Cannabis
Virginia Governor Signals He’ll Push To Legalize Marijuana On July 1, Ahead Of Schedule (Marijuana Moment)
Connecticut Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill As Governor Pushes Competing Reform (Marijuana Moment)
Illinois Lawmakers Approve Bill To Legalize Any Amount Of Marijuana And Expunge Past Records (Marijuana Moment)
New York lawmakers reach historic deal on a marijuana legalization bill (Leafly)
North Dakota Senate Rejects House-Passed Marijuana Legalization Bill, Ceding Issue To Activists For Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)
Scotland's first medical cannabis clinic approved (BBC)
Maryland adult-use marijuana legalization effort fails for this year (Marijuana Business Daily)
Delaware Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee Vote (Marijuana Moment)
Minnesota Marijuana Legalization Bill Clears Fourth House Committee (Marijuana Moment)
Texas Cops Just Arrested and Killed a Man for Possessing One Joint Worth of Weed (MERRY JANE)
New Mexico Governor Plans Special Session On Marijuana As Legalization Bill Stalls On Final Stretch (Marijuana Moment)
New Weed Bill Aims Block Big Alcohol and Tobacco From Dominating Legal Weed Market (MERRY JANE)
Senators Reintroduce SAFE Banking Act To Normalize Cannabis Commerce (NORML)
More evidence needed to back cannabis as pain treatment, says review (Imperial College London)
CBD Could Stop Coronavirus Cells From Replicating in the Lungs, Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)
Advocacy group for Hispanic marijuana entrepreneurs launches (Marijuana Business Daily)
THC Can Remain in Breast Milk for Up to Six Weeks After Use, New Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)
Study: “No Evidence” That Medical Cannabis Access Laws Encourage Youth Marijuana Use (NORML)
Shitty Government Weed Might Have Just Ruined Major New Study on Veterans and PTSD (MERRY JANE)
LSD
Ergot: A Look at LSD’s Precursor (Truffle Report)
Magic Mushrooms
Psychedelic for meth users: Sydney trial aims to conquer addiction (The Sydney Morning Herald)
This Toronto man is treating a rare neurological disorder with psilocybin mushrooms (Regina Leader-Post)
Denver Psilocybin Panel Talks Expanded Decriminalization (Truffle Report)
This New BIPOC-Run Group Is Educating People About Legal Mushroom Therapy in Oregon (MERRY JANE)
5-MeO-DMT
A porn star has been charged with reckless homicide after he used toad venom to cure a photographer's cocaine addiction (Insider)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
DiPT: Producing Auditory Hallucinations (Truffle Report)
Ketamine
Ketamine bill headed to Colorado House for consideration (KDVR)
Ketamine Providers Debate Standards of Care (Lucid News)
PCP
Why America Is the Only Place in the World Where People Use PCP (VICE)
Miscellaneous
The Canadian Psychedelic Association is Fighting Stigma Attached to Plant Medicines (Truffle Report)
Predicting who may do best with psychedelic-assisted therapy (Ohio State University News)
What are the effects of promoting unsupported claims about psychedelics? A call for better media reporting (AOD Media Watch)
Mark Haden’s “Clarifying Misinformation” Letter is Full of Misinformation and Lies (Psymposia)
Psychedelic drugs: how the brains of informed users are different (The Conversation)
Psychedelic vs. Hallucinogen-What’s in a Name? (Psychedelic Science Review)
Funding for psychedelic trials best directed at independent research (The Canberra Times)
‘These people are broken’: Why the UK’s war on drugs has failed (Al Jazeera)
Psychedelics for medical purposes: time to change your mind? (The BMJ)
Psychedelic Synesthesia: Smell That Tune (Psychedelic Science Review)
Women More Likely To Use Psychedelics Than Men (Green Market Report)
Platforms of Psychedelic Experience (Maps of the Mind)
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