A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics
I know a guy who was &quot;microdosing&quot; acid. He started small, but in the end was taking a couple of tabs a day, I guess trying to chase the enhancements. He was also smoking a bunch of weed at the same time.<p>It cooked his brain and he&#x27;s lucky he didn&#x27;t end up in a psych ward. He&#x27;s stopped now (not by choice) and he&#x27;s slowly coming back to normal.<p>I&#x27;m not writing this to dissuade people from microdosing, or from drugs in general (I&#x27;d be a massive hypocrite if I did). But to note that when left up to their own devices with drugs, some otherwise incredibly intelligent people will fall victim to the drugs. I&#x27;ve seen people (a lot who should&#x27;ve known better) get wiped out by basically every different type of drug. Weed, alcohol, Xanax, MDMA, amphetamines, LSD, ketamine, etc.<p>HN likes to talk about the positive effects of drugs, which there are when used responsibly, but for a certain percentage of the population, they&#x27;ll fall victim to their impulses. It&#x27;s easy to say that if you make rules and stick to them you&#x27;ll be fine, but when you start to form a habit, you start bending and breaking those rules.