Why collect these reports
Some people use psychedelics for personal growth outside supervised programs. This channel collects accounts of those experiences in one common format, so that they can be read alongside studies.
Metanoia treats a report shared here as a source of knowledge. We take no position, in any question on this form or in anything we publish from it, on the legal status of any setting, practice or person a report describes. We record what was reported.
Reports are not evidence that anything is safe or that anything works. They are one source among several, read alongside studies and State program data.
What the form asks, and what it does not
The questions follow Metanoia's minimum data element set for non-clinical exposure records, so that a field report can be compared with records from other sources on the same terms. The form asks about the substance as it was described, the person in broad bands, the purpose, the setting, and what happened afterward.
Reports are not sent by email and this page is not connected to any third-party form service. Reports go to a small service that Metanoia runs on Cloudflare's infrastructure. We do not record IP addresses or device information in report records.
It does not ask who you are. It has no field for a name, an email address, a phone number or an address. It asks for roles, never for the names of people, centers or places, and for broad time ranges, never exact dates. It does not ask how much of anything was taken or how any substance was grown, made or obtained. A report that includes such details is set aside and is not used.
Privacy and anonymity
- Every question is optional. You can leave any of them blank.
- Please do not add anything that could identify you or anyone else in the free-text box, including names, places, dates and contact details.
- Please do not describe anyone under 18 in the free-text box.
- Because a report carries no identity, a single report cannot be found, corrected or removed after it is sent.
- Like every page on this site, this page is delivered by our web host and loads fonts from Google, and those services receive your IP address as ordinary server activity, as our Privacy Policy explains. The full privacy terms for this channel are in the section below.
- You must be 18 or older, and the report must describe an experience you had or were present for.
- A report here is not a confidential communication. If you are a guide, host or sitter, you do not have to describe your own conduct. You can answer only the questions about what happened to the person.
How reports will be used
Findings from field reports will be published as combined counts and rates. We will never publish an individual record or a case story. Short quotations from the free-text box appear only after anything that could identify a person, center, retreat or place is removed, as the publication policy below describes. Any group too small to protect anonymity will be merged with a neighboring category or withheld. Dates will be shown no more precisely than by quarter or year. Each published summary will state how many reports it rests on and which suppression rule was applied, so a reader can see what is not shown and why.
We do not reply to individual reports, and we will not contact anyone who sends one. Sending a report does not get you help. If you need help, use one of the numbers above.
Privacy terms for this channel
Metanoia wrote these terms. They have not yet been reviewed by outside legal counsel.
What we collect and what we do not
We collect only the answers you choose to give and the calendar day (UTC) on which the report was received, with a random identifier and no time of day. We do not ask for a name, email address or other contact detail. The form has no field for a name or contact detail. The free-text box is stored as written, so if someone types a name or a contact detail there, it stays in the record until we remove it. Free-text answers can still identify someone if they name people or places, which is why the form asks you to leave them out. The intake service reads no cookies and sets none.
Our hosting provider
Cloudflare hosts the intake service and the database. Cloudflare processes connection data, including IP addresses, to deliver the site and protect its network, under its own privacy policy, and we cannot speak for what it keeps. Cloudflare's request logging is not turned on for the intake service. Other Metanoia systems keep their own records, and this promise covers report records only.
If sending a report could put you at risk where you live, please do not send one. We cannot see or control what our host keeps.
Access and retention
Only Metanoia's headquarters team can read individual reports, with a protected access key. The team uses AI tools in its work. A daily job deletes every report that is more than 24 months past the day it was received. A report we set aside because of identifying details is deleted by the same job once it is more than 30 days past that day. Deleting a report removes it from the live database. Our hosting provider keeps database history for up to 30 days for recovery, so a deleted report may remain there until it expires. We may keep a report longer if the law requires it.
You cannot withdraw a report
We keep no identity and no report code, so we cannot find your report later, and it cannot be withdrawn, corrected or deleted at your request. If an authority asked us for a report, all we could provide from our report records is the answers and the day received.
Free text can identify people
Combined answers, and especially the free-text box, can point to a person or a place. Leave out names, places, dates, workplaces and anything else that could identify anyone, and do not describe anyone under 18. We may set aside and delete such a report.
What this channel is not
This is not an emergency service. If you or someone else needs help now, call 911 or your local emergency number, or in the United States call or text 988. Nothing here is legal or medical advice, and Metanoia takes no position on the legal status of anything a report describes.
This channel is not a way to report a crime, a person or a place. We cannot verify a report, and we do not forward reports. If you want to report abuse or an ongoing danger to someone, please contact the authorities or a support service where you live.
How we publish from reports
We publish combined counts and rates, and short quotations from free-text answers. Before a quotation is published, we remove anything that could identify a person, center, retreat or place, and we shorten it to what the point needs. We never publish a whole report or a case story.
We do not publish the name of any person, center, retreat or place. A report that names one is set aside and is not used.
Minimum group size
We publish no count that rests on fewer than 10 reports. Such a count is merged with a neighboring category or withheld. The same rule applies to counts that combine two or more answers, and we also withhold a figure when a reader could work out a withheld count by subtraction. Dates are shown no more precisely than by quarter or year. A country with very few reports is grouped into a wider region.
The threshold of 10 refers to reports. We also publish no result about a type of place in a region if fewer than 10 different sources are behind it, meaning centers or settings as far as the reports let us tell. We publish no negative finding about a place that could be identified. We cannot publish a warning about a specific place or person, because we cannot verify reports and we do not name anyone. What we can publish is what reports describe about kinds of places, when at least 10 different sources are behind it.
Review
Every summary is checked against these rules before it is published. Each summary states how many reports it rests on and which rule was applied, so a reader can see what is not shown and why.
What a summary means
Reports are self-selected and unverified. They are not a representative sample, and they are not evidence that anything is safe or that anything works. We read them alongside studies and State program data.
Position
Metanoia takes no position on the legality of any setting, practice or person a report describes, and we publish nothing that helps anyone locate one.