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

• DEA Backs Off, Won’t Criminalize Two New Psychedelics (Psychedelic Spotlight)

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

• MDMA Enhances Fear Extinction Learning: From Models to Mechanisms (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Police issue MDMA warning after man dies from suspected drug overdose (Radio New Zealand)

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

• Conspiracy and Antisemitism in the Debate Over Peyote Decriminalization (Psychedelic Spotlight)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• New Psychedelic Entactogens: Designer Drugs Produce Designer Effects (Psychedelic Science Review)

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

• Datura and the psychedelic Tao (Isham Cook)

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

• Effects of LSD and Psilocybin in Healthy Participants (Psychiatric Times)

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

• Elijah McClain’s autopsy report changed to death by ketamine (Colorado Public Radio)

• Looking at smiling faces extends the antidepressant effects of ketamine (University of Pittsburgh)

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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This Week in Psychedelics - 12.17.21

Cannabis

• Malta becomes first EU country to legalise cannabis for personal use (Euronews)

• St. Louis Mayor Signs Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana Possession And Cultivation (Marijuana Moment)

• No Fentanyl Found in Cannabis After All, Vermont Police Say (High Times)

• Viral story shared across social media about two teens overdosing on fentanyl-laced marijuana in Springfield was untrue (MassLive)

• Ministry pushes full cannabis legalisation (Bangkok Post)

• Government-Funded Study Shows Unprecedented Decline in Marijuana Use By Young People (NORML)

• Pfizer to Acquire Pharmaceutical Company Testing Cannabinoid Treatment (High Times)

• Heavy metals in cannabis plants could affect human health, study finds (New Atlas)

• Rhode Island Legalization Bill Set for Early 2022 Introduction (High Times)

• Baltimore: City Officials Move to Abolish Pre-Employment Drug Screens for Many Public Employees (NORML)

• Smoking CBD-Rich Marijuana Has ‘No Significant Impact’ On Driving Ability, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis use could cause harmful drug interactions (ScienceDaily)

LSD

• Cary Grant Is High on LSD in ‘Flying Over Sunset.’ Everyone Else Has a Bad Trip. (The Daily Beast)

• PharmaTher Announces Positive Research Results for LSD Microneedle Patch (BioSpace)

• MindMed Initiates Phase 2a LSD Trial for the Treatment of Adult ADHD (Psilocybin Alpha)

Magic Mushrooms

• New Filing Challenges Compass Pathways’ Infamous Patent on Synthetic Psilocybin (VICE)

• Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy reduces loss of meaning and suicidal ideation among cancer patients (PsyPost)

• With health care workers hurting, a doctor wants to see if a psychedelic can help (NBC News)

• COMPASS Pathways announces positive outcome of 25mg COMP360 psilocybin therapy as adjunct to SSRI antidepressants in open-label treatment-resistant depression study (Psilocybin Alpha)

• More patients granted psilocybin exemption by federal government (CBC)

• Warning: Oregon Legalized Supported Adult Use of Psilocybin, Not Psychedelic Therapy (Chacruna)

• New York Lawmaker Files Bill To Legalize Medical Psilocybin Treatments, With Focus On First Responders And Veterans (Marijuana Moment)

• This Trippy New Book Takes You Through Modern Mushroom History—With Cartoons (DoubleBlind)

• Psyched Wellness Announces Path to Market for AME-1-derived Products in the USA (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Silo Wellness announces series of psilocybin retreats in Jamaica (Globetrender)

• HAVN Life Successfully Exports Psilocybin from Jamaica Facility into the U.S. for Research Purposes (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• The Big Return – and Decline in Quality – of MDMA (VICE)

• Latest trials confirm the benefits of MDMA – the drug in ecstasy – for treating PTSD (The Conversation)

• MDMA could soon be used to treat PTSD according to physicians (Mixmag)

Ayahuasca

• Study links the ceremonial use of ayahuasca to robust reductions in neuroticism (PsyPost)

• Educating Gringos in Shipibo Ways (Chacruna)

• Esther Jean Langdon: Half a Century of Research About Shamanism and Ayahuasca (Chacruna)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Cybin Awarded Notice of Allowance from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for CYB004 (Deuterated Psychedelic Tryptamine) for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders (Psilocybin Alpha)

• atai Life Sciences Announces Successful Outcome of Phase 2a Biomarker Trial of RL-007 in Cognitive Impairment Associated with Schizophrenia (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Tainted synthetic marijuana linked to severe bleeding cases in Florida (Live Science)

Miscellaneous

• Psychedelics Rejected for Therapeutic Use in Australia (VICE)

• Can a Values-Centered Psychedelic Ecosystem Effectively Compete? (Lucid News)

• Mind Medicine Australia’s Response to the Announcement of the TGA NOT to Reschedule the Medical Use of MDMA for Treatment Resistant PTSD and the Medical Use of Psilocybin for Treatment Resistant Depression as Part of Therapy. (Mind Medicine Australia)

• How Do Psychedelics Change Your Personality? These Researchers Tried To Find Out (IFLScience)

• ‘This isn’t the 60s again’: psychedelics business takes off amid culture clash (The Guardian)

• 2022 Global Drug Survey: Help make it bigger than ever for its 10 year anniversary (TalkingDrugs)

• Most Addiction Specialists Support Legalized Therapeutic Psychedelics (Medscape)

• Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy on the Rise in VA Hospitals (Lucid News)

• Psychedelics and Substance Use Disorder: 4000 BCE to Present Day (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Many Indians Are Experimenting With Psychedelics, Other Drugs to Deal With Mental Health Issues (The Swaddle)

• Editor’s Choice Award 2021-Best Study on Psychedelics and Neuroplasticity (Psychedelic Science Review)

• atai Impact Establishes the atai Fellowship Fund in Psychedelic Neuroscience with Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics (Psilocybin Alpha)

• How to Start Microdosing Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• Understanding HPPD to Prioritize Harm Reduction of a Very Real Psychedelic Risk (Psychedelic Spotlight)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 11.26.21

Cannabis

• The new German government plans to legalize cannabis. (The New York Times)

• Mexico Senate on Track to Endorse Recreational Cannabis by December (High Times)

• Uber Eats users in Ontario can now buy cannabis through the app (Engadget)

• New GOP weed approach: Feds must ‘get out of the way’ (Politico)

• South Dakota Supreme Court kills adult-use legalization (Leafly)

• Is Fentanyl-Tainted Marijuana 'Something Real' or 'Just an Urban Legend'? (Reason)

• A New Center at CSU Aims to Unlock the Secrets of CBD (5280)

• Indica and sativa labels are largely meaningless when it comes to cannabis complexities (The Conversation)

• St. Louis Lawmakers Unanimously Approve Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana Possession And Cultivation (Marijuana Moment)

• Analysis: Marijuana Legalization Associated with Improved Clearance Rates for Violent Crimes (NORML)

• Illinois Judge Rules Weed Odor is Not Probable Cause For Searches (High Times)

• Ohio Marijuana Activists Almost Have Enough Signatures To Force Lawmakers To Consider Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• New Mexico Issues First Adult-Use Cannabis Cultivation License (High Times)

• Taliban Contracts Australian Company To Grow Cannabis In Afghanistan (Marijuana Moment)

• Mississippi lawmakers unlikely to reach medical marijuana deal this year (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Dogs Are Being Exposed To Marijuana Through Human Poop And Pet Owners Should Beware, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Majority Of Texas Republicans Back Marijuana Legalization, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Arizona Cannabis Social Equity Program Faces Legal Challenge (High Times)

• Canada’s first regulated cannabis suppositories target female consumers (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Montana: Officials Create New Drug Court to Focus Solely on Expunging Past Marijuana Convictions (NORML)

• Few Medical Cannabis Licenses in Portugal Have Been Awarded (High Times)

• Pennsylvania order targeting vaporized products upends cannabis market (Marijuana Business Daily)

• CNN’s Sixth WEED Documentary Features the Benefits of Medical Cannabis for Autism (High Times)

LSD

• New graphic novel depicts famed history of LSD research in Sask. (CBC)

Magic Mushrooms

• Magic mushroom study hints psilocybin repairs alcohol-induced brain damage (Inverse)

• COMPASS Pathways granted fifth US patent for crystalline psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Metaphysics and mushrooms: Psychedelics can change how you think about the universe (Big Think)

• What Happens When Zen Monks Take Mushrooms? (Lucid News)

• HAVN Life Successfully Exports Psilocybin from its Jamaica Facility into Canada (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Police Presence at Music Festivals Linked to "Panic Overdoses": Study (EDM)

DMT

• Entheon Biomedical Provides Update on Clinical and Preclinical DMT Programs (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Ayahuasca users report psychological benefits after taking placebo at a ritualistic ceremony (PsyPost)

• Are All Ayahuasca Retreats The Same? You Might Be Surprised (Healing Maps)

Peyote

• Mining and Poaching Threatens 15,000-Year-Old Peyote Tradition in Mexico (DoubleBlind)

San Pedro

• San Pedro: What is it Like to Experience Mescaline from San Pedro? (The Third Wave)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Mescaline-Like Psychedelic Alters Synaptic Plasticity (Technology Networks)

Ketamine

• Ketamine benefits neurocognition in depression with suicidal ideation (Healio)

• Wesana Health Clinics Surpass 4,000 Administered Ketamine Treatments (Psilocybin Alpha)

• PharmaTher Applies for FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Ketamine to Treat Rare Neurological Disorder Status Epilepticus (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Navigating the Patchwork of New York City Ketamine Clinics (Lucid News)

Miscellaneous

• New Zealand Permanently Legalizes Drug Checking, a Global First (Filter)

• U.S. Reports More Than 100,000 Overdose Deaths In One Year (High Times)

• New study finds 'microdosing' psychedelics can be effective in treating anxiety, depression (The Hill)

• Responding to the 2022 Global Drug Survey Will Help Other Drug Users (Filter)

• Colorado Springs Pushing to Decriminalize Psychedelics (Truffle Report)

• The Rise of Psychedelic Retreats (The New York Times)

• How to Cultivate a More Ethical, Inclusive Psychedelic Future (Lucid News)

• Why Are Some People More Sensitive to Psychedelics Than Others? (Sam Woolfe)

• Cybin Awards Grant for Psychedelic Treatment Clinic at Lenox Hill Hospital to Benefit Underserved Communities (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Academic Centers Start to Take Psychedelics Seriously (Medpage Today)

• Psychedelics and Mysticism: The Debate Continues (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Psychedelics, Cognition, and Sleep Disorders (Truffle Report)

• Is Psychedelic Research Funding Starting to Shift? (Medpage Today)

• Revive Therapeutics Files for ODD Designation for Bucillamine Treatment Targeting Rare Liver Disorders, COVID-19 (Truffle Report)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 5.14.21

Cannabis

• Republicans Push for Federal Legalization of Marijuana to Ensure 'Individual Liberty' (Newsweek)

• Minnesota House Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Kansas Senate Running Out Of Time To Pass Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill That Cleared House (Marijuana Moment)

• Nebraska Activists Relaunch Medical Marijuana Ballot Campaign After Legislative Filibuster Blocks Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Louisiana: House Lawmakers Advance Marijuana Decriminalization Legislation (NORML)

• Cherokee Nation Just Decriminalized Weed Possession in State Where Pot Is Still Illegal (MERRY JANE)

• Feds Announce New Standard THC Dose To Be Used In Marijuana Research, Effective Immediately (Marijuana Moment)

• Ignorance Still Plagues The Field Of Cannabis Medicine (Forbes)

• America’s most conservative states are embracing medical pot (Politico)

• Georgia: Governor Signs Legislation into Law Expanding Access to Low-THC Medical Cannabis (NORML)

• Medicinal cannabis improves quality of life, finds largest study of UK patients (Cannabis Health News)

• Cannabis may slightly reduce RA disease activity based on 'very uncertain' evidence (Healio)

• Don’t Bring CBD Pet Shampoo Onto Military Bases, U.S. Air Force Warns (Marijuana Moment)

• Understanding the History of Rastafari and the Sacramental Use of Ganja with Jahlani Niaah (Chacruna)

Magic Mushrooms

• How Psychedelic Mushrooms Went from Schedule I to Psychotherapy (The Pacific Index)

• Who’s in Charge of Psilocybin? (Chacruna)

• OHSU doctors study how psilocybin interacts with other meds (KATU)

• Havn Life Develops New Method for Rapid Psilocybin Testing (StreetInsider.com)

• Cybin Advances Psilocybin as Treatment for Depression and Addiction (Innovation and Tech Today)

• Numinus Wellness and Optimi Health Submit All-Natural Psilocybin Extract to Health Canada for Pre-Clinical Trial Application (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• MDMA Shows New Promise for Trauma, but the Drug Alone Is Not a Cure (Scientific American)

DMT

• Small Pharma on conducting world’s first clinical trials for psychedelic DMT and listing in Canada (Proactive Investors)

5-MeO-DMT

• Hunter Biden’s Admission Of Toad Venom Use Signals A Sea Change For Addiction Treatments (Lucid News)

Peyote

• Decriminalize Nature Releases Peyote Conservation Plan (Truffle Report)

• Open Letter to the Psychedelic Movement Regarding Peyote in Policy Efforts and How to be an Ally to Indigenous Peoples of North America (Chacruna)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Potentially Non-Hallucinogenic Psychedelic Could Open Door for Treatment Developments (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Learning Network)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• China issues total ban on synthetic cannabinoids (Seattle Times)

Nitrous Oxide

• Municipality of Amsterdam to ban laughing gas (I Am Expat)

Ketamine

• Colorado lawmakers move to restrict law enforcement’s use of Ketamine (KKTV)

• Delic's Acquisition Target, Ketamine Infusion Centers, Announces Proposal to Acquire 2 Additional Clinic Locations (Yahoo! Finance)

Miscellaneous

• The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same. (The New York Times)

• Drug Possession Is Officially A Crime Again In Washington, But As A Misdemeanor Instead Of Felony (Marijuana Moment)

• Drug Advice Is Better Than Government Approach of 'Just Doing Nothing', Research Finds (VICE)

• How this NHL star’s brain trauma led him to found a psychedelics startup (Fast Company)

• Aspen City Council not quite sold on decriminalizing psychedelics (Aspen Daily Times)

• Some people with color blindness report improved color vision after psychedelic drug use (PsyPost)

• How a Psychedelic 12-Step Program Is Saving Lives (Rolling Stone)

• Psychedelic Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• An Introduction to Psychedelic Phenethylamines (Spirit Pharmacist)

• Anaïs Nin and the Vocabulary of the Psychedelic Experience (Chacruna)

• Psychedelics Move to The Forefront of Innovative Research as the FDA Approves Large-Scale Testing (PR Newswire)

• Psychedelic Intellectual Property (Reality Sandwich)

• Routes of Administration in Psychedelic Drug Research (Psychedelic Science Review)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 11.6.20

Cannabis

• Voters Approve All Seven Marijuana-Legalization Initiatives Across Five States (Filter)

• New Zealand Voters Narrowly Reject Nationwide Marijuana Referendum In Final Vote Tally (Marijuana Moment)

• Four More Ohio Cities Approve Marijuana Decriminalization Measures (Marijuana Moment)

• 2020 Ballot Initiative Effective Dates (NORML)

• Texas Sees Its First Hemp Harvest in 80 Years (The Austin Chronicle)

• Clinical Trial: Plant-Derived Cannabis Oil Effective for Patients with Fibromyalgia (NORML)

LSD

• MindMed Completes Phase 1 LSD Dosing Study (Psilocybin Alpha)

Magic Mushrooms

• Oregon Legalizes Psilocybin Therapy (DoubleBlind)

• Psychedelic Treatment with Psilocybin Relieves Major Depression, Study Shows (Johns Hopkins Medicine)

• Havn Life Sciences to Support the First Modern Psilocybin Depression Study in Germany with Mind Foundation (Psilocybin Alpha)

DMT

• Do Orgasms Cause the Release of DMT? (DoubleBlind)

Ayahuasca

• COVID and the Future of Ayahuasca in Brazil (Chacruna)

• The Colonization of the Ayahuasca Experience (JSTOR Daily)

Mescaline

• Heroines of Mescaline (Chacruna)

Peyote

• Why Matthew McConaughey Spent Hours In A Cage With A Mountain Lion (TheThings)

Ketamine

• People Are Using Ketamine at Home to Escape Their Pandemic Reality (VICE)

• Use of Acute and Maintenance Intravenous Ketamine in Outpatients With Depression (Psychiatry Advisor)

Miscellaneous

• Every Single Marijuana And Drug Policy Ballot Measure Passing On Election Day Bolsters Federal Reform Push (Marijuana Moment)

• Oregon becomes 1st state in the US to decriminalize drug possession (OPB)

• DC voters approve decriminalizing ‘magic mushrooms,’ other psychedelics (Fox 5)

• There's No Good Evidence that Psychedelics Can Change Your Politics or Religion (Scientific American)

• From Mining to Mushrooms (Psymposia)

• Improved colour blindness symptoms associated with recreational psychedelic use (Drug Science)

• Biden Says Anti-Drug Policies Harmed Black Communities, And It Was A ‘Mistake’ To Support Them (Marijuana Moment)

• Hate & Social Media in Psychedelic Spaces (Chacruna)

• Empowering Queer, LGBTQ, and Two-Spirit Voices in Psychedelics with Marca Cassity (Chacruna)

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