there can be serious downsides to amphetamines, even at normal therapeutic doses and in the case of no addiction. they have emotional effects and effects on cog

there can be serious downsides to amphetamines, even at normal therapeutic doses and in the case of no addiction. they have emotional effects and effects on cognition. people can become paranoid, start to have strange and erratic patterns of thinking, make bad or impulsive decisions, see patterns where there are none, etc. and these are particularly bad because it's hard for the individual to perceive themselves, making "personal choice" more difficult to argue for. in the mid-20th century amphetamines were widely available and the problems showed up very quickly. it would not be good to repeat this. to be a little glib: if everyone at your company starts taking amphetamines, maybe you get massively increased productivity for certain workers, but you're trading it for some terrible managerial decisions, and also a deluge of extremely long emails.