The weekend has finally showed its face and now I can relax and write something witty and/or interesting……..

Back in my younger days, just after the Dark Ages, we were always looking for something that would give us an edge……..an edge in creativity……or endurance…..or artistic visions……etc………..so yes we experimented with those hallucinogenic drugs…..a fave back then may be something you may have heard of…….LSD, aka ACID!

In those days the public heard mostly about the downside of the drug…..the “bad trips”….you know the guy drops acid goes to roof and tries to fly and became a greasy spot on the asphalt…….there were others but that one was the most reported……..

I admit it I tried the drug and all that time I saw only one “bad trip”……his name was Wendall and after taking the acid he took a shower and thought his skin was melting off his bones…..we found him in the tub crying…..crying because he thought he would melt away before losing his virginity…..shortly after that he was back to his obnoxious state………everyone else including me had pleasurable experiences.

Bet you guys are wondering why I regale you with tales of Brave Ulysses, aka my youth, right?

Well you asked for it…………

Some users of LSD like taking tiny amounts of the hallucinogenic drug—often by drinking acid-laced water—to experience subtle benefits like increased focus, creativity, or friendliness toward people, LiveScience reports. “It’s like the coffee to wake up the mind-body connection,” says former poker player Martijn Schirp, who now writes for HighExistence.com. “When I notice it is working, depending on the dosage, time seems to be slowing down a bit, everything seems covered with a layer of extra significance.” Schirp says he embraced the practice, called “microdosing,” because it gave him a chance “to get a taste of this without [the experience] completely overwhelming me.” But any possible long-term risks are unknown because, as Medical Daily notes, LSD remains an illegal drug that’s rarely tested.

“The unintended consequence is they’ve really impeded research and development,” a psychopharmacologist told LiveScience a couple of years ago. “We cannot understand the brain if we’re not studying drugs.” According to one psychologist, LSD does mimic antidepressants like Prozac by freeing up the brain’s “feel-good” chemical, serotonin, so microdosing may work as advertised. It’s been around for years, too: LSD inventor Albert Hofmann microdosed in his old age, and the practice is described in James Fadiman’s 2011 book The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide. Yet even Schirp admits it’s not always positive: “At times, the experience was still too overwhelming to be productive—I just wanted to lay down or take a walk,” he says.

Well great!  Ask an aging Hippie…..we could have told them that and saved the grant money for real research………