US surge in microdosing interest

A recent JAMA Health Forum article reports on the hugely increased interest in psychedelic microdosing. The authors comment: "Despite growing interest in psychedelics, there is a lack of routine population-based surveillance of psychedelic microdosing (taking “subperceptual” doses of psychedelics, approximately one-twentieth to one-fifth of a full dose, over prolonged periods) ... Microdosing searches per 10 million Google queries were measured, examining annual and monthly changes in search rates across the US, including frequency and nature of related searches. Searches for microdosing in the US remained stable until 2014, then increased annually thereafter, with a cumulative increase by a factor of 13.4 from 2015 to 2023 (7.9 per 10 million to 105.6 per 10 million searches, respectively). In 2023, there were 3.0 million microdosing searches in the US ... From August through December 2023, 27.0% of the variation in monthly microdosing search rates between states was explained by differences in cannabis and psychedelics legal status. This cross-sectional study found that state-led legislative reforms on cannabis and psychedelics were associated with increased public interest in microdosing psychedelics."

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