T+59 -- January 4, 2019

From an earlier note:

Re-posting: LSD. Story here. Silicon Valley (?) getting ready to do "formal"testing. We talked about this earlier this year.

Three-page essay in the current issue of The London Review of Books, by Mike Jay, in his review of two new books:

• How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics, Michael Pollan, May, 2018
• The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds, Lauren Slater, February, 2018

My hunch: marijuana is soooo yesterday.

Now this, today, from NBCNewYork:

In the past three years, Google searches for the term “microdosing” have tripled, and books and articles on the subject are exploding.

Microdosing is described as taking an imperceptible dose of an illegal psychedelic drug, typically LSD, MDMA or Psilocybin, more commonly known as magic mushrooms. It’s a fraction – roughly a tenth -- of a full hallucinogenic dose that would cause a high.

"It’s just been a constant upward trend, constantly on the rise," said a drug dealer who spoke with News 4 New York's I-Team on the condition of anonymity. 

The dealer creates "microdoses" by taking psilocybin or "magic" mushrooms, grinding them to a powder and pressing them into pills that are a fraction of a full hallucinogenic dose. He said that it’s a growing group of people turning to street drugs and that they are looking for anything but a high.

As noted back on September 29, 2018, marijuana is soooo yesterday. With the Dems back in control of the US House we might see some movement in the micro-dosing story -- if they weren't so tied up with impeachment.

Pretty Blue Eyes, Steve Lawrence   ******************************** Pet Peeve  

Middle-aged "rich" women (age 23 - 43 years old) coming into Starbucks with ripped jeans. That was so yesterday. Call me sexist. Whatever. Actually, I don't see similar male attire any more.

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The Book Page

I'm only on page 59 of 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer And The Secret City Of Los Alamos, Jennet Conant, c. 2005, but it's a winner of a book. 

If you are at all interested in the Manhattan Project and have not read this book, I highly recommend it.   

My notes, in progress, are at this post. I generally take notes on any book I read for the first few chapters, and then leave it at that.