Posted on 11/29/2015 4:08:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Taking small doses of LSD ("microdosing") is said to be becoming popular in the Bay area of California. People working in competitive high tech settings are using it to increase creativity and productivity. Breitbart reports:
One tech startup worker from San Francisco who spoke anonymously to Rolling Stone said he takes "microdoses" in his free time and sometimes at the office. A microdose is described as approximately 10 micrograms of LSD or 0.2-0.5 grams of mushrooms.
"Microdosing has helped me come up with some new designs to explore and new ways of thinking," the anonymous tech worker RS refers to as Ken told the outlet. "You would be surprised at how many people are actually doing it. It's crazy awesome." (snip)
Taking hallucinogenic drugs for performance is by no means a new concept. In January of this year CNN Money reported on psychedelic drug use in Silicon Valley as a means of increasing creativity.
"The billionaires I know, almost without exception, use hallucinogens on a regular basis," Silicon Valley investor Tim Ferriss told the outlet. "[They're] trying to be very disruptive and look at the problems in the world ... and ask completely new questions."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I actually remember when LSD was still legal.
They gave it away on sugar cubes at the local head shop/waterbed store.
Are those the guys that messed up the quotation marks here?
Mini Windowpane
No, Dave’s not here.
Had my 50th high school reunion this year. In the followup. “What ever happen to so-in-so?” sessions, I learned what happened to a friend.
Nicest guy you could ever meet. Reasonably smart, star football player, class president for 4 years, kind & humble.
He was in Chicago at the time of the Democrat Convention anti-war riots and came out of the experience a radicalized anti-war protester. Ended up “fleeing” to Canada.
Returned years later, ended up murdering his grandmother and was found “not guilty” by reason of insanity. Spent the remainder of his life in the looney bin, eventually dying of MS.
How could this happen to such a nice guy? I eventually surmised that while with the anti-war crowd he ended up taking LSD or something and had a “BAD TRIP”.
“Expand your mind!”
Riiiiiight! NO WAY!
Going to take a trip with Space X are we?
Psychoactive in the microgram range, it’s always a small dose.
I can hardly wait for the self-driving car design teams to get into this!
The brown microdose is not specifically too good...
Drugs are sorcery !
Except when you take it and trip that you haven’t taken it. So you take more.
That would be micro. With macro,
the cards melt before you can play them.
“Are those the guys that messed up the quotation marks here?”
No, but it looks like it’s going to take them to fix it.
Heh. I see what you ... whoa!
Both CS Lewis, Aldous Huxley, and JRR Tolkien were reported users of hallucinogens.
"The billionaires I know, almost without exception, use hallucinogens on a regular basis," Silicon Valley investor Tim Ferriss told the outlet. "[They're] trying to be very disruptive and look at the problems in the world ... and ask completely new questions."
Instead of straining their brains, they could come to my place and get a brain-full for free. :-)
People are drinking more, doping more, "expanding their minds" more.
It's almost like they can't take our current reality. Oh wait ....
No,pharmacy’s are pharmakia, sorcery is the power of positive thinking.
"...the brown acid that is circulating around us is not specifically too good. It's suggested that you do stay away from that."
Maybe.
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