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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 30px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:200;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">"To trendsetters, artists, and tech nerds, microdosing is nothing new: in Silicon Valley, people have doing it<span> </span><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/24/15403644/microdosing-lsd-acid-productivity-benefits-brain-studies" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:0px 95%,100% 95%,0px 95%;background-size:0.05em 1px,0.05em 1px,1px 1px;background-color:initial;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-decoration:none;padding-bottom:1px">for a long time</a>, aiming to optimize their performance. Microdosing involves using tiny, controlled doses of psychedelic drugs in the same manner one might use <a href="https://futurism.com/do-not-edit-nootropics-and-the-future-of-brain-enhancing-smart-drugs/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:0px 95%,100% 95%,0px 95%;background-size:0.05em 1px,0.05em 1px,1px 1px;background-color:initial;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-decoration:none;padding-bottom:1px">nootropic stacks</a><span> </span>or Adderall to give themselves an edge in a hyper-competitive environment.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 30px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:200;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">In practice, microdosing is just like it sounds: taking between five to ten percent of a recreational dose of a hallucinogen such as LSD, mescaline (peyote), or psilocybin (magic mushrooms). Such a small dose can’t send you on a “trip” or make you feel high, but it’s just enough to give you an overall sense of well-being, and expand your behaviors and thought patterns to become more creative. In short, microdosing — when it works as intended — has been said to give adherents<span> </span><a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lsd-microdosing-drugs-silicon-valley" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:0px 95%,100% 95%,0px 95%;background-size:0.05em 1px,0.05em 1px,1px 1px;background-color:initial;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-decoration:none;padding-bottom:1px">more productive, happier days</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 30px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:200;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">However, even the most diehard proponents of microdosing can’t point to any scientific studies on the practice, and instead have to rely on their own anecdotal evidence to convince others (assuming they care to try and want to share their secret). Thus far, Sofia University’s James Fadiman has produced <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39516345" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:0px 95%,100% 95%,0px 95%;background-size:0.05em 1px,0.05em 1px,1px 1px;text-decoration-line:none;padding-bottom:1px">the best evidence</a> of microdosing’s positive effects. Fadiman and his research partner collected anecdotal evidence of users for analysis. While the users’ reports of more creative thinking and energy, and less procrastination and depression may be convincing to laypeople, this is not the kind of evidence drug regulators and lawmakers are looking for." </p></div><a href="https://futurism.com/a-researcher-wants-to-test-the-effects-of-microdosing-on-cognitive-ability-and-productivity/">https://futurism.com/a-researcher-wants-to-test-the-effects-of-microdosing-on-cognitive-ability-and-productivity/</a><br></div>