10.7.22
Cannabis
Biden Announces Mass Marijuana Pardons And Calls For Cannabis Scheduling Review (Marijuana Moment)
Amsterdam considers banning ‘cannabis tourists’ from its coffee shops (The Guardian)
Costa Rica’s President Sends Marijuana Legalization Bill To Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)
'It's like the new Amsterdam': The rush to cash in on Thailand's hazy cannabis laws (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
FBI: Nearly Half of All Drug Seizures in 2021 Involved Marijuana (NORML)
Morocco issues first permits for cannabis production (Reuters)
Committee in Colombia Approved Adult-Use Legalization Proposal (High Times)
Most Americans Don’t Think Marijuana Is Dangerous Despite Prohibitionist Arguments, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Regulators finally approve hempcrete for US homes (Leafly)
OSHA report ties cannabis worker death to dust inhalation (Leafly)
Survey: Medical Students Rarely Exposed to Scientific Data About Cannabis (NORML)
Magic Mushrooms
Oregon enters the home stretch to authorize psilocybin mushrooms (Chacruna)
This 'magic' mushroom dispensary in Florida is selling psychedelics and testing legal boundaries (Business Insider)
MDMA
MindMed Collaborators Initiate Phase 1 Comparative PK/PD Trial of R-, S- and Racemic MDMA (Psychedelic Alpha)
DMT
Prolonged DMT Infusions could be a Breakthrough for Stroke Patients (Psychedelic Spotlight)
Ayahuasca
Combating Suicidality: A Role for Psilocybin and Ayahuasca? (Psychedelic Science Review)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
These LSD-based drugs seem to help mice with anxiety and depression — without the trip (NPR)
Are you too high? A promising new ‘comedown drug’ may be on the way (Leafly)
Synthetic Cannabinoids
Unexplained Bleeding Linked to Rat Poison in Synthetic Cannabinoids (Medpage Today)
Nitrous Oxide
Nitrous oxide: Southend mum's campaign over 'laughing gas' (BBC)
Ketamine
Ketamine and depression: A mechanism of the antidepressant revealed (Medical Xpress)
PharmaTher Holdings Announces Grant of U.S. Patent Covering Ketamine for Parkinson’s Disease (Psychedelic Alpha)
Miscellaneous
Alberta to be 1st province to regulate psychedelics for therapy, government says (CBC)
DEA Admits ‘Racial, Ethnic and Class Prejudice’ Led To Drug Criminalization And The Agency’s Own Founding (Marijuana Moment)
New York Lawmakers File Amended Psychedelics Legalization Bill, With New Regulations And Protections (Marijuana Moment)
Psychedelics may flatten your brain’s landscape, but in a good way (Leafly)
Inflammation Nation: How Psychedelics Could Combat Widespread Chronic Pain (Psychedelics Today)
Psychedelics: Will Policy Liberalization and Lower Barriers to Access Lead to Future Legalization? (Lexpert)
Psychedelics are exploding in the startup community as founders say it makes them better leaders (Fortune)
Timothy Leary’s psychedelic eugenics (Medium)
Eleusis Holdings Plans To Be Acquired By Beckley Psytech (Lucid News)
‘Bad’ Psychedelic Trips Don’t Have To Be Bad (VICE)
10.14.22
Cannabis
Colombian Chamber Of Representatives Passes Marijuana Legalization Bill In Initial Vote, With Support From Cabinet Ministers (Marijuana Moment)
U.S. Air Force to Allow Applicants to Retest After Positive THC Test (High Times)
Why bees love weed — and why it might even be good for them (Salon)
Cannabis Stock’s Post Pardon Depression Could Be Cured By Lame Duck Legislation (Forbes)
New Study Shows Cannabis Users More Likely To Have Overactive Bladders (High Times)
Federal Reserve Bank Says Marijuana Legalization Drives Tax Revenue, Job Creation And Real Estate Sales (Marijuana Moment)
Spliff Vape: New Tech Allows Cannabis, Nicotine To Be Vaped Simultaneously (High Times)
Magic Mushrooms
Flight Passenger on Mushrooms Causes Chaos Mid-Flight (High Times)
Can Psilocybin Challenge Our Pharmaceutical Dependence? (Vogue)
MDMA
Eels Living Near Music Festivals Test Positive For MDMA And Cocaine (IFLScience)
Synthetic Cannabinoids
Synthetic Marijuana In Florida Tainted With Rat Poison, 52 Sick, 4 Dead (Forbes)
Five-Year-Old Missouri Child Gets Delta-8 Edibles in Halloween Bag (High Times)
Nitrous Oxide
Nitrous Oxide: Harm Reduction and the Muslim Community (VolteFace)
Miscellaneous
These States Are Voting On Marijuana And Psychedelics Legalization On Their November Ballots (Marijuana Moment)
Elon Musk reportedly goes on 'exploratory journeys' and likes to show friends a chart of the benefits of MDMA and mushrooms over alcohol (Business Insider)
To Standardize Psychedelic Therapy, A New Organization Launches (Forbes)
Horizons Conference Returns to NYC for Its 15th Year (Lucid News)
Treating postpartum depression with psychedelics (The Print)
A Santo Daime Church’s Legal Success Paved a Path Towards Psychedelic Legalization (Lucid News)
Instagram’s Page-Deletions of Black Women in Psychedelic Advocacy (Filter)
Math Over Myth: These Psychedelic Stocks Made Confirmed Bottoms in Q3 (Psychedelic Spotlight)
What Made María Sabina Unique (DoubleBlind)
The Politics of Psychedelics: Legalisation vs Decriminalisation (Sam Woolfe)
10.21.22
Cannabis
German cannabis legalisation plans LEAKED (VolteFace)
Washington DC lets tourists self-certify for medical cannabis (Leafly)
Poll: Two-Thirds of Voters Say “Nobody Should Be in Jail” for Marijuana Possession (NORML)
States With the Most Arrests for Marijuana Possession (U.S. News and World Report)
Why does marijuana make it hard to remember stuff? (Salon)
NBA Won’t Test Players For Marijuana For Third Season In A Row, Report Says (Marijuana Moment)
Nearly Four Out of Five Patients Drop or Reduce Opioids After Using Medical Weed (High Times)
Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine Bans CBD Prescriptions for Adult Patients (TalkingDrugs)
Cannabis Had Highest Tax Revenue in Colorado and Washington Over Alcohol, Cigarettes (High Times)
Marijuana was illegal 4 years ago. Now, Uber Eats delivers it in Toronto (CBC)
Missouri Police Object To New Ad For Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative That Shows Officers (Marijuana Moment)
Oklahoma Governor Sets March Special Election for Weed Legalization Initiative (High Times)
Texas Activists Unveil Marijuana Decriminalization, Police Reform And Abortion Rights Initiative For San Antonio 2023 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)
Puerto Rico Bill Would Expunge Low-Level Weed Possession Convictions (High Times)
LSD
Acid for Anxiety: Fast and Lasting Anxiolytic Effects of LSD (Psychedelic Science Review)
A Communist LSD Trip: The Story of Czechoslovak Acid (Prague Morning)
Magic Mushrooms
Oregon is voting on medical psilocybin, again (Leafly)
NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars (New York Post)
Study To Examine Why Shrooms Evolved with Psychedelic Properties (High Times)
Why Everyone Cares So Much About Colorado’s Psilocybin Bill (DoubleBlind)
MDMA
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy shows promise in the treatment of eating disorder symptoms (PsyPost)
5-MeO-DMT
The toad boom: the false narrative of ancestral 5-MeO-DMT use (Points)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
Scientists Discover ‘Disconcerting’ New Imitation Ketamine on the Market (VICE)
Synthetic Cannabinoids
New novel drug test can identify latest synthetic cannabinoids (Cannabis Health News)
Ketamine
Ketamine May Reduce Suicidal Ideation in Treatment-Resistant Depression (Psychiatry Advisor)
Miscellaneous
Australian Lawmakers Approve Drug Decriminalization Bill For Federal Territory That Includes Nation’s Capital (Marijuana Moment)
DEA Proposes Dramatic Increases In Marijuana And Psychedelics Production In 2023 For Research (Marijuana Moment)
Large national survey suggests that the use of psychedelics is not associated with lifetime cancer development (PsyPost)
Will Medical Insurers Agree to Cover Psychedelic Trips? (Bloomberg)
Why is the American right suddenly so interested in psychedelic drugs? (The Guardian)
Second United States Patent Granted for Small Pharma’s Psychedelics Portfolio (Psychedelic Alpha)
10.28.22
Cannabis
Germany’s Government Approves Marijuana Legalization Plan, But Reform Depends On European Union Sign-Off (Marijuana Moment)
Russian court upholds Brittney Griner’s sentence (Leafly)
Biden's Marijuana Pardons Did Not Free a Single Federal Prisoner or Deliver the Expungement He Promised (Reason)
Activist Arrested At White House Protest Pushing Biden To Release Marijuana Prisoners (Marijuana Moment)
Missouri’s legalization measure is drawing unexpected opposition (Leafly)
Five States To Vote on Recreational Cannabis This Election Season (High Times)
Most Americans Say Alcohol And Tobacco Are More Dangerous Than Marijuana, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)
California Lawsuit Alleges Weed Didn't Get Plaintiffs High Enough (VICE)
Research: Does Cannabis Really Make You More Creative? (Harvard Business Review)
Israeli Company Clones Cannabis Cells—Not Plants—With Up to 12 Times the Potency (High Times)
It's not a myth: Marijuana really is more potent than it used to be (Salon)
Study: Cannabis Use Not A Risk Factor in Liver Transplants (High Times)
Strange Bedfellows Team Up To Oppose Missouri Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)
Research Shows Cannabis Users Experience More Pain After Surgery (High Times)
Support For Arkansas Marijuana Legalization Initiative Falls To Slim Majority As GOP Lawmakers Urge Opposition, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)
How does THC affect prenatal development? (Leafly)
Magic Mushrooms
The world's first Phase 3 psilocybin clinical trial is about to commence (New Atlas)
DEA Faces New Legal Challenges Over Denying Psilocybin Rescheduling Petition And Doctor’s Federal Waiver Request (Marijuana Moment)
New Study Will Explore Psilocybin as a Treatment To Stop Smoking (High Times)
N.S. company launching clinical trial to examine magic mushrooms as treatment for PTSD (CBC)
The Potential Health Benefits of Microdosing Psilocybin With Chocolate (Psychology Today)
Psilocybin Common Denominator in Several Recent Albums (High Times)
DMT
Algernon Pharmaceuticals Enters into a Clinical Trial Agreement with Yale University for a DMT Phase 2 Depression Study (Psychedelic Alpha)
Ayahuasca
Couple Sentenced to Eight Years for Czech Ayahuasca Ceremonies (Psychedelic Spotlight)
A Legal Ayahuasca Church Thrives in Southern California (Lucid News)
Peyote
Native American Church Asks Congress for Peyote Funding (DoubleBlind)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
WTF is 3-MMC, Berlin’s Weird New Club Drug? (DoubleBlind)
Electric Picnic drug testing finds 'new psychoactive substances' never seen before in Ireland (The Irish Mirror)
Synthetic Cannabinoids
Utah Medical Cannabis Flooded With Synthetic Cannabinoids From Hot Hemp (Forbes)
Ketamine
Electroconvulsive Therapy Could Be Better Than Ketamine At Treating Depression (IFLScience)
Miscellaneous
Beckley Psytech Strengthens Pipeline and Development Team With Acquisition of Eleusis Therapeutics Limited (Psychedelic Alpha)
People Who Use Psychedelics Are More Connected To Nature And Knowledgeable About Climate Change, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Use of Psychedelic Therapies for Treatment Resistant Patients Again Rejected by Government, Despite Strong Supporting Safety and Efficacy Data and Australia’s Worsening Mental Health Crisis (Mind Medicine Australia)
With Promise of Legalization, Psychedelic Companies Joust Over Future Profits (The New York Times)
Manipulating light can induce psychedelic experiences – and scientists aren’t quite sure why (The Conversation)
The ideological war at the heart of the psychedelic renaissance (New Atlas)
Research, remedy and regulation: the changing dynamics of psychedelic therapy in Alberta (CBC)
An Exploration of Psychedelics and Creativity (Drug Science)
Variants in 5-HT2A Receptor Gene Alter Psychedelic Pharmacology (Psychedelic Science Review)
Guidelines for Ethical Sponsorship and Transparency in Psychedelic Conferences (Chacruna)
Terence McKenna's secret bad trip (Ecstatic Integration)
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