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Drug Geek Factlet
Roughly 10% of the U.S. population age twelve or older have tried LSD at least once. Based on two large surveys (NSDUH, MTF), approximately 27.5 million people in the U.S. tried LSD between 1965 and 2010.
Upcoming Events
Mind Altering Science (Oct 23-24) in Amsterdam: www.mindalteringscience.com

Women's Visionary Congress (Oct 22-25) in Petaluma, CA: www.visionarycongress.com
Latest Additions
LSD & Health
New detailed information page discussing the health risks that are associated with the use of LSD. Includes a new summary page detailing LSD-related fatalities, from deaths possibly caused by LSD's direct action in the body to suicides blamed on LSD.
N2Oily: Nitrous Oxide Chargers--Residue and Usage Surveys
What comes out of nitrous oxide chargers, aside from gas? Erowid ran a series of tests to examine the output from chargers released into a whipped cream maker, and to see whether a commercially available filter works.
M. Stolaroff and Albert Hofmann: Perspectives on Psychedelics
As Stolaroff was preparing The Secret Chief for publication, he asked Hofmann to write the foreword. While first agreeing to, Hofmann then expressed misgivings about the decision. Read their correspondence on what Hofmann took issue with, and how Stolaroff responded.
Is DMT produced in the brain?
After we published a discussion of the myth that DMT is produced by the pineal gland, we received a number of questions about why our pages continued to say that DMT is endogenous to the brain. After a review of the literature, here's our answer.
From the Vaults
CBS Evening News on Erowid (video)
In doing some digital house cleaning, we ran across this old gem from 2003, when Dan Rather and CBS Evening News did a segment on Erowid that was advertised with lurid "Internet scare" clips. Despite being set up as a hit piece, it ended up as a fairly positive advertisement for Erowid, calling it "the encyclopedia of altered states".
More New Content
  1. Teatime: Dangerous Art
    In lieu of her typical Teatime, this month the Teafaerie shares an essay about a certain festival in the desert...
  2. Roots of Human Violence, by Stan Grof (PDF)
    Paper presented at the 2008 Perspectives on Violence and Aggression conference hosted by the Eranos Foundation in Switzerland.
Experience Reports
(see 61 new)
Ecstasy Data
(see 11 new results)
EcstasyData.org is a project of Erowid Center that conducts laboratory testing of street Ecstasy tablets and publishes these and other testing results online.
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IMAGES
(6 new)
Nicotiana rustica Flowers,
by Farmer Dodds
Harmala Crystals,
by Anonymous
BOOKS
(3 new)
The Acid Diaries,
by Christopher Gray (2010)
Pharmakon,
by Michael Rinella (2010)
THE EROWID REVIEW
(2 new)
Tryptamine Palace (2009),
reviewed by David Arnson
Orange Sunshine (2010),
reviewed by Jonathan Taylor