wouldn't believe there is anything to be done to your brain, like enhancing cognitive abilities through drugs, without unintended consequences. Although there

wouldn't believe there is anything to be done to your brain, like enhancing cognitive abilities through drugs, without unintended consequences. Although there are many illegal drugs that have negative consequences, the practice of applying this as a naive general law of medicine is largely a result of many years of this idea, or ideas similar to it, being drilled into us by the war on drugs propaganda machine. Each substance must be evaluated on a case by case basis and if people have been taking certain drugs for 30 years with no deleterious effect, the evidence is certainly in favor of long term safety, or even * gasp * benefit. There are other beliefs similar to this, such as any radio signal emitting device causes cancer, that have silently entered the culture as fact without much science to support them.