MORE AND MORE WORKERS ARE TURNING TO MICRO-DOSING JUST TO
BE ABLE TO COPE WITH LIFE.
WHAT IS MICRO-DOSING?
IT'S WHEN YOU TAKE TINY, TINY, TINY DOSES OF CERTAIN
DRUGS, LIKE LSD, IN ORDER TO OPEN UP YOUR MIND AND HAVE
AN EASIER TIME WITH DIFFICULT TASKS THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
IN FACT, THERE'S A WOMAN WROTE A BOOK ABOUT THIS, AND THE
BOOK IS SUPER INTERESTING.
IT'S TITLED, A REALLY GOOD DAY, HOW MICRO-DOSING MADE A
NEGATIVE DIFFERENCE IN MY MARRIAGE AND MY LIFE.
WHAT SHE DOES IT SHE TAKES 10 µG
OF ACID UNDERNEATH HER TONGUE, ABOUT A 10TH
OF THE TYPICAL RECREATIONAL DOSE, EVERY THIRD DAY.
SHE EXPERIMENTED WITH THIS FOR A MONTH, AND SHE REALIZED
THAT IT HAD A HUGE POSITIVE IMPACT ON HER LIFE.
SHE SAID FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SO LONG I FEEL HAPPY, NOT
GIDDY OR OUT-OF-CONTROL, JUST AT EASE WITH MYSELF AND THE WORLD.
WHEN I THINK ABOUT MY HUSBAND AND MY CHILDREN, I FEEL A
GENTLE SENSE OF LOVE AND SECURITY.
I'M NOT ANXIOUS FOR THEM OR ANNOYED WITH THEM.
WHEN I THINK OF MY WORK, I FEEL OPTIMISTIC; BRIMMING WITH IDEAS,
YET NOT SPILLING OVER.
SHE IS NOT AN ISOLATED CASE.
THERE ARE MANY IN SILICON VALLEY THAT HAVE TURNED TO MICRO-DOSING
AND HAVE CLAIMED THEY'VE EXPERIENCED SIMILAR BENEFITS.
BUT I WANT TO BE CLEAR WITH SOMETHING, SO FAR THERE IS ONLY
ANECDOTAL IS ñ ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE WITH REGARDS TO THIS
ISSUE, AND THERE HAVEN'T BEEN ANY STUDIES WITH REGARDS TO ITS
SAFE ñ IF IT'S SAFE, OR IF IT REALLY WORKS FOR PEOPLE.
THERE HAVE BEEN ANECDOTAL CASES FROM SOME PEOPLE THAT HAVE
SAID THAT IT LED TO MORE ANXIETY OR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, SO
YOU NEVER KNOW HOW IT WILL AFFECT YOU IN PARTICULAR.
BUT THE ONE COMMENT I WANT TO MAKE ABOUT THIS IS, A LOT
OF PEOPLE ARE TURNING TO THIS BECAUSE THEY ARE WORKING
THEMSELVES SO HARD THAT THEY ARE FINDING WAYS TO COPE WITH
IT, AND I THINK THAT'S A LITTLE PROBLEMATIC.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO TAKE OTHER, NON-PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS, LIKE
MODAFINIL, IN ORDER TO BE AWAKE AND ALERT WITHOUT ñ
WITH AS LITTLE SLEEP AS POSSIBLE.
CAFFEINE.
CAFFEINE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE, THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE HAVE
BEEN USING FOR A LONG TIME NOW, BUT I THINK THAT SAYS
SOMETHING NEGATIVE ABOUT OUR CULTURE.
IF YOU'RE DOING IT FOR MENTAL HEALTH REASONS AND IT HELPS
YOU WITH ANXIETY AND PRESSURE, I TOTALLY GET IT.
IF YOU ARE DOING IT BECAUSE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU NEED TO WORK
HARDER, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE THAT'S NOT THE GREATEST THING.
I HAVE A VERY STRONG UNEDUCATED OPINION ABOUT THIS, BUT
BEFORE WE GET TO AND I'M CURIOUS WHAT JAYDE THINKS, BECAUSE
SHE MIGHT HAVE AN EDUCATED OPINION ABOUT THIS.
WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS STORY EARLIER I WAS LIKE, WE
HAVE TO DO THIS STORY, BECAUSE IT'S A NEUROSCIENCE STORY.
YOU'VE GOT A GOOD POINT THAT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH
RESEARCH ON LSD, INCLUDING THE EFFECTS OF MICRO-DOSING.
I WONDER WHY.
IT'S BECAUSE IT'S USUALLY NOT THE PEOPLE SELLING LSD THAT
ARE FUNDING SCIENTIFIC STUDIES, BUT THAT'S A WHOLE OTHER
ISSUE BY ITSELF.
THERE IS SOME RESEARCH ON LSD GOING BACK TO THE 1960S
SHOWING THAT THERE IS A VERY SIMILAR STATE OF MIND
BETWEEN WHAT IS BROUGHT ON IN A DRUG-INDUCED STATE, AND
WHAT IS BROUGHT ON WHEN YOU ARE INFLOW MODE.
YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ARE WORKING ON SOMETHING VERY CREATIVE AND
YOU FIND YOURSELF IN A GOOD FLOW?
THERE IS A VERY SIMILAR BRAIN PATTERN BETWEEN THOSE STATES.
THERE'S A RISE IN THE STUDY OF MINDFULNESS, YOU'VE HEARD
OF THAT?
WE NEED TO BE MORE MINDFUL.
SOME PEOPLE ADVOCATE ñ
PEOPLE ARE ADVOCATING FOR DOING YOGA, MEDITATION, EXACTLY.
AND IF YOU ARE DOING MEDITATION, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT YOU
WILL ACHIEVE THIS STATE OF MIND OF MINDFULNESS, AND BEING
RIGHT IN THE MOMENT.
WAR, YOU CAN MICHAEL DOES WITH LSD, AND YOU WILL ALMOST
HAVE A GUARANTEED MINDFUL STATE.
SO, WHILE THERE HASN'T BEEN ENOUGH RESEARCH TO BACK THE
HEALTH BENEFITS OF LSD, THERE IS A LOT OF RESEARCH ON
MINDFULNESS, AND IF WE COULD BRING IN THAT STATE OF MIND WITH
A CHEMICAL, MORE OF IT.
OKAY, NOW THAT WE'VE DISPENSED WITH THE SCIENCE PART, LET ME GO
TO MY STRONG OPINIONS.
WE KID AROUND THAT SOMETIMES WANT TO DO A SHOW ON
THEYOUNGTURKS CALLED, STRONG OPINIONS WITH CENK UYGUR.
SO FIRST OFF, I LIKE IT.
I VOTE YES.
LOOK, YOU KNOW, I TALK IN THE POST GAMES A LITTLE BIT WITH THE
MEMBERS ABOUT HOW I'VE DONE SOME EDIBLES, PERHAPS, AND I
HAVE A WONDERFUL, INTERESTING, DIFFERENT REACTION TO IT,
BUT IT MAKES ME APPRECIATE AND ENJOY THINGS MORE.
AND IT ACTUALLY LASTS SOMETIMES A LITTLE PAST WHEN I'M
ACTUALLY HIGH.
I REMEMBER THE GOOD MOOD AND APPRECIATION THAT I HAD,
AND IT HELPS ME DOWN THE ROAD.
SO I KIND OF RELATED TO HER, I'VE NEVER DONE LSD OR ANYTHING
OTHER THAN POT ñ ONCE IN MIAMI I DID X - BUT I RELATED TO HER
SENSE OF LIKE, CALMNESS AND APPRECIATION, AND MENTAL
WELL-BEING.
SO, MY SECOND STRONG OPINION IS, FOR GOD SAKES STUDY IT.
IT'S MADNESS THAT WE DON'T STUDY THESE THINGS.
WHY?
DRUGS ARE EVIL AND CRAZY!
WHO SAID SO?
BECAUSE FREAKING RICHARD NIXON DID IT TO TARGET HIS
POLITICAL OPPONENTS, WHICH IS HENCHMEN ADMITTED IN THE 1990S?
YOU SHOULD MUX, OF COURSE THAT'S WHY WE DID IT.
WE DID THE DRUG WAR TO TARGET THE HIPPIES BECAUSE THEY
WERE LIBERALS, AND WE GET IT TO TARGET THE BLACKS BECAUSE WE.
THEY WERE DOING HEROIN AND THEY WERE OPPOSED TO US.
NOW WE DO IT BECAUSE AMERICA UNFORTUNATELY SETS WORLD
POLICY ON THINGS LIKE DRUGS, AND WERE NOT EVEN ABLE TO
EXPERIMENT TO SEE WHAT IS AND WHAT ISN'T BENEFICIAL.
WE MIGHT VERY WELL FIND OUT, FOR SOME PEOPLE DON'T TAKE IT,
DON'T, IT MIGHT LEAD TO MORE HEALTH PROBLEMS AND ISSUES
THAT WE DIDN'T ANTICIPATE.
IMAGINE IF WE FOUND OUT WHO IT WOULD HELP AND WOULD HURT
FOR THE RESEARCH?
AND THE PEOPLE WHO IT WOULD HELP ñ AND THEN YOU TEST THE DOSAGES.
HEY, AT THIS DOSAGE IT ACTUALLY BECOMES PSYCHOACTIVE, AND
IF YOU WANT THAT, BLESS YOUR HEART, BUT IF YOU DON'T
WANT THAT GO TO A LOWER DOSAGE, AND THE DOSAGES GOING TO PRETEND
ñ DEPEND ON THE PERSON.
AND IF IT MAKES PEOPLE HAPPIER, WHAT ARE WE KILLING
OURSELVES FOR, FOR NO REASON?
THE FACT THAT WE WOULD BLOCK SCIENCE THAT WOULD HELP US
IS MENTAL.
OUR GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO MICRO-DOSE SO THAT WE CAN
GET BEYOND THIS.
AND HERE'S THE SCARY THING THOUGH, WE ARE ABOUT TO GO INTO
THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY, SCIENTISTS EVERYWHERE ARE TERRIFIED
THAT THEIR BUDGETS ABOUT ñ ARE ABOUT TO BE CUT.
DID YOU THINK UNDER A TRUMP PRESIDENCY THAT A SCIENTIST
WHO MAKES A PITCH FOR FUNDING FOR LSD RESEARCHERS WERE TO
BE LOOKED UPON FAVORABLY?
OF COURSE I DON'T THINK DONALD TRUMP WOULD LOOK AT THAT STUDY
FAVORABLY, BUT WE HAVE A LONG HISTORY IN THIS COUNTRY OF
POLITICIANS ñ DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ñ WHO HAVE DONE
EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO STOP RESEARCH INTO THESE KINDS OF
DRUGS.
IT'S A COMMON THEME.
IT'S ALWAYS BECAUSE OF CORPORATE INTEREST.
MARIJUANA IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THAT, WHY WOULD PHARMACEUTICAL
COMPANIES WANT TO HAVE COMPETITION TO A PAINKILLER LIKE
OXYCONTIN, WHEN MARIJUANA CAN BE GROWN IN YOUR BACKYARD AND THEY
CAN'T MAKE MONEY OFF IT?
THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE.
BUT SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND.
THIS IS NOT A NEW CONCEPTS.
A LOT OF GROUND ñ A LOT OF CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD WOULD
TRIP ON STUFF THAT WAS FROM PLANTS, THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF
THE DRUGS COME FROM IN THE FIRST PLACE, AND I WAS PART OF HUMAN
CULTURE UNTIL THE CORPORATIZED EVERYTHING AND THEY WERE LIKE,
WE CAN'T MAKE ENOUGH MONEY FROM PLANTS, SO LET'S INSTEAD CREATE
THESE CHEMICALS THAT CAN DO IT, AND ARE SLIGHTLY MORE DANGEROUS
BECAUSE YOU GET HOOKED ON THEM, AND LET'S OUTLAW ALL THE PLANTS.
JESUS CHRIST, WHAT ARE WE DOING?
AND THEN FINALLY, JAYDE, YOU ARE A TINY BIT WRONG ON LSD,
ACTUALLY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT HAS EXPANDED A LOT WITH LSD: THE
CIA HAS.
SO TRUMP MIGHT AUTHORIZE THAT, BUT IT'S NOT TO MAKE
ANYBODY FEEL GOOD, IT WAS TO SEE HOW WE CAN CONTROL THEIR
MINDS AND MAYBE BOTH ñ MAKE PEOPLE FEEL DIFFERENT.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR GOVERNMENT?
I KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT, IT'S BECAUSE IT'S CONTROLLED BY
POWERED, MONEYED INTERESTS, ETC.:
MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS.
BUT IT'S SUPPOSED TO WORK FOR US, TO MAKE US FEEL BETTER
AND NOT WORSE.
JUST LET US TAKE WHATEVER DOSAGE MAKE SENSE OF WHATEVER DRUG
MAKES US FEEL GOOD, IT'S NOT THAT BAD.
IT'S NOT THAT COMPLICATED, BUT THE FIRST STEP IS THAT
WE'VE GOT TO TAKE BACK OUR GOVERNMENT SO THAT WE CAN GET
BACK TO THINGS THAT HELP US, AND GET BACK TO LOGIC
AND REASON.
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