We're jokingly calling 2018 "Erowid's Year of Experience Report Ketchup". The upcoming issue of Erowid Extracts (#30) is dedicated to discussion and analysis of the Experience Vaults.

After over twenty years of collecting experience reports, we've been tidying data, upgrading systems to better handle the amount of information we now have, and making the types of changes that will enable new features and improvements for readers in the near future.

Launched with a couple hundred reports in June 2000, and approaching 32,000 published reports today, the Experience Vaults have exceeded the project's original scope and just keep growing.

1988: DEA administrative law Judge Francis Young rules, after thorough hearings, that cannabis has clearly established medical use and should be reclassified as a prescription drug. His recommendation is ignored.

Cultural and Political Perspectives on Psychedelic Science
(Aug 18-19) CIIS, San Francisco, California

https://ciis.edu/ciis-news-and-events/campus-calendar/cultural-and-political-perspectives-on-psychedelic-science

Speakers will offer a meta-reflexive approach to central aspects of the so-called "psychedelic renaissance".

BNDD [DEA] Microgram - Vol 2, #2 (Jun 1969) This issue announced the opening of five regional labs of the BNDD, including one in San Francisco with Robert Sager as chief chemist. Sager later became a good friend of Dr. Shulgin. Also, results of an analysis of a "mescaline tablet" that contained LSD and caffeine.

BNDD [DEA] Microgram - Vol 2, #3 (Sep 1969) Analysis of LSD tablets--barrels, "Peace Tablets", and two sizes of orange "Sunshine"--with the first two containing 90-115 ug and the latter 255-256 ug of LSD. Also, an error identified by Dr. Shulgin about the structure of Ibogaine published in a 1968 issue, 35 drugs analyzed by BNDD, and more.

Fundamentals of Responsible Psychoactive Use - Romanian The eleventh in the series of translations of Erowid's guide to relating responsibly to psychoactive plants, drugs, and technologies.

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 drug checking programs.

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  Molly (San Diego, CA)
  Contains MDMA.
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  2C-B (Los Angeles, CA)
  Contains AMB-FUBINACA.
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  Blue Grenade (Atlantic City, NJ)
  Contains MDA.
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  Watson 932 (Boynton Beach, FL)
  Contains U-47700.

The experience report crew is on track to reach an all-time high in report publishing in 2018. In archiving news, scanning of Shulgin materials is ongoing, volunteers are transcribing the next set of Shulgin Pharmacology Notebook pages, and we're working on writing abstracts for all items in the Stolaroff Collection.

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

• "How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics..."
  
  Penguin Press (May 2018)
  In Michael Pollan's Acknowledgements: "For crucial research assistance along the way [...] I'm deeply grateful to Earth and Fire, the proprietors of Erowid, which is the single most important resource on psychedelics there is." Awww...
• "Guide to the management of gabapentinoid misuse"
  
  Prescriber (Apr 2018)
  "There is now a rich source of anecdotal reports that support significant misuse of gabapentinoids both in the UK and internationally, such as the user reports on the Erowid website."

1. MDMA: Anorexigenic Preparation and Method of Curbing the Appetite
   A patent filed in 1959 on the use of MDMA as an appetite suppressant. This is from Alexander Shulgin's file folders and is part of our Shulgin Archiving project. Thanks to K Trout for his ongoing work on this!

The Hive Chemistry Forum: Complete Archive A few years ago, using a redacted version of their original database and software, we made a complete copy of The Hive forums. Operational from 1997-2004, The Hive was infamous for its explicit discussions of chemistry, synthesis, and pharmacology of psychoactive chemicals. We hear from readers that they forget how extensive the twisty mazes inside Erowid are, and we want to remind people of some of the vast and deep vaults you might not normally run across.

• "Welcome Back to My Life" (Ibogaine), by tobala
  "At a certain point, the ceiling became a picture screen of sorts, even rotating forward and becoming horizontal just like at a movie theater. Simultaneously, I began to hear new sounds..."
• "Analysis of Evil in the World" (DOC), by sharpeyes
  "I convince myself that I am not going to get sick again and that I need to go back to my room, unsure if I'm actually producing a coherent conversation, which I am later told is quite erratic."
• "Self/Collective Love Heroic Dose VDay Trip" (P. cubensis), by scratchedelder
  "I feel this is where there might be the critical point, as raised by my partner, that perhaps such an experience is just "trapping" you in your own bubble of beliefs if the feeling is of reinforcement..."

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