This file is a part of the 1999 Hyperreal Drug Archives Snapshot. This snapshot is
hosted by Erowid and will not be updated after October 1999. The information in
these files may be out of date. See Erowid's Psychoactive Vaults for more current info.

Drug-Related Network Resources

Mail updates/corrections to lamontg@u.washington.edu. If your site is listed here and the description is not accurate, please send me some information. The more participation from the net, the more accurate this thing will be

This document's home is at:

Another WWWable table of related network resources is available on http://www.pitt.edu/~mbtst3/druginfo.html. It is maintained by vivaldi@ksu.ksu.edu and used to be frequently posted to the net.

NOTICE

This list is slightly out of date. A newer version of the list is being worked on, but I've also got 17 credits this quarter and it may take a little while. If you've got corrections please send them to Lamont Granquist.

Table Of Contents

WWW Servers

stein1.u.washington.edu
http://stein1.u.washington.edu:2012/pharm/pharm.html
http://stein1.u.washington.edu:2012/welcome.html

The stein1 server has been updated to contain a hypertext version of Alexander T. Shulgin's Phenethylamines i Have Known And Loved, and Nicholas Saunders' E is for Ecstasy. It also has Data Sheets on various chemicals (under construction), an indexed collection of net articles and is the home of the Network Resources FAQ. Most of the information on this site is unique to it, and it recieves about 400 requests and transfers about 4-5 megs/day. All info is searchable through a forms-interface using Glimpse. It can be accessed through the site's main welcome page.

www.blueline.com
http//www.blueline.com/passenger-deck/maps/

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. The MAPS newletters are online here, along with chapter 42 of Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved by Alexander and Ann Shulgin.

www.paranoia.com
http://www.paranoia.com/drugs/

This site provides text files, binaries, and links to other drug resources on the net. It's changing nearly daily and contributions are welcome. We will attempt to mirror the contents of www.hyperreal.org and hemp.uwec.edu as possible. (Check out the T-shirt!)

web.kaleida.com
http://web.kaleida.com/u/hopkins/prohibition/

Political Information: excerpts from The Emporer Wears No Clothes, drug testing info, Resolution for Peace, etc...

www.clark.net
http://www.clark.net/pub/murple/drugs.html
http://www.clark.net/pub/murple/home.html

MurpleWeb: Drugs. Links to other sites, and some information off of the net. Check out the MurpleWeb Home Page.

w3eax.umd.edu
http://w3eax.umd.edu/chi.html

The California Hemp Initiative.

www.kaapeli.fi
http://www.kaapeli.fi/~sky/eindex.html

The Finnish Cannabis Society (English homepage).

web.kaleia.com
http://web.kaleida.com/u/danfuzz/info/drugs/

Currently just 4 dextromethorphan, LSD and XTC files.

organic.com
http://organic.com/Music/City.o.tribes/Alien.dreamtime/index.html

Terence McKenna's Alien Dream Time.

www.quadralay.com
http://www.quadralay.com/www/Caffeine/Caffeine.html

Caffiene Injection courtesy of Quadralay Corp. (alt.drugs.caffiene FAQ, .gif of Caffeine, and other info...)

seas.upenn.edu
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cpage/cafe.html
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cpage/caffeine/FAQmain.html

Caffiene, Coffee and the alt.drugs.caffeine FAQ.

www.pitt.edu
http://www.pitt.edu/~mbtst3/druginfo.html

This is another network resources document maintained by vivaldi@ksu.ksu.edu.

www.acpub.duke.edu
http://www.acpub.duke.edu/~eja/blotter.html

Eric Akawie's Lick This Screen collection of blotter art.

www.resort.com
http://www.resort.com/~banshee/Info/N2O/N2O.html

John Vinopal's Just Say N2O html document on nitrous oxide.

suburbia.apana.org.au http://suburbia.apana.org.au/~freako

Electronic Edition of the Mary Jane 'zine...

www.public.iastate.edu
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jgwacker/drugs/drugs.html
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jgwacker/homepage.html

Various FAQs, LSD: My Problem Child, The Psychedelic Experience, and other files. Check out his homepage -- particularly if you've got a graphical WWW client.

cyborganic.com
http://cyborganic.com/drugz/

looks like another page of links to other stuff (under construction apparently).

ice.fmi.fi
http://ice.fmi.fi/sd/nootropics.html

Lots of information on nootropic drugs collected from the net.

www.uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi/~samu/SMARTS2.html

'Chatty' article on nootropics aka 'smart drugs'.

http2.sils.umich.edu
http://http2.sils.umich.edu/Public/nirg/nirg1.html

Neurosciences Internet Resources Guide. Also available at ftp://una.hh.lib.umisch.edu/inetdirsstacks/neurosci:cormbonario...

archive.xrt.upenn.edu

http://archive.xrt.upenn.edu/0h/buhle/chemo/indigent_drugs.html

List of Indigent Drugs.

FTP Sites

NOTE: if you do not have access to FTP these files can be accessed through e-mail. Send a single-line message of 'help' to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com, ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu or bitftp@pucc.priceton.edu. An example:
prompt% mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: does not matter
reply yourname@yoursite
connect www.hyperreal.org anonymous yourname@yoursite
ascii
chdir /drugs/faqs
ls
get FAQ-MDMA
quit
If you're browsing this in mosaic, please disregard.
www.hyperreal.org/drugs
www.hyperreal.org/nootropics
www.hyperreal.org now contains all of the files which were previously on another site. www.hyperreal.org is the major repository for the alt.drugs FAQs. www.hyperreal.org is also the site of the alt.rave archive site. It is also accessable via gopher and WWW. See the alt.rave FAQ for more information on what raves are.

hemp.uwec.edu:/pub/drugs
hemp.uwec.edu is the other major FTP site for alt.drugs. There appears to be minimal overlap between the two archives. There is an emphasis on on FAQs, political files and .gifs, but it contains significant amounts of information in other areas. hemp.uwec.edu is accessable by gopher.

ursa-major.spdcc.com:/pub/pihkal
ursa-major.spdcc.com contains all of part 2 of Alexander T. Shulgin's book Phenethylamines i Have Known And Loved.

cerebus.acusd.edu:/pub/Prohibition
teetot.asusd.edu contains numerous files relating to the politics of prohibition with a focus on the War on Drugs. The archive is searchable via doing a 'whois' to site 'cerebus.acusd.edu' with the keyword 'word' which will return a list of all files on the site with 'word' in their filepath. It also contains other interesting files in cerebus.acusd.edu:/pub/Politics". Also accessable via gopher. 'finger help@cerebus.acusd.edu' for more up-to-date information.
ftp.netcom.com:/pub/mcthomas/hemp
Lots of files on hemp + pot. Looks pretty comprehensive.

ftp.funet.fi:/pub/sci/psycho/drugs
ftp.funet.fi has FAQs, GIFs, and some miscellanous files. It also has a marijuana growers guide in finnish.

flubber.cs.umd.edu:/other/tms/drug.politics
flubber.cs.umd.edu contains a dozen or so files on the political aspects of the War on Drugs.

wiretap.spies.com:/Library/Fringe/Pharm
wiretap.spies.com contains a dozen or so files on drugs. It includes Albert Hofmann's LSD My Problem Child. And is accessable by gopher.

ftp.pyramid.com:/pub/leri
ftp.pyramid.com is the archive site of the leri-l list. Some metaprogramming and Timothy Learyesque stuff can be found here. E-mail majordomo@pyramid.com with "subscribe leri" in the body of the message to be placed on the mailing list.

ftp.cs.pdx.edu:/pub/politics/drugs
ftp.cs.pdx.edu is the new location of the old potemkin.cs.pdx.edu archive site. It contains assorted prohibition and other drug related files.

ncjrs.aspensys.com:/pub/ncjrs
National criminal justice review project. Contains the text of the Research Triangle Institute DARE study (darerep.txt)
asylum.sf.ca.us:/pub/mind-l
asylum.sf.ca.us is the mind-l mailing list archive site. They have a specific section in the ftp site on nootropic drugs.

ftp.brown.edu:/pub/bobby_rabyd
the LSD-51.hqx in a hypertext zine commemerating LSD's 51st Birthday.

Gopher Servers

hemp.uwec.edu
Name=drugs
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/drugs
Host=hemp.uwec.edu

hemp.uwec.edu can also be accessed by FTP, and it is one of the two major archive sites. See the section on FTP Sites for more info on this archive.

wiretap.spies.com
Name=Pharmacological Cornucopia
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/Library/Fringe/Pharm
Host=wiretap.spies.com

wiretap.spies.com can also be accessed by FTP. See the section on FTP Sites for more info on this archive.

cerebus.acusd.edu
Name=Prohibition
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1ftp:pub:Prohibition:
Host=cerebus.acusd.edu

Name=Other Political Information
Path=1ftp:pub:Politics

cerebus.acusd.edu can also be accessed by FTP. See the section on FTP Sites for more info on this archive.

www.hyperreal.org
Name=alt.drugs archive
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/drugs
Host=gopher.www.hyperreal.org

Name=Brian Behlendorf's Techno/Rave archive
Path=1/raves

www.hyperreal.org can also be accessed by WWW. See the section on WWW Servers for more info on this archive.

echonyc.com
Type=0
Name=About High Times News
Path=0/Pub/HighTimes/about.ht.news
Host=echonyc.com
Port=70

High Times on the net.

marvel.loc.gov
Name=Justice Department
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/federal/fedinfo/byagency/executive/justice
Host=marvel.loc.gov

Name=Federal Information Resources
Path=1/federal/fedinfo

This is the Justice Department's gopher server. Check under "Bureau of Justice Statistics Documents" for documents containing hard statistics on drugs, prisons, police, and crime. This site contains comprehensive resources on most federal government agencies.

gopher.counterpoint.com
Name=United States Federal Register
Type=1
Port=2002
Path=1/
Host=gopher.counterpoint.com

gopher.counterpoint.com contains the United States Federal Register. This includes announcements by the DEA as the the scheduling of controlled substances. A suggestion would be to:

  1. select the Fed Reg by Yearly Quarters
  2. select the Quarter of interest (e.g. 94Q1)
  3. select an Agency Search...
  4. ... on the keywords: "drug and enforcement".

gaia.ucs.orst.edu
gaia.ucs.orst.edu has a database of Material Safety Data Sheets. There is an alternative entrypoint (but i'm not sure of what use it is). I also have no clue as to how to access this data via gopher and not via WWW.

atlas.chem.utah.edu
Name=Material Safety Data Sheets
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/MSDS
Host=atlas.chem.utah.edu

atlas.chem.utah.edu is another site with a database of Material Safety Data Sheets. There is also a hypertext interface to this site, although its nothing particularly special right now. See also the other chemistry info (periodic table, lab safety) available through the root directory.

E-Mail File Servers

UMACRC Mailserver
This is the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Cannabis Reform Coalition mailserver. Mail a message with the pattern "{{{readme}}}" contained in the subject line to verdant@titan.ucs.umass.edu.

Piss List
This is the Usenet Piss List of companies policies WRT testing for illegal drugs. Mail a mesage to piss@dixie.com with "send" in the subject.

Telnet Servers

hemp.uwec.edu
This is simply a Telnet port into the hemp.uwec.edu . To use it login as user 'gopher'.

vtcbx.cc.vt.edu
This is a dialout site from which you can connect to "On Earth As It Is In Hell BBS." Do (c)all to number 22592, and hit return.

Mailing Lists

leri-l
This list is supposed to be for Timothy Learyesque discussions of Metaprogramming. It is rarely apprears as advertised to the new subscriber. Mail a message to majordomo@pyramid.com with "subscribe leri" in the body of the message to sub to this list. They have an archive site at ftp.pyramid.com.

Island Group
The Island Group is an association of individuals dedicated to the creation of a psychedelic subculture. Their based on the 1961 novel, Island by Aldous Huxley. Mail island-request@cue.com to be subscribed to the mailing list.

mind-l
This list is for the discussion of mind-altering techniques with a focus on mind machines and biofeedback equipment. Mail mind-l-request@asylum.sf.ca.us with only "subscribe mind-l your name" in the body of the mail. They have an archive site at asylum.sf.ca.us.

drugabus
The drugabus mailing list is a forum for issues relating to community drug abuse education and the epidemiology and study of drug abuse. It is run by the Office of Substance Abuse Studies at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. VM BitNet users can subscribe with the command TELL LISTSERV AT UMAB SUBSCRIBE DRUGABUS your name here. Other BitNet and Internet users can subscribe by sending e-mail to listserv@umab.umd.edu with no subject and only the words: subscribe drugabus your name here in the body of the mail.

Newsgroups

alt.drugs: general discussion of drugs, emphasis on recreational use.
alt.drugs.chemistry: synthesis, extractions, etc.
alt.drugs.pot: smoking it and growing it for recreational purposes.
alt.drugs.culture: trip stories, music, etc, etc, etc...
alt.drugs.psychedelics: MDMA, LSD, DMT, Shrooms, (Ketamine?), etc...
alt.psychoactives: more neuropharmacologically inclined discussion.
alt.hemp: cannabis use as food, fuel and fiber (smoking and growing covered by alt.drugs.pot)
talk.politics.drugs: political discussion of drugs only.
sci.med.pharmacy: medical discussion of pharmaceuticals.
sci.med.psychobiology: medical psychoactives (antidepressants, anxiolytics, neuroleptics, etc)
sci.med: general medical discussion.
alt.consciousness: discussions on consciousness.
alt.rave: discussion of the underground rave culture.
alt.drugs.caffeine: the most often overlooked drug on the planet.
alt.caffeine: obsolete newsgroup, please remove and supersede by alt.drugs.caffeine
alt.coffee: caffeinated and decaffeinated.
alt.smokers: cigarettes -- the preferred nicotine delivery system of millions.
alt.beer: beer
rec.food.drink.beer: beer
alt.drunken.bastards: *lots* of beer.
rec.crafts.brewing: making your own beer.
alt.drugs.usenet: Usenet as a drug

IRC Bots/Channels

FryBot, Cheech, Chong
Do "/msg Cheech help" (or same message to any of the other bots) to get help on how to use them. Cheech and Chong both have fairly complete mirrors of www.hyperreal.org. These bots live on #drugs.

Organziations on the Net

MAPS
The e-mail address of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies is either sylviamaps@aol.com (Sylvia Thyssen, who handles memberships among other responsibilities) or rickmaps@aol.com (Rick Doblin).

High Times Magazine
The e-mail address of High Times is hightimes@igc.apc.org.

Island Group
The e-mail address of Island Group is exstasym@aol.com.

San Diego Hemp Council
The e-mail address of the sdhc is sdhc@pro-harold.cts.com.

Drug Reform Coordination Network
The DRCNet provides timely announcements on all aspects of drug policy to its "rapid-response team". They publish the Activist Guide on a monthly basis. DRCNet began as a purely Internet project, but they are building up their offline membership as well. For info contact drcnet@netcom.com

October 9, 1994 | lamontg@u.washington.edu