Posted on 06/27/2023 8:05:08 AM PDT by Krosan
Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley.
Entrepreneurs including Elon Musk and Sergey Brin are part of a drug movement that proponents hope will expand minds, enhance lives and produce business breakthroughs
Elon Musk takes ketamine. Sergey Brin sometimes enjoys magic mushrooms. Executives at venture-capital firm Founders Fund, known for its investments in SpaceX and Facebook, have thrown parties that include psychedelics.
Routine drug use has moved from an after-hours activity squarely into corporate culture, leaving boards and business leaders to wrestle with their responsibilities for a workforce that frequently uses. At the vanguard are tech executives and employees who see psychedelics and similar substances, among them psilocybin, ketamine and LSD, as gateways to business breakthroughs.
“There are millions of people microdosing psychedelics right now,” said Karl Goldfield, a former sales and marketing consultant in San Francisco who informally counsels friends and colleagues across the tech world on calibrating the right small dose for maximum mindfulness. It is “the fastest path to opening your mind up and clearly seeing for yourself what’s going on,” said Goldfield.
Goldfield doesn’t have a medical degree and said he learned to dose through experience. He said the number of questions he gets about how to microdose has grown dramatically in recent months.
The account of Musk’s drug use comes from people who witnessed him use ketamine and others with direct knowledge of his use. Details about Brin’s drug use and the Founders Fund parties come from people familiar with them.
Musk, his attorney and a top adviser didn’t respond to requests for comment. A spokeswoman for Brin, the co-founder of Google, didn’t respond to requests for comment.
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Ketamine is the most dangerous of these by far in high doses.
This might explain the decision making at Bud Lite and Target.
Just say no to drugs!
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Aren't they illegal, outside of Colorado?
Hence the insanity.
It’s the only way they can live with themselves.
I have wondered why these titans of the industry are all retarded. I wondered how they made their money being so dumb? I guess the answer is that they didn’t start out dumb, but got embedded in the mind-destroying drug culture once they were already rich.
The article seems to be about microdosing. If it is, it’s kind of misleading.
There’s been research in recent years investigating the benefits of microdosing on various aspects of mental and emotional health and functioning.
Good point.
No one microdoses ketamine do they?
It’s pretty insidious
And Oregon....
Why not? Ketamine is commonly used as topical analgesic, for example, when applying sutures.
Injected, it causes hallucinations and memory loss.
It can be pretty nasty stuff.
The dealers quickly show up to target anyone with money, especially newfound wealth. Crack for the rappers, cocaine for the actors, actresses, rock musicians, and athletes, and psychedelics for the ego-driven venture capitalists.
It's as though the accountants, agents, and lawyers are coordinating with the dealers.
I wouldn't be surprised. So glad to be retired.
I wouldn’t say they are retarded they are more likely savants, brilliant in a couple of areas and completely ignorant in the common areas of life.
Kind of like some of the great minds of history DaVinci, Mozart, etc.
In this day and age they have used their particular talents to generate insane wealth and the ability to manipulate people and events
Ketamine and eskatamine show very promising results as treatments for depression, at sort of mid-dose range. In fact, a person I know very well is working on getting a referral right now
They’re owned. It’s been coming out for a while and has been no secret. If we know, bigger influencers know, i.e. every alphabet, foreign and domestic.
“Aren’t they illegal”
Since when has that stopped anyone in silicon valley?
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