[eyeamok]

It is intellectually dishonest to compare chocolate to illicit drugs.

Chocolate release endorphins, a Natural OPIATE and has Definite Mood Altering characteristics.

Its mental health benefits include the ability to boost brain levels of endorphins (natural opiates) as well as serotonin (a mood-altering chemical on which many antidepressants act). Because it can increase serotonin levels in the brain, dark chocolate also may increase serotonin production in the gut, and thus help your immune system.

There are multiple articles to demonstrate, a simple google search would have answered your response.

[NorseViking]

Endorphins aren’t opiates. I am not familiar with any research linking chocolate and idiocy but I have surely seen a lot of idiot pot smokers.

[Chode]

big difference btwn mood altering and perception altering

[exDemMom]

So you are equating the natural hormones produced by the body to cause the feeling of happiness to the unnatural effects of mind altering illicit drugs? Would you fire runners who get the “runner’s high”? What about people who enjoy listening to music, reading novels, or any other pleasurable activity that induces halpiness and does not involve mind-altering substances?

Talk about reaching, here. The difference between artificial manipulation of cognitive activity with drugs and deriving happiness from ordinary activities is profound.