I know two people who did this, and they both got very weird and ended up putting themselves in dangerous situations from their questionable judgement, years after they stopped even. One flipped his car while drunk and tripping and got seriously injured, but he made serious lifestyle changes. Months later he had a psychotic break and got arrested naked in the street. He is mostly better however he is still a shell of his former self. The other ended up getting addicted to heroin and overdosed several years later. Could just be selection bias and clustering of risky behaviors, but I believe the LSD played some role (possibly related to an interaction between LSD and SSRIs).
I think there are a lot of potential therapeutic benefits that should be studied, but clandestine microdosing is still risky as its practically impossible dose accurately and many people who think they are microdosing are taking doses that exceed the perceptual threshold because they don't think it's working if they don't feel it. Taking 5mcg LSD 3x week is probably mostly safe. Taking 40mcg once a quarter is also probably mostly safe. Taking an unknown 10-40 mcg 3x week seems like it could be entering the danger zone.
(Please learn about volumetric dosing if you're considering microdosing - it at least allows consistency. Fractions of blotter are inherently inconsistent because blotter concentration is not homogenous.)
Yes. He's a pretty normal dude.
The term "acid casualty" exists for a reason. I've known a few people that over-indulged and became detached weirdos and never came back.
It's not a 'wives tale' as someone here said. Take acid by all means. Just know that you could become a despondent ghoul if you go too hard and frequently.
Take a drive down skid row. Or look at Haight-Ashbury in the 70's.
If you've done any psychedelics you would be foolish to not notice that they can drive a person insane under the right circumstances.
And no I wasn't talking about "drugs" I was talking about psychedelics and their targeted use/dosage. I made the counter claim to provide evidence that psychedelics cause permanent psychosis. No one seems to be able to produce such evidence, and your point of casually linking homelessness to drug use may be all fine in a grand sense but with respect to the topic at hand it just looks like a red herring.
That's not to say that microdosing can't be useful. But I think it's possibly quite dangerous for some people. My evidence of that is knowing people who have done too much acid, and meeting plenty of street people in Haight-Ashbury who do acid.
I've seen a friend of mine going deeper and deeper into that hole.
He's asked for evidence and you've responded with a claim. Do you have any evidence to back this claim up?
>I've seen a friend of mine going deeper and deeper into that hole.
This is an anecdote. It does not constitute scientific evidence.
Here's a bunch of real people suffering from it: https://old.reddit.com/r/HPPD
You can definitely overdo psychedelics and fuck up your mind if you are careless with them. Maybe read up a bit on erowid, dmtnexus, shroomery, plenty of warnings from people who went to deep. Don't be stupid and naive.
Microdosing may seem harmless, but it also means taking psychedelics every day for long periods. I wouldn't do more than 2 weeks, you gotta have to function without the drug at some point, can't imagine dosing LSD for a year and then stopping will be pleasant. But your mileage might vary... I just have way to much respect for psychedelics to take them every day.
I had mental issues afterwards largely in line with those I had beforehand.
there you go, fwiw
This has zero relevance to microdosing.
It's basically a window into a malfunctioning brain. You bounce back when it wears off, but you can definitely change from tripping too much. Have you never met someone who has done too much acid?