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Re:LSD microdosing: a randomized, blind self-experiment by nilved on Thursday October 17, 2013 @01:32PM (#6566814)
Why not? Isn't that what it is?
Re:LSD microdosing: a randomized, blind self-experiment by dreamdu5t on Thursday October 17, 2013 @01:40PM (#6566886)
No. 10ug of LSD does nothing, it has no psychedelic aspect to it at all. You need 100ug+ to have a decent trip, and 200ug+ to have the kind of trip that people become religious about.

An analogy would be saying that taking a sip of a glass of beer had some sort of effect. It's like if someone said they'd never had a drink in their life but are going to see if they can reproduce some positive effects of being drunk by taking a sip of beer once a day.

Re:LSD microdosing: a randomized, blind self-experiment by tedks on Thursday October 17, 2013 @02:17PM (#6567153)
This is about microdosing, not tripping. There are some claims (one recently on reddit/r/nootropics) that taking very low doses of LSD will have various positive cognitive effects. Gwern here attempts to test these claims.

If people said that taking a sip of beer had positive effects, I'd expect Gwern to test that as well.