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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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.
“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.
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.
Lol Musk is hardly “completely ignorant in the common areas of life”.
And sports, or so says Aaron Rodgers...
If you happen to be covered by Medicare, it covers eskatamine (Spravato) treatment, which is expensive.
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
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.)
What about Ecstasy?
We have been through this before. Can we not learn anything from history?
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.
Is your screen name a reference to Jimson Weed?
The best drug for the mind is eight hours of deep uninterrupted sleep. Does magic for the mind.
Please. You’re going to upset the drug warriors.
No. My ancestors first came to America in the 1600s at Jamestown.
Cool.
I’m referring to this which relates to this thread’s topic.
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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]
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