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It's ok to use caffeine at work. It's ok to have a beer at lunch and go back to work. People take various prescribed drugs while at work, including opiates. I suspect micro dosing LSD is a scapegoat for some other issue that got him fired.

Except when it becomes a "thing", in the workplace, in executive circles, down the business chain: people are talking about this; the board has heard about Zhu and LSD from people outside the company; an employee caught him "doing it" and mentioned it to HR who brought it to the board's attention. Someone said he sounded "funny" in the last board meeting. Etc. When it's a "thing", and this "thing" is, after all, illegal, it cannot be ignored because ignoring it becomes an active decision to condone or even collude.

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