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 - 8.13.21

Cannabis

• Native American tribe in North Carolina legalizes medical cannabis (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Marijuana Sales Increased In Multiple States During COVID, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Study suggests cannabis can induce a psychedelic-like “oceanic” experience (PsyPost)

• Weedmaps adds in-app cannabis purchasing for iPhone users (TechCrunch)

• Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace Leafly to go public (The Seattle Times)

• Senate Votes To Let Researchers Study Marijuana From Dispensaries (Marijuana Moment)

• Here’s where New York’s next governor stands on marijuana legalization (Leafly)

• California High Court: Recreational Cannabis Law Doesn’t Apply To Inmates In Prison (CBS SF BayArea)

• These States Possess the Highest Number of Cannabis Consumers Per Capita (NORML)

• Illinois Announces Cannabis Dispensary License Lottery Winners (Forbes)

• Wisconsin Lawmakers Unveil New Marijuana Legalization Bill—At A Cannabis Shop In Illinois (Marijuana Moment)

• Scientists Think Cannabinoids in Sativex Can Actually Beat Brain Cancer (MERRY JANE)

• Wyoming Officials Clear 2022 Marijuana Ballot Initiatives For Signature Gathering (Marijuana Moment)

• Oklahoma Activists Prepare 2022 Ballot Measures to Legalize Marijuana And Overhaul State’s Medical Cannabis System (Marijuana Moment)

• Nebraska Medical Marijuana Advocates Reveal Updated 2022 Ballot Strategy Featuring Two Separate Initiatives (Marijuana Moment)

Magic Mushrooms

• A 13th Century Fresco Might Feature a Psychedelic Mushroom (InsideHook)

• In Canada, End-of-Life Therapy May Be the Path to Legal Psilocybin (Filter)

• Canadian Groups Push For Legal Psilocybin: Survey Shows Support (Truffle Report)

• Myth Busting: Magic Mushroom Spores Have Little to do with Potency (Psychedelic Science Review)

• How magic mushroom ingredient psilocybin helps patients with depression or PTSD change how they feel, by rewiring the brain with more connections (South China Morning Post)

• Tryp Therapeutics Partners with Calvert Labs to Conduct Exploratory Studies for Proprietary Psilocybin Formulations (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• An Exploration of Ayahuasca Art History (Reality Sandwich)

5-MeO-DMT

• Why Are Celebrities Smoking Toad Venom? (Yahoo!)

Salvia Divinorum

• atai Launches Revixia Life Sciences to Develop Salvinorin A for a Variety of Mental Health Conditions (Psilocybin Alpha)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Psilera Initiates Landmark Preclinical Studies with New Psychedelic Derivatives aimed at Reducing Alcohol Consumption (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Bexson Biomedical Launches New Project, Applying Subcutaneous Delivery Technology To Multiple Psychedelic Compounds For Therapeutic Use (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Where Cannabis Synthetic Spice Came From and Is It Related To HHC? (CBD Testers)

Ketamine

• Could Ketamine Restore Child-like Brain Plasticity and Learning? (Lucid News)

• Will Ketamine Help Sleep? We Explain Any Benefits (Healing Maps)

• We Just Got Closer to Understanding Why Ketamine Is Such a Powerful Antidepressant (ScienceAlert)

• Study finds cognitive safety of ketamine and esketamine for patients with treatment-resistant depression (News-Medical.net)

• How Much Does A Ketamine Infusion Cost? (Healing Maps)

PCP

• Why Does The Psychedelic Scene Ignore PCP? [Part 1] (Psychedelics Today)

Miscellaneous

• These States Could Have Marijuana And Psychedelics Legalization On The Ballot In 2022 (Marijuana Moment)

• Fireside Project Expands Psychedelic Support Service with App Launch (Lucid News)

• Biden Exploring Clemency For People With Federal Drug Convictions, White House Says (Marijuana Moment)

• Wearable Psychedelics Could Soon Give Users Maximum Control Over Their Trip (VICE)

• Why Aren’t Psychedelic Drugs Prohibited in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Psychedelics May Inspire Healthier Habits, Survey Finds (Lucid News)

• Tripping Together (NEO.LIFE)

• Campaign will target middle-class drug users (The Times)

• Psychedelics As Medicine: Right To Try Case Versus DEA (JD Supra)

• Prisoners Sue After Drug Testing of Their Legal Mail Gave False Positives (Filter)

• Psychedelic Research Has a Racist Past (Mad in America)

• The Wonderful and Absurd Life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary: Fashion Icon, Fugitive, and Psychedelic Pioneer (Part Two: Freedom and Unfreedom) (Chacruna)

• Safely Exploring High Doses of Psychedelics (Maps of the Mind)

• The Cosmic Giggle: Laughter and Psychedelics (Reality Sandwich)

• Psychedelic Decriminalisation Only Scratches the Surface (VolteFace)

• In Awe: Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy and the Mystical Experience (Psychedelic Science Review)

• What Do I Need To Know About Tripping Alone In Nature? (Lucid News)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 6.11.21

Cannabis

• Nevada: Governor Signs Bill into Law Regulating Cannabis Consumption Lounges (NORML)

• Senate Votes to Legalize Recreational Marijuana in Conn. (NBC Connecticut)

• Washington state offers ‘joints for jabs’ to boost vaccination rates (The Guardian)

• Louisiana lawmakers pass bill to decriminalize marijuana (The Hill)

• Biden Administration Wants to Uphold Ban on Adult-Use Cannabis Sales in DC (MERRY JANE)

• Testing People For Marijuana Impairment Based On THC Levels Is ‘Not Reliable,’ Federally Funded Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: Enactment of Adult-Use Marijuana Laws Doesn’t Encourage Drugged Driving Behavior (NORML)

• Medical Cannabis Users Are More Likely to Cut Back on Cigarettes, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

• NFL Funds Marijuana Research As Federal Prohibition ‘Adversely’ Impacts Studies Into Opioid Alternative For Players (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia: Marijuana Arrests Fall Dramatically Following Enactment of 2020 Decriminalization Law (NORML)

• Bill Would Finally Let Researchers Obtain Marijuana From Dispensaries (Filter)

• LA Is Literally the Worst Place to Buy Legal Weed, Thanks to Exorbitant Sales Taxes (MERRY JANE)

LSD

• Susi’s Tram Ride: Recognizing the First Woman to Take LSD (Chacruna)

• Deepak Chopra did LSD for the first time in a lab and felt his consciousness shift while staring at a photo of Mother Teresa (Insider)

• Blotter paper part of LSD mixture, must be weighed too (The Times of India)

• LSD and the Anarchic Brain (Psychedelic Science Review)

• LSD for Bipolar Disorder: Is LSD the Answer? (The Third Wave)

Magic Mushrooms

• Silo Pharma Announces Collaboration with University California San Francisco to study Psilocybin as an Anti-Inflammatory agent in Parkinson’s and Bipolar Patients (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psilocybin Oral Strips: Benefits and Drawbacks (Truffle Report)

• Mydecine Discovers Over 40 Groundbreaking Potential Pharmacologically Active Novel Compounds in Mushrooms (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Pill-iD App Lets Users Scan MDMA Pills To See What They Contain (LADbible)

• MDMA soaring in popularity in New Zealand, making its way into high schools (Newshub)

• MDMA, Water, Seizures, and Death: Interview with Gabriel Kearns, M.D. and Founder of Elevation Chemicals (Psychedelic Times)

Ayahuasca

• Is Ayahuasca Legal? (DoubleBlind)

5-MeO-DMT

• A hallucinogenic toad in peril (High Country News)

Iboga

• Iboga Conservation (Chacruna)

Nitrous Oxide

• Can Laughing Gas (Nitrous Oxide) Help People With Treatment-Resistant Depression? (Forbes)

Ketamine

• Colorado bill to restrict ketamine use outside of hospitals close to passing (Colorado Newsline)

• Deaths Resulting from Ketamine Injection Rare, Study Indicates (JEMS)

Miscellaneous

• Connecticut Governor Signs Psychedelics Study Measure As He Awaits Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• The FBI Secretly Ran an Encrypted Messaging Service To Conduct the Same Old Drug War Stings (Reason)

• Aphrodite Health Is Here To Shift The Narrative: The First Psychedelics Company ‘For Women, By Women’ (Forbes)

• Poll Shows Huge Public Opposition to “War on Drugs,” After 50 Years (Filter)

• Seattle City Council Signs Letter Proposing Psychedelic Use in Opioid Addiction Treatment (Truffle Report)

• Field Trip Health Ltd. Applies to List Its Common Shares on the NASDAQ Stock Market (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Over One Third of US Voters Know Psychedelics Have Valid Medical Use, Poll Says (MERRY JANE)

• Psychedelics For Frontline Clinicians With Covid-Related Burnout? A Study Is Looking Into It (Forbes)

• Accountability & Transformative Justice in the Psychedelic Space: A Roadmap for Change (Psychedelics Today)

• Study Links Hallucinogen Use to Emotional Dysregulation, Risk Taking Among Youth (Psychedelic News Wire)

• Life Sciences Announces Launch of Initial Public Offering (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Are Psychedelics the Next Big Cure? (Good Housekeeping)

• Is Absinthe an Hallucinogen? Debunking the Green Fairy (Truffle Report)

• Tolerance, Tachyphylaxis, and Psychedelic Drug Action (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Basics for Tripping in Nature (Maps of the Mind)

• Psychedelic Cartoons: Through the Decades (Reality Sandwich)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 2.5.21

Cannabis

• Democratic Senate Leaders Announce Steps To Federally Legalize Marijuana In 2021 (Marijuana Moment)

• Idaho Senate Passes Measure To Block Marijuana Legalization, Even If Voters Approve It On The Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Marijuana Legalization Bills Headed to Virginia Senate and House (Filter)

• Top Minnesota Lawmakers File Marijuana Legalization Bill For 2021 (Marijuana Moment)

• New Mexico Senators File Two Marijuana Legalization Bills, With More On The Way (Marijuana Moment)

• Maryland Marijuana Legalization Bill Sponsored By Senate President And Other Top Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)

• Alabama Senate Committee Approves Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Sustainability In The Cannabis Industry: Truly Going Green (Forbes)

• Clinical Trial: Whole-Plant Cannabis Extracts Associated with Improved Outcomes in Autistic Patients (NORML)

• The “Secret Handshake”—A Program Gifting Cannabis to Unhoused People (Filter)

• Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization Not Associated with Any Rise in Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions (NORML)

• Mississippi’s high court to hear arguments to block medical cannabis (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Philadelphia: Marijuana Treatment Admissions Drop Eighty Percent (NORML)

LSD

• Neuroscience study indicates that LSD “frees” brain activity from anatomical constraints (PsyPost)

• Diamond Therapeutics Signs Agreement with McGill University for Research on Low-Dose LSD (Psilocybin Alpha)

Magic Mushrooms

• New Jersey Governor Signs Psilocybin Bill To Immediately Reduce Penalties For Possession (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic Mushroom Bills Filed In Florida And Connecticut As Movement Expands To Multiple States (Marijuana Moment)

• Federal Judge Decides Against Prison for Denver Mushroom Dealer (Westword)

• Psilocybin and Neurogenesis: The Long-Term Effects of Magic Mushrooms on Your Brain (Entheonation)

• COMPASS Pathways announces publication in Frontiers in Psychiatry of paper on therapist training programme for psilocybin therapy (GlobeNewswire)

MDMA

• MDMA and psilocybin not approved for medicinal use in Australia (9News)

• MDMA-Assisted Therapy is Less Effective if You Take Antidepressants (DoubleBlind)

DMT

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Launches Stroke Treatment Clinical Research Program with Psychedelic Drug DMT “The Spirit Molecule” (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Why Does DMT Pervade Nature? (Reality Sandwich)

Ayahuasca

• The Ancestral Healing Power of Ayahuasca (Psychedelic Science Review)

5-MeO-DMT

• Psychedelic Toads Pushed To The Limit, Conservationists Urge Synthetic 5-MeO-DMT Option (Forbes)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Mindset Selects Compounds from Its Third Psilocybin-Inspired Drug Family to Move into in vivo PoC Studies (Psilocybin Alpha)

Nitrous Oxide

• Nitrous Nation (The New York Times)

Ketamine

• Proposed law could bar SC 1st responders from using ketamine to incapacitate suspects (The Post and Courier)

• PharmaTher Signs Exclusive Worldwide License Agreement for Patented Microneedle Delivery Technology to Deliver Ketamine (Psilocybin Alpha)

• PharmaTher Announces Successful Completion of Pre-IND Meeting with FDA for the Clinical Development of Ketamine in the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelic Wellness-Focused Company Delic to Acquire Ketamine Infusion Centers LLC (PR Newswire)

• Core One Labs Announces Its Entrance into the Ketamine Space with Proposed Acquisition of Ketamine Infusion Centers of Texas (BioSpace)

Miscellaneous

• Drug Decriminalization Goes Into Effect in Oregon (Rolling Stone)

• Cambridge City Council Decriminalizes Psychedelics And Urges Police To End Drug Arrests More Broadly (Marijuana Moment)

• Washington Lawmakers Introduce Long-Awaited Bill To Decriminalize All Drugs And Expand Treatment (Marijuana Moment)

• Mass General Launches New Center to Study Psychedelics in Psychiatry (Massachusetts General Hospital)

• Psychedelics as Antidepressants (Scientific American)

• Health Canada considers amending Special Access Program (Psillow)

• QAnon shaman turns against Trump, says he would testify that president incited Capitol riots (National Post)

• Biden Quietly Announces Harm Reduction Among His Drug Priorities (Filter)

• Timothy Leary’s Castalia Foundation Has Been Co-opted to Promote Conspiracy Theories about COVID and Elite Pedophile Rings (Psymposia)

• Tryp Therapeutics Appoints Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris to Scientific Advisory Board (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Neuroscience students launch Psychedelic Society (The Glasgow Guardian)

• Pharmacological Testing in Psychedelic Research (Psychedelic Science Review)

• How To Setup Music for Psychedelic Sessions (+ 6 More Playlists for Psilocybin) (Maps of the Mind)

• Marlene Dobkin de Rios: A Case for Complex Histories of Women in Psychedelics (Chacruna)

• Is Microdosing Psychedelics the Secret to Sobriety? (MEL Magazine)

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