This Week in Psychedelics - 9.10.21

Cannabis

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

• Ecuador Takes Giant Steps Towards Cannabis Legalisation (TalkingDrugs)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LSD

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

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

Magic Mushrooms

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

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

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

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

MDMA

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

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

DMT

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

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

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

Ayahuasca

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

San Pedro

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

Novel Psychoactive Substances

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

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

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

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

Nitrous Oxide

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

Ketamine

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

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

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

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

Miscellaneous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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This Week in Psychedelics - 1.29.21

Cannabis

• Arizona: Adult Use Marijuana Sales Begin (NORML)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LSD

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

Magic Mushrooms

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MDMA

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

DMT

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

Ayahuasca

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

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

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

• An Ayahuasca Retreat Brings Powerful Changes (Healing Maps)

Peyote

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

Iboga

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

Novel Psychoactive Substances

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

Ketamine

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

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

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

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

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

DXM

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

Miscellaneous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 5 Athletes Who Healed With Psychedelic Therapy (Benzinga)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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