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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