This Week in Psychedelics - 9.17.21

Cannabis

• FDA And CDC Issue Warnings On Delta-8 THC Products Derived From Hemp (Marijuana Moment)

• World Anti-Doping Agency Reviews Marijuana Ban For Athletes Following Pushback On Richardson Suspension (Marijuana Moment)

• California: Lawmakers Advance Legislation Providing for Medical Cannabis Use in Hospitals (NORML)

• Runner’s High Gets New Meaning (The Wall Street Journal)

• Cannabis-Related Arrests in Virginia Decrease By 90 Percent After Legalization (High Times)

• Cannabis use linked to subtle abnormalities in speech production (PsyPost)

• Wolf administration ordered to reveal details of cannabis use as drug addiction treatment (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• Virginia Judge Jails Woman For Using Marijuana Before Testifying Against Alleged Domestic Violence Abuser (Marijuana Moment)

• New Jersey Has Expunged A Third Of A Million Marijuana Convictions Since July (Marijuana Moment)

• New Hampshire Lawmakers Take First Step To Put Marijuana Legalization On 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Michigan Medical Marijuana Activists Push Back Against Alleged Corporate Effort To Restrict Home Cultivation (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• LSD-triggered altered behaviors linked to abnormal brain communication (Medical Xpress)

• Miami student seriously injured after he jumped off roof while on LSD (Oxford Observer)

Magic Mushrooms

• First subject dosed in psilocybin trial for rare headache disorder (Pharmaphorum)

• California Activists Cleared To Collect Signatures For Psilocybin Legalization Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic shroom fest gets green light from University of Michigan (MLive)

• What Happens When Dogs Eat Shrooms (DoubleBlind)

• Nova Mentis Applies to US FDA for Psilocybin Orphan Drug Designation Fragile X Syndrome Treatment (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Turns Out Your DNA Sticks to MDMA Caps. That Could Help Police Track Down Drug Dealers. (VICE)

• Wesana Health Commits Funding of $1.5 Million To Support MAPS’ Research Pipeline (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Letter With MDMA Sent From the UK House of Commons to Prisoner (EDMTunes)

DMT

• How to Integrate Those Difficult-to-Remember DMT Experiences (Sam Woolfe)

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

5-MeO-DMT

• Tourists Are Now Smoking Toad Venom in Mexico’s Hipster Town Tulum (VICE)

Peyote

• Santa Cruz City Council Removes Peyote from List of Decriminalized Psychedelics (Good Times Santa Cruz)

Iboga

• Post-9/11 war vets go to Mexico to treat trauma with a psychedelic that's illegal in the US (Stars and Stripes)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• COMPASS Pathways acquires IP portfolio of novel psychedelic compounds and prodrugs (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Mindset Pharma Further Validates Lead Candidate, MSP-1014, as a Next Generation Psilocybin Analog through Drug Discrimination Assay (Psilocybin Alpha)

Nitrous Oxide

• Nitrous-oxide: Laughing gas hits a new high in Ireland (The Irish Times)

Ketamine

• Colorado attorney general report found Aurora police racially biased and fire department administered ketamine illegally (CNN)

• Ketamine monotherapy reduces suicidal ideation in adults with depression (Healio)

• Psychable is the First Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Company to Offer a Buy One, Give One Program (GlobeNewswire)

• Sharon Osbourne Says She Underwent Ketamine Therapy After Leaving The Talk amid Controversy (People)

• Perception Neuroscience initiates Phase 2a study of PCN-101 (R-ketamine) for treatment resistant depression (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Detroit Voters Will Decide On Psychedelics Decriminalization Ballot Measure In November (Marijuana Moment)

• Michigan Lawmaker Introduces Psychedelics Decriminalization Bill (Forbes)

• Addiction specialists accused of 'massive conflict of interest' for ties to drug-testing industry (CBC)

• Tim Ferriss Gift Creates Journalism Fellowships at Berkeley’s new Center for Science of Psychedelics (UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism)

• Seattle bid to decriminalize psychedelics could have ‘profound’ effect on treating addiction (MyNorthwest.com)

• Psychedelic medicine comes to the VA (The Psychedelic Renaissance)

• House Could Vote On Psychedelics Research For Military And Marijuana Banking As Part Of Defense Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Survey: U.S. College Students Drank Less, Used More Marijuana And Psychedelics During Covid-19 (Forbes)

• Congressional Panel Votes To Repeal Drug Conviction Penalty Blocking Education Tax Credit (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic Use on the Rise As Gen Z Seeks To ‘Enhance Connectedness’ (VICE)

• Seattle Councilmember Says He’ll Introduce Psychedelics Decriminalization Measure By Year’s End (Marijuana Moment)

• A Renaissance for Psychedelics Could Fill a Long-Standing Treatment Gap for Psychiatric Disorders (Scientific American)

• Ecstasy, LSD and magic mushrooms: are these drugs the future of therapy? (The Guardian)

• Fear of Death Impacts Quality of Life-How Psychedelics Can Help (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Washington State Activists Announce 2022 Drug Decriminalization Ballot Campaign (Marijuana Moment)

• Digital Psychedelia: Hidden Experience and the Challenge of Paranoia (Somatosphere)

• A Workbook for Psychedelic Integration Focuses on Life’s Big Questions (Lucid News)

• The impact and importance of psychedelic medicine (Open Access Government)

• 'Nine Perfect Strangers' is a deranged portrait of psychedelic wellness retreats (Mic)

• Understanding ‘Spiritual Emergency’ in the Context of Psychedelics (Psychedelics Today)

• What Substances Are More Likely To Be Contaminated With Fentanyl? (Lucid News)

• Discovering New Psychedelic Drugs (Reality Sandwich)

• Studying Psychedelics Pt I: North American Research (Truffle Report)

• The Therapeutic Effects of Psychedelics: 2A or Not 2A? – Part 1 (Psychedelic Science Review)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 1.22.21

Cannabis

• France launches public consultation on legalising cannabis (France24)

• UFC ditch marijuana ban but fighters warned to ‘temper enthusiasm’ after Usada rule change (The Independent)

• Biden Taps Marijuana Legalization Supporter To Lead Democratic National Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• American Medical Association Asks Court To Overturn Medical Marijuana Vote In Mississippi (Marijuana Moment)

• Arizona: Adult Use Marijuana Sales On Track to Begin This Month (NORML)

• This Michigan marijuana dispensary is giving free weed to anyone who got the COVID-19 vaccine (Detroit Metro Times)

• Trump Grants Clemency To Marijuana Prisoners On Last Day In Office (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: Nearly Half of Medical Cannabis Users Cease Using Opioids for Pain After Twelve Months (NORML)

• Congressman Files First Federal Marijuana Reform Bill Of 2021 (Marijuana Moment)

• Could Medical Cannabis Help with the Treatment of Movement Disorders? (Canex)

• Latest Canadian cannabis recalls include melting vape pens, moldy bud (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Virginia Marijuana Legalization Bill Approved By Senate Committee, With Home Cultivation Provisions Intact (Marijuana Moment)

• “Game changer” for the sector: First cannabis company expected to list on LSE next month (Cannabis Health News)

• Police Find 1st 'Cannabis Factory' In London's Financial District, Destroy 826 Plants (NPR)

• Hash landing: New Zealand police ditch annual helicopter hunt for cannabis dens (The Guardian)

• Phytol cited as potentially dangerous cannabis vape ingredient (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Study: Cannabis Use Associated with Reduced Alcohol Intake Among Treatment-Seeking Drinkers (NORML)

• Research establishes antibiotic potential for cannabis molecule (ScienceDaily)

• Women who use cannabis may have harder time conceiving (Healio)

• How Some THC Is Legal — For Now (Rolling Stone)

Magic Mushrooms

• Florida Lawmaker Introducing Psilocybin Mushroom Legalization (Forbes)

• Unique magic mushroom microdosing study to begin in Australia (New Atlas)

• How Mixing Mushrooms and MDMA Affects Your Body and Brain (VICE)

• Patient hopes Canada will introduce regulations for treatment with 'magic mushrooms' (CTV News)

• BC Craft Supply Co Announces Letter of Intent with Psilocybin Research and Development Company Ava Pathways (Globe Newswire)

MDMA

• MindMed Announces the Start of the First-Ever Clinical Trial Combining MDMA and LSD (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Insight into Ayahuasca’s Antidepressant Effects (Psychedelic Science Review)

5-MeO-DMT

• New Toad Venom Compound Synthesized for Clinical Use: 5-MeO-DMT Succinate (Psychedelic Science Review)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• NCSA: Synthetic cannabis a cause for concern (Loop Barbados)

Ketamine

• Ketamine Clinicians Publish Ethical Guidelines to Raise Treatment Standards (Lucid News)

• Colorado officials resume review of ketamine program after Elijah McClain's death (CNN)

• PharmaTher Signs Exclusive Worldwide License Agreement for Patented Ketamine Formulation Targeting Mental Health, Neurological and Pain Disorders (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Icelandic Government Proposes Drug Decriminalisation (The Reykjavik Grapevine)

• Peter Thiel-backed psychedelics start-up targets schizophrenia ahead of IPO (CNBC)

• Psychedelic Therapy Schools Are Popping Up Like Mushrooms (Bloomberg)

• The Biden Administration and Drug Policy: Expectation Versus Reality (Filter)

• North American Psychedelics Index Published: Which Companies Will Be in the First Psychedelic ETF? (Psilocybin Alpha)

• A New Supreme Court RFRA Ruling May Be a Boon to Psychedelic Religions (Chacruna)

• Senator wants to 'lock in' 2020 drug laws (Idaho Press)

• NeonMind Lists on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Is Psychedelic Medicine the Antidote to Anti-Black White Racism in the US? (Chacruna)

• The Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelics and Nature Explored in New Study (Lucid News)

• Psychedelic Authoritarianism Harm Reduction: “QAnon Shaman” Edition (Psymposia)

• Here’s What’s Missing From Conversations About Psychedelic Integration (DoubleBlind)

• Attorney General Merrick Garland a Disheartening Prospect (Filter)

• Dopamine Release and Duration of Action: Rules of Thumb to Predict Addictive Potential of Phenethylamines (Spirit Pharmacist)

• Ergot in Canada: A Lost Tradition? (Chacruna)

• BetterLife Pharma Is Developing Second Generation Psychedelics: Drugs That Leave Out The Trip (Forbes)

• Former Defence Force chief Chris Barrie supports increased accessibility of psychedelic drugs (The Canberra Times)

• Could Biden Make His Country’s Global Drug War Even More Imperialist? (Filter)

• What Will The Psychedelics Space Look Like In 2021? Experts Weigh In (Yahoo! Finance)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 12.11.20

Cannabis

• Mexican Supreme Court Extends Deadline To Legalize Marijuana As Lawmakers Continue To Advance Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• House Approves Marijuana Research Bill Days After Voting To Federally Legalize Cannabis (Marijuana Moment)

• What To Expect From The House Of Representatives’ Passing Of Federal Cannabis Reform (Forbes)

• Feds’ Post-Election Warning: Marijuana Still Banned For Federal Workers Despite State Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• NBA Will Reportedly Not Test Players for Marijuana Next Season (Complex)

• New Jersey lawmakers agree on recreational marijuana legalization bill (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Nebraska Senators Will Work To Put Recreational Marijuana On The Ballot In 2022 (Marijuana Moment)

• 70% in U.S. Support Expunging Marijuana Convictions After Vote to Decriminalize Weed: Poll (Newsweek)

• Embracing Marijuana Legalization Could Have Offset Democratic Election Losses, Poll Indicates (Marijuana Moment)

• Dumping CBD Oil On Strawberries Extends Their Shelf Life And Stops Mold Growth, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Why Europe's big cannabis route is so hard to shut (BBC)

• Majority Of Republican Voters Support House-Passed Marijuana Legalization Bill, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Jay-Z’s Cannabis Brand, Monogram, Launches With $50 Hand-Rolled Joints (Forbes)

LSD

• Mumbai: ‘Paper weight can’t be counted while quantifying LSD’ (Times of India)

Magic Mushrooms

• N.J. bill to lessen jail time for ‘magic’ mushrooms moves forward (NJ.com)

• Canada Will Let Health Care Professionals Legally Use Psychedelic Mushrooms, Health Minister Says (Marijuana Moment)

• Mydecine Innovations Group to Make First Commercial Export of Legal Psilocybin Mushrooms (Globe Newswire)

• Magic Mushrooms Are Expanding Minds and Advancing an Emerging Field of Science (Discover Magazine)

• Can the active ingredient in magic mushrooms help treat anxiety? Researchers want to know (The Age)

MDMA

• MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in landmark pilot trial (New Atlas)

DMT

• Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled in UK to treat depression (The Guardian)

• Why Does the Brain Make Its Own DMT? (DoubleBlind)

• How to Integrate a Difficult-to-Remember DMT Experience (Maps of the Mind)

Ayahuasca

• Miley Cyrus Says Ayahuasca Changed Her Life (Lucid News)

• Preserving Entangled Ayahuasca (Chacruna)

5-MeO-DMT

• Usona Institute Publishes Synthesis and Characterization of cGMP 5-MeO-DMT (Psilocybin Alpha)

Peyote

• Directing to the Divine Among Native American Peyotists (Spirit Pharmacist)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• New Compound Related to Psychedelic Ibogaine Could Treat Addiction, Depression (UC Davis)

Ketamine

• PharmaTher Files FDA Pre-IND Meeting Request for Ketamine in Parkinson’s Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Mind Cure Moves into Psychedelic Assisted Therapy with British Columbia Location Offering Ketamine and Psilocybin Therapy (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Psychedelics Weren't As Common in Ancient Cultures As We Think (VICE)

• The Top 10 Psychedelic Research Papers of 2020 (Psychedelic Science Review)

• This Is How Psychedelics Hack the Brain, According to Scientists (VICE)

• The Case for Macrodosing (Rolling Stone)

• Psychedelic Guide Abuse: High-Control Group Dynamics and Complicity in the Perpetuation of Harm (Psychedelics Today)

• UK government set for psychedelics investment windfall (Financial Times)

• It Takes Guts: Psychedelic Treatment Approaches to Autoimmune Disorders (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Humans Have Used Drugs With Sex For Millennia – The Reasons Are Much Broader Than You Think (TalkingDrugs)

• How To Provide Psychedelic Support (Lucid News)

• Psychedelics, Therapy, and the Law (Psychedelic Frontier)

• Christopher Valore (AKA The Architect) talks “Conductor,” His Virtual-Reality, Psychedelic-Visual Sandbox Platform (Psymposia)

• Psychedelics, Shadows, and Spiritual Bypassing (The Third Wave)

• How Music Therapists Helped Build Psychedelic Therapy (Chacruna)

• How to Change Your Ability to Change (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Combining Movement and Microdosing: Athletics, Exercise, and Flow (The Third Wave)

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Oakland Activists Share Plan for Legalizing Psychedelic Healing Ceremonies

Kyle Jaeger, writing for Marijuana Moment:

Psychedelics activists recently released guidelines for safely and effectively participating in healing ceremonies using entheogenic substances as they await legislative action to legalize the practice in Oakland.

The guidelines focus on preparation (including the importance of education), the psychedelic experience itself, integration after the trip is over, and nurturing long-term and community growth via reciprocity. It’s a good jumping off place; hopefully Oakland will be successful in passing this later this year.

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This Week in Psychedelics - 7.10.20

Cannabis

• The Marijuana Superweapon Biden Refuses to Use (The Atlantic)

• Is the Netherlands Finally Heading for Legalisation? (Volteface)

• Kansas City Lawmakers Vote To Remove All Local Penalties For Marijuana Possession (Marijuana Moment)

• Arkansas’ 2020 Cannabis Legalization Push Is Over (Cannabis Wire)

• Colorado’s Marijuana Legalization Law Decreases Crime In Neighboring States, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Does the cannabis industry have a monopoly problem? (Quartz)

• ‘Lazy Stoner’ Stereotype Smashed By Study Finding Marijuana Consumers Exercise More (Marijuana Moment)

• Black market cannabis seizures plummet as legalisation progresses in North America (Prohibition Partners)

• CBD and CBG Mouthwashes Are More Effective Than Traditional Oral Hygiene Products (MERRY JANE)

• The Endocannabinoid System: How Cannabis Interacts With The Body (Benzinga)

Magic Mushrooms

• Oregon Voters Will Decide On Legalizing Psilocybin Therapy In November, State Announces (Marijuana Moment)

• Congressman Hopes To Block D.C. Psilocybin Decriminalization Bid (High Times)

• Magic mushrooms could help ex-soldiers to overcome trauma (The Guardian)

• Study Finds Aeruginascin Metabolite 4-HO-TMT is Active at the Serotonin 5-HT2A Receptor (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Magic mushrooms and microdosing: The psychedelic trend helping women cope with lockdown anxiety (Metro)

• IntelGenx and Cybin Corp. Enter Into Feasibility Agreement for Fast-Acting, Orally-Dissolving Psilocybin Film (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The ‘Godfather Of Canadian Cannabis’ Is Launching A Psilocybin Startup (Forbes)

DMT

• Faerie Entities and DMT (deadbutdreaming)

Ayahuasca

• Owner of east Orange County church seeks federal exemption to legally dispense controlled substance (WFTV)

• Ayahuasca is Helping the Global North to Discover the Sacredness of Tobacco (Chacruna)

• Ayahuasca Benefits: The Health and Healing Powers of This Plant Medicine (DoubleBlind)

5-MeO-DMT

• Benefit Enhancement Strategies Correlated With Positive 5-MeO-DMT Experiences (Psychedelic Times)

• Toad Rage: Is 5-MeO-DMT Taken from Toad Venom Better than a Synthetic Version? (DoubleBlind)

Peyote

• Can Indigenous and Decrim Perspectives Align on Peyote? (Lucid News)

Iboga

• Bwiti Ritual Use of National Treasure Iboga (Reality Sandwich)

Nitrous Oxide

• VA Studying Laughing Gas as Treatment for Veterans With PTSD (Pain News Network)

• Belgium wants to ban selling laughing gas to minors (The Brussels Times)

Ketamine

• SoCal Brain Health Clinic Introduces Mindfulness-Based Ketamine Program (PRUnderground)

• Ketamine And Nitrous Oxide Are Being Used To Treat Depression In Australian Clinical Trial (LADbible)

• Why are people turning to cocaine and ketamine to self-medicate their mental illness? (Metro)

Miscellaneous

• DC Activists Submit Signatures To Put Psychedelics Decriminalization On November Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Canadian doctors are applying for psychedelic drug exemptions to dose themselves (The GrowthOp)

• MindMed Announces New Technology that Optimizes Psychedelic Dosing (Lucid News)

• The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized: Psychedelics’ Potential for Systemic Change (Chacruna)

• Top Integration Tips for Psychedelic First Timers (Maps of the Mind)

• Eleusis Draws on Research Into Psychedelics To Develop New Medicines for Inflammation (Lucid News)

• CannaGlobal, Sansero Life Sciences and Rise Wellness Merge to Create a New International Psychedelics Company (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Considerations for Psychedelic Therapists when Working with Native American People and Communities (Chacruna)

• MagicMed Industries Files First Psychedelic Derivative Patent (PR Newswire)

• Researcher Charles Nichols Studies the Impact of Psychedelic Substances on Inflammation (Lucid News)

• Professor David Nutt Joins AWAKN Life Sciences (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Synthesis Raises US$2.75M to Develop End-to-End Professional Platform for Psychedelic Wellness & Therapy (WebWire)

• Numinus Enters into Debt Settlement Agreement (Psilocybin Alpha)

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