TOTALING $622 MILLION.
BOTH SIDES AGREE WHETHER TO
MAKE SPENDING CUTS TO COME UP
WITH THE FUNDS OR TO ADD TO THE
BUDGET DEFICIT.
A GROWING NUMBER OF
PROFESSIONALS ARE TAKING WHAT
THEY CALL A WONDER DRUG TO AMP
UP THEIR PERFORMANCE AND FUEL
THEIR PROBLEM-SOLVING
ABILITIES.
THEY ARE USING AN ILLEGAL
SUBSTANCE.
LAUREN PASTRANA SHARES THE
STORY BEHIND THE NEW EDGE.
Reporter: THE 60s -- THE
COUNTERCULTURE DECADE.
IT WAS AN ERA OF REBELLION AND
EXPERIMENTATION WITH DRUGS
INCLUDING PSYCHEDELICS LIKE
LSD.
FAST-FORWARD MORE THAN 60 YEARS
AND LSD IS BACK AFTER BEING
BANNED BECAUSE OF PROBLEMS.
NOW TAKEN IN DOSES SO SMALL
IT'S CALLED MICRO-DOSING.
IT IS A VERY SMOOTH AWAKE.
Reporter: THEY TAKE ABOUT A
10th OF A NORMAL DOSE.
NOT TO HALLUCINATE BUT TO GIVE
THEM AN EDGE AND MAKE THEM MORE
CREATIVE AND PRODUCTIVE.
I FEEL FOCUSED AND I CAN
TAKE AWAY MY DISTRACTIONS MUCH
MORE EASILY.
Reporter: SOFTWARE ENGINEER
KEVIN HERBERT SAID LSD HELPS
HIMSELF SOME TYPE ROBINS AT
WORK.
IT'S INCREDIBLY COMPLEX.
THERE APPEARS TO BE A BENEFIT.
WE WERE QUIETLY DOING THIS
RESEARCH.
Reporter: THEY CONDUCTED
PIONEERING LSD RESEARCH WHEN IT
WAS STILL LEGAL.
HIS SUBJECTS TO MODERATE DOSES
OF LSD.
THEY WERE THEORETICAL
PHYSICIST AND CHIP DESIGNERS.
Reporter: EACH BROUGHT
PROBLEMS THEY CANNOT SOLVE BUT
AFTER DROPPING ACID, SUCCESS.
WE HAD 48 PROBLEMS AND 44
SOLUTIONS.
TODAY HE IS COLLECTING
REPORTS FROM HUNDREDS OF MICRO-
DOZERS AROUND THE WORLD.
Reporter: STEVE FROM THE
ALCOHOL DEPENDENT AND DRUG
COUNSELING SAYS SO FAR THE
SCIENTIFIC DATA IS JUST NOT
THERE.
WITHOUT THE RESEARCH THEY
SUPPORTED WE WOULD DEFINITELY
SAY HERE THAT MICRO-DOSING IS
DANGEROUS.
THIS IS WHAT WE ARE SEEING
ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
