Cannabis
The Mysterious Ingredients in Your Cannabis Vaporizer — and the Health Risks They May Pose (Discover Magazine)
Ecuador Takes Giant Steps Towards Cannabis Legalisation (TalkingDrugs)
The cannabis industry is booming, but for many Black Americans the price of entry is steep (The Guardian)
California Will Use Marijuana Tax Dollars To Support Cultivator Environmental Clean-Up, State Announces (Marijuana Moment)
South Dakota: Lawmakers Seek to Repeal Vote Permitting Home Cultivation of Medical Cannabis (NORML)
Marijuana Legalization Doesn’t Lead To Increased Youth Use, American Medical Association Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Marijuana Possession Arrests Plunge in NYC Post-Legalization (Filter)
Daily marijuana use among US college students reaches new 40-year high (University of Michigan)
Drones to Deploy in California County to Detect Illicit Pot Operations (High Times)
Texas: Expansions to Medical Cannabis Access Law Take Effect (NORML)
Medical cannabis unlikely to benefit most chronic pain patients, international researchers say (STAT)
Young adult cannabis consumers nearly twice as likely to suffer from a heart attack, research shows (CNN)
Maryland Lawmakers Take First Step Toward Putting Marijuana Legalization On 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)
Nebraska Activists Submit Two Medical Marijuana Initiatives For 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)
Wyoming Activists Jumpstart Signature Gathering For 2022 Marijuana Ballot Initiatives (Marijuana Moment)
Missouri voters might see two adult-use cannabis measures in 2022 (Marijuana Business Daily)
LSD
Shia LaBeouf Filmed Himself On LSD For This Role (TheThings)
Kacey Musgraves says she was on LSD listening to Bach when she came up with the idea for her new album 'Star-crossed' (INSIDER)
Magic Mushrooms
Oregon Psilocybin Panel Teams Up With Harvard To Research Psychedelic History And Impacts Of Reform (Marijuana Moment)
Amanita Muscaria, the Real Life Mushroom We Know From Disney Movies (Literary Hub)
Coldplay’s Chris Martin recounted his hallucinogenic experience with mushrooms (Vegan News)
Nova Mentis Expands Psilocybin Research Program Targets Obesity and Diabetes (Psilocybin Alpha)
MDMA
Lorde reveals she was on MDMA while making 'Melodrama' and says each of her albums can be distinguished by drugs she was using at the time (Yahoo! News)
MDMA-assisted couples therapy may help maximize recovery among patients with PTSD (PsyPost)
DMT
Joe Rogan Test Positive for Covid, Says He Is Smoking Ivermectin-DMT Hybrid for Treatment (ValueWalk)
DMT vs. Mushrooms: Are We All Tripping On The Same Thing? (DoubleBlind)
Algernon Pharmaceuticals Confirms DMT Increased Growth of Neurons by 40% in Preclinical Study at Sub Hallucinogenic Dose (Psilocybin Alpha)
Ayahuasca
Your Grandma’s Guide to Ayahuasca (Lucid News)
San Pedro
Consuming San Pedro: Everything You Need To Know (The Third Wave)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
Here's Why There's So Much Fake MDMA in the UK Right Now (VICE)
Mydecine Innovations Group Announces MYCO-001 Seamless Phase 2/3 Smoking Cessation Clinical Trial (Psilocybin Alpha)
Mindset Pharma Selects Treatment-Resistant Depression and End of Life Cancer Angst as Indications for MSP-1014, its Novel Psilocybin-Inspired Clinical Candidate (Psilocybin Alpha)
Field Trip Health Ltd. to Pursue Treatment Resistant Depression and Postpartum Depression as Indications for FT-104 (Psilocybin Alpha)
Nitrous Oxide
Laughing Gas Could Become Illegal Because the UK Can’t Stand the Sight of Rubbish (VICE)
Ketamine
Researchers develop statistical model to characterize how ketamine anesthesia affects the brain (News-Medical.net)
Intranasal ketamine could effectively treat phantom pain (Pharmaceutical Technology)
Comparing the impacts of propofol and ketamine on the brain (Medical Xpress)
atai Life Sciences and Introspect Digital Therapeutics to test novel digital therapeutic approach in patients receiving ketamine for treatment resistant depression (Psilocybin Alpha)
Miscellaneous
Possessing And Cultivating Psychedelics Would Be Legalized In Michigan Under New Senate Bill (Marijuana Moment)
The worldview-changing drugs poised to go mainstream (BBC)
Why investors are turning toward psychedelic health care companies (Fortune)
No, VR Will Not Give You A Psychedelic Trip (Psychedelics Today)
Field Trip Health opens Europe's first psychedelic therapy healthcare facility (PR Newswire)
Hamilton Morris joins COMPASS Pathways to research new psychedelic compounds (Psilocybin Alpha)
SoundMind opens a psychedelic clinic in West Philly as momentum builds for treatment of depression, PTSD with mind-altering drugs (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
CaaMTech Raises $22 Million for Psychedelic Drug Discovery and Development (Psilocybin Alpha)
Mount Sinai’s Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research Receives $5 Million Grant From The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation (Mount Sinai)
Wesana Health Announces Closing of PsyTech Acquisition (Psilocybin Alpha)
Researchers Debate the Role of Mysticism in Psychedelic Science (Lucid News)
Glutamate’s Role in Rapidly-Acting Antidepressants (Psychedelic Science Review)
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