About Us

The Third Plateau is a non-profit website originally created by Greendrag and dedicated to the distribution of general dextromethorphan-related information on the internet and beyond. It is also the gathering place of a fairly large internet DXM drug-culture. Here you will find such useful things as a list of safe cough medicines to use recreationally (note that this doesn't imply that using dextromethorphan, alone, is safe), methods of extracting dextromethorphan from cough medicines, as well as DXM-related art, humor, music, and social gathering places.

This site is maintained by SedahDrol. This site is held together by the people who contribute to it. If you have anything to contribute (trip reports, artwork, links, etc), please email us.

Thank You's

We would like to also send our deep gratitude to all those who have thanked and supported us throughout the years that this site has been around. If it wasn't for your sincerity, this site would never have lasted. Secondly, we'd like to thank the Lycaeum for previously hosting this site and for providing the much needed service of hosting drug information sites on the internet. Finally, we'd like to thank the members of the DXM Message Board who have come, gone, and are still around. You are the backbone of this site and thanks to you all, this site has become more popular than we could have ever made it by ourselves.

Mission Statement

It is a fact that human beings are inclined to want to alter their consciousness. As humans, we've smoked, eaten, drunken, injected, absorbed, and snorted all kinds of plant matters and chemicals in order to satisfy this quest. Since dextromethorphan is highly psychoactive and is found in cough medicine, many people will drink these medicines in order to experience an altered state. Our idea is that since people will do this anyway, and more and more people will eventually catch on, we might as well provide a place where people can learn and discuss what they're doing. Simply put, The Third Plateau's mission statement is to provide information to those who use dextromethorphan or to those who are interested in the substance.

Our goal is *not* to spread the word about DXM to the public. Yes, having this website is bound to spread the word, but that is not our intention. This is the very reason why we don't make any effort to publicize this website (except in places where dextromethorphan use is already discussed).

If The DXM FAQ and this site had never existed, the word about dextromethorphan would have spread through word of mouth. This good in that word of mouth generally tends to be very slow. The major downfall to this, though, is that the information that gets passed around is extremely vague and most often incorrect. In the long run, the word-of-mouth approach would have most probably caused DXM to become restricted sooner than it would have with dextromethorphan information websites around. Because these websites exist, people who use dextromethorphan are, for the most part, highly educated about using the drug responsibly. As the result, there are less problems in the DXM-using community, even if the community is much larger than it would have been if no websites existed.

Also note that we have included the link to William White's DXM FAQ on many places throughout this site. We do this to place emphasis on the fact that good information on dextromethorphan is essential if DXM is to be used responsibly. The DXM FAQ is THE BEST source of information on the net about dextromethorphan. The Third Plateau is only secondary.

Message from Greendrag

Yes, I know I've been away for a long time. Rather than going into what I've been doing, I need to say what I have to say.

As of today, I'm retiring my position as webmaster of The Third Plateau. My reasons for doing so are many. I will go into the details later. I am giving the positions of webmaster to Nine and Sedah Drol.

For the last year and a half, I've done pretty much nothing to the site to make it better. The only thing I did was in October of last year, and it got lost when I had a computer crash. The Third Plateau is/was my baby...it was something I created and am very proud of what it's grown to be. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to give it the attention that it both needs and deserves. It is simply for that reason that I am finally doing something about it. Instead of making false promises to myself and other people about making updates, I'm going to do something better. I'm giving the site away to someone who has more time to dedicate to the site and to someone who has way more knowledge about DXM and psychedelics than I do. Personally, I think it is the best decision I have made since I started the site 4 years ago.

Now for my reasons. I feel like I owe everyone at The Third Plateau a good explanation. No, it has nothing to do with cops, feds, the government, or anything of that nature. No one has knocked on my door. My reasons for stepping down simply have to do with my life. I started The Third Plateau 4 years ago when I had nothing to do all day but sit around, write HTML, and take DXM. Since then, many things have happened to me and my life has since become more complex. The stuff I thought about and learned during that time 4 years ago seems to finally be coming into action. I'm living my dream.

So what am I doing now? I'm making music. It's something I've always wanted to create and be a part of since I was a little boy. Now I find myself at a place where I'm making a statement with my music and I'm at the point where creating and making music is taking up a significant chunk of my time. Since this is a dream of mine, I've decided to pursue it as a lifestyle. In order to do that, I simply can't maintain The Third Plateau in any sense of the word "maintain". My other reasons for stepping down are more personal and basically boil down to "life shit" that everyone finds themselves dealing with. I won't bore you with the details. You know how the story goes.

Stepping down as webmaster of the 3p has been a hard decision for me to make. I've met some really good friends of mine through the third plateau. I met Elfstar through it...sky, m3mb3r...countless other people. People who I think I'll be knowing for the rest of my life. Not only have I met people, but I feel like, in some way, I've been a part of a lot of people's lives...even in a small way. I want everyone to know that I greatly am happy to have started something like The Third Plateau. It touches me to see some of the depth of the stuff that has resulted from this site. Lately, however, I see a lot of faded memories and stagnation. That's not good. That's not good for the website and that's not good for the overall state of DXM (I'm sure you know what I mean by that). And since I don't feel that I can rejuvenate the site, all I can do is pass it on to someone who I feel can.

Nine and SedahDrol are great people and I think they both can make this site better than I ever could. Nine knows DXM and psychedelics very well...both chemically and otherwise. SedahDrol knows how to run a website. Obviously, that is essential. He also knows a lot about DXM and will also make a very good webmaster.

So, once again, I would like to thank everyone who has been a part of The Third Plateau. I hope that it will last many years to come and I'm glad to have started it. Unfortunately, I can't continue it.

I am asking Sedah to take my name off of the site. My reasons for this are personal. I'm also asking that he post this letter in the "about us" section of the site and that he include my name there and a bit about how I helped start the site. I am leaving the nickname "Greendrag" with this site. To all of you all involved with the DXM community, I'm Greendrag. To everyone else, I'm simply just myself.

I would also personally like to thank William White for doing something that led me to discover a whole world both inside and out. That's not something everyone in life sees.

I wish everyone the best of karma and I send my love to everyone at The Third Plateau, both in the past and in the future.

Yes, even you RFG :)

peace,
Greendrag

P.S. -- I'm assuming my lycaeum email address is still going to be active. With that said, however, I ask that any DXM-related correspondance be left with SedahDrol unless you are a friend and have something to say to me personally.

The Gray Area award winner for October 10, 1997

June 1999

Designated as a Cool Site in the Netscape Open Directory under Recreation/Drugs /Dissociatives/DXM. We listed right next to the DXM FAQ as the best DXM site on the web!

November 1999

This site was mentioned in Mindjack Magazine in the article "I want a New Drug: Dextromethorphan, more than just a cough supressant".

Be sure to visit our cousin site... The Marezine- Dramamine Connection , The only website devoted exclusively to Dramamine!

Thanks to the good people at The Lycaeum for previously hosting our site.

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