This Week in Psychedelics - 1.7.22

Cannabis

• Sadiq Khan plans pilot to ‘decriminalise’ minor cannabis offences in London (The Guardian)

• Legal recreational marijuana sales begin in Montana (KPAX)

• Federal Marijuana Monopoly Finally Ends As Two Companies Harvest Cannabis Approved By DEA (Marijuana Moment)

• New year rings in key changes to state marijuana markets (Marijuana Business Daily)

• GOP-Controlled New Hampshire House Votes To Legalize Marijuana Possession And Cultivation (Marijuana Moment)

• Colorado: Governor Issues Pardons to Over 1,300 Marijuana Offenders (NORML)

• Wyoming Marijuana Activists Turn Focus To 2024 Ballot For Decriminalization And Medical Cannabis Initiatives (Marijuana Moment)

• The top cannabis research studies of 2021 (Leafly)

• Incoming Virginia GOP Governor Won’t ‘Overturn’ Legal Marijuana Possession, But Casts Doubt On Sales (Marijuana Moment)

• Top Kansas Democrats Unveil Plan To Put Medical And Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization On The 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Two recreational marijuana initiatives might appear on Oklahoma ballot in fall (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Iowa Democrats Unveil Marijuana Resolution To Put Legalization On Ballot For Voters To Decide (Marijuana Moment)

• New Republican-Led Bill Would Legalize Medical Cannabis In Kentucky (Marijuana Moment)

• South Dakota Lawmakers Prepare Dozens Of Cannabis Reform Bills (High Times)

• Marijuana Decriminalization Reduces Arrests And Racial Disparities In Law Enforcement, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Tiny but mighty: Micro-cultivators dominated 2021 (Leafly)

• The cost of medical marijuana in Louisiana (KSLA)

• Israeli startup a go-to resource in medical cannabis world (I24News)

• Oklahoma Pot Farm Slapped with RICO From Next Door Neighbor (High Times)

• Cannabis users report higher quality of life than non-users (Leafie)

Magic Mushrooms

• Washington Psilocybin Bill Would Legalize Supported Adult Use (Bill of Health)

• COMP360 psilocybin study of 89 healthy participants published in Journal of Psychopharmacology (Psilocybin Alpha)

• New Hampshire Bipartisan Bills Want to Reduce Penalties on Psilocybin, Other Drugs (Truffle Report)

• Tryp Therapeutics Announces Advancement of Phase 2a Clinical Trial in Binge Eating Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Filament Health Announces Health Canada Approval for Phase II Trial Administering New Psilocybin Microdose Formulation (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Red Light Holland Psilocybin Truffles, Sold in The Netherlands, Complete Second Evaluation Under a Health Canada Approved cGMP Laboratory (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psilocybin therapy options could expand in Hawaiʻi (Hawai'i Public Radio)

MDMA

• Drug testing: Dramatic drop in bath salts being sold as MDMA (Radio New Zealand)

• Microdosing MDMA: What Research Says About Doing It For Mental Health Issues (Healing Maps)

DMT

• Entheon Biomedical Provides Update on DMT Human Trial and Announces Regulatory Submission to Ethics Committee (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• IRS defends denial of Des Moines church's tax-free status over use of psychedelic drug (KCCI)

• Anti-Drug GOP Senator Helps Psychedelic Church With Fight Against DEA And IRS (Marijuana Moment)

Iboga

• National Institute on Drug Abuse to Test Ibogaine For Addiction Treatment (Truffle Report)

• Caribbean Facility Finds Consistent Success Using Ibogaine for Anxiety and Trauma Treatment (PR Newswire)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• MindMed Successfully Completes Phase 1 Clinical Trial of 18-MC (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Mindset Pharma Teams Up with The McQuade Center to Develop 2 Families of Novel Psychedelic Compounds (Psychedelic Spotlight)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Using cannabinoids to treat obesity (Medical Xpress)

• More needs to be done to tackle synthetic cannabinoids, experts say (Stuff.co.nz)

Ketamine

• Awakn Life Sciences Expands World's First Ketamine Study Beyond Gambling Disorder to Include Additional Behavioral Addictions (Yahoo!)

• PharmaTher Announces Publication of Research Data for KETABET™ (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• The Promises and Perils of Psychedelic Health Care (The New York Times)

• Health Canada Grants Special Access to Restricted Drugs for Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Magic mushroom companies are on the Nasdaq now. That’s a recipe for a bad trip (The Guardian)

• Psychedelics Can Change Your View on the Nature of Reality (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Psychedelics in 2022: What to Expect (Truffle Report)

• Fact Check-London Mayor not decriminalising drugs (Reuters)

• Psychedelics 2021: A Year in Review (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Will overdose deaths force an end to the US ‘war on drugs’? (Financial Times)

• Philippines' Duterte says will never apologise for drug war deaths (Reuters)

• New York Prisons Punished 1,600 People for False Drug Test Results (Filter)

• Now psychedelics are coming to your medicine cabinet (ISRAEL21c)

• How Psychedelic Therapy Fuses Indigenous Shamanism With Western Science (IFLScience)

• Pop Culture Boosts Acceptance of Plant Medicine (GlobeNewswire)

• Can A Psychedelic Experience Improve 2022? (Reality Sandwich)

• Psychedelic Drug Policy Reform in 2021: A Year in Review (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelics Will Have a Big Presence at SXSW in 2022 (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Was 2021 the Year Psychedelics Conquered Capitalism? (Green Entrepreneur)

• Startup To Host Psychedelic Trips In The Metaverse (Forbes)

• Is ‘The Trip’ Essential to The Psychedelic Experience? (Psychedelic Spotlight)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 8.27.21

Cannabis

• Legal Pot Delivery Sales Launch in Denver, Colorado (High Times)

• New Jersey: Many Cities Opting Out of Retail Marijuana Sales Ahead of Rollout (NORML)

• New Mexico Approves Cannabis Rules and Prepares for Legalization (High Times)

• Manitoba and Quebec still won’t let you grow weed at home (Leafly)

• Third North Carolina Senate Committee Approves Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Marijuana firms and advocates struggle as Instagram targets accounts (Marijuana Business Daily)

• The Ecology of Good Weed (Nautilus)

• What is delta-10? (Leafly)

• Feds And California Governor Exploring Rules For Medical Marijuana Use In Hospitals (Marijuana Moment)

• Commercial Drivers Consume Cannabis More than Any Other Drug, Data Shows (High Times)

• Ohio Attorney General Certifies 2022 Marijuana Legalization Ballot Petition (Marijuana Moment)

• Aurora sends first shipment of ‘free’ marijuana to France (Marijuana Business Daily)

LSD

• Microdosing LSD Makes Me a Better Mom (Psychedelics Today)

Magic Mushrooms

• Will A Psilocybin Patch Be The Next Big Thing In Psychedelics? (Forbes)

• Psilocybin Therapy and the Rise of Existential Medicine (DoubleBlind)

• All-Inclusive Magic Mushroom Retreats Are the New Luxury ‘Trips’ (Bloomberg)

• Tryp Therapeutics Completes Psychotherapy Training for Phase 2a Study at the University of Florida (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The Rise of Shroom Slang and the New Language of Tripping (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

• Women Behind the Scenes in Psychedelic Science: Making MDMA a Legal Medicine with Amy Emerson (Chacruna)

DMT

• Psilera Collaborates with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to Research DMT and New Analogues to Combat Addiction (Psilocybin Alpha)

• How Long Does DMT Last? (Healing Maps)

• PharmaDrug Announces Clinical Research Collaboration with The Johns Hopkins University to Evaluate DMT in a Comparative Clinical Study (Psilocybin Alpha)

• DMT-Inspired Artwork by Harry Pack (Sam Woolfe)

• What Is DMT? From Its Purpose To Understanding Its Side Effects (Healing Maps)

Ayahuasca

• What Do Ayahuasca Visions Really Mean? (Reality Sandwich)

• Ancestral Psychedelic Therapy Using Ayahuasca (Benzinga)

• An Ayahuasca Research Break Down (Reality Sandwich)

5-MeO-DMT

• Spanish couple arrested over toad-venom and ayahuasca rituals (The Guardian)

Peyote

• What Is Peyote And How Does It Work? (Healing Maps)

Salvia Divinorum

• Twitter Thread Of The Craziest Experiences People Had Tripping On Salvia Proves We Were Lucky To Survive The 2000s (BroBible)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Scientists Isolate Two New Compounds from Toad Venom (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Mindset Pharma Broadens its IP Portfolio by Filing U.S. Provisional Patent Extending its DMT and 5-MeO-DMT Inspired Psychedelic Drug Candidates (Psilocybin Alpha)

Nitrous Oxide

• Neuropathy After Recreational Use of Laughing Gas (MedPage Today)

Ketamine

• There’s Finally an Accurate Drug-Checking Kit for Ketamine (Filter)

• Same But Different: Antidepressant Mechanisms of Psilocybin and Ketamine (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Awakn Life Sciences Initiates the First Ketamine Treatment Study for Gambling Addiction Led by Professor Celia Morgan (Yahoo! Finance)

• Ketamine For Pain: Understanding The Pros And Cons (Healing Maps)

• HMNC Brain Health and Develco Pharma Partner to Initiate Ketamine Study Targeting Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) (Yahoo! Finance)

Miscellaneous

• California Bill To Legalize Psychedelics Possession Put On Pause Until 2022 (Marijuana Moment)

• Wisconsin University Launches Psychedelics Center With Goal Of Increasing Diversity In Research (Marijuana Moment)

• Startup Miraculix Creates First Rapid, Mobile Test Kits For Concentrations of MDMA, LSD, and Psilocybin (Lucid News)

• Psychedelics and Breastfeeding: What We Know—and Don’t Know—About a Taboo Subject (DoubleBlind)

• Study to Determine if Psychedelics Help to Quit Cigarette Smoking (High Times)

• Freaks of Color Tell Psychedelic Stories That Inspire (Lucid News)

• The Stamets Stack: Can Microdosing Really Change Your Brain? (DoubleBlind)

• Biden’s Extension of Title 42 Subjects Refugees to More Drug-War Violence (Filter)

• This West Philly Doctor Says Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Could Change Your Life (Philadelphia Magazine)

• 10 Best Trippy Festivals and Events Coming Up (Reality Sandwich)

• UK Venture Round Shines Spotlight on Europe’s Psychedelics Scene (Labiotech.eu)

• Psychedelic-Induced Theism: Common Misconceptions (Truffle Report)

• The Meaning of Psychedelics (Maps of the Mind)

• Why the Term ‘Drug’ is Difficult to Clearly Define (Sam Woolfe)

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