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Micro-Dosing: The Drug Habit Your Boss Is Gonna Love

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Re: Micro-Dosing: The Drug Habit Your Boss Is Gonna Love

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Post by bitexploder »

sean_patel wrote: post #4

I've have been with mild adult ADHD and it interferes with my programming and getting "in flow" moments. I noticed if I do a certain strain of Sativa, it helps me, but I don't want to smoke as it hurts my lungs. So, 2 serious questions. 1) How do I get my hands on this micro-dose thingy in San Francisco 2) Is it illegal, i.e. could I get arrested if found in possession of it? Thanks!

Have you tried stimulants before? Adderall/Ritalin? For me, even at low doses the effect is pretty profound. If you genuinely have ADHD, no other solution has such profound effect (based on the research). Individual results vary, it is no miracle for all, but as a group, ADHD sufferers benefit greatly. It is low risk all around. If you manage it well the risk of addiction is very low. I think if you have not tried this path try it first. It just works for most ADHD sufferers.

Re: Micro-Dosing: The Drug Habit Your Boss Is Gonna Love

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Clubber wrote: post #2

I think this is even more absurd than steroids. At least with steroids you're risking your health for your own benefit. With this stuff, you're risking your health for someone else's profit margin. Hey, as if willingly working 60 hours a week for no more pay wasn't bad enough. When are we gonna stop being suckers?

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Re: Micro-Dosing: The Drug Habit Your Boss Is Gonna Love

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Post by Mikeb85 »

Doing drugs at work is nothing new. In some industries, smoking weed is common, is others, people regularly do coke and other hard drugs. Ritalin and pharmaceuticals are common enough, and while LSD is popular among the tech community, again, nothing new.

What will be interesting to see is real data to come out concerning the benefits.

Re: Micro-Dosing: The Drug Habit Your Boss Is Gonna Love

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Post by mistermann »

bitexploder wrote: post #11
sean_patel wrote: post #4

I've have been with mild adult ADHD and it interferes with my programming and getting "in flow" moments. I noticed if I do a certain strain of Sativa, it helps me, but I don't want to smoke as it hurts my lungs. So, 2 serious questions. 1) How do I get my hands on this micro-dose thingy in San Francisco 2) Is it illegal, i.e. could I get arrested if found in possession of it? Thanks!

Have you tried stimulants before? Adderall/Ritalin? For me, even at low doses the effect is pretty profound. If you genuinely have ADHD, no other solution has such profound effect (based on the research). Individual results vary, it is no miracle for all, but as a group, ADHD sufferers benefit greatly. It is low risk all around. If you manage it well the risk of addiction is very low. I think if you have not tried th…

I am recently having problems with procrastination, possibly depression (I imagine possibly in part due to lack of progress), etc - are these sorts of things symptoms of ADHD, or possibly something Adderall/Ritalin could help?

Re: Micro-Dosing: The Drug Habit Your Boss Is Gonna Love

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Post by kabes »

Isn't this highly related to the work you do? I'm a software engineer who's quite experienced with most drugs including LSD. I can't imagine LSD improving my work at all.

And if I would need to take drugs to be good at my job, I'd just quit my job. Even the long-term effects of the most popular drugs are largely unkown (e.g. there's a lot of debate about the neurotoxicity of MDMA). Let alone all the lesser known drugs. These people who try to get 'more out of their brain' might just as well be totally ruining them.

Re: Micro-Dosing: The Drug Habit Your Boss Is Gonna Love

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Post by tenpoundhammer »

This article is light on details and appears to be extrapolating a few specific cases of "bio-hacking" into a silicon valley wide trend, which then gets generalized to technologists. I bet the number of people actually doing the kind of experimenting mentioned in the piece is very low.
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