(Well, of course she thought of him, he's keeping her quite busy.)
"It's worth developing," he says after another moment, and sets the vial back in her briefcase. "There's market opportunity for the repurposed use." Anything that incites euphoria in otherwise unattainable extremes is always an easy sell - memories will make it niche; even just as a sex drug, replaying experience after experience, will have appeal.
He sits back in his chair. "The trick with production is hitting the right balance between potency addictiveness. Not enough and it'll die out no matter the impact, and too much will burn people through. And once it's properly field tested," in the masses of the city's drug culture, who will fund this out of the goodness of their hearts, "it can be stripped down and patented as medication."
no subject
(Well, of course she thought of him, he's keeping her quite busy.)
"It's worth developing," he says after another moment, and sets the vial back in her briefcase. "There's market opportunity for the repurposed use." Anything that incites euphoria in otherwise unattainable extremes is always an easy sell - memories will make it niche; even just as a sex drug, replaying experience after experience, will have appeal.
He sits back in his chair. "The trick with production is hitting the right balance between potency addictiveness. Not enough and it'll die out no matter the impact, and too much will burn people through. And once it's properly field tested," in the masses of the city's drug culture, who will fund this out of the goodness of their hearts, "it can be stripped down and patented as medication."
Even in narcotics, quality is important.