"neurocops"

'We have a big report coming out soon on pharmacotherapy. The focus is on how the new breed of neuro-drugs are helping to shift the old rhetoric of the "war on drugs" away from drug users as "the enemy" to being "sick people" who need treatment. It will then become a war of "good" new drugs versus the "bad" drugs. The good drugs are drugs that keep the bad, illegal drugs from passing through the blood-brain barrier. So policing the drug war is going to move from the external world of cops and helicopters to the internal world of increasing pressure to use these "neurocops" to reduce or entirely block the effects of illegal drugs.'

- Richard Glen Boire of the Center For Cognitive Liberty inNew%20Scientist

It's an interesting interview all round, anticipating a future (and dealing with a present!) in which even our thoughts may not be free.

doctordeadmeat :: 2004 :: Comment / reply