Pretty interesting thread with a lot of cool and normal points to address.
Anecdotally, I know several Psy D grad students who have done a lot of microdosing and rave about it. I didnt notice them be any smarter doing it though. They are also drug addicts who take amphetamine salts or MDMA on a daily/weekly basis respectively. Through them, I heard about the promising research and potential value of microdosing. I also came to realize that the people most inclined to micro-dose are the people most inclined to DOSE anything in general.
I am sure that there is therapeutic value in it. But I'm with Gatmanno. Its very dangeruos to be dosing yourself with psychedelics and entheogens on a daily basis. Ive taken my fair share of mushrooms, acid, you fukken name it kiddo, all in the pursuit of greater perception and Self-awareness. That stuff is dangerous. I'm really fortunate things didn't go worse for me. I realize micro-dosing is a different level, but also you really have no fucking idea what the neurological implications are going to be 10 years down the line, so be careful, and probably only do it VERY RARELY or under real expert supervision.
I have seen some quotes Cecily where she rages against Gatmanno's expert positioning. Yes, its the Age of Information. Yes you can educate yourself. No, your 1-10 hours of home cooked Googling will not result in a functional expertise comparable to students who invest tens of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours into the pursuit of extremely rare and novel information and a community to help them digest it into actionable knowledge.
Generally speaking, drugs are bad. Even cannabis has some serious downsides. Dont let legalization ruin your life, friends. I might take pscilocybin mushrooms again at some point in my life, but its with a lot of gravity. It's not something you should fuck around with. Use it like a surgical tool and hopefully you dont cut some important shit.
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