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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_(medication)#Side_effec... The dosages required to achieve "beneficial" psychoactive effects will probably result in adverse side effects in a significant portion of the population. Lithium should be prescribed by a doctor on a case by case basis, not indiscriminately dumped into the water supply.

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The article was talking about trace amounts, very far below the therapeutic dosages that cause those side effects.

Trace amounts of lithium already occur naturally in many municipal water supplies.

The dose makes the poison, the higher PPM of lithium, the larger the percentage of individuals that will be affected. Even if it affects a tiny fraction of the population at the proposed concentrations, it's still unfair to that demographic. Would you wan't to have to buy special non-lithium supplemented water?

Yeah, she was way too gung-ho about potentially forcing this stuff on people via the water supply. But I'm not surprised that an academic would want to social-engineer this way.

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