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TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP BY THE OFFICE [LSD in the office]
1843 Magazine [an offshoot of The Economist] ^ | AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2017 | EMMA HOGAN

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: California
KEYWORDS: dopersrights; drugs; drugsnobs; productivity
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For those of us who would really like to know how Zero kept silent on issues that really matter. Etc etc
1 posted on 08/09/2017 2:23:53 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: LurkedLongEnough

‘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

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159004/Apple-founder-Steve-Jobs-told-Pentagon-LSD-marijuana-use-1970s.html


2 posted on 08/09/2017 2:29:54 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Somehow I don't think I want to be in his team, cleaning up his code:

Artist on LSD

3 posted on 08/09/2017 2:29:57 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Everybody lets get stoned. /s

Pure idiocy


4 posted on 08/09/2017 2:30:28 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

the blue acid is not specifically too good...


5 posted on 08/09/2017 2:37:17 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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“It’s like taking spinach and you’re Popeye.”

Or it's like taking spinach and the spinach starts talking to you through your belly button.

6 posted on 08/09/2017 2:39:24 PM PDT by Defiant (When the truth is outlawed, only outlaws will have truth)
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To: bigbob

Paging Jeff Sessions. Drop everything, you are needed!


7 posted on 08/09/2017 2:40:48 PM PDT by Defiant (When the truth is outlawed, only outlaws will have truth)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
"How cute ...the puppy wants to get high at work......"


8 posted on 08/09/2017 2:41:28 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: LurkedLongEnough

If you’re unhappy with who you are, change your person, not your perspective.


9 posted on 08/09/2017 2:42:15 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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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.


10 posted on 08/09/2017 2:47:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
One of the side effects of LSD is 'acid flashbacks', when the drug starts working again after it has been ingested. Would you really want your doctor or lawyer seeing the world like this at unpredictable times?
11 posted on 08/09/2017 2:48:18 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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These Millennials are morons and why they want to recreate what they imagine the late 1960s were like, is beyond me.


12 posted on 08/09/2017 2:58:59 PM PDT by nopardons
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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.


13 posted on 08/09/2017 3:08:10 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

from Adderall to LSD, who’da thunk. I wonder if this idiot would like to own a car assembled by losers on acid?


14 posted on 08/09/2017 3:24:15 PM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

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.


15 posted on 08/09/2017 3:55:16 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism wiiohout Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

How does he know that it’s really LSD and not some ‘reasonable’ facsimile thereof?


16 posted on 08/09/2017 3:55:47 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Drugs are sorcery.


17 posted on 08/09/2017 3:55:55 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (The CBC: Deceiving Canadians since 1936.)
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To: bigbob

I remember the purple haze tabs. Pretty good stuff.


18 posted on 08/09/2017 3:59:39 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: 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.”

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...

19 posted on 08/09/2017 4:31:33 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

And we scratch our heads in wonder over the insanity that, like a tidal wave, has overtaken the world. Smh.


20 posted on 08/09/2017 4:35:50 PM PDT by softengine
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