Cannabis
Appeals court rejects lawsuit seeking to force DEA to reschedule marijuana (Marijuana Business Daily)
Anti-Pot Author Alex Berenson Gets Permanent Twitter Ban (High Times)
How Much Legal Cannabis Is In California? It’s A State Secret. (Forbes)
Allowing Public Marijuana Smoking Leads To Bigger NYC Arrest Decline Than In Other Legalized Places (Marijuana Moment)
Fakkuappu: Japan Struggles with Cannabis Reform (High Times)
Senators Flooded With Input On Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)
Big Pharma Seizes Brazilian Market While Medical Cannabis Bill is Stalled (TalkingDrugs)
Alabama medical cannabis program might roll out slower than expected (Marijuana Business Daily)
Swiss Doctors to Prescribe Cannabis Without “Exceptional Authorization” (High Times)
Legalization Nation: The Dispensary Divide (The Nib)
New Group Files Another Missouri Marijuana Legalization Initiative For 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)
Ohio Marijuana Activists Cleared To Collect Signatures For 2022 Legalization Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)
LSD
How Dock Ellis Made Baseball History on LSD (DoubleBlind)
Magic Mushrooms
Denver Psychedelics Activists Push To Expand Psilocybin Decriminalization To Allow Gifting And Communal Use (Marijuana Moment)
Yale researchers discover healing effects of psychedelic drug (Yale Daily News)
Heroic Hearts Project announces new study with Imperial College London into the physiological and psychological effects of psilocybin on veterans. (Volteface)
'Psychedelic renaissance' sees first legal collection of Australia's medicinal magic mushrooms (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The Tragic Story Of Magic Truffles: The Elusive Wild Psilocybe (DoubleBlind)
Red Light Holland Successfully Completes Canada’s Largest Legal Sale and Import of Psilocybe Truffles into Canada Under a Health Canada Approved Psilocybin Import Permit (Psilocybin Alpha)
DMT
Microdose Psychedelic Insights Presents the Upcoming DMT Conference, a Deep Dive Into the Dynamic Field of DMT Therapeutics (Benzinga)
Ayahuasca
A single dose of ayahuasca improves self-perception of speech performance in socially anxious people, study finds (PsyPost)
Wilma Mahua Campos, Shipibo Ayahuasquera (Chacruna)
The Importance of Traditional Ayahuasca Techniques with Carlos Tanner (EntheoNation)
5-MeO-DMT
Psychedelic Toads Emerge In Arizona During Monsoon Season (iHeartRadio)
San Pedro
The Effects of Mescaline in the San Pedro Cactus (The Third Wave)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
Mindset Pharma Announces its Next Generation Novel 5-MeO-DMT Psychedelic Analogs Demonstrate a Significantly Improved Safety Profile in Preclinical Results (Psilocybin Alpha)
Nitrous Oxide
Nitrous oxide: Patel orders Laughing gas review to decide on potential new law (BBC)
Ketamine
Cops and Paramedics Involved in Elijah McClain’s Death Charged With Homicide (VICE)
Miscellaneous
Drug Users Are Suing the Canadian Government Over the War on Drugs (VICE)
DEA Proposes Massive Increase In Marijuana And Psilocybin Production For Research To Develop FDA-Approved Medicines (Marijuana Moment)
'QAnon Shaman' to plead guilty in US Capitol riot case (CNN)
What Is the ‘Collective Unconscious’ and How Can It Help Us Understand Psychedelic Experiences? (Psychedelics Today)
Can Psychedelics Promote Social Justice and Change the World? (Chacruna)
Seattle Should Decriminalize All Drugs, City Task Force On Overdose Crisis Recommends (Marijuana Moment)
Jon Hopkins Announces New Album Music for Psychedelic Therapy, Shares New Song: Listen (Pitchfork)
Meet the women who regularly microdose psychedelics (Cosmopolitan)
Glow Time: PsychLight Brings a Powerful Tool to Psychedelic Research (Psychedelic Science Review)
New Psychedelic Therapy Clinic Opens in Charleston (Johnson City Press)
Psychedelics Co. Synthesis Institute Closes $7.25M Series A Funding Through Non-Traditional VC Path (Benzinga)
Psychedelics—The New Psychiatric Craze (Mad in America)
Field Trip Health Ltd. Announces Launch Of “Kap Co-Operative” Program, Enabling Independent Psychedelic Therapists To Practice At Its Field Trip Health Centers; Also Launches Training Programs To Educate A New Generation Of Psychedelic Clinicians (Psilocybin Alpha)
Psychedelics in Recovery: 12-Step Peer Support Program (Truffle Report)
Legal Psychedelic Retreats – What They Are & Where to Find Them (EntheoNation)
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