This Week in Psychedelics - 4.2.21

Cannabis

• New York Legalizes Recreational Marijuana, Tying Move to Racial Equity (The New York Times)

• New Mexico Marijuana Legalization Bill Heads To Governor’s Desk Following House And Senate Votes (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia: Governor Approves Expedited July 1 Enactment Date for Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization (NORML)

• France launches 2-year experiment with medical marijuana (Associated Press)

• Virginia: Governor Approves Employment Protection Bill (NORML)

• Schumer Says Bill To Legalize Marijuana Federally Will Be Filed ‘Shortly’ (Marijuana Moment)

• Three In Four U.S. Voters Support Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition, New Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Kansas Lawmakers Approve Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill, Clearing It For Floor Vote (Marijuana Moment)

• Nebraska Lawmakers Approve Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• South Carolina Senators Approve Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• Minnesota Marijuana Legalization Bill Will Get House Floor Vote Next Month, Majority Leader Says (Marijuana Moment)

• New North Dakota Effort To Put Marijuana On 2022 Ballot Killed By Senate (Marijuana Moment)

• Oregon Regulators Just Started Cracking Down on Delta-8 THC Products (MERRY JANE)

• New Senate Bill Would Triple THC Limit For Hemp And Address Other Industry Concerns (Marijuana Moment)

• Father of cannabis research plans a new revolution nearly 60 years later (The Jerusalem Post)

• It's Underage Drinking That Impairs Brain Development, Not Cannabis Use (MERRY JANE)

Magic Mushrooms

• Hawaii Lawmakers Seek Marijuana Exemption From DEA While Also Requesting Legal Psilocybin Plan (Marijuana Moment)

• Lemon Tek to the Rescue for Magic Mushroom Nausea? (Psychedelic Science Review)

DMT

• Early Clinical Research History of DMT (Psychedelic Science Review)

Ayahuasca

• Amazonian Women and Ayahuasca (Truffle Report)

Ketamine

• Colo. bill would require patients be weighed before administration of ketamine (EMS1.com)

• Ketamine Treatment for Eating Disorders (Reality Sandwich)

Miscellaneous

• Baltimore will no longer prosecute drug possession, prostitution and other low-level offenses (CNN)

• Northampton City Council wants to decriminalize psychedelic plants (Daily Hampshire Gazette)

• Decriminalize Nature Launches Crowdfunding Campaign, Shares Goals (Truffle Report)

• I Tried the App That ‘Makes You Trip’ – and It Was Surprisingly Good (VICE)

• More People Are Self-Medicating with Psychedelics, Says New Study (Lucid News)

• Australian Government to Give $15M Grant for Psychedelics Research Focusing on Mental Health (MarketWatch)

• Is psychedelic-assisted group therapy the wave of the future? (Genetic Literacy Project)

• New $6.4M research program to advance psychedelics research and treatments (EurekAlert!)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 3.26.21

Cannabis

• Virginia Governor Signals He’ll Push To Legalize Marijuana On July 1, Ahead Of Schedule (Marijuana Moment)

• Connecticut Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill As Governor Pushes Competing Reform (Marijuana Moment)

• Illinois Lawmakers Approve Bill To Legalize Any Amount Of Marijuana And Expunge Past Records (Marijuana Moment)

• New York lawmakers reach historic deal on a marijuana legalization bill (Leafly)

• North Dakota Senate Rejects House-Passed Marijuana Legalization Bill, Ceding Issue To Activists For Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• Scotland's first medical cannabis clinic approved (BBC)

• Maryland adult-use marijuana legalization effort fails for this year (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Delaware Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee Vote (Marijuana Moment)

• Minnesota Marijuana Legalization Bill Clears Fourth House Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• Texas Cops Just Arrested and Killed a Man for Possessing One Joint Worth of Weed (MERRY JANE)

• New Mexico Governor Plans Special Session On Marijuana As Legalization Bill Stalls On Final Stretch (Marijuana Moment)

• New Weed Bill Aims Block Big Alcohol and Tobacco From Dominating Legal Weed Market (MERRY JANE)

• Senators Reintroduce SAFE Banking Act To Normalize Cannabis Commerce (NORML)

• More evidence needed to back cannabis as pain treatment, says review (Imperial College London)

• CBD Could Stop Coronavirus Cells From Replicating in the Lungs, Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

• Advocacy group for Hispanic marijuana entrepreneurs launches (Marijuana Business Daily)

• THC Can Remain in Breast Milk for Up to Six Weeks After Use, New Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

• Study: “No Evidence” That Medical Cannabis Access Laws Encourage Youth Marijuana Use (NORML)

• Shitty Government Weed Might Have Just Ruined Major New Study on Veterans and PTSD (MERRY JANE)

LSD

• Ergot: A Look at LSD’s Precursor (Truffle Report)

Magic Mushrooms

• Psychedelic for meth users: Sydney trial aims to conquer addiction (The Sydney Morning Herald)

• This Toronto man is treating a rare neurological disorder with psilocybin mushrooms (Regina Leader-Post)

• Denver Psilocybin Panel Talks Expanded Decriminalization (Truffle Report)

• This New BIPOC-Run Group Is Educating People About Legal Mushroom Therapy in Oregon (MERRY JANE)

5-MeO-DMT

• A porn star has been charged with reckless homicide after he used toad venom to cure a photographer's cocaine addiction (Insider)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• DiPT: Producing Auditory Hallucinations (Truffle Report)

Ketamine

• Ketamine bill headed to Colorado House for consideration (KDVR)

• Ketamine Providers Debate Standards of Care (Lucid News)

PCP

• Why America Is the Only Place in the World Where People Use PCP (VICE)

Miscellaneous

• The Canadian Psychedelic Association is Fighting Stigma Attached to Plant Medicines (Truffle Report)

• Predicting who may do best with psychedelic-assisted therapy (Ohio State University News)

• What are the effects of promoting unsupported claims about psychedelics? A call for better media reporting (AOD Media Watch)

• Mark Haden’s “Clarifying Misinformation” Letter is Full of Misinformation and Lies (Psymposia)

• Psychedelic drugs: how the brains of informed users are different (The Conversation)

• Psychedelic vs. Hallucinogen-What’s in a Name? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Funding for psychedelic trials best directed at independent research (The Canberra Times)

• ‘These people are broken’: Why the UK’s war on drugs has failed (Al Jazeera)

• Psychedelics for medical purposes: time to change your mind? (The BMJ)

• Psychedelic Synesthesia: Smell That Tune (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Women More Likely To Use Psychedelics Than Men (Green Market Report)

• Platforms of Psychedelic Experience (Maps of the Mind)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 3.19.21

Cannabis

• White House staffers asked to resign or work remotely after revealing past marijuana use (CNN)

• Wyoming Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill Sponsored By Top GOP Leaders (Marijuana Moment)

• Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers File Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana, While Governor Pushes Full Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Nebraska Gov. Ricketts warns: 'If you legalize marijuana, you're going to kill your kids' (USA Today)

• People of Color Made Up 94% of All Pot Arrests in New York in 2020, NYPD Data Reports (MERRY JANE)

• Marijuana Banking Bill Reintroduced In Congress With Broad Bipartisan Support From More Than 100 Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)

• Big Alcohol and Big Tobacco Coalition Emerges to Shape Legalization in Their Favor (NORML)

• Delaware Lawmakers File Marijuana Legalization Bill Despite Governor’s Ongoing ‘Concerns’ (Marijuana Moment)

• New Mexico Marijuana Legalization Bill Heads To Senate Floor Following Contentious Committee Hearing (Marijuana Moment)

• Colorado Is Trying to Implement 15% THC Cap on High-Potency Cannabis Concentrates (MERRY JANE)

• North Dakota Marijuana Legalization Bill Receives First Senate Committee Hearing Following House Passage (Marijuana Moment)

• Congress and USPS Inadvertently Restrict Consumer Access To Vaporizer Cartridges, Batteries, Etc (NORML)

• New PTSD study finds cannabis safe, but not as effective as assumed (Leafly)

• Pennsylvania: Police Arrested 20,200 Adults for Marijuana Possession During Pandemic (NORML)

• New Evidence Shows CBD Can Help Fight Alzheimer's Disease (MERRY JANE)

• Medical cannabis can reduce essential tremor: turns on overlooked cells in central nervous system (EurekAlert!)

• Cultivating a Single 8th of Weed Creates 41-Pound Carbon Footprint, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

LSD

• The true story of Michel Foucault's LSD trip that changed history (Salon)

Magic Mushrooms

• COMPASS Pathways Is Trying to Patent Psilocybin for More Mental Health Conditions Than You Can Name (Psymposia)

• Experts chosen to create Oregon’s new system of psilocybin-assisted therapy (OPB)

• Can Magic Mushrooms Heal Us? (The New York Times)

• Revive Therapeutics Announces Successful Research Results for Psilocybin to Treat Traumatic Brain Injury and Filing of International Patent Application (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Can Psilocybin Assisted Psychotherapy Change Attachment Style? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Shrooms Movie: The Best (And Worst) Movies to Watch on Shrooms (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

• The Effects of MDMA on Emotional Processing (Truffle Report)

DMT

• Pharmadrug Initiates DMT Research Activities via Collaboration with the University of Michigan for Foundational DMT Research Study (Psilocybin Alpha)

5-MeO-DMT

• Former porn star Nacho Vidal to stand trial for death by toad venom (Euro Weekly News)

Ketamine

• First ketamine-assisted psychotherapy Bristol clinic opens (BBC)

• 'How ketamine helped me kick my alcohol addiction' (The Telegraph)

• Having Sex on Ketamine: Getting Physical on a Dissociative (Reality Sandwich)

• On Ketamine and Memories (Truffle Report)

• Ketamine: A Legal, yet Overlooked Psychedelic (Sapiensoup Blog)

PCP

• Rochester mayor lied to public about Daniel Prude case, report finds (New York Post)

Miscellaneous

• D.C. Psychedelics Decriminalization Initiative Officially Takes Effect (Marijuana Moment)

• Sounding the Alarm on Compass’s Interference with Oregon’s Psilocybin Therapy Program (Dr. Bronner)

• Psychedelic drug users tend to have better overall physical health than non-users, study finds (PsyPost)

• Rhode Island Senators File Drug Decriminalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic Capitalism and Other Myths: Is the Joke On Us? (Psychedelics Today)

• Capitalism Goes Rogue with Patent Claims on Psychedelics (Chacruna)

• Australian government backs psychedelic drug clinical trials to treat mental illness (The Guardian)

• Why Oneness is Not Incompatible with Identity Politics (Chacruna)

• The Bread That Made an Entire Island Hallucinate (VICE)

• Psychedelic therapy could 'reset' depressed brain (BBC)

• Do Psychedelics Alter the Menstrual Cycle? (DoubleBlind)

• Psychotic- vs. Psychedelic-Induced Hallucinations: A Closer Look (Psychedelic Science Review)

• ‘The ketamine blew my mind’: can psychedelics cure addiction and depression? (The Guardian)

• Fish and Trips: Psychoactive Denizens of the Deep (Truffle Report)

• Why Microdosing is the Lightsaber of Modern-Day Jedis (The Third Wave)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 3.12.21

Cannabis

• Mexican lawmakers advance bill to legalize recreational cannabis (Leafly)

• Hawaii Senate Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill And Separate Decriminalization Expansion Proposal (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia Governor Considers Speeding Up Legal Marijuana Timeline (Marijuana Moment)

• South Dakota: Legislative Effort to Delay Implementation of Voter-Approved Medical Marijuana Law Fails (NORML)

• Mississippi House kills medical marijuana bill. Senate tries a hail Mary (Mississippi Today)

• Legislation Introduced To No Longer Deny Citizenship Based on Cannabis Consumption (NORML)

• Thai households now allowed to grow six cannabis plants a year (BusinessLIVE)

• New cannabis coalition wants to influence how — not if — weed is legalized (Politico)

• Rhode Island Senate Leaders Unveil Marijuana Legalization Bill As Governor Prepares Competing Plan (Marijuana Moment)

• Lawmakers In Several States Consider Enacting or Expanding Medical Cannabis Access (NORML)

• Nearly 30,000 Californians Just Had Felony Weed Offenses Reduced to Misdemeanors (MERRY JANE)

• Review: Cannabinoids Effective and Well-Tolerated in Patients with Post-Traumatic Stress (NORML)

• Plymouth Massachusetts Introduces a New Medical Research Website for Cannabis (PR Newswire)

• Indoor Weed Farms Are Hotboxing the Planet (Gizmodo)

• Vaping Weed May Actually Be Worse for Your Lungs Than Smoking Cigarettes, Study Says (MERRY JANE)

LSD

• Psychedelics research: Scientists zero in on the ideal dose of LSD to use in psychiatric treatment (PsyPost)

• LSD Brings Your Brain to the Edge of Chaos (VICE)

• When Acid Makes You Feel Like Jesus (DoubleBlind)

Magic Mushrooms

• New York Lawmaker Files Bill To Decriminalize Psilocybin Mushrooms (Marijuana Moment)

• DEA Sued By Doctor Who Wants Permission To Give Psilocybin Mushrooms To Patients (Marijuana Moment)

• Mind Medicine Australia urges TGA to reverse its Interim Decision on scientific and humanitarian grounds (Mind Medicine Australia)

• Psilocybin Therapy Could Help With Obesity (Baystreet)

• How Red Light Holland Is Bringing Psilocybin Truffles Mainstream (Benzinga)

MDMA

• The impact COVID-19 had on MDMA this festival season (Newshub)

DMT

• DMT and Stroke Research (Truffle Report)

Ayahuasca

• Best Ayahuasca Retreats: How to Choose the Right Ayahuasca Retreat For You (DoubleBlind)

5-MeO-DMT

• Three Friends Explore The Obscure And Potent Substance 5-MeO-DMT In This Existentially Intense Film Doc (Forbes)

Iboga

• Ibogaine Treatment for Trauma (PR Newswire)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Is 18-MC a Psychedelic Drug? (Psychedelic Science Review)

Ketamine

• Yes, Ketamine Addiction Is a Thing. Here’s What You Need to Know. (DoubleBlind)

• Intravenous ketamine appears safe, efficacious for adolescents with depression (Healio)

• Lower dose of ketamine is as effective as the standard dose to treat pain in adults (News-Medical.net)

• Best Ketamine Clinics and Therapists: What to Look for if You’re Seeking Ketamine Therapy, and How to Find Ketamine Clinics Near You (DoubleBlind)

Miscellaneous

• Investors Are Debating Who Should Own the Future of Psychedelics (VICE)

• The Race to Patent Psychedelics Is Just Getting Started (VICE)

• Vermont Lawmakers Propose Decriminalizing Drugs (Truffle Report)

• Michigan Activists Launch Statewide Campaign to Decriminalize Entheogenic Plants, Fungi (Truffle Report)

• Why mental health researchers are studying psychedelics all wrong (Salon)

• Report finds people use psychedelic drugs to self-medicate for depression, anxiety and trauma (TheJournal.ie)

• Some Thoughts on For-Profit Psychedelic Startups and Companies (Tim Ferriss)

• An open letter to Tim Ferriss about the value of patents in the psychedelic world (LinkedIn)

• How to Penetrate Clubhouse’s Psychedelic Underground (Lucid News)

• California May Ban Most Employers From Drug Testing People Upon Employment (MERRY JANE)

• Lifetime psychedelic use may reduce likelihood of hypertension (Healio)

• Psychedelic Speech: How Drugs Disorganize Normal Communication Patterns (Psychedelic Science Review)

• New Coalition Seeks Federal Psychedelic Research Funds (Truffle Report)

• The Outlaw Chemists Who Deserve a Cut of the Psychedelic Gold Rush (The New Republic)

• Gurus Behaving Badly: Anaïs Nin’s Diary & the Value of Gossip (Chacruna)

• The Pitfalls and Challenges of Psychedelic Medicine (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Psychedelics and Ancient Art: A History of Confirmation Bias (Truffle Report)

• The Shamanic Persona (Maps of the Mind)

• Psychedelic Science Holds Promise for Mainstream Medicine (UNLV)

• Seeking a True Shaman in the Sierra Mazateca (Chacruna)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 3.5.21

Cannabis

• Virginia Lawmakers Vote to Legalize Marijuana in 2024 (TIME)

• Mexican Lawmakers To Vote On Marijuana Legalization Next Week (Marijuana Moment)

• Morocco Expected To Pass Cannabis Legalization Soon (High Times)

• New Mexico House Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill, With Senate Action Imminent (Marijuana Moment)

• Hawaii Marijuana Legalization Bill Heads To Senate Floor, Along With Separate Measure To Expand Decriminalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Third Minnesota House Committee Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Tennessee Senators Approve Medical Marijuana Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• Alabama Senators Approve Marijuana Decriminalization Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• Washington, D.C. Could Allow Marijuana Sales Under Mayor’s New Bill And Democratic Control Of Congress (Marijuana Moment)

• Top Washington, D.C. Lawmaker Files Competing Legal Marijuana Bill Days After Mayor Unveils Her Plan (Marijuana Moment)

• Montana: Lawmakers Seek to Amend Voter-Approved Marijuana Legalization Law (NORML)

• Mississippi House Replaces Senate’s Alternate Medical Marijuana Program With What Voters Originally Approved (Marijuana Moment)

• 'I really love weed': Seth Rogen brings his cannabis company, Houseplant, to U.S. (NBC News)

• Study Indicates Most Patients Don’t Think Doctors Will Understand Cannabis (High Times)

• Pennsylvania Governor Grants 69 Marijuana Pardons As Lawmakers Move Bipartisan Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Iowa Senators Approve Bill To Reduce Marijuana Penalties (Marijuana Moment)

• Review study: Cannabis and driving cognition (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Illinois city uses weed sales tax for reparations (Leafly)

• Marijuana Legalization Could Curb West Virginia’s Overdose Crisis, Governor Says (Filter)

• Decline In Banks Working With Marijuana Businesses Has ‘Leveled Off,’ New Federal Data Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• A New Observational Study Focusing On Cannabis For PTSD Treatment Has Been Approved (Forbes)

• Prisons should trial free cannabis, says UK's former chief drug adviser (The Guardian)

• Connecticut Polls Shows Majority Support For Marijuana Legalization And Expungements As Lawmakers Consider Reform (Marijuana Moment)

• Texas Voters’ Support For Legalizing Marijuana Is Increasing, New Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• Benefits of microdosing LSD might be placebo effect, study finds (The Guardian)

• Can Psilocybin and LSD Relieve Existential Suffering? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• DEA: 'We've seen a very large increase in LSD' (KABB)

Magic Mushrooms

• Iowa Lawmakers Hold Historic Hearing On Psilocybin Decriminalization, But Do Not Advance Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• TheraPsil Launches Psilocybin Therapy Training Program (Truffle Report)

• Core One Labs Initiates First Strain Production for Biosynthetic Psilocybin (BioSpace)

• PsyBio Therapeutics Initiates Pilot Scale Development of Proprietary Biosynthetic Psilocybin with Global Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization (Psilocybin Alpha)

• MINDCURE Completes Its Initial Strategic Equity Investment in ATMA, Canada’s First Commercial Provider of Legal, Psychedelic-Assisted, Therapy Utilizing Psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Numinus and Syreon Provide Psilocybin Compassionate Access Trial Update (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Promise and challenges for psilocybin and MDMA use in treatment (Peter Attia MD)

DMT

• A Beginner’s Guide to DMT Vape Pens (Truffle Report)

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals to Conduct Phase 1 DMT Stroke Program Study with Hammersmith Medicines Research (UK) (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Mail Order Ayahuasca Is Now A Thing (DoubleBlind)

• How Colombian Yagé Communities Confronted the COVID-19 Pandemic (Chacruna)

• Ayahuasca In the Fight Against Drug Addiction (CBD Testers)

5-MeO-DMT

• A Beginner’s Guide to Psychedelic Amphibians (Truffle Report)

Iboga

• MINDCURE Announces Manufacturing of Synthetic Ibogaine to be Used in Company's Clinical Research (PR Newswire)

• MINDCURE Discovers Potential Opportunity for Ibogaine-Assisted Psychotherapy to Treat Neuropathic Pain and Traumatic Brain Injury (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Drug Testing and Synthetic Cannabis in Prisons (Drug Science)

• Dangerous batch of synthetic cannabis may be behind Christchurch death (Stuff.co.nz)

Ketamine

• PharmaTher Expands to Neuromuscular Diseases with Exclusive License Agreement for Ketamine in the Treatment of Lou Gehrig’s Disease (GlobeNewswire)

• Awakn Announces Exclusive License Deal with the University of Exeter to Commercialise the ‘Ketamine in the Reduction of Alcoholic Relapse’ (KARE) Intervention Validated in a Phase II Clinical Trial (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Washington State Supreme Court finds state's felony drug possession law unconstitutional (Q13 Fox)

• U.S. Tells Mexico Drug War’s Failure Requires New Strategy (Bloomberg)

• Sewage Samples Reveal the Dutch, Australians Are Biggest Users of Synthetic Drugs (VICE)

• Canada’s Government Moves To End Mandatory Minimums For Drugs, But Voters Back Full Decriminalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Want To Take A Psychedelic Trip Without Drugs? There’s Now An App For That (Forbes)

• European companies set to dominate psychedelics market (Sifted)

• Online Psychedelic Community Options to Ride Out the Rest of Covid-19 (Psychedelics Today)

• Are Natural Psychedelics Or Synthetic Psychedelics Better For Your Body? (Healing Maps)

• CryptoPsychedelic Conferences Examine Links Between Psychedelics and Blockchain Technology (Lucid News)

• Psychedelics and Environmental Sustainability (Truffle Report)

• Growing popularity of therapeutic psychedelic experiences creates demand for underground guides (CBC)

• Investing In Psychedelics: Why Is It In Such High Demand These Days? (Healing Maps)

• Most People With Addiction Outgrow It Naturally. We Need to Hear Them. (Filter)

• Finding the Psychedelic Sweet Spot (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Does Animal Consciousness Expand From Psychedelics Too? (Reality Sandwich)

• Best Practices For Tripsitters (Maps of the Mind)

• What Effects Do Psychedelics Have on Social Perception? (Truffle Report)

• Christian Siriano’s Psychedelic Trip (The Cut)

• Red Light Holland’s iMicro Digital Care App Launches Virtual Telecounseling with a Membership Program Led by Certified Therapist and Microdosing Expert (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Growing interest in psychedelic treatments for mental illness, but expert warns more robust research needed (CBC)

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