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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Weekly Psychedelic Links - September 2022

9.2.22

Cannabis

• Oklahoma Supreme Court Gives Marijuana Activists Temporary Win As They Fight For Legalization Ballot Placement (Marijuana Moment)

• Pharmaceutical Industry Suffers Billions In Losses After States Legalize Marijuana, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Harvard Grad Student Dies in Bali From Police Brutality Over Cannabis Arrest (High Times)

• Poll: South Dakota Legalization Initiative in Danger of Failing (High Times)

• More Americans Now Smoke Marijuana Than Cigarettes, For The First Time Ever, Gallup Reports (Marijuana Moment)

• Largest ever independent study into cannabis use (BBC)

• Cannabis researchers say it’s high time to drop ‘lazy stoner’ stereotype (The Guardian)

• Pennsylvania: Governor Launches Effort to Issue Mass Pardons to Those with Low-Level Marijuana Convictions (NORML)

• Ghana's Legal Cannabis Hits a Constitutional Roadblock (TalkingDrugs)

• Joseph Schooling: Singapore Olympic star suspended for taking cannabis in Vietnam (BBC)

• Cannabis industry inches toward sustainability (Chemical and Engineering News)

• New Study Shows Evidence That Low-Dose THC Could Help Treat Veteran PTSD (High Times)

• U.S. Air Force And Space Force Reviewing ‘Common Sense’ Marijuana Drug Testing Policy Change For Recruits (Marijuana Moment)

• Qualitative Study Reveals Medical Students’ Attitudes Toward Medical Pot (High Times)

LSD

• LSD decreases binge-like drinking in a rodent model of alcoholism, but only temporarily (PsyPost)

• Is the Color of LSD an Indicator of Purity? (Lucid News)

MDMA

• Boy, 16, dies in suspected ecstasy-related incident at Leeds Festival (The Independent)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• DEA Backs Off, Won’t Criminalize Two New Psychedelics (Psychedelic Spotlight)

Nitrous Oxide

• Why Some New York Stores Will Require You to Show ID to Buy Whipped Cream (Newsweek)

• Doctors warn of rise in nerve damage linked to nitrous oxide (The Guardian)

Ketamine

• This New, Legal Cannabis and Ketamine Therapy is Designed to Heal Trauma in the Body (DoubleBlind)

• They’re Pushing Cut-Rate Ketamine Therapy on TikTok (Rolling Stone)

• Yukon woman paid $7K for private ketamine treatment, only to learn that the Yukon gov't covers it (CBC)

Miscellaneous

• An Inside Look at the Lawsuit that could “Legalize Psychedelics in Canada” (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• MindMed Completes 1-for-15 Reverse Share Split (Psychedelic Alpha)

• Student Loan Forgiveness Limited By the War on Drugs (High Times)

• Aspen, Colorado Activists Pursue Psychedelics Decriminalization For 2023 Ballot As Voters Prepare To Decide On Statewide 2022 Legalization Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic Advocate Facing Charges Calls for Help, Law Reform in New York (High Times)

• Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst? (WIRED)

• In the Wake of Decrim, Police Continue to Target Psychedelics (Lucid News)

• How Psychedelics Might Fuel a Paradigm Shift (DoubleBlind)

9.9.22

Cannabis

• California: Governor Signs Bill Prohibiting Doctors from Discriminating Against Medical Cannabis Patients (NORML)

• Nobody knows how widespread illegal cannabis grows are in California. So we mapped them (Los Angeles Times)

• UK Government Blocks Bermuda From Legalizing Marijuana On Same Day New Prime Minister Takes Office (Marijuana Moment)

• Afroman’s Ohio Residence Raided by Local Law Enforcement (High Times)

• Minnesota Arrests Black People For Marijuana At Much Higher Rates Than White People, State Data Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Cannabis Banking Legislation (High Times)

• Companies Turn to THC Beverages as Next Growing Legal Cannabis Market (High Times)

LSD

• LSD-assisted therapy induces rapid and lasting reductions in anxiety and depression symptoms, according to new research (PsyPost)

Magic Mushrooms

• Placebo-controlled study suggests that the benefits of psilocybin microdosing can be explained by expectancy effects (PsyPost)

• Psilocybin Study To Investigate the Serotonin System in Autism (Technology Networks)

• Optimi Health Completes Largest Legal Natural Psilocybin Harvest in Canadian History (Psychedelic Alpha)

• 'Flesh of the Gods': The Trippy History of Magic Mushrooms (VICE)

MDMA

• MDMA Enhances Fear Extinction Learning: From Models to Mechanisms (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Police issue MDMA warning after man dies from suspected drug overdose (Radio New Zealand)

Ayahuasca

• Why Are Scientists Dosing Fish with Ayahuasca? (DoubleBlind)

5-MeO-DMT

• As Use Of The World’s Most Potent Psychedelic Skyrockets, New Site F.I.V.E. Fills An Education Void (Forbes)

Peyote

• Conspiracy and Antisemitism in the Debate Over Peyote Decriminalization (Psychedelic Spotlight)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• New Psychedelic Entactogens: Designer Drugs Produce Designer Effects (Psychedelic Science Review)

Nitrous Oxide

• Laughing gas: 'A 20-second high is not worth losing your life over' (BBC)

Ketamine

• Scientists Discover That a Surprising Factor Improved The Effects of Ketamine in Mice (ScienceAlert)

• Low-dose ketamine is safe and effective to treat children with ADNP syndrome, study suggests (News-Medical.net)

Miscellaneous

• San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics (Leafly)

• Drug Executions in Iran Are Back on the Rise (TalkingDrugs)

• This Psychedelic Company is Leading the Way on Reciprocity and Holistic Approaches to Healing (DoubleBlind)

• WOC-led psychedelics conference champions gender equality with all-women speakers (Leafly)

9.16.22

Cannabis

• Killings, robberies, extortion. California can’t stop its booming illegal cannabis stores (Los Angeles Times)

• New Zealand Approves Domestic Medical Cannabis Products (High Times)

• World Anti-Doping Agency Set To Keep Marijuana On Banned Substance List, Saying U.S. Didn’t Back Its Removal (Marijuana Moment)

• Biden To Meet With Family of Brittney Griner (High Times)

• Study: CBD Oil Safe, Effective for Autism Patients (High Times)

• Missouri judge blocks attempt to kick legalization off ballot (Leafly)

• GOP Missouri Lawmaker Files Revised Marijuana Legalization Bill, Urging Special Session Action To Compete With Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

• Pregnant Women in Alabama Are Being Jailed For Smoking Pot (High Times)

• Oklahoma Prosecutors Are Targeting Pregnant Women For Using Medical Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

• Thai Lawmakers Withdraw Bill to Regulate Cannabis (High Times)

• New Jersey Employers Can’t Punish Workers Based On A Marijuana Test Alone, State Officials Say (Marijuana Moment)

• Nevada Judge Orders State Board to Remove Cannabis from Schedule 1 (High Times)

• Analysis: Legal Cannabis Businesses Associated with Increased Home Values (NORML)

• Weed Legalization in Germany Hampered by EU Laws (High Times)

• What’s Next For Cannabis Mergers And Acquisitions? (Forbes)

• Oregon Officials to Deploy Decoys to Catch Underage Weed, Alcohol Sales (High Times)

• Small Marijuana Growers Could Sell Directly To Consumers Across State Lines Under New Congressional Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Republican Congressmen Push for Environmental Impact Study on Cannabis (High Times)

• US Court of Appeals: Federal Scheduling of Cannabis “Irrational,” But Not Unconstitutional (NORML)

• In Hawaii, People Prefer Black Market Cannabis to State-Managed Facilities (High Times)

Magic Mushrooms

• Scientists have started to examine whether “magic” mushrooms can help in the fight against obesity (PsyPost)

• Oregon Overcomes Bureaucratic Delays to Therapist Training Program Approvals (Lucid News)

• The shroom edibles market proliferates underground (Leafly)

• Revive Therapeutics Provides Update on the Psilocybin Clinical Study for Methamphetamine Use Disorder and Oral Psilocybin Thin Film Strip Program (Psychedelic Alpha)

DMT

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Receives Approval for Groundbreaking Phase 1 DMT Human Stroke Study (Psychedelic Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Comedian Ron White Shares How Tripping On Ayahuasca In Costa Rica Turned His Life Around (BroBible)

5-MeO-DMT

• ‘I’m not a shaman – I just want to help people’: shoe designer Patrick Cox on his psychedelic toad awakening (The Guardian)

Peyote

• Native American Church of North America Advocates at Capitol Hill for Protections of Peyote (Native News Online)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Mindset Pharma Receives Scientific Advice from UK Regulator Facilitating Advancement of Phase 1 First-In-Human Clinical Trial Plan for Its Lead Clinical Candidate, MSP-1014 (Psychedelic Alpha)

Ketamine

• New study highlights ketamine’s promise for treatment-resistant depression (Popular Science)

• Dealers Are Giving Discounts on Cocaine and Ketamine in Honour of the Queen (VICE)

• Study Explores Effects of Experimenter Sex on Ketamine Response (Psychiatric Times)

PCP

• PCP (aka Angel Dust) May Actually Have Therapeutic Potential (DoubleBlind)

Datura

• Datura and the psychedelic Tao (Isham Cook)

Miscellaneous

• Atlanta is considering the decriminalization of magic mushrooms and other psychedelics (Leafly)

• Sexual Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy: Important Steps Being Taken to Support Survivors (DoubleBlind)

• Oregon Voters Continue To Support Drug Decriminalization Law They Approved In 2020, New Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelics Were the Hot Topic at This Year’s World Economic Forum (Lucid News)

• Local Michigan Lawmakers Vote To Make September Psychedelics Awareness Month After Decriminalization Enacted (Marijuana Moment)

• A Channel for Magic: Ralph Hood’s Mysticism Scale and the Occult Roots of the Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Program (Psymposia)

• Psychedelic Twitter is Swarmed by Plug Bots (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Finding Nuance in the Psychedelic Hype Bubble (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Psilera Receives First Patent Allowance for Transdermal Patch Formulations (Psychedelic Alpha)

• Adverse Events in Psychedelic Clinical Trials are Underreported (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Psychedelic South: The Quest to find Good Drugs in Alabama (Psychedelic Spotlight)

9.23.22

Cannabis

• Canada to review impact of cannabis legalization four years on (Reuters)

• Marijuana Is Staying On The Banned Substances List For International Athletes, World Anti-Doping Agency Announces (Marijuana Moment)

• California: Governor Signs Legislation Providing Employment Protections for Cannabis Consumers (NORML)

• NY finally approves medical homegrow (Leafly)

• Australian Cannabis Patients Turning to Prescriptions Over Illicit Market, Study Shows (High Times)

• New Yorkers with weed convictions will have priority in retail market, state says (Leafly)

• German Lawmakers Tour California Marijuana Businesses To Inform National Legalization Plans (Marijuana Moment)

• Las Vegas City Council Approves Cannabis Consumption Lounges (High Times)

• Leafly Report: ‘Opt-out’ towns are encouraging illegal marijuana sales (Leafly)

• University of Kentucky Opens New Cannabis Research Center (High Times)

• We spoke to the author of that new study on prenatal cannabis exposure (Leafly)

• Apple Lets Users Search For Marijuana And Pharmaceutical Interactions In Latest iPhone Health Update (Marijuana Moment)

• The Role of Cannabis in Treating Long COVID (High Times)

• Canada’s rich and complicated history of psychedelic research (Leafly)

• Oklahoma: Court Rules that Voters Can’t Decide on Legalization Ballot Measure This Year (NORML)

• Arkansas: High Court Approves Marijuana Legalization Measure for the November Ballot (NORML)

• Majority Of Maryland Voters Back Marijuana Legalization Referendum And Expungements, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Two Out Of Three Missouri Voters ‘Certain To Vote Yes’ On Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Poll: Majority in Minnesota Want Legal Weed (High Times)

• Two In Three Pennsylvania Voters Support Marijuana Legalization, New Poll Shows Amid Key Political Races (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• Miami clinic kicks off first national study of LSD, once a ‘public enemy,’ to treat anxiety (Miami Herald)

Magic Mushrooms

• The Viagra of the Himalayas—the World’s Most Expensive Fungus—Faces Serious Decline Due to Growing Demand (DoubleBlind)

• Liquid Culture vs. Spores (Reality Sandwich)

MDMA

• Disruption to Australian ecstasy market following COVID-19 restrictions, report finds (Medical Xpress)

• MindMed Collaborators Dose First Patient in Phase 1 Investigator-Initiated Trial of MDMA-Like Substances (Psychedelic Alpha)

DMT

• Researchers Studying Psychedelic Drug as Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease (High Times)

Ayahuasca

• Packers Bust Out Ayahuasca TD Celebration Weeks After Aaron Rodgers Revealed Psychedelic Use (BroBible)

• Aaron Rodgers Defends Ayahuasca, Says He May Be 'Called' to Take the Psychedelic Again (People)

Peyote

• Native American Church Leaders Ask Congress For Funds To Support Peyote Cultivation And Preservation (Marijuana Moment)

• The Complicated Ethics of Legalizing Indigenous Psychedelic Substances (Ethos)

Iboga

• You Can Now Get Ibogaine-Based Addiction Treatment In A Hospital Setting In Brazil (Forbes)

Nitrous Oxide

• What Nitrous Oxide Showed The Father of American Psychology (Lucid News)

Ketamine

• Looking at Images of People Smiling at You Extends Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine (Neuroscience News)

DXM

• Please don't cook chicken in NyQuil, the FDA asks TikTok users (NPR)

• The FDA may have unintentionally made 'NyQuil Chicken' go viral on TikTok (Engadget)

Miscellaneous

• Math Over Myth: Psychedelic Stock HAVN Life Collapses (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Psychedelics face corrupting influence of financial interests (UC News)

• Biden Administration Considers Psychedelic Therapies Task Force (Lucid News)

• Colorado Polls Show Conflicting Results On Psychedelics Ballot Measure That Voters Will Decide On In November (Marijuana Moment)

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Announces Receipt of CDN $450K Cash Refund from Australian Research Program (Psychedelic Alpha)

• Baby Boomers (Re)Discover Psychedelics as Tools for Aging with Grace (DoubleBlind)

• Does Microdosing Impact Meditation? New Study From Beckley Foundation and Quantified Citizen Investigates (Newswire)

• Colombia’s President Tells UN That ‘Democracy Will Die’ If World Leaders Don’t End Drug War And Pursue Different Strategy (Marijuana Moment)

• The Undergrowth of Psychedelic Australia (Kahpi)

• Beyond Michael Pollan: Where to learn more about psychedelics. (Medium)

• Can Psychedelics Help Veterans with Chronic Pain? (Psychedelic Spotlight)

9.30.22

Cannabis

• Switzerland: Revision of Narcotics Act – Switzerland fully legalizes medicinal cannabis (Global Compliance News)

• Free medicinal cannabis to be donated to epileptic children in the UK (Sky News)

• Medical cannabis for doggies, kitties is fully legalized in California (Leafly)

• Medical Marijuana Helps Patients Reduce Use Of Addictive Opioid Painkillers, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Maltese Non-profit Cannabis May be The Way Forward (TalkingDrugs)

• Check in, smoke up and tune out: Cannabis-friendly vacation rentals are catching on (CNBC)

• Despite The Munchies, Marijuana Legalization Is Tied To Lower Obesity Rates, Stereotype-Busting Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Investigators say more than 70% of cannabis growers use illegal water (Santa Barbara News-Press)

• Germany Versus The United States: Which Will Legalize Cannabis First (Forbes)

• As cannabis usage grows, so does the need for employers to revisit their workplace drug policies (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• Could Cannabis and Psychedelic Drugs Make Breast Cancer Treatments More Effective? (PR Newswire)

• Federal Marijuana Prohibition Is Putting Patients At Risk Of Consuming Contaminated Products, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Supreme Court trial on homegrow ban reveals a bigger issue in federal cannabis legalization (Leafly)

• Medical Marijuana Patient Plans To Sue Feds For $3.5 Million Over ‘Discriminatory’ Cannabis Raid On Tribal Land (Marijuana Moment)

• Is Big Tobacco Pivoting to Big Cannabis? (High Times)

• Wisconsin Governor’s Push To Allow Ballot Initiatives Could Put Marijuana Legalization Before Voters (Marijuana Moment)

• Majority Of D.C. Voters Support Marijuana Legalization And Oppose Crackdown On Unregulated ‘Gifting’ Market, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Missouri Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative Leads In New Poll, But With Less Than 50 Percent (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• Effects of LSD and Psilocybin in Healthy Participants (Psychiatric Times)

Magic Mushrooms

• Connecticut to Offer Legal MDMA and Psilocybin Therapy as Early as Next Year (DoubleBlind)

• DEA Claims Doctors Requesting Psilocybin For Dying Patients Have Commercial Interests (Benzinga)

• Woman’s Breast Cancer Returned Immediately After Dropping Treatment With Cannabis, Shrooms (High Times)

• Psilocybin Shows Gender-Specific Effects on CNS Reactivity and Behavioral Responses (Gilmore Health News)

• Psyence Group Completes Export of Psilocybin Mushrooms to Portugal (Psychedelic Alpha)

MDMA

• MDMA in the UK Is Finally Pure Again (VICE)

Ayahuasca

• Aaron Rodgers fumbles the science on psychedelics. Drugs like ayahuasca can alter the brain—but how? (Salon)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• 'A lot of MDMA that wasn't MDMA': The early results from inside Australia's first drug testing clinic (SBS)

• atai Life Sciences Announces Initiation of Phase 1 Trial for its MDMA Derivative, EMP-01 (Psychedelic Alpha)

• LSD-Like Molecules Counter Depression Without the Trip (UC San Francisco)

• BetterLife Files Comprehensive Patent for BETR-001 and Other LSD Derivatives (Psychedelic Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• A new urine test could help curtail the use of the latest synthetic cannabinoids to enter the drug scene (Medical Xpress)

Ketamine

• Elijah McClain’s autopsy report changed to death by ketamine (Colorado Public Radio)

• Looking at smiling faces extends the antidepressant effects of ketamine (University of Pittsburgh)

Miscellaneous

• How Interdisciplinary Research Could Reveal Psychedelics’ Blind Spots (Microdose)

• New Theory Believes Psychedelics Could Benefit Long-Term Space Travelers (High Times)

• After rocky start, hopes up in Oregon drug decriminalization (ABC)

• Psychedelic drugs: how to tell good research from bad (The Conversation)

• Do You Even Trip, Bro? A Look At Psychedelic Masculinity, From Joe Rogan To Mike Tyson (Benzinga)

• I went to the only psychedelic dispensary in North America—here’s how they do it (The Manual)

• The Racism and Classism Hidden Behind “Moms who Microdose” (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Whole-Body Effects of Psychedelics Part 3 – The Heart (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Majority Of Mainers Support Drug Decriminalization And Other Harm Reduction Policies, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Why Tripping at Raves Can Be Just As Healing as Ceremony (DoubleBlind)

• Math Over Myth: MindMed’s Self Destructive Stock Mission (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Men More Likely To Have Substance Abuse Disorder, Women More Likely To Overdose (High Times)

• Psychedelic Retreats Offer Healing Only for the Wealthy (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Psychedelic therapy could reduce anxiety, distress among patients with cancer (Healio)

• The Narrowing of Psychedelic Discourse (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Is Now a Good Time to Invest In Psychedelics Stocks? (The Motley Fool)

• The Messy Job of a Psychedelic Integration Coach (Psychedelic Spotlight)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 2.11.22

Cannabis

• South Carolina Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill Officially Approved In Senate, Heads For House Consideration (Marijuana Moment)

• Maryland Lawmakers Introduce Adult-Use Cannabis Legalization Bill (High Times)

• UK trial of medical cannabis and long covid to get underway this month (Cannabis Health News)

• The Super Bowl won’t be lit: no cannabis ads allowed (The Verge)

• Bill Introduced to Raise THC Limit in Hemp to One Percent (High Times)

• Cannabis Store Co-owned By Top Virginia Senator Sells Mislabeled Products With Illegal THC Content, Media Investigation Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Study Shreds Cannabis ‘Amotivational Syndrome’ Theory (High Times)

• Flower still king of US marijuana market, though supremacy waning (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Oklahoma Becomes Marijuana Legalization Battleground Between Advocates, With Legal Challenges And A New Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

• New York Cracks Down on Illegal Cannabis Businesses (High Times)

• Missouri Supreme Court Unanimously Orders Medical Marijuana Applicant Disclosures (Marijuana Moment)

• Pennsylvania Senate committee holds first-ever hearing on legalizing recreational marijuana (WGAL)

• Police Seizure Of Marijuana Dispensary Cash Leads To Federal Litigation (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis platform Leafly closes merger with SPAC, goes public on Nasdaq (Marijuana Business Daily)

• The Eternal Pricing Struggle of UK Medical Cannabis Patients (TalkingDrugs)

• Weedmaps Ad Satirizes Plight Of Broccoli Emoji As Marijuana Stand-In On Social Media (Marijuana Moment)

• Young cannabis users at increased risk of repeat stroke (Medical News Today)

• Federally Owned Utility Company Walks Back Threat To Block Electricity For Marijuana Businesses (Marijuana Moment)

• Cali Vibes Rocks Long Beach, Allowing Cannabis (High Times)

• How does cannabis use affect brain health? Caution advised, more research needed, experts say (ScienceDaily)

LSD

• Microdose Psychedelics Presents a Molecular Masterclass: The LSD Conference (GlobeNewswire)

Magic Mushrooms

• Psilocybin microdosing does not reduce symptoms of depression or anxiety, according to placebo-controlled study (PsyPost)

• Lawmakers say no to bill legalizing psilocybin-assisted therapy in Maine (The Portland Press Herald)

• Oregon proposes only using one type of mushroom for new psilocybin system, and no pills (OPB)

• More States Follow Oregon’s Lead Toward Legal Psilocybin Therapy (Lucid News)

• Usona Identifies Controlled Crystal Engineering Process for Large-Scale Synthesis of Psilocybin Polymorphs (Business Wire)

• Maine CDC Director Opposes Bill to Legalize Therapeutic Psilocybin (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• The Many Types of Psychedelic Mushrooms (Truffle Report)

• Mazatec Shamanic Knowledge and Psilocybin Mushrooms (Chacruna)

MDMA

• Can MDMA Save a Marriage? (The New York Times)

DMT

• DMT Vape Pen Patent Illustrates a Big Problem in the Psychedelics Industry (Psychedelic Spotlight)

Ayahuasca

• Creating Awareness on Sexual Abuse in Ayahuasca Communities: A Review of Chacruna’s Guidelines (Chacruna)

5-MeO-DMT

• Scientists Create Cell-Based Psychedelic Toad Venom, a Potential 5-MeO-DMT “Bio-Factory” (Lucid News)

Mescaline

• Mescaline As Therapy Is Getting Attention, Despite Stigma (Green Market Report)

Iboga

• Osoyoos Indian Band eyes cutting-edge drug treatment centre (Vancouver Sun)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Cybin Announces Grant of U.S. Patent Covering its Proprietary Compound CYB004 (Deuterated DMT) for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders (Psilocybin Alpha)

Nitrous Oxide

• Another new weapon to beat Corona, first 'nasal spray' launched in India (News Track)

• Nitrous Oxide Safe For Dental Procedures In Children With Sickle Cell Disease: Study (Medical Dialogues)

Ketamine

• Ketamine effectively silences suicidal thoughts, especially in bipolar patients (Study Finds)

• Researching Ketamine for Social Anxiety Disorder (Truffle Report)

• Yale researcher receives grant to study effects of ketamine in individuals with epilepsy (Yale Daily News)

• Trip Tunes: A Conversation with Producer Jon Hopkins About Making Music for Ketamine (DoubleBlind)

• Ketamine Infusions in the Home May Facilitate Safe Treatment Access During the Pandemic (Pharmacy Times)

Miscellaneous

• Can microdosing psychedelics boost mental health? Here’s what the evidence suggests. (National Geographic)

• Utah House Overwhelmingly Approves Psychedelics Study Task Force Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Maryland Senate Bill Would Provide ‘Cost-Free Access’ To Psychedelics For Military Veterans (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelics Offer New Route to Recovery from Eating Disorders (NEO.LIFE)

• Are Psychedelics the Future of Pain Relief? (VICE)

• Michigan Activists Submit Psychedelics Decriminalization Language (High Times)

• DEA Faces Backlash Over Proposed Scheduling Of Five Psychedelic Compounds (Marijuana Moment)

• Proposed Drug-Decrim Ballot Initiative All Set in Washington State (Filter)

• Can Psychedelics Make People More Drawn to Conspiracy Theories? (Sam Woolfe)

• Yes, Psychedelics Do Change Our Metaphysical Beliefs (DoubleBlind)

• Panel Discusses Coalition Building to Unlock Therapeutic Effects of Psychedelics (The Yale School)

• Legal Psychedelics: The U.S. Cities Where Psilocybin, LSD And Others Are Decriminalized (Healing Maps)

• Canada’s Reforms on Psychedelics Are Slowly Taking Shape (Bloomberg)

• Survey Shows 65% of Affected Americans Want Access to Psychedelic Treatments for Mental Health Conditions (Pharmacy Times)

• New Polling by Mind Medicine Australia Reveals Over 60% of Australians Support Increased Access to Psychedelic Medicines (Mind Medicine Australia)

• Big Pharma In Psychedelics: Inside Mindset Pharma’s Deal With Otsuka (Forbes)

• Using Real-World Evidence to Accelerate Psychedelic Drug Development (Truffle Report)

• Is city getting ‘high’ on hallucinating drugs? (The Hindu)

• Drug Euphoria Is a Good Thing, Actually (Filter)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 1.7.22

Cannabis

• Sadiq Khan plans pilot to ‘decriminalise’ minor cannabis offences in London (The Guardian)

• Legal recreational marijuana sales begin in Montana (KPAX)

• Federal Marijuana Monopoly Finally Ends As Two Companies Harvest Cannabis Approved By DEA (Marijuana Moment)

• New year rings in key changes to state marijuana markets (Marijuana Business Daily)

• GOP-Controlled New Hampshire House Votes To Legalize Marijuana Possession And Cultivation (Marijuana Moment)

• Colorado: Governor Issues Pardons to Over 1,300 Marijuana Offenders (NORML)

• Wyoming Marijuana Activists Turn Focus To 2024 Ballot For Decriminalization And Medical Cannabis Initiatives (Marijuana Moment)

• The top cannabis research studies of 2021 (Leafly)

• Incoming Virginia GOP Governor Won’t ‘Overturn’ Legal Marijuana Possession, But Casts Doubt On Sales (Marijuana Moment)

• Top Kansas Democrats Unveil Plan To Put Medical And Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization On The 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Two recreational marijuana initiatives might appear on Oklahoma ballot in fall (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Iowa Democrats Unveil Marijuana Resolution To Put Legalization On Ballot For Voters To Decide (Marijuana Moment)

• New Republican-Led Bill Would Legalize Medical Cannabis In Kentucky (Marijuana Moment)

• South Dakota Lawmakers Prepare Dozens Of Cannabis Reform Bills (High Times)

• Marijuana Decriminalization Reduces Arrests And Racial Disparities In Law Enforcement, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Tiny but mighty: Micro-cultivators dominated 2021 (Leafly)

• The cost of medical marijuana in Louisiana (KSLA)

• Israeli startup a go-to resource in medical cannabis world (I24News)

• Oklahoma Pot Farm Slapped with RICO From Next Door Neighbor (High Times)

• Cannabis users report higher quality of life than non-users (Leafie)

Magic Mushrooms

• Washington Psilocybin Bill Would Legalize Supported Adult Use (Bill of Health)

• COMP360 psilocybin study of 89 healthy participants published in Journal of Psychopharmacology (Psilocybin Alpha)

• New Hampshire Bipartisan Bills Want to Reduce Penalties on Psilocybin, Other Drugs (Truffle Report)

• Tryp Therapeutics Announces Advancement of Phase 2a Clinical Trial in Binge Eating Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Filament Health Announces Health Canada Approval for Phase II Trial Administering New Psilocybin Microdose Formulation (Psilocybin Alpha)

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

• Psilocybin therapy options could expand in Hawaiʻi (Hawai'i Public Radio)

MDMA

• Drug testing: Dramatic drop in bath salts being sold as MDMA (Radio New Zealand)

• Microdosing MDMA: What Research Says About Doing It For Mental Health Issues (Healing Maps)

DMT

• Entheon Biomedical Provides Update on DMT Human Trial and Announces Regulatory Submission to Ethics Committee (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• IRS defends denial of Des Moines church's tax-free status over use of psychedelic drug (KCCI)

• Anti-Drug GOP Senator Helps Psychedelic Church With Fight Against DEA And IRS (Marijuana Moment)

Iboga

• National Institute on Drug Abuse to Test Ibogaine For Addiction Treatment (Truffle Report)

• Caribbean Facility Finds Consistent Success Using Ibogaine for Anxiety and Trauma Treatment (PR Newswire)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• MindMed Successfully Completes Phase 1 Clinical Trial of 18-MC (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Mindset Pharma Teams Up with The McQuade Center to Develop 2 Families of Novel Psychedelic Compounds (Psychedelic Spotlight)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Using cannabinoids to treat obesity (Medical Xpress)

• More needs to be done to tackle synthetic cannabinoids, experts say (Stuff.co.nz)

Ketamine

• Awakn Life Sciences Expands World's First Ketamine Study Beyond Gambling Disorder to Include Additional Behavioral Addictions (Yahoo!)

• PharmaTher Announces Publication of Research Data for KETABET™ (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• The Promises and Perils of Psychedelic Health Care (The New York Times)

• Health Canada Grants Special Access to Restricted Drugs for Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Magic mushroom companies are on the Nasdaq now. That’s a recipe for a bad trip (The Guardian)

• Psychedelics Can Change Your View on the Nature of Reality (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Psychedelics in 2022: What to Expect (Truffle Report)

• Fact Check-London Mayor not decriminalising drugs (Reuters)

• Psychedelics 2021: A Year in Review (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Will overdose deaths force an end to the US ‘war on drugs’? (Financial Times)

• Philippines' Duterte says will never apologise for drug war deaths (Reuters)

• New York Prisons Punished 1,600 People for False Drug Test Results (Filter)

• Now psychedelics are coming to your medicine cabinet (ISRAEL21c)

• How Psychedelic Therapy Fuses Indigenous Shamanism With Western Science (IFLScience)

• Pop Culture Boosts Acceptance of Plant Medicine (GlobeNewswire)

• Can A Psychedelic Experience Improve 2022? (Reality Sandwich)

• Psychedelic Drug Policy Reform in 2021: A Year in Review (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelics Will Have a Big Presence at SXSW in 2022 (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Was 2021 the Year Psychedelics Conquered Capitalism? (Green Entrepreneur)

• Startup To Host Psychedelic Trips In The Metaverse (Forbes)

• Is ‘The Trip’ Essential to The Psychedelic Experience? (Psychedelic Spotlight)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 12.17.21

Cannabis

• Malta becomes first EU country to legalise cannabis for personal use (Euronews)

• St. Louis Mayor Signs Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana Possession And Cultivation (Marijuana Moment)

• No Fentanyl Found in Cannabis After All, Vermont Police Say (High Times)

• Viral story shared across social media about two teens overdosing on fentanyl-laced marijuana in Springfield was untrue (MassLive)

• Ministry pushes full cannabis legalisation (Bangkok Post)

• Government-Funded Study Shows Unprecedented Decline in Marijuana Use By Young People (NORML)

• Pfizer to Acquire Pharmaceutical Company Testing Cannabinoid Treatment (High Times)

• Heavy metals in cannabis plants could affect human health, study finds (New Atlas)

• Rhode Island Legalization Bill Set for Early 2022 Introduction (High Times)

• Baltimore: City Officials Move to Abolish Pre-Employment Drug Screens for Many Public Employees (NORML)

• Smoking CBD-Rich Marijuana Has ‘No Significant Impact’ On Driving Ability, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis use could cause harmful drug interactions (ScienceDaily)

LSD

• Cary Grant Is High on LSD in ‘Flying Over Sunset.’ Everyone Else Has a Bad Trip. (The Daily Beast)

• PharmaTher Announces Positive Research Results for LSD Microneedle Patch (BioSpace)

• MindMed Initiates Phase 2a LSD Trial for the Treatment of Adult ADHD (Psilocybin Alpha)

Magic Mushrooms

• New Filing Challenges Compass Pathways’ Infamous Patent on Synthetic Psilocybin (VICE)

• Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy reduces loss of meaning and suicidal ideation among cancer patients (PsyPost)

• With health care workers hurting, a doctor wants to see if a psychedelic can help (NBC News)

• COMPASS Pathways announces positive outcome of 25mg COMP360 psilocybin therapy as adjunct to SSRI antidepressants in open-label treatment-resistant depression study (Psilocybin Alpha)

• More patients granted psilocybin exemption by federal government (CBC)

• Warning: Oregon Legalized Supported Adult Use of Psilocybin, Not Psychedelic Therapy (Chacruna)

• New York Lawmaker Files Bill To Legalize Medical Psilocybin Treatments, With Focus On First Responders And Veterans (Marijuana Moment)

• This Trippy New Book Takes You Through Modern Mushroom History—With Cartoons (DoubleBlind)

• Psyched Wellness Announces Path to Market for AME-1-derived Products in the USA (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Silo Wellness announces series of psilocybin retreats in Jamaica (Globetrender)

• HAVN Life Successfully Exports Psilocybin from Jamaica Facility into the U.S. for Research Purposes (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• The Big Return – and Decline in Quality – of MDMA (VICE)

• Latest trials confirm the benefits of MDMA – the drug in ecstasy – for treating PTSD (The Conversation)

• MDMA could soon be used to treat PTSD according to physicians (Mixmag)

Ayahuasca

• Study links the ceremonial use of ayahuasca to robust reductions in neuroticism (PsyPost)

• Educating Gringos in Shipibo Ways (Chacruna)

• Esther Jean Langdon: Half a Century of Research About Shamanism and Ayahuasca (Chacruna)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Cybin Awarded Notice of Allowance from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for CYB004 (Deuterated Psychedelic Tryptamine) for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders (Psilocybin Alpha)

• atai Life Sciences Announces Successful Outcome of Phase 2a Biomarker Trial of RL-007 in Cognitive Impairment Associated with Schizophrenia (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Tainted synthetic marijuana linked to severe bleeding cases in Florida (Live Science)

Miscellaneous

• Psychedelics Rejected for Therapeutic Use in Australia (VICE)

• Can a Values-Centered Psychedelic Ecosystem Effectively Compete? (Lucid News)

• Mind Medicine Australia’s Response to the Announcement of the TGA NOT to Reschedule the Medical Use of MDMA for Treatment Resistant PTSD and the Medical Use of Psilocybin for Treatment Resistant Depression as Part of Therapy. (Mind Medicine Australia)

• How Do Psychedelics Change Your Personality? These Researchers Tried To Find Out (IFLScience)

• ‘This isn’t the 60s again’: psychedelics business takes off amid culture clash (The Guardian)

• 2022 Global Drug Survey: Help make it bigger than ever for its 10 year anniversary (TalkingDrugs)

• Most Addiction Specialists Support Legalized Therapeutic Psychedelics (Medscape)

• Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy on the Rise in VA Hospitals (Lucid News)

• Psychedelics and Substance Use Disorder: 4000 BCE to Present Day (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Many Indians Are Experimenting With Psychedelics, Other Drugs to Deal With Mental Health Issues (The Swaddle)

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

• atai Impact Establishes the atai Fellowship Fund in Psychedelic Neuroscience with Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics (Psilocybin Alpha)

• How to Start Microdosing Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• Understanding HPPD to Prioritize Harm Reduction of a Very Real Psychedelic Risk (Psychedelic Spotlight)

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