Cannabis
Mexican Supreme Court Extends Deadline To Legalize Marijuana As Lawmakers Continue To Advance Bill (Marijuana Moment)
House Approves Marijuana Research Bill Days After Voting To Federally Legalize Cannabis (Marijuana Moment)
What To Expect From The House Of Representatives’ Passing Of Federal Cannabis Reform (Forbes)
Feds’ Post-Election Warning: Marijuana Still Banned For Federal Workers Despite State Legalization (Marijuana Moment)
NBA Will Reportedly Not Test Players for Marijuana Next Season (Complex)
New Jersey lawmakers agree on recreational marijuana legalization bill (Marijuana Business Daily)
Nebraska Senators Will Work To Put Recreational Marijuana On The Ballot In 2022 (Marijuana Moment)
70% in U.S. Support Expunging Marijuana Convictions After Vote to Decriminalize Weed: Poll (Newsweek)
Embracing Marijuana Legalization Could Have Offset Democratic Election Losses, Poll Indicates (Marijuana Moment)
Dumping CBD Oil On Strawberries Extends Their Shelf Life And Stops Mold Growth, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Why Europe's big cannabis route is so hard to shut (BBC)
Majority Of Republican Voters Support House-Passed Marijuana Legalization Bill, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Jay-Z’s Cannabis Brand, Monogram, Launches With $50 Hand-Rolled Joints (Forbes)
LSD
Mumbai: ‘Paper weight can’t be counted while quantifying LSD’ (Times of India)
Magic Mushrooms
N.J. bill to lessen jail time for ‘magic’ mushrooms moves forward (NJ.com)
Canada Will Let Health Care Professionals Legally Use Psychedelic Mushrooms, Health Minister Says (Marijuana Moment)
Mydecine Innovations Group to Make First Commercial Export of Legal Psilocybin Mushrooms (Globe Newswire)
Magic Mushrooms Are Expanding Minds and Advancing an Emerging Field of Science (Discover Magazine)
Can the active ingredient in magic mushrooms help treat anxiety? Researchers want to know (The Age)
MDMA
MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in landmark pilot trial (New Atlas)
DMT
Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled in UK to treat depression (The Guardian)
Why Does the Brain Make Its Own DMT? (DoubleBlind)
How to Integrate a Difficult-to-Remember DMT Experience (Maps of the Mind)
Ayahuasca
Miley Cyrus Says Ayahuasca Changed Her Life (Lucid News)
Preserving Entangled Ayahuasca (Chacruna)
5-MeO-DMT
Usona Institute Publishes Synthesis and Characterization of cGMP 5-MeO-DMT (Psilocybin Alpha)
Peyote
Directing to the Divine Among Native American Peyotists (Spirit Pharmacist)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
New Compound Related to Psychedelic Ibogaine Could Treat Addiction, Depression (UC Davis)
Ketamine
PharmaTher Files FDA Pre-IND Meeting Request for Ketamine in Parkinson’s Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)
Mind Cure Moves into Psychedelic Assisted Therapy with British Columbia Location Offering Ketamine and Psilocybin Therapy (Psilocybin Alpha)
Miscellaneous
Psychedelics Weren't As Common in Ancient Cultures As We Think (VICE)
The Top 10 Psychedelic Research Papers of 2020 (Psychedelic Science Review)
This Is How Psychedelics Hack the Brain, According to Scientists (VICE)
The Case for Macrodosing (Rolling Stone)
Psychedelic Guide Abuse: High-Control Group Dynamics and Complicity in the Perpetuation of Harm (Psychedelics Today)
UK government set for psychedelics investment windfall (Financial Times)
It Takes Guts: Psychedelic Treatment Approaches to Autoimmune Disorders (Psychedelic Science Review)
Humans Have Used Drugs With Sex For Millennia – The Reasons Are Much Broader Than You Think (TalkingDrugs)
How To Provide Psychedelic Support (Lucid News)
Psychedelics, Therapy, and the Law (Psychedelic Frontier)
Christopher Valore (AKA The Architect) talks “Conductor,” His Virtual-Reality, Psychedelic-Visual Sandbox Platform (Psymposia)
Psychedelics, Shadows, and Spiritual Bypassing (The Third Wave)
How Music Therapists Helped Build Psychedelic Therapy (Chacruna)
How to Change Your Ability to Change (Psychedelic Science Review)
Combining Movement and Microdosing: Athletics, Exercise, and Flow (The Third Wave)
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