Weekly Psychedelic Links - October 2022

10.7.22

Cannabis

• Biden Announces Mass Marijuana Pardons And Calls For Cannabis Scheduling Review (Marijuana Moment)

• Amsterdam considers banning ‘cannabis tourists’ from its coffee shops (The Guardian)

• Costa Rica’s President Sends Marijuana Legalization Bill To Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)

• 'It's like the new Amsterdam': The rush to cash in on Thailand's hazy cannabis laws (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• FBI: Nearly Half of All Drug Seizures in 2021 Involved Marijuana (NORML)

• Morocco issues first permits for cannabis production (Reuters)

• Committee in Colombia Approved Adult-Use Legalization Proposal (High Times)

• Most Americans Don’t Think Marijuana Is Dangerous Despite Prohibitionist Arguments, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Regulators finally approve hempcrete for US homes (Leafly)

• OSHA report ties cannabis worker death to dust inhalation (Leafly)

• Survey: Medical Students Rarely Exposed to Scientific Data About Cannabis (NORML)

Magic Mushrooms

• Oregon enters the home stretch to authorize psilocybin mushrooms (Chacruna)

• This 'magic' mushroom dispensary in Florida is selling psychedelics and testing legal boundaries (Business Insider)

MDMA

• MindMed Collaborators Initiate Phase 1 Comparative PK/PD Trial of R-, S- and Racemic MDMA (Psychedelic Alpha)

DMT

• Prolonged DMT Infusions could be a Breakthrough for Stroke Patients (Psychedelic Spotlight)

Ayahuasca

• Combating Suicidality: A Role for Psilocybin and Ayahuasca? (Psychedelic Science Review)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• These LSD-based drugs seem to help mice with anxiety and depression — without the trip (NPR)

• Are you too high? A promising new ‘comedown drug’ may be on the way (Leafly)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Unexplained Bleeding Linked to Rat Poison in Synthetic Cannabinoids (Medpage Today)

Nitrous Oxide

• Nitrous oxide: Southend mum's campaign over 'laughing gas' (BBC)

Ketamine

• Ketamine and depression: A mechanism of the antidepressant revealed (Medical Xpress)

• PharmaTher Holdings Announces Grant of U.S. Patent Covering Ketamine for Parkinson’s Disease (Psychedelic Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Alberta to be 1st province to regulate psychedelics for therapy, government says (CBC)

• DEA Admits ‘Racial, Ethnic and Class Prejudice’ Led To Drug Criminalization And The Agency’s Own Founding (Marijuana Moment)

• New York Lawmakers File Amended Psychedelics Legalization Bill, With New Regulations And Protections (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelics may flatten your brain’s landscape, but in a good way (Leafly)

• Inflammation Nation: How Psychedelics Could Combat Widespread Chronic Pain (Psychedelics Today)

• Psychedelics: Will Policy Liberalization and Lower Barriers to Access Lead to Future Legalization? (Lexpert)

• Psychedelics are exploding in the startup community as founders say it makes them better leaders (Fortune)

• Timothy Leary’s psychedelic eugenics (Medium)

• Eleusis Holdings Plans To Be Acquired By Beckley Psytech (Lucid News)

• ‘Bad’ Psychedelic Trips Don’t Have To Be Bad (VICE)

10.14.22

Cannabis

• Colombian Chamber Of Representatives Passes Marijuana Legalization Bill In Initial Vote, With Support From Cabinet Ministers (Marijuana Moment)

• U.S. Air Force to Allow Applicants to Retest After Positive THC Test (High Times)

• Why bees love weed — and why it might even be good for them (Salon)

• Cannabis Stock’s Post Pardon Depression Could Be Cured By Lame Duck Legislation (Forbes)

• New Study Shows Cannabis Users More Likely To Have Overactive Bladders (High Times)

• Federal Reserve Bank Says Marijuana Legalization Drives Tax Revenue, Job Creation And Real Estate Sales (Marijuana Moment)

• Spliff Vape: New Tech Allows Cannabis, Nicotine To Be Vaped Simultaneously (High Times)

Magic Mushrooms

• Flight Passenger on Mushrooms Causes Chaos Mid-Flight (High Times)

• Can Psilocybin Challenge Our Pharmaceutical Dependence? (Vogue)

MDMA

• Eels Living Near Music Festivals Test Positive For MDMA And Cocaine (IFLScience)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Synthetic Marijuana In Florida Tainted With Rat Poison, 52 Sick, 4 Dead (Forbes)

• Five-Year-Old Missouri Child Gets Delta-8 Edibles in Halloween Bag (High Times)

Nitrous Oxide

• Nitrous Oxide: Harm Reduction and the Muslim Community (VolteFace)

Miscellaneous

• These States Are Voting On Marijuana And Psychedelics Legalization On Their November Ballots (Marijuana Moment)

• Elon Musk reportedly goes on 'exploratory journeys' and likes to show friends a chart of the benefits of MDMA and mushrooms over alcohol (Business Insider)

• To Standardize Psychedelic Therapy, A New Organization Launches (Forbes)

• Horizons Conference Returns to NYC for Its 15th Year (Lucid News)

• Treating postpartum depression with psychedelics (The Print)

• A Santo Daime Church’s Legal Success Paved a Path Towards Psychedelic Legalization (Lucid News)

• Instagram’s Page-Deletions of Black Women in Psychedelic Advocacy (Filter)

• Math Over Myth: These Psychedelic Stocks Made Confirmed Bottoms in Q3 (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• What Made María Sabina Unique (DoubleBlind)

• The Politics of Psychedelics: Legalisation vs Decriminalisation (Sam Woolfe)

10.21.22

Cannabis

• German cannabis legalisation plans LEAKED (VolteFace)

• Washington DC lets tourists self-certify for medical cannabis (Leafly)

• Poll: Two-Thirds of Voters Say “Nobody Should Be in Jail” for Marijuana Possession (NORML)

• States With the Most Arrests for Marijuana Possession (U.S. News and World Report)

• Why does marijuana make it hard to remember stuff? (Salon)

• NBA Won’t Test Players For Marijuana For Third Season In A Row, Report Says (Marijuana Moment)

• Nearly Four Out of Five Patients Drop or Reduce Opioids After Using Medical Weed (High Times)

• Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine Bans CBD Prescriptions for Adult Patients (TalkingDrugs)

• Cannabis Had Highest Tax Revenue in Colorado and Washington Over Alcohol, Cigarettes (High Times)

• Marijuana was illegal 4 years ago. Now, Uber Eats delivers it in Toronto (CBC)

• Missouri Police Object To New Ad For Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative That Shows Officers (Marijuana Moment)

• Oklahoma Governor Sets March Special Election for Weed Legalization Initiative (High Times)

• Texas Activists Unveil Marijuana Decriminalization, Police Reform And Abortion Rights Initiative For San Antonio 2023 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Puerto Rico Bill Would Expunge Low-Level Weed Possession Convictions (High Times)

LSD

• Acid for Anxiety: Fast and Lasting Anxiolytic Effects of LSD (Psychedelic Science Review)

• A Communist LSD Trip: The Story of Czechoslovak Acid (Prague Morning)

Magic Mushrooms

• Oregon is voting on medical psilocybin, again (Leafly)

• NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars (New York Post)

• Study To Examine Why Shrooms Evolved with Psychedelic Properties (High Times)

• Why Everyone Cares So Much About Colorado’s Psilocybin Bill (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

• MDMA-assisted psychotherapy shows promise in the treatment of eating disorder symptoms (PsyPost)

5-MeO-DMT

• The toad boom: the false narrative of ancestral 5-MeO-DMT use (Points)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Scientists Discover ‘Disconcerting’ New Imitation Ketamine on the Market (VICE)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• New novel drug test can identify latest synthetic cannabinoids (Cannabis Health News)

Ketamine

• Ketamine May Reduce Suicidal Ideation in Treatment-Resistant Depression (Psychiatry Advisor)

Miscellaneous

• Australian Lawmakers Approve Drug Decriminalization Bill For Federal Territory That Includes Nation’s Capital (Marijuana Moment)

• DEA Proposes Dramatic Increases In Marijuana And Psychedelics Production In 2023 For Research (Marijuana Moment)

• Large national survey suggests that the use of psychedelics is not associated with lifetime cancer development (PsyPost)

• Will Medical Insurers Agree to Cover Psychedelic Trips? (Bloomberg)

• Why is the American right suddenly so interested in psychedelic drugs? (The Guardian)

• Second United States Patent Granted for Small Pharma’s Psychedelics Portfolio (Psychedelic Alpha)

10.28.22

Cannabis

• Germany’s Government Approves Marijuana Legalization Plan, But Reform Depends On European Union Sign-Off (Marijuana Moment)

• Russian court upholds Brittney Griner’s sentence (Leafly)

• Biden's Marijuana Pardons Did Not Free a Single Federal Prisoner or Deliver the Expungement He Promised (Reason)

• Activist Arrested At White House Protest Pushing Biden To Release Marijuana Prisoners (Marijuana Moment)

• Missouri’s legalization measure is drawing unexpected opposition (Leafly)

• Five States To Vote on Recreational Cannabis This Election Season (High Times)

• Most Americans Say Alcohol And Tobacco Are More Dangerous Than Marijuana, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• California Lawsuit Alleges Weed Didn't Get Plaintiffs High Enough (VICE)

• Research: Does Cannabis Really Make You More Creative? (Harvard Business Review)

• Israeli Company Clones Cannabis Cells—Not Plants—With Up to 12 Times the Potency (High Times)

• It's not a myth: Marijuana really is more potent than it used to be (Salon)

• Study: Cannabis Use Not A Risk Factor in Liver Transplants (High Times)

• Strange Bedfellows Team Up To Oppose Missouri Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• Research Shows Cannabis Users Experience More Pain After Surgery (High Times)

• Support For Arkansas Marijuana Legalization Initiative Falls To Slim Majority As GOP Lawmakers Urge Opposition, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• How does THC affect prenatal development? (Leafly)

Magic Mushrooms

• The world's first Phase 3 psilocybin clinical trial is about to commence (New Atlas)

• DEA Faces New Legal Challenges Over Denying Psilocybin Rescheduling Petition And Doctor’s Federal Waiver Request (Marijuana Moment)

• New Study Will Explore Psilocybin as a Treatment To Stop Smoking (High Times)

• N.S. company launching clinical trial to examine magic mushrooms as treatment for PTSD (CBC)

• The Potential Health Benefits of Microdosing Psilocybin With Chocolate (Psychology Today)

• Psilocybin Common Denominator in Several Recent Albums (High Times)

DMT

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Enters into a Clinical Trial Agreement with Yale University for a DMT Phase 2 Depression Study (Psychedelic Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Couple Sentenced to Eight Years for Czech Ayahuasca Ceremonies (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• A Legal Ayahuasca Church Thrives in Southern California (Lucid News)

Peyote

• Native American Church Asks Congress for Peyote Funding (DoubleBlind)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• WTF is 3-MMC, Berlin’s Weird New Club Drug? (DoubleBlind)

• Electric Picnic drug testing finds 'new psychoactive substances' never seen before in Ireland (The Irish Mirror)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Utah Medical Cannabis Flooded With Synthetic Cannabinoids From Hot Hemp (Forbes)

Ketamine

• Electroconvulsive Therapy Could Be Better Than Ketamine At Treating Depression (IFLScience)

Miscellaneous

• Beckley Psytech Strengthens Pipeline and Development Team With Acquisition of Eleusis Therapeutics Limited (Psychedelic Alpha)

• People Who Use Psychedelics Are More Connected To Nature And Knowledgeable About Climate Change, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Use of Psychedelic Therapies for Treatment Resistant Patients Again Rejected by Government, Despite Strong Supporting Safety and Efficacy Data and Australia’s Worsening Mental Health Crisis (Mind Medicine Australia)

• With Promise of Legalization, Psychedelic Companies Joust Over Future Profits (The New York Times)

• Manipulating light can induce psychedelic experiences – and scientists aren’t quite sure why (The Conversation)

• The ideological war at the heart of the psychedelic renaissance (New Atlas)

• Research, remedy and regulation: the changing dynamics of psychedelic therapy in Alberta (CBC)

• An Exploration of Psychedelics and Creativity (Drug Science)

• Variants in 5-HT2A Receptor Gene Alter Psychedelic Pharmacology (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Guidelines for Ethical Sponsorship and Transparency in Psychedelic Conferences (Chacruna)

• Terence McKenna's secret bad trip (Ecstatic Integration)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 12.10.21

Cannabis

• New Study Determines Correlation Between Cannabis and Sleep (High Times)

• Marijuana banking legislation stripped from federal defense spending bill (Marijuana Business Daily)

• San Francisco delays cannabis tax so that dispensaries can compete with illegal dealers (Boing Boing)

• Costa Rica’s Constitutional Court Approves Cannabis Legalization Bill (High Times)

• World’s largest THC-infused brownie weighs in at 850 pounds (Leafly)

• CBD Products Commonly Flagged by FDA for Making Unsubstantiated Claims About Treating COVID-19 (NORML)

• Luxembourg Publishes Details on Domestic Recreational Cannabis Plan (High Times)

• Montana Lawmakers Reject Marijuana Rules, Weeks Ahead Of Legal Sales Launch (Marijuana Moment)

• Allowing Legal Marijuana Dispensaries Boosts Employment Rates In Colorado Counties, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Missouri Police Couldn’t Use Marijuana Odor To Justify Searches Under New Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Ohio GOP Lawmakers File New Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Indiana GOP Lawmaker Plans Medical Marijuana Bill As Democrats Push Full Recreational Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia Lawmakers Tout Benefits Of Psychedelics As Activists Prepare Push For Statewide Reform (Marijuana Moment)

• Producing Cannabis Biomass Without Growing A Cannabis Plant: How One Company Is Doing It (Forbes)

• Hemp Sourced Lignin for Grid Backup Batteries (Drug WarRant)

Magic Mushrooms

• COMPASS Pathways announces further positive results from groundbreaking phase IIb trial of investigational COMP360 psilocybin therapy for treatment-resistant depression (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psilocybe allenii: The Bay Area Shroom No One Can Recognize (DoubleBlind)

• Psyched Wellness Presents AME-1 to Health Canada in Pre-Submission Meeting (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psirenity Announces Exclusive Licence Agreement for Psilocybin (PR Newswire)

MDMA

• Did the Cult From 'Wild Wild Country' Introduce MDMA to Ibiza? (VICE)

• Can MDMA Increase Women’s Sexual Desire? (DoubleBlind)

DMT

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Completes Manufacturing of Psychedelic Drug DMT Appoints UK Stroke Experts for Phase 2 (Yahoo!)

Ayahuasca

• Instagram decision to remove ayahuasca post overturned by Meta Oversight Board (The Verge)

• Chacruna Institute Publishes New Book on Ayahuasca Healing and Science (Chacruna)

Peyote

• The Ancient Tradition Of The Peyote Ceremony (Benzinga)

Iboga

• U.S. Government Will Test Ibogaine Derivative As An Addiction Treatment (Forbes)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• BetterLife Obtains Positive TD-0148A Data in Preclinical Models of Depression (GlobeNewswire)

• Psilera Confirms PSIL-002, A New DMT Derivative, is Well-Tolerated and Non-Hallucinogenic from In Vivo Behavioral Studies (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ketamine

• Evidence Inconclusive for Ketamine as Bipolar Depression Treatment (Psychiatry Advisor)

Miscellaneous

• Middle-class drug users could lose UK passports under Boris Johnson’s plans (The Guardian)

• Toronto Asks Feds to Decriminalize All Drugs (Truffle Report)

• United Nations Panel Rejects International Kratom Ban (Marijuana Moment)

• New Zealand to ban smoking for next generation in bid to outlaw habit by 2025 (The Guardian)

• The Future is Research: UK Government Publishes 10-Year Drug Strategy - Drug Science Responds (Drug Science)

• Horizons 2021: Creating the future of psychedelics (The Psychedelic Renaissance)

• Report finds Instagram makes it easy for teens to find drugs online (Engadget)

• ‘Magic' Mushrooms, Ecstasy, Other Psychedelics Could Become Legal in California (NBC San Diego)

• The Wild World of 19th Century Psychedelics (Psychedelics Today)

• People Changed the Ways They Use Drugs During the Pandemic (Filter)

• You Can Make ‘Bad Trips’ Good with Storytelling, Psychedelics Study Shows (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Study suggests psychedelics promote positive mental health through increased spirituality and emotion regulation (PsyPost)

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

• 40 under 40 Outstanding BIPOC leaders in Drug Policy (DoubleBlind)

• Taking Microdosing with a Pinch of Salt (Lucid News)

• Delix Therapeutics Partners with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to Advance Research on Non-Hallucinogenic Therapies to Treat Substance Use Disorders (Yahoo!)

• Nue Life announces donations to Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and Ketamine Research Foundation (PR Newswire)

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

• atai Life Sciences launches TryptageniX to further expand atai’s robust intellectual property portfolio and strengthen atai’s supply chain (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Shaman Claus: The Shamanic Christmas Origins (Reality Sandwich)

• Doseology Prepares for Growth Phase in Psychedelic-Focused Mental Health Market, Completes Dealer's License Application (Yahoo!)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 11.19.21

Cannabis

• U.S. Republicans move to decriminalize marijuana at federal level (Reuters)

• Germany Set To Legalize Marijuana Nationwide After Major Parties Reach Agreement (Marijuana Moment)

• Brazil is on The Brink of Medical Cannabis Change (High Times)

• Is This The First Real Case Of Fentanyl-Tainted Marijuana In The U.S.? (Forbes)

• Indiana Democratic Party Backs Marijuana Legalization And Pledges 2022 Reform Push (Marijuana Moment)

• New York Senator Files Bill To Extend Marijuana Equity Benefits To Transgender And Non-Binary People (Marijuana Moment)

• Straws Lined with THC Could Transform Edibles Industry (High Times)

• Bipartisan Wisconsin Lawmakers Unveil Marijuana Decriminalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• New study shows no increase in car crash injuries after marijuana legalized (Vancouver Sun)

• Canadian Groups Gives Free Weed And Edibles To Fight Opioid Abuse (High Times)

• Marijuana Legalization Attitudes Vary Significantly Within Partisan Coalitions, Pew Survey Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• Creating a better cannabis cultivation facility while strengthening relationships with third-party testing labs (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Sturdy Hemp Structures Could be the Future Eco-Building (High Times)

• Using cannabis in pregnancy linked to aggression and anxiety in children, a study suggests (CNN)

• Study: Scarification of cannabis seeds, certain disinfectants boost germination rates (Marijuana Business Daily)

LSD

• MindMed Launches Study of Low-Dose LSD Effects on Sleep and Cognitive Measures (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Up, Up and Away: The Trippy Tales Behind ‘Flying Over Sunset’ (The New York Times)

• Is LSD Safe - Latest Research Findings (Drug Science)

• The LSD Comedown: Navigating the After Effects of Acid (DoubleBlind)

Magic Mushrooms

• Bill on magic mushrooms aims to make Pa. a national leader in psychedelic research (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• NYC Subways Ban Marijuana And Psychedelic Mushroom Ads (Marijuana Moment)

• Magic Mushrooms, A Love Story (The New Yorker)

• PharmaTher Announces Positive Research Results for Psilocybin Microneedle Patch (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Tryp Therapeutics Provides Update on Clinical Hold for Phase 2a Study for Eating Disorders (Yahoo!)

• TheraPsil and Imperial College London, McGill University Partner on Psilocybin Study (Truffle Report)

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

• Another Life: Foraging for mushrooms and natural psychedelics (The Irish Times)

MDMA

• World's 'Strongest-Ever' Ecstasy Pill Found in English Nightclub (VICE)

DMT

• Algernon Announces Positive Feedback on its Planned Phase 1/2a DMT Human Stroke Study (Yahoo!)

• Discussions With FDA Provide Guidance for Phase IIb Clinical Trial Design for DMT-Assisted Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Is This Phoenix Pastor a Spiritual Shaman or an Ayahuasca Kingpin — or Both? (Phoenix New Times)

• Ron White’s strange ayahuasca experience, as described on JRE. (Ceng News)

5-MeO-DMT

• Mike Tyson ‘died’ while tripping on psychedelic toad venom (New York Post)

• Biomind Labs Completes Development of a Thermosensitive Nasal Gel Pharmaceutical Dosage Form (Business Wire)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• New Psychedelic Molecules: What’s in Development? (Truffle Report)

• New Psychedelic Molecules Part II: Key Industry Players (Truffle Report)

• Researchers train computers to predict the next designer drugs (ScienceDaily)

• BetterLife Pharma says pharmacology data on second-generation LSD derivative confirms its projected non-hallucinogenic property (Proactive Investors)

Ketamine

• Michael J. Fox Foundation Grant Will Fund First Clinical Trial of Ketamine to Treat Depression in People with Parkinson’s Disease (Yale School of Medicine)

• Warning of ‘wild west’ in depression treatment as UK clinics offer ketamine (The Guardian)

• Bexson Biomedical Announces Expansion to Treat Major Depression with Wearable Ketamine Formulation (PR Newswire)

• Silo Pharma and Strategic Partner Zylo Therapeutics Begin Development Process for Novel Ketamine Loaded Z-Pods (Psilocybin Alpha)

DXM

• Teenagers are ‘robotripping’ in the pursuit of cheap highs, again (Screenshot Media!)

Miscellaneous

• Jon Hopkins’s Psychedelic Journey to a New Way of Creating Music (The New York Times)

• "Aharon said it was healing:" How psychedelic therapy was undermined by abuse (Inverse)

• Psychedelics Use Associated With 55 Percent Decrease In Daily Opioid Consumption, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Horizons Conference Reconvenes in NYC to Connect Psychedelic Communities (Lucid News)

• New Non-Profit Supports Groundbreaking HPPD or ‘Acid Flashback’ Research (Truffle Report)

• Inside The Race To Create A Two-Hour Psychedelic Therapy Experience (Forbes)

• Psychedelics Help Heal Childhood Trauma, Study Finds (Benzinga)

• Psychedelic Bypassing: When Avoidance is Mistaken for Healing (Psychedelics Today)

• Canadian Biotech Known For Psilocybin And Cannabinoid-Based Medicines In FDA Phase 3 Trial For Bucillamine-Based Oral Covid Treatment (Forbes)

• Three Decades of Drug Policy Reform Work (Open Society Foundations)

• A Close Reading of the QAnon Shaman’s Conspiracy Manifesto (Lit Hub)

• Naropa University Announces Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies Certificate (Tricycle)

• A New Psychedelic Organization is Merging Shamanism and Science (Lucid News)

• The Serotonin 5-HT2A Receptor: From Mice to Humans (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Animals That Eat Psychedelics and Enjoy the Trip (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• CaaMTech Teams Up With University of Wyoming to Study Psychedelics as Treatments for Addiction (Psilocybin Alpha)

• MYND Diagnostics Commences Clinical Research on Alzheimer’s Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Letting people test their drugs will reduce the number of needless deaths (The Independent)

• The History of Psychedelics: An ancient tradition (Canex)

• MYND Diagnostics Commences Clinical Research on Multiple Sclerosis Biomarker Test (Psilocybin Alpha)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 10.9.20

Cannabis

• Vermont legalizes marijuana sales (Vox)

• Kamala Harris Promises To Decriminalize Marijuana and Expunge Records (Reason)

• Maine: Adult Use Marijuana Sales to Begin on Friday (NORML)

• THC May Help Treat Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome In Mice, Researchers Say (Forbes)

• D.C. Expands Medical Marijuana Deliveries Amid Coronavirus And Shifts Regulatory Control To Alcohol Agency (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia: Legislation Bars Police from Using Marijuana Odor as a Pretext for a Search (NORML)

• Pennsylvania Judge Just Ruled That Weed Odor No Longer Justifies Police Searches (MERRY JANE)

• City Council Majority Backs Allowing Public Marijuana Use In Wisconsin State Capital (Marijuana Moment)

• The latest cannabis beverage has a familiar name: Pabst Blue Ribbon (CNN)

• People Who Use Cannabis Are Healthier and Less Likely to Get Cancer, Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

• Study Finds Older Adults Using Cannabis to Treat Common Health Conditions (UC San Diego Health)

• Majority of Arizona Voters Are in Favor of Legalizing Adult-Use Weed, Poll Shows (MERRY JANE)

• THC and the 5-HT2A Receptor: What’s Going On? (Psychedelic Science Review)

LSD

• LSD Microdosing to Boost Attention: Too Soon to Tell? (Medscape)

• Acid and Orgasms: Why LSD Failed to Sexually Liberate Women (Chacruna)

Magic Mushrooms

• New TV Ads Urges Oregon Voters To Legalize Psilocybin Therapy (Marijuana Moment)

• Mydecine Innovations Group Announces Filing of Provisional Patent for the Treatment of PTSD with Psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

• 17 Healthcare Professionals Wait Over 100 Days for Access to Psilocybin; Patients Who Urgently Need Psilocybin Therapy Without Qualified Help (Therapsil)

• University of Toronto and Sansero Life Sciences join forces to study psychedelic medications (The GrowthOp)

Ayahuasca

• Researchers claim that ayahuasca tea helps the formation of new neurons (Entrepreneur)

• Remembering an Ayahuasca Hero: Domingos Bernardo (1941-2020) (Chacruna)

Peyote

• Why Jews will be thinking of peyote during this year’s Supreme Court session (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Iboga

• Why People Are Microdosing Iboga — and What You Need To Know About It (High Times)

Salvia Divinorum

• Is Salvia Legal? (DoubleBlind)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Synthetically-Produced Cannabinoids Could Soon Become a New Normal (DOPE Magazine)

Nitrous Oxide

• Humphry Davy had a way with nitrous oxide (Cosmos)

Miscellaneous

• Field Trip Health Is The Latest Psychedelics Company To Go Public (Green Market Report)

• Psychedelics in Group Therapy for HIV Survivors Shows Promising Results (Psych Congress Network)

• Mark Zuckerberg Supports Drug Decriminalization With Half-Million Dollar Oregon Campaign Donation (Marijuana Moment)

• Turn On, Tune In, Get Well (The New Yorker)

• Set and Setting for Society’s 21st Century Trip (Lucid News)

• Field Trip Adds Acclaimed Physician, Dr. Andrew Weil, to Medical Advisory Board (Psilocybin Alpha)

• DC Democratic Party Endorses Psychedelics Decriminalization Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

• Mind Cure Welcomes Award-Winning Journalist and Science Researcher Hamilton Morris to Advisory Board (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Dave Chappelle’s Marijuana And Psychedelics Parties Don’t Concern Local Sheriff (Marijuana Moment)

• Therapeutic Approaches for Lasting Change in Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelics Today)

• Trazodone and Psychedelics (Spirit Pharmacist)

• How a Canadian Decriminalization Model Can Improve on Portugal (Filter)

• MindMed Partners with NYU Langone Medical Center to Launch Groundbreaking Training Program for Psychedelic Therapies and Medicines (PR Newswire)

• Horizons Conference Shifts to Year-Round Films, Forums and Classes (Lucid News)

• Cannabis and Psychedelics: Vote and Change the Laws! (Chacruna)

• HPPD: Visual Flashbacks are Still Possible After a Trip is Over—But It’s Unlikely (DoubleBlind)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 11.2.18

Cannabis

• Mexican Supreme Court Strikes Down Marijuana Prohibition (Marijuana Moment)

• Thailand Mulling Becoming the First Country in Asia to Legalize Medical Marijuana (TIME)

• NORML Submits 10,000+ Written Comments to the FDA for the Reconsideration of International Marijuana Prohibition (NORML)

• Blood-Sucking Flies Love Marijuana, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Legal Marijuana Helps Reduce Opioid Harms, Two More New Studies Reveal (Marijuana Moment)

• 4 More States Could Legalize Medical or Recreational Marijuana Next Week (Reason)

• Marijuana In The Governor's Mansion: Record Number Of Candidates Say Legalize It (Forbes)

• Coca-Cola CEO says company has no plans for cannabis drinks (CNN)

• Vancouver, Canada’s Marijuana Capital, Struggles to Tame the Black Market (The New York Times)

• Medical cannabis products available on prescription (BBC)

• New Study Shows How Opinions On Marijuana Shift Based On Who Endorses It (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis oil: Why it could really be the miracle sleep saver (The Telegraph)

• Australia’s cannabis industry set to boom: report (news.com.au)

• Kansas Finally Admits It's Okay to Put Hemp in Beer (Reason)

• Young Advocates Launch Marijuana Legalization Phone Bank To Get Out The Vote (Marijuana Moment)

• Pot never should have been illegal in the first place (USA Today)

• Paul Ryan Touts The Benefits Of A Marijuana Ingredient And Industrial Hemp (Marijuana Moment)

• Quitting cannabis could lead to better memory and cognition (The Guardian)

• Utah Medical Marijuana Campaign Funding Mainly Slows Down Following Compromise Deal (Marijuana Moment)

• Everything you need to know about CBD, the cannabis elixir that doesn’t get you high (MarketWatch)

• Mother says cannabis oil has been saviour for epileptic son Alfie (The Guardian)

• Advocacy Groups Push Colorado To Make Legal Marijuana Market More Equitable (Marijuana Moment)

• With pot legalized, job openings surge in Canada’s cannabis industry (The Washington Post)

• Marijuana Campaign Ads Are Flooding Airwaves Ahead Of The Election (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• Yale scientists have new insight on how LSD works in the brain (Quartz)

• U of A student who stabbed 19-year-old to death while on LSD wins shorter sentence on appeal (Edmonton Journal)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Psilocybin Study Shows Beneficial Effects of Microdosing "Trip Truffles" (Inverse)

• Is Medicalization the Only Way to Legalize Psilocybin and Ibogaine? (Chacruna)

• Shroom for improvement: FDA lists psychedelic drugs as ‘breakthrough therapy’ for depression (RT)

• These folks used to raise money for the planet, now psychedelic mushrooms (Rooster Magazine)

• A handful of psychedelic "Atlantis" mushrooms in Amsterdam (Boing Boing)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• MDMA-Assisted Therapy For PTSD Edges Closer To FDA Approval After Largest-Ever Trial (IFLScience)

• DJ David Morales released without charge after ecstasy arrest at Japanese airport (The Sun)

• Mum recalls heartbreaking moment daughter, 15, died after taking ‘dark web’ MDMA pill (The Sun)

Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT

• DMT Is the Drug for Our Collective Crisis of Meaning (Medium)

• Ayahuasca For the First Time at 64 Years Old: Interview with Rhea Consalvo (Psychedelic Times)

Dissociatives

• Ketamine trial suspended following concerns around informed consent (Outsourcing-Pharma.com)

Opiates/Opioids

• Opioid Antidote Can Save Lives, But Deciding When To Use It Can Be Challenging (NPR)

• Poppy farmers seek comprehensive solution to illicit drug problem (Myanmar Times)

• Can you grow opium poppies in New Zealand? (Stuff.co.nz)

• Giant heroin spoon left outside Massachusetts Statehouse (StarTribune)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• What Psychedelic Research Can and Cannot Tell Us about Consciousness (Scientific American)

• The fix is worse than the problem: A reply to psychedelic researchers (Metaphysical Speculations)

• Why did shamanism evolve in societies all around the globe? (Aeon)

• Portugal’s drug policy shows what common-sense approach looks like (San Francisco Chronicle)

• psychedelic.support creates a network for psychedelic therapists (Psymposia)

• The Ideal Society In Terms Of Psychoactive Substances (Maps Of The Mind)

• Psychedelics and Witchcraft — The Truth About Hallucinogenic “Hexing Herbs” (Psychedelic Frontier)

• “Zombies” and Rotting Flesh: The Media Just Loves Halloween-y Depictions of People Who Use Drugs (Filter)

• DEA Says Meth Use Has Never Been Higher; Survey Data Say Otherwise (Reason)

• Horizons: The Psychedelic Conference Where Old Meets New (The Third Wave)

• It’s Time for the Psychedelic Renaissance to Join the Harm Reduction Movement (Chacruna)

• Global Drug Survey 2019: Kiwis urged to get frank about their drug use (Stuff.co.nz)

• Wave of Burning Man-Related Drug Arrests Won't Go to Trial (Reason)

• 5-Year-Old Has Meth Poisoning After Trick-or-Treating. It Probably Wasn't the Halloween Candy. (Reason)

• Evidence is mounting that psychedelic drugs can help treat diseases. Here are the most promising uses (Pulse)

• Drugs: Perspectives in Social Sciences (Chacruna)

• Setting the record straight with Robin Carhart-Harris and Enzo Tagliazucchi (Metaphysical Speculations)

• Further Response to the Psychedelic Neuroimaging Researchers (Metaphysical Speculations)

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 are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

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