This Week in Psychedelics - 9.30.16

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Cannabis

• Where Your Representatives Stand on Marijuana (ATTN:)
• FBI: Marijuana Arrests Decline Significantly In 2015 (NORML)
• Pharma Company Admits Opposing Marijuana Legalization to Protect Its Corporate Profits (ATTN:)
• Blockchain Startups Want to Solve Cannabis' Banking Problem (Merry Jane)
• Why Marijuana Advocates Are Criticizing Chelsea Clinton (ATTN:)
• Colorado Will Use Extra Marijuana Revenue to Prevent Bullying in Schools (TIME)
• Do You Know These Stoner Superstitions About Cannabis Rules and Etiquette? (Leafly)
• Alaska's first commercial cannabis harvest begins (Alaska Dispatch News)
• A company just had another successful test of a cannabis drug for epilepsy – and now their stock is spiking (Business Insider)
• Why You Shouldn't Blame Gary Johnson's Memory on Pot (ATTN:)
• Meet "Asamiko" the New Cannabis Mascot of Japan (Merry Jane)
• Common Sense Proposal Would Treat Marijuana Like Tobacco in New Jersey (Reason)
• BDS Analytics Launches Scientific Consumer Survey of Nation's Cannabis Users (Westword)
• How this tiny Middle Eastern nation came to lead the world in medical marijuana research (The Cannabist)
• Weed Weekends: Are Marijuana Bars Coming To Denver? (Dope Magazine)
• Medical Marijuana Replaces More Dangerous Drugs (Reason)
• Alaska Reporter Who Quit On Air in Support of Marijuana Legalization Facing 24 Years in Prison (Reason)
• Everything You Need to Know About Cannabis Flavonoids (Merry Jane)
• Gentleman ejected from Uber for smoking "medicine" (Boing Boing)
• Hebrew U fund invests in cannabis sorting technology (The Times of Israel)
• 5 Experts Weigh in on Cannabis Concentrates and How to Use Them (Leafly)
• The fitness-first, cannabis-second 420 Games come to Denver this weekend, boulder next (The Denver Post)
• How to Combine Cannabis and Prostate Play (Leafly)
• Chubut first to accept cannabis oil (Buenos Aires Herald)

LSD

• Silicon Valley Professionals 'Microdosing' LSD Before Work (The Daily Caller)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Ecstasy prices reveal its path from city to city (Futurity)
• How Ecstasy Augments Psychological Therapy in PTSD (Medscape)
• Ecstasy drug therapy (Al Jazeera)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Actual Scientists Found That Ayahuasca Can Help You Think More Creatively (The Huffington Post)
• The Agonizing Enlightenment of Ayahuasca (Reality Sandwich)
• Attend The 2nd World Ayahuasca Conference to Meet Leading Healers And Experts (Reset.me)
• "How Ayahuasca Helped Me Recover from a Traumatic Injury" (Psychedelic Times)
• Ayahuasca and anal beads: the hallucinogenic art of Donna Huanca (The Guardian)
• What is hallucinogen Ayahuasca? (ABC Online)
• DMT, a hard-core hallucinogenic, also known as 'dream time', causing danger (Herald Sun)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• "Peyote at a Crossroads": Documentary Traces an Ancient Bond Between Plant and People (KRTS)

Morning Glory Seeds

• Students hospitalized after ingesting hallucinogen at Eureka High School (Eureka Times Standard)

Dissociatives

• Could 'party drug' ketamine be a treatment for cocaine addiction? (International Business Times)
• 'Club Drug' Ketamine Useful In Migraine Treatment, Researchers Say (Inquisitr)
• Ketamine Shows Signs of Efficacy in Treating PTSD (Monthly Prescribing Reference)
• 5 safety tips for cops when dealing with a subject high on PCP (PoliceOne.com)

Opiates/Opioids

• Just say no to Narcan? Heroin rescue efforts draw backlash (CBS News)
• Is methadone an answer to Alaska's heroin crisis? (Alaska Dispatch News)
• Rite Aid Expands Naloxone Dispensing Program in Four Additional States (Yahoo! Finance)
• The US heroin habit is growing, and 2 of Mexico's most powerful cartels are fighting to supply it (Business Insider)
• NYC wants to make it safer for drug addicts to shoot up (New York Post)
• CVS Health (CVS) Announces Expansion of Naloxone Accessibility (Street Insider)
• Pennsylvania Artist Tackles Heroin Epidemic, Despite Police Intervention (The Huffington Post)
• Naloxone can help save lives in the battle against heroin and opiates (The Journal Times)
• 10Listens: The cost of anti-overdose drug Naloxone (WBIR)

Kratom

• 45 Congressmen Ask DEA Not to Ban Kratom Next Week (U.S. News & World Report)
• Kratom Drug Ban May Cripple Promising Painkiller Research (Scientific American)
• Is Kratom the CBD of Opioids? (Reality Sandwich)
• The DEA Is About to Kill Kratom and Internet Sales Are Going Crazy (Gizmodo)
• Kratom Is A Drug By Any Measure - Treat It Like One (American Council on Science and Health)

Kava

• Kava council calls for restructure (The Fiji Times)
• Committee endorses standards (The Fiji Times)

Khat

• Miraa continues to serve as unifying symbol of divided Horn of Africa (Daily Nation)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• ACLU Urges Mass. Court to Vacate 24,000 Drug Cases Based on Tainted Lab Evidence (Reason)
• Here's What Happened When a German Reporter Took a Bunch of Hard Drugs on TV (Thump)
• New Species Discovered, And It's A Psychedelichen (VolteFace)
• Is the FDA Too Cozy With Drug Companies? (TIME)
• Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte Invokes the Holocaust to Defend 'War on Drugs' (TIME)
• Psychedelic experiences might "cure" smoking and OCD. Should we allow them? (Vox)
• David Bowie on cocaine in 1974 (Boing Boing)
• Donald Trump Shows How Drugs are Used as Weapons in Politics (ATTN:)
• Maine Gov. Paul LePage's 'Binder of Drug Dealers' Shows He Was Lying About the Race of Arrestees (Reason)

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 (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 7.15.16

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Cannabis

• The Democratic Party Made a Big Move on Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Facebook And Google Cannabis Policy Enforcement Makes No Sense (BuzzFeed)
• "420" Dating: An Interview with Molly Peckler, Cannabis Dating Website Founder (Leafly)
• This Fancy Weed Chocolate Helps You Not Get Too Stoned (Wired)
• Study: Medical Marijuana Laws Linked To Less Prescription Drug Use, Medicare Spending (NORML)
• Oregon Launches New Cannabis Worker Permit (Leafly)
• Baby Boomer Parents, Have You Come Out of the Cannabis Closet to Your Adult Kids? (Leafly)
• Allen St. Pierre Tenders His Resignation (NORML)
• New Research Sheds Light on Cannabis' Bronze Age Roots (Leafly)
• The Altered State Exhibit at Oakland Museum of California (Reality Sandwich)
• North Dakota medical cannabis petition deadline approaching (Valley News Live)
• Two Texas Lawyers Make Viral Song About Weed (ATTN:)
• Medicinal cannabis the right oil for Ellie the Staffy, her owner believes (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Should L.A. County Tax Medical Cannabis to Fight Homelessness? (Leafly)
• Colorado Pot Regulation Amendment Pulled By Its Own Supporters (Reason)
• A Cannabis Company Co-Founder Says the CEO Groped and Smelled Her (Willamette Week)
• Sen. Feinstein Will Not Be Giving Up the Drug War Anytime Soon (Reason)
• Cannabis users who put tobacco in joints 'more likely to be addicted' (The Guardian)

LSD

• Toddler may have ingested LSD near Oregon Country Fair, officials say (The Oregonian)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Understanding Different Magic Mushrooms: A Guide to 4 Common Psilocybin Mushrooms (Psychedelic Times)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Scientists Really Want to Be Allowed to Study MDMA (Inverse)
• Ecstasy: The Unplanned Addiction (Doctor Tipster)
• Could ECSTASY treat autism? Scientists call for tests on the illegal rave drug as they claim it could have 'therapeutic effects for disorders' (Daily Mail)
• New drugs warning after TITP ecstasy find (The Courier)
• Boy, 13, in critical condition after 'taking MDMA' (Metro)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Psychedelics being used to cure alcoholism (KOAT)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Whatever's in Synthetic Marijuana, It's the Opposite of Chill (Wired)
• New York Like Scene From 'The Walking Dead' After Large-Scale Marijuana Overdose (TIME)
• 33 people collapse on busy street after smoking 'synthetic cannabis' (The Telegraph)
• 'N bomb' drug gave teenager fatal heart attack (Irish Independent)

Dissociatives

• Ketamine Could Be Used To Treat Alcoholics And Alcoholism (Yahoo! News)
• Club Drug Ketamine ('Special K') Could Treat Depression (AOL UK)
• What are the effects of ketamine? (The Guardian)
• Sergeant: North Tulsa PCP bust second largest I've ever seen (KOKI)
• Resident On PCP Calls Police To Describe Hallucinations: Cops (Patch)
• Prosecutor: woman drinking, had PCP in system before deadly crash (Chicago Sun-Times)

Opiates/Opioids

• The scourge of heroin and opioid deaths still doesn't match AIDS at its worst (PolitiFact)
• Naloxone nasal spray gets temporary Health Canada approval (CBC News)
• Chaka Khan Enters Rehab for the Same Drug That Killed Prince (ATTN:)
• Congress Finally Passes Bipartisan Legislation To Address Opioid Epidemic (The Huffington Post)
• Obama to sign bill to battle heroin addiction (CNBC)

Kratom

• A Theory on Why the FDA is on the War Path for Kratom (Kratom Project)
• Kratom & Suicide – Is This Herb At Fault? (Kratom Project)
• How Long Does Kratom Stay In Your System? (Kratom Project)
• Kratom & Seizures – Is This a Side Effect (Kratom Project)
• Kratom & Constipation – Using Kratom to Treat Diarrhea (Kratom Project)

Kava

• Farmers say police involved in kava theft in Fiji (Radio New Zealand)
• THESE 3 NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS ARE GUARANTEED TO IMPROVE YOUR SEX LIFE (Maxim)

Khat

• Ingredients for date rape drug, khat, firearms seized by border agents in Manitoba (CBC News)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• How NOT To Do Psychedelics: A Guide (Collective Evolution)
• Are Psychedelics Addictive? (Psychedelic Times)
• How the War on Drugs Fails Black Communities (Reason)
• Psychoactive Substances Act: Killing people for votes (Liberal Democrat Voice)
• Philippines Drug War Out Of Control? Rodigo Duterte Wants All Addicts, Dealers Dead As Police Kill110 Suspects (International Business Times)
• Trump, Clinton, Stein and Johnson on Drugs (Reason)
• 1990s Odd News: "Too Cool to do Dugs" Pencils (Waffles at Noon)
• Lying Drug Tests Incriminate Innocent People (Reason)
• The Psychedelic Community & The Oppression of a New Religious Movement (Cognitive Liberty UK)
• Did Psychedelics Enable Steve Jobs to "Think Different"? (Collective Evolution)

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 (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 6.24.16

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Cannabis

• Is Legalization Coming to Naples, Home of Mafia-Controlled Cannabis? (Leafly)
• Microsoft is going into the marijuana business, but the cannabis cloud is already crowded (Quartz)
• Colorado Survey Finds Adolescent Marijuana Use Did Not Rise After Legalization (Reason)
• How Can Cannabis Help People with Sickle Cell Anemia? (Leafly)
• Why not allow cannabis clubs in Colorado? Debate rages (The Cannabist)
• How Does Cannabis Consumption Affect Neurodegenerative Diseases? (Leafly)
• Croatia Makes Medical Cannabis History: How Did It Happen? (Leafly)
• We went to one of the largest marijuana business conferences in the world – here's what it was like (Business Insider)
• What Situations Make You Paranoid When You're High? We Debated Cannabis Paranoia (Leafly)
• Cannabis Can Literally Mend Your Broken Heart (Green Rush Daily)
• Titans' Derrick Morgan wants NFL to study health benefits of cannabis (ESPN)
• Will Cleveland Celebrate Its Next Title with Decriminalized Cannabis? (Leafly)
• Pot Fans Unite At Cannabis Conference In NYC (CBS New York)
• Dogs fall ill after eating discarded cannabis in a park (The Telegraph)

LSD

• THE LONG, STRANGE TRIP OF LSD (SFGate)
• Scientists: Caffeine is Harmful, Unlike Cocaine and LSD (Clapway)
• Documentary: Czechoslovak Communists experimented with LSD (Prague Daily Monitor)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Magic Mushrooms for Mental Health (Brain Blogger)
• Live Every Day Like You're On Mushrooms (The Atlantic)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Global Drug Survey Warns It's the "Worst Time in a Generation" to Take MDMA (The Science Explorer)
• Three 12-year-old girls in hospital after taking ecstasy (The Guardian)
• Mum whose teenage son died of ecstasy overdose warns predatory drug pushers are deliberately designing pills for children (Mirror)
• Ecstasy pills increasingly made with child-friendly logos, says expert (The Guardian)
• Ecstasy link to teenager who died after music event at The O2 (The Wharf)
• St Columb father-of-two died after MDMA overdose (Cornish Guardian)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Plant Medicine Science: How Ayahuasca Works to Treat Depression (GroundReport)
• SBS2 Celebrates Vice Partnership By Doing Ayahuasca With James Franco (SBS)

Dissociatives

• Bench murder trial for maniac driver who slammed into florist while high on PCP, meth begins (New York Daily News)
• Police: Drunken man had more than 50 grams of PCP (Bryan-College Station Eagle)
• Naked man likely took PCP before trying to break into Garfield Heights home, report says (Cleveland.com)

Opiates/Opioids

• Heroin use in U.S. reaches "alarming" 20-year high (CBS News)
• Walgreens Leads Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse in Washington with New Programs to Help Curb Misuse of Medications and the Rise in Overdose Deaths (PharmiWeb.com)
• Why Are Dealers Cutting Fentanyl into Recreational Drugs? (VICE)
• What Gary Johnson Should Have Said About Heroin (Forbes)
• Popping pain pills: Opiate addiction has become bigger problem than heroin, cocaine in the past (Naples Daily News)
• Poppylands: Understanding Myanmar's addiction to heroin (Al Jazeera)
• 5 steps to reverse an overdose: How to use naloxone (CBC News)
• Mexico is growing 61000 new acres of opium (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Kratom

• The Ins and Outs of Using Kratom as an Alternative Addiction Treatment (Psychedelic Times)
• What to Do When You Are Addicted to Kratom (Kratom Project)
• Kratom, the obscure tea that NC senators want to keep away from the kids (The News & Observer)
• Kratom Experience – How Does Kratom Make You Feel (Kratom Project)

Kava

• The Rise Of The Kava Bar (VinePair)
• Vanuatu's kava cup runs low as thirst increases for drink of choice (The Guardian)
• Call to regulate kava consumption age (The Fiji Times)
• Mid City Now Has a Kava Bar (Eater New Orleans)

Khat

• Kenya: Muguka Farmers Demand Inclusion in Miraa Taskforce (AllAfrica)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Michael Pollan Explains Why Psychedelic Drugs Are the Ultimate Meal for Your Mind (Mother Jones)
• How Getting High and Listening to Music Games Your Dopamine Reward System (Inverse)
• Is Brazil the New Epicenter of Psychedelic Science in the World? (The Huffington Post)
• Drugs and Violence: It's More Complicated Than You Think (VolteFace)
• Psychedelics on the Dark Web (Deep Dot Web)
• Here's a Plan: Drug-Test the Rich (ATTN:)
• Drug trafficker gets 20 years thanks to emails he never sent (Engadget)
• Beyond Psychedelics 2016: Global Psychedelic Forum in Prague Takes a Holistic Approach (Psychedelic Times)

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 (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 5.13.16

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Cannabis

• State Department Says DEA Is Wrong on Marijuana Monopoly (Marijuana.com)
• This car is made out of cannabis hemp (New York Post)
• Britons want cannabis to be legalised - change is inevitable, says ex-minister (The Guardian)
• Study Questions Laws Against Driving While on Marijuana (TIME)
• Colombians Rally for Cannabis Reform (Merry Jane)
• Gary Johnson's Cannabis Consumption Is Irrelevant To His Presidential Fitness (Forbes)
• Vacant California prison could be turned into cannabis production site (SFGate)
• CBS News Caught Blatantly Distorting Cannabis Study, Says Legal Pot Doubles Fatal Car Crashes (MintPress News)
• At 2016 NYC Cannabis Parade, a push for legalizing pot (Crain's New York Business)
• Group marches to Arch advocating legal cannabis use (Fox 2 Now)
• Parents seek cannabis oil to treat kids (WRBL)
• Poll: Swing State Voters Favor Marijuana Legalization (NORML)
• Chatbot can answer all of your cannabis questions (ReadWrite)
• First Lawsuit of Its Kind Blames Marijuana for Murder (Reason)
• Talking With Teenagers About Marijuana (The New York Times)
• The Absurd Reason This Student Was Suspended Over Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Cannabis Saved My Life—Myoclonic-Astatic Epilepsy (Reset.me)
• Pot Matters: Cannabis and Veterinary Medicine (High Times)
• There's a Major Problem Marijuana Legalization Has yet to Address (ATTN:)
• High hopes riding on 'Cannabis Car' (The Sacramento Bee)
• The 5 Best Marijuana Strains for Arthritis (ATTN:)
• Chef Chris Sayegh Is Ready To Serve You Cannabis Cuisine (Inquisitr)
• Fake money and fake weed (Boing Boing)
• Rise in children as young as 10 selling cannabis: Number convicted at highest level in a decade (Daily Mail)

LSD

• How the 'Acid King' Won a Lawsuit Against the US Government (VICE)
• How LSD Breaks Down Your Reality Tunnels and the Science Behind Psychedelic Ego Death (Psychedelic Times)
• The Link Between LSD and Music (TrendinTech)
• I Was the Haçienda's Resident Acid Dealer (THUMP)
• Naked teenager roamed Ellesmore Port high on LSD (The Chester Chronicle)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Two People Accused in Psychedelic Mushroom Growing Operation (WDAY)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Federal Approval Brings MDMA From Club to Clinic (Silicon Valley's Metro)
• Deadly 'LEGO' ecstasy pills warning as two women rushed to hospital (Daily Star)
• Two men arrested after cops seized £5million worth of ecstasy 'Super Pills' just days after teen died (The Sun)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Ayahuasca Tourism Is Ripping Off Indigenous Amazonians (VICE)
• Mineral 'Church' Seeks Exemption From DEA, County Approval (Centralia Chronicle)
• How I Overcame Anxiety And Found Spiritual Fulfillment Through Ayahuasca (Reset.me)
• Sheriff: Ashland couple arrested for DMT drug lab in California (KTVL)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• URI Student Caught with LSD, Shrooms, DMT, Mescaline and More, Police Say (Patch)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• The Rise of Synthetic Drugs (Summit BHC)

Dissociatives

• Is Special K the Anti-Depressant We've Waited For? (The Daily Beast)
• Ketamine and Depression: A Breakthrough? (Discover)
• Why Won't the UK Legalise Ketamine As an Anti-Depressant? (VICE)
• APD: Woman arrested in South Austin for DWI with child in car was high on PCP (KEYE TV)
• South Windsor man gets 10 years for PCP-fueled stabbings (WTNH)
• Police Taser knife-wielding man high on PCP (The Hour)

Opiates/Opioids

• Purdue Pharmaceuticals Misled Doctors about Its Bestselling Painkiller (ATTN:)
• Push continues for legal poppy farming (Mexico News Daily)
• Opioid Addicts Are Abusing This Common Over-The-Counter Medication (ATTN:)
• Prince's Death Highlights Problems With Opioid Overdose Antidote Naloxone (Tech Times)
• Where Will Opioid Panic Lead? How About Regulating Your Access to Diarrhea Medication? (Reason)
• White House Drug Czar Pushes For More Spending on 'Access' to Opioid Addiction Treatment (Reason)

Kambô

• The Brits Using Amazonian Frog Poison to Fight Depression and Alcohol Abuse (VICE)

Kratom

• Can Kratom Aggregate Psychosis? (Kratom Project)
• Kratom: What is it, and why did Alabama ban it? (The Star Beacon)
• Kratom Interactions with SSRI Medications (Kratom Project)
• Kratom usage to ease cancer pain (Kratom Project)
• Buying Kratom in Missouri & Legality (Kratom Project)
• Kratom Legality in Ohio (Kratom Project)

Kava

• Vendors face kava shortage (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation)
• Event Spotlight: Kava Lounge Launches A Month Of Herbalism Workshops (Hoodline)
• Vegan restaurant Zend Conscious Lounge plows profits back into community (Vancouver Sun)

Khat

• Oman crime: 2,000 packets of Khat seized in Dhofar (Times of Oman)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Scientific research using psychedelic drugs is surging overseas - why not here? (The Age)
• Researchers develop a drug-sniffing car that can pinpoint your stash (Engadget)
• Drug Lord 'El Chapo' Guzman Moved to Prison Near U.S. Border (TIME)
• How Tylenol Could Influence Your Personality (ATTN:)
• Morning Glory Seeds From Home Depot Are a Good Proxy for LSD (Until You Vomit) (Inverse)
• Why I Came Out Of the Psychedelic Closet (Reality Sandwich)
• Newsbeat analyses Newcastle University's DIY drug testing kits in a laboratory (BBC)
• Opinion: A Sober Look at Psychedelic Research (Albi)
• Michelle Rodriguez Coped With Paul Walker's Death With Psychedelics And Fast Cars (Inquisitr)

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 (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 4.1.16

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Cannabis

• US-Made Cannabis Oil That Canadian Kids Rely On Is Stuck at the Border (VICE News)
• Money Grows on Cannabis Plants (Merry Jane)
• Use of Medical cannabis makes profound difference in Air Force veteran's life (Belleville News-Democrat)
• The continuing saga of stoned driving (Drug WarRant)
• A Cannabis Advocate's Case for Bernie Sanders (Leafly)
• During Washington State Easter Egg Hunt, Cops Find Huge Pot Operation (TIME)
• Our Recent Supreme Court Victory and What It Means (NORML)
• Is Cannabis The Secret To The Cure For HIV? (Reset.me)
• Gary Johnson Has High Hopes President Obama Will Reclassify Marijuana (Reason)
• Mississippi Dog Brings 1-Lb Bag of Marijuana Home to Family (TIME)
• The Brits are Modeling Their Cannabis Legislation After the US (Merry Jane)
• The Genes for Pot Addiction Have Been Identified (TIME)
• U.S. firms target investment in Israeli cannabis R&D (Yahoo! News)
• These 15 Smoke Spot Photos Defy Stoner Stereotypes (ATTN:)
• Live Well: Why a cannabis oil-infused massage is better than a traditional rubdown (Colorado Springs Gazette)
• Vermont Governor on Marijuana Legalization: It's What 'Enlightened States' Do (TIME)
• Women Grabbing Picks and Shovels in the Cannabis Gold Rush - Jane West (Forbes)
• Cannabis vs. alcohol: economic and social impacts (Medical News Today)
• A Crowdfunded Cannabis Company That The Crowd Should Avoid (Forbes)
• Can Marijuana Save Your Skin—And Your Sex Life? Inside the New Topical Cannabis Phenomenon (Vogue)
• On Marijuana Legalization, Chris Matthews Sounds Dumber Than Donald Trump (Reason)
• The March Towards Normalization Continues (NORML)
• From Porn to Pot: Hustler's Larry Flynt Invests in Legal Cannabis Industry (High Times)
• Whoopi Goldberg Gets Into the Medical Marijuana Business (TIME)
• Majority of businesses in Massachusetts are against legalizing cannabis (Mashable)
• 5 Fun Date Ideas for Cannabis-Friendly Couples (Leafly)
• Colorado Springs ban on cannabis clubs sparks action (Colorado Springs Gazette)
• Medicinal cannabis 'loophole' may be applied at border, says Customs (Stuff.co.nz)
• Swede who 'put cannabis in coffee' on trial for drug abuse (The Local)

LSD

• Researchers Are Using LSD to Help in the Fight Against Depression (GOOD Magazine)
• SXSW Film Review: 'Orange Sunshine' (Blogcritics)
• Naked man, on LSD, approaches woman on Noland Trail (Daily Press)
• 2 Teens Charged After 8 Chicago Students Sickened by Suspected LSD (5NBC Chicago)
• Washington Student Charged in Alleged LSD-Fueled Murder (WDJT)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• What's the Right Psychedelic Mushrooms Dosage? Deciding the Best Dose for Psychedelic Treatment (Psychedelic Times)
• Cops seize 1.5 kilos of pot and 180 grams of magic mushrooms in raid (Thompson Citizen)
• Men accused of trespassing to search for psychedelic mushrooms (WKMG)
• Anchorage man found with large stash of heroin, psilocybin, and other drugs (KTUU)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• A new injectable drug is being trialled to combat MDMA-induced hyperthermia (Mixmag)
• The USA could legalize medical MDMA – should the UK follow suit? (Metro)
• An effort to get Ecstasy FDA-approved is moving right along (Tech Insider)
• 6 UC Santa Cruz Students Face MDMA Felonies, but Throwing Them In Prison Won't Help Anyone (AlterNet)
• Raleigh police: Wake man, Detroit resident had hundreds of MDMA doses (The News & Observer)
• Lethal 'Dr Death' ecstasy pills using Chupa Chups sweets logo flood Britain (Daily Star)
• Father speaks of his anguish as daughter, 16, dies of ecstasy overdose (Sunday Express)
• Charity Talk To Frank pulls back the curtain on taking ecstasy (Daily Mail)
• Cops hunt source of deadly ecstasy (Independent Online)
• Mail Order Ecstasy Pills Lead to Arrest (AviationPros)
• Young dad caught dealing Ecstasy in Yarm nightclub fell into world of drugs and violence (Gazette Live)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• The All-Star Shaman Ayahuasca Massacree (Reality Sandwich)
• Ayahuasca Helped Me Overcome Trauma And Gave Me A New Purpose In Life (Reset.me)
• 'The Path', Ayahuasca, and South America's Very Real Cults (Inverse)
• EXCLUSIVE "Peruvian Ayahuasca Ceremony" Clip from HULU's THE PATH (Nuke the Fridge)
• Ayahuasca-fueled vision sends Aaron Paul down a dark 'Path' (Zap2It)
• SLO County Sheriff's deputies uncover evidence of psychedelic drug lab (KSBY)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Religious Freedom Acts Born Out Of ... Peyote (HowStuffWorks)
• How a Seventh-Day Adventist and peyote led to Supreme Court fights over contraception (Daily Kos)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Mason teen indicted in LSD, designer drug trafficking case (WLWT)

Dissociatives

• Professor to share depression study findings at Aware event (Village Living)
• Ketamine Linked to Bladder Toxicity (Medscape)
• Officer: Man yelling on MLK emanated the smell of PCP (The Lufkin News)
• HPD: Man high on PCP taken into custody, ending SWAT standoff in southeast Houston (KPRC)

Opiates/Opioids

• Heroin Epidemic Is Yielding to a Deadlier Cousin: Fentanyl (The New York Times)
• Can an Implant Stop Heroin Addiction? (The Daily Beast)
• How Switzerland Could Teach the U.S. To Deal With Its Heroin Problem (ATTN:)
• Controversial Drug Naloxone Reverses Overdoses – But Here's What It Does To Your Brain (Mic)
• Coroner Says Selling Heroin Is Murder--He's Wrong (Forbes)
• Chiefs: Fentanyl outpacing heroin (Gloucester Daily Times)
• There's a Way to Treat Opiate Addiction, So Why Isn't It Being Used? (TIME)
• 'Drug Users Need Treatment,' Says President Obama. Not So Fast, Says Dr. Carl Hart (Reason)
• TBT: In the 1800s, One Opium-Laced Drug Helped Moms Soothe the Pains of Teething Children (Hospitals & Health Networks)
• President Obama Talks Drug Abuse With Doctors and Addicts (TIME)
• America's opium war in Afghanistan (ABC Online)

Kratom

• Substance abuse counselors say "pain killer" ingredient should be banned (WAAY)
• Two Phuket women arrested with kratom, bullets and gun (The Phuket News)

Kava

• Luau Time! Krave Celebrates One Year in Carrboro (Chapelboro.com)
• Going under kava (Radio New Zealand)

Khat

• Wuhan customs seizes 25 kilograms of khat from Africa (News Ghana)
• China customs find khat, cannabis in foreign mail (Shanghai Daily)
• Don't give miraa or its proceeds to church, priest tells Catholics (Standard Digital News)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Lancet Commission Recommends Drug Legalization (Reason)
• Medical Marijuana, Decriminalization, and Opium: 2016 Looks Big for Drugs in Mexico (VICE News)
• Tracing Drug Use Patterns Through Nightclub Toilets (CityLab)
• Could Hallucinogenic Drugs Treat Mental Illness (The Alternative Daily)
• Why Making the Music Festival Scene Safer Is So Hard (Cosmopolitan)
• Obama Shortens Sentences of 61 Drug Offenders (TIME)
• 22 Top Medical Experts Call For A Shift In "Drug" Policies (Reset.me)
• Mind-altering drugs could treat mental disorders (EurekAlert!)
• Better Living Through Psychedelics with Comedian Duncan Trussell (Indy Week)
• Unthinkable: Could we make a computer trip on acid? (The Irish Times)
• Psychedelics and the Evolution of Festival Culture: David Starfire Talks Psychedelic Music (Psychedelic Times)
• Public Awareness Campaign on Generosity introduces Drink Cop test cards that arms people with the power to test their drinks for illicit drugs (Digital Journal)
• How Decades-Old Drug Offenses Kept Two Elected Officials Out of Office (Reason)
• The Many Lives of Mongolian Shamanism (Reality Sandwich)
• Idiot Falls for Joke Facebook Post, Gets Arrested (Disinfo)
• Mexico Detains Top Money Launderer to Drug Lord 'El Chapo' (TIME)
• Psychedelic compounds like ecstasy may be good for more than just a high (Chemical & Engineering News)

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 (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.