Press
Here is a collection of reviews, articles and interviews regarding my work.
Back in the Day with James Fadiman: "[Psychedelics were] terrifying to the mainstream of America, and correctly so." –
Esalen Journal
Sep 30, 2022
"Your Symphony of Selves by James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber" – in English
Global Heart, Netherlands
Sep 18, 2020
"Psychedelics Craze Spreads to Utah"
Utah Stories
Feb 10, 2020
"Microdosing Memoir Set to Become Major Showtime Series"
The Third Wave
Jan 20, 2020
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "Amazing."
"Panel discussion promises to be surreal, sublime and psychedelic"
The Mercury News
Sep 6, 2019
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "We used to be counter culture; now it looks like we're becoming "culture."
"Inside the first placebo-controlled studies testing if microdosing LSD actually works"
Wired UK
May 14, 2019
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "First article that looks at ongoing research."
"The Science of Microdosing Psychedelics by Torsten Passie MD"
Psychedelic Press UK
May 6, 2019
"Is microdosing LSD a solution to the 'crisis of meaning' in modern life?"
Montreal Gazette
April 24, 2019
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "A well written accurate article blending a study asking people who had microdosed about themselves and a recent journal article of ours about people reporting daily while microdosing."
"Do Microdoses of LSD Change Your Mind?"
Scientific American
April 16, 2019
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "Original thinking, I do not agree with all of it, but it is a different take on how it is now, and I agree with him about how it might go."
Paper (pdf), "Descriptive assemblage of psychedelic microdosing: Netnographicstudy of Youtube videos and on-going research projects""
Co-written by Aleksi Huplia, Moritz Berning, and Ahnjili Zhuparris
April 2, 2019
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "This is an article about popular videos on microdosing on YouTube. I'm very much the last author because I did very little work on it. As for the numbers mentioned, they are already out of date since getting a journal article published is a months long process. However the trends that are discussed are continuing."
"LSD-Fueled Innovation From Your Friends at Silicon Valley"
71Republic
March 12, 2019
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "A good general article."
"Psychedelic research on microdosing rats with DMT reveals unusual results"
New Atlas
March 4, 2019
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "Article found damage from microdosing DMT regularly and benefits. As no one suggests microdosing DMT regularly, this is good to know, and it is a very well designed study."
"Psicadélicos ao pequen–almoço?A microdosagem de substâncias psicadélicas e o (pouco) que se sabe sobre esta prática"
Público
February 12, 2019
"I took daily doses of magic mushrooms to improve my performance and mental health. Here's what happened"
news.com.au
February 8, 2019
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "A nicely written microdosing personal story that makes good use of the research now coming out."
"Is Permatripping Real?"
Gizmodo Australia
February 5, 2019
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "Nice to see that we all agreed that this was not true."
"Everything you need to know about microdosing"
Insider
January 25, 2019
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "Nothing new here and some confounding of high and low doses, but a very clean and easy to read article about the basics."
"In Pursuit of Altered States of Consciousness"
Herald (Pakistan)
December 2018
"Taking LSD every day 'makes you wiser and more creative', scientists find"
Metro UK
Nov 5, 2018
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "Not every day, as the article says, once every three or four days."
"Sunday: Palo Alto's magical mystery trip – Historical Association lecture to focus on LSD's impact on Silicon Valley"
Palo Alto Weekly
Nov 3, 2018
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "First real study with giving people psilocybin and testing mental skills."
"'Microdosing' is touted by 'shroomers and Reddit users. Science is starting to test their claims – and finding some truth"
Stat News
Aug 23, 2018
"Does Microdosing LSD Really Improve Cognition? Can LSD really make you smarter? "
71Republic
May 26, 2018
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "As Michael Pollan did not cover microdosing in his book, we will still post when an article is sensible as this one is."
Dr. James Fadiman's comments about the following two articles dated, May 3, 2018: "Long but accurate and the only articles you need to be up to date."
"The Best Books About Microdosing and Psychedelic Therapy"
New York Magazine, Strategist
May 3, 2018
"Microdosing's Micromoment: Consuming crumb-size amounts of psychedelics –not to get high but to feel more focused and creative and present – has moved a tiny bit mainstream."
The Cut
May 3, 2018
"75 Years After First LSD Trip, Psychedelic Science is Making a Comeback"
Seeker
April 16, 2018
"Silicon Valley Is On LSD, And The Government Is Holding Them Back"
71Republic
February 10, 2018
"How LSD is making a comeback: Massive resurgence in Britons using psychedelic drug as a 'brain booster'"
Daily Mail
December 30, 2017
"Psychedelic drug LSD set for comeback as workers turn to 'microdosing' to boost brainpower"
The Sun
December 30, 2017
"A drop of LSD is 'new brain booster'"
The Times
December 30, 2017
The Times requires registration to read the article...
"LSD Is Making a Comeback in Very Small Doses"
How Stuff Works
December 8, 2017
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "An article quoting a very good person saying there is nothing there. But he also says there is no data of the sort he relies on, so his conclusions seem to be as much an attitude as an observation. Research is going on so we will know more soon."
"The Psychologist Leading a Psychedelic Research Revolution
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Motherboard Vice
November 29, 2017
"In Silicon Valley, 'Micro-Dosing' LSD Has Become All the Rage"
National Monitor
November 7, 2017
"Psychedelics Are Making a Comeback Through Microdosing"
Westword
November 1, 2017
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "An easy going article with a very nice short how-to video. It suggests the growing acceptance of this safer way."
"James Fadiman Discusses the Many Benefits of Microdosing"
Psychedelic Frontier
October 26, 2017
"Turn on, tune in, drop by the office "
The Economist's 1843 Cultural Magazine
August 2017
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "This is about as mainstream a publication as one can imagine, and for the cover story to be a sober and not at all sensationalistic article on personal use of psychedelics suggests how much more acceptable psychedelics have become."
"A Researcher Wants to Test the Effects of Microdosing on Cognitive Ability and Productivity"
Futurism
August 10, 2017
"The Plan to Prove Microdosing Makes You Smarter"
Inverse
August 7, 2017
"You're not tripping: LSD is making a comeback"
USA Today
July 26, 2017
"Psychedelics and Normality"
Huffington Post
July 25, 2017
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "A different kind of article musing on what approaches might make psychedelics most acceptable."
"Creative Juice: How LSD Became the Go-to Drug of the Smartest Guy in the Room"
Playboy
June 21, 2017
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "An article not unlike others recently posted. What is interesting is where it is posted and the description of their sample microdose person."
"Can Micro-Dosing Hallucinogens Cure Mental Illness?"
The Adelaide Review
May 30, 2017
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "Delightful prose, mostly true, and with the obvious caveat that taking too much is not a good idea. Well-done study done in Australia being presented at hard science conference next week, clinical studies starting in US and England.
Our study with 1500 people who start microdosing and check in every day for a month also catches people who do not do well. People with anxiety do poorly and people who are color-blind find even a microdose visually uncomfortable. Thank you Dr. Paterson for so adroitly bringing your readers up to date."
"Researchers want to know the effects of taking small doses of LSD to self-medicate"
Mashable
May 9, 2017
"What is microdosing?"
Metro
May 7, 2017
"Molly at the Marriott: Inside America.s Premier Psychedelics Conference"
The New York Times
May 6, 2017
"Better Living Through Microdosing"
Crave
May 5, 2017
"Learn About Cutting-Edge Microdosing Research from Dr. Jim Fadiman"
The Third Wave
May 3, 2017
"The Benefits, Risks with 'Microdosing'"
Healthline
May 1, 2017
"400 People Microdosed LSD for a Month in the Name of Science"
Motherboard
April 26, 2017
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "First article to focus on the research we are starting to publish."
"LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how"
The Verge
April 24, 2017
"We're Entering A New Golden Age of Psychedelics, and Portland is Leading the Way"
Willamette Week
April 18, 2017
"Microdosing: The people taking LSD with their breakfast"
BBC News
April 10, 2017
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "This is a news piece showing three people
in England who microdose and are not hip or special. The 'expert' is not very useful.
Why I think it is worth posting is to show how deeply into mainstream culture microdosing has a gone.
Within 36 hours of it posing as a news item with link to a video, it had 930,000 hits.
'These times, they are a changin'"
"In Depth: Why Silicon Valley techies are 'Microdosing LSD'"
KRON 4 TV (NBC Affiliate San Francisco)
February 28, 2017
The facebook promotional video for the TV segment
"Mind SuperMind with Jim Fadiman, New Paradigms and New Tools for the Mind"
SBCC School of Extended Learning
February 27, 2017
The facebook promotional video for the TV segment
The book, "A Really Good Day," by Ayelet Waldman referenced Dr. James Fadiman's work on microdosing.
Book Reviews:
"Drug Underdose"
SF Weekly
March 2, 2017
Life Matters, Australia
Please click the play button on the following link to listen to the interview
https://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pgDP7NkKNG?play=true
February 19, 2017
Maureen's Corrigan Review (6:36)
NPR, Fresh Air
January 24, 2017
"Ayelet Waldman's Better Living Through LSD"
The New York Times
January 11, 2017
"How Ayelet Waldman Found a Calmer Life on Tiny Doses of LSD"
The New Yorker
January 12, 2017
"How Dropping Acid Saved My Life"
The Guardian
January 7, 2017
"Book Review of Aylete Waldman's 'A Really Good Day'"
The San Francisco Chronicle
January 6, 2017
"Why Power Women Are Micro-Dosing LSD at Work"
Marie Claire
November 17, 2016
"Psychedelic Microdosing for Health"
Catalyst Magazine
November 1, 2016
"Psychedelic microdosing makes inroads in Silicon Valley"
BoingBoing
October 10, 2016
"Inside The World Of Microdosing With Magic Mushrooms & LSD"
Collective Evolution
October 5, 2016
"Would you take LSD to give you a boost at work? WIRED takes a trip inside the world of microdosing"
Wired - United Kingdom
August 24, 2016
"Hallucinogens: A Way to Soothe Mental Illness, Even Get Ahead"
The Big Think
June 19, 2016
"Swapping LSD for Coffee at Work Is Probably a Bad Idea"
The Daily Beast
May 20, 2016
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "This article tries to be negative, but without evidence can't come on too strong. It does a good job of questioning the role of media in inciting people to microdose."
"Prince 'lifesaving mission' turned tragic for doctor's son"
Aassociated Press - The Big Story
May 6, 2016
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "This is a curious twist, given, the usual circumstances of Prince's death and the media looking to make a story, no matter how peripheral to the real event."
"Seen At 11: Could Acid Micro-Doses Help Improve Focus And Creativity?
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WCBS New York
May 3, 2016
"LSD Micro-Doses Unleash Creativity, Problem-Solving For Bay Area Professionals"
KPIX, CBS San Francisco
May 2, 2016
"LSD could make you smarter, happier and healthier. Should we all try it?
Researchers are again exploring the therapeutic possibilities of psychedelics."
Washington Post
April 1, 2016
"NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me"
March 19, 2016
"Pasman: Microdosing brings LSD back to cultural relevance"
Daily Emerald, University of Oregon's Daily Student Newspaper
March 15, 2016
"Can very small doses of LSD make you a better worker? I decided to try it."
Vox
March 2, 2016
"Everything You Wanted To Know About Microdosing (But Were Afraid To Ask)"
The Huffington Post
January 13, 2016
"Lucy In The Sky With Tech Support "
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
December 12, 2015
Stephen quotes part of James Fadiman's interview in the Rolling Stone interview and shows an image of the article with Jim's name in the last paragraph.
"Why I Take Psychedelic Mushrooms For My Health"
Refinery29
December 10, 2015
"Silicon Valley Employees Are Taking Acid in Small Doses for Better Brainstorms
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Playboy
November 28, 2015
Dr. James Fadiman's comments: "An article not unlike others recently posted. What is interesting is where it is posted and the description of their sample microdose person."
"A Brief History of Microdosing"
Motherboard
November 24, 2015
"Forget Coffee, Silicon Valley's New Productivity Hack Is 'Microdoses' of LSD"
GQ Magazine
November 23, 2015
"How LSD Microdosing Became the Hot New Business Trip"
Rolling Stome
November 20, 2015
"Tripping the Psyche: Treating Depression and Anxiety With Psychedelics"
The Kind
November 17, 2015
"Silicon Valley's Best-Kept Productivity Secret: Psychedelic Drugs"
Inc.com
October 16, 2015
"This Is What It Feels Like to Treat Depression with Magic Mushrooms"
Vice Online Magazine
September 7, 2015
"Short Trip? More People 'Microdosing' on Psychedelic Drugs"
Live Science
July 8, 2015
"For Your Consideration" - Book Section
Inlander
June 24, 2015
"LSD Is the New Breakfast of Champions, Says Science"
Playboy
June 19, 2015
"Microdosing - A New, Low-key Way to Use Psychedelics"
Alternet
June 12, 2015
"Benefits Of Microdosing With LSD And Psilocybin Mushrooms"
Reset.Me
May 21, 2015
"Tripping with the Buddha"
A discussion with Zen Priest Kyoko Henkel and Jim
Tricycle
February 18, 2015
"The Trip Treatment"
Hailed as a "Psychedelic Elder" by Michael Pollan'
New Yorker
February 9, 2015
"25 Best Books on Self-Improvement You Need to Read Before You Turn 25"
(#5 on the list)
December 2013
"James Fadiman: Psychedelic Research and Applications"
Claremont McKenna Forum
October 10, 2013
"Can A Low Dose Go A Long Way?"
Vice Online Magazine
July 2013
"Jim Fadiman: Researcher in the Sky with Diamonds - Yale Daily News
November 2012
"Psychedelic Science and Sofia University"
Sofia University's Quarterly Magazine
June 2013
"The Heretic" by Tim Doody
The Morning News
July 27, 2012 and reposted on September 24, 2013
Mr. Doody's article sparked other writers to reference or include it in
their websites:
The Dish- Tiny Trips Andrew Sullivan, July 28, 2012
Los Angeles Review of Books, July 30, 2012
Daring Fireball, July 29, 2012
Conscious Life News, July 29, 2012
Genealogy of Religion, July 29, 2012
Arts & Letters Daily (Under "Articles of Note"), Listed on July 28, 2012
Boing Boing, August 3, 2012
The Teeming Brain, August 3, 2012
Psychedelic Society of San Francisco, August 4, 2012
Haaretz (Israel), August 4, 2012
The Utne Reader(Table of Contents), December, 2012
La Jornada(Mexico), March 3, 2013
reddit.com, September 2013. Please click here to see the discussion thread.
Higher Perspective Online Magazine, October 2013
Taking Psychedelics to the Next Level
Review of the talk entitled, "Shattering Certainty: The Promise and Pitfalls of Psychedelics," University of California, Santa Cruz
February 23, 2012
The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide by James Fadiman
Psychedelic Press UK
December 11, 2011
"The Promise of Psychedelic Research"
Institute of Noetic Sciences
November 2011
Sam Snyder's Blog
The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide
July 8, 2011
