Fifteen Years of Psychedelic Discussion...

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I went through each post in PD to try and figure out the overall popularity of substances amongst BL posters and plotted the six that seemed like they'd be the big ones. No surprise, LSD is huge. Slang terms are also included so, for example, any post mentioning "weed" or "pot" or "herb", etc., counts as a hit for "cannabis".

The y-axis represents percentage of total posts instead of the raw total because the total amount of posts by year fluctuate, so plotting the raw totals would be more representative of overall forum activity than of substance popularity.

I'm working with a large dictionary of terms so I decided against trying to plot too much data at once, if you're interested in seeing the relationship between other substances just post in the comments section and I'll link a plot of it.​

 

good work

thanks for taking the time

pretty neat visual representation.

 

Nice man, that's really interesting to see. Interesting how cannabis has fallen off. No surprise at all that DMT was biggest in 2006/2007, I remember that time, everyone was talking about DMT in the social all the time.

samadhi_smiles: DO YOU SMELL THE INDOLE IN THE AIR???

 

Man, you must have been REALLy bored. Good work!

 

thanks guys

 

Very nice thujone.

What exactly do you mean by "I went through each post in PD"?

 

Very nice thujone.

What exactly do you mean by "I went through each post in PD"?

thanks, i downloaded the archive version of each thread then stripped out the HTML and stuffed the raw data into a database so that each row would represent a post, then used a dictionary of substance names and related slang terms to generate queries that would search each post for either the substance name or any of its related slang terms in each age range.