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This Week in Psychoactives - 11.29.19

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CANNABIS

  • Study: Daily Cannabis Use Among Pain Patients Associated with Less Non-Prescription Opioid Use (NORML)

  • License revoked for California cannabis vape maker Kushy Punch after state seizes $21M worth of products (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Scientists Just Figured Out Why Some People Hallucinate on Weed (MERRY JANE)

  • Another Study Links Vitamin E Additive to Lung Illness (NORML)

  • California Is Raising Taxes On Cannabis Again (Forbes)

  • Study Finds “Little Support” for Cannabis Impacting Cognitive Abilities (NORML)

  • Cannabis reduces headache and migraine pain by nearly half (ScienceDaily)

  • Marijuana vaping disease strikes Thai patient (Coconuts Bangkok)

  • Additives result in higher toxins for vape users, Portland State study finds (EurekAlert!)

  • Michigan halts sale of marijuana vapes unless re-tested (MSN)

  • Alcohol-Related Car Crashes Declined In Idaho After Washington Legalized Marijuana Next Door (Marijuana Moment)

  • Feds Will Stop Funding State Addiction Programs That Use Cannabis (MERRY JANE)

  • Trinidad And Tobago Government Introduces Marijuana Reform Bills (Marijuana Moment)

  • For many, even 'automatic' clearing of marijuana records could be complicated (Crain's Chicago Business)

  • Is Weed Safe When You're Breastfeeding? (VICE)

  • US Air Force Bans Service Members From Using CBD, Despite its Legal Status (MERRY JANE)

  • Joe Biden Walks Back Marijuana ‘Gateway Drug’ Comment After Week Of Criticism (Marijuana Moment)

  • Inside the Contentious World of Cannabis Churches (InsideHook)

  • Pete Buttigieg Says Marijuana Arrests Signify “Systemic Racism.” His South Bend Police Fit the Bill. (The Intercept)

  • Where Presidential Candidate Michael Bloomberg Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

  • Congressional Candidate Smokes Marijuana And Talks Legalization In Campaign Video (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis legalisation: Does it lead to harder drug use? (BBC)

LSD

  • New Zealand-based LSD microdosing trial gets go-ahead (Newshub)

  • Inside the Archive of an LSD Researcher With Ties to the CIA’s MKUltra Mind Control Project (The Intercept)

  • Thai medical authorities issue warning on recreational 'Magic Paper' hallucinogen (AsiaOne)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

  • FDA Grants Psilocybin Second Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Resistant Depression (Medscape)

  • Scientists Discover New Compounds in Magic Mushrooms (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Depression sufferers should not self-medicate with magic mushrooms, health experts warn (The Telegraph)

  • Late frost means magic mushrooms will bloom in the UK on New Year‘s Day (Stock Daily Dish)

MDMA

  • Parents of teens, here’s what you really need to know about MDMA (The Conversation)

AYAHUASCA

  • Lindsay Lohan's ex-boyfriend Harry Morton was 'hooked on ayahuasca', a psychedelic drug that distorts brain waves to create a vivid 'waking-dream' state — and was once used by the actress who said it 'changed her life' (Daily Mail)

  • Don’t Forget Us Native People Behind the Ayahuasca (Kahpi)

  • Personal Healing with Ayahuasca Helped Me Be a Better Psychologist (Chacruna)

NITROUS OXIDE

  • Doctors warn of the dangers of ingesting nitrous oxide in light of OU student death (WHIO)

KETAMINE

  • A Single Dose Of Ketamine Might Help Heavy Drinkers, Study Finds (NPR)

PCP

  • Naked man reportedly high on PCP jumps off roof of Kansas City home ‘like Peter Pan’ (FOX 4 Kansas City)

OPIOIDS

  • Pioneering Glasgow clinic offers addicts pharmaceutical grade heroin (The Guardian)

  • Drugmakers and Distributors Are Under Federal Opioid Probe, Report Says (TIME)

  • Heroin Pipes: How the “Hammer” Was Built for Harm Reduction (Filter)

  • My friend and I both took heroin. He overdosed. Why was I charged with his death? (The Washington Post)

COCAINE

CAFFEINE

  • Some coffee drinkers claim it causes anxiety. Here's what the science says (Salon)

  • Caffeine, Cough Medicines: What's in the Average Blood Transfusion (U.S. News & World Report)

  • Calls for probe into 'energy gum' that has more caffeine than Red Bull (Scottish Daily Record)

Nicotine

  • Massachusetts Becomes the First State to Ban Flavored Tobacco and Vaping Products (TIME)

  • Pennsylvania Officially Raises Age Of Tobacco Purchase To 21 (CBS Pittsburgh)

  • New York City Lawmakers Vote to Ban All Flavored E-Cigarettes (TIME)

  • CPSC Will Go After Vape Shops That Violate Bottle Rules (Vaping360)

  • How the British Approach to Vaping Puts the US to Shame (Filter)

  • More People In US Now See E-cigarettes More Harmful Than Tobacco (Medical Daily)

  • "Small Vape" Stood Up for Itself at the White House (Vaping360)

  • What the E-Cigarette Bans Get Wrong (Slate)

  • Vape debate: Are e-cigarettes wiping out teen smoking? (AP News)

ALCOHOL

NOOTROPICS

  • Some Nootropics Contain a Substance Unapproved by the FDA (VICE)

KRATOM

  • Which Liver Enzymes Metabolize Mitragynine (Net Newsledger)

  • Retail sale of kratom supplement banned in Monument (Colorado Springs Gazette)

  • Poison Control Centers Saw 5,000% Increase In Calls About Kratom Exposure (WOSU)

KAVA

  • Fijian kava arrives in New Zealand pharmacies (NZ Herald)

  • The viability of kava in healthcare — sensations of euphoria and relaxation (The Market Herald)

MISCELLANEOUS

  • How Drugs Won the War on Drugs (Mixmag)

  • Leaked Documents Say Roughly 2,000 NY Prisoners Affected By Erroneous Drug Tests (Gothamist)

  • Are over-the-counter psychedelics in our future? (Big Think)

  • Federal Health Agency Hosts Talk On Psychedelics Research (Marijuana Moment)

  • Psychedelic studies on depression recruiting subjects in the Netherlands (Stitching OPEN)

  • Nearly 100 Cities Are Considering Decriminalizing Psychedelics, Map Shows (Marijuana Moment)

  • Is this the way the drug war ends - not with a bang, but a whimper? (Politics.co.uk)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 6.19.15

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Meanwhile, this week in psychedelics...

Cannabis

  • Big Government-Supported Study Finds No Evidence That Medical Marijuana Laws Encourage Teenagers to Smoke Pot (Reason)
  • Patient use of cannabis-based oils a new issue in recent Memorial Hospital changes (The Gazette)
  • Canada's Supreme Court Outrages Bureaucrat by Letting Patients Have Their Cannabis and Eat It Too (Reason)
  • Canada Just Legalized Cannabis Oils and Edibles (Leafly)
  • NSW $12m medicinal cannabis research centre to 'lead the world' (The Guardian)
  • Cannabis Oil Stopped This Child's Constant Seizures - Thanks To New Ruling, It's No Longer Illegal (The Inquisitr)
  • No guidance from state as cannabis oil law takes effect (The Tennessean)
  • Snoop Dogg's Cannabis-Focused Venture Capital Fund Is Called Casa Verde Capital (Forbes)
  • The First Church of Cannabis: New religious group preaches the healing powers of pot (Mirror.co.uk)
  • LA's Reigning Queen of Cannabis is a Pot 'Doctor' to the Stars (Jewish Daily Forward)
  • At pot raid, cops allegedly ate edibles, threatened disabled staff (The Cannabist)
  • Historic Senate Vote Tells DEA to Butt Out of Medical Marijuana States (Alternet)
  • Nothin Medicinal about Marijuana (Unless it is 100% Organic) (Cannibad)
  • Why We Still Don't Know Marijuana's Full Potential (Business Cheatsheet)
  • Medical marijuana legal in all forms, [Canadian] Supreme Court rules (CBC.ca)
  • Even in Colorado Medical Marijuana Can Still Get You Fired (Time)
  • Cannabis May Cure Celiac Disease (Reset.me)
  • At Cannabis Trade Show, Vendors Tread a Careful Line (NY Times)
  • Cannabis WON'T harm your health as long as you stick to one small joint a week, scientists claim (Daily Mail)
  • Gov. Markell Signs Delaware Marijuana Decriminalization Bill Into Law (Marijuana Policy Project)

LSD

  • LSD, needle discovered during St. John's provincial court security screen (CBC.ca)
  • Here's a video of soldiers trying to march after getting stoned on LSD (We Are The Mighty)
  • Should You Be Eating LSD for Breakfast? (Munchies.VICE)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • We Asked Some Balinese Shroom Dealers How They Stay Out Of Jail (VICE News)
  • Psilocybin Is A True Teacher Plant If The Student Is Ready (Reset.me)
  • Scientists helped smokers quit by giving them doses of a drug found in magic mushrooms (Quartz)

MDMA

  • Woman Celebrating 19th Birthday Dies After Taking Molly at D.C. Music Venue, Police Say (NBC Washington)
  • Doctor: Legalisation of pure MDMA should be considered (The New Zealand Herald)
  • [New Zealand Prime Minister] John Key unconvinced by emergency doctor's call to legalise MDMA (The Dominion)
  • From street drug to salvation? Early research suggests therapeutic benefits of party drug ecstasy (Boston.com)

Ayahuasca

  • Yage Tourism: Vomiting and Visions in Colombia, Then Peace (Los Angeles Times)
  • Lindsay Lohan reveals ayahuasca 'changed her life' as she speaks out for first time after completing probation (Mirror.co.uk)
  • Is 'ayahuasca' Lindsay Lohan's new stress buster? (Financial Express)

DMT

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Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Increase in poisoning reveals dangers of 'synthetic marijuana,' CDC says (Los Angeles Times)
  • D.C. to Target Drug Suppliers, Synthetic Drugs (NBC Washington)

Ketamine

  • Package of ketamine from Cameroon leads to Saskatoon man's arrest (CBC.ca)

General Psychedelics

  • One Hell of A Party: Pot, hash, ecstasy, molly, ice and cocaine seized in Yau Ma Tei (Coconuts Hong Kong)
  • Connecting to the world through psychedelic drugs (New Internationalist)
  • Could psychedelic drugs make smokers quit? (BBC)
  • Microdosing: A New, Low-Key Way to Use Psychedelics (Alternet)

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.