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Read on to see what we've been up to in 2025...

Shulgin Archive : Past Year of Cataloging and Scanning Crew blog overview of the past year of on-site Shulgin Archiving by Erowid, focusing on cataloging the contents of Sasha's office shelves, including photos and comments from the archiving crew.

DrugsData: Permission (Temporarily?) Revoked by DEA A description of the status of Erowid's on-hold DrugsData drug checking program, our effort to reacquire DEA permission to analyze anonymously submitted samples, and related projects we're involved with.

Tim Scully Names Erowid as Literary Executor We're excited to be working with Tim Scully, former LSD chemist known for his involvement in the legendary Orange Sunshine branded LSD tablets in the 1960s, helping shepherd his meticulously detailed and documented Underground LSD Manufacturing History Project.

Shulgin Archive: Selections from the Library View a sampling of covers of books, periodicals, reports, and dissertations from Sasha and Ann Shulgins library. Inscriptions, notes on covers, and enclosures (such as letters and notes tucked inside books) are also included.

In the first week of October 1995, earth and Fire launched the Erowid.org website. We had no idea that we'd gotten ourselves into a thirty year project (and career) but are very happy with all that our teams and volunteers have accomplished!

What good are 200,000 PDFs if you don't know what they are? With DrugsData on pause, Erowid staff have shifted energy toward archiving, digital indexing and metadata: over 90,000 Shulgin files now have document type, date, author, title, and privacy status recorded. An essential part of this process is identifying privacy concerns.

Erowid is often mentioned in articles and books. Mentions may include positive or critical reviews, as well as citations of Erowid content.

• "Gas Stations Are Selling a Sleazy Drug That Gives You Seizures"
  
  Futurism (Jun 2025)
  "In a 2024 anecdote shared on the user-submitted drug encyclopedia site Erowid [...] head shop tianeptine induced a 'very dirty opiate high'."
• "What Is Pink Cocaine? The Dark Reality behind a Colorful Name"
  
  Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (Dec 2024)
  "An analysis from Erowid Center's anonymous drug-testing program, DrugsData.org, shows that of the 68 samples submitted between 2016 & 2024 under labels 'pink cocaine', 'tusi', or '2C-B', 94% contained ketamine (64 samples) and 81% contained MDMA (52 samples)."
• "Nutmeg: The Spice That Could Get You High (...or Rip You Apart)"
  
  Newsbreak (Sep 2025)
  "Because nutmeg is cheap, legal, and familiar, it has occasionally been used (mostly by thrill-seekers or misguided experimenters) as a 'legal high.' But the margin between 'trip' and 'hospitalization' is razor-thin."

1. A novel method of quantitative analysis of subjective experience reports
   Here we present an observational study with narrative self-report texts, leveraging the massive scale of the Erowid experience report dataset. [...] We observed that the proportion of sentences describing visual effects varies significantly and consistently across substances, even within the group of psychedelics.
2. A qualitative analysis of the psychedelic mushroom come-up and come-down
   Here we present a qualitative analysis of the self-reported ‘come-up’ or onset phase, and ‘come-down’ or falling phase, of the psychedelic experience. Focusing on psilocybin or psilocybin-containing mushroom experience reports published on Erowid.org.

Is "Sass" a natural form of MDMA (or MDA)? We've heard from and about many people who've been offered a material they were *told* is a natural plant extract (from sassafrass) with effects equivalent to MDA or MDMA.

• Euphoria at the Edge of Chaos (3-MeO-PCE), by Zirconium
  "I'm physically still only slightly impaired but mentally it begins to feel like I'm loosing the grip on reality. It feels strange as I am still very clear headed. The voice in my head which is usually the voice of my thoughts suddenly goes quiet..."
• Boofing Was Not Significantly More Potent (7-OH & Kratom), by Cooper
  "T+1:10. Still nothing, I would say this experiment was a failure. I am going to take some kratom leaf on top of the boofed 7-OH. I am taking 4.5 g of kratom leaf in capsules now."
• Relational Catharsis & Gratitude (DMT & Harmala Alkaloids), by OtterPaws
  "I decided to redose with the same dose I started with, plus some harmaline. This time, things started to happen pretty quickly though the true peak still took a little while to fully come on and it was still different from the first night."

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