Editing Erowid (section)

== Projects ==

=== Online library ===
The library contains over 63,000 documents related to over 737 psychoactive substances,<ref name=trip/><ref>{{citation |url=https://erowid.org/general/newsletter/erowid_newsletter30.shtml |title=''Erowid Extracts'': August 2018, Number 30 |publisher=Erowid Center |access-date=2018-09-01 |archive-date=2020-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200520150407/https://erowid.org/general/newsletter/erowid_newsletter30.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> including images, research summaries and abstracts, [[FAQ]]s, [[Mass media|media]] articles, experience reports, information on [[chemistry]], dosage, effects, [[law]], [[health]], traditional and [[entheogen|spiritual use]], and [[drug testing]]. {{ as of |2014 | 07 }}, over 17 million people visit the site each year.<ref>{{citation |url=https://erowid.org/general/newsletter/erowid_newsletter26.shtml |title=''Erowid Extracts'': July 2014, Number 26 |publisher=Erowid Center |access-date=2015-11-16 |archive-date=2020-05-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504221009/https://www.erowid.org/general/newsletter/erowid_newsletter26.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

The site generally contains more detail in the pages listed under [[plants]] and [[chemicals]] than in other sections. It does not have comprehensive information about the specific effects of most pharmaceuticals. Such information may appear elsewhere on the site, where one can read about people's individual reactions to various drugs.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Erowid Experience Vaults: Complete Substance and Category List|url = https://erowid.org/experiences/exp_list.shtml|website = erowid.org|access-date = 2015-11-30|archive-date = 2020-05-18|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200518012409/https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp_list.shtml|url-status = live}}</ref>

=== Experience Vaults ===
Erowid allows site visitors to submit descriptions of their own personal experiences with psychoactive substances for review and possible publication. The site states that they welcome all perspectives regarding personal psychoactive experience, including positive, negative, and neutral. Their collection consists of more than 30,000 edited, reviewed, and published reports, as well as stating that they have another 55,000 unpublished reports undergoing review.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.cgi?S1=0&S2=-1&C1=-1&Str= | title=Search Results : Erowid Experience Vaults | access-date=2018-05-31 | archive-date=2020-07-22 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722205242/https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.cgi?S1=0&S2=-1&C1=-1&Str= | url-status=live }}</ref> Many of their reports are collected from [[Bluelight (web forum)|Bluelight.org]], and the two organizations have collaborated to categorize and publish trip reports.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Erowid Experience Vaults: Bluelight Experience Report Collection |url=https://erowid.org/experiences/exp_group.php?Group=Bluelight |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=erowid.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-02-05 |title=Love reading experience reports? Then Help Erowid! |url=https://bluelight.org/xf/threads/love-reading-experience-reports-then-help-erowid.291523/ |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=Bluelight.org |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== DrugsData / EcstasyData ===
Erowid also runs DrugsData (formerly EcstasyData), an independent laboratory [[drug checking]] program co-sponsored by IsomerDesign and [[DanceSafe]].

Launched in July 2001 under the name EcstasyData, its purpose was to collect ecstasy pill samples sent anonymously by the public, in order to manage, review, and publicly report laboratory test results from a variety of organizations<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.ecstasydata.org/about.php |title=About EcstasyData.org |publisher=EcstasyData |access-date=2010-02-08 |archive-date=2015-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116045912/http://www.ecstasydata.org/about.php |url-status=live }}</ref> As the site evolved into DrugsData, the service expanded to testing samples of most recreational drugs, and publicly report the sample's chemical composition as well as what it was sold as.

As of April 10, 2024, DrugsData's service is on administrative pause until further notice, by order of the [[DEA]]. DrugsData has published test results for over 20,000 samples throughout its 23 years of service.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.drugsdata.org/ |title=DrugsData.org |publisher=DrugsData |access-date=2025-01-27}}</ref>

Testing costs have sometimes been covered by project funding (when available) and at other times are covered by those who submit tablets for testing. Multiple published studies use EcstasyData.org as a primary source of data.<ref>[https://erowid.org/references/refs_view.php?ID=6995 Tanner-Smith EE. "Pharmacological content of tablets sold as 'ecstasy': results from an online testing service".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322082739/https://erowid.org/references/refs_view.php?ID=6995 |date=2019-03-22 }} Drug Alcohol Depend. 2006;83(3):247–54.</ref><ref>[https://erowid.org/references/refs_view.php?ID=7152 Tanner-Smith EE. "Corrigendum to 'Pharmacological content of tablets sold as 'ecstasy': Results from an online testing service'".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418074319/https://erowid.org/references/refs_view.php?ID=7152 |date=2019-04-18 }} Drug Alcohol Depend. 2008;93(1-2):190.</ref>

Tablets of street ecstasy can be anonymously submitted to a DEA licensed laboratory for testing and then photos of the tablets and GC/MS test results are published on the project's website.

=== Erowid Extracts ===
''Erowid Extracts'', the bi-annual members' newsletter of Erowid, has been published each year since 2001. It provides updates on the organization's activities, results of surveys conducted on Erowid.org, experience reports, new articles on various aspects of psychedelic and psychoactive plants and drugs, and information about psychedelic culture and events. New issues of ''Erowid Extracts'' are sent to members, but past issues are available on the Erowid website.<ref>{{citation |url=https://erowid.org/general/about/about_newsletter.shtml |title=''Erowid Extracts'' |publisher=Erowid Center |access-date=2012-03-10 |archive-date=2012-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129123907/http://www.erowid.org/general/about/about_newsletter.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Psychoactive Reference Library ===
Erowid and The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies ([[Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies|MAPS]]) collaborated on two large reference database projects. Erowid has provided expertise and work developing and coordinating the construction of an online psychoactive drug reference library, and MAPS has published a similar collection <ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v11n1/11119ero.html | title=MAPS/EROWID Psychedelic Bibliography Projects | access-date=2014-06-16 | archive-date=2014-04-18 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418210655/http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v11n1/11119ero.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Document archiving ===
Erowid Center also archives and provides access to thousands of older texts in their online and physical libraries. By collecting and making these texts available, they attempt to  promote an understanding of the changing contexts surrounding the use of psychoactive drugs. Major archiving projects include the [[Albert Hofmann]] collection, the [[Myron Stolaroff]] Collection, documents from [[Alexander Shulgin]], and a complete archived snapshot of [[The Hive (website)|The Hive]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Box, Paper, Scanner - Archives at Erowid |url=https://www.erowid.org/general/about/about_article18.shtml |website=Erowid.org |access-date=14 February 2024 |archive-date=8 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908125151/https://www.erowid.org/general/about/about_article18.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>