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> Assuming I have a point that I actually believe.. This is like saying "assuming that 1 + 1 = 3, what is the square root of 7?" If I don't understand there to be a valid point in your comment, I can't very well adopt your comments and try to rescue them..
Thank you for confirming. I sincerely wish you the best.
I would strongly encourage anyone looking for new perceptions that aid in concentration and/or creativity to first really try, and properly try, and without giving up too soon, the art of meditation. It's cheaper, safer, longer-lasting, and most certainly a higher-quality experience once properly learned.
"It's cheaper, safer, longer-lasting, and most certainly a higher-quality experience once properly learned." A lot of people say this, but most of them have never tried psychedelics at all, much less had high-dose, strong trips. In those cases, I'm not sure they know what they're talking about. There are others, like Ram Dass, who definitely have had strong trips, and many trips at that. They tend to have a much more…
While I strongly recommend meditation for absolutely everyone, and would not make such an unconditional statement for LSD, but it is an absolute mistake to disregard how powerful of a positive force LSD can be in a person's life.
I would strongly encourage anyone looking for new perceptions that aid in concentration and/or creativity to first really try, and properly try, and without giving up too soon, the art of meditation. It's cheaper, safer, longer-lasting, and most certainly a higher-quality experience once properly learned.
LSD happens to be really really cheap! Like €4,- so microdosing is probably cheaper than smoking. They say it also lasts for many hours. The rest of your points are still valid though :)
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The comparison of copper bracelets to LSD is pretty weak in that if you take LSD, something WILL HAPPEN
You can take a sugar pill and something will happen... we're talking about a microdose after all, not a full hit.
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compromise your health and integrity for it Why is microdosing LSD compromising integrity?
I would say not at all, your health on the other hand, is very much an open question people are now endeavoring to answer with their own lives.
It's hard for me to imagine getting any meaningful programming work done on even a low dose of acid. One look at my computer and I go "I sure waste a lot of my life on this thing. I'm going to go outside."
I'm a SV entrepreneur who is pretty well-connected with the community here (only mentioning this for the sake of credibility). Maybe it's because I missed Burning Man this year, but I haven't heard of anybody doing this outside of articles on garbage news outlets like TechCrunch that say people are. Marijuana or Adderall, sure (Meadow and Eaze are doing well here); maybe even the /r/nootropics stack, but not hallucin…
In fact, the morning after my first trip on LSD I thought "I should not do that more than, at absolute most, once a month." It did turn out to take me about a full month before I could take what I had experienced in stride, without any lasting delusion about the nature of the real world.
But I will tell you with certainty (while the article maybe over blown) there are many people, myself included, who work in SV and take great comfort in sub-threshold psychedelics. Without it, I worry too much and am a perfectionist to my detriment. With it, I can contribute without fear of judgment.
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I'm not sure there is or isn't evidence but if you study the brain I think you can come to some plausible conclusions that it does compromise health to some extent.
Can you go into a little more detail? I have never heard anything like that. While it is just anecdote, the first person to synthesize the drug (and use it, and later practiced microdosing), Albert Hofmann, died from heart attack at the ripe age of 102 with a healthy mind.
The brain is an extremely delicate organ, or atleast that's what I would consider it. It relies on maintaining balance and uses negative feedback. In an effort to regulate brain activity, your brain will do things like down-regulation as an effort to bring your high activity brain (while on lsd) to a more normal level. I haven't looked into exactly what happens with LSD besides that it acts on serotonergic pathways, but sustained high activity can also lead to cell death.
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I'm not sure there is or isn't evidence but if you study the brain I think you can come to some plausible conclusions that it does compromise health to some extent.
Conclusions? You mean 'ways'... the only way I know of - apart from individuals not prone to developing schizophrenia - is taking a lethal dose. The LD50 in humans has not been established but it might be similar to nicotine, around 10 mg/kg. While acid is cheap, it's a few hundreds times more then the typical dosage (40 micrograms). Albert Hoffmann writes in "LSD, my problem child": "The LD50 for the mouse amounts t…
Just take a look at any fundamental neuroscience/brain biology textbook. I would guess that most likely continued microdosing would lead to downregulation and added stress on the pre and post synaptic neurons. Does this mean death? Probably not. Does it have long term effects? I'm not sure, I haven't read the research literature.
It's hard for me to imagine getting any meaningful programming work done on even a low dose of acid. One look at my computer and I go "I sure waste a lot of my life on this thing. I'm going to go outside."
That's what psilocybin would do, maybe not lsd. Shrooms will send you to the woods though for sure
It's hard for me to imagine getting any meaningful programming work done on even a low dose of acid. One look at my computer and I go "I sure waste a lot of my life on this thing. I'm going to go outside."
That's what psilocybin would do, maybe not lsd. Shrooms will send you to the woods though for sure