This Week in Psychedelics - 2.18.22

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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This Week in Psychedelics - 1.28.22

Cannabis

• Thailand Becomes First Country in Asia to Decriminalize Marijuana (TIME)

• New York medical cannabis approved for ‘any’ condition a doctor recommends (Leafly)

• Mississippi: Lawmakers Advance Medical Cannabis Access Bill to Governor’s Desk (NORML)

• Amazon Endorses Federal Cannabis Legalization (High Times)

• Europeans choosing cannabis over ecstasy (The Portugal News)

• Delaware Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee Vote (Marijuana Moment)

• Arkansas voters could see 3 recreational marijuana initiatives on ballot (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Cannabis Events Come Out of Hiding in New York City (The New York Times)

• North Dakota recreational marijuana measure fails to qualify for ballot (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Wisconsin Republicans Announce Limited Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Legal Cannabis Opens a Pandora’s Box of Equity Issues (Capital and Main)

• Ohio Lawmakers Will Be Forced To Consider Marijuana Legalization As State Validates Activist Signatures (Marijuana Moment)

• Active Ingredient in Cannabis Protects Aging Brain Cells (Neuroscience News)

• Majority Of Americans Say They’d Vote For A Politician Who Smokes Marijuana, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• What Happens When You Quit Cannabis? (IFLScience)

• Missouri Marijuana Legalization Measures Take Differing Approaches to Expungement (Marijuana Moment)

• Minnesota Groups Bind Together to Oppose Legal Cannabis (High Times)

• Don’t Feed Marijuana Buds To Donkeys, New Study Warns (Marijuana Moment)

• South Dakota: House Lawmakers Move to Repeal Citizen-Initiated Home Cultivation Rights (NORML)

LSD

• FDA clears phase 2b study of LSD treatment for generalized anxiety (Healio)

Magic Mushrooms

• No difference between psilocybin microdosing and placebo, trial finds (New Atlas)

• Colorado Activists File Revised Ballot Initiatives To Legalize Psilocybin And Establish ‘Healing Centers’ (Marijuana Moment)

• Oregon Lawmakers File Psilocybin Equity Bill As State Implements Legal Use Program (Marijuana Moment)

• Oklahoma Republicans File Bills To Decriminalize Psilocybin And Encourage Research On Medical Benefits (Marijuana Moment)

• Numinus Identified as a Licensed Psilocybin Supplier by Health Canada (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psilocybin: Following in the Footsteps of Cannabis Along the Path to Legality (JD Supra)

• Psyched Wellness Provides Update on Anti-Inflammatory Study with the National Research Council of Canada (Psilocybin Alpha)

• How is Oregon Preparing for the Facilitated Use of Psilocybin? (Lucid News)

• Red Light Holland’s Partner CCrest Laboratories Approved By Health Canada to Supply Psilocybin to the Special Access Program (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Diamond Therapeutics Looks At Low-Dose Psilocybin (The Dales Report)

• Mydecine Partners with Combat Stress to Treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans (Psilocybin Alpha)

DMT

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Discloses Novel Salt Patent Strategy as Part of its Psychedelic Drug DMT Intellectual Property (Psilocybin Alpha)

5-MeO-DMT

• A Psychedelic Craze Has Taken Hold Among The Rich, Toad Venom (Baller Alert)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• The Future of Psychedelic Medicine Will Be Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of (VICE)

• Awakn Life Sciences Files Patent Application for a New Class of Entactogen-Like Molecules to Treat a Broad Range of Addictions (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ketamine

• New study indicates ketamine is less effective than electroconvulsive therapy for severe depression (PsyPost)

• Ketamine Intravenous Therapy Shown to Improve Depression, Reduce Suicidal Ideation (Psych Central)

• Have We Eliminated Stigma Surrounding Ketamine-Assisted Treatment? (Volteface)

Miscellaneous

• Missouri Legislators Introduce Bill to Give Terminally Ill Patients Access to Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• Virginia House Committee Pushes Back Psychedelics Decriminalization Bill Until 2023, But Senate Proposal Still Pending (Marijuana Moment)

• Lawmakers Propose Study of Natural Psychedelics for Mental Health Use (Westword)

• Introducing Vital: Immersive, Inclusive, and Personal Psychedelic Training for Professionals (Psychedelics Today)

• Psychedelic Perceptions in 2021: Popular Culture & Controversy (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Family Tripping: How Multigenerational Psychedelic Drug Experiences Can Provide Connection (Everything Zoomer)

• Psychedelic Capital: Public vs. Private Markets (Truffle Report)

• Sensible policy on psychedelic drugs is growing more common (The Economist)

• Inside the Growing Wellness Trend of Psilocybin Mushroom Microdosing (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Hallucinogen chemistry guides antidepressant drug discovery (Chemical and Engineering News)

• Decriminalize Nature and Students For Sensible Drug Policy Create a Community Healing Alliance (High Times)

• Have You Taken Psychedelics? Participate In The Canadian Psychedelics Survey Sponsored By MAPS PBC (The Dales Report)

• Laganja Estranja’s Psychedelic Life (DoubleBlind)

• Psychedelics and Parkinson’s Disease: Improving Patient Quality of Life (Truffle Report)

• Psychedelic and Plant Medicines: A Portal to Transformative Realms of Possibility (Nonprofit Quarterly)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 9.10.21

Cannabis

• The Mysterious Ingredients in Your Cannabis Vaporizer — and the Health Risks They May Pose (Discover Magazine)

• Ecuador Takes Giant Steps Towards Cannabis Legalisation (TalkingDrugs)

• The cannabis industry is booming, but for many Black Americans the price of entry is steep (The Guardian)

• California Will Use Marijuana Tax Dollars To Support Cultivator Environmental Clean-Up, State Announces (Marijuana Moment)

• South Dakota: Lawmakers Seek to Repeal Vote Permitting Home Cultivation of Medical Cannabis (NORML)

• Marijuana Legalization Doesn’t Lead To Increased Youth Use, American Medical Association Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Marijuana Possession Arrests Plunge in NYC Post-Legalization (Filter)

• Daily marijuana use among US college students reaches new 40-year high (University of Michigan)

• Drones to Deploy in California County to Detect Illicit Pot Operations (High Times)

• Texas: Expansions to Medical Cannabis Access Law Take Effect (NORML)

• Medical cannabis unlikely to benefit most chronic pain patients, international researchers say (STAT)

• Young adult cannabis consumers nearly twice as likely to suffer from a heart attack, research shows (CNN)

• Maryland Lawmakers Take First Step Toward Putting Marijuana Legalization On 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Nebraska Activists Submit Two Medical Marijuana Initiatives For 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Wyoming Activists Jumpstart Signature Gathering For 2022 Marijuana Ballot Initiatives (Marijuana Moment)

• Missouri voters might see two adult-use cannabis measures in 2022 (Marijuana Business Daily)

LSD

• Shia LaBeouf Filmed Himself On LSD For This Role (TheThings)

• Kacey Musgraves says she was on LSD listening to Bach when she came up with the idea for her new album 'Star-crossed' (INSIDER)

Magic Mushrooms

• Oregon Psilocybin Panel Teams Up With Harvard To Research Psychedelic History And Impacts Of Reform (Marijuana Moment)

• Amanita Muscaria, the Real Life Mushroom We Know From Disney Movies (Literary Hub)

• Coldplay’s Chris Martin recounted his hallucinogenic experience with mushrooms (Vegan News)

• Nova Mentis Expands Psilocybin Research Program Targets Obesity and Diabetes (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Lorde reveals she was on MDMA while making 'Melodrama' and says each of her albums can be distinguished by drugs she was using at the time (Yahoo! News)

• MDMA-assisted couples therapy may help maximize recovery among patients with PTSD (PsyPost)

DMT

• Joe Rogan Test Positive for Covid, Says He Is Smoking Ivermectin-DMT Hybrid for Treatment (ValueWalk)

• DMT vs. Mushrooms: Are We All Tripping On The Same Thing? (DoubleBlind)

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Confirms DMT Increased Growth of Neurons by 40% in Preclinical Study at Sub Hallucinogenic Dose (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Your Grandma’s Guide to Ayahuasca (Lucid News)

San Pedro

• Consuming San Pedro: Everything You Need To Know (The Third Wave)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Here's Why There's So Much Fake MDMA in the UK Right Now (VICE)

• Mydecine Innovations Group Announces MYCO-001 Seamless Phase 2/3 Smoking Cessation Clinical Trial (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Mindset Pharma Selects Treatment-Resistant Depression and End of Life Cancer Angst as Indications for MSP-1014, its Novel Psilocybin-Inspired Clinical Candidate (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Field Trip Health Ltd. to Pursue Treatment Resistant Depression and Postpartum Depression as Indications for FT-104 (Psilocybin Alpha)

Nitrous Oxide

• Laughing Gas Could Become Illegal Because the UK Can’t Stand the Sight of Rubbish (VICE)

Ketamine

• Researchers develop statistical model to characterize how ketamine anesthesia affects the brain (News-Medical.net)

• Intranasal ketamine could effectively treat phantom pain (Pharmaceutical Technology)

• Comparing the impacts of propofol and ketamine on the brain (Medical Xpress)

• atai Life Sciences and Introspect Digital Therapeutics to test novel digital therapeutic approach in patients receiving ketamine for treatment resistant depression (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Possessing And Cultivating Psychedelics Would Be Legalized In Michigan Under New Senate Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• The worldview-changing drugs poised to go mainstream (BBC)

• Why investors are turning toward psychedelic health care companies (Fortune)

• No, VR Will Not Give You A Psychedelic Trip (Psychedelics Today)

• Field Trip Health opens Europe's first psychedelic therapy healthcare facility (PR Newswire)

• Hamilton Morris joins COMPASS Pathways to research new psychedelic compounds (Psilocybin Alpha)

• SoundMind opens a psychedelic clinic in West Philly as momentum builds for treatment of depression, PTSD with mind-altering drugs (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• CaaMTech Raises $22 Million for Psychedelic Drug Discovery and Development (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Mount Sinai’s Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research Receives $5 Million Grant From The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation (Mount Sinai)

• Wesana Health Announces Closing of PsyTech Acquisition (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Researchers Debate the Role of Mysticism in Psychedelic Science (Lucid News)

• Glutamate’s Role in Rapidly-Acting Antidepressants (Psychedelic Science Review)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 1.29.21

Cannabis

• Arizona: Adult Use Marijuana Sales Begin (NORML)

• 2 Years After Legalizing Cannabis, Has Canada Kept Its Promises? (The New York Times)

• Alabama Could Legalize Medical Marijuana Under Bill Filed By Republican Senator (Marijuana Moment)

• CBD Destroys Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Such as Gonorrhea, Study Finds (VICE)

• Chuck Schumer Lists Marijuana As A Priority In First Post-Election Cannabis Comments (Marijuana Moment)

• Anti-Marijuana Lawmaker Files Legalization Bill In North Dakota To Avoid Activist Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• Areas With More Marijuana Dispensaries Have Fewer Opioid Deaths, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Opioid Prescriptions Decline in Canada Following Enactment of Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization (NORML)

• Transition From Trump To Biden Impacts Federal Hemp And CBD Rules (Marijuana Moment)

• Michigan testing labs sound warning about contaminated cannabis (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Bill To Allow Medical Marijuana Use At Hotels And Airbnbs Filed In Missouri (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• LSD breakthrough could enable treatment for autism and social anxiety, research finds (Sky News)

Magic Mushrooms

• Hawaii Could Legalize Psychedelic Mushroom Therapy Under New Senate Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Kevin Matthews Wants to Decriminalize Mushrooms Across Colorado (Westword)

• Port Townsend woman seeks decriminalization of ‘magic’ mushrooms (Peninsula Daily News)

• UK Regulators Approve Beckley Psytech Study of Psilocybin for Debilitating Headache Condition (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psyence Group Completes First Cultivation Cycle of Medical Psilocybin Mushrooms at Its Commercially Licensed Facility (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Mydecine Innovations Group Sponsors Study on Neuron Level Response to Psilocybin at University of Maryland (Psilocybin Alpha)

• MagicMed Files For Psilocybin Derived Patents (Green Market Report)

• Is America Ready For Psilocybin Mushroom Retreats? (Benzinga)

MDMA

• Will Australia legalise ecstasy and magic mushrooms to treat mental illness? Here’s why it’s still too soon (The Conversation)

DMT

• Having Sex on DMT: What You Need to Know (Reality Sandwich)

Ayahuasca

• Ayahuasca, Severe Illnesses, and the Mystery of Death (Chacruna)

• Woman, 29, killed herself after ‘suffering psychosis from taking hallucinogenic yoga drugs on spiritual retreat’ (The Sun)

• Ayahuasca’s Role in the Entourage Effect and Depression (Psychedelic Science Review)

• An Ayahuasca Retreat Brings Powerful Changes (Healing Maps)

Peyote

• Let’s Talk About Hikuri: A Peyote Conservation Project by the Wixárika (Chacruna)

Iboga

• How the psychedelic Ibogaine helped a retired Vancouver firefighter treat his depression (The GrowthOp)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• BetterLife Engages Eurofins Discovery for its Next Generation Psychedelics 2-bromo-LSD FDA IND-enabling Pharmacology Studies (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ketamine

• Champignon Brands’ Canadian Rapid Treatment Center of Excellence Opens First Community-Based Centre in Ottawa to Provide Ketamine Treatment for Adults With Depression (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Ketamine to treat depression and addiction at UK’s first medical psychedelic psychotherapy clinic (iNews)

• Users of ketamine at significantly higher risk of suicide: study (Focus Taiwan)

• A Wall Street banker who made millions in the dot com boom dropped it all to become a 'psychedelics concierge' to the stars. Now he wants everyone to have access to ketamine. (Insider)

• How to Know if Ketamine Therapy Is Right for You (Santa Clarita Magazine)

DXM

• Low-dose dextromethorphan for the treatment of fibromyalgia pain: results from a longitudinal, single-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial (MD Linx)

Miscellaneous

• New Psychedelics Reform Group Sets Sights On Congress As Movement Builds (Marijuana Moment)

• Atlanta: Mayor Takes Executive Action Abolishing Pre-Employment Drug Screens for Many Public Employees (NORML)

• The Latest on Psychedelics for Treating Dementia (Psychedelic Science Review)

• The world's first psychedelic ETF debuts (Yahoo! Finance)

• Field Trip Health Ltd. Announces Opening of Field Trip Health Center in Atlanta, GA, as it Continues Expansion in the US (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The Cop Who Busted the Beatles Now Wants to Legalise All Drugs (VICE)

• When The Giants Of Indian Classical Music Collided With Psychedelic San Francisco (NPR)

• Mydecine Innovations Group Files Application to list to the NASDAQ (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Biden Ending Federal Contracts With Private Prisons; Private ICE Detention Continues (Filter)

• 5 Athletes Who Healed With Psychedelic Therapy (Benzinga)

• “A ‘Dose’ of Radical Christianity”: Psychedelic Therapy with Dr. Florence Nichols (Chacruna)

• atai Life Sciences to Collaborate with Massachusetts General Hospital to Accelerate Discovery of Mechanisms Underlying Therapeutic Effects of Psychedelic Agents (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Ohio Students Launch Harm Reduction and “Bad Batch” Alerts App (Filter)

• Taking Psychedelics When You’re Not Feeling Good (Maps of the Mind)

• In Brazil, Bolsonaro Continues to Pump Blood to the War on Drugs (TalkingDrugs)

• Inside The Underground World Of Online Psychedelic Support Groups (Benzinga)

• MINDCURE Announces Pre- and Post-Psychedelic Therapy Adaptogen Supplements, Defining New Product Category (Psilocybin Alpha)

• How to Start a Career in the Field of Psychedelic Integration (The Third Wave)

• Field Trip Health Ltd. Common Shares to Trade on the OTCQX Best Market (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Mental Health Issues That Don't Mix Well With Psychedelics (Healing Maps)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 1.8.21

Cannabis

• What The New Democratic-Controlled Senate Means For Federal Marijuana Legalization In 2021 (Marijuana Moment)

• These States Are The Most Likely To Legalize Marijuana In 2021 (Marijuana Moment)

• Incarcerated Patients Have A Right To Use Medical Marijuana, New Mexico Judge Rules (Marijuana Moment)

• Illinois: Governor Vacates Half a Million Past Marijuana Convictions (NORML)

• Virginia Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Legalize Marijuana In 2021 (Marijuana Moment)

• New Bill On Underage Marijuana Possession Could End New Jersey Legalization Stalemate Between Governor and Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: Marijuana Use Not Associated with Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (NORML)

• Scientists Cite Obscure Federal Marijuana Memo In Scheduling Case Against DEA (Marijuana Moment)

• Mother fears son could die as Brexit stops medical cannabis supply (The Guardian)

• Biden AG Pick Merrick Garland Wants To Defer To DEA On Marijuana Science And Classification (Marijuana Moment)

• California: No Uptick in Frequency of Marijuana Use by Young Adults Following Adult-Use Legalization (NORML)

• New York Governor Unveils Updated Marijuana Legalization Plan For 2021 (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• Here’s What Happens When Animals Eat LSD (DoubleBlind)

Magic Mushrooms

• This Former Latter-day Saint Politician Started a Psilocybin Church—But Is it Legal? (DoubleBlind)

• The Effects of Psilocybin on Morality and Empathy (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Alberta Palliative Patient Successfully Undergoes First Legal Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in Alberta, Initial Outcomes Exceed Expectations (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Will psychedelic mushroom vacations come to the US? (The Washington Post)

• MycoMeditations' Psilocybin-Assisted Wellness Retreat Announces New Leadership and Its Early 2021 Program Calendar (PR Newswire)

• NeonMind Goes Public, Plans To Study Functional Mushrooms And Psilocybin As Treatments (Benzinga)

MDMA

• Field Trip Health Ltd. Announces Participation in a MAPS-sponsored Multi-Site Study of MDMA-Assisted Therapy to Treat Eating Disorders (Psilocybin Alpha)

DMT

• New Clinical Trial Explores Safety of DMT for Substance Use Disorders (Technology Networks)

5-MeO-DMT

• Hamilton Morris Synthesizes 5-MeO-DMT in “Pharmacopeia” (Psychedelic Science Review)

• A Look at: 5MEO: Are Some Doors Better Left Unopened? (Reality Sandwich)

Ketamine

• Repeated Ketamine Infusions Reduce Symptom Severity in Individuals With Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Newswise)

• Ethical Concerns About Marketing Ketamine as a Safe and Effective Antidepressant (Medium)

Miscellaneous

• Jake Angeli: The Psychedelic Guru Who Stormed The Capitol (Psymposia)

• Big pharma is about to tune in to the potential of psychedelics (WIRED)

• Clandestine chemistry and psychoactive drugs in film: Hamilton Morris talks about his career (Chemical and Engineering News)

• Best Music Playlists For Psychedelic Therapy Are Explored In New Johns Hopkins Study (Marijuana Moment)

• Mount Sinai Health System Launches Center for Psychedelic Research (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Tooth tartar could uncover the drug habits of ancient people (Science)

• Are the Subjective Effects of Psychedelics Necessary for Their Therapeutic Benefits? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Oakland’s Next Step in Psychedelic Decriminalization Approved Unanimously by City Council (Lucid News)

• Neuroscientists believe deep neural networks could help illustrate how psychedelics alter consciousness (PsyPost)

• What Is Raphael Warnock’s Record on Drug Policy and Harm Reduction? (Filter)

• What do Alien Abduction and Psychedelic Experiences have in Common? Let Dr. John E. Mack’s Work Explain (Psychedelics Today)

• Mydecine Innovations Group Sponsors First Lab-Based Study of Established Microdosers at Macquarie University in Australia (Psilocybin Alpha)

• God's Factory Reset (Reset.me)

• NeonMind Appoints Trevor Millar as Chief Psychedelic Officer (Psilocybin Alpha)

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