BEFORE THEY GO TO WORK.
OTHERS... DROP ACID.
IT'S ILLEGAL... BUT ONLY ON
5 TONIGHT: CATE CAUGUIRAN
ON THE GROWING NUMBER OF BAY
AREA PROFESSIONALS WHO SAY TINY
DOSES OF L-S-D.. GIVE THEM THE
COMPETITIVE EDGE THEY NEED.
NOTE - LAWYERED BY BETH JONES -
PLEASE RUN TAG WITH
THIS STORY
bus sounds (KESEY'S ACID TEST
BUS)
IN THE SIXTIES, A MIND-BLOWING
EXPERIMENT CALLED L-S-D ROLLED
INTO TOWN:
"There is nothing you can do
about it. My advice is you sit
down with your kids and ask them
what they're learning why they
take it."
AN UNPRECEDENTED NUMBER OF YOUNG
PEOPLE FLOCKED TO SAN FRANCISCO
- - - -THANKS TO PSYCHEDELICS -
-SAW THE WORLD IN A DIFFERENT
LIGHT.
night club
FIFTY YEARS LATER - - SAN
FRANCISCO IS STILL THE CENTER OF
THE PSYCHEDELIC UNIVERSE. BUT
THOSE WHO NOW DROP ACID - AND
áWHYá THEY DO IT - MIGHT
SURPRISE YOU.
"It's very small, it's a very
small amount"
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THEY'RE NOT HIPPIES. THEY'RE
TECH "BROS", ARTISTS, INVESTORS,
EVEN ENTREPRENEURS
These are the people influencing
the world, These are the
companies reaching far and wide
all over"
AND, THEY'RE NOT TAKING LSD TO
HALLUCINATE.
"Definitiely not hallucinating"
"I haven't felt anything that's
like an adverse reaction."
THEY'RE TAKING A TINY DOSE -
ABOUT A TENTH OF A NORMAL DOSE -
TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE AND
CREATIVE. IT'S CALLED
MICRODOSING.
"People are finding that low
dose LSD permits their mind to
be more expansive in terms of
problem solving and yet at the
same time they're able to stay
focused"
- -PEOPLE LIKE BRIANA. THE
TWENTY- SEVEN-YEAR OLD ARTIST
MICRODOSES TO FOCUS MORE DEEPLY
ON HER WORK. SHE SAYS IT'S
BETTER THAN CAFFEINE.
I feel focused and I can take
away my distractions easily much
more easily
VETERAN SOFTWARE ENGINEER KEVIN
HERBERT SAYS L-S-D HELPED HIM
SOLVE SOME TOUGH TECHNICAL
PROBLEMS - - WHEN HE WAS WORKING
AT CISCO.
"Software engineering and
hardware engineering - -
incredibly complex"
HE RECENTLY TRIED MICRODOSING TO
LEARN A COMPLICATED NEW COMPUTER
LANGUAGE.
"There does appear to be a
benefit"
BUT THE SCIENTIFIC PROOF IS IN
SHORT SUPPLY.
"Unfortunately we don't know
enough at this point to say
whether micro dosing with
psychedelics like lsd
"is safe"
BRAD BURGE IS WITH MAPS - THE
MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION
FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES. HE SAYS
IN 1966, WHEN LSD WAS DECLARED
ILLEGAL, PROMISING RESEARCH
INVOLVING PSYCHEDELICS ABRUPTLY
STOPPED.
the lack of research means we
can't say for sure whether LSD
islar
way "
BUT PROFESSOR JAMES FADIMAN GOT
A GLIMPSE
"we were quietly doing this
research in Menlo Park"
IN THE SIXTIES, FADIMAN
CONDUCTEDigners"
EACH VOLUNTEER BROUGHT TO THE
SESSION TECHNICAL PROBLEMS THEY
COULD NOT SOLVE. BUT AFTER
DROPPING ACID - - SUCCESS,
We had 48 problems, 44
ANNA, SHE'S WORKING ON
AN INTERACTIVE SCULPTURE FOR THE
UPCOMING BURNING MAN FESTIVAL.
SHE SAYS MICRODOSING HELPED.
"I would like to see this be
legalAT YOU'RE GETTING. CATE
CAUGARIAN
THERE ARE A VARIETY OF METHODS
TO DISTRIBUTE THE DRUG.
BUT MOST COMMONLY, IT'S FOUND
DILUTED IN LIQUID IN DROPPER
BOTTLES. BUT AGAIN,
EXPERTS WARN: NO ONE KNOWS
WHAT DOSE IS SAFE.
