[narrator]

The promise of Smart Drugs eventually arrived. See reddit.com/r/nootropics for example. It took about 15 years to develop, mainly as a result of cheap chemical synthesis in China, advanced drug development in Russia, and a developing generics drug industry in India and elsewhere. If we had been living in a non-globalized world, it would not have happened.

[sireat]

Granted there has been some progress but not to the extent promised by M2K.

I haven't really followed nootropics but besides Modafinil (which is not really a smart drag) what smart drugs actually pass a meaningful double blind test?

[narrator]

There are a lot of smart drugs developed by the Russian pharmaceutical industry for neurodegenerative diseases. They are completely ignored in the U.S except by the online nootropics community. A quick Google search will tell you all about it.