Talk:Erowid

message: recently added the advert tags, then figured I'd try and edit the article myself because it wasn't that bad to begin with. I removed the tags because I think it has better balance now. Testerer 04:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Erowid.org has been down for moths now. This deserves a mention in the article and, if anyone has one, an explanation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.38.166.14 (talk) 01:38, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Site down 

message: To me, phrases like "The information on the site is a compilation of the experiences, words, and efforts of thousands of individuals including users, parents, health professionals, doctors", "The site does not shy away from presenting the positive side of recreational drug use in addition to the negative, and recommends a certain level of safety and responsibility for users" and "An appealing aspect of Erowid is that anyone, whether a member or not..." are nothing but advertising. /SvNH 00:55, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Some of that wording I can see as advertising. The first phrase you give is not an advertisement as that is what the site is. You are allowed to fix this stuff btw. Acidskater 00:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

text: I totally agree that this article is written more like a press release then an encyclopedic article, but it still is not necessarily a blatant advertisement, but is still overly promotional in tone, so I added the Newsrelease template instead. I do not currently have time to do the task of re-writing the article to read in a NPOV manor, but until someone else does I think the template needs to stay. CrazyRob926 (talk) 00:03, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll agree that the article is not totally an advertisement, but there is evidence of self-promotion here and there. It is also poorly written, with some very strange sentence structure at times (hints of "yoda speak", with words not appearing in places where you'd expect). Dr. Cash (talk) 20:46, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe it is time to remove the tag. 145.120.1.100 (talk) 06:34, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

text: I went through it, chopping liberally in places, cautiously in others. Please review and comment. MatthewBurton (talk) 20:48, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: IMHO the tag no longer applies. It should be removed. Lou Sander (talk) 09:34, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertisement template added 

message: What does "erowid" mean?  190.41.69.240 (talk) 19:24, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Erowid doesn't have one specific meaning, as the root words can be percieved in different ways however see FAQ: The Etymology of Erowid (Erowid.org) for in depth clarification.--Astavats (talk) 03:13, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's an anagram for wierdo.24.172.113.130 (talk) 19:28, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Erowid has received numerous people writing in saying "hey, I heard Dean Edell recommend Erowid", but we have been singularly unable to find recordings or other documentation to confirm this.  If anyone has any ideas about how to confirm this for the 'citation needed', feel encouraged to let us know at erowid or post it here :]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Earthowid (talk • contribs) 04:16, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dean Edell 

message: "The accessibility of correct information as well as the general populous possessing the potential to increase its knowledgeability by its own means is frowned upon by the public school establishment."
--- I beg your pardon?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.252.249.52 (talk) 19:22, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased section? 

message: The website seems to have disappeared!Memyme11 (talk) 10:51, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Websites do that. It's probably just unscheduled/unannounced maintenance. 74.178.200.239 (talk) 15:43, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is Erowid.org? 

message: These two individuals have been cited repeatedly by pseudonym; at the same time, we're told fairly specific information, including that they work as public-speakers, and maintain a foundation, and so on.  Is it wrong to demand that we get some names, here?  If their anonymity was crucial to them avoiding imprisonment or other censure, I seriously doubt they'd be making themselves available as public-speakers -- and those donations go *somewhere* -- so who the hell are "Earth Erowid" and "Fire Erowid"?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.186.152.160 (talk) 07:44, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Fire" and "Earth"? 

message: As far as I can tell, Erowid uses no sources in his information and is leading a misinformation campaign. For example, when I looked up 'marijuana trade funds terrorism', a link to his page popped up, simply stating "no, it isn't. terrorism is funded by the US government and gasoline sales", which is a completely random conspiracy theory. Apparently he thinks that buying drugs from the Columbian Cartels doesn't fund them as much as... gasoline sales?! I mean, really. If he had half a brain he could just look up and see that most of the marijuana trade comes from Columbia. Hes misleading by telling people its okay to buy (directly or indirectly) from the worst terrorist organizations on the earth. Even organizations that support illicit drug use say that their illegal trade directly supports terrorism. http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/42/071.html; http://www.cfdp.ca/terror.htm#tlb1 --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 22:47, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You accuse someone else of not even having half a brain? :D I've never seen any cannabis (or as you call it "marijuana") that comes from Colombia... either here in the UK or anywhere else in my travels. Maybe in the US it's available, but not around most of the world. Go to a Dutch coffeeshop and ask for Colombian weed/hash and prepare to be laughed at! Are you sure you're not thinking of cocaine? You're right that buying illegal drugs can fund terrorist groups; but it can also fund the CIA, see CIA drug trafficking and CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US. Still, I'd be interested to see the part that says "it's okay to buy from the worst terrorists", because I've looked at the article you mention, and can't find it. 82.153.105.106 (talk) 11:03, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Colombia was the US's main supplier of Marijuana from the get-go (Illegal drug trade in Colombia), and Erowid said in that article that it was okay to buy Marijuana as it "has no known terrorist links". He, therefore, provided misinformation that may have led to the funding of Colombian Cartel groups who regularly conduct and fund terrorist activities. I understand that you're upset about being called a funder of terrorists. Perhaps you should should stop engaging in activities which might be illegal in your area - activities which, therefore, would have a high likelihood of being attached to terrorist, but certainly criminal groups.  --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 04:44, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Erowid - uniformed, perhaps intentional misinformation campaign 

message: Is there any discussion or concensus on using Erowid as a source in wikipedia? --Custoo (talk) 12:33, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I was wondering this too. There are over 1500 links to it, currently (according to Special:Linksearch), so it appears to be widely accepted. I'll see if I can dig up any discusions. JesseW, the juggling janitor 07:18, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Erowid as a source? 

message: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/the-trip-planners
The Trip Planners: The unusual couple behind an online encyclopedia of psychoactive substances.
By Emily Witt
The New Yorker
November 23, 2015
--Nbauman (talk) 15:04, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Yorker article 

message: This article reads like a fan page. Adamsjrcn (talk) 09:56, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fan page