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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 legodt »

01847 wrote: post #14

Strange - I just saw something similar to this a few weeks ago, it looked like a workplace trying microdosing on their employees. At the time it seemed fake but now it makes me wonder: http://imgur.com/gallery/gYnnM

That is clearly an industrial design student project taken out of context. The sketching is overly academic, the app screens are very much on-trend and designed to reflect as much narrative as possible, and those earpiece devices are clearly keyshot renders. I sincerely hope nobody is falling for this. I mean, look at those overly convenient context shots and storytelling visuals! Or those cheesy cliche poster fonts! The only thing missing is a user storyboard, but I don't doubt the student didn't include them because, well, they did fantastic work with those images of hypothetical end-user chemical charts. Projects of this scope are extremely common (take a gander around online portfolios), I never thought I would see somebody intentionally take one out of context to fool people into some sort of conspiracy theory.

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Post by Arcanum-XIII »

01847 wrote: post #14

Strange - I just saw something similar to this a few weeks ago, it looked like a workplace trying microdosing on their employees. At the time it seemed fake but now it makes me wonder: http://imgur.com/gallery/gYnnM

Would be fun when it will interact with medication or even simply pre existing condition. Some people will die, other will start having strange and potentially deadly behaviour toward coworker... love the idea.

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

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Post by pizza »

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?

I mean, it would be hard to argue that working 60+ hrs a week isn't also a health risk for someone else's profit margin.

But to be fair, I think that the self-assessment of increased productivity is a secondary explanation to why workers like their caffeine, nicotine, the various other popular stimulants, and now the panoply that is the archipelago of nootropics communities (oh yeah, and more research chems than you can shake a stick at).

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Post by Johnny555 »

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!

There is no minimum allowable amount of controlled substances, so if a police field kit or lab can detect it, then assume that you'll be arrested for possession.

Whether or not the charges will stick is another matter, if it really is a tiny amount, far less than would be used to get a person high.

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Post by [deleted] »

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!

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

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Post by pizza »

mistermann wrote: post #18
bitexploder wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Speaking as a professional non-doctor, yeah maybe?

It really is a thing that is only responsible to do under a doctor's supervision. But speaking as someone who has done a lot of both, both with and without supervision, they've made a tremendous difference.

Having adderall is like turning on "responsible, task-completing adult" mode, and music becomes wonderful to listen to again, and my memory becomes sharper, and generally speaking it makes it fun to start my day. And yeah, cleaning and doing the dishes etc. becomes a complete non-issue

Unfortunately, sometimes it also means being tooo exciting to do "relax efficiently"- think playing a video game for hours on end, or reading textbooks front-to-back from dusk till dawn.

More or less, the same thing can be said for Ritalin. I've also experimented with 4F-MPH and 3-FPM, legally gray research chemicals that are similar to a more potent Ritalin and a more mild amphetamine, respectively.

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

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Post by Johnny555 »

kabes wrote: post #19

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 drug…

I think the point of the micro-dose is that it's not enough to make you feel high, just enough to have positive effects. So it's likely not the same effect you've experienced, unless you've experimented with micro-doses.

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

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Post by adamcharnock »

The day psychedelics died. The idea of using this class of drugs to work longer and harder seems rather counter to the beliefs that originally brought them into the modern consciousness.

If this is a trend then I feel it is tragic indeed, especially if spawned in California.

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