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Email to Erowid Email to Erowid ) Erowid Extracts — Number 17 / November 2009 Erowid Extracts Table of Contents Number 17, November 2009 Letters & Feedback ................................................................................................ ) Founder, Editor in Chief Fire Erowid Recent News & Updates ....................................................................................... 2 Founder, Executive Editor Earth Erowid Managing Editor Sylvia Thyssen Changes to Mexican Drug Law ................................................................. 2 Managing Editor Jon Hanna Argentine and Latin American Law......................................................... 2 Deaths from False 2C-B-Fly ......................................................................... 2 Prior Exposure to MDMA May Block High-Dose Neurotoxicity ............. 3 Crew The Teafærie: Impulse .......................................................................................... 4 Bläk, JL, Psilo, Stu, Abrad, Suave, Scruff Sampling Carbogen: A Group Trial with CO2/O2 Gas ............................... 6 Associate Editors Near Death? A Carbogen Experience Gone Awry ...................................... 8 Zachawry, rj, Katherine, Scotto, Fer Psychoptic Reveries: Visionary Art Book Recommendations ................. 10 Report Reviewers & Triagers N Oily: Nitrous Oxide Chargers—Residue and Usage Surveys ............. 12 2 • Antheia, Kernel, Tforceimaj, Ratt, Mngrif • 5-MeO-DMT is Not “DMT”: Differentiation is Wise ..................................... 16 LotN, Mujo Lila, RevMeo, Water, Wank, ScAb13, Killfoot, Prometheus, 5-MeO-DMT and N,N-DMT Experience Report Excerpts .................. 17 Peregrine, Arpana, Keith, Fisherman, M. Stolaroff and A. Hofmann: Perspectives on Psychedelics .................. 18 Ydl, Sparrow, Fnord, Convergence. Psychoactives 101: GHB Concentration and Dosage ................................ 21 The Distillation ........................................................................................................ 22 Erowid Extracts is the members’ newsletter of Erowid Center. 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