www.erowid.org is one of the best known resources for information on drugs, and rightly so. It has remained stable and available for 25 years, hosted on privately owned servers with a deep care about ensuring its information is always ready for curious minds to access.

This September Erowid has been running a doubled fundraising campaign, where donations from the public are being matched by benefactors to double the impact of contributions. With just 24 hours to go, they have received 280 fewer donations than last year and are asking friends of Erowid to make a last minute push. Even small donations will be doubled.

I asked the erowid crew for a little blurb to detail some of their current projects (alongside running the world's biggest database of experience reports including for obscure drugs and this is what they sent over:

For 25 years, millions of people have relied on Erowid: for honest info about psychoactive plants & chemicals; for visionary archiving; for lab drug checking (via DrugsData.org); and for an unbiased view of the risks and benefits of these fascinating substances.

We're excited about the successful expansion of our DrugsData lab drug-checking program, the only one of its kind in the US. We test drug samples submitted by the public and publish what's in them. There's been a rise in opioid related overdoses and deaths in 2020, so we're doing more testing of street heroin and opioids (in addition to normal samples of ecstasy, LSD blotter, ketamine, etc), in order to help those working on the front lines of this health crisis.

Archiving projects have been a challenge during the pandemic, but we're excited to have a new crew member on board working on prepping documents from the Stolaroff Archives for publication. Contributions are down during Pandemic2020. Even small donations help! To donate or to see drive progress: https://erowid.org/sept_drive