Microdosing, the practice of taking a very small amount of a mood-enhancing drug, has been happening in America for a long time. But in the UK, microdosing was, until recently, a fringe activity. Now everyone – teachers, techies, lawyers, hedge fund managers and hipsters – is doing it.
Microdosing is moderation in pursuit of moderation. It’s the perfect leisure activity for our health and safety obsessed times
It seems like half of London is stoned on something. You’re having a perfectly normal conversation with someone who seems perfectly normal – and then they mention, in passing, that they’ve been microdosing either mushrooms, ketamine, LSD or some other weird drug.
I was at what I thought was a dinner party full of straight, sober, professional people – only to discover that earlier in the evening they’d been microdosing mushrooms and LSD. I was totally surprised by this discovery. How was that possible?
In the old days when people took drugs, you knew they were on drugs because they acted weird, goofy, incoherent or dumb.
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