This Week in Psychedelics - 8.24.18

Cannabis

• Study: 1 in 7 Canadian cannabis users admits to high driving (The Mercury News)
• Cory Booker Bill Would Let Students With Drug Convictions Keep Financial Aid (Marijuana Moment)
• Wells Fargo Closes Florida Politician's Account Due To Marijuana Donations (Forbes)
• Senate Amendment Requires Feds To Study Marijuana Legalization’s Impact (Marijuana Moment)
• Here’s How Much Marijuana Costs on the West Coast vs East Coast (Priceonomics)
• Marijuana ‘Farmers Markets’ Won’t Happen In California Yet After Bill’s Failure (Marijuana Moment)
• North Texas Academy Offers First Cannabis Science Class (NBC Dallas-Fort Worth)
• New Jersey Could Legalize Weed Next Month (Reason)
• Baker Who Denied Same-Sex Couple Now Complaining About Marijuana-Themed Cake Requests (Marijuana Moment)
• Cannabis Is Creating A Boom For Biological Pesticides (Forbes)
• Pennsylvania Lawmaker Launches Online Petition To Promote Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)
• Proximity Of Dispensaries To Schools Not Linked With Teen Use (NORML)
• Ohio Police Plan To Ignore Marijuana Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)
• The Next Big Thing In Cannabis: Tourism (Forbes)
• Israeli and Swiss Companies Team Up to Breed Better Cannabis for Patients (High Times)
• Cannabis stocks soar to new highs (CNN)
• Amid Primary Challenge, Democrat Senator Now Supports Marijuana Bill (Marijuana Moment)
• Why you shouldn’t dismiss the risk of marijuana addiction (Vox)
• America’s Invisible Pot Addicts (The Atlantic)
• How Federal Housing Policy Excludes Poor People From Legal Pot (Rolling Stone)
• We Fact Checked an ER Doctor Who Said Weed Edibles Can Kill Kids (VICE)
• U.S. Border Agents Gear Up for Canada’s Marijuana Legalization, Vowing to Enforce Federal Law (Newsweek)
• How Tech Will Drive The Next Stage Of Cannabis Regulation (Forbes)
• Alaska Could Be The First State To Legalize And License Marijuana Lounges (Marijuana Moment)
• The Dark Star of Doobage (Seattle Weekly)
• Meet Bend And Blaze: A Cannabis-Infused Yoga Class You Need To Take (Forbes)
• California: Marijuana Expungement Measure Awaits Governor’s Signature (NORML)
• Big Majority Of Connecticut Voters Support Legalizing Marijuana, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)
• California Cannabis Goes Luxury, Plans Appellations Just Like Wine (Forbes)
• Poll: Huge Majority Of Wisconsin Voters Want Marijuana Legalized (Marijuana Moment)
• Meet The Tattooed Branding Bigwig Who Gave Up Couture For Cannabis (Forbes)
• Cannabis Now CEO Says Beer And Marijuana Mergers Are Good For Business (Forbes)

LSD

• From Humble Chemist to Father of the Psychedelic Trip (OZY)
• How To Take LSD (The Third Wave)
• Can LSD help solve mental health issues? (CBS News)
• LSD liberated me from the prison I had built for myself (Psymposia)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• FDA Approves Psychedelic Magic Mushrooms Ingredient Psilocybin for Depression Trial (Newsweek)
• ‘Microdosing’ is touted by ’shroomers and Reddit users. Science is starting to test their claims — and finding some truth (STAT)
• Can Psilocybin Make People Feel More Empathy to Nature? (Chacruna)
• Psilocybin Proponents Push Medical Benefits of Drug, Ballot Initiative (Westword)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Veteran Treated PTSD And Suicidal Thoughts With ‘Life-Altering’ MDMA Therapy (Inquisitr)

Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT

• What To Expect When You Drink Ayahuasca (The Third Wave)
• Psychedelic Medicine 101: DMT and the near-death experience (New Atlas)
• Man sentenced to 11.5 years for bringing bottle of Peruvian Ayahuasca drink to Russia (Pravda)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Strange Drug Overdoses Are Mystifying Hospitals (Discover Magazine)
• Big Pharma Synthetic Marijuana Leaves 2 Dead, 89 Hospitalized In Illinois (UR Healthinfo)

Dissociatives

• A Doctor Explains How Prescribing Ketamine For Depression Works (Psymposia)
• Driver, 21, found at wheel by police after being more than twice over the limit for ketamine (The News)
• Man high on PCP harasses woman, punches her dad and then slugs a valet at Playhouse Square (News 5 Cleveland)

Opiates/Opioids

• Mexican poppy producing state pushes to decriminalize opium (Star Tribune)
• Dan Bigg, who spent decades fighting heroin crisis in Chicago and saved scores of lives, dies at 59 (Chicago Tribune)
• On fentanyl: Congress must avoid another drug war (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Trump Says Pain Pills Are 'So Highly Addictive.' He's Wrong. (Reason)
• This is what happens to your body during a heroin overdose (Health24)
• Poll: Most Americans Know About Opioid Antidote And Are Willing To Use It (NPR)
• Why Every Connecticut Home Should Have Naloxone (Hartford Courant)

Kratom

• American Kratom Association says forensic pathologist got it wrong in Arvada death (9NEWS.com)
• More than 40,000 Americans Petition DEA in Support of Kratom (Markets Insider)
• Failed NDIs, FDA's Opioid Concerns Don't Stop Kratom Supplement Sales (Rose Sheet)
• FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Tweets Controversial Statements on Kratom (Inverse)
• FDA recalls Kratom products due to salmonella concerns (News4Jax)
• Rep. Vernon Jones appointed to House Study Committee on Risks with Kratom (On Common Ground News)

Kava

• Kava Controversy (Eugene Weekly)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Like Beer, There's Now 'Craft Cocaine' (VICE)
• Proposal seeks to improve assessment of drug risks (Science Daily)
• These Drug Users Don't Want Their Dealer Prosecuted if They OD (VICE)
• Federal officers have established unconstitutional checkpoints on the road to Burning Man (Boing Boing)
• Scientists Dosed an Artificial Brain With Meth (Motherboard)
• Psychedelics Might Be Especially Effective in Treating Depression When Combined With Hypnosis (Tonic)
• Safe injection sites were thought to reduce drug overdoses. The research isn’t so clear. (Vox)
• The Healing Powers of Psychedelics Documentary Series: Interview with Mareesa Stertz (Psychedelic Times)
• Top 3 drugs to use while watching the Trump scandals, and top 3 to avoid (Rooster)
• Psychedelics And Partying (Psychedelic Heaven)
• The Myth Of Good And Bad Drugs (Psychedelic Heaven)

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.

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This Week in Psychedelics - 3.25.16

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Cannabis

• Supreme Court Won't Take Case Challenging Colorado Marijuana Laws (TIME)
• Peek Into Uruguay's Legal Marijuana Scene (NORML)
• Marijuana Legalization and the Presidential Election (NORML)
• Blockbuster Report Backs U.N. Cannabis Regulation, End to Prohibition (Leafly)
• Tampa City Council Votes to Decriminalize Possession of Small Amounts of Marijuana (Reason)
• Here's Why A Cardiologist Took A Second Look At Cannabis (Reset.me)
• The Hidden Hypocrisy of the Marijuana Industry (ATTN:)
• Texas gentleman explains why he led police on a 100 mile chase (Boing Boing)
• Families swear by cannabis oil's effect, but legislation to expand it in Georgia stalls (Gainesville Times)
• What You Should Know Before Taking Marijuana Edibles (ATTN:)
• Why Sports Leagues And Owners Should Allow Players To Consume Medical Cannabis (The Weed Blog)
• Drugs gang smuggled £24 million worth of cannabis in carpets (Evening Standard)
• Over €500,000 worth of cannabis seized in Belfast (Newstalk)
• The Real but Exaggerated Danger of Stoned Driving (Reason)
• Medical Cannabis Access Associated With Decreased Opioid Use In Chronic Pain Patients (NORML)
• Hillary Clinton Talks About Emails, Apples and Pot on Jimmy Kimmel (TIME)
• Kansas Seized Disabled Vet's Children While He Was Moving to Colorado to Use Medical Marijuana Legally (Reason)
• Marijuana Startup Accelerator CanopyBoulder Is Leading A Cannabis Industry Boom, But Some Grads Say The Program Isn't Worth The Hype (International Business Times)
• Pesticides 101: Question and Answers for Cannabis Patients and Consumers (Leafly)
• Cannabis smokers end up in worse jobs and have less money than average, study finds (Mirror)
• The National Cannabis Festival is coming to D.C. in April (The Washington Post)
• Cannabis Testing: The Importance of Independent Third Party Analyses of Cannabis Products (Leafly)
• Queensland father who gave cancer-stricken daughter cannabis oil avoids jail (ABC Online)
• The Secrets of Colorful Cannabis Revealed: Here's Why Some Strains Turn Purple (Leafly)
• Cannabis clubs lead community clean-up (KOAA)
• Thousands of cannabis plants wiped out in summer raids (Stuff.co.nz)
• UCD study finds cannabis 'not safe' for long-term users (KCRA)
• Three due in court following cannabis seizures (The Irish Times)
• Fire leads to alleged cannabis 'house' (The Courier Mail)

LSD

• Man Claims to Have Successfully Used LSD to Break His Facebook Addiction (NextShark)
• India's Temporary Acid Tattoos Revive the Dallas Cowboys LSD Hoax (Inverse)
• Police: Man, woman had 499 doses of LSD (The News & Observer)
• Ohio man, allegedly high on LSD, accused of biting chunk of father's ear off (WKRC)
• Police: Suspect was high on LSD when he brutally attacked woman in U District (KOMO News)
• Man sold almost $2K worth of LSD to police informant, cops say (Sun Sentinel)
• Washington student charged in alleged LSD-fueled murder (CBS News)
• Fife man sentenced to do unpaid work after 'bad trip' on LSD (The Courier)
• Biggs Sentenced for LSD Possession (KOWB)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• MDMA Steps Closer to FDA Approval as a Drug, but Now it Needs to Leap (Inverse)
• Legal MDMA Could Happen By 2021 (As Long As You've Got A Prescription) (UPROXX)
• Patients in ecstasy clinical trial find drug beneficial (San Francisco Chronicle)
• MDMA moves a step closer to becoming legal medicine (JOE.co.uk)
• I Took A Pill In Ibiza: Controversial Mike Posner song about ecstasy hits UK No 1 (The Independent)
• UC Santa Cruz students face potential felony charges in Ecstasy case (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
• Wellington student at Otago University dealt ecstasy to friends to fund own drug use (Stuff.co.nz)
• Crest Hill man who had ecstasy in his system pleads guilty in fatal crash (The Herald-News)
• KZN govt confirms 'mystery drug' was a bad batch of ecstasy (Eyewitness News)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Jan Kounen on Visionary Ayahuasca (Reality Sandwich)
• DMT psychedelic trip a neuroscientist tells all to end fear (Examiner)
• Resident says South Davis drug-lab allegations are false (The Davis Enterprise)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Huachuma (San Pedro Cactus) And Ayahuasca Taught Me The Meaning Of Enlightenment (Reset.me)
• The abuelita who dealt peyote: Amada Sanchez Cardenas (Santa Fe New Mexican)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• Chor Boogie Shines Love Into Macaya Gallery (Miami New Times)

Dissociatives

• New study strengthens ketamine's use as an antidepressant (Mixmag)
• Ketamine abuse can permanently damage your bladder (Zee News)
• Ketamine May Provide Lasting Relief From Depression (Psychiatry Advisor)
• Ketamine Gaining Traction as a Treatment Option for Depression (Healthline)
• News release makes claim about ketamine for depression based on thin evidence (HealthNewsReview)

Opiates/Opioids

• Mexico mayor: To beat opium farming, legalize it (CBS News)
• MOH gives greenlight for Buprenorphine-Naloxone as heroine addict treatment (The Sun Daily)

Kratom

• Using Kratom to Quit Using Alcohol (Kratom Project)
• Does Kratom Work for RLS? (Kratom Project)
• Attorney urging parents to beware of legal drug (WBRC)
• Phuket cops search home for kratom, find unregistered gun (Thai Visa News)
• Kratom use can be devastating (Newton Daily News)

Kava

• Exotic kava bar takes over old Flipnotics space on Barton Springs Road (Austin Business Journal)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Legalize It All (Harpers Magazine)
• Myths, Moralism, and Hypocrisy Drive the International Drug Control System (StoptheDrugWar.com)
• Common Antidepressant Side Effects: Why You Might Want to Use Psychedelics Instead of SSRIs (Psychedelic Times)
• From cannabis cafes to death row: drugs laws around the world (The Guardian)
• In Florida Rehabs, Addicts Are Bought And Sold (BuzzFeed)
• Physicians Face Moral Dilemma In Conscription on War on Drugs (Reason)
• Can Club Drugs Revolutionize the Psychiatric Industry? (Verge Campus)
• The Psychedelic Re-Evolution (Reset.me)
• Assault Charges for Pregnant Drug Users to Stop in Tennessee (Reason)
• What Do Your Hallucinations Mean? What Psychedelics Teach Us About Human Consciousness (Psychedelic Times)
• 5 Ways Over-The-Counter Drugs Are Misused (ATTN:)
• The Dangerous Side Effects of Benzodiazepine: Using Psychedelics as an Alternative Anxiety Treatment (Psychedelic Times)

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 - 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.