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LSD microdosing is trending in tech circles
It may seem like a doomed attempt to mix business and pleasure. But a growing number of young professionals in Silicon Valley insist that taking small doses of psychedelic drugs simply makes them perform better at work — becoming more creative and focused. The practice, known as “microdosing”, involves taking minute quantities of drugs such as LSD, psilocybin (magic mushrooms) or mescaline (found in the Peyote cactus) every few days.
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Deeply Artificial Trees
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Here’s how underground chemist Tim Scully planned to save the world with LSD
He managed to get acid behind the Iron Curtain. By Angela Chen.
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First evidence for higher state of consciousness found
Scientific evidence of a ‘higher’ state of consciousness has been found in a study led by the University of Sussex.
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LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how
What we do — and mostly don’t — know about tiny doses of hallucinogens. By Stephie Grob Plante.
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The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia
Jesse Jarnow’s new book complicates and extends the history of LSD and sixties counterculture. By Hua Hsu. (May 17, 2016)
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First-Ever LSD Microdosing Study Will Pit the Human Brain Against AI
Amanda Feilding used to take lysergic acid diethylamide every day to boost creativity and productivity at work before LSD, known as acid, was made illegal in 1968. During her downtime, Feilding, who now runs the Beckley Foundation for psychedelic research, would get together with her friends to play the ancient Chinese game of Go, and came to notice something curious about her winning streaks.
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Acid redux: My long, strange, cancer-fighting trip back to tripping
Our dual cancer diagnoses plunged me and my wife into depression. Could LSD, the drug of my youth, help now?
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Microdosing LSD is safer than taking antidepressants, says neurobiologist.
Psychedelic drugs might not deserve their bad reputation. David Presti, a professor of neurobiology and expert on the effects of drugs on the brain at the University of California, really thinks there’s something going on with microdosing. When people do get around to researching it, it’s going to be relatively easy to demonstrate positive effects that are better than conventional antidepressants.
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Two Magic Mushroom Studies Suggest Psychedelics Increase Spirituality, Decrease Criminal Behavior - Psychedelic Times
New research in the Journal of Psychopharmacology suggests that psychedelics like LSD and magic mushrooms may make you less likely to steal or be violent.
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Inside the Mind of the Countess of Psychedelic Science
If LSD is having its renaissance, 75-year-old English countess Amanda Feilding is its Michelangelo.
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LSD is 'harmonizing' for the brain — and can change your personality for years, studies find
Your brain on LSD is kind of like jazz improvisation. That’s according to Selen Atasoy, a research fellow at the Center for Brain and Cognition at the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. She was among the authors of a study published in the journal Scientific Reports that found the psychedelic drug can reorganize your brain in a “harmonizing” way.
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Research Suggests Psychedelic Drugs Can Improve Mental Health, But There's a Catch
A growing body of research suggests a psychedelic drugs anxiety link, but we're still learning how they work and dealing with laws against their use
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LSD blurs line between ourselves and others, study finds
Apart from the wide-eyed bike ride home from the lab, his neighbour turning into a witch, the threatening behaviour of his furniture and the futile battle to save his ego from collapse, Dr Albert Hofmann appeared to enjoy his first trip on LSD. Now, 75 years after the Swiss chemist witnessed the full effects of his psychedelic invention, scientists have discovered fresh details of how the drug affects the brain. Scans of healthy volunteers show that less than half the dose that left Hofmann cowering on his sofa makes a person’s sense of self disintegrate.
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Breakthrough study reveals how LSD dissolves a person's sense of self
A fascinating study has uncovered key insights into the mechanisms behind how our brain generates the sense of our self. The researchers administered LSD to several participants in order to home in on where in the brain our sense of self is activated.
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Security troops on US nuclear missile base took LSD
One airman said he felt paranoia. Another marveled at the vibrant colors. A third admitted, “I absolutely just loved altering my mind.” Meet service members entrusted with guarding nuclear missiles that are among the most powerful in America’s arsenal. Air Force records obtained by The Associated Press show they bought, distributed and used the hallucinogen LSD and other mind-altering illegal drugs as part of a ring that operated undetected for months on a highly secure military base in Wyoming. After investigators closed in, one airman deserted to Mexico.
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Study: Men Who Have Used Psychedelics Are Half As Likely to Be Violent to Their Partners
New evidence suggests that men who have used psychedelic drugs are around half as likely to be violent against their intimate partners as men who have never used such substances. The results came from a study undertaken at the University of British Columbia, and published by the Journal of Psychopharmacology on May 29. Researchers aimed to examine the association between the perpetration of "intimate partner violence" and lifetime psychedelic use.
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Could psychedelics be prescribed for depression?
Growing evidence suggests that hallucinogenic drugs can help quell depression. Following the government’s review of medicinal cannabis last month, Jack Dutton asks whether we are at a turning point in drug policy
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First ever trials on the effects of microdosing LSD set to begin
Silicon Valley geeks say it sharpens their thinking and enhances creativity. Other people say it lifts the fog of depression. A novel experiment launching 3 September 2018 will investigate whether microdosing with LSD really does have benefits – or whether it’s all in the mind. Microdosing using psychedelic drugs – either LSD or magic mushrooms – is said to have become very popular, especially with people working in the Californian digital tech world...
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The Strange Realm of Salvia Research | Psychedelic Times
Salvia is best known as somewhat of a meme—the goofy, over-the-counter psychedelic prevalent in head shops, notorious for its uncomfortable, short-lived hallucinogenic trip. Pretty much harmless, but a way that many young psychonauts get their toes wet. But the herb Salvia divinorum carries great cultural significance in some parts of the world, and research into …
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