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Silicon Valley professionals are taking LSD at work to increase productivity
telegraph.co.uk ^ | Adam Boult

Posted on 11/27/2015 8:52:04 AM PST by BenLurkin

It seems unlikely, but that’s apparently what some Silicon Valley professionals have been doing - and reporting great results.

According to Rolling Stone, a growing number of people are experimenting with "microdoses" of psychedelics to help them work.

A microdose of LSD is around 10-15 micrograms, approximately a tenth of a "normal" dose.

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At that dosage, Rolling Stone describes the drug's effects as "subperceptual": 'Enough, says Rick Doblin, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 'to feel a little bit of energy lift, a little bit of insight, but not so much that you are tripping.'"

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Psychedelics researcher Dr James Fadiman discussed microdosing with Vice, saying: 'People do it and they’re eating better, sleeping better, they're often returning to exercise or yoga or meditation. It’s as if messages are passing through their body more easily."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: lsd; wod
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1 posted on 11/27/2015 8:52:04 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

This can’t end well.


2 posted on 11/27/2015 8:54:28 AM PST by lurk
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To: BenLurkin
According to Rolling Stone

Stopped reading right there.

3 posted on 11/27/2015 8:54:32 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: BenLurkin

If LSD is popular anywhere, you know that burned-out, brain-dead hippie rag “Rolling Stone” will step up to report on it.


4 posted on 11/27/2015 8:55:14 AM PST by PGR88
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To: BenLurkin

LSD puts your brain into a wave state similar to dreaming. Close enough that your brain actually thinks you’re asleep. Your body doesn’t get rest, but your brain feels like it’s resting. Definitely a tool for increasing how long you can go without sleep. Could be some pretty goofy code though.


5 posted on 11/27/2015 8:57:01 AM PST by discostu (Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
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To: BenLurkin

I used to have to redraw some CAD that I highly suspected was done by someone on halucingens channeling Escher.


6 posted on 11/27/2015 8:57:34 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Hey Pope Francis- The Gospels are not Matthew, Marx, Luke and John.)
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To: lurk

“Limitless” - wasn’t there a a movie or TV show using a similar approach?


7 posted on 11/27/2015 8:58:01 AM PST by alloysteel (Do not argue with trolls. That means they win.)
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To: BenLurkin

Gee, don’t Silicon Valley employers have drug testing programs?

You don’t want people using “substances” when they are working with chemicals and machinery, both of which are necessary for computer manufacturing.


8 posted on 11/27/2015 8:58:24 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: BenLurkin

finally a possible insight into whats kept queen Hillary running...even as near death as she appears to be!


9 posted on 11/27/2015 8:59:06 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

You cannot take LSD on any kind of daily basis. It will have no effect at all.

You have to dose, then wait about a week, then dose again, otherwise you are wasting your drugs.

Don’t ask me how I know this.


10 posted on 11/27/2015 8:59:11 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: BenLurkin

I won’t be indulging - nitrous oxide was a bad trip. I don’t want to imagine what LSD would do to me.


11 posted on 11/27/2015 8:59:48 AM PST by heartwood
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To: BenLurkin

I guess this explains why a lot of their software drives normal people insane.


12 posted on 11/27/2015 9:00:31 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Who is fact checking the state controlled, leftwing media's fact checkers?)
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To: csvset
According to Rolling Stone Stopped reading right there. ..........same here.
13 posted on 11/27/2015 9:01:19 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: BenLurkin

All Gore was on acid when he invented the internet.


14 posted on 11/27/2015 9:04:10 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: BenLurkin

Cut it down to basics. LSD has been used to make people act crazy so that they will fail a sanity hearing. It simply makes a sane person insane for a period of time. If you’ve ever taken it or been around people who have taken it this fact is as obvious as the sun in the sky. The idea that people will be better at their jobs if they take LSD is pure delusion. I’d fire anyone who showed up to work loaded on LSD (and have done so). You don’t need people around who would stick their fingers in a running printing press.


15 posted on 11/27/2015 9:07:09 AM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Dante and Faust would know the answer to that question.


16 posted on 11/27/2015 9:07:11 AM PST by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: exDemMom
Gee, don’t Silicon Valley employers have drug testing programs?"

Two answers:

1. Hahaha NO. I worked ten years in Silicon Valley for one of the biggest names on the peninsula and the very though of 'drug test' is inconceivable.
2. Besides, there's no drug test that detects LSD use, especially 'microdoses' of hallucinogens.

17 posted on 11/27/2015 9:09:20 AM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: BenLurkin

I know for a fact that mask designers were using LSD as far back as the early 1980’s, and suspected it earlier.


18 posted on 11/27/2015 9:11:19 AM PST by null and void (We are AmeriCANs. We CAN learn, and learn from history, if we choose.)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like an episode of Mad Men.


19 posted on 11/27/2015 9:11:27 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: heartwood

I understand the nitrous oxide problem. I found myself laughing at Jerry Lewis movies. The horror....


20 posted on 11/27/2015 9:11:52 AM PST by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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