Friends of Erowid,

Erowid Center Benefit Party & Auction
Seattle, Washington -- July 19, 2008
Ticket Price: $25

Come join us this weekend to celebrate Erowid's newly achieved non-profit status. A speakeasy style cocktail event is being held for Erowid Center in Seattle Washington. Earth Erowid, Fire Erowid and Jon Hanna will all be there as well as DJs, a raffle, and an auction of entheo-relics, art, gift certificates and other goodies. Bring your checkbook or credit card to the event to help support Erowid!

Buy your tickets in advance! For details, see: Erowid.org/seattle

We welcome submissions, suggestions, criticisms, or corrections at submissions@erowid.org.

peace,
fire & earth

1. Meet the Teafaerie!
   Erowid.org/columns/teafaerie/
   
   First installment of "Teatime: Psychedelic Musings from the Center of the Universe", a new Erowid column.
   
   
2. Ayahuasca Recipes
   Erowid.org/chemicals/ayahuasca/ayahuasca_info10.shtml
   
   A short text about ayahuasca recipes, including a table of traditional admixture plants, excerpted from Christian Raetsch's The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants,
   
   
3. Ayahuasca Analogs and Pharmahuasca
   Erowid.org/chemicals/ayahuasca/ayahuasca_info11.shtml
   
   A brief overview of ayahuasca analogs, including a table of plants that contain MAO-inhibiting beta-carbolines. From The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants.
   
   
4. Caffeine Basics
   Erowid.org/chemicals/caffeine/caffeine_basics.shtml
   
   An overview of the basics about caffeine, perhaps the most commonly used psychoactive on the planet.
   
   
5. Caffeine Health
   Erowid.org/chemicals/caffeine/caffeine_health.shtml
   
   Summary of some documented overdoses and deaths attributed to caffeine ingestion.
   
   
6. Response of Cluster Headache to Self-Administration of LSA
   Erowid.org/chemicals/lsa/lsa_article2.pdf
   
   Scientific poster by Sewell et al. describing a recent survey of cluster headache sufferers about their attempts to use LSA-containing seeds to help treat their headaches.
   
   
7. One new image was added:
   
   Solanum dulcamera
   Erowid.org/herbs/show_image.php?i=nightshade/erin-powell_pol_0574__i2003e0127_disp.jpg
   
   
8. The Erowid Review, two reviews added:
   Erowid.org/review/
   
   Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom, reviewed by Lux
   Erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=263
   
   Psychedelic Medicine [Volume II], reviewed by Bruce Sewick
   Erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=264
   
   
9. 141 New Experience Reports
   Erowid.org/experiences/exp.cgi?DateRange&Y1=2008&M1=05&D1=29&M2=07&D2=14
   
   One of the top rated experiences published was:
   "When Light Exists in Darkness" (M. hostilis & P. harmala), by Jungle Girl
   Erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=70143
   
   

For a more complete listing of What's New at Erowid go to:
Erowid.org/new.php

Conducts laboratory testing of street Ecstasy tablets.

Between May 22 and Jul 14, results were posted for 4 new tablets.
http://www.ecstasydata.org/results.php?A=DateRange&Y1=2008&M1=05&D1=22&M2=07&D2=14

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