Posted on 08/09/2017 2:23:53 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
Every three days Nathan (not his real name), a 27-year-old venture capitalist in San Francisco, ingests 15 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide (commonly known as LSD or acid). The microdose of the psychedelic drug – which generally requires at least 100 micrograms to cause a high – gives him the gentlest of buzzes. It makes him feel far more productive, he says, but nobody else in the office knows that he is doing it. “I view it as my little treat. My secret vitamin,” he says. “It’s like taking spinach and you’re Popeye.”
--snip -- Young developers and engineers, most of them male, seem to be particularly keen on his form of bio-hacking. Alex (also not his real name), a 27-year-old data scientist who takes acid four or five times a year, feels psychedelics give him a “wider perspective” on his life. Drugs are a way to take a break, he says, particularly in a culture where people are “super hyper focused” on their work.
A typical pursuit among many millennial workers, along with going to drug-fuelled music festivals or the annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, is for a group of friends to rent a place in the countryside, take LSD or magic mushrooms and go for a hike (some call it a “hike-a-delic”). “I would be much more wary of telling co-workers I had done coke the night before than saying I had done acid on the weekend,” says Mike (yet another pseudonym), a 25-year-old researcher at the University of California in San Francisco, who also takes LSD regularly. It is seen as something “worthwhile, wholesome, like yoga or wholegrain”.
(Excerpt) Read more at 1843magazine.com ...
‘LSD was a positive life-changing experience for me’: Steve Jobs opened up to the Pentagon about his drug habits in secret files — Daily Mail Online, June 13, 2012
Everybody lets get stoned. /s
Pure idiocy
the blue acid is not specifically too good...
Or it's like taking spinach and the spinach starts talking to you through your belly button.
Paging Jeff Sessions. Drop everything, you are needed!
If you’re unhappy with who you are, change your person, not your perspective.
Meanwhile, drug-free Americans are shut out of work.
I fear for the future of this country. Some of the stupid runs really, really deep.
These Millennials are morons and why they want to recreate what they imagine the late 1960s were like, is beyond me.
Well, except “flashbacks” are a bullshit story.
There is no such thing as an acid flashback. Nobody who has ever taken acid has had a flashback.
from Adderall to LSD, who’da thunk. I wonder if this idiot would like to own a car assembled by losers on acid?
As the article states 15 micrograms is a very tiny dose, not enough to feel a high. I don’t think anyone’s ever studied the effects of micro doses of LSD. It would make for an intersting study. There could actually be something to it.
As for Kieth, acid wasn’t his problem. His problem was being addicted to herion, and ingesting huge amounts of cocaine. And getting old.
How does he know that it’s really LSD and not some ‘reasonable’ facsimile thereof?
Drugs are sorcery.
I remember the purple haze tabs. Pretty good stuff.
Wow, Nathan, when you fall on your hikeadelic, or get snakebit, or stung by a Loxosceles, enjoy your co-morbid interaction at the ER when you fail to disclose your liquid sunshine...
And we scratch our heads in wonder over the insanity that, like a tidal wave, has overtaken the world. Smh.
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