According to the following article, featured on the Wired.com homepage, a few scientists and doctors are sharing the opinion that brain-enhancing drugs should be legalized. By stating that if they are not harmful, why should you not take them, or if you do not want to, why stop others from using them.

This is a minefield in my opinion. When all your collegues take the drugs, you are behind, so you are forced to start using them as well. So in a way, allowing these drugs to roam free, forces the professional workforce to start using the brain-enhancers. Which is not bad, but it begs the question; how far should we go.

Perhaps we could start doing brain upgrades in the future. That way, the mad scientist would come closer and closer, because a mistake is bound to happen. I would say that in this case, they are right, it should be allowed, but at the same time, we should think about where the line is going to be drawn.

Any thoughts?