Silicon Valley’s Newest Obsession: Why Everyone’s Suddenly Talking About Psychedelics
How Silicon Valley is Driving the Psychedelic Market
The suggestion that microdosing psilocybins (basically: “magic mushrooms”) can heal you and increase your creativity has been part of a larger cultural conversation since bestselling author Michael Pollan published How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence in 2018.
Pollan has since described his personal experiences with psychedelic drugs as “some of the most meaningful experiences in my life.”
But authors and others in the counterculture are not the only people who are interested in what psychedelic drugs can do for them; so are many Silicon Valley magnates and employees.
Silicon Valley’s history with microdosing
Revelations of drug use by and among Silicon Valley’s top entrepreneurs are relatively common. Elon Musk and other Tesla board members have admitted to drug use (Musk has been vocal about his use of ketamine); Steve Jobs also admitted to experimenting with LSD before he started Apple.
