{"id":4380,"date":"2008-12-10T17:31:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T23:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2008-12-10T17:31:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T23:31:43","slug":"brain-enhancing-drugs-legalize-em-scientists-say-wired-science-from-wiredcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/12\/brain-enhancing-drugs-legalize-em-scientists-say-wired-science-from-wiredcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain-Enhancing Drugs: Legalize &#8216;Em, Scientists Say | Wired Science from Wired.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2008\/12\/brain-enhancing.html\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ritalin.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"276\" alt=\"ritalin.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n  Brain-Enhancing Drugs: Legalize &#8216;Em, Scientists Say<br \/>\n  By Brandon Keim December 10, 2008 | 4:09:39 PMCategories: Medical Ethics, Medicine &amp; Medical Procedures, Mental Health&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If drugs can safely give your brain a boost, why not take them? And if you don&#8217;t want to, why stop others? In an era when attention-disorder drugs are regularly \u2014 and illegally \u2014 being used for off-label purposes by people seeking a better grade or year-end job review, these are timely ethical questions. The latest answer comes from Nature, where seven prominent ethicists and neuroscientists recently published a paper entitled, &#8220;Towards a responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy.&#8221; In short: Legalize &#8217;em. &#8220;Mentally competent adults,&#8221; they write, &#8220;should be able to engage in cognitive enhancement using drugs.&#8221; Roughly seven percent of all college students, and up to 20 percent of scientists, ha [From <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2008\/12\/brain-enhancing.html\" ><cite>Brain-Enhancing Drugs: Legalize &#8216;Em, Scientists Say | Wired Science from Wired.com<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Listened to: <span class=\"title\">Schwebebahn<\/span> from the album &#8220;<span class=\"album\">Hoelderlin<\/span>&#8221; by <span class=\"artist\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22Hoelderlin%22\" >Hoelderlin<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ritalin.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"276\" alt=\"ritalin.jpg\" \/> Brain-Enhancing Drugs: Legalize &#8216;Em, Scientists Say By Brandon Keim December 10, 2008 | 4:09:39 PMCategories: Medical Ethics, Medicine &amp; Medical Procedures, Mental Health&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If drugs can safely give your brain a boost, why not take them? &#8230;  In an era when attention-disorder drugs are regularly \u2014 and illegally \u2014 being used for off-label purposes by people seeking a better grade or year-end job review, these are timely ethical questions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-18E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}