Well Major, drugs are matter.
When a drug molecule enters the body it will bind to a specific neurotransmitter receptor made of matter (it has electromagnetic affinity for) on its extracellular region (binding site). Then it activates a cascade of intracellular events that leads to the activation or inhibition of the target neuron and ultimately to the activation or inhibition of complex neuronal circuits. All that can be described by good old quantum mechanics, chemistry, molecular and cellular biology, neuroanatomy and so on. This is how a drug made of matter interact with a biological organism made of matter.
You can still experience drug action long after it has been excreted from your body because it triggered a physiological response. The question about how all this affects consciousness is also the question of how consciousness arises from complex neuronal circuits and/or interact with them. That we don’t know anything about.
As far as I know the string theory deals with fundamental physics. It’s an attempt to unify physics; to better understand the fundamental forces such as gravity and electromagnetism; to better explain particle physics and cosmic events such as black holes. Maybe in a distant future we will be able to understand the nature of consciousness through a unified theory and view it as an energy field interacting with matter but that doesn’t change anything about our basic understanding of drug action.
Can you please be more specific about your statement “how drugs interact with matter”? You can go as technical and elaborate as you wish.
These shapes describe how the matter flow represented by what is in between serotonin molecules is modulated when it hits the active edge of the drug. From what I understand the specific angles and locations of linked serotonins actually contain the brain information. Like they are representing flow between them and also through the cannabinoid system as serotonins on the opposite of the cannabinoid system can represents flows through the cannabinoid system.
Energy Action is the effect the drug would have as energy state drug modulator (arrows) against energy state (ring) modulation.
Matter Action is the effect the drug would have as matter state drug modulator (arrows) against matter state (line) modulation.
Cross Interaction is the effect the drug would have as matter state drug modulator (direction into prism) against energy state (line) modulation.
Flow Interaction is the effect the drug would have as energy state drug modulator (bend caused by lens cleavage against flow) against matter state (line) flow modulation.
These are the four main matter energy interactions (how like madelbrot connects to like mandelbox).
They are always related on four corners of a quadrilateral shape when a quantum action happens, always a square on the lowest level.
These shapes I posted are general tendency. Small modulations away from this general tendency would be able to vary the effects into different highs. Those shapes rather than being the general tendency would be very different actions that could be described by these shapes but happen as fractals within these general tendencies. Or another way to say it, specific strains and semi synthetic batches vary the small fractals within the general tendency of these actions.
It could be a good way to understand the relation between string theory or matter body synchronization and matter mass-energy tendencies if one understood drug effects.