Microdosing psychedelics is the regular use of sub-perceptive threshold doses of substances such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin ('magic') mushrooms. The phenomenon has attracted increasing public and scientific attention in numerous countries in recent years. This commentary looks at microdosing psychedelics as an emerging facet of human enhancement through drugs. After...
Background: In recent years, microdosing psychedelics has been a growing phenomenon attracting media, popular and scientific attention. The practice entails the use of sub-hallucinogenic doses of psychedelics substances such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms. Users report a multiplicity of motivations for and benefits from engaging with microdosing that run across the enhancement/therapy...
Microdosing consists of the regular use of sub-perceptive doses of psychedelics substances, most notably psilocybin (“magic”) mushrooms and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). First observed in specific environments and subcultures before spreading in wider areas of human activity, microdosing has become one of the better recognised faces of the current “psychedelics renaissance.” Building on a...