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Email from content contributor GreatNonProfits.org )ii Erowid Extracts 29 — August 2016 Table of Contents Erowid Extracts Number 29, August 2016 Letters & Feedback ............................................................................................. ) 20 Years of Weird—Eroweird ........................................................................... 2 Founder, Editor in Chief Fire Erowid by Earth & Fire Erowid Founder, Executive Editor Earth Erowid Less Ecstasy, More Data: 15 Years of the EcstasyData Program ........... 4 Managing Editor Sylvia Thyssen by Earth Erowid Technical Developer JL Bläk Dream Tripping .................................................................................................... 6 Shipping & Archiving by Jennifer Dumpert Crew Novel Drug Briefs ................................................................................................ 10 Shawn Corrado, roi, ErichZann, by The Erowid Crew Borax, Trout, David Bey, Jonathan Taylor Cardboard Boxes All the Way Down ............................................................. 12 Associate Editors by Erik Davis Zachawry, Rev. Meo, Joshua Emery, Shell Box, Paper, Scanner ............................................................................................ 16 Experience Collection - Reviewers by Fire & Earth Erowid Antheia, Danger The First Sapo Experience Report ................................................................. 18 Experience Collection - Triagers TehSaccade, SpaceSheep, Lotn, Pskoactv, by Michael Pinchera Adlai, Lizard, Strathmore, Theo, Seraph, 2016 Global Ibogaine Conference ................................................................ 22 Crow, Scab13, Kensho, Aqua, Harmony, Fnord, Kalle, Reflex, Cinnamon, Catskills, by David Bey Peregrine, Spent, Survival, Revelator The Distillation ..................................................................................................... 24 Shulgin Lab Book Transcribing Opiate Harm Reduction Project ..............................................................24 Zelig, Jess Erowid in Person ...........................................................................................25 Erowid Center is a non-profit educational Drug Identifying and Measuring ............................................................25 organization. Erowid Extracts is its members’ newsletter. Extracts has been published New Yorker Profile Reverberations ..........................................................25 twice a year since May 2001. To subscribe, or to support Erowid’s mission to educate, improve health, and facilitate reform, visit: Erowid Center’s mission is to provide and facilitate access to objective, accurate, and non-judgmental information about plants, chemicals, Erowid.org/donate technologies, and related issues that affect the mind, body, and culture. Erowid Center supports and trains libraries, publishers, and other Past issues are available at: information distributors on issues related to these fields. Erowid.org/extracts It is also Erowid Center’s goal to support medical, legal, scientific, academic, and independent experts in developing and publishing related Erowid Center resources. 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Müller; 2) Cardboard Boxes (also on pg 12) —Russell Hausfeld; 3) 1P-LSD Molecule—Erowid; 4) Marquis Reagent Know Your Mind Reaction to Ethylone and MDA—Erowid; 5) Silene capensis—HerbDocta; 6) Know Your Substance Psychedelic Ephemera—Erowid; 7) Iboga Extract—ICEERS Foundation Know Your Source Erowid Extracts 29 — August 2016 20 Years of Weird—Eroweird hough it began as a side project in 1995, has developed online has become increasingly Erowid rapidly became an immersive diverse and robust. lifework for the two of us (Earth and A big part of our first