I may just be one dude,
but this site was built by…
a lot of people, and it shows
No one person has the whole picture, and intoxicants are bigger than any one field. They aren't only narcotics or drugs. They're everything that alters the body and mind. So we're building this together: chemists, doctors, physicists, mechanics, and the friends and homies we meet along the way.
Every page carries the fingerprints of the people who built it, Claude's included (one of the homies, helping with the writing). Add yours. :)
The sources we stand on
Every fact on this site comes from one of these places and links back to the page it came from. We copy their words rather than paraphrase them, and we follow each site's license. Thank you all for doing the hard work first.
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PsychonautWiki
psychonautwiki.orgCommunity encyclopedia of substances, dosages, durations and subjective effects. It's our main source for dose tiers and timelines, and every one of those claims cites the exact revision we read.
Thank you for years of careful, cited documentation that harm reduction can build on.
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TripSit
tripsit.meHarm reduction organization with substance factsheets, a drug combination chart and live support. We use their factsheets for dosing, combinations and substances other sources don't cover.
Thank you for the combo chart so many people check before they mix anything.
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Wikipedia
wikipedia.orgEvery compound page links to its Wikipedia article. We also use it for drug class, chemical names and receptor binding tables, and each link gets checked against the live article.
Thank you to every volunteer editor who wrote down what a molecule does.
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NCBI: PubChem and PubMed
ncbi.nlm.nih.govRun by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. PubChem gives us formulas, molecular weights, structures and full chemical names. PubMed is how we reach the medical journals behind the claims.
Thank you for keeping the world's chemistry and medical literature open to search.
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Erowid
erowid.orgNonprofit library of information on psychoactive plants and chemicals, documenting them since 1995. It's on our list of trusted sources, and we'll draw on it next.
Thank you for being the reference library before anyone else built one.
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Bluelight
bluelight.orgA harm reduction forum community where people share real-world experience and safety advice. It's on our list of trusted sources. Anything from it will be labeled as community experience, never as medical fact.
Thank you for the honest conversations that harm reduction runs on.
The people
Every field it takes
- Organic chemists
- Physical doctors and pulmonologists
- Physicists and natural philosophers
- Mechanics and waste-management experts
- Pharmacologists and toxicologists
- Emergency doctors and poison control staff
- Botanists, mycologists and zoologists
- And the rest of the brain games
Our friends, homies, lovers, family, and more... (dumbasses)
Everyone we've met along the way who shared what they know. You know who you are.
This is a science that unfortunately revolves around dangerous forms of self-experimentation... Every trip report on a lesser-used substance is a risk taken by that soul, and that soul still came back, just to tell us how it went. <3
Claude
Scribe, scrapbook keeper, first-draft writer, professional "have you considered the edge case" guy, and honorary homie. Not a pulmonologist, and it will never pretend to be one.
Sponsors
These sponsors help pay for the site. They have no say over what any page says.