This Week in Psychedelics - 9.11.20

Cannabis

• Medical Marijuana Measure Removed From Nebraska’s November Ballot By State Supreme Court (Marijuana Moment)

• Marijuana Is Making Its Mark on Ballots in Red States (The Daily Beast)

• Pakistan Legalizes Industrial and Medical Cannabis Aiming to Expand Global Market (MERRY JANE)

• Maine Finally Approves First Marijuana Business Licenses Weeks Before Legal Sales Launch (Marijuana Moment)

• Give cannabis to elderly people with chronic pain, doctors say (The Telegraph)

• Virginia: Marijuana-Related Bills Advance During Special Legislative Session (NORML)

• USDA Reopens Public Comment Period On Hemp Rules Following Intense Industry Pushback (Marijuana Moment)

• Key Congressional Committee Advances Legislation to Facilitate Clinical Research Studies Using State-Authorized Marijuana Products (NORML)

• Twitter Partners With Feds On Campaign Flagging ‘Marijuana’ Searches While Giving ‘Alcohol’ A Pass (Marijuana Moment)

• Hong Kong Just Opened Its First CBD Café Despite Country's Notoriously Harsh Weed Laws (MERRY JANE)

• Greenstop launches its cannabis vending machine in California dispensaries (TechCrunch)

• Global Drug Body Recommends 20 Ways to Improve the Cannabis Industry (VICE)

• Marijuana Possession Arrests Plummet In Texas After Hemp Legalization, New State Data Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• This is how cannabis effectively eases inflammation (Chicago Tribune)

• I used to be on the police drug squad. Here's why I'm voting against legalising cannabis (Stuff.co.nz)

LSD

• LSD Tolerance Could Develop Faster than You Expect (DoubleBlind)

• Acid Tab Feeling Lot Of Pressure To Present Tech CEO With Game-Changing Ideas For Disrupting Telecom Industry (The Onion)

Magic Mushrooms

• Havn Life Sciences Granted Section 56 Exemption to Begin Scientific Work With Psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Bett Williams Walks Between Worlds (Lucid News)

MDMA

• MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD Trials Progressing Through Phase 3 (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Learning Network)

Nitrous Oxide

• One in four drug users at festivals now get high on laughing gas - TD (Independent.ie)

Ketamine

• Esketamine spray for treating depression 'not cost-effective' (BBC)

• Colorado Society of Anesthesiologists ask CDPHE to suspend 'excited delirium' ketamine waiver (9news.com)

Miscellaneous

• Will Australia be the First Country to Reap the Benefits of Psychedelic Medicines? Rescheduling Proposal Submitted to TGA (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Depression and suicidal ideation reduced after psychedelic usage (Big Think)

• Psychedelic experiences share many features with those described by mystics and religious practitioners (PsyPost)

• Biden Pledges To Force People Who Use Drugs To Enroll In Mandatory Treatment Programs (Marijuana Moment)

• Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories in Psychedelia (Psymposia)

• Psychedelics Company Havn Life Announces Commencement of Public Trading on the CSE (Psilocybin Alpha)

• AWAKN Life Sciences Launches Clinical Research Division with Prof. David Nutt & Dr. Ben Sessa Identifying Suitable Studies Across Europe & North America (Yahoo! Finance)

• How Mescaline Helped Me to Better Understand Schopenhauer’s Philosophy (Psychedelic Frontier)

• Quipazine: A Long-Standing Enigma in Psychedelic Research (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Scientists Use Psychedelics to Discover an Anti-Inflammatory Pharmacophore (Psychedelic Science Review)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 9.4.20

Cannabis

• Drone Drops Hundreds Of Free Bags Of Marijuana In Israel (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia Senate Approves Two Marijuana Bills As Lawmakers Pursue Broader Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Sheriff Files Lawsuit To Keep Medical Marijuana Off Nebraska’s Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Malta is officially out of weed (The GrowthOp)

• Vermont Marijuana Sales Legalization Bill Inches Closer To Final Form After Conference Meeting (Marijuana Moment)

• Are rosin vape carts going to take over the market? You better hope so. (Leafly)

• Mississippi Medical Marijuana Initiative Has ‘Strong Chance Of Passage,’ Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• USC researchers think THC in marijuana could treat deadly COVID complication (Bakersfield.com)

• How Legal Weed Destroyed a Counterculture Icon (Politico)

• USDA Approves Hemp Plans For Maine, Missouri And Another Indian Tribe (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: Over Three in Four Cannabis Consumers Prefer Flower Over Concentrates (NORML)

• California Must Turn Over Marijuana Documents To DEA, Federal Court Rules (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis extract may protect honey bees from pesticides (StratCann)

• State Of California Officially Promotes Marijuana Industry With New Campaign (Marijuana Moment)

• Marijuana Use Growing in Popularity Among Seniors (NORML)

• Marijuana Legalization Group Helps Craft New Impaired Driving Prevention Bill In Congress (Marijuana Moment)

• Medical cannabis failing Delaware patients (Cape Gazette)

Magic Mushrooms

• Revive Therapeutics Enters into Clinical Trial Agreement to Evaluate Psilocybin for the Treatment of Methamphetamine Use Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Mindset Pharma Announces Promising Test Results of its Novel and Proprietary Psilocybin-Inspired Compounds (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Red Light Holland Announces Arrangement to Launch Sale of Psychedelic Truffle Microdosing Packs in the Netherlands (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Cancer patients say psilocybin can be both therapy and “a beautiful experience” (Inverse)

MDMA

• Regulator weighs push to legalise MDMA for mental health treatment (Brisbane Times)

DMT

• How to Integrate a Difficult-to-Remember DMT Experience (Maps of the Mind)

• Machine Elves and a Journey Into The DMT Spirit World (DoubleBlind)

Ayahuasca

• 'A Hail Mary': Psychedelic Therapy Draws Veterans to Jungle Retreats (The New York Times)

• Miley Cyrus went vegan after ‘puking up seals’ while on hallucinogenic drug (Metro)

Peyote

• Peyote Decriminalization Opposed by Groups Seeking to Protect the Plant from Poaching (Lucid News)

Iboga

• Healing the Soul with Spray Paint and Iboga with Chor Boogie (Chacruna)

Ketamine

• Colorado on Ketamine (Reality Sandwich)

PCP

• What to Know About Daniel Prude’s Death (The New York Times)

DXM

• Dextromethorphan (DXM) Guide: Effects, Uses, Legality, and Safety (Reality Sandwich)

Miscellaneous

• Compass Pathways Files for U.S. IPO, to list on Nasdaq (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Scientists induce psychedelic-like experiences from a placebo alone (PsyPost)

• Three-In-Five DC Voters Support Psychedelics Decriminalization Initiative, New Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Numinus Announces Filing of Final Short Form Prospectus for Offering of up to $4,000,000 (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Why one in five young people have microdosed through lockdown (Dazed)

• New Wave Holdings Corp Appoints Dr. Wade Davis to Psychedelic Research Advisory Board (PR Newswire)

• Dr. Matthew Johnson Joins AWAKN Life Sciences (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Oregon Could become the First State to Decriminalize Drugs in November (The Appeal)

• Focus on the family: How the War on Drugs destroyed America’s foster care system (Leafly)

• Lamotrigine and Psychedelics (Spirit Pharmacist)

• The Mechanisms of Change in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy (Psychedelic Science Review)

• The Neuroscience of Psychedelic Visuals (Reality Sandwich)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 8.28.20

Cannabis

• House To Vote On Historic Marijuana Legalization Bill Next Month, Leadership Announces (Marijuana Moment)

• Minnesota Tribe Just Legalized Medical Cannabis on Largest Reservation in State (MERRY JANE)

• Most Legal Marijuana States Had Fewer Vaping-Related Lung Injuries, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Michigan Tribe Is About to Create Its Own Legal Weed Market Free From State Control (MERRY JANE)

• Nebraska Medical Marijuana Initiative Heads To Ballot After Secretary Of State Rejects Challenge (Marijuana Moment)

• Washington Prankster Changed Green Traffic Light to Flash Image of a Pot Leaf (MERRY JANE)

• Pennsylvania governor calls for marijuana legalization to boost economic recovery (Leafly)

• Youth Marijuana Use Stable Amid Legalization’s Expansion, Feds Report (Marijuana Moment)

• The Fight for Medical Marijuana in Brazil (Chacruna)

• Study: Cannabis Associated with Increased Cessation of IV Opioid Use (NORML)

• Canada Will Officially Stop Drug Testing Student-Athletes for Weed (MERRY JANE)

• Elephant Will Be Given CBD To Treat Stress After Death Of Companion, Zoo Says (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: Medical Cannabis Use by Seniors Associated with Improved Quality of Life (NORML)

• Cannabis research database shows how U.S. funding focuses on harms of the drug (Science Magazine)

LSD

• LSD microdose trial for acute pain relief reports “remarkable” results (New Atlas)

• When Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon took LSD and delivered a monster performance at Woodstock (Far Out)

Magic Mushrooms

• Cultivating P. cubensis: Light and Tryptamine Are Key for Controlling Psilocybin and Psilocin Levels (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Ehave, Inc. Announces Psychedelic Retreats Through Its Mycotopia Therapy Subsidiary (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Risky Sex and the Recreational Use of MDMA (Psychedelic Science Review)

• ATAI Life Sciences launches EmpathBio to treat post-traumatic stress disorder with novel MDMA product (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Are You Drinking Ayahuasca For the Wrong Reason? (Lucid News)

• Microdosing Ayahuasca: Common Dosage Explained (Reality Sandwich)

• Plantdemic: Tales of being Stranded Abroad (Reality Sandwich)

5-MeO-DMT

• 5-MeO-DMT: The Story Behind the “God Molecule” (DoubleBlind)

Salvia Divinorum

• Does Salvia Divinorum Have Therapeutic Potential? (Psychedelics Today)

Ketamine

• Colorado’s Health Department Forming Committee To Review Use Of Ketamine By First Responders (CBS Denver)

• Champignon to Begin Offering Esketamine Treatment for Adults With Major Depressive Disorder at the Canadian Rapid Treatment Centre of Excellence (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Ketamine Therapy Has Made Its Way On to Instagram (VICE)

• How Ketamine is Made: Everything You Need to Know (Reality Sandwich)

Miscellaneous

• Canadian Government Will Respond To Psychedelics Decriminalization Petition (Marijuana Moment)

• Decriminalize Nature DC shows that the psychedelic movement’s only real enemy is itself (New Amsterdam Psychedelic Law)

• Field Trip Psychedelics Inches Closes to Going Public: Definitive Amalgamation Agreement Reached (Psilobybin Alpha)

• Microdosing: Set and Setting (The Third Wave)

• Psychedelic Organizations Make Efforts to Address Racism (Lucid News)

• Psychedelics & Functional Mushroom Co Silo Wellness Inches Closer to Go-Public (Psilocybin Alpha)

• To maintain momentum, the Psychedelic Renaissance must go mainstream. (Psychedelic Frontier)

• Osmind pitches clinical management and data analysis for mental health practices using psychedelics (TechCrunch)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 8.21.20

Cannabis

• Maine Marijuana Sales Can Finally Begin, Officials Announce Four Years After Voters Legalized It (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis Customers Can Now Buy Marijuana From Vending Machines In Colorado (CBS Denver)

• South Dakota Could Pass Two Marijuana Ballot Measures In November (Marijuana Moment)

• Mexican President Says Marijuana Legalization Will Advance Through Congress As Session Approaches (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: After-Hours Marijuana Use Doesn’t Negatively Impact Job Performance (NORML)

• Federal Court Denies DEA Request To Dismiss Marijuana Rescheduling Case (Marijuana Moment)

• The Future Is Here: Weed Vending Machines Are Coming to Massachusetts (MERRY JANE)

• Local Marijuana Bans In California Keep Illicit Market Alive And Block Revenue, Study Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• Vermont: Bicameral Committee Meets in Effort to Finalize Marijuana Sales Measure (NORML)

• Marijuana Activists Ask Supreme Court To Hear Their Case Against DEA (Marijuana Moment)

• Trump Voices Concern That Putting Marijuana On The Ballot Makes Republicans Lose (Marijuana Moment)

• Poll: Republicans Like Marijuana Legalization, Too (Even If It’s Kamala Harris’s Idea) (Forbes)

• Parents of toddler with severe epilepsy seek legal review of cannabis oil guidelines (The Guardian)

• DEA Proposes Hemp And CBD Rules To Comply With Crop’s Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• That Study Linking Prenatal Weed Use to Autism Has a Few Serious Flaws (MERRY JANE)

• This Is Weighing Down Multi-State Cannabis Operator Profitability (New Cannabis Ventures)

• AAA gives grants to police, non-profits to combat marijuana-impaired driving (WAND-TV)

• The FDA Is Now Hiring People to Study Thousands Cannabis Products (MERRY JANE)

• Drive to Free Black Woman With Marijuana Life Sentence Exposes “Habitual Criminal” Laws (Filter)

• Texas Ban On Selling Smokeable Hemp Temporarily Lifted By Judge (Marijuana Moment)

• County Will Let Marijuana Offenders Off the Hook If They Get a Card After Arrest (Phoenix New Times)

LSD

• Director Oliver Stone admits lacing 'up-tight' dad's drink with LSD to loosen him up (Mirror)

Magic Mushrooms

• The Mystical Experience is Critical for the Therapeutic Effects of Psilocybin (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Why the DEA Went After a Small-Time Mushroom Dealer in Denver (Lucid News)

• Mydecine™ Launches World’s First Natural-Sourced cGMP Psilocybin for Global Research, Sales, and Distribution Enterprise (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Investigation launched after Home Office psilocybin rescheduling response (Health Europa)

• Johns Hopkins Wants To Hear About Your Psychedelic Journeys For New ‘Real-World’ Study (Marijuana Moment)

• How to Make Shroom Tea: The Ultimate Mushroom Tea Guide (DoubleBlind)

• Magic Mushrooms, Memory and Resistance in the Sierra Mazateca (Chacruna)

MDMA

• Can Taking MDMA with LSD Help Prevent a ‘Bad Trip’? New Clinical Trial Investigates (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelics Group Raises $30 Million From Execs At GoDaddy, SpaceX And Others For MDMA Study (Marijuana Moment)

• Buddhist University Partners with MAPS to Offer MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Training (Lucid News)

• Police issue warning about Donald Trump-shaped ecstasy pills (The Guardian)

DMT

• Reports of positive encounters with autonomous entities after taking DMT suggest drug may have therapeutic potential (PsyPost)

Ayahuasca

• Remembering Dr. Jordi Riba, Ayahuasca Research Pioneer (1968–2020) (Chacruna)

• Psychedelic brew ayahuasca produces therapeutic benefits lasting up to six months, study finds (PsyPost)

• Russian Jailed for 11.5 Years Over Ayahuasca Bottle From Peru (The Moscow Times)

• Tripping on Ayahuasca has always been fun, but now it might be good for you (GOOD)

Ketamine

• Ketamine response biomarker may help tailor antidepressant treatments (Healio)

• How Ketamine Infusions Helped Me (Pain News Network)

Miscellaneous

• Plant Medicine Church in Oakland Gets Raided by Local Police Department (DoubleBlind)

• Advocates Unveil Guide For Psychedelic Healing Ceremonies They Hope To Legalize In Oakland (Marijuana Moment)

• This Dot-Com Guru is Asking Trump to Legalize Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• After the pandemic, could psychedelic treatment help us heal? (Mic)

• Psychedelics Could Help People with Addiction and Anxiety (CBS News)

• Canada takes step to decriminalize drug possession amid opioid crisis (The Globe and Mail)

• A plan to overhaul the UK’s unjust drugs policy is just around the corner (LabourList)

• The Phoenix Effect: Reversing Mental Age With Psychedelics (qwerky science)

• Field Trip Psychedelics Inc. Expands Stateside With Psychedelic-Enhanced Psychotherapy Clinic in New York City (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Watch The First Ad For Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• Breaking Down a Model Bill to Decriminalize All Drugs (Filter)

• From pot to shrooms: What's next for decriminalization? (Toronto Sun)

• This is Your Brain on Ego Death (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Beckley Psytech Reveals Scientific Advisory Board Consisting of Renowned Psychedelic Experts (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Inside the Work of a New York Psychedelic Trip Guide (Filter)

• What Psychedelics Could Mean for Eating Disorders (Lucid News)

• The Role of the Claustrum in the Psychedelic Experience (Psychedelic Science Review)

• IntelGenx Enters into Feasibility Agreement with ATAI Life Sciences to Develop Pharmaceutical-Grade Polymeric Film-Based Psychedelics (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Higher Profile: Madison Margolin, Co-Founder, DoubleBlind Magazine (High Times)

• Spiritual Politics with Ismail Lourido Ali (Chacruna)

• CFN Enterprises Inc. Adds Cybin Corp. to Growing Psychedelics Client Roster (Yahoo! Finance)

• Nutritional High Completes Acquisition of Psychedelic Science Corp (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelic drugs heighten perception, but do they foster creativity and inspire art? (MEAWW)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 8.14.20

Cannabis

• Arizona Marijuana Legalization Initiative Officially Qualifies For November Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Montana Will Vote On Two Marijuana Legalization Measures In November, State Confirms (Marijuana Moment)

• Here are the new cannabis rules proposed for South Africa – including limits, penalties and criminal records (BusinessTech)

• New research raises questions about the link between cannabis use and depression among adolescents (PsyPost)

• New Initiative To Legalize Marijuana Sales Filed In D.C. (Marijuana Moment)

• Spanish Cannabis Approved for Import to Germany (Cannabis Industry Journal)

• Four More Ohio Cities Will Vote On Marijuana Decriminalization This November (Marijuana Moment)

• Where Vice Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

• Boomers Smoke Twice as Much Medical Cannabis as Millennials, New Survey Says (MERRY JANE)

• New Jersey Now Allows Medical Marijuana Recommendations Via Telehealth Amid Coronavirus (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: Most Americans in Legal States Express “Positive Perceptions” of the Cannabis Marketplace (NORML)

LSD

• Acid Dreams: The Profit Potential of LSD (Investing Daily)

Magic Mushrooms

• New company to put psilocybin on dissolvable sublingual strips to help treat depression (Leafly)

• First-Of-Its-Kind Clinical Trial To Study Psychedelic Treatments For PTSD In Veterans (Forbes)

• New Psychedelic Research Nonprofit Teams with Johns Hopkins University for Real-World Study on Use of Psilocybin Mushrooms (PR Newswire)

MDMA

• MAPS And The Road To FDA Approval For MDMA (Benzinga)

DMT

• Metabolizing DMT – The Differences Between Oral Administration and Smoking (Psychedelic Science Review)

Ayahuasca

• New Study Shows Ayahuasca’s Benefits When Used in a Traditional Setting (Lucid News)

• Mestre Irineu: A Black Man Who Changed the History of Ayahuasca (Chacruna)

• A Response to “Early Reflections on Interviews with Palestinians and Israelis Drinking Ayahuasca Together” (Psymposia)

Iboga

• Abuses and Lack of Safety in the Ibogaine Community (Chacruna)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• New and Accurate Drug Test for “Spice” (Reality Sandwich)

Ketamine

• Coloradans Dosed With Ketamine During Police Confrontations Want Investigation (KUNC)

• American Society of Ketamine Physicians, Psychotherapists and Practitioners Announces Standards of Practice in the Therapeutic Use of Subanesthetic Ketamine (PR Newswire)

• Investigators Uncover Antidepressant Response Mediator to Ketamine (HCPLive)

Miscellaneous

• Why Don’t More Black People Use Psychedelics? (Medium)

• The Defund the Police Movement is Coming for the DEA (VICE)

• What Are the Long-Term Effects of Microdosing Psychedelics? (DoubleBlind)

• Psychedelic drugs reduce depressive symptoms by helping individuals accept their emotions, study suggests (PsyPost)

• On Your Next Psychedelic Journey, Let an App Be Your Guide (WIRED)

• How Would Dismantling the DHS Affect the War on Drugs? (Filter)

• What is Psychedelic Therapy? Common Trends, Practices, and Foundations in the Field (Psychedelics Today)

• Yield Growth Announces Name Change and Provides Corporate Update (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Field Trip Psychedelics Inc. Expands Stateside With Psychedelic-Enhanced Psychotherapy Clinic in New York City (PR Newswire)

• Eleusis sheds light on psychedelics that relieve asthma in rats with no mental effects (Fierce Biotech)

• Meet the Woman Who Wants to Sell Psychedelic Drugs to Scientists (Futurism)

• The Political Value of Psychedelics (Reality Sandwich)

• Mind Medicine (MindMed) Inc. Announces Q2 2020 Financial Results (Psilocybin Alpha)

• How to Embrace the Effects of Psychedelics Without the Drugs (Elemental)

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