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Just 8 hours left of Erowid's matching challenge and we still have $10,400 in matching funds available. Get your donation DOUBLED or TRIPLED by contributing before the end of September. buff.ly/1ATpIZf Donations support visionary drug info. Check out donor gifts!

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

36 hours left to have donations MATCHED $23,700 in matching still available! Erowid.org/sept $20-$499 donations DOUBLED $500-$3,000 donations TRIPLED Erowid has worked for 30 years to spread reliable info about #psychedelics! Check out our thank-you gifts. Give, repost, & spread the word. 💙

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Erowid has just 3 days before its matching challenge expires. There's $36,000 in matching funds at risk. $30-$499 donations doubled; $500-$3,000 tripled! Erowid.org/matching Erowid has worked for 30 yrs to spread reliable info about #psychedelics. Check out our thank-you gifts and PLEASE DONATE!

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Huichol yarn painting from Mexico showing #peyote & wind flower. The art is beeswax-coated yarn laid onto wood. Get one as a thank-you gift for a donation to #Erowid. buff.ly/TBseqgY Donations in September are matched! $20-$499 doubled; $500-#$3,000 tripled! #huichol #yarnart

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Erowid needs your help! Just 4 days left in Erowid's matching challenge. $38,000 in matching still available! $30-$499 donations DOUBLED; $500-$3,000 TRIPLED! Erowid.org/matching Please repost & spread the word. Support accurate drug info, historical psychedelic archiving, & more.

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's near the end of Erowid's annual matching challenge. $48K in matching funds remain w/ less than 5 days left! $30-$499 DOUBLED $500-$3,000 TRIPLED! Erowid.org/matching PLEASE spread the word & repost. Donations support accurate drug info, psychedelic archiving & more. We need your help!

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Erowid accepts crypto donations! Support Erowid's work publishing psychedelic info, history, & archives w/ a donation during our Sept Matching Challenge. Donations $20-$499 DOUBLED Donations $500-$3,000 TRIPLED Erowid.org/crypto Erowid.org/donate Please donate in the next few days!

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

2 Erowid Blog posts. 1st—some f-ing annoying technical difficulties we've recently faced; 2nd—from Erowid's Shulgin Archives, a 1970s collaboration between Sasha & the Brauns. Erowid 2026: Troubles and Solutions buff.ly/FXl4sQX Erowid Shulgin Archives: the Brauns buff.ly/VhWFGFb

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A long mainstream media summary about the surge in psychedelic research as well as a description of an unusual new research into the use of psilocybin to treat long-term effects of Lyme disease. buff.ly/HaBHrdt (WaPo article) #Erowid #Psilocybin

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." — Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) #Erowid #quote #knowledge

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

8 days left in Erowid's matching drive. $30-$499 donations doubled; $500-$3,000 donations TRIPLED! Erowid.org/sept $68K in matching funds remain! PLEASE repost and spread the word. Donations support accurate drug info, historical psychedelic archiving & more. We need your help!

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"I've read all the philosopies, listened to all the gurus, taken all the drugs and this is what I know about death——Nothing." — Elizabeth Gips (1922–2001) #Erowid #quote #death

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New Erowid mug! Deep purple with a flowery version of the #Erowid logo on one side and "Information Knowledge Awareness" on the back. Get yours as a thank-you gift for a donation. Donations in September are matched! $20-$499 doubled; $500-$3,000 tripled! Erowid.org/sept_drive

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New Research: Indonesian foragers may have sucked on mind-altering betel nuts (Areca catechu) 25,000 years ago. Betel nuts are reportedly the world’s 4th most widely used psychoactive substance after alcohol, caffeine & nicotine. buff.ly/00kMU5i (summary) buff.ly/efDPZRK (original)

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"A Psychedelic Compound Found in ‘Magic’ Mushrooms Might Prevent Debilitating Nerve Damage and Pain Caused by Chemotherapy" …giving mice 2 doses of psilocybin before chemotherapy stopped them from developing pain hypersensitivity. buff.ly/Obb12YJ (summary) buff.ly/p0cO2xY (original)

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." — James Baldwin (1924–1987) #Erowid #quote #knowledge

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Research: Very small study (4 participants) compared the effects of 25 mg psilocybin against 25 mg THC, 50 mg THC, or a placebo. "[P]reliminary data suggest that oral Δ9-THC can elicit a psychedelic-like experience." buff.ly/u5m7CEx (summary) buff.ly/6D7CX5C (full) #Erowid #Research

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Eli Lilly is acquiring AtaiBeckley & their 5-MeO-DMT research. There's big money in psychedelic medicines. People should have access to medicines, but I'm disappointed in non-profit work & donations being sold into Mega Pharma control. buff.ly/dcqIvIl #Erowid #5MeO-DMT

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New research tracked 102 first-time psychedelic users and 1066 never users over a year. The psychedelic users showed small relative increases in Openness and decreases in Conscientiousness after one year. buff.ly/RCFhZUe (summary) buff.ly/0lPrEWP (full paper) #Erowid #Research

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"A Persian philosopher being asked by what method he had acquired so much knowledge, answered, "By not being prevented by shame from asking questions where I was ignorant." — Apocryphal #Erowid #knowledge

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New LSD study by psychedelic pharmaceutical company Definium found that a 100-200 mcg dose of LSD (brand name MM120) resulted in statistically significant improvement of generalized anxiety disorder *without* any therapy. tinyurl.com/bdffnxt3 (overview) tinyurl.com/mrxw82km (study) #Erowid #LSD

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's the 1st day of Erowid's annual matching drive. We have an initial $5,000 in matching funds available: $30-$499 donations are doubled; $500-$3,000 donations tripled! Erowid.org/sept Donations support accurate drug info, historical document archiving (Shulgin, Scully, Stolaroff) and more.

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

New report by SAMHSA (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration ) on advances in psychedelic medicine including how state policymakers can prepare for approval of drugs like psilocybin & MDMA. tinyurl.com/yuszbwnn (summary) tinyurl.com/mrxzcee2 (SAMHSA report) #Erowid #Psychedelics

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

New Mexico’s Medical Psilocybin Program has opened up applications for psilocybin-containing mushroom producers, a big step toward the program becoming operational. buff.ly/u5N24d2 Can anyone ID the mushrooms in the photo? Stropharia cubensis?

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

" The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics." — Daisetsu Suzuki (1870–1966) #Erowid #quote #experience

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"What is your relationship to the mystery? Are you defending yourself from it? Are you making love to it? Are you living it?" — Ram Dass (1931–2019) #Erowid #quote #mystery

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer." — Egyptian saying (c. 2200 BC) #Erowid #quote #alcohol

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." — Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) #Erowid #quote #nature

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Description of how LSD research at Yale has changed since the 1960s including discussion of how changes to neuroplasticity are key to changes in learning & behavior. buff.ly/kqAjAQo #Erowid #Research #LSD

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"Education is the transmission of civilization." —Ariel & Will Durant, historians #Erowid #quote #education

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

For the first time, an NHS hospital is working with a private partner to take part in a trial, with researchers hoping psilocybin compounds […] could eventually become part of mainstream care [for depression]. buff.ly/GaZALpD #Erowid #Research

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New in Psychedelic Medicine: "Politically Salient Events May Modulate Effects of Naturalistic Psychedelic Use on Support for Partisan Violence ". Super specific analyses of partisan extremism in those who had intense psychedelic experience near the 4th of July. buff.ly/hszTiiX buff.ly/1rn3TpF

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." —Michel Montaigne (1533–1592) #Erowid #wisdom #quote

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

New paper in Nature: "An international mega-analysis of psychedelic drug effects on brain circuit function". Analyzes 11 independent studies of magnetic resonance imaging across 5 psychedelic drugs including psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, DMT, and ayahuasca. buff.ly/ZJDgkgT buff.ly/gqAWjDF #Erowid

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New paper published earlier this month in Mycologia by Colin Domnauer describes the sequencing of the genomes of 53 mushroom samples from the Lanmaoa genus including Lanmaoa asiatica, known to produce Lilliputian hallucinations (seeing tiny people). www.sciencealert.com/mushroom-beh...

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

An afternoon featuring psychedelic academics & luminaries, reflecting on the legacy of Sasha & Ann Shulgin, pioneers in the field of psychedelic chemistry & psychedelic-assisted therapy. Features historical, academic, scientific & archival perspectives. berkeleyalembic.org/events

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Article in Smithsonian Magazine about how two different genus of mushrooms (Psilocybe & Inocybe) developed psilocybin in very different ways. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m... #Erowid #magicmushrooms #psilocybin

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Article on BBC about Erowid and its impact on psychedelic science. www.bbc.com/future/artic... "[T]his small, Web 1.0 side project that predated Wikipedia–with its stubbornly retro aesthetics […]—brought psychonauts together to create a whole new space. […] It has an outsized impact to this day "

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

"Democracy is sustainednot by public trust butby public skepticism. Unlesswe are prepared to question,to expose, to challenge andto dissent, we conspire in the demise of the system for which our governments are supposed to be fighting." — George Monbiot (1706–1790) #Erowid #ErowidVerbatim

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

"If we could read thesecret history of ourenemies, we should findin each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) #Erowid #ErowidVerbatim #HenryWadsworthLongfellow

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

"They that can giveup essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neitherliberty nor safety." — Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) #Erowid #ErowidVerbatim #BenjaminFranklin

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

"A more gloriousvictory cannot be gained over anotherman than this, thatwhen the injury beganon his part, the kindnessshould begin on ours." — John Tillotson (1630–1698) #Erowid #ErowidVerbatim #JohnTillotson

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Created by folks w/ first-hand experience (including Erowid friends), No2N2O is an information resource & "agnostic-based 12-step community" providing practical info to support the health of those recovering from heavy nitrous oxide use, abuse, or addiction. No2N2O.org/health

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." — John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) #Erowid #ErowidVerbatim #JohnFKennedy

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice." — Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) #Erowid #ErowidVerbatim #MartinLutherKingJr

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed." — Dweight Eisenhower (1890–1969) #Erowid #ErowidVerbatim #DweightEisenhower 1w

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

We want to send a huge "thanks" to everyone who donated during Erowid's September support-a-thon and matching challenge. The drive was a big success! We used all of the pledged matching funds on the final day. 🎉 And a special thanks to those who backed the matching challenge. 🧡 Erowid.org/sept

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men…" — Roald Dahl (1916–1990), via Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory #Erowid #quote #RoaldDahl

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

4 hours left to have your donation to Erowid MATCHED. $3,300 in matching funds still available! Erowid.org/sept Support honest drug information. 🧡

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Erowid Center @erowid.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Huichol yarn painting from Nayarit area of Mexico showing #peyote & hummingbirds (who help carry messages to the gods & spirits). Beeswax-coated yarn laid onto wood to create designs. Get one as a thank-you for a donation. $20-$499 donations doubled; $500-#$3,000 tripled! Erowid.org/donate/yarnart

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