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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium I'm a microdosing coach. Here's how I try to help people change their lives with psychedelics. - Business Insider    This is an as-told-to essay based on a transcribed conversation with Paul Austin, a microdosing coach and the founder and CEO of the psychedelics- and microdosing-education platform Third Wave. The following has been edited for length and clarity. There is "no definitive evidence yet that microdosing with psychedelics is either effective or safe," according to Dr Peter Grinspoon, is a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. Further, eating the wrong type of mushroom can result in serious problems including death. I've always had a bit of a rebellious streak. At 19, while I was in college, a friend introduced me to psilocybin mushrooms, also known as magic mushrooms. Five months after that, I had my first experience with LSD. I took a dose of about 250 micrograms with a couple of friends. I felt a lot of love and connection to nature, and it was a life-changing experience.Over the next few years, I did LSD about 10 times and psilocybin mushrooms 25 times. Continued here Rishi who? Sunak slips down pecking order in G20 scramble to court India - the Guardian    The British PM did eventually meet his counterpart at the Delhi summit – but after a day’s wait, and without an impressive photo op When Rishi Sunak finally got to meet his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on Saturday, it was not entirely what the British prime minister had hoped for. India and the UK are respectively the fifth and sixth biggest economies in the world, and the two countries’ leaders had been scheduled to meet a day earlier, at Modi’s grand residence in New Delhi. But diplomacy can be brutal and Sunak found himself, if not exactly snubbed, certainly shunted down the pecking order. Continued here Is overtourism a problem? - Travel    With visitor numbers around the world increasing towards pre-pandemic levels, the issue of overtourism is once again rearing its head. When locals in the charming Austrian lakeside village of Hallstatt staged a blockade of the main access tunnel, brandishing placards asking visitors to ‘think of the children’, it highlighted what can happen when places start to feel overrun by tourists. Hallstatt has just 800 residents but has opened its doors to around 10,000 visitors a day — a population increase of over 1,000%. And it’s just one of a growing number of places where residents are up in arms at the influx of travellers. The term ‘overtourism’ is relatively new, having been coined over a decade ago to highlight the spiralling numbers of visitors taking a toll on cities, landmarks and landscapes. As tourist numbers worldwide return towards pre-pandemic levels, the debate around what constitutes ‘too many’ visitors continues. While many destinations, reliant on the income that tourism brings, are still keen for arrivals, a handful of major cities and sites are now imposing bans, fines, taxes and time-slot systems, and, in some cases, even launching campaigns of discouragement in a bid to curb tourist numbers. Continued here

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