This Week in Psychedelics - 10.16.20

Cannabis

• New Zealand: Voters to Decide Saturday on Nationwide Marijuana Legalization Referendum (NORML)

• Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to marijuana’s Schedule I status (Leafly)

• France to distribute free medical cannabis, launch experiment in 2021 (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Spain becomes cannabis hub as criminals fill tourism void (The Guardian)

• Virginia Governor Signs Marijuana Reform Bill As State’s First Medical Dispensary Prepares To Open (Marijuana Moment)

• Judge overrules state over New Mexico medical marijuana reciprocity (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Michigan Governor Signs Marijuana Expungements Bill As Part Of Criminal Justice Package (Marijuana Moment)

• German patient wins court case to have cannabis covered by insurance (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Montana Voters Poised To Legalize Marijuana, New Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: Subjects Report Reduced Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Following Cannabis Inhalation (NORML)

• Prenatal cannabis exposure linked to cognitive deficits, altered behavior (ScienceDaily)

• Montreal biotech company announces first sale of biosynthetic CBD (Marijuana Business Daily)

• New Jersey and Arizona legalization measures leading in latest polls (Leafly)

• Colorado marijuana rules will require testing of vapor, not just oil (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Mississippi Governor Signs Bill Allowing FDA-Approved Cannabis Medications As Legalization Vote Looms (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• The 'Acid King' Convicted of Running the Biggest LSD Ring in History (VICE)

Magic Mushrooms

• What if a Pill Can Change Your Politics or Religious Beliefs? (Scientific American)

• Psychedelic treatment for depression is on sale for the first time (Quartz)

• ACT and Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy for Depression Part I: A Natural Synergy (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Havn Life Applies for Licence to Produce and Sell Psilocybin (Yahoo! Finance)

• What Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Teaching Us About Human Consciousness (Discover)

• How to Make a Spore Print (DoubleBlind)

• Cultivating Psilocybe cubensis: Suitable Substrates (Psychedelic Science Review)

MDMA

• MDMA Treatments May Be Cheaper Than Other PTSD Treatments (Green Market Report)

• NYC Psychotherapist Charley Wininger Says MDMA Is The ‘Glue’ Of His Marriage (Forbes)

Salvia Divinorum

• This Is My Brain on Salvia (WIRED)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• What Is Sassafras? Everything You Need To Know About The Drug MDA (DoubleBlind)

Ketamine

• Rise of the Ketamine Clinic: A New Era for Mental Wholeness (The Third Wave)

• Scientists Unlock Neurological Code of Dissociation (Lucid News)

Miscellaneous

• The case for funding psychedelics to treat mental health (Vox)

• New Association Brings Psychedelics to the Medical Mainstream (Lucid News)

• Psychedelic drugs may have played a role in the founding of Christianity (Raw Story)

• MindMed Announces $25 Million Bought Deal Public Offering (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelic Media Should Stop Parroting Corporate Press Releases (Psymposia)

• Psychedelics Improve Depression and Wellbeing Scores in Individuals With Eating Disorders (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Awe-inspiring psychedelic trips reduce narcissism by boosting connectedness and empathy, study suggests (PsyPost)

• Israel’s Psychedelic Community and Jerusalem’s Protesters Join Forces (Chacruna)

• Food for Thought: Can Psychedelics Boost Brain Growth Factor Levels? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• A Spiritual Experience (Johns Hopkins Magazine)

• Heroic Hearts Project and Field Trip Health Ltd. enter into a strategic relationship to increase legal psychedelic therapy access for military veterans in North America (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The Role of Psychedelics in the Midst of a Pandemic and the Fight for Black Lives (Chacruna)

• Are Canadians ready to accept psychedelics in palliative care? (The Globe and Mail)

• The World of Claudio Naranjo (Psychedelics Today)

• DEA and the Religious Exemption: A Fox Guarding the Henhouse (Chacruna)

• A Trip Through the Universe: How Psychedelic Art Overlaps with Space Art (DoubleBlind)

• Overcoming Anxiety with Psychedelic Integration (The Third Wave)

• Of Mediums and Mind-Manifestors: Eileen Garrett and Psychedelic Experience (Chacruna)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 10.9.20

Cannabis

• Vermont legalizes marijuana sales (Vox)

• Kamala Harris Promises To Decriminalize Marijuana and Expunge Records (Reason)

• Maine: Adult Use Marijuana Sales to Begin on Friday (NORML)

• THC May Help Treat Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome In Mice, Researchers Say (Forbes)

• D.C. Expands Medical Marijuana Deliveries Amid Coronavirus And Shifts Regulatory Control To Alcohol Agency (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia: Legislation Bars Police from Using Marijuana Odor as a Pretext for a Search (NORML)

• Pennsylvania Judge Just Ruled That Weed Odor No Longer Justifies Police Searches (MERRY JANE)

• City Council Majority Backs Allowing Public Marijuana Use In Wisconsin State Capital (Marijuana Moment)

• The latest cannabis beverage has a familiar name: Pabst Blue Ribbon (CNN)

• People Who Use Cannabis Are Healthier and Less Likely to Get Cancer, Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

• Study Finds Older Adults Using Cannabis to Treat Common Health Conditions (UC San Diego Health)

• Majority of Arizona Voters Are in Favor of Legalizing Adult-Use Weed, Poll Shows (MERRY JANE)

• THC and the 5-HT2A Receptor: What’s Going On? (Psychedelic Science Review)

LSD

• LSD Microdosing to Boost Attention: Too Soon to Tell? (Medscape)

• Acid and Orgasms: Why LSD Failed to Sexually Liberate Women (Chacruna)

Magic Mushrooms

• New TV Ads Urges Oregon Voters To Legalize Psilocybin Therapy (Marijuana Moment)

• Mydecine Innovations Group Announces Filing of Provisional Patent for the Treatment of PTSD with Psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

• 17 Healthcare Professionals Wait Over 100 Days for Access to Psilocybin; Patients Who Urgently Need Psilocybin Therapy Without Qualified Help (Therapsil)

• University of Toronto and Sansero Life Sciences join forces to study psychedelic medications (The GrowthOp)

Ayahuasca

• Researchers claim that ayahuasca tea helps the formation of new neurons (Entrepreneur)

• Remembering an Ayahuasca Hero: Domingos Bernardo (1941-2020) (Chacruna)

Peyote

• Why Jews will be thinking of peyote during this year’s Supreme Court session (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Iboga

• Why People Are Microdosing Iboga — and What You Need To Know About It (High Times)

Salvia Divinorum

• Is Salvia Legal? (DoubleBlind)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Synthetically-Produced Cannabinoids Could Soon Become a New Normal (DOPE Magazine)

Nitrous Oxide

• Humphry Davy had a way with nitrous oxide (Cosmos)

Miscellaneous

• Field Trip Health Is The Latest Psychedelics Company To Go Public (Green Market Report)

• Psychedelics in Group Therapy for HIV Survivors Shows Promising Results (Psych Congress Network)

• Mark Zuckerberg Supports Drug Decriminalization With Half-Million Dollar Oregon Campaign Donation (Marijuana Moment)

• Turn On, Tune In, Get Well (The New Yorker)

• Set and Setting for Society’s 21st Century Trip (Lucid News)

• Field Trip Adds Acclaimed Physician, Dr. Andrew Weil, to Medical Advisory Board (Psilocybin Alpha)

• DC Democratic Party Endorses Psychedelics Decriminalization Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

• Mind Cure Welcomes Award-Winning Journalist and Science Researcher Hamilton Morris to Advisory Board (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Dave Chappelle’s Marijuana And Psychedelics Parties Don’t Concern Local Sheriff (Marijuana Moment)

• Therapeutic Approaches for Lasting Change in Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelics Today)

• Trazodone and Psychedelics (Spirit Pharmacist)

• How a Canadian Decriminalization Model Can Improve on Portugal (Filter)

• MindMed Partners with NYU Langone Medical Center to Launch Groundbreaking Training Program for Psychedelic Therapies and Medicines (PR Newswire)

• Horizons Conference Shifts to Year-Round Films, Forums and Classes (Lucid News)

• Cannabis and Psychedelics: Vote and Change the Laws! (Chacruna)

• HPPD: Visual Flashbacks are Still Possible After a Trip is Over—But It’s Unlikely (DoubleBlind)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 10.2.20

Cannabis

• FBI: Marijuana Arrests Decline Year-Over-Year, But Still Outpace Arrests for All Violent Crimes (NORML)

• Colorado Governor Grants Thousands Of Marijuana Pardons With New Clemency Powers (Marijuana Moment)

• New Jersey: Lawmakers Approve Telemedicine for Medical Cannabis Authorizations (NORML)

• Hawaii: Governor Legalizes Sales of Edible Products by Licensed Medical Cannabis Dispensaries (NORML)

• Democrats Remove Marijuana Research Bill From House Floor Schedule After Briefly Listing Possible Vote (Marijuana Moment)

• Michigan: Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Expungement Legislation (NORML)

• Where President Donald Trump Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

• New Jersey: Voter Support Solidly in Favor of Marijuana Legalization Ahead of Ballot Initiative Vote (NORML)

• Study: Nearly Thirty Percent of Women Report Having Used Cannabis for Menopause Symptoms (NORML)

LSD

• LSD, Music, and the Mysteries of Consciousness (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Crystal Structure of LSD & 5-HT2AR- Part 1: Capturing the First Steps of a Psychedelic Trip (Psychedelic Science Review)

Magic Mushrooms

• Oregon Psilocybin Initiative Gets Boost From New TV Ad But Draws Opposition From Unlikely Source (Marijuana Moment)

• Psygen Labs To Supply NeonMind With Psilocybin For Weight Loss Study (Green Market Report)

• Denver Mushroom Dealer Pleads Guilty in Federal Court (Westword)

• Psilocybin Patents: Predictors and Drivers of Company Value? (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• ATAI Life Sciences Company, EmpathBio, Dives Into MDMA Derivatives, Calls MAPS’ Approach “MDMA 1.0” (Psymposia)

• LGBTQIA Providers and Participants in MDMA Clinical Trials with Terence Ching (Chacruna)

DMT

• Combatting resistant depression with DMT and digital therapy (Health Europa)

Ayahuasca

• Dating My Ayahuasca Shaman: Sex, Power, and Consent (Chacruna)

• Women’s Historical Influence on “Set and Setting” (Chacruna)

Iboga

• In Defending Hunter, Biden Showed Us His Potential (Rolling Stone)

• Why Ibogaine Is Not the Answer to the Opioid Crisis (Chacruna)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Crystal Structure of CB1 and MDMB-Fubinaca Gives Insight Into Synthetic Cannabinoids’ Potency (Psychedelic Science Review)

Ketamine

• Statement on Ketamine Sedation and Law Enforcement from the American College of Medical Toxicology (PR Web)

• Study reveals how subanesthetic ketamine is effective in treating adult amblyopia (News-Medical.net)

• A Dose of Ketamine Can Treat 'Lazy Eye' in Adults (Futurity)

Miscellaneous

• Psychedelic Gold Rush? Psilocybin Startup Compass Pathways Goes Public at More than $1B (DoubleBlind)

• Michigan Prosecutor Won’t Pursue Psychedelics Possession Cases Following Local Decriminalization Vote (Marijuana Moment)

• Decriminalize Nature Promotes New Oakland Initiative While Condemning Fellow Activists (Lucid News)

• Vermont Democratic Party Platform Calls For Decriminalizing Drugs And Legalizing Marijuana Sales (Marijuana Moment)

• Field Trip Psychedelics Inc. Announces Successful GLP Synthesis, Results From Initial Preclinical Testing for FT-104, its First Molecule in Development (PR Newswire)

• Psychedelics as a Catalyst for Existential Joy (Sam Woolfe)

• ‘The Word of God in a Molecule’: Turning to Psychedelics During a Pandemic (Bedford + Bowery)

• Did Early Christians Use Psychedelics? (The Daily Beast)

• Mydecine Innovations Group Announces The Official Mindleap Health Mobile App Launch in IOS and Android Stores Today (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in the Post-Pandemic Era (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Psychedelic Industry 101: How to Get Involved (Reality Sandwich)

• The Systemic Culture Problems of the Psychedelics Industry (Lucid News)

• How I Used Psychedelics To Support My Sobriety (Yes, You Read That Right) (mindbodygreen)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 9.25.20

Cannabis

• Vermont Bills To Legalize Marijuana Sales And Expunge Convictions Head To Governor’s Desk (Marijuana Moment)

• Barbados Is Inches Away From Decriminalizing Cannabis Possession (MERRY JANE)

• Delta-8-THC Promises to Get You High Without the Paranoia or Anxiety (Discover Magazine)

• New Marijuana Coalition Unveils Plan To Legalize Interstate Cannabis Commerce (Marijuana Moment)

• ‘Failure’ to embrace medical cannabis has caused “preventable deaths” – report (Cannabis Health News)

• Using weed during pregnancy linked to psychotic-like behaviors in children, study finds (CNN)

• Texas Ban On Smokable Hemp Lifted Until 2021, Judge Rules (Marijuana Moment)

• Playboy Gets Serious About Cannabis Law Reform Advocacy With New Partnership, Grants (Forbes)

• Study: Use of Cannabis Long-Term Not Associated with Cognitive Differences in Older Adults (NORML)

• FDA Explains Effects Of CBD And Marijuana Compounds Based On Sex And Gender Differences (Marijuana Moment)

• Survey: Nearly One in Three Migraine Sufferers Have Used Cannabis for Symptom Management, Most Report It to Be Effective (NORML)

• South Dakota Voters Support Medical And Recreational Marijuana Initiatives, New Opposition Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

Magic Mushrooms

• Oregon Democratic Party Endorses Legal Psilocybin Therapy And Drug Decriminalization Ballot Measures (Marijuana Moment)

• MindMed and Liechti Lab Announce R&D Collaboration On Psilocybin (PR Newswire)

• Inside 9/20, the Holiday for Psychedelic Mushrooms (Rolling Stone)

MDMA

• Ecstasy use down during pandemic; Psychedelics draw more interest (NL Times)

Ayahuasca

• Tribute to Dr. Domingos Bernardo, the Legal Expert who Fought for the Liberation of Ayahuasca in Brazil (1941-2020) (Chacruna)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Mindset Pharma Reports Positive Results of Synthetic Psilocybin-Inspired Compounds (Lucid News)

Ketamine

• This Wearable Ketamine Device Could Be The Future Of Pain Management (Forbes)

Miscellaneous

• Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• COMPASS Pathways Closes $147 million IPO (Psilocybin Alpha)

• President Behind Mexico’s War on Drugs Admitted It Was ‘Unwinnable’ (VICE)

• The Legal Response to Breonna Taylor's Death Shows How Drug Prohibition Transforms Murder Into Self-Defense (Reason)

• Who Will Benefit From Psychedelic Medicine? (The Washington Post)

• Mind Cure Becomes Latest Publicly-Traded Psychedelic Company (Psilocybin Alpha)

• 60 Percent of DC Voters Support Plant Medicine Decriminalization (Lucid News)

• MindMed Applies to List on Nasdaq (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Can Psychedelics Rekindle Ancient Animism in Modern Society? (DoubleBlind)

• Meet the ‘psychedelic concierge’ to the stars (Page Six)

• Why Psychedelic Therapy is Effective at Combating Addiction (Sam Woolfe)

• Mindleap Health Announces The Launch of The World’s First Telehealth Platform For Psychedelic Integration (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Dr. Michael Mithoefer & Ann Mithoefer from MAPS Join AWAKN's Scientific Board (Stockhouse)

• The Psychedelic Election is an Internet Addiction (Lucid News)

• An Interview with Mariavittoria Mangini (Chacruna)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 9.18.20

Cannabis

• House Postpones Vote On Bill To Federally Legalize Marijuana Until After Election (Marijuana Moment)

• These states are voting on cannabis legalization this November (CNN)

• Vermont Bill To Legalize Marijuana Sales One Step Away From Governor’s Desk After House Vote (Marijuana Moment)

• Vermont House Approves Marijuana Expungement And Decriminalization Expansion Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• How cannabis use impacted mental health during COVID (Cannabis Health News)

• Virginia House And Senate Approve Marijuana Expungement Bills (Marijuana Moment)

• NORML Files Amicus Brief to the Supreme Court Challenging Cannabis’ Schedule I Prohibited Status Under Federal Law (NORML)

• Nebraska Medical Marijuana Activists Will Pursue 2022 Ballot Measure After Court Blocks This Year’s Effort (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis Pilot Programs Are Sprouting in Europe (Cannabis Wire)

• Mississippi Medical Marijuana Ballot Language Threatens To Confuse Voters With Two Questions (Marijuana Moment)

• Cancard Will Effectively Decriminalise Medicinal Cannabis In The UK From November 1st (Seedsman)

• Policy Briefing: World Health Organisation Cannabis Rescheduling And Its Relevance For The Caribbean (TalkingDrugs)

• Slim Majority Of Arizona Voters Support Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure, New Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Americans will spend $60 billion on illicit marijuana this year, report says (Leafly)

• USDA Approves Hemp Plans For Utah And Another Indian Tribe (Marijuana Moment)

• The Feds Are Funding a Study to See If Milk From Hemp-Eating Cows Will Get You High (MERRY JANE)

• Missouri Sends $2.1M In Medical Marijuana Revenue To Military Veterans Health Programs (Marijuana Moment)

• Cheap Cannabinoids That May Cure Cancer (Nanalyze)

LSD

• Scientists Uncover the Molecular Origins of an LSD Trip (Inverse)

• Figuring Out a Mouse-Sized Dose of LSD (Psychedelic Science Review)

• LSD Won’t Make a Good Painkiller (Pain News Network)

Magic Mushrooms

• Usona Puts New Psilocybin Synthesis Method in the Public Domain (Lucid News)

• First clinical trial launched to test psilocybin therapy for depression in cancer patients (News-Medical.net)

• Stopping a Too-Intense Mushroom Trip: Should You Even Try? (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

• Australians Are Lending Their Weight to Get Shrooms and MDMA Rescheduled (VICE)

Ayahuasca

• Legal Ayahuasca Churches Are Spreading Across Canada (VICE)

• Ayahuasca Makes you See, and Tobacco Makes You Dream (Chacruna)

• Ayahuasca Impacts the Big 5 Personality Traits (Psychedelic Science Review)

• A Woman Takes Ayahuasca and Discovers a Universal Truth (Patheos)

Peyote

• Indigenous Voices in Peyote Conservation: Preserving Medicine for Future Generations (Psychedelic Today)

Nitrous Oxide

• Aurora City Council Approves Temporary Ketamine Ban For First Responders (CBS Denver)

PCP

• Daniel Prude video initially withheld by Rochester police, documents show (Fox News)

Miscellaneous

• UC Berkeley launches new center for psychedelic science and education (Berkeley News)

• Can Psychedelics Treat Physical Illness? (DoubleBlind)

• Ann Arbor to consider decriminalizing psychoactive mushrooms, plants (Detroit Metro Times)

• Why Psychedelic Medicine Startups Are Poised To Get A Share Of Next Billion Dollar Market (PR Newswire)

• Compass Pathways Seeks $100 Million IPO For Psilocybin-Based Treatment (Seeking Alpha)

• How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Psychedelic Community (High Times)

• Why Set and Setting Matters for Microdosing (Medium)

• Compass Pathways IPO to Begin Trading 18th September on Nasdaq: CMPS (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Federal Workplace Drug Testing Proposal Could Discriminate Against People Of Color (Marijuana Moment)

• Women in the History of Psychedelic Plant Medicines (Chacruna)

• How Psychedelics Are Entering the Mainstream (Psychology Today)

• Could Group Therapy Make Psychedelic Drug Treatments More Accessible? (Forbes)

• IntelGenx inks double deals to develop oral film psychedelics for psychiatric use (Fierce Pharma)

• Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth (Chacruna)

• Red Light Holland’s Science and Innovation Division, Scarlette Lillie Joins Medical Psychedelics Working Group with Leading Academics; Professor David Nutt and Professor Jo Neill (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Conscious Parenting with Plant Medicine Allies (Reality Sandwich)

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