(17 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Olympia, Washington – 26 March 2025
1. Shot of Matt Metzger with his dog
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Metzger, Key Peninsula Psychedelic Society:
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"I like to say microdosing is the lubricant to the friction of life. So things that maybe normally rub you a little bit the wrong way, they just rub you less the wrong way."
3. Various of Matt Metzger holding mushrooms in a lab setting
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Metzger, Key Peninsula Psychedelic Society:
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"I learned to grow mushrooms and started to start to make my own medicine. Started to find, dial in my sweet spot for microdosing."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago – 27 March 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Harriet de Wit, University of Chicago:
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"Microdosing is a practice that many people engage in outside of the medical context, and they use very low doses of psychedelic drugs, usually LSD, sometimes psilocybin, and they take them once every 3 or 4 days for extended periods of time."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Olympia, Washington – 26 March 2025
6. Various of Matt holding microdosing pills
7. Tight of Matt cutting mushrooms
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Metzger, Key Peninsula Psychedelic Society:
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"Within two months of microdosing, I had this general sense of well-being that I just hadn’t felt in literally a decade and a half."
9. Shot of Matt Metzger putting mushrooms in a drying rack
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Metzger, Key Peninsula Psychedelic Society:
"For me, like it was the first time in so long that I had felt like life was worth living."
11. Pan shot from mushrooms to Matt Metzger
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago – 27 March 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Harriet de Wit, University of Chicago:
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"So to date, the results with the microdosing studies under controlled conditions have been disappointing. We haven’t seen very strong effects."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Olympia, Washington – 26 March 2025
13. Close up of mushrooms on a drying rack
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago – 27 March 2025
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Harriet de Wit, University of Chicago:
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"What keeps me going is that the drug is acting on a system that we know is involved in depression, and secondly, that so many people are using it makes you think that there’s probably something there to it."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Olympia, Washington – 26 March 2025
15. Shot of "Ask me about micro dosing" pin
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Metzger, Key Peninsula Psychedelic Society:
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"Microdosing makes me a better human. And I was I won’t say makes, I say allows me to show up better in this world than I did yesterday."
17. Pan shot from mushrooms to Matt Metzger
STORYLINE:
Microdosing is gaining popularity with a new breed of health seekers. These self-experimenters take a very small amount of psilocybin mushrooms or LSD to try to reduce anxiety, stress and depression. Some claim the practice gives them access to joy, creativity and connection they can’t get otherwise.
This isn’t a full-blown acid trip — or even close. If you see visions, it’s not a microdose. People who microdose don’t do it every day. Instead, they take tiny doses intermittently, on a schedule or when they feel it could be beneficial.
One small study suggests its the users’ expectations causing any psychological benefits, in other words, the placebo effect. But the science is still new and research is ongoing.
What are people who microdose reporting?
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