Interesting question . . . there was time when I would have wanted pharmaceutically pure MDMA or psilocybin, but I am not sure right now there is any drug I find that valuable. How about you?

Be sure to check out the comments at the io9 site.

What is the one drug you would pay almost anything for?

ANNALEE NEWITZ

Thursday, June 6, 2013

We have drugs available today that can focus your attention and allow you to absorb oxygen without breathing. In the future, we might have drugs to give you perfect visual memory or erase your fear. What would be the one kind of drug that you would pay anything to take?

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I'm not talking about science fictional drugs that would make you invisible or allow you to shoot lasers out of your head. I mean drugs that are actually within our grasp, medically — drugs that could enhance your mental and physical abilities, or change your emotional state so that you are more compassionate or fearless or careful. Maybe it would be a form of heroin that is totally non-addictive so you could experience the ultimate high without ever wanting it again. 

What is the one drug you wish for the most?

The replies are interesting.

Journal of Future Studies - Future Evolution of the Human Brain

This article offers an interesting look at the possible evolution of the human brain. The authors suggest that brain evolution will not be so much about increased size or transhumanist technology as it will be about "systematic, controlled and ethically acceptable pharmacological intervention."

Citation:

Saniotis, A., Henneberg, M. (2011, Sept). Future Evolution of the Human Brain. Journal of Futures Studies, 16(1): 1-18.

Future Evolution of the Human Brain
 

Arthur Saniotis

The University of Adelaide, Australia

Maciej Henneberg

The University of Adelaide, Australia

Abstract
The past course of the evolution of the human brain indicates that its major feature was not so much anatomical change as the alteration of biochemistry and physiology through neurohormonal regulation and neurotransmitter alterations. In the recent, historical past, human brain size decreased during the period of the rapid development of technology and increasingly complex social organization. The human brain is now adapting to an environment dominated by human control. Future evolution of the brain will be a result of conscious manipulation and responses to changing technologies and social organization. Technologically-oriented transhumanists propose artificial enhancements to the biological structure of human brain based on information technology. The importance of brain physiology leads to attempts at chemical manipulation of brains. Pharmacological intervention in the cases of brain malfunction is well established, while the use of psychoactive substances has also produced a vast criminal industry. Systematic, controlled and ethically acceptable pharmacological intervention in human brain functions may provide an alternative, or a complement to information technology intervention into the operation of human minds. Whatever we do, we must recognise that natural forces shaping human brain have been significantly relaxed.

Read the whole article.