News>> Debate On Recreational Drug Web Sites

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CBS News:
"The drug overdose that almost killed him came from an exotic combination of chemicals and plants that promised the high of his life.

He says the recipe for how to mix what he took came from an Internet site called Erowid.org.

Erowid.org is just one of a growing group of Web sites devoted to recreational drugs. There are links to everything, from how to make GHB to how to test ecstasy for purity.

But, as CBS News Correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports, Erowid's reports on side effects, on precise doses and its long list of recipes make it the encyclopedia of altered states.

It's well known on college campuses.

The young man who almost overdosed says: ' I've seen kids with the drugs in their hand looking up doses all the time.' "

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