[nitwit005]

Given the long history of news organizations making this sort of thing up, although usually about teenagers, I'd give this a pretty low odds of being a real trend. Particularly given the handful of personal accounts, and no attempt at looking for real world data like emergency room visits.

My personal observation from living here, is that the drug/alcohol use is pretty typical, outside of burning man, except for some people suffering from Overwatch addiction.

[nailer]

Hrm, it's been around in tech for a few years. There's a Cisco Fellow (ie, well decorated internal employee) who wrote a good chunk of IOS that openly uses LSD for programming, and everyone up the to the CEO knows this.