This Week in Psychedelics - 6.19.20

Cannabis

• Louisiana Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Expansion Into Law (Marijuana Moment)

• Pennsylvania: Supreme Court Rules That Medical Cannabis Use Is Permissible While on Probation (NORML)

• New Jersey Assembly Approves Marijuana Decriminalization Bill Ahead Of Legalization Referendum (Marijuana Moment)

• Switzerland releases details on recreational marijuana experiment, but full legalization likely years away (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Nevada Pardons More Than 15,000 People With Marijuana Convictions Under Governor’s Resolution (Marijuana Moment)

• Nebraskans hustle to get medical legalization on ballot, with July 3 deadline (Leafly)

• Science Reveals The Cannabis Industry’s Greatest Lie: You’re Buying Weed Wrong (And So Is Everyone Else) (Forbes)

• Ohio Marijuana Activists Plan Supreme Court Appeal After Federal Judges Deny Electronic Signature Case (Marijuana Moment)

• Using cannabis during pregnancy could be bad news for your baby: new research (The Conversation)

• Library Of Congress Highlights Racist News Coverage Used To Justify Criminalizing Marijuana A Century Ago (Marijuana Moment)

• Patients Who Use Medical Cannabis Report Being Happier and Healthier Than Those Who Don’t (Grit Daily News)

• Fed report urges doctors to treat cannabis users as drug addicts (Leafly)

• Colorado Governor Could Issue Marijuana Pardons Under Social Equity Bill Lawmakers Sent To His Desk (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis Can Increase Intimacy and Reduce Anxiety During Sex, New Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

• CDC Flooded With Comments On Marijuana And Kratom As Alternative Painkillers Ahead Of Deadline (Marijuana Moment)

• These 3 Marijuana Nonprofits Are Offering Real Responses To The Pandemic And Racial Injustice (Green Entrepreneur)

• A Founder Looks at 50: The Important Role of Medical Experts in Support of Legalization (NORML)

• Lawmakers Push USDA To Let Hemp Farmers Access Coronavirus Relief Funds (Marijuana Moment)

• Why the Cannabis Sector May be Turning a New Leaf (Investopedia)

Magic Mushrooms

• Combining therapy with the psychedelic drug psilocybin results in large reductions in anxiety and depression (PsyPost)

• Colorado Activists Likely To Pursue 2022 Psilocybin Ballot Measure After Poll Shows Support (Marijuana Moment)

• Numinus receives Health Canada OK for mushrooms research (PressReader)

• Palliative Canadians endure punishing waits while Health Minister delays approval of Psilocybin mushrooms; TheraPsil expands effort to Ontario (Globe Newswire)

• A Deep Dive Inside Oregon’s Path to Legalizing Psilocybin Therapy (DoubleBlind)

• Life Sciences Firm Expands Collaboration Efforts with Major US University to Develop Psilocybin-Based Medicines (StreetWise Reports)

• New Wave Holdings Corp- Launching the first publicly-traded Psilocybin-growing operation (Value the Markets)

• Cannabis Company Eyes Medicinal Magic of Mushrooms (Real Money)

• Psilocybin to Treat Anxiety and Depression in Cancer Patients (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Cute as Children, but Not Handsome as Adults: María Sabina, Life Magazine, and Cold War Propaganda (Chacruna)

DMT

• MindMed To Evaluate Ayahuasca's Active Ingredient DMT In Phase 1 Clinical Trial Collaboration (BioSpace)

• NeonMind Files Patent Application for Therapeutic Use of DMT (Yahoo! Finance)

Ayahuasca

• Is Ayahuasca Possibly Less than Five Hundred Years Old? (Chacruna)

Iboga

• Could ibogaine offer a revolutionary long-term solution to addiction? (Health Europa)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• New K2 Compound in Canadian Heroin Supply Amid Surging Fatal ODs (Filter)

Nitrous Oxide

• Nitrous oxide use among young people is increasing in lockdown because it’s cheap and accessible (iNews)

Ketamine

• Why People are Using Ketamine Nasal Spray to Party (DoubleBlind)

• High Doses of Ketamine Can Temporarily Shut Down the Brain, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

• Champignon’s Dr. Mcintyre / Canadian Rapid Treatment Centre of Excellence (CRTCE) Published in Two Peer Reviewed Study Journals (Globe Newswire)

Miscellaneous

• UNC to Receive $26.9M from DARPA to Develop Psychiatric Medicines (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Microsoft reportedly tried to sell facial recognition tech to the DEA (Engadget)

• Mira X Acquisition Corp. Announces Proposed Qualifying Transaction with Field Trip Psychedelics Inc. (Yahoo! Finance)

• Fixing American policing also requires an end to the war on drugs (Baker Institute Blog)

• Champignon Provides Corporate Update; Announces Name Change, Rebranding and Planned Spin Out (Globe Newswire)

• CFN Enterprises Launches Premier Psychedelics Stock Index Site: PsyIndex.com (Stockhouse)

• Beyond Stigma: How Researchers May Trigger Drug Users (Filter)

• Psychedelics Quickly Creating a Potential $100 Billion Market Opportunity (Baystreet)

• New Wave Holdings Corp Appoints Dr. Dennis McKenna to Psychedelic Research Advisory Board (PR Newswire)

• Seed crystal: on the contributions of Alexander Shulgin to the science of consciousness (Medium)

• Psychedelic Medical Start-Up AWAKN Life Sciences Enters the UK Market with Dr. Ben Sessa (Yahoo! Finance)

• Mota Ventures Appoints Roger C. Clinton as Member of Advisory Board to Verrian GmbH (MarketWatch)

• L’Chaim Psilocybin: How Psychedelics are Reigniting Judaism (DoubleBlind)

• Greenstar Biosciences Signs Agreement to Acquire 100% of Eleusian Biosciences Corp. (Yahoo! Finance)

• 2nd Gen Psychedelic Drugs For Depression Can Be Safer For Older Adults (Forbes)

• ‘Canada’s first psychedelic-enhanced psychotherapy centre’ changing how we treat depression (GlobalNews)

• Don’t Get Caught in a Trip Trap; Psychedelic Lessons for this Collective Moment (Lucid News)

• How psychedelic drugs could help our veterans (9News)

• Pure Extracts: The Second Wave of Psychedelic Operators (The Deep Dive)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 12.22.17

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Cannabis

• Legal Pot: Mexico to Sell Space Cakes, Cannabis Drinks and Marijuana Lipsticks (Newsweek)
• World Health Organization clashes with DEA on marijuana compound CBD (Ars Technica)
• The Safety of Dabbing: An Honest Terpene Story (Psychedelic Times)
• Bitcoin offers the cannabis industry an alternative to banks (CNBC)
• Cannabis ingredient holds promise as antipsychotic medicine (Reuters)
• Move Over California -- Canada's Opening Its Own $5B Cannabis Market In 2018 (Forbes)
• DEA Releases Report Citing No Deaths From Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Study: CBD Effective As Adjunctive Therapy For Psychosis (NORML)
• Mass. Recreational Pot Industry Won't Just Line Pockets Of Big Businesses, Regulators Say (WBUR)
• Cannabis as a Tool to Fight the Opioid Epidemic (Reality Sandwich)
• New Policy Lets V.A. Docs Talk to Veterans About Medical Marijuana Use (Reason)
• An 11-Year-Old Is Suing the Government Over Medical Marijuana Legalization (ATTN:)
• A marijuana salve won best in show at a cannabis convention this weekend (Boston Globe)
• Portland Companies are Fighting a Secret Plot to Monopolize Cannabis (The Potlander)
• Massachusetts May Leap Ahead on Cannabis Cafes (CT Post)
• Even Without the Rider That Protects Medical Marijuana, a Pot Crackdown Is Unlikely (Reason)
• These Kids Prove Marijuana Is Medicine (ATTN:)
• Cannabis and Mental Health: Cause, Cure, or It's Complicated? (Yes) (Leafly)
• Here's how marijuana does, and doesn't, affect your health (The Mercury News)
• Universities Are Offering Marijuana Business Classes (ATTN:)
• This cannabis-infused wine promises to prevent hangovers (Moneyish)
• A Utah Grandma Explains Why She Gave Her Grandson Medical Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Part 1, Leafly's Faves 2017: Our Strain, Product, and Brand Picks (Leafly)
• EnviroGrow expands reach in cannabis industry (CT Post)
• Jury Rejects Damages for Victims of Pot Raid Based on Wet Tea Leaves (Reason)
• How to Make the Most of Cannabis Plant Count Grow Limits (Leafly)
• Cannabis Regulators Busy Rolling Out the Rules for Legal Pot (U.S. News & World Report)
• NORML "Rolls Out" New Rolling Papers (NORML)
• Cannabis Crunch – Arizona MMJ Battle Ends, Denver Closes 26 Legal Dispensaries And WHO Ok With CBD (Psychedelic Times)

LSD

• How Dock Ellis, Player Who Pitched a No-Hitter on LSD, Is Misremembered (Rolling Stone)
• Errol Morris talks about teaming up with Netflix to delve into the LSD-laced mystery of a CIA scientist's death (Business Insider)
• Government staffer's LSD work 'pick-me-up' (NT News)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Santa Is a Psychedelic Mushroom (The New York Times)
• Are Modern Religions All Modeled Off Amanita Mushroom Trips? (Disinfo)
• After Cannabis is Legal, Could Magic Mushrooms be Next? (Good Times)
• 7 mind-bending facts about magic mushrooms (Brinkwire)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Anonymous Bitcoin philanthropist donates $1m to prove health benefits of ecstasy (International Business Times)
• Can the use of MDMA to help treating alcohol addiction make an impact in psychiatric treatment methods? (MIMS)
• Flamefest raver Steven Graves 'took lethal MDMA dose' (BBC)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Ayahuasca Retreats Offers Magical Healing Sessions Based on Sacred Plant Medicine (MilTech)
• 5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT): Patterns of use, motives for consumption, and acute subjective effects (ResearchGate)
• 'HAMILTON'S PHARMACOPEIA' Digs into the Origins of DMT (VICE)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Huachuma: Healing Medicine For Modern Times (Reset.me)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• The Ibogaine Conversation Pt 7: Former underground provider, Dimitri Mugianis, on the regulation of ibogaine (Psymposia)
• The Ibogaine Conversation Pt 8: How Not to Do Ibogaine 101 with Juliana Mulligan (Psymposia)
• The Avante Institute Pioneers Ibogaine Plant-Based Therapy for Addiction in a Beautiful and Tropical Environment in the Bahamas (Digital Journal)
• Johnny Tabaie Explains How the Holistic Sanctuary Got a 90% Addiction Recovery Rate (Newswire)

Dissociatives

• Ketamine Relieved Suicidal Thoughts Within Hours in Hospital Study (Gizmodo)
• Who Laced The Titanic Cast's Chowder With The Hallucinogen, PCP? (Refinery29)
• Synthesis of methoxetamine, its metabolites and deuterium labelled analog as analytical standards and their HPLC and chiral capillary electrophoresis separation (Royal Society of Chemistry)
• Oklahoma City woman believed to have passed out on PCP arrested for child neglect (KFOR)

Opiates/Opioids

• Experimental Heroin Vaccine Triggers the Immune System So Mice Can't Get High (Gizmodo)
• Tech Alone Can't Solve the Opioid Crisis (Wired)
• Why is Big Pharma Raising Prices on Naloxone? (The Fix)
• What's the Difference Between Opiates and Opioids? (Pain News Network)
• Afghanistan has Reached a Record on the Production of Opium Poppy (Novinite)
• The Opium Wars still shape China's view of the west (The Economist)
• Vermont's U.S. Attorney Says Injection Sites Encourage Illegal Drug Use. The Research Shows She's Wrong. (Reason)

Kratom

• Findings suggest kratom's potential to treat opioid addiction (Medical Xpress)
• Kratom: An old plant sparks a new challenge (Capital Gazette)
• Why Banning Kratom May Make the Opioid Epidemic Even Worse (MSN)
• Polis asks FDA to lift public health warning on Kratom (Jared Polis)

Kava

• Stressed New Yorkers Take to Kava, 'Nature's Xanax' (The New York Times)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Gordon Wasson's Hidden Ties to the Vatican: Interview with Jerry Brown (Psychedelic Times)
• Ben Carson Admits War on Drugs Conflicts with War on Poverty (Reason)
• Microdosing LSD and Mushrooms: Guide To A Better Life (Psychedelics Daily)
• These Ten Foods Can Trigger Hallucinations if Over-Consumed (Netralnews)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 2.19.16

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Cannabis

• Could Cannabis Help Stem the Heroin Overdose Crisis? (TakePart)
• The Science Is Clear: Marijuana Is Not A Gateway Drug (Reset.me)
• Bill Maher Smokes a Joint to Prove a Point About Marijuana Legalization (ATTN:)
• Legal Marijuana Sales Totaled $1 Billion in Colorado Last Year (Reason)
• California Nuns Illegally Grow Medical Cannabis, Sell It Online (Inquisitr)
• Meet the Marijuana Industry's Newest Customers: Dogs (Reason)
• Cannabis does not cause anxiety and depression, study finds (The Telegraph)
• Why Is Facebook Taking Down Marijuana Dispensary Pages? (TIME)
• Terminal brain cancer patient says cannabis oil saved his life (Sun Times National)
• Using Cannabis to Treat Depression (Leafly)
• Study: No Increase In Prevalence Of Cannabis Use Disorders (NORML)
• Where do Ireland's political parties stand on decriminalising cannabis? (The Journal)
• Albuquerque baby makes history with cannabis oil at Colorado hospital (KRQE)
• Using Cannabis For Sexual Health (Reset.me)
• Government's Cannabis ATM (SF Weekly)
• Will there be a 2016 Colorado Cannabis Cup? Permit denied (The Cannabist)
• Happy Presidents Day! The Founding Fathers and Cannabis (Leafly)
• Leafly Evolves Beyond Cannabis Strain Reviews (New Cannabis Ventures)
• 'Cannabis clubs' may be opening in four Swiss cities (The Independent)
• Step by Step, Pot-Legalizing States Free Their Marijuana Markets (Reason)
• Leafly Science Roundup: Can Cannabis Improve Your Workout? (Leafly)
• Ex-coach Ron McBride voices support for medical cannabis (KSL)
• Barcelona's Pot Boom and Bust (Reason)
• Adams County denies permit to 2016 Cannabis Cup at Denver Mart (The Denver Post)
• Beginner's Guide to Cannabis Breeding, Genetics, and Strain Variability (Leafly)
• Complex California Pot Act Created Unseen Problem (Reason)
• Snoop Dogg Invests In Canadian Cannabis With Smiths Falls Marijuana Deal (Inquisitr)
• The gene that puts cannabis users at risk of psychosis: Scientists discover why some smokers are more prone to mental illness (Daily Mail)

LSD

• Inside the LSD Museum That the DEA Somehow Hasn't Torn to the Ground (WIRED)
• The Strange Way LSD Both Mimics Psychosis And Improves Mental Health (The Huffington Post)
• LSD research making a comeback says U of S historian (CBC News)
• Study: LSD could lead to long-term psychological well-being (Palm Beach Post)
• Always Wanted to Do LSD With Philip K. Dick? You'll Love Playing Californium (WIRED)
• LSD research rebounding during 'psychedelic renaissance' (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)
• Society may have changed enough to warrant a retrial of LSD: expert (Global News)
• 2 students charged after 3 LSD overdoses at Villanova University (6abc)
• Williams Sentenced to Probation for LSD Possession (KOWB)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Magic Mushrooms in North America: Before the Wassons (Reality Sandwich)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Could MDMA Save Your Relationship? (Complex)
• Want to Legalize Medical MDMA? Attend a 'Psychedelic Dinner' (US News)
• Government urged to consider pill testing as number of ecstasy users appearing at NSW hospitals doubles (ABC)
• MDMA: Using Safely (The Bottom Line)
• 'Deplorable' Kids Company psychologist is banned from practising for 12 months after taking MDMA with a vulnerable client in a nightclub toilet (Daily Mail)
• MDMA, Purest Form Of Ecstasy, Often Contaminated With 'Bath Salts' (Medical Daily)
• Death At HARD Summer Ruled Ecstasy "Intoxication" By Coroner (Your EDM)
• Florida man says he was jailed after police mistook aspiring for Ecstasy (WFTV)
• Teen Raver Died From Ecstasy Intoxication, Coroner Says (L.A. Weekly)
• Delivery results in felony charges for Oglesby man (LaSalle News Tribune)
• Teen accused of distributing ecstasy in Canberra faces court (ABC)
• A man and woman arrested for possession of Ecstasy: Parma Heights Police Blotter (Cleveland.com)
• Valdosta man arrested on MDMA, cocaine charges (Valdosta Today)
• Eugene man, allegedly high on ecstasy, arrested on felony assault charge (The Register-Guard)
• Teen rushed to hospital after taking ecstasy tablet at Coatbridge fast-food restaurant (Scottish Daily Record)
• Couple celebrated birth of child by taking Ecstasy and pot: West York police (PennLive)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• DMT Cook Burned & Busted (Crime Voice)
• Services Are Now in Session for Church Offering Hallucinogens (The Chronicle)
• Aidan Reid: How a Peru drug experience made me quit a life of partying (Belfast Telegraph)
• Police stumble upon suspected drug lab (The Davis Enterprise)
• De La Vina Resident Burned in Drug Lab Fire (Santa Barbara Independent)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• National Council Does Not Condone Faux Native American Churches or Marijuana Use (Indian Country Today Media Network)
• First Amendment: Justice Scalia's disastrous decision on religious freedom (Janesville Gazette)
• Scalia And Lewin: From Harvard To The High Court (The Jewish Week)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• What's the Difference between Iboga and Ibogaine? Identifying the Right Treatment for You (Psychedelic Times)
• Psychedelic Research with Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT: An Interview with Dr. Joseph Barsuglia (Psychedelic Times)
• Sunshine Coast alternative therapist calls on Government to research iboga plant to treat drug addiction (ABC)
• My First Iboga Experience: An Interview with Dr. Joseph Barsuglia (Psychedelic Times)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• NYU Research: Hair Sampling Shows Unintended "Bath Salt" Use (New York University)
• Soldier dismissed from army for supplying N-bomb (Stuff.co.nz)

Dissociatives

• Ketamine treatments working wonders on local girl (WOAI)
• Drug holds promise to fight acute depression (Palm Beach Daily News)
• Parklife Festival drug dealer told he could have killed someone with ketamine horse tranquiliser (Liverpool Echo)
• Man dies after falling from fifth-floor flat window while trying to perform a PULL-UP (Mirror)
• Inquest heard in ketamine addiction case (Barnsley Chronicle)
• Woman groped, suspect later found on PCP | POLICE BLOTTER (Renton Reporter)
• Police: PCP arrest made during traffic stop in Md. (WJLA)
• NJ man arrested for possession of PCP (Mid-Hudson News)
• Youth faces court over ketamine haul (The Standard)

Opiates/Opioids

• Kroger to make naloxone available over the counter (Sandusky Register)
• How snail venom may help end the heroin crisis (KING5)
• Penetrating Every Stage of Afghan Opium Chain, Taliban Become a Cartel (The New York Times)
• Cruz, Trump want to secure the border to keep out heroin. But will it work? (The Washington Post)
• China busts 35 restaurants using opium poppies as seasoning (WFXT)
• Walgreens to sell Naloxone without a Prescription (MyTechBits)
• Heroin-Addicted Identical Twins Reveal Shocking Ways They Say The Get Money For Drugs (The Huffington Post)
• Tasked With Combating Opium, Afghan Officials Profit From It (The New York Times)
• Overdose prevention pills don't cure opioid problem (Business Insurance)
• Poppy farmer thought it was a herb (Bangalore Mirror)
• 'Tea lady' inspires people to give up opium cultivation in Arunachal (The Statesman)
• Myanmar, a country rich in jade and gems, and OPIUM (The Northeast Today)
• Opium smugglers evade capture in Jordan (Al Bawaba)
• Myanmar Activists Say Destruction of Opium Fields Blocked (ABC)
• Broadway man charged with trafficking opium (The Sanford Herald)
• Opium Prohibition in Afghanistan (Cato Institute)

Absinthe

• Man wakes up after a night of drinking of absinthe in Magaluf and discovers a tattoo of a huge penis inked on his leg (Daily Mail)

Kratom

• Oxford police say selling Kratom is now illegal in city (Alabama's News Leader)
• Grateful Toad fined $12000 (Plattsburgh Press Republican)
• Herb Linked to Multiple Ark. Deaths (ArkansasMatters)
• Investigators seize illegal drug from 3 local businesses (4029tv)
• Oxford police warn against sale of new synthetic drug Kratom (The Anniston Star)

Kava

• New kava legal challenge in Germany over drugs institute ruling (Asia Pacific Report)
• New Kava Challenge (Vanuatu Daily Post)
• Two New Kava Bars Chill out the Bay Area With a Calming, Natural Concoction (7x7)
• One year mellow at Berkeley's MeloMelo Kava Bar (Berkeleyside)
• Divisadero's Long-Awaited Kava Lounge Softly Opens This Thursday (Hoodline)

Khat

• Madagascar flirts with food crisis as Khat fields replace staple crops (AfricaNews)
• Of Juja's JKUAT students and miraa chewing (Hivisasa)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• New Report Finds Drugs Bought On the Dark Net Have Higher Levels of Purity (Thump)
• Is Meth as Safe to Consume as Adderall? (ATTN:)
• Here are 10 fascinating drugs that our ancient ancestors used to get high (Raw Story)
• WATCH: Lana Del Rey Gets High on Psychedelics in New 11-Minute Video for 'Freak' (First to Know)
• Combat PTSD with psychedelic drugs? The VA or nonprofit organizations must fund more research now (New York Daily News)
• Why deaths won't stop the party: Drug test kits gain popularity as festival overdoses soar (Geelong Advertiser)
• Scalia's Mixed Drug War Record (Forbes)
• North Carolina's Welfare Drug Testing Program Is a Complete Failure (ATTN:)
• COLUMN: Psychedelic drug safety (Indiana Daily Student)
• Don't Punish All Drug Offenders for the Crimes of One (Reason)
• Pope Francis: Mexico Must Confront Drug Trade, Corruption (TIME)
• Effort made at CU-Boulder to ensure safe recreational drug use (Boulder Daily Camera)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 12.18.15

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Cannabis

• Year in Review: 2015's Biggest Moments in Cannabis (Leafly)
• Will Marijuana Prohibition Be Over In 5 Years? (Reset.me)
• Bureaucratic Hurdles & Spotty Access To Medicinal Cannabis Gives Rise To 'Cannabis Refugees' (MintPress News)
• Kentucky Lawmaker Submits Bill to Legalize Statewide Cannabis Industry (High Times)
• Feds Tell Supreme Court to Stay Out of State Marijuana Dispute (TIME)
• Jeb Bush Just Made a Series of False Comments on Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Study Explores Health Effects of High-THC Cannabis (Leafly)
• Meet the Weed Genius Designing the World's First Cannabis Ranch (Inverse)
• This Secret Document Reveals One Big Bank's Crazy Marijuana Plans (ATTN:)
• 6 Things YOU Can Do for Cannabis Prisoners (High Times)
• Congress Unveils 2016 Omnibus Spending Bill, Reauthorizes Marijuana Protections (NORML)
• 'Completely sober' drivers who smoked cannabis in last week could be prosecuted under new laws (Breaking News)
• Report: Criminal Justice Referrals Still Driving Marijuana 'Treatment' Admissions (NORML)
• Donald Trump and Harry J. Anslinger: Two Peas in a Pod (NORML)
• Intentional Cannabis Business Conference: What if California's Marijuana Regulations Suck? (Marijuana Politics)
• Research Says Cannabis Affects Intestinal Flora And May Prevent Obesity (High Times)
• Mum treats boy, 6, with cannabis oil for ADHD despite authorities threatening to take him away (The Daily Telegraph)
• How Pairing Yoga, Cannabis, and Music Creates Positive Vibrations (Leafly)
• Time to change cannabis laws (The Valdosta Daily Times)
• Marijuana Users Just Scored A Victory in Washington (ATTN:)
• High School Seniors Now Prefer Marijuana to Cigarettes (TIME)
• Here's Why You Get the Munchies (ATTN:)
• 10 Cannabis Strains That Ease Insomnia (Reset.me)
• Cannabis research task force begins work (Portland Tribune)
• How Do Vaporizers Preserve Cannabis "Fidelity"? (Leafly)
• Delaware Decriminalization Law Takes Effect (NORML)
• Solicitor General Says SCOTUS Shouldn't Hear Challenge to Marijuana Legalization (Reason)
• Cannabis dispensary initiative likely, petition has enough signatures (Appeal-Democrat)
• Renewed Riders Bar Medical Marijuana Meddling, Block Full Legalization in D.C. (Reason)
• The Beginner's Guide to Buying Dabs and Cannabis Extracts (Leafly)
• New Religion Claims 'Marijuana Cures Racism' (NewsBlaze)
• Marijuana Ads Are 'Nonmailable', but That Doesn't Mean You Can't Mail Them (Reason)
• NORML's Weekly Legislative Round Up (NORML)
• Justice Department urges Supreme Court to throw out Nebraska/Oklahoma lawsuit (Drug WarRant)
• KY Senator files "Cannabis Freedom Act" Rolling Medicinal And Recreational Use Together In One Hit (The State Journal)
• High-Potency Cannabis Linked to Brain Damage, Experts Warn (Medscape)
• KY senator pre-files Cannabis Freedom Act (WFIE)

LSD

• LSD Can Alter Consciousness by Reorganizing Brain Networks (Counsel & Heal)
• LSD and Spiritual Awakening (Reality Sandwich)
• Founder Of Alcoholics Anonymous Said LSD Experience Could Help Addicts Stay Clean (AlterNet)
• LSD is Way Healthier Than Medical Marijuana (Clapway)
• Researchers use fMRI to map effects of LSD on brain activity (DOTmed.com)
• LSD Effects Are Similar To The First Stage of Psychosis, Could Provide Model For Research (Medical Daily)
• Boy Scout Leader Accused of Giving Teen Member LSD, Pot (ABC News)
• Miley Cyrus Continues Odd Behavior, Swears She's Not On LSD (The Inquisitr)
• Why LSD causes hallucinations, scientists may have an answer (International Business Times)
• A Brain On LSD Looks Like A Psychotic Brain, Says New Study (Tech Times)
• Police: Man sold LSD three times in Kane County (Chicago Daily Herald)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Is Christmas All About a Magic Mushroom? (AlterNet)
• 'Magic Mushrooms' May Permanently Alter Personality (Live Science)
• Are Santa's Reindeer Tripping Shrooms? (High Times)
• Cancer: Magic mushrooms fight off depression and anxiety — with a side of 'mystical experiences' (International Business Times)
• The Gates of Hell: MKULTRA, Robert Graves, William Sargant, & Wasson's Magic Mushroom (Occult Yorkshire 10) (Auticulture)
• Miley Cyrus Is A Half-Naked Psychedelic Mushroom In Paper Magazine Shoot (The Huffington Post)
• Man arrested for possessing 70 magic mushrooms has happiest mugshot EVER (The Sun)
• How magic mushrooms can HELP cancer patients: Active ingredient 'reduces anxiety and depression' (Daily Mail)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Watch: MDMA-Assisted Therapy Frees Patients From Trauma And PTSD (Reset.me)
• Could a party drug help cure veterans' PTSD? (Al Jazeera America)
• Why Are People Still Dying at Australian Music Festivals? (VICE News)
• Robot that bought MDMA and passport with Bitcoin arrives in London (Belfast Telegraph)
• Rivers Island officers lose 50 ecstasy pills believed to be stolen from safe (New York Daily News)
• Man sentenced to prison, boot camp (Laramie Boomerang)
• Drugs worth £1,500 including ecstasy seized and two arrested (Belfast Telegraph)
• 21 Times TV and Movies Convinced Us MDMA Was a Good Idea (Thrillist)
• Woman had almost 900 MDMA capsules at Sydney music festival, police allege (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Southampton blotter: Flanders man caught with ecstasy during traffic stop (Riverhead News-Review)
• Knockout Circuz: Several drug-related arrests made at Sydney dance party (The Daily Telegraph)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• America Is Getting Its First Legal Ayahuasca Church (VICE's Munchies)
• A British Tourist Has Been Killed at a Peruvian Ayahuasca Ceremony (TIME)
• My Interview on Ayahuasca And The Importance of Psychedelics (The Daily Banter)
• The Visionary Activist Show — Caroline hosts Dr. Rick Strassman (KPFA)
• Canadian man kills Brit in psychedelic ceremony in Peru's Amazon (The Jerusalem Post)
• America's First Legal Ayahuasca 'Church' Lets You Trip on Hallucinogenic Tea (Complex)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• PMA is toxic drug making its way onto Australia's drug scene (News.com.au)

Dissociatives

• Ketamine for Refractory Status Epilepticus? (Medscape)
• Ketamine and depression: too much too soon? (Medical News Today)
• Police: Man tried to hide PCP in mouthwash bottle (Bryan-College Station Eagle)
• Possible PCP lab explosion burns 3 in South LA (Los Angeles Daily News)
• Warning over ketamine use for depression (Yahoo! News)
• Is ketamine ready to be used clinically for the treatment of depression? (The Medical Journal of Australia)
• Warning over ketamine use for depression (The Daily Telegraph)

Opiates/Opioids

• Washington Could 'Cut a Deal With Daesh in Afghanistan to Counter Russia' (Sputnik International)
• Painkillers, heroin drive increase in US overdose deaths (Live 5 News)
• A Mother Tries to Restart, but Heroin's Sway Will Not Relent (The New York Times)
• Afghan opium cultivation drops for first time in six years (The Express Tribune)
• Narcan use expanding as overdoses soar (The Bristol Press)
• Thailand Opium Eradication Effort Still a Model for Other Nations (Voice of America)
• Myanmar's high opium output a huge test for Suu Kyi government: UN (Reuters)
• 'Heroin' documentary hard to watch, but necessary (Sentinel & Enterprise)
• That time Ted Cruz quoted an opium dealer at a Republican presidential debate (The Washington Post)
• Myanmar Opium Farmers' Forum report published today (Transnational Institute)
• Naloxone: Heroin overdose cure to be available over the counter as drug makes a comeback (ABC)
• Myanmar Opium Farmers' Forum report published (Mizzima News)

Absinthe

• Absinthe makes a comeback, thanks to one man's perseverance (The Orange County Register)
• Garageland proprietor hopes to start a local absinthe craze (The Spokesman Review)
• This New Year's Eve, Party Like You're Not Supposed To (The New York Times)

Kava

• Study underway to examine kava's link to drink-driving (Radio New Zealand)

Khat

• Kenya: Varsity Researchers Involved in Miraa Study Insist Crop Is Harmful to Users (All Africa)
• Royal Oman Police arrests three for smuggling Khat into Dhofar (Times of Oman)
• Video: Eastern Oromia Rocked by Oromo Protests as Awaday Fights Back (Gadaa)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• The People Are Rising Up Against the Destructive Drug War: 8 Key Developments (AlterNet)
• Top White House Drug Official: War on Drugs is a Failure (ATTN:)
• Drug Czar Wants More Money to Spend on Taking Your Stuff (Reason)
• Jury Acquits the Only Cop Who Faced Charges After a Drug Raid Maimed a Toddler (Reason)
• Demand rises for drug information at dance music events (The Age)
• Still in a Crib, Yet Being Given Antipsychotics (The New York Times)
• DEA ignored prosecutor's warning about illegal wiretap warrants, now it's losing big (Boing Boing)
• The psychedelic underground temples of Damanhur (Boing Boing)
• Miley Cyrus Says She's Never Tripped On Psychedelics, Eyes Roll (Refinery29)
• Finding Guidance on the Hero's Journey: A Story of My Apprenticeship With "The Cacao Shaman" (High Existence)
• Robert Moog: The True Genius Behind Psychedelic Music (Energy and Capital)
• Psychedelic Press Journal Volume VI is out now! (Psychedelic Press UK)
• "Alcohol and the Human Body," a cautionary film from 1949 (Boing Boing)
• After illegal wiretap, suspects go free and want a refund (USA Today)
• EFF and Human Rights Watch force DEA to destroy its mass surveillance database (Boing Boing)
• A Victory for Privacy and Transparency: HRW v. DEA (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• EFF confirms that the DEA has deleted its phone call database (Engadget)
• Drug War Draftees (Reason)
• These Psychedelic Rainbow Bagels Are Blowing Up on Instagram (Yahoo! Food)
• Justice officials fear nation's biggest wiretap operation may not be legal (USA Today)
• Psychedelics can't be tested using conventional clinical trials (Aeon)
• Dead Informants Highlight the Drug War's Cruel Chain of Betrayal (Reason)
• Janis Joplin's psychedelic Porsche sells for $1.76 million at auction (WCMH)
• New Study: How to Get High Without LSD or Magic Mushrooms (Clapway)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.