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I tried it once years ago.

Amazingly potent. I considered finding applications for it, but alas, I had no use for it.

Seems like a WW2 drug like amphetamines: Sure works wonders if you’re patching up people, going through horrors like a breeze. But it ain’t a peace-time nootropic with minimal downside.

Never more than two non consecutive days in a week — this isn’t a mystery.

Because you have no self control a substance should be banned.

Cool world that would be to live in.

These drugs chemically change the brain, so your brain might fall into a state where you lose control.

Drugs often get pulled decades after being approved, usually because the safety studies were not expansive enough to give a complete picture of the danger. For example: Varenicline.

Just like all drugs, but the downsides of criminalization have been obvious for decades. I don't see a solution that isn't all drugs being cheap and legal.