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On August 21st, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to place 5-MeO-DMT into Schedule I. This powerful psychedelic substance is naturally occurring in dozens of plants, a toad, and human beings. It has been sold to entheogen enthusiasts as a pure chemical since at least 1985.

2007-2009 Ecstasy Seizures Reported in DEA's Microgram The Drug Enforcement Administration publishes information about drugs they seize in the Microgram Bulletin. We have gathered their 2007-2009 ecstasy tablet testing results and published them on EcstasyData.org. Read up on what's been sold as Ecstasy recently.

Erowid at Providence Tarzana Medical Center On August 17th, Earth and Fire gave a continuing medical education lecture at Providence Tarzana Medical Center in Los Angeles. It was an interesting experience, as only one of the attendees had heard of Erowid!

History of Experiences with Carbon Dioxide (1958) This newly discovered document summarizes Myron Stolaroff's first carbogen sessions, administered by Al Hubbard in 1956 as preparation for the LSD experience. Stolaroff went on to do groundbreaking research with both carbogen and LSD.

Symbiosis Gathering (Sep 17-21)
www.symbiosisgathering.com
Erowid Center will have an info booth in the visionary art zone at this event in California.

Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics (Sep 25-27)
www.horizonsnyc.org
Fire and Earth Erowid will present "Connecting the Microdots: State of the Stone 2009" at this event in New York.

Women's Visionary Congress (Oct 2-4)
www.visionarycongress.com
Erowid will have a representative at this event in California.

Experience Reports Advanced Search While the Experience Vaults are a very popular section of Erowid, the advanced search options are perhaps less well-known. For those who find themselves using experience reports as a resource, make sure to give the advanced search a try. It provides a lot of options for finding reports on specific topics.

1. Teafaerie: All I Ever Needed to Know
   Short list of bits of wisdom from The Teafaerie's collective explorations.
2. The Global Cannabis Commission Report (PDF)
   Developed by an international group of drug policy analysts convened by Beckley Foundation, this science-based overview of cannabis informed policymakers at the UN Strategic Drug Policy Review of 2009.
3. New Propofol (Diprivan) Vault
   Spurred in part by the highly publicized death of Michael Jackson, attributed in part to propofol, we have created this new vault with some basic information and links.
4. The Essential Psychedelic Guide (PDF)
   Online in HTML format for some time, D.M. Turner's classic is now available in PDF (thanks KJ)
5. Major Update: Casey Hardison Vault
   Casey Hardison, an entheogenic activist fighting imprisonment in the U.K. for manufacture of LSD, DMT, and 2C-B, recently filed an appeal on the basis that the UK Government administers the law arbitrarily. Three related briefs have been added to his character vault.

• Low Dose Giving High Effect (Tabernanthe iboga), by Londoner

EcstasyData.org is a project of Erowid Center that conducts laboratory testing of street Ecstasy tablets and publishes the results online.

92 new results have been added from data originally published in the Drug Enforcement Administration's publication Microgram. Two examples:

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  BLUE NINJA TURTLE (Asheville, North Carolina)
  Contains BZP, Caffeine, and TFMPP.
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  ORANGE ADIDAS (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands)
  Contains Procaine, MDMA, Caffeine, BZP, and 1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)-2-propanol.

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