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Weekly Psychedelic Links - September 2022

9.2.22

Cannabis

  • Oklahoma Supreme Court Gives Marijuana Activists Temporary Win As They Fight For Legalization Ballot Placement (Marijuana Moment)

  • Pharmaceutical Industry Suffers Billions In Losses After States Legalize Marijuana, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Harvard Grad Student Dies in Bali From Police Brutality Over Cannabis Arrest (High Times)

  • Poll: South Dakota Legalization Initiative in Danger of Failing (High Times)

  • More Americans Now Smoke Marijuana Than Cigarettes, For The First Time Ever, Gallup Reports (Marijuana Moment)

  • Largest ever independent study into cannabis use (BBC)

  • Cannabis researchers say it’s high time to drop ‘lazy stoner’ stereotype (The Guardian)

  • Pennsylvania: Governor Launches Effort to Issue Mass Pardons to Those with Low-Level Marijuana Convictions (NORML)

  • Ghana's Legal Cannabis Hits a Constitutional Roadblock (TalkingDrugs)

  • Joseph Schooling: Singapore Olympic star suspended for taking cannabis in Vietnam (BBC)

  • Cannabis industry inches toward sustainability (Chemical and Engineering News)

  • New Study Shows Evidence That Low-Dose THC Could Help Treat Veteran PTSD (High Times)

  • U.S. Air Force And Space Force Reviewing ‘Common Sense’ Marijuana Drug Testing Policy Change For Recruits (Marijuana Moment)

  • Qualitative Study Reveals Medical Students’ Attitudes Toward Medical Pot (High Times)

LSD

  • LSD decreases binge-like drinking in a rodent model of alcoholism, but only temporarily (PsyPost)

  • Is the Color of LSD an Indicator of Purity? (Lucid News)

MDMA

  • Boy, 16, dies in suspected ecstasy-related incident at Leeds Festival (The Independent)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

Nitrous Oxide

  • Why Some New York Stores Will Require You to Show ID to Buy Whipped Cream (Newsweek)

  • Doctors warn of rise in nerve damage linked to nitrous oxide (The Guardian)

Ketamine

  • This New, Legal Cannabis and Ketamine Therapy is Designed to Heal Trauma in the Body (DoubleBlind)

  • They’re Pushing Cut-Rate Ketamine Therapy on TikTok (Rolling Stone)

  • Yukon woman paid $7K for private ketamine treatment, only to learn that the Yukon gov't covers it (CBC)

Miscellaneous

  • An Inside Look at the Lawsuit that could “Legalize Psychedelics in Canada” (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • MindMed Completes 1-for-15 Reverse Share Split (Psychedelic Alpha)

  • Student Loan Forgiveness Limited By the War on Drugs (High Times)

  • Aspen, Colorado Activists Pursue Psychedelics Decriminalization For 2023 Ballot As Voters Prepare To Decide On Statewide 2022 Legalization Measure (Marijuana Moment)

  • Psychedelic Advocate Facing Charges Calls for Help, Law Reform in New York (High Times)

  • Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst? (WIRED)

  • In the Wake of Decrim, Police Continue to Target Psychedelics (Lucid News)

  • How Psychedelics Might Fuel a Paradigm Shift (DoubleBlind)

9.9.22

Cannabis

  • California: Governor Signs Bill Prohibiting Doctors from Discriminating Against Medical Cannabis Patients (NORML)

  • Nobody knows how widespread illegal cannabis grows are in California. So we mapped them (Los Angeles Times)

  • UK Government Blocks Bermuda From Legalizing Marijuana On Same Day New Prime Minister Takes Office (Marijuana Moment)

  • Afroman’s Ohio Residence Raided by Local Law Enforcement (High Times)

  • Minnesota Arrests Black People For Marijuana At Much Higher Rates Than White People, State Data Shows (Marijuana Moment)

  • New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Cannabis Banking Legislation (High Times)

  • Companies Turn to THC Beverages as Next Growing Legal Cannabis Market (High Times)

LSD

  • LSD-assisted therapy induces rapid and lasting reductions in anxiety and depression symptoms, according to new research (PsyPost)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Placebo-controlled study suggests that the benefits of psilocybin microdosing can be explained by expectancy effects (PsyPost)

  • Psilocybin Study To Investigate the Serotonin System in Autism (Technology Networks)

  • Optimi Health Completes Largest Legal Natural Psilocybin Harvest in Canadian History (Psychedelic Alpha)

  • 'Flesh of the Gods': The Trippy History of Magic Mushrooms (VICE)

MDMA

Ayahuasca

  • Why Are Scientists Dosing Fish with Ayahuasca? (DoubleBlind)

5-MeO-DMT

  • As Use Of The World’s Most Potent Psychedelic Skyrockets, New Site F.I.V.E. Fills An Education Void (Forbes)

Peyote

Novel Psychoactive Substances

Nitrous Oxide

  • Laughing gas: 'A 20-second high is not worth losing your life over' (BBC)

Ketamine

  • Scientists Discover That a Surprising Factor Improved The Effects of Ketamine in Mice (ScienceAlert)

  • Low-dose ketamine is safe and effective to treat children with ADNP syndrome, study suggests (News-Medical.net)

Miscellaneous

  • San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics (Leafly)

  • Drug Executions in Iran Are Back on the Rise (TalkingDrugs)

  • This Psychedelic Company is Leading the Way on Reciprocity and Holistic Approaches to Healing (DoubleBlind)

  • WOC-led psychedelics conference champions gender equality with all-women speakers (Leafly)

9.16.22

Cannabis

  • Killings, robberies, extortion. California can’t stop its booming illegal cannabis stores (Los Angeles Times)

  • New Zealand Approves Domestic Medical Cannabis Products (High Times)

  • World Anti-Doping Agency Set To Keep Marijuana On Banned Substance List, Saying U.S. Didn’t Back Its Removal (Marijuana Moment)

  • Biden To Meet With Family of Brittney Griner (High Times)

  • Study: CBD Oil Safe, Effective for Autism Patients (High Times)

  • Missouri judge blocks attempt to kick legalization off ballot (Leafly)

  • GOP Missouri Lawmaker Files Revised Marijuana Legalization Bill, Urging Special Session Action To Compete With Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

  • Pregnant Women in Alabama Are Being Jailed For Smoking Pot (High Times)

  • Oklahoma Prosecutors Are Targeting Pregnant Women For Using Medical Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

  • Thai Lawmakers Withdraw Bill to Regulate Cannabis (High Times)

  • New Jersey Employers Can’t Punish Workers Based On A Marijuana Test Alone, State Officials Say (Marijuana Moment)

  • Nevada Judge Orders State Board to Remove Cannabis from Schedule 1 (High Times)

  • Analysis: Legal Cannabis Businesses Associated with Increased Home Values (NORML)

  • Weed Legalization in Germany Hampered by EU Laws (High Times)

  • What’s Next For Cannabis Mergers And Acquisitions? (Forbes)

  • Oregon Officials to Deploy Decoys to Catch Underage Weed, Alcohol Sales (High Times)

  • Small Marijuana Growers Could Sell Directly To Consumers Across State Lines Under New Congressional Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • Republican Congressmen Push for Environmental Impact Study on Cannabis (High Times)

  • US Court of Appeals: Federal Scheduling of Cannabis “Irrational,” But Not Unconstitutional (NORML)

  • In Hawaii, People Prefer Black Market Cannabis to State-Managed Facilities (High Times)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Scientists have started to examine whether “magic” mushrooms can help in the fight against obesity (PsyPost)

  • Oregon Overcomes Bureaucratic Delays to Therapist Training Program Approvals (Lucid News)

  • The shroom edibles market proliferates underground (Leafly)

  • Revive Therapeutics Provides Update on the Psilocybin Clinical Study for Methamphetamine Use Disorder and Oral Psilocybin Thin Film Strip Program (Psychedelic Alpha)

DMT

  • Algernon Pharmaceuticals Receives Approval for Groundbreaking Phase 1 DMT Human Stroke Study (Psychedelic Alpha)

Ayahuasca

  • Comedian Ron White Shares How Tripping On Ayahuasca In Costa Rica Turned His Life Around (BroBible)

5-MeO-DMT

  • ‘I’m not a shaman – I just want to help people’: shoe designer Patrick Cox on his psychedelic toad awakening (The Guardian)

Peyote

  • Native American Church of North America Advocates at Capitol Hill for Protections of Peyote (Native News Online)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Mindset Pharma Receives Scientific Advice from UK Regulator Facilitating Advancement of Phase 1 First-In-Human Clinical Trial Plan for Its Lead Clinical Candidate, MSP-1014 (Psychedelic Alpha)

Ketamine

  • New study highlights ketamine’s promise for treatment-resistant depression (Popular Science)

  • Dealers Are Giving Discounts on Cocaine and Ketamine in Honour of the Queen (VICE)

  • Study Explores Effects of Experimenter Sex on Ketamine Response (Psychiatric Times)

PCP

  • PCP (aka Angel Dust) May Actually Have Therapeutic Potential (DoubleBlind)

Datura

Miscellaneous

  • Atlanta is considering the decriminalization of magic mushrooms and other psychedelics (Leafly)

  • Sexual Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy: Important Steps Being Taken to Support Survivors (DoubleBlind)

  • Oregon Voters Continue To Support Drug Decriminalization Law They Approved In 2020, New Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)

  • Psychedelics Were the Hot Topic at This Year’s World Economic Forum (Lucid News)

  • Local Michigan Lawmakers Vote To Make September Psychedelics Awareness Month After Decriminalization Enacted (Marijuana Moment)

  • A Channel for Magic: Ralph Hood’s Mysticism Scale and the Occult Roots of the Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Program (Psymposia)

  • Psychedelic Twitter is Swarmed by Plug Bots (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Finding Nuance in the Psychedelic Hype Bubble (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Psilera Receives First Patent Allowance for Transdermal Patch Formulations (Psychedelic Alpha)

  • Adverse Events in Psychedelic Clinical Trials are Underreported (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Psychedelic South: The Quest to find Good Drugs in Alabama (Psychedelic Spotlight)

9.23.22

Cannabis

  • Canada to review impact of cannabis legalization four years on (Reuters)

  • Marijuana Is Staying On The Banned Substances List For International Athletes, World Anti-Doping Agency Announces (Marijuana Moment)

  • California: Governor Signs Legislation Providing Employment Protections for Cannabis Consumers (NORML)

  • NY finally approves medical homegrow (Leafly)

  • Australian Cannabis Patients Turning to Prescriptions Over Illicit Market, Study Shows (High Times)

  • New Yorkers with weed convictions will have priority in retail market, state says (Leafly)

  • German Lawmakers Tour California Marijuana Businesses To Inform National Legalization Plans (Marijuana Moment)

  • Las Vegas City Council Approves Cannabis Consumption Lounges (High Times)

  • Leafly Report: ‘Opt-out’ towns are encouraging illegal marijuana sales (Leafly)

  • University of Kentucky Opens New Cannabis Research Center (High Times)

  • We spoke to the author of that new study on prenatal cannabis exposure (Leafly)

  • Apple Lets Users Search For Marijuana And Pharmaceutical Interactions In Latest iPhone Health Update (Marijuana Moment)

  • The Role of Cannabis in Treating Long COVID (High Times)

  • Canada’s rich and complicated history of psychedelic research (Leafly)

  • Oklahoma: Court Rules that Voters Can’t Decide on Legalization Ballot Measure This Year (NORML)

  • Arkansas: High Court Approves Marijuana Legalization Measure for the November Ballot (NORML)

  • Majority Of Maryland Voters Back Marijuana Legalization Referendum And Expungements, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Two Out Of Three Missouri Voters ‘Certain To Vote Yes’ On Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Poll: Majority in Minnesota Want Legal Weed (High Times)

  • Two In Three Pennsylvania Voters Support Marijuana Legalization, New Poll Shows Amid Key Political Races (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • Miami clinic kicks off first national study of LSD, once a ‘public enemy,’ to treat anxiety (Miami Herald)

Magic Mushrooms

  • The Viagra of the Himalayas—the World’s Most Expensive Fungus—Faces Serious Decline Due to Growing Demand (DoubleBlind)

  • Liquid Culture vs. Spores (Reality Sandwich)

MDMA

  • Disruption to Australian ecstasy market following COVID-19 restrictions, report finds (Medical Xpress)

  • MindMed Collaborators Dose First Patient in Phase 1 Investigator-Initiated Trial of MDMA-Like Substances (Psychedelic Alpha)

DMT

  • Researchers Studying Psychedelic Drug as Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease (High Times)

Ayahuasca

  • Packers Bust Out Ayahuasca TD Celebration Weeks After Aaron Rodgers Revealed Psychedelic Use (BroBible)

  • Aaron Rodgers Defends Ayahuasca, Says He May Be 'Called' to Take the Psychedelic Again (People)

Peyote

  • Native American Church Leaders Ask Congress For Funds To Support Peyote Cultivation And Preservation (Marijuana Moment)

  • The Complicated Ethics of Legalizing Indigenous Psychedelic Substances (Ethos)

Iboga

  • You Can Now Get Ibogaine-Based Addiction Treatment In A Hospital Setting In Brazil (Forbes)

Nitrous Oxide

  • What Nitrous Oxide Showed The Father of American Psychology (Lucid News)

Ketamine

  • Looking at Images of People Smiling at You Extends Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine (Neuroscience News)

DXM

  • Please don't cook chicken in NyQuil, the FDA asks TikTok users (NPR)

  • The FDA may have unintentionally made 'NyQuil Chicken' go viral on TikTok (Engadget)

Miscellaneous

  • Math Over Myth: Psychedelic Stock HAVN Life Collapses (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Psychedelics face corrupting influence of financial interests (UC News)

  • Biden Administration Considers Psychedelic Therapies Task Force (Lucid News)

  • Colorado Polls Show Conflicting Results On Psychedelics Ballot Measure That Voters Will Decide On In November (Marijuana Moment)

  • Algernon Pharmaceuticals Announces Receipt of CDN $450K Cash Refund from Australian Research Program (Psychedelic Alpha)

  • Baby Boomers (Re)Discover Psychedelics as Tools for Aging with Grace (DoubleBlind)

  • Does Microdosing Impact Meditation? New Study From Beckley Foundation and Quantified Citizen Investigates (Newswire)

  • Colombia’s President Tells UN That ‘Democracy Will Die’ If World Leaders Don’t End Drug War And Pursue Different Strategy (Marijuana Moment)

  • The Undergrowth of Psychedelic Australia (Kahpi)

  • Beyond Michael Pollan: Where to learn more about psychedelics. (Medium)

  • Can Psychedelics Help Veterans with Chronic Pain? (Psychedelic Spotlight)

9.30.22

Cannabis

  • Switzerland: Revision of Narcotics Act – Switzerland fully legalizes medicinal cannabis (Global Compliance News)

  • Free medicinal cannabis to be donated to epileptic children in the UK (Sky News)

  • Medical cannabis for doggies, kitties is fully legalized in California (Leafly)

  • Medical Marijuana Helps Patients Reduce Use Of Addictive Opioid Painkillers, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Maltese Non-profit Cannabis May be The Way Forward (TalkingDrugs)

  • Check in, smoke up and tune out: Cannabis-friendly vacation rentals are catching on (CNBC)

  • Despite The Munchies, Marijuana Legalization Is Tied To Lower Obesity Rates, Stereotype-Busting Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Investigators say more than 70% of cannabis growers use illegal water (Santa Barbara News-Press)

  • Germany Versus The United States: Which Will Legalize Cannabis First (Forbes)

  • As cannabis usage grows, so does the need for employers to revisit their workplace drug policies (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

  • Could Cannabis and Psychedelic Drugs Make Breast Cancer Treatments More Effective? (PR Newswire)

  • Federal Marijuana Prohibition Is Putting Patients At Risk Of Consuming Contaminated Products, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Supreme Court trial on homegrow ban reveals a bigger issue in federal cannabis legalization (Leafly)

  • Medical Marijuana Patient Plans To Sue Feds For $3.5 Million Over ‘Discriminatory’ Cannabis Raid On Tribal Land (Marijuana Moment)

  • Is Big Tobacco Pivoting to Big Cannabis? (High Times)

  • Wisconsin Governor’s Push To Allow Ballot Initiatives Could Put Marijuana Legalization Before Voters (Marijuana Moment)

  • Majority Of D.C. Voters Support Marijuana Legalization And Oppose Crackdown On Unregulated ‘Gifting’ Market, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Missouri Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative Leads In New Poll, But With Less Than 50 Percent (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

Magic Mushrooms

  • Connecticut to Offer Legal MDMA and Psilocybin Therapy as Early as Next Year (DoubleBlind)

  • DEA Claims Doctors Requesting Psilocybin For Dying Patients Have Commercial Interests (Benzinga)

  • Woman’s Breast Cancer Returned Immediately After Dropping Treatment With Cannabis, Shrooms (High Times)

  • Psilocybin Shows Gender-Specific Effects on CNS Reactivity and Behavioral Responses (Gilmore Health News)

  • Psyence Group Completes Export of Psilocybin Mushrooms to Portugal (Psychedelic Alpha)

MDMA

  • MDMA in the UK Is Finally Pure Again (VICE)

Ayahuasca

  • Aaron Rodgers fumbles the science on psychedelics. Drugs like ayahuasca can alter the brain—but how? (Salon)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • 'A lot of MDMA that wasn't MDMA': The early results from inside Australia's first drug testing clinic (SBS)

  • atai Life Sciences Announces Initiation of Phase 1 Trial for its MDMA Derivative, EMP-01 (Psychedelic Alpha)

  • LSD-Like Molecules Counter Depression Without the Trip (UC San Francisco)

  • BetterLife Files Comprehensive Patent for BETR-001 and Other LSD Derivatives (Psychedelic Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • A new urine test could help curtail the use of the latest synthetic cannabinoids to enter the drug scene (Medical Xpress)

Ketamine

Miscellaneous

  • How Interdisciplinary Research Could Reveal Psychedelics’ Blind Spots (Microdose)

  • New Theory Believes Psychedelics Could Benefit Long-Term Space Travelers (High Times)

  • After rocky start, hopes up in Oregon drug decriminalization (ABC)

  • Psychedelic drugs: how to tell good research from bad (The Conversation)

  • Do You Even Trip, Bro? A Look At Psychedelic Masculinity, From Joe Rogan To Mike Tyson (Benzinga)

  • I went to the only psychedelic dispensary in North America—here’s how they do it (The Manual)

  • The Racism and Classism Hidden Behind “Moms who Microdose” (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Whole-Body Effects of Psychedelics Part 3 – The Heart (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Majority Of Mainers Support Drug Decriminalization And Other Harm Reduction Policies, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Why Tripping at Raves Can Be Just As Healing as Ceremony (DoubleBlind)

  • Math Over Myth: MindMed’s Self Destructive Stock Mission (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Men More Likely To Have Substance Abuse Disorder, Women More Likely To Overdose (High Times)

  • Psychedelic Retreats Offer Healing Only for the Wealthy (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Psychedelic therapy could reduce anxiety, distress among patients with cancer (Healio)

  • The Narrowing of Psychedelic Discourse (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Is Now a Good Time to Invest In Psychedelics Stocks? (The Motley Fool)

  • The Messy Job of a Psychedelic Integration Coach (Psychedelic Spotlight)

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Weekly Psychedelic Links - July 2022

7.1.22

Cannabis

  • Fentanyl-laced marijuana is a myth. It’s time to end the hype (Leafly)

  • Medical Weed Cards No Longer Required in Virginia Starting July 1 (High Times)

  • Hemp, CBD get permanent legal status in NC after 11th-hour rescue (MSN.com)

  • Scientists find THC in over 60% of CBD products they tested — and that may be a huge problem (ZME Science)

  • UN Report Dramatizes Uptick in Global Cannabis Use (High Times)

  • Louisiana Governor Signs Bill Providing Medical Marijuana Workplace Protections For State Employees (Marijuana Moment)

  • Maryland Court: Cops Can Stop, Question Someone Who Smells of Pot (High Times)

  • Nevada Cannabis Consumption Lounges Could Go Live By End Of 2022 (Marijuana Moment)

  • Edibles, beverages infused with cannabis ingredient THC become legal Friday in Minnesota (Star Tribune)

  • Inside The Process To Legalize Recreational Cannabis In Germany (Forbes)

  • California Bill to Require Cannabis Warnings About Mental Disorder Risks Advances (High Times)

  • Pennsylvania Lawmakers Advance Medical Marijuana DUI Protections And Cannabis Banking Reform Bills (Marijuana Moment)

  • Texas Supreme Court Bans Smokable Hemp Production, Sales (High Times)

  • Montana Lawsuit Challenges Marijuana Ban In State’s Third-Largest City (Marijuana Moment)

  • House Panel Approves Amendment to Protect State Legal Cannabis Programs (High Times)

  • Feds Fund Development Of Hemp-Based, 3D-Printed Materials To Build Affordable Housing (Marijuana Moment)

  • New Vermont Guidance Looks to Eliminate Plastic Waste From State’s Cannabis Industry (High Times)

  • Cannabis users are at greater risk for emergency and inpatient care: study (Fox News)

Magic Mushrooms

  • These Mormons Have Found a New Faith — in Magic Mushrooms (Rolling Stone)

  • New Jersey Senate President Files Psilocybin Legalization Bill That Includes Home Grow Option, Unlike Current Marijuana Law (Marijuana Moment)

  • Tryp Therapeutics Strengthens IP Portfolio with Provisional Patent Application for Binge Eating Disorder Treatment (Psychedelic Alpha)

  • Digging Up Druggable Targets: Psilocybin Efficacy in a Model of OCD (Psychedelic Science Review)

MDMA

  • First-of-its-kind MDMA group therapy trial set to commence (New Atlas)

  • Over One Hundred Years of MDMA Research (Drug Science)

Ayahuasca

  • How the Shipibo Came to Be the Most Common Group Serving Ayahuasca to Foreigners (DoubleBlind)

Peyote

  • Decriminalize Nature Targets Peyote: Drug Reform or Settler Colonialism? (Chacruna)

  • Big business could wipe out Mexico’s sacred psychedelic peyote cactus (openDemocracy)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • How Did A Minnesota Honor Roll Student Die As Her Parents Were Sleeping Upstairs? (Oxygen)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • A Loophole in Japan’s Weed Laws Is Getting Tens of Thousands High (VICE)

Miscellaneous

  • Colorado Activists Turn In Signatures To Put Psychedelics Legalization And Therapeutic Psilocybin Program On Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • War on drugs prolonged Colombia’s decades-long civil war, landmark report finds (The Guardian)

  • Is there a future for psychedelic treatment in Saudi Arabia? (Arab News)

  • Do Bad Psychedelic Patents Matter? (Lucid News)

  • 4 Recommendations for Disability Inclusion in Psychedelic Therapy Research (Psychiatric Times)

7.8.22

Cannabis

  • WNBA Star Brittney Griner Pleads Guilty To Cannabis Charge As Russia Calls Out U.S. Hypocrisy In Maintaining Criminalization (Marijuana Moment)

  • Make no mistake, marijuana edibles are legal now in Minnesota (Leafly)

  • Washington, D.C. Mayor Signs Medical Cannabis Self-Certification Bill (High Times)

  • Pennsylvania Bill Gives Medical Cannabis Patients DUI Protection (High Times)

  • Oklahoma: Advocates Turn in Signatures to Place Adult-Use Legalization Measure on November Ballot (NORML)

  • Study Shows Flower Still Reigns Supreme in U.S., Canada as Consumer Favorite (High Times)

  • Arkansas Activists Set To Turn In Double The Signatures Needed To Put Marijuana Legalization On Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Nebraska Medical Marijuana Activists Turn In Ballot Signatures After Campaign Suffers Legal Setback (Marijuana Moment)

  • Albania Prompted to Implement Medical Cannabis Reform After U.N. Criticism (High Times)

  • U.S. Army Wants To Make Sniper Uniforms Out Of Hemp (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • A man whose daily headaches felt like an ice pick in his eyes says he tried 12 treatments but only found relief after taking LSD (Insider)

Magic Mushrooms

  • New Study Shows Mood, Mental Health Improved by Microdosing Psilocybin (High Times)

  • Indiana Nurse Faces Ten Years in Prison for Microdosing Psilocybin Mushrooms (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Two Cancer Patients Battle to Make Psilocybin Accessible for Palliative Care (Scientific American)

  • Rural Oregon counties are lining up against psilocybin launch (OPB)

MDMA

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Pushes for Psychedelic Reform in Congress (DoubleBlind)

  • GOP Congressman’s Amendment Would Direct Military To Study Psilocybin And MDMA Benefits For Service Members (Marijuana Moment)

DMT

  • Algernon Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on Its Phase 1 DMT Stroke Study (Psychedelic Alpha)

Iboga

  • ‘To Heal and to Care for’: Protecting Iboga and Indigenous Voices in the Face of Corporatisation (Volteface)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • DEA Announces Hearing On Proposed Ban Of Five Psychedelic Compounds Following Significant Pushback (Marijuana Moment)

  • Mindset Pharma Receives Allowance for Patent Application Covering its Short-Duration Novel Psychedelic Medications for The Treatment of Central Nervous System Disorders (Psychedelic Alpha)

Ketamine

  • PharmaTher Announces Positive Results from Study For Ketamine Microneedle Patch (Psychedelic Alpha)

Miscellaneous

  • The Never-Ending Psychedelic Trip of Michael Pollan (Rolling Stone)

  • Journey Colab scores $12M to move psychedelics-based addiction treatment into clinic (Fierce Biotech)

  • User perceptions of the benefits and harms of hallucinogenic drug use: A web-based questionnaire study (Drug Science)

  • Tripping the Reward Circuit: Psychedelics for Substance Use Disorders (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Psychedelics Give a Glimpse of Enlightenment (Psychology Today)

7.15.22

Cannabis

  • Feds Must Defend Historical Rationale Of Banning Guns For Medical Marijuana Patients, Revised Lawsuit Argues After SCOTUS Ruling (Marijuana Moment)

  • ‘Green way of life’: Thailand sees cannabis boom after law change (Al Jazeera)

  • Washington DC just legalized weed for all adults—but it’s locals only (Leafly)

  • Oklahoma, North Dakota, Arkansas, and Nebraska submit signatures to put cannabis on November ballot (Leafly)

  • Study Shows Decrease in Heavy Truck Crash Rates Since Cannabis Legalization (High Times)

  • NYPD Will Keep Testing Officers For Marijuana, Reversing Course Hours After Announcing Policy Change Mandated By City (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis Laws in France Have Disproportionately Affected Muslims (High Times)

  • New York Firefighters Won’t Be Tested For Marijuana, Department Says Following NYPD Leak (Marijuana Moment)

  • Argentine Supreme Court Endorses Medical Cannabis Home Grow (High Times)

  • Pennsylvania Governor Signs Marijuana Banking And Insurance Reform Bill Into Law (Marijuana Moment)

  • Portland Weed Demand Hits Three-Year Low (High Times)

  • Pennsylvania Police Arrested Over 13,000 People for Marijuana Possession in 2021 (NORML)

  • The Fight for Medical Cannabis in Indonesia (High Times)

  • Weed, Like Change, Nourishes The Soil To Regenerate The Cannabis Industry (Forbes)

LSD

  • Why David Bowie wasn’t a fan of LSD (Far Out)

Magic Mushrooms

  • DEA May Find Itself In Federal Court Again Over Refusal To Provide Psilocybin Access To Terminally Ill Patients (Marijuana Moment)

  • Oregon therapeutic psilocybin program sparks some confusion (OPB)

MDMA

  • World's first ecstasy 'shop' set to trial in the Netherlands (Mixmag)

  • Luxury Champagne Recalled Again Over Ecstacy Contamination (Newsweek)

  • MDMA: Rolling from Counterculture to the Clinic Counter (Psychedelic Science Review)

Ayahuasca

  • Study suggests ayahuasca users tend to eat healthier, get more exercise, and experience physical and mental health benefits (PsyPost)

Ketamine

  • PharmaTher Announces Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Covering Ketamine for the Potential Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and Motor Disorders (Psychedelic Alpha)

Miscellaneous

  • Ann Shulgin, Forerunner of Today's Psychedelic Re-Emergence, Dies at 91 (Transform Press)

  • House Approves Marijuana And Psychedelics Amendments As Part Of Must-Pass Defense Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • What Ethnographers Have Learned from People Who Use Drugs (Undark)

  • Inside the Chemistry Lab Where the MDMA Godfather Synthesized Novel Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

  • The Tory Leadership Candidates on Drugs (Volteface)

  • Filament Health Issued Third Patent By United States Patent and Trademark Office (Psychedelic Alpha)

  • Doctors Urge Access to Psychedelic Therapies in New Mexico (TIME)

  • Can Psychedelics Treat Inflammation and Eye Disease? Eleusis Thinks So. (Lucid News)

  • Villain Or Victim? Understanding The Role of Women In The Latin American Drug Trade (TalkingDrugs)

  • San Francisco’s New DA Vows to Ramp Up City’s Drug War (Filter)

  • The Battle for Psychedelic Patents (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • How To Become a Psychedelic Therapist (DoubleBlind)

  • 5 Countries Where Psychedelics are Legal (Psychedelic Spotlight)

7.22.22

Cannabis

  • Senate Leadership Introduces Legislation to End Federal Marijuana Prohibition (NORML)

  • District of Columbia: Mayor Signs Legislation Prohibiting Most Employers from Discriminating Against Cannabis Consumers (NORML)

  • Legal cannabis is producing more plastic waste than pot (Leafly)

  • Colorado Company To Research Cannabis As A Treatment For Parkinson’s Disease (Forbes)

  • Biden Says He’s ‘Working On’ Bill To Release Cannabis Inmates (High Times)

  • Germany, Luxembourg, Malta And The Netherlands Discuss Marijuana Legalization At Historic Joint Meeting (Marijuana Moment)

  • Colorado Springs Recreational Cannabis Initiative Qualifies for November Ballot (High Times)

  • Minnesota Is Home To America's First Cannabis Disc Golf Course (MIX 108)

  • House Passes Bill Permitting Weed Ads on TV and Radio (High Times)

  • Colorado's New Lead Marijuana Monitor Treks Through Heavy Issues (Westword)

  • Cannabis Telemedicine Launches in Montana (High Times)

  • Montana Marijuana Businesses Face Seemingly Endless Cycle Of Local Votes On Allowing Them To Operate (Marijuana Moment)

  • People Busted for Weed in the U.K. Could Lose Passports Under Proposed Rules (High Times)

  • Missouri Marijuana Legalization Measure In Danger Of Not Qualifying For Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Denver officials want to save struggling cannabis delivery businesses (The Denver Post)

  • Study Finds Australians Support Cannabis Use Over Smoking Tobacco (High Times)

  • House Will Not Vote On Marijuana Amendments For Veterans And Public Housing Residents After Committee Snag (Marijuana Moment)

  • Marijuana use is higher among US states that have legalized recreational cannabis use (News-Medical)

LSD

  • The Doors of Expression: LSD Alters Epigenetics and Protein Induction (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Science Feature: MindMed’s LSD Trial for ADHD (Microdose)

  • Watch John Lennon explain that 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' was not about LSD (Far Out)

Magic Mushrooms

  • The Sloppy Science of Psilocybin Microdosing Surveys (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • A single dose of psilocybin has long-lasting antidepressant-like effects in fruit flies (PsyPost)

  • Restrictions on Psilocybin ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Are Easing as Research Ramps Up (Scientific American)

MDMA

  • Patient safety issues halt trial for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy during Health Canada review (CBC)

  • 'Corrective' measures ordered, but Health Canada says 2nd MDMA trial can continue (CBC)

DMT

  • Teenager Used LSD And DMT To Help Overcome Trauma, Case Report Says (IFLScience)

Ayahuasca

  • Churches sue to use hallucinogenic tea in religious practice (UPI)

  • The Global Ayahuasca Boom: What About the Conservation of the Ayahuasca Vine? (Chacruna)

5-MeO-DMT

  • The Story Behind a 1984 Hallucinogenic Pamphlet From Denton Is Just as Trippy as Its Subject (Dallas Observer)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • Mydecine Files Full Patent Application Covering MYCO-006 Family of Novel Short-Acting MDMA Analogs (Psychedelic Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Weed vapes probably sending a toxic gas to your lungs, study finds (Salon)

  • Cannabis getting stronger with synthetic versions added leading to psychosis, report warns (Independent.ie)

Ketamine

  • Largest-ever clinical study of ketamine therapy shows that at-home model can be a safe, effective treatment for anxiety and depression; 62% fewer patients report suicidal ideation after four sessions (PR Newswire)

  • Ketamine Beneficial For Treating Neonatal, And Pediatric Epilepsy: Study (Medical Dialogues)

Miscellaneous

  • The Long, Strange Relationship Between Psychedelics and Telepathy (VICE)

  • DEA Sued Over ‘Unlawful’ Delays On Psychedelic And Marijuana Public Records Requests Through FOIA (Marijuana Moment)

  • Colorado Psychedelics Legalization Measure Qualifies for November Ballot (DoubleBlind)

  • Keeping the Hippie Dream Alive (The New York Times)

  • Accessibility Is Key for the Psychedelic Revolution (Pharmacy Times)

  • Podcast aims to raise awareness about future of psychedelic treatments (CBC)

  • Skip the trip – does the world need non-hallucinogenic psychedelics? (leafie)

  • New Regulations for Psychedelics? Here's What Investors Need to Know (The Motley Fool)

7.29.22

Cannabis

  • Weedmaps again advertising illegal marijuana retailers and products, complaints allege (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Singapore Executes Man for Cannabis Trafficking (High Times)

  • House Passes Bipartisan Marijuana Research Bill, With Senate Expected To Send It To President Soon (Marijuana Moment)

  • Zimbabwe OKs First Medicinal Cannabis Sales (High Times)

  • Secret Australian marijuana facility exposes location after turning sky pink (The Washington Post)

  • Biden Administration Proposes Prisoner Swap To Free Brittney Griner (High Times)

  • Over 850 Doctors in Thailand Protest Pot Legalization (High Times)

  • Senator Files Bill To Allow Marijuana Advertising On TV And Radio In Legal States (Marijuana Moment)

  • The 'World's Biggest Cannabis Scam' Is Totally Unravelling (VICE)

  • Bronx Cannabis Hub Fosters Opportunity in Communities Hit Hard by Arrests (Filter)

  • Cannabis Users Less Likely to Face Complications After Spinal Fusion Surgery (High Times)

  • 15 State Attorneys General File Brief Opposing Lawsuit To Help Put Medical Marijuana On Nebraska Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Thai businesses cash in on cannabis, from milk tea to toothpaste (Reuters)

  • Missouri Marijuana Legalization Initiative Short Of Signatures Needed For Ballot In County Reviews (Marijuana Moment)

  • New Hampshire stands alone in New England as only state without legal marijuana (WMUR)

LSD

  • New Zealand Government Grants $650K For LSD Microdosing Trials (Benzinga)

  • Operation Julie: Rural Wales LSD bust becomes a musical (BBC)

Magic Mushrooms

  • DEA Sued Again Over Refusal To Allow Psilocybin Access For Patients Despite Federal Law (Marijuana Moment)

  • Why some of Colorado’s foremost shrooms advocates won’t be voting to legalize psilocybin (The Denver Post)

  • Legal psilocybin prescriptions in Canada (Drug Science)

  • Project Solace: The World’s Largest Medical Psilocybin Access and Data Project (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • COMPASS Pathways launches phase II clinical trial of psilocybin therapy in anorexia nervosa (Psychedelic Alpha)

DMT

  • U.S. Patent Grant to Strengthen Small Pharma’s DMT Patent Strategy With Injectable Formulation (Psychedelic Alpha)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • DEA Cancels Proposed Ban Of Five Psychedelics, Giving Scientists More Time To Research Therapeutic Benefits (Marijuana Moment)

  • Working with Indigenous allies is the ethical way to develop psychedelic-based pharmaceuticals (STAT News)

  • Festival drugs: Warning over 'imposter' substances threat (BBC)

  • Ecstasy for the 21st Century: Designer Drugs to Improve MDMA Therapy (Psychedelic Science Review)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Easy On The Eyes — This Company Reports Using a Unique Synthetic Cannabinoid Derivative To Treat Glaucoma (Benzinga)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Doctors warn ‘dangerous’ laughing gas is becoming an ‘epidemic’ amid rise in hospitalisations (The Independent)

  • A Law will Prohibit the Sale of Nitrous Oxide or “Laughing Gas” to Minors in Bulgaria (Novinite.com)

Ketamine

  • At Home Sublingual Ketamine Exhibits Rapid And Significant Antidepressant And Anxiolytic Effects (Medical Dialogues)

  • Ketamine found to be unlikely to lead to addiction (Medical Xpress)

  • Silo Pharma Announces Positive Results from its Topically Administered Formulation of Ketamine (Psychedelic Alpha)

Miscellaneous

  • Biden Administration Plans For Legal Psychedelic Therapies Within Two Years (The Intercept)

  • San Francisco Launches Bid to Decriminalize Psychedelics (Filter)

  • Your Genes May Determine How You React To Psychedelic Drugs (IFLScience)

  • The Psychoactive Substances Act on Trial (Volteface)

  • The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs (WIRED)

  • Trump Urges ‘Very Quick Trial’ and Death Penalty for Drug Dealers (High Times)

  • The Psychedelics Industry’s Next Hurdle Is How to Go Mainstream (Bloomberg)

  • One in four Americans say they’ve tried at least one psychedelic drug (YouGov)

  • Microdosing: Scientists tackle psychedelic trend becoming ‘creative enhancer of choice’ (The Sydney Morning Herald)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 2.11.22

Cannabis

  • South Carolina Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill Officially Approved In Senate, Heads For House Consideration (Marijuana Moment)

  • Maryland Lawmakers Introduce Adult-Use Cannabis Legalization Bill (High Times)

  • UK trial of medical cannabis and long covid to get underway this month (Cannabis Health News)

  • The Super Bowl won’t be lit: no cannabis ads allowed (The Verge)

  • Bill Introduced to Raise THC Limit in Hemp to One Percent (High Times)

  • Cannabis Store Co-owned By Top Virginia Senator Sells Mislabeled Products With Illegal THC Content, Media Investigation Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Study Shreds Cannabis ‘Amotivational Syndrome’ Theory (High Times)

  • Flower still king of US marijuana market, though supremacy waning (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Oklahoma Becomes Marijuana Legalization Battleground Between Advocates, With Legal Challenges And A New Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

  • New York Cracks Down on Illegal Cannabis Businesses (High Times)

  • Missouri Supreme Court Unanimously Orders Medical Marijuana Applicant Disclosures (Marijuana Moment)

  • Pennsylvania Senate committee holds first-ever hearing on legalizing recreational marijuana (WGAL)

  • Police Seizure Of Marijuana Dispensary Cash Leads To Federal Litigation (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis platform Leafly closes merger with SPAC, goes public on Nasdaq (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • The Eternal Pricing Struggle of UK Medical Cannabis Patients (TalkingDrugs)

  • Weedmaps Ad Satirizes Plight Of Broccoli Emoji As Marijuana Stand-In On Social Media (Marijuana Moment)

  • Young cannabis users at increased risk of repeat stroke (Medical News Today)

  • Federally Owned Utility Company Walks Back Threat To Block Electricity For Marijuana Businesses (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cali Vibes Rocks Long Beach, Allowing Cannabis (High Times)

  • How does cannabis use affect brain health? Caution advised, more research needed, experts say (ScienceDaily)

LSD

  • Microdose Psychedelics Presents a Molecular Masterclass: The LSD Conference (GlobeNewswire)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Psilocybin microdosing does not reduce symptoms of depression or anxiety, according to placebo-controlled study (PsyPost)

  • Lawmakers say no to bill legalizing psilocybin-assisted therapy in Maine (The Portland Press Herald)

  • Oregon proposes only using one type of mushroom for new psilocybin system, and no pills (OPB)

  • More States Follow Oregon’s Lead Toward Legal Psilocybin Therapy (Lucid News)

  • Usona Identifies Controlled Crystal Engineering Process for Large-Scale Synthesis of Psilocybin Polymorphs (Business Wire)

  • Maine CDC Director Opposes Bill to Legalize Therapeutic Psilocybin (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • The Many Types of Psychedelic Mushrooms (Truffle Report)

  • Mazatec Shamanic Knowledge and Psilocybin Mushrooms (Chacruna)

MDMA

DMT

Ayahuasca

  • Creating Awareness on Sexual Abuse in Ayahuasca Communities: A Review of Chacruna’s Guidelines (Chacruna)

5-MeO-DMT

  • Scientists Create Cell-Based Psychedelic Toad Venom, a Potential 5-MeO-DMT “Bio-Factory” (Lucid News)

Mescaline

Iboga

  • Osoyoos Indian Band eyes cutting-edge drug treatment centre (Vancouver Sun)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • Cybin Announces Grant of U.S. Patent Covering its Proprietary Compound CYB004 (Deuterated DMT) for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders (Psilocybin Alpha)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Another new weapon to beat Corona, first 'nasal spray' launched in India (News Track)

  • Nitrous Oxide Safe For Dental Procedures In Children With Sickle Cell Disease: Study (Medical Dialogues)

Ketamine

  • Ketamine effectively silences suicidal thoughts, especially in bipolar patients (Study Finds)

  • Researching Ketamine for Social Anxiety Disorder (Truffle Report)

  • Yale researcher receives grant to study effects of ketamine in individuals with epilepsy (Yale Daily News)

  • Trip Tunes: A Conversation with Producer Jon Hopkins About Making Music for Ketamine (DoubleBlind)

  • Ketamine Infusions in the Home May Facilitate Safe Treatment Access During the Pandemic (Pharmacy Times)

Miscellaneous

  • Can microdosing psychedelics boost mental health? Here’s what the evidence suggests. (National Geographic)

  • Utah House Overwhelmingly Approves Psychedelics Study Task Force Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • Maryland Senate Bill Would Provide ‘Cost-Free Access’ To Psychedelics For Military Veterans (Marijuana Moment)

  • Psychedelics Offer New Route to Recovery from Eating Disorders (NEO.LIFE)

  • Are Psychedelics the Future of Pain Relief? (VICE)

  • Michigan Activists Submit Psychedelics Decriminalization Language (High Times)

  • DEA Faces Backlash Over Proposed Scheduling Of Five Psychedelic Compounds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Proposed Drug-Decrim Ballot Initiative All Set in Washington State (Filter)

  • Can Psychedelics Make People More Drawn to Conspiracy Theories? (Sam Woolfe)

  • Yes, Psychedelics Do Change Our Metaphysical Beliefs (DoubleBlind)

  • Panel Discusses Coalition Building to Unlock Therapeutic Effects of Psychedelics (The Yale School)

  • Legal Psychedelics: The U.S. Cities Where Psilocybin, LSD And Others Are Decriminalized (Healing Maps)

  • Canada’s Reforms on Psychedelics Are Slowly Taking Shape (Bloomberg)

  • Survey Shows 65% of Affected Americans Want Access to Psychedelic Treatments for Mental Health Conditions (Pharmacy Times)

  • New Polling by Mind Medicine Australia Reveals Over 60% of Australians Support Increased Access to Psychedelic Medicines (Mind Medicine Australia)

  • Big Pharma In Psychedelics: Inside Mindset Pharma’s Deal With Otsuka (Forbes)

  • Using Real-World Evidence to Accelerate Psychedelic Drug Development (Truffle Report)

  • Is city getting ‘high’ on hallucinating drugs? (The Hindu)

  • Drug Euphoria Is a Good Thing, Actually (Filter)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 12.24.21

Cannabis

  • Analysis: Unregulated Delta-8 Vape Products Frequently Mislabeled, May Contain Heavy Metals (NORML)

  • Malta Officially Legalizes Marijuana With President’s Signature, Becoming First In Europe To End Cannabis Prohibition (Marijuana Moment)

  • Several States to Usher In the New Year with Cannabis Liberalization Laws (NORML)

  • The Next States to Legalize Recreational Marijuana (MSN)

  • Pfizer Bets On Medical Cannabis With $6.7 Billion Acquisition (Forbes)

  • Scientists are (finally) studying how weed affects athletic performance and recovery (Leafly)

  • New York Senator Files Bill To Extend Marijuana Equity Benefits To Gay, Lesbian And Bisexual People (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cartels Ditch Pot and Opium Fields for Synthetic Drugs, Mexico Defense Secretary Says (High Times)

  • Ohio: Citizens’ Petition Seeks to Compel Lawmakers to Hold Marijuana Legalization Vote (NORML)

  • Senator Calls For Federal Marijuana Standard To Measure Impaired Driving (Marijuana Moment)

  • Top Maryland Lawmaker Files Marijuana Legalization Referendum For 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Iowa Democrats Announce Plan To Let Voters Decide On Marijuana Legalization Amid GOP Resistance (Marijuana Moment)

  • Whole-Plant Cannabis Extract Reduces Epileptic Seizures By 86% in Small Study (High Times)

  • Researcher Uses Reddit To Learn What Kinds Of Marijuana Posts Influenced Legalization Attitudes (Marijuana Moment)

  • Pair of Cops Booked After Being Caught Smoking Pot in Mississippi (High Times)

  • Marijuana Group Releases ‘Robbery Preparedness Guide’ For Dispensaries Amid Spike In Thefts (Marijuana Moment)

  • Dr. Sanjay Gupta adds to chorus of cannabis research on autism in 2021 (Leafly)

  • Legal Cannabis Outsells Ontario Illicit Market for First Time (High Times)

  • These were the weirdest weed news stories of 2021 (Leafly)

LSD

  • U.S. FDA puts plans to test LSD in anxiety patients in clinical study on hold (Reuters)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Canada’s Psilocybin Policy Reform Movement Continues to Make Progress Federally (Truffle Report)

  • FDA Approves Psilocybin For Binge Eating Study By Tryp Therapeutics (Benzinga)

Ayahuasca

  • Global ayahuasca trend drives deforestation in Brazil’s Acre state (Mongabay)

Morning Glory Seeds

  • Study shows common flower species holds promise for beneficial psychedelic drugs (Newswise)

Ketamine

  • Ketamine Therapy Quickly Reduces Depression and Suicidal Thoughts (SciTechDaily)

DXM

Miscellaneous

  • Port Townsend Becomes 13th City to Decriminalize Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

  • Psychedelics: The newest tool in nuclear negotiations? (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

  • How Should Psychedelic Medicine Handle “Flashbacks”? (Mad in America)

  • New center to study psychedelics pops up at University of Texas at Austin (My San Antonio)

  • The Dumbest Drug Scare Stories of 2021 (VICE)

  • DEA Wants To Help Parents Decode The Emojis Young People Use To Discuss Marijuana And Other ‘Bomb Ass’ Drugs (Marijuana Moment)

  • GOP Lawmakers File Bills To Streamline Research Into Marijuana, Psychedelics And Other Schedule I Drugs (Marijuana Moment)

  • Colorado Ballot Initiatives Filed to Legalize Psychedelics (Truffle Report)

  • Two Leaders in Psychedelics Industry and the Harm Reduction Approach (Nasdaq)

  • How Do Hallucinogenic Drugs Change Our Personality? (Psychology Today)

  • Microdosing companion app Houston wants to be your guide to 'inner space' (Mashable)

  • Why Psychedelic Research May Bring the Next Big Breakthrough in Dementia Treatment (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • MYND Life Sciences Acquires Rights for the Use of Psychedelics to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease and other Dementias (Psilocybin Alpha)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 7.30.21

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Cannabis

  • Barcelona cannabis clubs face closure in new legal setback (The Guardian)

  • Black People in Colorado Are Still Arrested for Weed Twice as Much as Everyone Else (MERRY JANE)

  • Epilepsy Patients Who Use ‘Artisanal CBD’ Have Higher Quality Of Life, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Is medical cannabis really a magic bullet? (The Guardian)

  • New Study Finds California Cannabis Farms Irrigating with Groundwater May Affect Stream Flows (Sierra Sun Times)

  • Ohio Lawmakers Officially File Marijuana Legalization Bill In Historic First For The State (Marijuana Moment)

  • You Can Get a Free Eighth of Weed For Getting Vaccinated in SF (Broke Ass Stuart)

  • California Senator Seeks Federal Clarification On Medical Marijuana Use In Hospitals (Marijuana Moment)

  • How Mexico Has Legalized But Still Not Regulated Cannabis (Filter)

  • Why cannabis is still a banned Olympics substance (BBC)

  • Pop Star Lorde Smokes Weed Out of DIY Fennel Bulb Bong in New Music Video (MERRY JANE)

  • Study: Marijuana Legalization Laws Don’t Undermine Tobacco Smoking Prevention Efforts (NORML)

LSD

  • New study sheds light on how LSD’s entropic effects on the brain impact language production (PsyPost)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Oregon State Board Says Psilocybin Is Effective At Treating Certain Mental Health Condition (Marijuana Moment)

  • Psilocybin appears to alter how the brain integrates tactile sensory inputs (PsyPost)

  • TheraPsil Launches New Campaign for Psilocybin Access (Truffle Report)

  • Why Don’t Magic Mushroom Spores Contain Psilocybin? (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Psilocybe Cyanescens: A Mycologist’s Guide to Wavy Caps (DoubleBlind)

  • Health Canada dragging feet on approving magic mushrooms for therapeutic use, patients and advocates say (CBC)

  • More Details on the Psilocybin Mushroom Bluing Reaction (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Florida researchers work to understand power of psychedelics to treat mental illness (ABC7 Southwest Florida)

MDMA

  • MDMA-assisted cognitive-behavioral therapy may help couples overcome PTSD (PsyPost)

  • MDMA might be able to improve your already loving relationship, suggests Yale ethicist (KCRW)

  • 'You Can Forgive Yourself:' Molly Helps Vets with PTSD, New Study Says (Military.com)

  • How to reduce your risk of harm when taking MDMA and ecstasy (Metro)

  • 2 Music Playlists For Therapeutic MDMA Sessions (Maps of the Mind)

DMT

  • MindMed Announces Initiation of Phase 1 Clinical Trial of Intravenous DMT (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

  • Psychedelics, Religion, and the DEA’s Quest for Soul (Psychedelics Today)

  • Drinking Psychedelic Brew Ayahuasca May Help Drug And Alcohol Addicts Quit (IFLScience)

  • Joe Rogan And Comedian Ari Shaffir Discuss Tripping Balls On Ayahuasca (BroBible)

Iboga

  • Gabon’s government is tripping for a psychedelic plant (Financial Times)

  • Ibogaine: The Psychedelic Drug That Could Fight Addiction (Discover Magazine)

  • MINDCURE Launches Second Stage of Manufacturing Synthetic Ibogaine for Use in Psychedelic Clinical Research (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Synthetic cannabis warning: Second death from 'dangerous' batch in Taranaki (New Zealand Herald)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Mindful Use of Nitrous Oxide: How to be a Connoisseur of Getting High (Maps of the Mind)

Ketamine

  • Tucson wrongful death lawsuit questions ketamine usage (ABC15 Arizona)

  • Ketamine Therapy and Addiction Risk Management: Part III (Truffle Report)

  • Understanding Where Ketamine Comes From (Healing Maps)

Miscellaneous

  • House Rejects AOC Amendment To Promote Research Into Psychedelics’ Medical Benefits (Marijuana Moment)

  • $40m psychedelic medicine institute launches in Melbourne (The Sydney Morning Herald)

  • Psychedelic trips could soon be part of therapy — here’s what those sessions will look like (CNBC)

  • How TikTok's Viral Psychedelic Water Might Affect Your Mood (Mashed)

  • Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte Is About to Be Investigated for All the Drug Dealers He's Killed (MERRY JANE)

  • Controversies Around California’s Psychedelic Decriminalization Law Senate Bill 519 (Chacruna)

  • Judaism’s Psychedelic Renaissance (Tablet Magazine)

  • Grandparents of Psychedelics Ann and Sasha Shulgin Honored by Friends and Fellow Researchers (Lucid News)

  • Corrections to Misinformation Being Spread about MAPS and IPCI (Dr. Bronner's)

  • “Undoing Drugs”—Maia Szalavitz’s Profound History of Harm Reduction (Filter)

  • The Graeme Carl Scale: 5 Levels of a Psychedelic Experience (Maps of the Mind)

  • Mestizo Identity and Decolonial Psychedelic Futures (Chacruna)

  • Fireside Project for Psychedelic Peer Support: An Update (Truffle Report)

  • Veteran Psychedelics Advocate/Attorney Launches New Venture Capital Firm (Forbes)

  • Highlight on Life Clips, AI, and Speech Based Technology in Psychedelic Science (Dark Matters)

  • The Lilly Psychonautic Centre – A Vision from the Future (Maps of the Mind)

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