This Week in Psychedelics - 9.3.21

Cannabis

• Appeals court rejects lawsuit seeking to force DEA to reschedule marijuana (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Anti-Pot Author Alex Berenson Gets Permanent Twitter Ban (High Times)

• How Much Legal Cannabis Is In California? It’s A State Secret. (Forbes)

• Allowing Public Marijuana Smoking Leads To Bigger NYC Arrest Decline Than In Other Legalized Places (Marijuana Moment)

• Fakkuappu: Japan Struggles with Cannabis Reform (High Times)

• Senators Flooded With Input On Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Big Pharma Seizes Brazilian Market While Medical Cannabis Bill is Stalled (TalkingDrugs)

• Alabama medical cannabis program might roll out slower than expected (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Swiss Doctors to Prescribe Cannabis Without “Exceptional Authorization” (High Times)

• Legalization Nation: The Dispensary Divide (The Nib)

• New Group Files Another Missouri Marijuana Legalization Initiative For 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Ohio Marijuana Activists Cleared To Collect Signatures For 2022 Legalization Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• How Dock Ellis Made Baseball History on LSD (DoubleBlind)

Magic Mushrooms

• Denver Psychedelics Activists Push To Expand Psilocybin Decriminalization To Allow Gifting And Communal Use (Marijuana Moment)

• Yale researchers discover healing effects of psychedelic drug (Yale Daily News)

• Heroic Hearts Project announces new study with Imperial College London into the physiological and psychological effects of psilocybin on veterans. (Volteface)

• 'Psychedelic renaissance' sees first legal collection of Australia's medicinal magic mushrooms (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• The Tragic Story Of Magic Truffles: The Elusive Wild Psilocybe (DoubleBlind)

• Red Light Holland Successfully Completes Canada’s Largest Legal Sale and Import of Psilocybe Truffles into Canada Under a Health Canada Approved Psilocybin Import Permit (Psilocybin Alpha)

DMT

• Microdose Psychedelic Insights Presents the Upcoming DMT Conference, a Deep Dive Into the Dynamic Field of DMT Therapeutics (Benzinga)

Ayahuasca

• A single dose of ayahuasca improves self-perception of speech performance in socially anxious people, study finds (PsyPost)

• Wilma Mahua Campos, Shipibo Ayahuasquera (Chacruna)

• The Importance of Traditional Ayahuasca Techniques with Carlos Tanner (EntheoNation)

5-MeO-DMT

• Psychedelic Toads Emerge In Arizona During Monsoon Season (iHeartRadio)

San Pedro

• The Effects of Mescaline in the San Pedro Cactus (The Third Wave)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Mindset Pharma Announces its Next Generation Novel 5-MeO-DMT Psychedelic Analogs Demonstrate a Significantly Improved Safety Profile in Preclinical Results (Psilocybin Alpha)

Nitrous Oxide

• Nitrous oxide: Patel orders Laughing gas review to decide on potential new law (BBC)

Ketamine

• Cops and Paramedics Involved in Elijah McClain’s Death Charged With Homicide (VICE)

Miscellaneous

• Drug Users Are Suing the Canadian Government Over the War on Drugs (VICE)

• DEA Proposes Massive Increase In Marijuana And Psilocybin Production For Research To Develop FDA-Approved Medicines (Marijuana Moment)

• 'QAnon Shaman' to plead guilty in US Capitol riot case (CNN)

• What Is the ‘Collective Unconscious’ and How Can It Help Us Understand Psychedelic Experiences? (Psychedelics Today)

• Can Psychedelics Promote Social Justice and Change the World? (Chacruna)

• Seattle Should Decriminalize All Drugs, City Task Force On Overdose Crisis Recommends (Marijuana Moment)

• Jon Hopkins Announces New Album Music for Psychedelic Therapy, Shares New Song: Listen (Pitchfork)

• Meet the women who regularly microdose psychedelics (Cosmopolitan)

• Glow Time: PsychLight Brings a Powerful Tool to Psychedelic Research (Psychedelic Science Review)

• New Psychedelic Therapy Clinic Opens in Charleston (Johnson City Press)

• Psychedelics Co. Synthesis Institute Closes $7.25M Series A Funding Through Non-Traditional VC Path (Benzinga)

• Psychedelics—The New Psychiatric Craze (Mad in America)

• Field Trip Health Ltd. Announces Launch Of “Kap Co-Operative” Program, Enabling Independent Psychedelic Therapists To Practice At Its Field Trip Health Centers; Also Launches Training Programs To Educate A New Generation Of Psychedelic Clinicians (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelics in Recovery: 12-Step Peer Support Program (Truffle Report)

• Legal Psychedelic Retreats – What They Are & Where to Find Them (EntheoNation)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 12.22.17

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Cannabis

• Legal Pot: Mexico to Sell Space Cakes, Cannabis Drinks and Marijuana Lipsticks (Newsweek)
• World Health Organization clashes with DEA on marijuana compound CBD (Ars Technica)
• The Safety of Dabbing: An Honest Terpene Story (Psychedelic Times)
• Bitcoin offers the cannabis industry an alternative to banks (CNBC)
• Cannabis ingredient holds promise as antipsychotic medicine (Reuters)
• Move Over California -- Canada's Opening Its Own $5B Cannabis Market In 2018 (Forbes)
• DEA Releases Report Citing No Deaths From Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Study: CBD Effective As Adjunctive Therapy For Psychosis (NORML)
• Mass. Recreational Pot Industry Won't Just Line Pockets Of Big Businesses, Regulators Say (WBUR)
• Cannabis as a Tool to Fight the Opioid Epidemic (Reality Sandwich)
• New Policy Lets V.A. Docs Talk to Veterans About Medical Marijuana Use (Reason)
• An 11-Year-Old Is Suing the Government Over Medical Marijuana Legalization (ATTN:)
• A marijuana salve won best in show at a cannabis convention this weekend (Boston Globe)
• Portland Companies are Fighting a Secret Plot to Monopolize Cannabis (The Potlander)
• Massachusetts May Leap Ahead on Cannabis Cafes (CT Post)
• Even Without the Rider That Protects Medical Marijuana, a Pot Crackdown Is Unlikely (Reason)
• These Kids Prove Marijuana Is Medicine (ATTN:)
• Cannabis and Mental Health: Cause, Cure, or It's Complicated? (Yes) (Leafly)
• Here's how marijuana does, and doesn't, affect your health (The Mercury News)
• Universities Are Offering Marijuana Business Classes (ATTN:)
• This cannabis-infused wine promises to prevent hangovers (Moneyish)
• A Utah Grandma Explains Why She Gave Her Grandson Medical Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Part 1, Leafly's Faves 2017: Our Strain, Product, and Brand Picks (Leafly)
• EnviroGrow expands reach in cannabis industry (CT Post)
• Jury Rejects Damages for Victims of Pot Raid Based on Wet Tea Leaves (Reason)
• How to Make the Most of Cannabis Plant Count Grow Limits (Leafly)
• Cannabis Regulators Busy Rolling Out the Rules for Legal Pot (U.S. News & World Report)
• NORML "Rolls Out" New Rolling Papers (NORML)
• Cannabis Crunch – Arizona MMJ Battle Ends, Denver Closes 26 Legal Dispensaries And WHO Ok With CBD (Psychedelic Times)

LSD

• How Dock Ellis, Player Who Pitched a No-Hitter on LSD, Is Misremembered (Rolling Stone)
• Errol Morris talks about teaming up with Netflix to delve into the LSD-laced mystery of a CIA scientist's death (Business Insider)
• Government staffer's LSD work 'pick-me-up' (NT News)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Santa Is a Psychedelic Mushroom (The New York Times)
• Are Modern Religions All Modeled Off Amanita Mushroom Trips? (Disinfo)
• After Cannabis is Legal, Could Magic Mushrooms be Next? (Good Times)
• 7 mind-bending facts about magic mushrooms (Brinkwire)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Anonymous Bitcoin philanthropist donates $1m to prove health benefits of ecstasy (International Business Times)
• Can the use of MDMA to help treating alcohol addiction make an impact in psychiatric treatment methods? (MIMS)
• Flamefest raver Steven Graves 'took lethal MDMA dose' (BBC)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Ayahuasca Retreats Offers Magical Healing Sessions Based on Sacred Plant Medicine (MilTech)
• 5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT): Patterns of use, motives for consumption, and acute subjective effects (ResearchGate)
• 'HAMILTON'S PHARMACOPEIA' Digs into the Origins of DMT (VICE)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Huachuma: Healing Medicine For Modern Times (Reset.me)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• The Ibogaine Conversation Pt 7: Former underground provider, Dimitri Mugianis, on the regulation of ibogaine (Psymposia)
• The Ibogaine Conversation Pt 8: How Not to Do Ibogaine 101 with Juliana Mulligan (Psymposia)
• The Avante Institute Pioneers Ibogaine Plant-Based Therapy for Addiction in a Beautiful and Tropical Environment in the Bahamas (Digital Journal)
• Johnny Tabaie Explains How the Holistic Sanctuary Got a 90% Addiction Recovery Rate (Newswire)

Dissociatives

• Ketamine Relieved Suicidal Thoughts Within Hours in Hospital Study (Gizmodo)
• Who Laced The Titanic Cast's Chowder With The Hallucinogen, PCP? (Refinery29)
• Synthesis of methoxetamine, its metabolites and deuterium labelled analog as analytical standards and their HPLC and chiral capillary electrophoresis separation (Royal Society of Chemistry)
• Oklahoma City woman believed to have passed out on PCP arrested for child neglect (KFOR)

Opiates/Opioids

• Experimental Heroin Vaccine Triggers the Immune System So Mice Can't Get High (Gizmodo)
• Tech Alone Can't Solve the Opioid Crisis (Wired)
• Why is Big Pharma Raising Prices on Naloxone? (The Fix)
• What's the Difference Between Opiates and Opioids? (Pain News Network)
• Afghanistan has Reached a Record on the Production of Opium Poppy (Novinite)
• The Opium Wars still shape China's view of the west (The Economist)
• Vermont's U.S. Attorney Says Injection Sites Encourage Illegal Drug Use. The Research Shows She's Wrong. (Reason)

Kratom

• Findings suggest kratom's potential to treat opioid addiction (Medical Xpress)
• Kratom: An old plant sparks a new challenge (Capital Gazette)
• Why Banning Kratom May Make the Opioid Epidemic Even Worse (MSN)
• Polis asks FDA to lift public health warning on Kratom (Jared Polis)

Kava

• Stressed New Yorkers Take to Kava, 'Nature's Xanax' (The New York Times)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Gordon Wasson's Hidden Ties to the Vatican: Interview with Jerry Brown (Psychedelic Times)
• Ben Carson Admits War on Drugs Conflicts with War on Poverty (Reason)
• Microdosing LSD and Mushrooms: Guide To A Better Life (Psychedelics Daily)
• These Ten Foods Can Trigger Hallucinations if Over-Consumed (Netralnews)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 7.7.17

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Cannabis

• You Can Now Buy Recreational Marijuana Legally in Nevada (TIME)
• Study: Cannabinoids Reduce Migraine Frequency (NORML)
• Legalised cannabis: How free access could impact vulnerable Kiwis (Stuff.co.nz)
• Study: Crimes Spike Following Closing of Dispensaries (NORML)
• Nevada Cannabis Sales Exceed Stores' Expectations (Leafly)
• 6 Things to Watch as the Countdown to Legal Canadian Cannabis Commences (Leafly)
• Residents Demand Diversity in Cannabis Industry at LA Town Hall (Leafly)
• How to Spot the Differences Between These Three Types of Marijuana (ATTN:)
• New Guidelines for Decreasing Health Risks of Cannabis Use (Good Therapy)
• Two New Virginia Laws Foreshadow Larger Cannabis Policy Changes (NORML)
• Some psychiatrists think cannabis can be considered a psychedelic drug like shrooms – here's why (Business Insider)
• The history of cannabis: 8 things you didn't know (Stuff.co.nz)
• Florida: Lawsuit Filed Challenging Medical Cannabis Smoking Ban (NORML)
• Cannabis regulations contribute to thriving market in Washington (Puget Sound Business Journal)
• In Seattle US old-timers rediscover the high life on cannabis tours (The Guardian)
• Cannabis vs. marijuana: WHAT IT MEANS TO THE INDUSTRY (Northern Nevada Business Weekly)
• 7 Must-Try Cannabis Topicals for Those Scorching Summer Days (Leafly)

LSD

• In Hyderabad, Dealers Working At Top Companies Deal LSD To Students As Young As Thirteen (India Times)
• Police patrol Welsh village after story of huge LSD stash buried since the 70s (Metro)
• Meet Dock Ellis: the baseball star who pitched best on LSD (The National Student)
• Is LSD the new coffee? (Factor Daily)
• Operation Julie: The house that was once an LSD factory (BBC)
• Salem man ingests LSD before jumping to his death at downtown Milwaukee apartment building (Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Mushrooms Are the Safest Drug (Men's Journal)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• World's first trials of MDMA to treat alcohol addiction set to begin (The Guardian)
• New warning issued for "stronger than average" ecstasy pills (Mixmag)
• Student (22) dies after taking MDMA on 'final fling' night out (Independent)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Is Ayahuasca Tourism Doing More Harm Than Good? (The Third Wave)
• The brain on DMT: mapping the psychedelic drug's effects (Wired)
• Ex-MMA fighter seeks religious exemption to use hallucinogen in N.S. ceremonies (Local Xpress)
• 'Master of natural healing' who raped tourist after giving her Rohypnol-laced drink gets 12 years (South China Morning Post)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Tripping on Peyote in Navajo Nation (Scientific American)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Potentially lethal form of spice being mistaken for MDMA, police say (The Guardian)

Dissociatives

• Could Ketamine Cure Addiction? (VICE)
• Ketamine Clinics Show Promise For Treatment-Resistant Depression (Inquisitr)
• Waterbury Man On PCP Crashes Car In North Haven, Injuring Two (Hartford Courant)

Opiates/Opioids

• Did Pop Culture Help Cause the Opioid Epidemic? (ATTN:)
• As the Drug That Reverses Opioid Overdoses Gets More Expensive, Can Cities Afford It? (Governing)
• The Heroin Crisis in Trump's Backyard (Politico)
• These Counties Have the Most Opioid Prescriptions in the U.S. (TIME)

Kratom

• Kratom: Antidote or adversary in Canada's opioid crisis? (CBC News)
• American Kratom Association Announces New Chairman (Inquisitr)
• Kratom Gaining Popularity As Opioid Alternative In Southern Arizona (KJZZ)
• The Kratom Controversy: What should be done about it? (WALB)

Kava

• Kava Root Extract Market Driven by Increasing Demand in Cosmetic & Pharmaceutical Industry (Digital Journal)
• Kava bar banned over designer-drug rule in Lighthouse Point (Sun Sentinel)
• Green kava ban warning (The Fiji Times)

Khat

• LPD conducted a controlled delivery of 18 pounds of Khat (Lexington Clipper Herald)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Watch This Nepalese Man Harvest Hallucinogenic Honey Hundreds of Feet Off the Ground (The Inertia)
• Psychedelics Could Help Asia's Mental Health Care, But Stigma Remains Roadblock (The Fix)
• Rethinking Substance Use: 5 Truths that Will Blow Your Mind (Psychedelic Times)
• What Ritalin Does To Kids' Brains (ATTN:)
• Test kits can help prevent drug use tragedies (The Register-Guard)
• What Trump's Plan To Stop Illegal Drugs Misses (ATTN:)
• Exploring the Formless Edge: A Conversation with Random Rab (Psychedelic Times)
• The Summer of Love was more than hippies and LSD – it was the start of modern individualism (The Conversation)
• Dogs Are Testing Positive for Cocaine in Florida. Here's Why. (ATTN:)
• My grandfather was a death row doctor. He tested psychedelic drugs on Texas inmates. (The Texas Tribune)
• Cannabist Show: He's psychedelic comedian Shane Mauss (The Cannabist)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 6.23.17

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Cannabis

• Philando Castile's 'Audacity To Smoke Marijuana' in Front of Child Doomed Him, Says Cop Who Killed Him (Reason)
• Air Fresheners as Probable Cause? A New Jersey Lawyer Talks Garden State Cannabis Access (Leafly)
• Study: Adult Use Marijuana Laws Do Not Adversely Impact Traffic Fatality Rates (NORML)
• Roger Stone Wants Donald Trump to Legalize Marijuana (TIME)
• Study: CBD Administration Reduces Blood Pressure (NORML)
• Vermont: House Blocks Marijuana Depenalization Bill From Further Consideration (NORML)
• The Search for a Place to Toke Up (Reason)
• Colorado County Gives High School Graduates $420K in Cannabis-Funded Scholarships (Leafly)
• Two Major Victories For Student Rights In Federal Courts (NORML)
• How Medical Marijuana Can Help Solve the Opioid Epidemic (Psychedelic Times)
• Should Alcohol and Cannabis Have Separate DUI Laws? (Leafly)
• Contaminated Cannabis Still Hitting the Shelves in Oregon, Report Finds (Leafly)
• Why Industry Reps Out For Cannabis Vs. Marijuana (KUNR)
• New Report Shows New Jersey's Cannabis Laws Failing Its People (Leafly)
• Portland Now Has a Pop-up Cannabis Dinner Series (The Potlander)
• This Meme Nails What People Don't Get About Working in the Marijuana Industry (ATTN:)
• Getting stoned with the Weed Nuns (Boing Boing)
• Medical cannabis group raises $4.75 million (St. Louis Business Journal)
• Could weed be used to treat period pain? (The Guardian)
• As Cannabis Comes Out of Black Market, Regulators Face Scrutiny (Leafly)
• Medicinal cannabis: Doctors, nurses and Nimbin 'elders' trade marijuana tips (ABC)
• Check Out These Weekly Cannabis Live Streams on YouTube (Leafly)
• Medical cannabis workshop: 'incredibly difficult' to get drugs to patients (The Guardian)
• The US weed rush and white-collar cannabis CEOs (The Sun Daily)
• The 'Green Rush' Went Next Level at Last Week's Cannabis Business Summit and Expo in Oakland (East Bay Express)
• Medical Marijuana Continues To Work Miracles (Disinfo)
• Teenagers should stop rolling their cannabis joints with tobacco if they don't want CANCER, researcher wants (Daily Mail)

LSD

• Study finds LSD produces dreamlike states in awake humans by stimulating serotonin receptors (PsyPost)
• LSD to lift your mood or performance? Microdosing could become commonplace (Genetic Library Project)
• Tripping up: The real danger of microdosing with LSD (New Scientist)
• Inside the 1950s LSD Therapy That Changed Cary Grant's Life (Vulture)
• Ice Cube To Produce Movie About Dock Ellis' LSD No-Hitter; O'Shea Jackson To Star (HotNewHipHop)
• Don't Take LSD There for the First Time and Other Top Glasto Tips (Noisey)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Carrie Fisher Had Cocaine, Heroin and Ecstasy in Her System, Autopsy Shows (TIME)
• Canadian Study Shows Psychedelic Drugs Like Ecstasy Reduce Suicide Risks, While Meth Increases Risk (Inquisitr)
• MDMA Moves Closer to Being PTSD Treatment (Vital Updates)
• Father Sues Insomniac Events After His Son's Death From Ecstasy During EDC Las Vegas (EDM Sauce)
• Jersey Police warn users over 'particularly strong' ecstasy tables (BBC)
• Teen dies after taking 'Ikea' ecstasy pills as cops warn of deadly batch (The Sun)
• Woman still in hospital after taking Ecstasy on night out in Sheffield (The Star)
• Arlington Police Seize 1,000 Ecstasy Tabs Shaped Like Flintstones Vitamins (CBS DFW)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Ayahuasca: Coming to a Clinic Near You? (AlterNet)
• Dr. Gabor Mate: Ayahuasca Is The 'Antidote To Western Psychological Distress' (The Fix)
• Drug investigators say "dangerous drug lab" in Douglas County was making DMT (Yakima Herald-Republic)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• Vendor Letter: An alternative addiction treatment (Real Change)

Dissociatives

• Inside the Los Angeles Clinic That Uses Ketamine to Treat Depression (Los Angeles Magazine)
• Ketamine Not Effective Against Postoperative Delirium, Pain in Older Adults (Practical Pain Management)
• There Could Be Ketamine in Your 'Natural' Chicken (Bloomberg)
• Police: Wrong-way driver had PCP and 9-year-old nephew in vehicle (KVUE)

Opiates/Opioids

• Heroin Addiction Costs US More Than $50 Billion Per Year (Newsweek)
• Opium use booms in Afghanistan, creating a 'silent tsunami' of addicted women (The Washington Post)
• Former Surgeon General Says Trumpcare Will Be a Disaster for the Opioid Crisis (ATTN:)
• Veterinarians are Starting To Look for Drug-Seeking Behavior (ATTN:)
• New Resource to Help Fight Heroin, Opioid Epidemic (U.S. News & World Report)
• Why every cop should carry naloxone (Police One)
• US fentanyl crisis: It's become a relief to only find heroin, says police officer (The Independent)
• Number of women in hospital for heroin and prescription opioids spikes 75% in a decade (The Independent)

Kratom

• Supplements To Get Rid of Kratom and Opiate Withdrawal Symptoms (Kratom Guides)
• Kratom - a jolt like coffee, a painkiller like a pain pill (TG Daily)
• How I Made an Extremely Potent Sleep Cake That Could Knock Out An Elephant (Men's Health)
• Can these 8 Herbal Teas Boost your Immune System (Alverno Alpha)
• Little-known illegal drug being sold to sick, desperate Australians (The New Daily)

Kava

• Largest kava bar in the US lands a spot in Asheville (WLOS)

Khat

• Tanzania: 48 Acres of Khat Rhazed in Operation (All Africa)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• The Silk Road Is Dead, But the Internet's Illicit Drug Economy Is Alive and Well (Reason)
• Uniting Shamanic Healing and Western Medicine (Reality Sandwich)
• Read Jeff Sessions' Utterly Illogical Defense of Tough Drug Sentences (Reason)
• New Report Contradicts Jeff Sessions' Claim That 'Soft' Drug Sentences Led to More Crime (Reason)
• Q&A With Psychedelic Stand-Up and LaughFest Headliner Shane Mauss (Flagpole)
• More Evidence That Eric Holder's Charging Memo Helped Drug Offenders (Reason)
• Psychedelic Drugs Enhance Consciousness (Medical News Bulletin)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 6.16.17

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Cannabis

• In Private Letter, Jeff Sessions Asks Congress for Permission to Go After Medical Marijuana (Reason)
• This Bill Would Protect Medical Marijuana Suppliers From Jeff Sessions' Whims (Reason)
• Study: No Increase In Problematic Cannabis Use Following Passage Of Medical Marijuana Laws (NORML)
• UK gets first publicly available dedicated cannabis research facility (The Independent)
• Rand Paul And Al Franken Come Together For Weed (Daily Caller)
• Oregon's Young Cannabis Market Already on Pace With Washington, Colorado (Leafly)
• Deputy AG: Marijuana is federally illegal and has no medical use (NORML)
• Why Don't Many Dispensaries Sell Pre-Ground Cannabis? (Leafly)
• Cannabis expo draws entrepreneurs, as state lawmakers pass marijuana bill (Sun Sentinel)
• Massachusetts Bill Would Double Cannabis Tax, Globe Reports (Leafly)
• California Lawmakers Rush to Set Cannabis Regulations (Leafly)
• Seminole Leader Jim Billie Joins Florida Cannabis Rush (Leafly)
• Three men admit converting nuclear bunker into huge cannabis factory (The Guardian)
• Oregon Researchers Find More College Students Consuming Cannabis Since Legalization (Leafly)
• How to Successfully (and Legally) Advertise Your Cannabis Business in Nevada (Leafly)
• The War On Cannabis Heats Up (Forbes)

LSD

• LSD king Owsley Stanley's 'Sonic Journals' surface after 50 years (SFGate)
• LSD or REST? How Float Tanks Mimic the Therapeutic Effects on Psychedelics (Psychedelic Times)
• LSD could help treat depression and anxiety (Metro)
• Scientists once gave dolphins LSD in attempt to communicate with them (The Independent)
• O'Shea Jackson Jr. Will Throw His Own LSD-laced No-Hitter as Dock Ellis in a New Biopic (Okayplayer)
• LSD 'Microdosing' Is Trending In Silicon Valley – But Can It Actually Make You More Creative? (IFLScience)
• Cary Grant was one of the first to benefit from LSD therapy (Quartz)
• John Lennon's First Acid Trip – Animated (Disinfo)
• Oakland Man Convicted Of Murdering Best Friend During LSD Camping Trip (CBS)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Why Dr. Bronner's Soap is Paying Millions on MDMA Research (Inverse)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• Ibogaine Can Reduce Opioid Use, But May Be Fatal For Some (The Fix)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Man selling fake drugs at Bonnaroo doing 'God's work' (Newshub)
• Young British woman dies in Paris 'after taking notorious N-bomb drug' (The Local)

Dissociatives

• Should ketamine be used to treat depression? (Tribune-Review)
• Depression with ECT Therapy Does Not Benefit From Ketamine (Psychiatry Advisor)
• Man On PCP Evaded Officers Before Getting Naked Outside Hartford Store, Police Say (Hartford Courant)
• Woman found dead outside home after using PCP, police say (WFMZ)
• Man picked up in park after allegedly smoking PCP (Fairfield Citizen)

Opiates/Opioids

• Heroin Vaccine Could Turn Body's Defenses Against the Drug (Live Science)
• With opioid epidemic raging, calls grow for cheaper access to heroin overdose-reversing drug (Los Angeles Times)
• The FDA Wants This Opioid Drug Pulled From the Market (TIME)
• The DEA's Opium War with the Taliban (Motherboard)
• Five Things To Know About Heroin's Curious Chemical History (Forbes)
• Maryland removes restrictions on sale of naloxone at pharmacies (Capital Gazette)
• The Increasing Cost of the Heroin Epidemic (WebMD)
• More fentanyl being found in MDMA, crystal meth in Victoria (Saanich News)
• Who caused the opium war? British merchants of Canton, argues new book by Singapore academic (South China Morning Post)
• How heroin moves from Mexico's drug cartels to U.S. street corners (Hamilton Journal-News)
• Massive Poppy Bust: Why Home-Grown Opium Is Rare (Live Science)

Kratom

• Will New Laws Punish Pain Patients? (Pain News Network)
• The drug addictions devastating Thai villages (BBC)

Kava

• Is Kava A Healthier Alternative To Alcohol? (Garden Collage)

Khat

• Kenya takes the fight for lost UK miraa market to United Nations (Business Daily)
• Airline passenger caught with khat and forged residence permit (Times of Malta)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• The DEA's Warrantless Cash Grab (Reason)
• Teens Are Getting More Depressed But Using Fewer Drugs (TIME)
• 'Changing Our Minds' explores psychedelic drugs and spiritual healing (Religion News Service)
• U.S. Customs Seizes Combination Locked Travel Bags as Drug Paraphernalia (Reason)
• Ontario man says he was tortured, given hallucinogenic drugs at mental-health centre (Global News)
• Drugs are Big Business in Bali (Bali Discovery Tours)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.