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This Week in Psychoactives - 2.14.20

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Cannabis

  • Top Mexican Senator Says Marijuana Legalization Bill Will Be Approved This Month (Marijuana Moment)

  • Trump Budget Proposes Ending State Medical Marijuana Protections And Blocking DC From Legalizing (Marijuana Moment)

  • New Mexico Senate Committee Rejects Marijuana Legalization Bill Days Before Session Ends (Marijuana Moment)

  • USDA Won’t Increase THC Limit On Hemp Despite Requests From Farmers And Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)

  • Croatia Introduces Bill to Legalize Recreational Marijuana: MP Mirela Holy (Total Croatia News)

  • Students at a Colorado university can soon major in cannabis (Mashable)

  • Kentucky Lawmakers Approve Medical Marijuana Bill In Committee Vote (Marijuana Moment)

  • Pro Tip: Don't Ever Inject Marijuana (MERRY JANE)

  • Scotland’s first medicinal cannabis clinic to open ‘soon’ prescribing marijuana for chronic pain, depression and anxiety (The Scottish Sun)

  • Marijuana Decriminalization Approved By Virginia Senate And House (Marijuana Moment)

  • Weed and AI Can Help Us Find New Ways to Get Stoned (VICE)

  • Las Vegas dispensary offers free joints to Nevada primary voters (Leafly)

  • Medical Marijuana Can Treat Vomiting and Pain Linked to GI Disorders, Study Says (MERRY JANE)

  • Texas Researchers Say They Found A Way To Help Cops ID Pot With 100% Accuracy – Using Lasers. (KUT)

  • Cans suck the THC buzz out of pot drinks. Where does that leave Canopy Growth? (Yahoo! Finance)

  • Study: Medical Cannabis Access Associated with Fewer Workers’ Comp Claims (NORML)

  • New Hampshire: Home Cultivation Legislation Advances (NORML)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Denver Makes History With First Meeting of Psychedelic Mushroom Panel (Westword)

  • The Top Psilocybin Mushroom Stocks to Watch in New Year 2020 (Baystreet)

  • Cybin Partners With Toronto Centre For Psychedelic Science For Psilocybin Research Project (Benzinga)

MDMA

  • UK Teen Dies After Consuming MDMA and Reportedly Being Denied Access to Water (EDM)

  • Ira Glass Talks High Maintenance and What Taking Ecstasy Taught Him (GQ)

DMT

  • How DMT Switches the Brain’s Reality Channel (Kahpi)

Ketamine

PCP

  • Houston is the largest metro area with significant PCP problem, report says (Houston Chronicle)

Opioids

  • Study: Opioid Substitution Meds, Not Detox, Prevent Overdose (Filter)

  • Injected Heroin Use Still Near All-Time Highs in U.S., May Explain Hepatitis-C Rise (The New York Times)

  • What an 1890s opioid epidemic can teach us about ending addiction today (STAT)

Cocaine

  • UC researchers develop antibody to neutralize cocaine high (WKRC)

Methamphetamine

  • Will “Sobering Centers” Help People Who Use Methamphetamine? (Filter)

  • What meth does to your body and why it makes people so manic (Cincinnati.com)

Caffeine

  • Michael Pollan Explains Caffeine Cravings (And Why You Don't Have To Quit) (NPR)

  • New Research Suggests Drinking Coffee Can Help Make Bones Stronger (CBS Philly)

  • Is Coffee Good For You? (The New York Times)

Nicotine

  • Trump doesn’t want the FDA to regulate tobacco (STAT)

  • Dismantling NY Mag’s Disgraceful Hit-Job on Vaping (Filter)

  • House committee OKs bill to put nicotine and tobacco purchase age in line with federal law (The Neighbor)

  • Proposal would raise legal age to buy tobacco in Idaho to 21 (Twin Falls Times-News)

Benzodiazepines

GHB

Nootropics

  • If You’re Going to Use Nootropics, Shouldn’t You Know Exactly What You’re Taking? (Futurism)

  • Are Nootropics And Brain Supplements Side-Effects Free? (KHTS)

Kratom

  • Missouri lawmaker proposes bill to ban kratom (KFVS)

  • The 7 Dangers of Vaping Kratom You Might Not Know (Kratom Guides)

Miscellaneous

  • Move Over, Pot: Psychedelic Companies Are About to Go Public (Bloomberg)

  • Trump Again Applauds Death Penalty For Drug Offenses (Marijuana Moment)

  • Everything You Should Know About the Campaign to Decriminalize Naturally Occurring Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

  • Eleusis Benefit Corp: Taking the “Psychedelic” Out of Psychedelics (Psymposia)

  • The Emergence of a New Market: Psychedelic Science Conferences (Chacruna)

  • Conservative Indiana Adopted Needle Exchanges But Still Faces Local Resistance (Kaiser Health News)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 1.31.20

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Cannabis

  • New Mexico Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • New Hampshire Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • Illinois Is Already Getting a Weed Lounge, Just Weeks After Legalizing (MERRY JANE)

  • Berkeley Council Votes To Allow Cannabis Consumption In Lounges (CBS San Francisco)

  • First Alaska retail pot shops get approval for on-site consumption (Anchorage Daily News)

  • Local Australian Marijuana Legalization Law Takes Effect This Week (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cleveland City Council approves eliminating fines, jail time and criminal records for low level marijuana possession (Cleveland.com)

  • Key Virginia Senate Committee Approves Marijuana Decriminalization Bill, While Broader Legalization Study Advances (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis Helps Protect HIV Patients’ Brains From Deteriorating, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

  • President Trump: Marijuana Makes You “Lose IQ Points” (NORML)

  • Abnormal imaging findings key to EVALI diagnosis in vapers (Medical Xpress)

  • Find That CBG and CGC Can Kill Gastrointestinal Cancer Cells (MERRY JANE)

  • Missouri Activists Launch Signature Drive To Put Marijuana Legalization On 2020 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis vaping devices reimbursement approval for Canadian veterans (Health Europa)

  • American Cannabis Stocks Are Working Their Way To Wall Street (Forbes)

  • Legalization may mean more cannabis and less alcohol in colleges (Medical News Today)

  • U.S. Military Reiterates That CBD Is Off Limits To Service Members (Marijuana Moment)

  • Across Utah more students are reporting using marijuana (KUTV)

  • Weed-Sniffing K-9s in New York Are Getting Hounded into Early Retirement (MERRY JANE)

  • Pennsylvania: Marijuana possession arrests decline statewide (NORML)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Andrew Yang Wants To Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms For Military Veterans (Marijuana Moment)

Iboga

  • 'I cannot claim to have prevailed': Miami University professor reinstated after iboga tree suspension (Cincinnati.com)

  • Special Forces: How Ibogaine is Helping Former Special Operations Soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD (Psychedelic Times)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Chicago Shop Owner Gets Prison Sentence For Selling K2 Laced With Rat Poison (High Times)

  • Synthetic cannabinoids on the rise in Toledo, costing taxpayers thousands for EMS (WNWO)

Opioids

  • Tom Steyer Calls For Marijuana Legalization And Opioid Decriminalization (Marijuana Moment)

  • Could a Naloxone Implant Have a Major Impact on the Overdose Crisis? (Filter)

  • Federal Crackdown On Fentanyl Analogues Repeats the Mistakes of the Drug War, Advocates Say (The Appeal)

Caffeine

  • Everyone is making coffee wrong, study suggests (Fox News)

Nicotine

  • WHO Report: Tobacco Use is Declining Worldwide (Vaping Post)

  • International Experts Slam World Health Organization’s Deceptive Vaping Release (Filter)

  • Wisconsin can’t enforce tobacco age at 21 because of state law, causing confusion at stores (WQOW)

  • Study: Teens with ADHD Face Increased Risk for Nicotine Addiction (ADDitude)

Kratom

Miscellaneous

  • Santa Cruz City Council Approves Psychedelics Decriminalization Measure (Marijuana Moment)

  • Goop on psychedelics isn’t bad, it’s just boring (WIRED)

  • Psychedelic drugs may reduce depression and anxiety by increasing psychological flexibility (PsyPost)

  • Heroin and cocaine can be injected safely in UK's first 'mock drugs room' (Sky News)

  • Oakland Activists Unveil Plan To Legalize Sale Of Psychedelics This Year (Marijuana Moment)

  • Music festivals responsible for minuscule percentage of drug deaths (The Age)

  • Are Investors Ready To Change Their Minds About Psychedelic Drugs? (Forbes)

  • Drug deaths summit to take place in Glasgow (BBC)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 12.13.19

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CANNABIS

  • Marijuana Legalization Could Be Coming To These States In 2020 (Forbes)

  • Six Cases of Vaping Illness Linked to Legal Weed Vapes Sold in Massachusetts (MERRY JANE)

  • Officials list pot vape brands reported in US outbreak (AP News)

  • Heavy Metal Injury Caused by Vaping Confirmed in First Case Study (MERRY JANE)

  • No vapes for Newfoundland and Labrador either (Leafly)

  • MLB Officially Removes Marijuana From Banned Substances List For Baseball Players (Marijuana Moment)

  • People with Depression Are Twice as Likely to Use Pot, New Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

  • California Declares Pot Smoke and THC a Risk to Pregnant Women and Fetuses (TIME)

  • Weed Doesn’t Make Us Stupid, Yet Another Study Confirms (MERRY JANE)

  • Bees Like Big Hemp And They Cannot Lie, Study Shows (Marijuana Moment)

  • A Company Is Sending Cannabis and Coffee to Space to See if They Mutate (VICE)

  • Applying CBD Topically Can Help Jaw Pain and Facial Stress, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

  • Study: Marijuana Retailers Not Selling to Underage Customers (NORML)

  • States prepare to purge tens of thousands of pot convictions (Los Angeles Times)

  • Trinidad And Tobago Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Decriminalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis and driving study casts doubt on zero-tolerance limits for THC (Global News)

  • Israel Is Finally Allowed to Export Medical Cannabis Overseas (MERRY JANE)

  • NHS approves CBD drugs for the first time (Leafly)

  • ‘You smoke weed?’ Teacher says her medical pot use led to harassment in suburban district (Chicago Sun Times)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

  • New psilocybin trial data explores group psychedelic sessions (New Atlas)

  • Oregon Activists Begin Signature Gathering For 2020 Drug Decriminalization Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

  • Magic Mushroom Pill Is Being Developed to Treat Diabetes and Stop the Munchies (MERRY JANE)

  • New Psilocybin Microdosing Data: How Much is Too Much? (Psychedelic Science Review)

MDMA

  • Study: MDMA may have a surprising effect on our ability to learn (Inverse)

  • MDMA Could Be Tailored to Make It More Suitable for Treating Mental Illness (Scientific American)

SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS

  • Spice related hospital admissions in Sheffield fall (The Star)

NITROUS OXIDE

  • Netherlands set to ban recreational use of laughing gas (NL Times)

KETAMINE

  • Genetic Lead Suggests Ketamine May Benefit Autism, Tourette's and Schizophrenia (MedicalResearch.com)

OPIOIDS

  • In documents, US officials said almost everything they did to end opium farming in Afghanistan backfired (Stars and Stripes)

  • Home Depot faces Twitter backlash after blaming opioid crisis for recent rise in store thefts (USA Today)

  • Ten years ago, OxyContin sales dominated Philly’s pharmacies. How the powerful painkiller helped fuel a crisis. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

METHAMPHETAMINE

  • A Dire Shortage of ADD Meds Is Pushing Some Patients to Street Meth (Filter)

CAFFEINE

  • Nestle Is Planning To Make Caffeinated Water As A Solution To Midday Drowsiness (Delish)

NICOTINE

  • Ban on vape sales in Massachusetts ends Wednesday — what happens next? (The Boston Globe)

  • The FDA Can Now Regulate Vapes and E-Cigs Like Tobacco, Court Rules (MERRY JANE)

  • Pace of Flavor Bans Accelerated in 2019 (CSP Daily News)

  • Palo Alto: Council unanimously supports banning e-cigarettes, flavored tobacco (The Mercury News)

  • Bill to raise minimum age to buy tobacco products in Kentucky to 21 pre-filed (WKRC)

ALCOHOL

  • Yet More Research Links Even Light Drinking to a Higher Cancer Risk (Gizmodo)

  • Study debunks the myth that an imposed floor on alcohol prices would punish the poor (Phys.org)

GHB

  • What is GHB?: Dangerous party drug linked to multiple overdose deaths (9News)

NOOTROPICS

KRATOM

  • Kratom leaves to be left out of new narcotics list in Thailand (AsiaOne)

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Everyone Should Understand the Potential Heart Risk of Psychedelics (The Psychedelic Scientist)

  • Silicon Valley’s psychedelic wonder drug is almost here (Fast Company)

  • This Was The Decade Drug Overdoses Killed Nearly Half A Million Americans (BuzzFeed News)

  • Study: Prior Authorization Requirement for Addiction Meds Is Killing NY Drug Users (Filter)

  • Bill would require drug screenings for children at their annual physical (WKBW)

  • ACT pushes for national pill-testing after study finds it encouraged people to ditch unsafe drugs (The Guardian)

  • Pete Buttigieg Backs Supervised Injection Facilities For Illegal Drugs (Marijuana Moment)

  • 'Drugs Without the Trip' Might Be Peak Silicon Valley (VICE)

  • Ten Must-Experience Events For The Cannabis & Psychedelic Community In 2020 (Forbes)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 11.29.19

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CANNABIS

  • Study: Daily Cannabis Use Among Pain Patients Associated with Less Non-Prescription Opioid Use (NORML)

  • License revoked for California cannabis vape maker Kushy Punch after state seizes $21M worth of products (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Scientists Just Figured Out Why Some People Hallucinate on Weed (MERRY JANE)

  • Another Study Links Vitamin E Additive to Lung Illness (NORML)

  • California Is Raising Taxes On Cannabis Again (Forbes)

  • Study Finds “Little Support” for Cannabis Impacting Cognitive Abilities (NORML)

  • Cannabis reduces headache and migraine pain by nearly half (ScienceDaily)

  • Marijuana vaping disease strikes Thai patient (Coconuts Bangkok)

  • Additives result in higher toxins for vape users, Portland State study finds (EurekAlert!)

  • Michigan halts sale of marijuana vapes unless re-tested (MSN)

  • Alcohol-Related Car Crashes Declined In Idaho After Washington Legalized Marijuana Next Door (Marijuana Moment)

  • Feds Will Stop Funding State Addiction Programs That Use Cannabis (MERRY JANE)

  • Trinidad And Tobago Government Introduces Marijuana Reform Bills (Marijuana Moment)

  • For many, even 'automatic' clearing of marijuana records could be complicated (Crain's Chicago Business)

  • Is Weed Safe When You're Breastfeeding? (VICE)

  • US Air Force Bans Service Members From Using CBD, Despite its Legal Status (MERRY JANE)

  • Joe Biden Walks Back Marijuana ‘Gateway Drug’ Comment After Week Of Criticism (Marijuana Moment)

  • Inside the Contentious World of Cannabis Churches (InsideHook)

  • Pete Buttigieg Says Marijuana Arrests Signify “Systemic Racism.” His South Bend Police Fit the Bill. (The Intercept)

  • Where Presidential Candidate Michael Bloomberg Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

  • Congressional Candidate Smokes Marijuana And Talks Legalization In Campaign Video (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis legalisation: Does it lead to harder drug use? (BBC)

LSD

  • New Zealand-based LSD microdosing trial gets go-ahead (Newshub)

  • Inside the Archive of an LSD Researcher With Ties to the CIA’s MKUltra Mind Control Project (The Intercept)

  • Thai medical authorities issue warning on recreational 'Magic Paper' hallucinogen (AsiaOne)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

  • FDA Grants Psilocybin Second Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Resistant Depression (Medscape)

  • Scientists Discover New Compounds in Magic Mushrooms (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Depression sufferers should not self-medicate with magic mushrooms, health experts warn (The Telegraph)

  • Late frost means magic mushrooms will bloom in the UK on New Year‘s Day (Stock Daily Dish)

MDMA

  • Parents of teens, here’s what you really need to know about MDMA (The Conversation)

AYAHUASCA

  • Lindsay Lohan's ex-boyfriend Harry Morton was 'hooked on ayahuasca', a psychedelic drug that distorts brain waves to create a vivid 'waking-dream' state — and was once used by the actress who said it 'changed her life' (Daily Mail)

  • Don’t Forget Us Native People Behind the Ayahuasca (Kahpi)

  • Personal Healing with Ayahuasca Helped Me Be a Better Psychologist (Chacruna)

NITROUS OXIDE

  • Doctors warn of the dangers of ingesting nitrous oxide in light of OU student death (WHIO)

KETAMINE

  • A Single Dose Of Ketamine Might Help Heavy Drinkers, Study Finds (NPR)

PCP

  • Naked man reportedly high on PCP jumps off roof of Kansas City home ‘like Peter Pan’ (FOX 4 Kansas City)

OPIOIDS

  • Pioneering Glasgow clinic offers addicts pharmaceutical grade heroin (The Guardian)

  • Drugmakers and Distributors Are Under Federal Opioid Probe, Report Says (TIME)

  • Heroin Pipes: How the “Hammer” Was Built for Harm Reduction (Filter)

  • My friend and I both took heroin. He overdosed. Why was I charged with his death? (The Washington Post)

COCAINE

CAFFEINE

  • Some coffee drinkers claim it causes anxiety. Here's what the science says (Salon)

  • Caffeine, Cough Medicines: What's in the Average Blood Transfusion (U.S. News & World Report)

  • Calls for probe into 'energy gum' that has more caffeine than Red Bull (Scottish Daily Record)

Nicotine

  • Massachusetts Becomes the First State to Ban Flavored Tobacco and Vaping Products (TIME)

  • Pennsylvania Officially Raises Age Of Tobacco Purchase To 21 (CBS Pittsburgh)

  • New York City Lawmakers Vote to Ban All Flavored E-Cigarettes (TIME)

  • CPSC Will Go After Vape Shops That Violate Bottle Rules (Vaping360)

  • How the British Approach to Vaping Puts the US to Shame (Filter)

  • More People In US Now See E-cigarettes More Harmful Than Tobacco (Medical Daily)

  • "Small Vape" Stood Up for Itself at the White House (Vaping360)

  • What the E-Cigarette Bans Get Wrong (Slate)

  • Vape debate: Are e-cigarettes wiping out teen smoking? (AP News)

ALCOHOL

NOOTROPICS

  • Some Nootropics Contain a Substance Unapproved by the FDA (VICE)

KRATOM

  • Which Liver Enzymes Metabolize Mitragynine (Net Newsledger)

  • Retail sale of kratom supplement banned in Monument (Colorado Springs Gazette)

  • Poison Control Centers Saw 5,000% Increase In Calls About Kratom Exposure (WOSU)

KAVA

  • Fijian kava arrives in New Zealand pharmacies (NZ Herald)

  • The viability of kava in healthcare — sensations of euphoria and relaxation (The Market Herald)

MISCELLANEOUS

  • How Drugs Won the War on Drugs (Mixmag)

  • Leaked Documents Say Roughly 2,000 NY Prisoners Affected By Erroneous Drug Tests (Gothamist)

  • Are over-the-counter psychedelics in our future? (Big Think)

  • Federal Health Agency Hosts Talk On Psychedelics Research (Marijuana Moment)

  • Psychedelic studies on depression recruiting subjects in the Netherlands (Stitching OPEN)

  • Nearly 100 Cities Are Considering Decriminalizing Psychedelics, Map Shows (Marijuana Moment)

  • Is this the way the drug war ends - not with a bang, but a whimper? (Politics.co.uk)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 10.18.19

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CANNABIS

  • Study finds endocannabinoid system regulates sperm development (Leafly)

  • Canada Sold $1.1 Billion of Legal Weed in the First Year of Adult-Use Sales (MERRY JANE)

  • Mexican Senate Committees Will Introduce Marijuana Legalization Bill Next Week (Marijuana Moment)

  • Heavy Metal Poisoning May Be Causing the Vaping Illness Epidemic, Lab Suggests (MERRY JANE)

  • How mainstream media botched the vape lung story (Leafly)

  • New California Law Legalizes Medical Marijuana Use at K-12 Public Schools (MERRY JANE)

  • Two More Studies Show Patients Are Replacing Prescription Painkillers With Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

  • Colorado Issues a Massive Statewide Recall for Moldy Weed (MERRY JANE)

  • Grading cannabis strength ‘will improve mental health of users’ (The Guardian)

  • Parkinson's patients to receive cannabis oil in 'pioneering' trial to test drug's effectiveness (iNews)

  • Weed Edibles Are Finally Legal in Canada, But They’re Still Not for Sale (MERRY JANE)

  • Cannabis extract may work as a treatment for cannabis addiction (New Scientist)

  • Thailand Plans Inaugural “World Ganja Festival” for 2020 (MERRY JANE)

  • CBD or THC? Common Drug Test Can't Tell the Difference (The New York Times)

  • Recreational Marijuana Would Create More Than 100,000 Jobs in Florida, Study Says (Miami New Times)

  • UK Government Approves the Country's First Legit Weed Grow for Medical Research (MERRY JANE)

  • Presidential Candidate Wants To Let Americans Legalize Marijuana Through National Referendum (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • Kacey Musgraves reveals she penned two songs while tripping and praises LSD for 'opening your mind' (Daily Mail)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

  • Scientists Want to Try Using Shrooms to Revive People in Vegetative States (VICE)

  • DEA Tracks Down Alleged Denver Mushroom Dealer Using News Articles (Westword)

  • Magic mushrooms are a powerful way to treat depression, addiction, and anxiety (GOOD Magazine)

  • How Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick The Habit (NPR)

  • Psilocybin: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know (Heavy.com)

MDMA

DMT

AYAHUASCA

  • Taking Ayahuasca When You’re a Senior Citizen (The New York Times)

  • Is Ayahuasca Made in the Laboratory or with Foreign Plants Just as Good? Enter Pharmahuasca. (Kahpi)

  • The Commodification of Ayahuasca: How Can we do Better? (Chacruna)

  • What's all the buzz about? Montreal woman seeks to demystify ayahuasca (Montreal Gazette)

5-MEO-DMT

MESCALINE

PEYOTE

KETAMINE

OPIOIDS

  • Combat troops at higher risk for opioid, heroin addiction, study says (Military Times)

  • The Opioid Crisis Cost the US Over $600 Billion in Just 4 Years (MERRY JANE)

  • Mindfulness May Benefit People on Methadone (Futurity)

  • The Democratic candidates are calling for locking up opioid executives (Vox)

  • Narcan, a life-saving anti-overdose drug, is now sold online in Tennessee (The Tennessean)

  • The US could learn from how Italy tackled its own opioid problem (Quartz)

  • Philadelphia high school students receive training on how to administer Naloxone (6ABC)

COCAINE

  • Revealed: How much cocaine Londoners are taking every day (Sky News)

  • The treatment of cocaine use disorder (Science Advances)

  • Man Who Was Sentenced to 15 Years for Cocaine Released After it Turned Out to Be Powdered Milk (People)

METHAMPHETAMINE

  • While millions are spent to fight the opioid epidemic, a meth crisis quietly grows in Wisconsin (MinnPost)

CAFFEINE

  • Study: Caffeine use may increase risk of miscarriage (KWWL)

  • Is mixing caffeine and alcohol bad? (Mic)

  • Could coffee byproducts fight inflammation? (Medical News Today)

TOBACCO

  • Judge puts Michigan’s ban on flavored nicotine vaping on hold (Detroit Metro Times)

  • Ohio “Tobacco 21” law goes into effect today (WHIO)

BENZODIAZEPINES

  • Lil Peep’s Mom Alleges His Manager Pressured Him to Abuse Xanax; They Deny It (Vulture)

ALCOHOL

  • National focus on overdose prevention should include alcohol too, study suggests (Medical Xpress)

  • Alcohol industry 'puts pregnant women at risk', researchers say (The Guardian)

KRATOM

  • What is kratom? The popular herbal supplement has caught flak from the FDA (NBC News)

  • Kratom In Indiana – The Legality, Effort, & Recent Update (Kratom Guides)

KAVA

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Scotland’s Ruling Party Unanimously Backs Drug Decriminalization Measure (Marijuana Moment)

  • '60 Minutes' segment explores psychedelics research at Johns Hopkins (The Hub)

  • Two Presidential Candidates Voice Support For Drug Decriminalization At Democratic Debate (Marijuana Moment)

  • How Psychedelic Exceptionalism Harms Drug Users (Filter)

  • Building the Infrastructure for Legal Psychedelic Therapy: Interview with Ronan Levy of Field Trip Psychedelics (Psychedelic Times)

  • People of Color Making a Difference in Psychedelic Healing (Chacruna)

  • Investors hope psychedelics are the new cannabis. Are they high? (The Economist)

  • Portugal Mayor Supports Recriminalizing Public Drug Use (Filter)

  • Stop teaching drug abstinence: Just say no to the era of ‘just say no’ (New York Daily News)

  • How psychedelic drugs treat mental illness differently than traditional medicine (Mic)

  • 10 Calls to Action: Toward an LGBTQ-Affirmative Psychedelic Therapy (Chacruna)

  • My Years in the Florida Shuffle of Drug Addiction (The New Yorker)

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