If a baseball player admits to taking steroids to better his or her game society looks him down upon. Government officials ask question and question to figure out whether or not the athlete knowing took steroids in order to enhance their performance. But say a person – a scientist to be exact—uses a kind of ‘mental steroid’ to increase the output of their performance.

The AFP story stated that college students (not surprisingly) have also becoming regular users of drugs in order to get them through midterms, finals, and tediously long research papers. In the story one medical professional that actually works at Georgetown University seemed to rationalize the students’ drugs use – saying that the students use the drugs only for studying purposes. Whatever. You don’t go crazy on a brain drug one minute and easily slide off of it the next. I spent a whole year on an anti-depression drug and in no way was it easy to get off of. I don’t think drugs that are meant to focus/enhance your thoughts are something you can take every now and then and not somehow get addicted.

Another thing! What is up with this double standard in drug use? A bunch of scientists admitted to using these drugs for NON-MEDICAL reasons and nothing happens? So, the only way you can get into some serious how water for getting drugged up is if you’re play in sports because – according to society—that’s cheating. But it is fine to fine dine on as many Ritalin like drugs as long as they’re possibly curing a disease. Isn’t that sort of like cheating as well? It isn’t really your work. Whatever you’re doing is because of something being piped into your nervous system.

People like Marian Jones and Barry Bonds get thrown into the judgmental gas chamber and pretty much get labeled as the ones you juiced up—discrediting all their work. But if one of these scientists suddenly figured out the cure for AIDS and it was later discovered that he or she took a brain-enhancing drug? No one would care! Because the standards for good-old fashion sporting are higher than the business of science, you could cure cancer while on fifty different kinds of drugs and it wouldn’t matter because the results were positive.

The way things are now I can imagine my two-year-old cousin getting fed little green pills by her parents in order to get into the ritzy-ditzy pre-school where you have to set up meetings, and interviews. I think I even heard her parents throwing around college names like – Harvard. If the younger generation started getting fed these drugs to keep ‘focus’, I’m pretty much we’d be on the road to some reality loosely based on The Matrix – where we’re all installed into computer drives but not before some dude in a black trench coats offers the respective customer a red or blue pill.
—Eming Piansay