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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We always called it ‘locoweed’.
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I, personally, do NOT want to travel in spacecraft designed
and built by people using psychedelic drugs.
I'm just strange that way...
I’ve read some of that research... There are definite benefits according to some of what has been published. Risks, sure... Everything in life carries risk.
Should be up to the individual and their doctor. “You’ve been warned” should indemnify Society from helping you pick up the pieces if you eff up your life.
That would be getting your dosage very, very, very wrong...
Hitler was known to use cocaine. It had possibly fueled his decision to invade Russia in June 1941.
Magic Mushrooms, LSD, Ketamine - oh my!
People have been conditioned to hear the word “drugs” and shut down all critical thinking on the subject.
“Drugs ‘re bad. Hm’kay?” /South Park
Doesn’t matter if using some of these “drugs” correctly could be highly beneficial in any number of ways.
We’ve got a “datura“ on FR...
Added to the breakfast menu?
explains why rich people seek the thrill of a Submarine or Rock launch. INSANITY FROM DRUGS.
REALLY!
“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.
So says one of FR’s stoners. Get lost.
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Yes, and feed it to all the people camped out on the streets. Then everything will be GREAT!
I’ve never used any kind of ‘recreational drug’, discounting alcohol - I’ve always been afraid of them. But I’ve worked in research environments and I know how many beneficial things have been derived from what we thought were ‘bad’ things.
(And you’re kind of obnoxious, for someone who quotes the Bible.)
Money is the drug that powers silicon valley.
Zuck Musk Brin all get high
and yet, all manage to keep their security clearances...
Yeah. I forget if he’s a liberal mole or not.
Provide a placebo, call it a microdose and get paid.
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