Huxley expresses his view on drugs through Brave New World. He opens our eyes to the direction that we might be heading which is towards a drug-infested world. One of the reasons Huxley wrote a Brave New World is to awaken the world to the possible directions that we might be heading towards.
If we could sniff or swallow something that would (for five or six hours each day) eliminate our solitude as individuals, atone us with our colleagues in a glowing rapture of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant. If this heavenly, world-reforming drug were of such a kind that we could wake up the next morning with a clear head and an undamaged disposition, it would bring the world in a state of ecstasy. It seems to me, all our problems would be completely solved, earth would become paradise and life would become a utopia. The only way to achieve ecstasy would be through drugs. The pleasure that I find in a book would be no more, because the pleasure that I will find in drugs will be so much superior to the pleasure from a book. This is what Huxley is talks about; that a perfect drug would take away all things that we find pleasure in. .
I think that it is one thing to try to find happiness through drugs, but it is somewhat different to find creativeness through drug usage. Many people claim they do not use drugs to pursue happiness but to expand their minds. Huxley's drug-infested world might have seemed like a utopia, but if you inspected it carefully, you would realize that the people in Huxley's world are actually finding a false happiness through drugs because they do not know what true happiness is. Other feelings are necessary to know what happiness is.
