Every September we seek a new high for the number of contributors in
a single month. In 2015 we had 1,193 so this year we're seeking 1,194
donors to contribute during the month. If you appreciate Erowid's
mission to educate the public about psychoactive plants and drugs,
make a donation of $5, $10, or $25.
Check out our support drive progress and make a small donation!
http://erowid.org/sept_drive
Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics
(Oct 7-9, 2016) in New York, NY, USA
http://horizonsnyc.org
Examining the role of psychedelic drugs in science, healing, culture
and spirituality.
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Keeper Trout pores through files, letters, and ephemera related to
Sasha Shulgin's interest in mescaline-containing cacti. He finds some
gems. Originally appeared in Erowid Extracts #28, the
Shulgin Archiving issue.
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DMT in Boston, counterfeit amphetamine tablets, "How to Request a
Laboratory Examination" of seized tablets, 163 ug "Cupcake" LSD
tablets, analog spectra of MDA freebase, more mentions of "hippies"
including some in the Minneapolis-area with explosive love beads.
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AMT shows up in New York under the names IT-290, IT-403, U-14, 164E
and Indopan, reports of increasing methylphenidate abuse with special
mention of co-ingestion with heroin, and 12 pages about identifying
illicit laboratories by the reagents present and tablet machines.
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Fondamentale #1 - Indagare i rischi per la salute e i pericoli della
sostanza psicoattiva specifica e della classe di sostanze a cui
appartiene. [Investigate the health risks and dangers of the specific
psychoactive and of the class of drugs to which it belongs.]
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Volunteer Sysadmin: Erowid is seeking an experienced FreeBSD sysadmin
for two weekends of hands-on work in the next few months. Must be
located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Security router appliance
experience a plus. SpamAssassin experience a plus. Spread the word!
Burning Man: Last week, Fire and Earth spent a few days in the
dusty revelry on the playa to commemorate a friend who died earlier
this year. One of his last wishes was to have some of his ashes
included in the Temple burn. The 2016 Temple was one of our favorites
ever. We were honored to participate.
EcstasyData is an Erowid project that conducts laboratory testing of
ecstasy tablets, research chemicals, and other drugs. We publish
our results online along with analyses from other testing programs.
Erowid is often mentioned in articles and books. Mentions may include
positive or critical reviews, as well as citations of Erowid content.
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Substance Use & Misuse (Aug 2016)
"...the coders supplemented their own expertise by consulting various
online resources including the Drug Slang and Terminology Vault from
Erowid (2015)..."
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Oxford University Press (Sep 2016)
Cites Ayahuasca Effects page.
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An undated transcript of an interview of unknown provenance, likely
recorded for a documentary "about experiments that were conducted on
soldiers largely in the Fifties and Sixties." Focuses on the ethics
of human subject testing. Let us know if you recognize where this
transcript comes from.
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"The chemical started to become more of a burden than an 'enhancer' as I previously thought. One night it happened, I had to leave for work in an hour, I stayed up all night on a-PHP losing track of time and redosing every 1-2 hours."
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"My usual cough feels like it's scratching an itch down in the lower parts of my throat, and is unambiguously a dry cough. In
contrast, the 2C cough feels like a hollow cough, coming from my lungs rather than my throat."
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"I weighed an amount of proscaline that shouldn't give any noticeable effects and is low enough, should it actually be the mislabeled and most potent chemical from the particular vendor I bought the stuff from, so that it wouldn't be an overdose."
As part of an early-aughts project, we began collecting resources,
links, and documents around the topic of children and families in
relationship to psychoactive substances. Maggie is a single mom
raising her 15-year-old daughter, Juju, who was also interviewed.
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