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This Week in Psychedelics - 4.3.20

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Cannabis

  • New York drops legalization from budget, likely ending 2020 push (Leafly)

  • Lack of protective gear at cannabis labs could threaten weed supply (The London Free Press)

  • Scientists Sue DEA Over Alleged ‘Secret’ Document That Delayed Marijuana Research Expansion (Marijuana Moment)

  • Idaho Activists Suspend Campaign To Legalize Medical Marijuana Due To Coronavirus (Marijuana Moment)

  • Boise startup reworks CBD and THC testing technology to test for COVID-19 in minutes (KTVB)

  • Missouri Marijuana Legalization Campaign In Jeopardy Due To Coronavirus (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis users, shops suffer high anxiety after Massachusetts shuts down recreational sales (NBC News)

  • FDA Warns Former NFL Player To Stop Claiming CBD Can Cure Coronavirus (Marijuana Moment)

  • More Than 90% of Legal Marijuana Products Too Strong for Chronic Pain Relief (SciTechDaily)

  • Virginia Groups Push Governor To Amend Marijuana Decriminalization Bill On His Desk (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis Scientists Are Chasing the Perfect High (The New York Times)

  • Senate Housing Bill Would Prevent Evictions For State-Legal Marijuana Extraction (Marijuana Moment)

  • Review Paper: Clinical Evidence Lacking in Support of CBD as an Anti-Viral Agent (NORML)

  • Large international study finds cannabis use is linked to lower physical activity levels in adolescents (PsyPost)

  • Cannabis license application deadline extended due to COVID-19 pandemic (WLS-TV)

  • Study sheds light on common adverse reactions to cannabis (News Medical)

  • How cannabis and humans evolved together (Leafly)

  • Teen Weed Smokers May Have Trouble Falling Asleep as Adults, New Study Says (MERRY JANE)

  • New Medicinal Cannabis Rules Launch in New Zealand (The Cannabis Exchange)

  • Washington Governor Signs Bill To Diversify State’s Marijuana Industry (Marijuana Moment)

  • Study indicates vaporized cannabis creates drug-seeking behavior (Brinkwire)

  • Feds Funding Research On How Marijuana Consumers Are Impacted By Coronavirus (Marijuana Moment)

  • Arbitrary & excessive: Marijuana trafficking sentences in Alabama (Southern Poverty Law Center)

LSD

  • This New York City Pharma Startup Wants To Turn LSD Into An FDA-Approved Medicine For Anxiety Disorder (Forbes)

  • MindMed Acquires Exclusive License to Eight Clinical Trials of LSD, Partners with World-Leading Psychedelic Research Laboratory at University Hospital Basel (Yahoo! Finance)

  • From Aldous Huxley to the Beatles: how LSD has inspired art (The Guardian)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Psilocybin Mindfulness Negatively Correlated with 5-HT2A Binding, Study Finds (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Champignon Brands To Acquire Psilocybin Research Firm Tassili Life Sciences (The Deep Dive)

  • As Health-Conscious Consumers Seek Fresh Nutritional Avenues, Artisanal Mushrooms Step Into the Light (PR Newswire)

  • Psilocybin Kitchen: The Basics of Cooking with Mushrooms (DoubleBlind)

  • Understanding the Buzz About Magic Mushrooms (Psychology Today)

MDMA

Ayahuasca

  • Drinking Ayahuasca Without DMT is Powerful and Traditional (Kahpi)

Peyote

  • Why are some Native Americans fighting efforts to decriminalize peyote? (Los Angeles Times)

Iboga

  • Clear Sky Recovery Featured in the Documentary Ibogaine: Cure for a Crisis (PRWeb)

  • How psychedelic medicine is being used in the fight to end opioid addiction (EPM Magazine)

Ketamine

Miscellaneous

  • Coronavirus Upends Marijuana, Psychedelics And Drug Reform Ballot Measures (Forbes)

  • A New Breed of Drug Dealer Has Turned Buying Drugs into a Treasure Hunt (VICE)

  • DC Activists Have A New Plan To Get Psychedelics Decriminalization On The Ballot Despite Coronavirus (Marijuana Moment)

  • People with low psychological well-being more likely to report positive outcomes after psychedelic use (PsyPost)

  • Coronavirus, Drugs, and the Future of Festivals (DanceSafe)

  • Understanding Drug Potency and Its Importance in Psychedelic Research (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Ehave, Inc. Appoints Dr. Mark Braunstein as Chief Psychedelic Officer (Yahoo! Finance)

  • Comparing Aeruginascin and Bufotenidine (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Ease rules on research into psychedelic drugs, urges David Nutt (The Guardian)

  • An Insight into Drug Testing Facilities in the Netherlands (Volteface)

  • The Structure and Function of the Serotonin 5-HT2B Receptor (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Ex-Cheerleader Jackee Stang Just Launched the ‘Goop of Psychedelics’ (The Daily Beast)

  • Can psychedelic therapy reduce the mental health impacts of the coronavirus pandemic? (The Sacramento Bee)

  • Revisiting the potential of using psychedelic drugs in psychiatry (Medical Xpress)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 9.14.18

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Cannabis

  • Canadian Military Reveals New Rules Regarding Cannabis Use (High Times)

  • Marijuana Use Is on the Rise Among Baby Boomers According to a New Study (TIME)

  • Legal Canadian Marijuana Workers, Investors Will Be Treated Like Illegal Traffickers, Official Confirms (Newsweek)

  • Did Barack Obama Smoke Marijuana At Disneyland? (Marijuana Moment)

  • NYC Prosecutors Drop 3,000 Weed Cases (Reason)

  • New York: Brooklyn DA Intends To Vacate Thousands Of Past Marijuana Convictions (NORML)

  • Tesla Shares Fall After CEO Elon Musk Smokes Cannabis on Joe Rogan's Live Web Show (News18)

  • The Response To Elon Musk's Cannabis Use Shows That We Have A Giant Double Standard To Overcome (Forbes)

  • Scientists Explore How Cannabis May Fight Psychosis (VOA)

  • Congressional Leadership Strips Provisions Facilitating Medical Marijuana Access For Veterans (NORML)

  • Marijuana Bill Approved By Congressional Committee, Despite Drug Conviction Restriction Dispute (Forbes)

  • Legal Marijuana Access Disrupts The Illicit Market, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • European Parliament Working to Make Medical Marijuana Available on the Continent (Marijuana.com)

  • Miami-Dade Police Give Most Pot Citations to White People, While Black People Are Jailed (Miami New Times)

  • Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Worker Rejected For Medical Marijuana Use (Marijuana Moment)

  • Republican Members of Congress Just Sent Jeff Sessions Yet Another Letter Asking Him To Stop Holding Up Marijuana Research (Reason)

  • Cannabis for Chronic Nerve Pain: Mechanism Revealed? (Medscape)

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Warns People Not To Smoke Marijuana In Space (Marijuana Moment)

  • Scottish ministers to hear arguments for medicinal use of cannabis (The National)

  • Most Doctors, Nurses And Pharmacists Support Legalizing Marijuana, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Treat teenage cannabis dealers as potential victims, says thinktank (The Guardian)

  • Marijuana In Texas: Where Ted Cruz And Beto O’Rourke Stand On Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

  • Concerns raised over lack of guidelines for medics regarding use of substances like cannabis oil (Irish Examiner)

  • Top Trump Health Official Signals Support For Marijuana Decriminalization (Marijuana Moment)

  • Marijuana Censorship: A Byproduct of Prohibition (NORML)

  • Colorado Ballot Measure Would Change Industrial Hemp Definition (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis and Crypto: Equal Beneficiaries in the Fight to Hit the Mainstream (Cointelegraph)

  • New Book: Obama Considered Decriminalizing Marijuana, But Then Trump Won (Marijuana Moment)

  • 5 Ways Creatives Are Fixing Cannabis’s Image Problem (Artsy)

  • Here’s Where Indiana’s US Senate Candidates Stand On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

  • Mat Zo Discusses Marijuana Dependence on Twitter (EDMTunes)

  • Brett Kavanaugh Accepts Cory Booker’s Recommendation To Read Drug War Book (Marijuana Moment)

  • Why The Adult Cannabis Market Could Kill Its Medical Counterpart (Forbes)

  • Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard Talks Marijuana And Psychedelics With Joe Rogan (Marijuana Moment)

  • Workers In These Industries Are Most Likely To Consume Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

  • Pot Prohibition Makes Self-Defense Illegal (Reason)

  • Google Execs Told Marijuana Jokes To Lighten The Mood After Trump’s Election, Leaked Video Shows (Marijuana Moment)

  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein Signs Onto Marijuana Bill After Decades Of Drug War Advocacy (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis stocks are on fire after a $220 million M&A deal (Quartz)

  • Criminal Justice Reformers Slam Marijuana Bill’s Drug Conviction Ban (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • After 26 years in prison for LSD, and clemency from Obama, Timothy Tyler is a free man (Psymposia)

  • "I've seen my own DNA": Paul McCartney on his LSD experience with the Beatles in the 1960s (Meaww)

  • ‘Acid’: A hallucinatory novel that overturns traditional ideas of family and motherhood (Scroll.in)

  • When Aldous Huxley, Dying of Cancer, Left This World Tripping on LSD, Experiencing “the Most Serene, the Most Beautiful Death” (1963) (Open Culture)

  • Salina woman pleads in LSD-fueled knife attack on a stranger (WIBW)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • Psychedelic Mushroom Advocates Push Initiatives for May 2019 Citywide Ballot (Westword)

  • “FDA approve ‘magic mushroom’ treatment” (Talon Marks)

  • Police say York man took psychedelic mushrooms before killing cat (Press Herald)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • “Reduction in social anxiety after MDMA-assisted psychotherapy with autistic adults: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study” (ResearchGate)

  • UW to test using MDMA to treat PTSD (School of Medicine and Public Health at University of Wisconsin-Madison)

  • 'MDMA' Is The Drug-Fueled Thriller Showing You Another Side Of Asian America (NYLON)

  • Pregnant teen ‘took ecstasy to try and kill her unborn son’ (Metro)

  • Reminisce Festival: Overdoses lead to MDMA warning (BBC)

  • Student Patrick Coakley died after taking MDMA 'bombs' at Canterbury’s Club Chemistry (Kent Online)

Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT

Iboga/Ibogaine

  • Ibogaine Therapy Can Offer Addiction Relief During Opioid Withdrawal (Ladybud)

  • Ibogaine: One Man's Journey To Mexico For Psychedelic Addiction Treatment (WBUR)

Salvia Divinorum

  • Nightmare drug Salvia could help end the hellish opioid crisis (Rooster Magazine)

Dissociatives

  • Rapid Depression Remission and the “Therapeutic Bends” with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (Psychedelics Today)

  • Ketamine Works as a Fast-Acting Antidepressant, But the Full Effects Are Still Unknown (Smithsonian)

  • Ketamine: Mechanisms of Action, Uses in Pain Medicine, and Side Effects (Clinical Pain Advisor)

  • Local ketamine clinic sees high success rate in ketamine treatment (KTRE)

  • Grade-A student, 22, gave birth in prison after ‘going off the rails’ and attacking two women while experimenting with Ketamine (The Sun)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Opioid billionaire granted patent for addiction treatment (Financial Times)

  • Naloxone nasal spray works best to stop opioid OD: Study (UPI)

  • Overdose is a policy issue, not an individual one. (Sheila Vakharia)

  • FDA Approves New Dosage Strength of Buprenorphine and Naloxone Sublingual Film for Opioid Dependence Treatment (Pharmacy Times)

  • Experts Call Bullshit On Backstreet Boy AJ McLean’s Opioid Detox Kits (VICE)

  • I’m So Sick of Opioid Disaster Porn (Slate)

  • Minnesota health officials offer free Naloxone training to public (Chron)

  • Naloxone can reverse opioid overdoses, but does the drug belong in elementary schools? (USA Today)

  • Opium production breaks records again (Daily Times)

  • Police save little girl from hot car after mother overdoses on heroin (Fox 8)

Kratom

  • Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on new warning letters FDA is issuing to companies marketing kratom with unproven medical claims; and the agency’s ongoing concerns about kratom (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

  • Could the Opioid Crisis Be Solved With Kratom? “A Leaf of Faith” Says Yes (MERRY JANE)

  • Shoplifters snagging liquid kratom from Martin County stores (TCPalm)

Khat

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Study Explores Religious and Spiritual Roots of Psychedelically-Induced Mystical Experience (Psychedelic Times)

  • Treating Addiction With Psychedelics – Part 1: Overview (The Third Wave)

  • Treating Addiction With Psychedelics – Part 2: Preparation (The Third Wave)

  • Treating Addiction With Psychedelics – Part 3: The Experience (The Third Wave)

  • Treating Addiction With Psychedelics – Part 4: Integration (The Third Wave)

  • Psychedelic Justice: Disrupting the Cultural Default Mode Network (Chacruna)

  • Renaissance or Dead End? The New Debate on Psychedelic Drug Use by North American Buddhists (Buddhistdoor Global)

  • The Psychological Violence of Mexico’s War on Drugs (The Crime Report)

  • Accurately Weigh Your Dose: A Guide on How To Properly and Safely Measure Substances (Psychedelic Times)

  • A Psychedelic Film and Music Festival is set to mellow out NYC (Metro US)

  • Gender and Critical Drug Studies: Reproducing Female Vulnerability in Gendered Drug Discourse (Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society)

  • Camden council OKs return of needle exchange; mayor hopes it's only short-term solution (Courier-Post)

  • Children say cannabis easier to get than alcohol: 'The war on drugs has failed' (The Independent)

  • Gendered violence & overdose prevention sites: A rapid ethnographic study during an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada (Wiley Online Library)

  • Drugs and Creativity: Fact or Fiction? (Neurology Times)

  • Why Did Dallas Police Search a Man's Home for 'Narcotics' After One of Their Own Killed Him? (Reason)

  • New Study Challenges Hallucinogenic Stereotypes (Washington Square News)

  • 'Microdosing' growing in popularity among tech workers, but is it safe? (WRAL)

  • Drug danger chart shows which drugs you should never mix, and which you totally should (Rooster Magazine)

  • The forgotten history of psychedelics and their use in addiction therapy (NOTED)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

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This Week in Psychedelics - 7.22.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • DEA Opens the Door to Cannabis Research with Clinical PTSD Trials (Psychedelic Times)
  • Big Pharma's Concerned About These Marijuana Stats (ATTN:)
  • Colorado town finds THC in water, warns residents not to drink or bathe in it (The Denver Post)
  • Montana: Medical Cannabis Restoration Initiative Qualifies For November Ballot (NORML)
  • Poll: Two-Thirds Of Americans Say 'Efforts To Enforce Marijuana Laws Cost More Than They Are Worth' (NORML)
  • Pennsylvania Legalizes Industrial Hemp (Reason)
  • This Former Prison Was Purchased by a Marijuana Company (ATTN:)
  • Cannabis: Bronze Age Yamna culture may have introduced cannabis to Europe and Asia 5,000 years ago (International Business Times)
  • Dabado Helps Cannabis Concentrate Users Put Down The Blow Torch (Forbes)
  • Cannabis industry bolstering retail, manufacturing job growth in Colorado (The Denver Post)
  • People Using This Health Remedy Are Often Denied Organ Transplants (ATTN:)
  • HelloMD looks to its 'Quora for cannabis' as a source of growth (TechCrunch)
  • Why Does Cannabis Get You "High" and Make You Feel Good? (Leafly)
  • Government could make $150 million annually from taxing cannabis (Stuff.co.nz)
  • First medical cannabis dispensary in Florida receives Authorization to Dispense (WPTV)
  • A Strange Blend: Why Are Europeans Mixing Cannabis and Tobacco? (Leafly)
  • Fund-raising in Cannabis, Initially Slow, Is Going Higher and Higher (Yahoo! Finance)
  • "Why do Republicans Respect Marijuana Prohibition Like it Came From Moses?" (Reason)

LSD

  • Doors of Perception: How Aldous Huxley Brought LSD Therapy to His Readers (Psychedelic Times)
  • How LSD Went From Research to Religion (JSTOR Daily)
  • Watch: Kristen Wiig is sorry for that time she slipped Seth Myers LSD (Vox)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Studying ecstasy or MDMA's effects may lead to autism or PTSD drug development (International Business Times)
  • A New Documentary Explores Whether or Not MDMA Use Can Solve Your Relationship Problems (Thump)
  • This Ecstasy Review Site Is a Hotbed of Perfect Pill-Related Prose (Thump)
  • Scientists say MDMA needs to be studied, not demonised (ScienceAlert)
  • Drug dealers selling Pokemon ecstasy pills to target youngsters and cash in on computer game craze (Mirror)

Ayahuasca/DMT

Iboga/Ibogaine

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • What Is Fake LSD And How Can You Avoid It (High Times)

Dissociatives

  • New Trials Are Using Ketamine to Treat Alcohol Addiction (Motherboard)
  • Woman High on PCP Steals Car from North Haven Gas Station: Police (Patch)
  • Police rescue woman who climbed crane after taking PCP (Bristol Herald Courier)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Congress Is Doing Something About the Opioid Epidemic (ATTN:)
  • Our Opioid Crisis Reveals Deep Racial Bias In Addiction Treatment (TIME)
  • This Judge Wants Drug Dealers to Pay for Naloxone (ATTN:)
  • As Prescription Painkiller Addiction Soars, Drug Companies Raise Overdose Treatment Price By 1000% (Mintpress News)
  • To End the Opioid Epidemic, We Need Way More Than OD Treatments (Wired)
  • US War In Afghanistan Is Fueling Global Heroin Epidemic & Enabling The Drug Trade (Mintpress News)

Absinthe

Kratom

Kava

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Why People Are Drinking Tobacco in the Amazon (Munchies)
  • How to Become an Addiction Recovery Coach Who Incorporates Psychedelic Integration (Psychedelic Times)
  • Drugs, Dissociatives and Displacement: The Festival Drug Report - Part 1 (VolteFace)
  • The Reason Saliva Drug Testing Hasn't Caught On (ATTN:)
  • What if all drugs were totally legal? (Boing Boing)
  • Mississippi's prison town are in danger of collapse, thanks to tiny reforms in the War on Drugs (Boing Boing)
  • The True Cost of This $2 Drug Test (ATTN:)
  • Emulating Nixon, Trump Sounds Softer Than Dukakis on Drugs (Reason)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 4.29.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • The DEA Made an Unexpectedly Bold Move on Marijuana (ATTN:)
  • Marijuana is kosher for Passover, leading rabbi rules (The Independent)
  • Cannabis festival in D.C. will push pot legalization (The Washington Times)
  • Nobody Knows How High You Are Right Now—It's Really Hard to Measure (Wired)
  • Early Lessons From Marijuana Legalization in Colorado (Reason)
  • Cannabis CEOs Share The Trends That Spur Their Business (Forbes)
  • This Facebook Post About the Ohio Killings Nails a Major Problem with Marijuana Prohibition (ATTN:)
  • Boston cannabis convention draws thousands (WCVB)
  • Is Cannabis a Friend to the Flaccid or the Enemy of Erections? (Leafly)
  • Bernie Sanders Wants to Legalize Marijuana...and Maybe Ban Cigarettes? (Reason)
  • Study: Cannabis fights arthritis-related cartilage loss (Extract)
  • Maine Will Vote on Marijuana Legalization in November (TIME)
  • Support for medicinal cannabis growing among Grey Power groups and elderly (Stuff.co.nz)
  • Who Smokes Marijuana In America? (NORML)
  • America's Biggest Cannabis Busts (Merry Jane)
  • Here's the Most Beautiful Pot Paraphernalia You Ever Did See (Wired)
  • The Most Powerful People in the Marijuana Industry (Reason)
  • Practical Cannabis: On the Quest for a Legal, Recreational High in America (Reality Sandwich)
  • Cannabis Makes You Watch Cat Videos (According to Google Trends) (Leafly)
  • Cannabis Growers Think Scientists Want to Steal Their Shit (Merry Jane)
  • Why the IRS Taxes State-Licensed Marijuana Merchants on Nonexistent Profits (Reason)
  • Ban on THC-Infused Gummy Bears Advances in Colorado (Reason)
  • Heavy cannabis use could lead to earlier death, study suggests (International Business Times)

LSD

  • Scientists: Shrooms Help People; What About LSD? (Clapway)
  • B.C. scientists to auction off LSD images to raise money for PTSD study (The Province)
  • How Music Enhances Your LSD Experience and May Benefit Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelic Times)
  • LSD destabilizes the brain's "sense of self" neural network (The Tartan)
  • Could LSD help treat patients with psychiatric disorders? (WWLP)
  • Man took LSD, severed penis and jumped out window (Sunday World)
  • LSD won't stop men from beating women (Politics.co.uk)
  • Alarming Increase Of LSD Users (The Reykjavík Grapevine)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • 'Magic mushrooms' study challenges stereotypes of psychedelic drug use (The Badger Herald)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • My Life As an Ecstasy Dealer On the 90s Club Circuit (VICE)
  • Tales of War and Hope from a MAPS Psychedelic Dinner: Raising Support to Treat PTSD with MDMA (Psychedelic Times)
  • New Research Explores the Use of MDMA Therapy to Treat End-of-Life Anxiety (Psychedelic Times)
  • Researchers throw fundraiser to buy 1 kilo of MDMA (CBC News)
  • Brit drug dealer jailed for six years after smuggling 35,000 ecstasy tablets into Ibiza (Daily Star)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • The Inauguration of the UDV Temple in Santa Fe: A Sweet Taste of Justice (The World Post)
  • Despite risks, Americans flock to Amazon for Ayahuasca ritual and spiritual awakening (Fox News Latino)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

  • Protecting the Peyote for Future Generations: Building on a Legacy of Perservearance (Reality Sandwich)

Dissociatives

  • Off-Label Ketamine Prescribing: US Psychiatrists Troubled (Medscape)
  • Ketamine effective for treatment-resistant depression (Healio)
  • Man high on meth, PCP attacks customers with shard of glass (KIRO)
  • Telltale tint? Police seize heroin, PCP from Lexus stopped for heavily tinted window (Mass Live)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Prince had prescription drugs in his possession when he died, say law enforcement sources (The Guardian)
  • Study: Opioid Abuse Rates Lower In Medical Cannabis States (NORML)
  • Mexico explores regulating opium to fight drug violence (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
  • What is naloxone? (CNN)

Absinthe

  • 7 Things You Didn't Know About Absinthe (Afar)

Kratom

Khat

  • Kenya: Govt Offers Support for Miraa Farmers (AllAfrica.com)
  • Khat pickers with bad fingerprints in Mbeere South denied ID cards (The Star)
  • Police discover huge haul of khat - after dealer flags down patrol car for help (Manchester Evening News)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Here's the Info About Antidepressants the Pharmaceutical Industry Is Keeping From You (Disinfo)
  • Museum of Drug Policy Pops Up in New York For U.N. Special Session on "World Drug Problem" (Reason)
  • I Have a Rare Visual Disorder That's Like Being on Psychedelics All the Time (VICE)
  • The Philippine Election Frontrunner Says He Would Kill His Own Children If They Took Drugs (TIME)
  • UBC study finds psychedelic drugs may reduce domestic violence (EurekAlert!)
  • Victoria police officer can advocate for drug legalization, tribunal rules (The Globe and Mail)
  • Smoking Scorpions for a 'sting of pleasure' (Disinfo)
  • Terence McKenna: Octopus (Visual Language/VR-2) (The Daily Psychedelic Video)
  • Aldous Huxley's Hands - A Mind-Bending Trip into Psychedelic Science (Examiner)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 6.12.15

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Meanwhile, this week in psychedelics:

  • John Cusack on Psychedelic Drugs: 'I Did Do Acid and Mushrooms' (CelebStoner)
  • Almost 20 kilos of ketamine seized by gardai in biggest ever haul of its kind (Irish Mirror)
  • New substances added to prohibited drug list (GulfNews)
  • Beach Boy's [sic] Brian Wilson talks past LSD use and hallucinogens (Examiner)
  • Boy high on ketamine thinks his cast is the most amazing thing ever (Metro.co.uk)
  • Dark web drug shopping: Fewer risks take users online to buy weed, LSD, and MDMA (International Business Times)
  • The Psychoactive Substances Bill: An opportunity or threat for research? (The Guardian)
  • Chris Christie Declares War On Drugs A 'Failure,' But Still Doesn't Think Recreational Pot Should Be Legal (Huffington Post)
  • Study Finds Europeans Love to Get High — And Their Drugs Are Stronger and Purer Than Ever (VICE News)
  • REVEALED: How ancient Philistines got WASTED on on LSD-like drugs 3,000 years ago (Express.co.uk)
  • Pittsburgh Pirates: Dock Ellis' LSD-induced no hitter 45 years later (isportsweb)
  • Hundreds Of People To Inhale Nitrous Oxide Outside Parliament In Protest At New Drug Law (BuzzFeed News)
  • Why ketamine is such a powerful antidepressant (International Business Times)
  • Army doctor who trained U.S. troops suspended for macabre, ketamine-assisted sexual experiments (Boing Boing)
  • Tour America's First All-Inclusive Marijuana Ranch Resort (Curbed Ski)
  • Charges against Garden City mother enflame cannabis community (The Garden City Telegram)
  • Cannabis Is Not Causing California's Drought (Reset.me)
  • Third Eye Sees All: Dr. Ben Sessa On Psychedelic Drugs (The Quietus)
  • How MDMA Could Piece Back Together Lives Shattered in Iraq (Mic.com)
  • Global Drug Survey Releases Findings For 2015 (Your EDM)
  • DMT: The Drug In All of Us (News 24)
  • Cannabis church puts down root, seeds in new home (USA Today)
  • Bay Area lawyers launch Cannabis Bar Association (Mercury News)
  • Desperate Parents Of Autistic Children Trying Cannabis Despite Lack Of Studies (Forbes)
  • Ketamine is actually an anti-depressant (Metro.co.uk)
  • Aldous Huxley's wife wrote this letter about injecting him with LSD right before he died (Plaid Letter)
  • MDMA: A Prescription for the Police? (SmartDrugSmarts)
  • Chelsea Handler Is Going To Do Hallucinogenic Drugs For Her Netflix Series (Vulture)
  • How Psilocybin Improves Your Brain (Reset.me)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.