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 ...
This can’t end well.
Stopped reading right there.
If LSD is popular anywhere, you know that burned-out, brain-dead hippie rag “Rolling Stone” will step up to report on it.
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.
I used to have to redraw some CAD that I highly suspected was done by someone on halucingens channeling Escher.
“Limitless” - wasn’t there a a movie or TV show using a similar approach?
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.
finally a possible insight into whats kept queen Hillary running...even as near death as she appears to be!
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.
I won’t be indulging - nitrous oxide was a bad trip. I don’t want to imagine what LSD would do to me.
I guess this explains why a lot of their software drives normal people insane.
All Gore was on acid when he invented the internet.
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.
Dante and Faust would know the answer to that question.
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.
I know for a fact that mask designers were using LSD as far back as the early 1980’s, and suspected it earlier.
Sounds like an episode of Mad Men.
I understand the nitrous oxide problem. I found myself laughing at Jerry Lewis movies. The horror....
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