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Re:Micro-Dosing: The Drug Habit Your Boss Is Gonna Love by smallnamespace on Sunday January 08, 2017 @08:50PM (#13353394)
The risks seem to be of a different and rather less tolerable form though:

"Review studies suggest that LSD likely plays a role in precipitating the onset of acute psychosis in previously healthy individuals with an increased likelihood in individuals who have a family history of schizophrenia."

Like, being mentally fine, then taking LSD and having that precipitate acute psychosis seems like a rather terrible downside tail risk, even if it's statistically very rare.

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Re:Micro-Dosing: The Drug Habit Your Boss Is Gonna Love by AstralStorm on Monday January 09, 2017 @12:34PM (#13358008)
Acute psychosis isn't even that bad, though it could damage career irreparably. The more important side effect are sudden personality changes which cam happen after any number of doses.

Microdosing is supposedly safer but data is still extremely scarce.

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