Cannabis
Virginia Senate Votes To Start Recreational Marijuana Sales This September Through Current Medical Dispensaries (Marijuana Moment)
Sha’Carri Richardson, Suspended Over Marijuana, Suggests Racist Double Standard After Olympics Lets Russian Skater Compete Amid Doping Scandal (Marijuana Moment)
Israel Announces New Cannabis Decriminalization Plans (High Times)
Apple Secretly Joined Amazon In Advancing Commercial Cannabis Reform (Forbes)
New York Lawmakers Send Marijuana Licensing And Equity Bill To Governor’s Desk (Marijuana Moment)
South African Government to Fast Track Cannabis Reform Regulations (High Times)
D.C. Mayor Signs Bill To Let Older Patients Get Medical Marijuana Without Doctors And Create 4/20 Cannabis Tax Holiday (Marijuana Moment)
Marijuana for trauma: Report shows positive effects of medical cannabis (The Jerusalem Post)
Hawaii Senate Committee Approves Bill To Legalize Marijuana For Senior Citizens 65 And Older (Marijuana Moment)
Bill To Create State-Run Marijuana Shops In New Hampshire Approved By House (Marijuana Moment)
Alabama Senators Approve Marijuana Decriminalization And Expungements Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)
South Dakota Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization And Taxation Bills In Committee (Marijuana Moment)
WA researchers look at potential to use medicinal cannabis for weight loss (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
GOP Missouri Lawmaker Unveils Wide-Ranging Marijuana Legalization Bill As Others Pursue 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)
Kentucky Democrats File Bills To Legalize Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)
Lawmakers, Cops Consider Adult-Use Cannabis Legalization in Pennsylvania (NORML)
Wyoming Legislators Introduce Cannabis Decriminalization Bill (High Times)
Maryland Lawmakers Take First Step To Putting Marijuana Legalization On 2022 Ballot With Hearing On Two Bills (Marijuana Moment)
New York Senate OKs bill to allow hemp farmers to grow adult-use marijuana (Marijuana Business Daily)
Majority Of Arkansas Voters Back Cannabis Legalization (High Times)
IRS Official Clarifies That Medical Marijuana Is Not Tax-Deductible Under Federal Law After Misstatement (Marijuana Moment)
Proposed Bill Could Protect Employees in Colorado who Use Cannabis (High Times)
Hemp-Reinforced Bobsled and Luge Tracks Debut at Winter Olympics in Beijing (High Times)
LSD
Another trial finds no evidence LSD microdosing does anything (New Atlas)
LSD, afterglow and hangover: Increased episodic memory and verbal fluency, decreased cognitive flexibility (Beckley Foundation)
New study addresses the question; ‘Can LSD boost creativity?’ (leafie)
Magic Mushrooms
Psilocybin Treatment for Major Depression Effective for Up to a Year for Most Patients, Study Shows (Johns Hopkins)
Top Italian Court Blocks Marijuana And Psilocybin Referendum From Going Before Voters (Marijuana Moment)
Psilocybin use associated with lowered odds of having been arrested, study finds (PsyPost)
Oklahoma Lawmakers Approve Psilocybin Decriminalization And Research Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)
Mushroom rabbi grows ceremonial psilocybin for Denver congregation — but is that legal? (The Denver Post)
Hawaii Senators Approve Psilocybin Task Force Bill In Committee, With Decriminalization Measures Still Pending (Marijuana Moment)
Oregon proposes only using one type of mushroom for new psilocybin system, and no pills (OPB)
Nova Mentis Study Confirms Oral Microdose Psilocybin Treatment of Autism (Psilocybin Alpha)
These Four Companies Want to Take You on a Psychedelic Voyage in Oregon (Willamette Week)
No Need for Magic Mushrooms? Producing Synthetic Psilocybin from Bacteria and Yeast (Truffle Report)
Psyched Wellness Announces Key Findings from the 90-Day Oral Toxicity Study on AME-1 (Psilocybin Alpha)
MDMA
Bar-Goers Were Poisoned by Ecstasy-Laced Champagne, German Police Say (Gizmodo)
DMT
The Latest in DMT Research: Leading Companies and Key Studies (Truffle Report)
What is DMT therapy? (Drug Science)
Ayahuasca
Deontay Wilder contemplates using ayahuasca to help decide his boxing future (leafie)
When Is Drinking Ayahuasca a Religious Experience? (Reason)
5-MeO-DMT
More Companies Embrace 5-MeO-DMT to Create Therapies (Lucid News)
Peyote
Calling on Federal, State, and Local Governments to Protect and Respect Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) and its Byproducts (Chacruna)
How peyote — used as a ceremonial, legal medicine — helped heal one family’s grief (Rocky Mountain PBS)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
Mydecine Announces MYCO-005 Family of Improved Safety Microdose Novel Molecules (Psilocybin Alpha)
Awakn Files Patent For A New Class Of Entactogen-Like Molecules (Psilocybin Alpha)
Synthetic Cannabinoids
Report finds too many New Zealanders are dying from preventable drug overdoses (Newshub)
Nitrous Oxide
Doctors warn of emerging public health issue from recreational use of laughing gas (Irish Examiner)
Ketamine
Ketamine No Better Than Placebo for Reducing Suicidal Ideation in Depression (Mad in America)
Ehave, Inc. Launches KetaDASH, Its In-Home Ketamine Therapy In The San Francisco And Sacramento Market (GlobeNewswire)
FDA: Safety Concerns With Compounded Ketamine Nasal Spray (MPR)
PharmaTher Announces Grant of U.S. Patent on Ketamine Formulation (Psilocybin Alpha)
Miscellaneous
Judge Grants Hearing for Opposition to DEA Proposal to Criminalize 5 More Psychedelics (Psychedelic Spotlight)
MAPS Accepts $500,000 Donation From Atai Life Sciences’ Philanthropy Arm (Forbes)
Maryland Senators Propose Free Psychedelics for Veterans with PTSD (Truffle Report)
Psychedelics Open Opportunity to Study Synesthesia (Lucid News)
Trauma and Vulnerability to Suggestion: Redefining How We Understand Consent (Psychedelics Today)
The Psychonaut’s Guide to Kabbalah and Spiritual Journeying (DoubleBlind)
What Are the Prospects for Canada’s Federal Drug Decriminalization Bill? (Filter)
Maryland Lawmakers Work To Decriminalize Drug Paraphernalia (Marijuana Moment)
The 5 Craziest Places On Earth to Do Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)
The Religious Uses of Licit and Illicit Psychoactive Substances in a Branch of the Santo Daime Religion (Chacruna)
“Largest-Ever” Harm Reduction Ad Campaign Demands Services, Honors the Dead (Filter)
Naming and shaming drug users is focus group fodder – Labour must do better (LabourList)
Co-Creating a Psychedelic Commons: A Commoner’s Guide (Chacruna)
Meet the 16 Most Influential Women Shaping the Future of Psychedelics (Business Insider)
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