This Week in Psychedelics - 6.11.21

Cannabis

• Nevada: Governor Signs Bill into Law Regulating Cannabis Consumption Lounges (NORML)

• Senate Votes to Legalize Recreational Marijuana in Conn. (NBC Connecticut)

• Washington state offers ‘joints for jabs’ to boost vaccination rates (The Guardian)

• Louisiana lawmakers pass bill to decriminalize marijuana (The Hill)

• Biden Administration Wants to Uphold Ban on Adult-Use Cannabis Sales in DC (MERRY JANE)

• Testing People For Marijuana Impairment Based On THC Levels Is ‘Not Reliable,’ Federally Funded Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: Enactment of Adult-Use Marijuana Laws Doesn’t Encourage Drugged Driving Behavior (NORML)

• Medical Cannabis Users Are More Likely to Cut Back on Cigarettes, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

• NFL Funds Marijuana Research As Federal Prohibition ‘Adversely’ Impacts Studies Into Opioid Alternative For Players (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia: Marijuana Arrests Fall Dramatically Following Enactment of 2020 Decriminalization Law (NORML)

• Bill Would Finally Let Researchers Obtain Marijuana From Dispensaries (Filter)

• LA Is Literally the Worst Place to Buy Legal Weed, Thanks to Exorbitant Sales Taxes (MERRY JANE)

LSD

• Susi’s Tram Ride: Recognizing the First Woman to Take LSD (Chacruna)

• Deepak Chopra did LSD for the first time in a lab and felt his consciousness shift while staring at a photo of Mother Teresa (Insider)

• Blotter paper part of LSD mixture, must be weighed too (The Times of India)

• LSD and the Anarchic Brain (Psychedelic Science Review)

• LSD for Bipolar Disorder: Is LSD the Answer? (The Third Wave)

Magic Mushrooms

• Silo Pharma Announces Collaboration with University California San Francisco to study Psilocybin as an Anti-Inflammatory agent in Parkinson’s and Bipolar Patients (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psilocybin Oral Strips: Benefits and Drawbacks (Truffle Report)

• Mydecine Discovers Over 40 Groundbreaking Potential Pharmacologically Active Novel Compounds in Mushrooms (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Pill-iD App Lets Users Scan MDMA Pills To See What They Contain (LADbible)

• MDMA soaring in popularity in New Zealand, making its way into high schools (Newshub)

• MDMA, Water, Seizures, and Death: Interview with Gabriel Kearns, M.D. and Founder of Elevation Chemicals (Psychedelic Times)

Ayahuasca

• Is Ayahuasca Legal? (DoubleBlind)

5-MeO-DMT

• A hallucinogenic toad in peril (High Country News)

Iboga

• Iboga Conservation (Chacruna)

Nitrous Oxide

• Can Laughing Gas (Nitrous Oxide) Help People With Treatment-Resistant Depression? (Forbes)

Ketamine

• Colorado bill to restrict ketamine use outside of hospitals close to passing (Colorado Newsline)

• Deaths Resulting from Ketamine Injection Rare, Study Indicates (JEMS)

Miscellaneous

• Connecticut Governor Signs Psychedelics Study Measure As He Awaits Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• The FBI Secretly Ran an Encrypted Messaging Service To Conduct the Same Old Drug War Stings (Reason)

• Aphrodite Health Is Here To Shift The Narrative: The First Psychedelics Company ‘For Women, By Women’ (Forbes)

• Poll Shows Huge Public Opposition to “War on Drugs,” After 50 Years (Filter)

• Seattle City Council Signs Letter Proposing Psychedelic Use in Opioid Addiction Treatment (Truffle Report)

• Field Trip Health Ltd. Applies to List Its Common Shares on the NASDAQ Stock Market (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Over One Third of US Voters Know Psychedelics Have Valid Medical Use, Poll Says (MERRY JANE)

• Psychedelics For Frontline Clinicians With Covid-Related Burnout? A Study Is Looking Into It (Forbes)

• Accountability & Transformative Justice in the Psychedelic Space: A Roadmap for Change (Psychedelics Today)

• Study Links Hallucinogen Use to Emotional Dysregulation, Risk Taking Among Youth (Psychedelic News Wire)

• Life Sciences Announces Launch of Initial Public Offering (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Are Psychedelics the Next Big Cure? (Good Housekeeping)

• Is Absinthe an Hallucinogen? Debunking the Green Fairy (Truffle Report)

• Tolerance, Tachyphylaxis, and Psychedelic Drug Action (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Basics for Tripping in Nature (Maps of the Mind)

• Psychedelic Cartoons: Through the Decades (Reality Sandwich)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 6.4.21

Cannabis

• Bill To Federally Legalize Marijuana Reintroduced In Congress As Senate Prepares Separate Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• Amazon Now Supports Federal Cannabis Legalization (Forbes)

• Nevada: Lawmakers Approve Measure to Regulate Cannabis Consumption Lounges (NORML)

• Idaho Marijuana Activists Launch Limited Legalization Campaign For 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Medical cannabis has ‘96% chance of seizure reduction’ in childhood epilepsy (Cannabis Health News)

• Tennessee Governor Signs Bill To Expand State’s Limited Medical Marijuana Program (Marijuana Moment)

• Colorado: Senate Lawmakers Advance Measure Amending State’s Medical Cannabis Access Law (NORML)

• Mississippi Lawmakers Hold Medical Marijuana Hearing After Court Overturns Voter-Approved Law (Marijuana Moment)

• As legal marijuana booms, people push for justice for those impacted by war on drugs (ABC News)

• Illinois: Lawmakers Approve Equity Measure to Award Over 100 New Dispensary Licenses (NORML)

Magic Mushrooms

• Want to Measure the Magic in Your Mushrooms? You Can Now Test Psilocybin Potency at Home (DoubleBlind)

• Psilocybin May Reduce Suicidal Thoughts in Terminally Ill Patients, Suggests New Study (Lucid News)

• Psychedelic Mushroom Shops Reach The Americas (Forbes)

• Psilocybin-assisted Therapy for Mental Health: A New Paradigm? (Volteface)

• COMPASS Pathways and Kings College London publish cognition results from COMP360 psilocybin study in healthy volunteers (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The Psilocybin vs. Escitalopram Trial – Part 2 (Psychedelic Science Review)

MDMA

• One Man Took 40,000 Ecstasy Pills In Nine Years – This Is What Happened To Him (IFLScience)

5-MeO-DMT

• Studying Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT for Traumatic Brain Injuries: Interview with Amber Capone of VETS (Psychedelic Times)

San Pedro

• Microdosing Huachuma: Sacred Cactus of the Andes (EntheoNation)

Iboga

• MINDCURE Successfully Completes First Stage of Manufacturing Synthetic Ibogaine for Use in Psychedelic Clinical Research (Psilocybin Alpha)

Salvia Divinorum

• Salvia Flowers: Cultivation and Consumption (DoubleBlind)

Ketamine

• Ketamine a game changer in treating eating disorders (Toronto Sun)

Miscellaneous

• California Senate Approves Bill To Legalize Possession Of Psychedelics Like Psilocybin And LSD (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelics Patent Claim Raises Questions From Researchers Who Say They Did It First (VICE)

• Texas Bills To Expand Medical Marijuana Program And Require Psychedelics Study Head To Governor’s Desk (Marijuana Moment)

• New York Bill Would Create State-Sponsored Psychedelics Research Institute (Marijuana Moment)

• The psychologists signing up for psychedelic therapy training: ‘Amazing things can happen’ (The Guardian)

• NIH: It’s time to make your mark on the renaissance of medicinal psychedelics (STAT)

• Andrew Yang Proposes Legal Psychedelic Therapies For Veterans In NYC Mayoral Plan (Marijuana Moment)

• New Zealand scientists explore medical benefits of psychedelic drugs (Newshub)

• Can Psychedelics Help Heal Moral Injury? (Psychedelics Today)

• Psychedelics: A New Fountain of Youth? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Pandemic Drug Use and the Cartel (Reality Sandwich)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 5.28.21

Cannabis

• New York bans delta-8 THC, resists calls to track hemp like marijuana (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Legal Marijuana States Have Generated Nearly $8 Billion In Tax Revenue Since Recreational Sales Launched, Report Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Minnesota: Governor Signs Legislation into Law to Legalize Medical Marijuana Flower (NORML)

• Nevada: Lawmakers Send Multiple Marijuana Reform Measures to Governor’s Desk (NORML)

• Cannabis emoji remains elusive: When it will exist, what it might look like, and why we don’t have one (yet) (GreenState)

• Louisiana: House-Approved Marijuana Decriminalization Bill Heads to Senate Floor (NORML)

• The Decriminalization of Marijuana in Brazil Beyond the Medicinal Use: Cannabis Associations and Human Rights (Chacruna)

• Atheists Are Much More Likely To Back Marijuana Legalization Than Christians Are, New Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• Microdosing Psilocybin and LSD: Panacea or Placebo? (Spirit Pharmacist)

• MindMed and Liechti Lab in Basel Switzerland Publish First Pharmacogenetic Data on LSD to Help Guide Personalized Dosing (Psilocybin Alpha)

Magic Mushrooms

• Attorneys General Back Doctor on DEA Psilocybin Lawsuit (Truffle Report)

• Health Canada Approves Expansion of Mydecine’s Cultivation Capabilities for Psilocybin Producing Mushrooms (Psilocybin Alpha)

• María Sabina, Mushrooms, and Colonial Extractivism (Chacruna)

• The Psilocybin vs. Escitalopram Trial – Part 1 (Psychedelic Science Review)

MDMA

• The Effects of MDMA on Liver Health (Truffle Report)

DMT

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Highlights New Animal Study Showing Effectiveness of Psychedelic Drug DMT in Treatment of Stroke (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• When Ayahuasca Microdosing Might Cause Serotonin Toxicity (Chacruna)

• Breathe Easy: Combining Albuterol & Ayahuasca (Spirit Pharmacist)

Iboga

• Why Iboga Is Considered a Master Healer (Lucid News)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Non-hallucinogenic psychedelic analog reverses effects of stress in mouse study (Science Daily)

Nitrous Oxide

• London borough bans ‘laughing gas’ nitrous oxide over anti-social behaviour (The Independent)

Ketamine

• Effort to limit ketamine use by Colorado paramedics, police advances toward governor’s desk (The Colorado Sun)

• PharmaTher Files for FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Ketamine to Treat Lou Gehrig’s Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)

• PharmaTher Collaborates with MediSynergics to Develop Patented Ketamine Formulation for Pain Disorders and to Discover Novel Psychedelic Formulations (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Texas Senate Approves Psychedelics And Marijuana Concentrates Bills (Marijuana Moment)

• Maine Lawmakers Advance Drug Decriminalization Bill To House Floor With Conflicting Recommendations (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelics’ Exciting Potential to Benefit Autistic People (Filter)

• Virtual Reality and Psychedelic Synergy (Psychedelic Science Review)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 5.21.21

Cannabis

• Alabama Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Montana Governor Signs Marijuana Legalization Implementation Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Colorado Governor Signs Bill To Double Marijuana Possession Limit And Calls For Pardons Review (Marijuana Moment)

• Mississippi Supreme Court Overturns Medical Marijuana Legalization Ballot That Voters Approved (Marijuana Moment)

• Colorado bans hemp-derived delta-8 THC (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Minnesota: Lawmakers Vote to Legalize Medical Cannabis Flower (NORML)

• Texas Medical Marijuana Expansion Bill Moves Forward In Senate After Initially Stalling (Marijuana Moment)

• Louisiana Marijuana Legalization Effort Stalls After House Rejects Complementary Tax Proposal (Marijuana Moment)

• The Impact of Specific Genes on Cannabis Use Disorder (Psychedelic Science Review)

LSD

• Acid test: scientists show how LSD opens doors of perception (The Guardian)

• The Untold Story of the CIA’s MK Ultra: A Conversation with Stephen Kinzer (Los Angeles Review of Books)

• MindMed Receives FDA Type C Meeting Response for Project Lucy Phase 2b Clinical Trial (Psilocybin Alpha)

Magic Mushrooms

• A single dose of psilocybin has a lasting therapeutic effect on migraine headache, according to a new placebo-controlled study (PsyPost)

• Kristen Bell Tried Hallucinogenic Mushrooms to Help Manage Her Depression (People)

• Wake Network Successfully Completes First Legal Importation of Psilocybin Mushrooms into the U.S. (Lucid News)

• Cybin Granted IRB Approval for Phase II Clinical Trials of its Sublingual Psilocybin Formulation for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• FDA Clears Researchers To Study MDMA Use By Therapists Being Trained In Psychedelic Medicine (Marijuana Moment)

• How MDMA, Octopuses, and Gül Dölen Reopen Minds (Chacruna)

• Narcos Scotland: The 90s rave culture in Scotland brought a deadly new trend with Ecstasy (Scottish Daily Record)

DMT

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Receives Positive Feedback from U.S. FDA for Psychedelic Drug DMT Clinical Research Program for Stroke (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Entheon Biomedical Announces DMT Drug Supply Agreement with Ofichem Group (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Controversies on the Environmental Legislation on Ayahuasca in Brazil (Chacruna)

• Can Ayahuasca Help Us Communicate with the Souls of the Dead? (DoubleBlind)

Mescaline

• MindMed Announces the Approval of Mescaline Study (Psilocybin Alpha)

Peyote

• Psychedelics Advocates And Indigenous Groups Split On Decriminalizing Peyote Cactus (Marijuana Moment)

• Is Peyote the same as mescaline?: A Cultural History (Chacruna)

Salvia Divinorum

• This DEA ‘medication of concern’ may have health benefits (MD Linx)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Why Big Pharma Loves The Power Of Synthetic Cannabinoids (The Fresh Toast)

Ketamine

• Lamar Odom says he is using ketamine to stay sober (Page Six)

• PharmaTher Announces FDA Approval of Ketamine IND In The Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• California’s Psychedelic Decriminalization Bill Heads to Senate Floor (Truffle Report)

• Texas Senate Advances Bill To Study Healing Potential Of Psychedelics Like Psilocybin and MDMA (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic Drugs Will Follow Pot’s Path to Legalization (Bloomberg)

• The future of psychedelic science (Imperial College London)

• Use of hallucinogens linked to risk seeking, emotional dysregulation in youth and college students (PsyPost)

• Confronting Inequity and Seeking Social Justice in the Psychedelic Movement (Chacruna)

• The Jacarezinho Massacre and Lethal Drug Policy Enforcement in Brazil (Filter)

• IPI: The Top Recommended Psychedelic Therapy Training (The Third Wave)

• Imagine Psychedelic Dinosaurs Tripping Daily (Reality Sandwich)

• An Investor Looks at Drug Development Strategies of Top Psychedelic Companies (Lucid News)

• Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy: Reshaping Perspectives and Guiding Transformation (Psychedelic Times)

• Do Animals and Psychedelics Go Together? (Reality Sandwich)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 5.14.21

Cannabis

• Republicans Push for Federal Legalization of Marijuana to Ensure 'Individual Liberty' (Newsweek)

• Minnesota House Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Kansas Senate Running Out Of Time To Pass Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill That Cleared House (Marijuana Moment)

• Nebraska Activists Relaunch Medical Marijuana Ballot Campaign After Legislative Filibuster Blocks Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Louisiana: House Lawmakers Advance Marijuana Decriminalization Legislation (NORML)

• Cherokee Nation Just Decriminalized Weed Possession in State Where Pot Is Still Illegal (MERRY JANE)

• Feds Announce New Standard THC Dose To Be Used In Marijuana Research, Effective Immediately (Marijuana Moment)

• Ignorance Still Plagues The Field Of Cannabis Medicine (Forbes)

• America’s most conservative states are embracing medical pot (Politico)

• Georgia: Governor Signs Legislation into Law Expanding Access to Low-THC Medical Cannabis (NORML)

• Medicinal cannabis improves quality of life, finds largest study of UK patients (Cannabis Health News)

• Cannabis may slightly reduce RA disease activity based on 'very uncertain' evidence (Healio)

• Don’t Bring CBD Pet Shampoo Onto Military Bases, U.S. Air Force Warns (Marijuana Moment)

• Understanding the History of Rastafari and the Sacramental Use of Ganja with Jahlani Niaah (Chacruna)

Magic Mushrooms

• How Psychedelic Mushrooms Went from Schedule I to Psychotherapy (The Pacific Index)

• Who’s in Charge of Psilocybin? (Chacruna)

• OHSU doctors study how psilocybin interacts with other meds (KATU)

• Havn Life Develops New Method for Rapid Psilocybin Testing (StreetInsider.com)

• Cybin Advances Psilocybin as Treatment for Depression and Addiction (Innovation and Tech Today)

• Numinus Wellness and Optimi Health Submit All-Natural Psilocybin Extract to Health Canada for Pre-Clinical Trial Application (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• MDMA Shows New Promise for Trauma, but the Drug Alone Is Not a Cure (Scientific American)

DMT

• Small Pharma on conducting world’s first clinical trials for psychedelic DMT and listing in Canada (Proactive Investors)

5-MeO-DMT

• Hunter Biden’s Admission Of Toad Venom Use Signals A Sea Change For Addiction Treatments (Lucid News)

Peyote

• Decriminalize Nature Releases Peyote Conservation Plan (Truffle Report)

• Open Letter to the Psychedelic Movement Regarding Peyote in Policy Efforts and How to be an Ally to Indigenous Peoples of North America (Chacruna)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Potentially Non-Hallucinogenic Psychedelic Could Open Door for Treatment Developments (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Learning Network)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• China issues total ban on synthetic cannabinoids (Seattle Times)

Nitrous Oxide

• Municipality of Amsterdam to ban laughing gas (I Am Expat)

Ketamine

• Colorado lawmakers move to restrict law enforcement’s use of Ketamine (KKTV)

• Delic's Acquisition Target, Ketamine Infusion Centers, Announces Proposal to Acquire 2 Additional Clinic Locations (Yahoo! Finance)

Miscellaneous

• The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same. (The New York Times)

• Drug Possession Is Officially A Crime Again In Washington, But As A Misdemeanor Instead Of Felony (Marijuana Moment)

• Drug Advice Is Better Than Government Approach of 'Just Doing Nothing', Research Finds (VICE)

• How this NHL star’s brain trauma led him to found a psychedelics startup (Fast Company)

• Aspen City Council not quite sold on decriminalizing psychedelics (Aspen Daily Times)

• Some people with color blindness report improved color vision after psychedelic drug use (PsyPost)

• How a Psychedelic 12-Step Program Is Saving Lives (Rolling Stone)

• Psychedelic Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• An Introduction to Psychedelic Phenethylamines (Spirit Pharmacist)

• Anaïs Nin and the Vocabulary of the Psychedelic Experience (Chacruna)

• Psychedelics Move to The Forefront of Innovative Research as the FDA Approves Large-Scale Testing (PR Newswire)

• Psychedelic Intellectual Property (Reality Sandwich)

• Routes of Administration in Psychedelic Drug Research (Psychedelic Science Review)

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