Erowid Experience Vaults ... Drugz

The Stormstress · Post by **The Stormstress** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:41 pm

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp_front.shtml

The Erowid Experience Vaults are an attempt to catalog the wide variety of experiences people have with psychoactive plants and chemicals as well as experiences with endogenous (non-drug) mystical experiences, drug testing, police interactions, deep experiences of connection to music, etc.

One of the things that has become extremely clear over Erowid's 5 years of researching psychoactives is that the variation in individual experience with any specific chemical is dramatic and unexpected. Huge differences occur in intensity and character of reactions even within a single individual at consistent dosages. Within a large population containing many different biochemistries, psychologies, personal histories, pharmacological baselines, varying dosages, quality of materials, and idiosyncratic reactions, the picture becomes extraordinarily complex.

Our intention with the Experience Vaults is to try to help illuminate this complex picture by documenting how and why people are using psychoactives and what people report their experiences to be. We hope to create a comprehensive system which simplifies the submission of reports, incorporates reviews of reports by trusted members with expertise in the area, and makes sorting, searching and accessing of reports as easy as possible.

The new Experience Vaults include a system for reviewing, categorizing, and then re-reviewing each experience that is entered with trained and knowledgeable volunteers reading each report and evaluating each one for interest, quality, credibility, and focus on effects or outcomes. Each report is then organized by substance (or non-substance category), primary category, and a number of secondary categories by which they can be sorted and filtered for viewing.

The cultural taboos and prohibitions against the use of psychoactives have unfortunately obstructed the collection of information about the extremely widespread use of these substances and we hope visitors will find our work helpful in studying the complex relationship between humans and psychoactive plants and drugs.

We have had an incredible response to the Experience Vaults, with nearly 20,000 reports having been submitted in the past two years. We believe these reports are an important part of documenting humanity's use of psychoactives, and we do our best to keep reviewing and processing reports, but it currently takes an average of 6 months for reports to be reviewed. Please be patient.

Russo · Post by **Russo** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:06 pm

I highly recommend Erowid to everyone, drug users or not. Lots of valuable info on there.

Hardcoregirl · Post by **Hardcoregirl** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:54 pm

So this is something new? I haven't gone to Erowid in a few years (since I haven't really done much of anything for a few years)..but, yah, great site...its great for clearing up lots of misconceptions people have about drugs.

It should be required reading...hehe...

Reverend_ Hate · Post by **Reverend_ Hate** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:17 am

Yeah,I love Erowid. Been going to that site for a while. I know several people here at school who do research through erowid before they try any new substance.

The Stormstress · Post by **The Stormstress** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:15 pm

Not new ... just sumthing that I thought sum peepz here might wanna c, & I'v never seen it posted on KG b4...

g0dz3lla · Post by **g0dz3lla** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:07 pm

Erowid's a great site. Very informational. I actually thought about posting it on here once. You beat me to it.