is super valuable.

I would like to know a spectrum of substances (uppers, downers, all a rounders).
 
I would love to hear how nanotechnology can be applied towards drugs.
 
specialrelativity said:
dmt?:)

specialr
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I am more looking for something that is like theoretical now. But potentially viable in the future.

What could be the crack, meth and heroin of tommorow?
 
9mmCensor said:
I am more looking for something that is like theoretical now. But potentially viable in the future.

What could be the crack, meth and heroin of tommorow?
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hehe, trying to get a jump on the market eh? lol
=D
 
a drug that interacts through specific brain region activation as an intelligent entity. Basically exploiting the psychological aspect we have to apply an 'entity template' to deep psychedelic states, taking it one step further and incorporating (co-opting) the neocortex for the entity in vivo. :8
 
Polysorbate 80 coated nanoparticles containing oxytocin or a longer-lasting more potent oxytocin analogue. There are lots of proteins that are potent mu agonists as well.
 
samadhi_smiles said:
a drug that interacts through specific brain region activation as an intelligent entity. Basically exploiting the psychological aspect we have to apply an 'entity template' to deep psychedelic states, taking it one step further and incorporating (co-opting) the neocortex for the entity in vivo. :8
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wow... anyone ever see serial experiments lain and the drug on there, "micro-machine drug Accela."
 
i am sure there is a molecule out there that can hit 5-6 targets at once which produce intense euphoria. it would be so addictive that a single administration would render a user completely and utterly addicted, locked into an all-consuming lifestyle of drug abuse previously unknown to humankind
 
How about a reterovirus carrying the genes to produce drugs which are currently plant derived, linked to a promoter so that the drugs get produced at times when they might be needed.

This would be perfectly practical, and not too far in the future either, say 20 years or less. Sequence the genome of the opium poppy and coca plant, locate and isolate the genes to produce morphine and cocaine, and then use a promoter sequence which is triggered by something like cortisol (stress hormone).

So then every time you get stressed, your cortisol levels rise above the threshold, and your body starts producing morphine and cocaine to counteract the stress. You would get used to it pretty quickly so it wouldn't be a drug of abuse in the same way, more a maintenance dose to stop you feeling bad when you're going through hard times.
 
wouldnt stimulants like cocaine increase cortisol themselves? dont want a never ending positive feedback loop forming in your body
 
Nanobots built out of proteins that are capable of building other very receptor-specific proteins, and which derive their energy to run from the metabolism of blood sugar - making different drugs when different receptors on their surface are activated by messenger molecules. It would also be a handy feature to have the outside secrete a Polysorbate-8--type substance so the nanobots could pass through the BBB, and thus produce drugs that would ordinarily be unable to pass the BBB, right where they are needed instead.

This however is quite some time off ;) .

Mad_scientist's idea however is much more practical.
 
the problem is the rest of the machinery needed to make the drug...its not a one shot deal, but a whole biosynthetic pathway starting from various precursors we usually don't have.

awesome idea, i just don't see it being feasible for another 50 years at the minimum.

I'm thinking by then we can have a sort of touch-body: put some pressure on your thigh or pectorals and *wham*, dose of endorphins (or retrovirally-inserted morphine). It would be such a great way to cull the herd...
 
mad_scientist said:
So then every time you get stressed, your cortisol levels rise above the threshold, and your body starts producing morphine and cocaine to counteract the stress. You would get used to it pretty quickly so it wouldn't be a drug of abuse in the same way, more a maintenance dose to stop you feeling bad when you're going through hard times.
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Wouldn't one learn to intentionally increase one's cortisol levels in this case? ;)

I'm wondering whether it would be possible to be both euphoric and thinking clearly, all the time, with the right advanced drugs (as argued by hedweb), or whether the ability to think clearly always implies that one would eventually get feelings of boredom and pointlessness, no matter how much pleasure one feels.
 
THE FUTURE of drugs is the ANTI DRUG

Take a drug and sooner or later you get tolerance and dependance. You will need to take more and you will need to take it more often

The ANTI DRUG is taken after the DRUG of your choice has worn off. It reverses all of your neuronchemisty back to zero

Every time you take a drug it will feel like the first time. There will be no dragon to chase, cause you simply aint met him before. Neglect to take the anti drug, and you will find yourself with the same old habbit forming

this my friends is the future ...... i know cause ive been there :)
 
That's what I mean. I'm sure what you are describing will be possible one day - but I'm wondering whether one would still eventually get sick of it of it on a higher cognitive level, even if there is no neuron-level tolerance.
 
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