I can speak to #1. If you take a normal amount, you will not be productive at all in terms what we all feel society demands of us. All ideas of productivity fall away when you trip. Social pressures fall away, you become a kid again in a way. Fascinated by looking at grass breathing in a meadow. You still think familiar thoughts, but in a vastly different way.

Now, if you microdose that’s a different story. I tried microdosing for a month years back at a remote job. I found it made me more able to connect with others. Like I didn’t want to hop off a meeting right away. It gave me some extra creativity when coding, but didn’t increase the output of my code.

I completely respect anyone who doesn’t want to try though, there are even some psychedelics that scare me and I’ve done quite a bit!