Large psychedelic study finds microdosing benefits are mostly placebo

Psychedelic microdosing has proven popular, particularly in industries that require creativity and quick thinking. Microdosers report a variety of alleged benefits resulting from taking minuscule quantities of psychedelics like LSD, but the largest placebo-controlled study of its kind has found that these effects are ‘likely’ the result of the placebo effect. Psychedelic microdosing, which involves taking sub-perceptual doses of psychedelic …