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Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley.
Wall Street Journal ^ | June 27, 2023 7:01 am ET | Kirsten Grind and Katherine Bindley

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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TOPICS: Technical
KEYWORDS: bigtech; drugs; magicmushroom; magicmushrooms; shrooms; tech
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To: Jamestown1630

Anyhow, your take is wrong in that it mentioned parties.

Microdosing is a daily thing, like taking vitamins, in theory.

Reality is it’s either crackpot ineffective nonsense like homeopathy due to doses too small to be active or a gradual means to induce insanity if there is activity.


21 posted on 06/27/2023 8:31:44 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: steve86

“Ketamine and eskatamine show very promising results as treatments for depression”

They call it “a spa day for your brain”. I might like to try that some day.


22 posted on 06/27/2023 8:33:06 AM PDT by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: marktwain

What to you mean why not? Ketamine is a totally different class of drug than lsd/mushrooms.

But, yes, you have a point if it is only placebo effect.


23 posted on 06/27/2023 8:33:34 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: srmanuel

Lol Musk is hardly “completely ignorant in the common areas of life”.


24 posted on 06/27/2023 8:33:44 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Krosan

And sports, or so says Aaron Rodgers...


25 posted on 06/27/2023 8:34:10 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Krosan
Drugs can give you an inflated sense of accomplishment while trashing your critical thinking ability.

26 posted on 06/27/2023 8:35:20 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: beef

If you happen to be covered by Medicare, it covers eskatamine (Spravato) treatment, which is expensive.


27 posted on 06/27/2023 8:37:13 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: BitWielder1
Numerous drugs can improve critical thinking ability; that is the whole point of nootropics, also known as "smart drugs".
28 posted on 06/27/2023 8:41:40 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: steve86

Did I mention him specifically??

The comment was based on generalities.

But put Elon Musk in a 9-5 job, he would be bored out of his mind and probably would be a terrible worker


29 posted on 06/27/2023 8:41:58 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: ifinnegan

I don’t know. What I’ve read about are mushrooms, Cannabis and LSD - the latter particularly in reducing anxiety.

(But a lot of things that are poison have been found to have beneficial properties with the right use - digitalis, Yew, venemous Gila monsters and snakes, etc.)


30 posted on 06/27/2023 8:42:39 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: BitWielder1
an inflated sense of accomplishment...

You just described alcohol.
31 posted on 06/27/2023 8:43:21 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Jamestown1630

What about Ecstasy?


32 posted on 06/27/2023 8:45:03 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: Krosan

We have been through this before. Can we not learn anything from history?


33 posted on 06/27/2023 8:45:22 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: Krosan

pharmakeia

From Strong’s Concordance
the use or the administering of drugs
poisoning
sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it
metaph. the deceptions and seductions of idolatry

Modern day sorcery of which most people are now ignorant to just how dangerous such practices are. make no mistake this leads to direct demonic influencing and eventually possession.


34 posted on 06/27/2023 8:46:04 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: Jamestown1630

Is your screen name a reference to Jimson Weed?


35 posted on 06/27/2023 8:47:58 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Krosan

The best drug for the mind is eight hours of deep uninterrupted sleep. Does magic for the mind.


36 posted on 06/27/2023 8:48:49 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: steve86

Please. You’re going to upset the drug warriors.


37 posted on 06/27/2023 8:50:30 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Krosan

38 posted on 06/27/2023 8:54:14 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: ifinnegan

No. My ancestors first came to America in the 1600s at Jamestown.


39 posted on 06/27/2023 8:56:08 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Cool.

I’m referring to this which relates to this thread’s topic.

In the United States the plant is called “jimsonweed”, or more rarely “Jamestown weed” deriving from the town of Jamestown, Virginia, where English soldiers consumed it while attempting to suppress Bacon’s Rebellion. They spent 11 days in altered mental states:

The James-Town Weed (which resembles the Thorny Apple of Peru, and I take to be the plant so call’d) is supposed to be one of the greatest coolers in the world. This being an early plant, was gather’d very young for a boil’d salad, by some of the soldiers sent thither to quell the rebellion of Bacon (1676); and some of them ate plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very pleasant comedy, for they turned natural fools upon it for several days: one would blow up a feather in the air; another would dart straws at it with much fury; and another, stark naked, was sitting up in a corner like a monkey, grinning and making mows [grimaces] at them; a fourth would fondly kiss and paw his companions, and sneer in their faces with a countenance more antic than any in a Dutch droll.

In this frantic condition they were confined, lest they should, in their folly, destroy themselves—though it was observed that all their actions were full of innocence and good nature. Indeed, they were not very cleanly; for they would have wallowed in their own excrements if they had not been prevented. A thousand such simple tricks they played, and after eleven days returned themselves again, not remembering anything that had passed.

— Robert Beverley, Jr., The History and Present State of Virginia, Book II: Of the Natural Product and Conveniencies in Its Unimprov’d State, Before the English Went Thither, 1705[17]


40 posted on 06/27/2023 8:59:34 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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