Cannabis
- Canadian Senate Signs Off On Historic Cannabis Regulation Measure (NORML)
- President Trump Expresses Support For Bipartisan Marijuana Fix (NORML)
- Expect Fully Legal Weed Within 5 Years, Says Former Top Pharma Lobbyist and Congressman Billy Tauzin (Reason)
- Parisians queue for cannabis after softening of drug laws (The Telegraph)
- Minneapolis cops halt low-level marijuana stings after racial disparity revealed (StarTribune)
- CBD Could Help People Smoke Fewer Cigarettes (Tonic)
- Oklahomans To Decide In Two Weeks On Providing Medical Marijuana Access (NORML)
- Meet the Cannasexuals: Can your vagina get high? (BBC)
- UN Drug Committee Finds Cannabis an Effective, ‘Relatively Safe Drug’ (Leafly)
- Five Danish political parties support legalisation of cannabis (The Local)
- Senators Include Medical Marijuana Protections In Justice Department Bill (Forbes)
- The Pot Industry Is Overwhelmingly White, and One Congresswoman Wants to Change That (Rolling Stone)
- 7 mayors want pot removed from federal list of illegal drugs (Associated Press)
- House Appropriations Committee Blocks Cannabis Banking Amendment (NORML)
- Subjective Reports Positive for Cannabis in MS, but Caution Urged (Medscape)
- Senate Majority Leader Announces Progress On Hemp Reform Legislation (NORML)
- S.C. Democrats overwhelmingly supported medical marijuana on the ballot Tuesday. Experts weigh in on what that really means. (Charleston City Paper)
- How Will Employers Handle Cannabis In The Workplace? (Civilized)
- Congressional Black Caucus Announces Support for Marijuana Law Reforms (NORML)
- Uruguay struggling to meet demand for legal marijuana (Associated Press)
- Using Marijuana to Treat Opioid Addiction (The Fix)
- Can Legal Cannabis Help Slow the Opioid Drug Epidemic in the U.S.? (TheStreet)
- How Mapping Marijuana DNA Could Change the Future of Pot (Rolling Stone)
- Rules around marijuana marketing irk some in the cannabis industry (CBC)
- Marijuana Cultivation Is Where Cannabis Workers Can Earn The Largest Salaries (Forbes)
- How to Throw a Cannabis Dinner Party (High Times)
- Ask a Stoner: What Are Some Good Psychedelic Strains? (Westword)
- Art Of The Deal: Trump Looks To Trade Cannabis Legalization for Justice Department Nominees (Forbes)
- How The Cannabis Industry Became America's Hotbed Of Invention (Forbes)
- U.S. Markets 'Definitively' Missing Out on Capital by Barring Cannabis Companies (TheStreet)
LSD
- Did An Acid Trip Change Your Life? Scientists Want To Know About It (Futurism)
- LSD And Toxic Lies (The Third Wave)
- '70s Flashback: When Howard Stern Took LSD (CelebStoner)
Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms
- LSD and magic mushrooms could heal damaged brain cells in people suffering from depression, study shows (The Independent)
MDMA/Ecstasy
- Why is Britain suffering from an ecstasy overdose? (ShortList)
- Cannabis and MDMA use is on the rise among Irish young people (Extra.ie)
- This Piece of Art Is Made Out of 4,000 Ecstasy Pills (VICE)
- Warning as deadly blue ‘Punisher’ and ‘Duracell’ ecstasy pills found at Manchester’s Parklife Festival (The Sun)
Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT
- DMT vs. 5-MeO-DMT (Psychedelic Heaven)
- Ayahuasca Healings Is a One Stop Online Destination for All Information Relating to Ayahuasca (Digital Journal)
Morning Glory Seeds
- UAE legal Q&As: What is the punishment for being caught having taken 'Morning Glory'? (The National)
Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals
- Warning over potent 'fake MDMA' drug which causes psychosis and keeps users awake for three days (The Telegraph)
Dissociatives
- Ketamine is likely one solution to prevent school massacres, doctors agree (Rooster)
- Ketamine and Psychedelic Drugs Change Structure of Neurons (Neuroscience News)
- Hit-and-run suspect ran over Deep Ellum bartender while smoking PCP, passenger says (Dallas News)
Opiates/Opioids
- One easy, cost-free thing Trump can do to ease the opioid crisis (The Washington Post)
- Lack of evidence casts doubt on police claims of officers overdosing after accidental opioid contact (The Star Vancouver)
- Beyond Books: How Libraries Are the Latest Front in the Opioid Fight (Governing)
- Big Opium's fines could approach Big Tobacco's as lawsuits mount (Rooster)
- Afghanistan is producing a lot more opium than before the US invasion. The US just can't stop it (Business Insider)
- Nan Goldin's Misleading OxyContin Story Feeds the Myth of 'Highly Addictive' Pain Pills (Reason)
Absinthe
- What Can We Learn About Moral Panics from Absinthe? (Patheos)
Kratom
- Kratom Advocates Take Their Fight To Washington As Potential Federal Ban Looms (HuffPost)
- Kratom Could Be Illegal Before It Gets a Chance to Solve the Opioid Crisis (Inverse)
- Can Kratom Be Detected In Urine And Drug Test? (Kratom Guides)
- Photos: US hunger for opioid alternative drives Kratom boom in Indonesia (Hindustan Times)
- 5 Kratom Strains to Help Increase Your Productivity At Work (Kratom Guides)
- Edmonton kratom retailer frustrated by 'aggressive' Health Canada raids (CBC)
- Yellow Maeng da Kratom Review: Origin, Benefits and Side Effects (Kratom Guides)
Kava
- Kava is the ‘anti-caffeine’ (Greenville Journal)
- More Improvements Needed In Kava Sector (Fiji Sun)
Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy
- Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity (Cell Reports)
- How Big Pharma Hopes to Make Psychedelics Profitable (The Market Mogul)
- Psychedelic drugs promote neural plasticity in rats and flies (EurekAlert!)
- Men who have used psychedelics are roughly half as likely to commit intimate partner violence (PsyPost)
- E3 Attendees Get High on Digital Psychedelics (GlobeNewsWire)
- Can psychedelics help prevent suicide? (Big Think)
- Group Therapy for Psychedelic Integration (Chacruna)
- Balancing Cultural Traditions and Science in Entheogenic Research: A Conversation with Brad Adams, Ph.D. (Psychedelic Times)
- New Resolution Demands Congress Apologize For Failed Drug War (Marijuana Moment)
- Why Is Everyone Into Microdosing Right Now? (Girlboss)
- This Is Why Xanax Is Blowing Up in America (VICE)
- Trump Should Hurt Sessions by Helping Drug Offenders (Reason)
- Can Psychedelics Induce Flow States? (The Third Wave)
- The Holy Trinity of Music, Religion, and Psychedelics: Interview with Tim Ferson of OM Collective (Psychedelic Times)
- I talked with Adam Strauss about Ketamine for OCD, Trip Sitters, and The Mushroom Cure Los Angeles (Psymposia)
- Why Are Rhode Island Democrats Pushing a Bill That Could Send Some Drug Dealers to Prison For Life? (Medium)
- 1 In 3 Adults In The U.S. Takes Medications Linked To Depression (NPR)
- Drug testers at festivals will tell you if that MDMA you bought is actually sugar (Metro)
- As Mind-Altering Drugs Meet The Mainstream, The D.C. Psychedelic Society Is Bringing The City's 'Trippy People' Together (DCist)
- Agony and Ecstasy: Psychedelics as the next big health remedy? (The Irish Times)
- Psychedelic Drugs Can Cure 'The Most Painful Condition Known to Man' (Andrew Joseph)
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