Silicon Valley tech workers take microdoses of LSD drug to improve problem-solving
Silicon Valley tech workers take microdoses of LSD drug to improve problem-solving
Silicon Valley workers are apparently using microdosing to help them amp up their job performance and problem-solving abilitiesiStock
An increasing trend of young twenty-something tech
professionals are taking tiny amounts of the psychedelic drug LSD in
order to help them think outside the box and increase their productivity
at work.
Microdosing is the practice of taking doses of
drugs that are so low that they fall into the "sub-theraputic" category,
which means that the drugs have a mild effect on the human body, but
are unlikely to produce whole-body effects.
Traditionally this term referred to the study of tiny doses of drugs on humans by medical researchers, but today, the website High Existence
defines Microdosing as "taking sub-perceptual doses (six-25 microgram
LSD, 0.2-0.5 gram dried mushrooms, 50-75 microgram mescaline HCL) while
keeping up with one's daily activities, engaging in extreme sports,
appreciating nature or enhancing one's spiritual practice".
An
increasing number of tech professionals in Silicon Valley are taking
microdoses of LSD because it gives them an energy boost and helps them
to work through complicated technical problems quicker than before.
"[You]
feel a little bit of energy lift, a little bit of insight, but not so
much that you are tripping," Rick Doblin, founder and executive director
of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies told Rolling Stone Magazine.
James Fadiman, author of The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide,
introduced the idea of microdosing at a psychedelic research conference
in 2011 when he presented the results of experiments where he took
microdoses of drugs himself.
Since then, other people who have
tried microdosing out have said that it can alleviate depression,
migraines and chronic-fatigue syndrome, while promoting creative
out-of-the-box thinking. He recommends that people who want to try this
take a microdose every fourth day in the morning and then stick to their
regular daily routine.
"People do it and they're eating better,
sleeping better, they're often returning to exercise or yoga or
meditation. It's as if messages are passing through their body more
easily," Fadiman told Motherboard Vice.
"This
is total guesswork, but so many different conditions that I've seen are
improved, it looks like it rebalances those pistons which are not in
balance. This may be in your central nervous system, it may be the brain
stem, it may be that it's improving function of mitochondria. One woman
who had painful, crampy periods started microdosing and when her period
came, she had no problems."
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