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This Week in Psychoactives - 1.10.20

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Cannabis

  • Scientists Discover Two New Cannabinoids (VICE)

  • Thailand rolls out cannabis clinic based on traditional medicine (Reuters)

  • Most employers in Nevada can no longer utilize pre-employment drug tests for marijuana (KSNV)

  • Federal Marijuana Reform Will Get Another Congressional Hearing Next Week (Marijuana Moment)

  • South Dakota: Adult-Use Marijuana Initiative Certified for 2020 Ballot (NORML)

  • Specialists warn about risks of cannabis edibles (Medical News Today)

  • Don't Panic — Weed Edibles Are Just as Safe as We Thought, Actually (MERRY JANE)

  • CBD for Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD) (One World Herald)

  • Marijuana Will Be Legalized in New York, Cuomo Vows (The New York Times)

  • Nova Scotia is nearly out of edibles and other 2.0 products (Leafly)

  • Illinois Dispensaries Ran Out of Weed During First Week of Legal Sales (Reason)

  • More Than Half of Cannabis Tourists Bring Weed Home, New Survey Finds (MERRY JANE)

  • Legal Pot Takes a Bite out of Beer Consumption in Canada (Bloomberg)

  • Federal Reserve Bank Examines Marijuana Industry’s Growth (Marijuana Moment)

  • Mississippi: Medical Cannabis Initiative Certified for 2020 Ballot (NORML)

  • Survey: 26% of young people have driven high or ridden with a high driver (Leafly)

  • Legalizing Medical Marijuana Makes People Have More Sex, Study Shows (Marijuana Moment)

Magic Mushrooms

  • California’s Mushroom Decrim Campaign Cleared to Begin Voter Signature Drive (Filter)

  • Shroom-Therapy Startup Edges Toward FDA Approval (Bloomberg)

  • Dave Chappelle And Aziz Ansari Took Magic Mushrooms To Celebrate Comedy Award (Marijuana Moment)

  • Will Shroom Dispensaries Become a Thing Anytime Soon? (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

Ketamine

  • Trump touted a new antidepressant as a solution for veterans. Only 15 have been treated (STAT)

Opioids

  • Fentanyl deaths on the rise as drug is added to heroin, warns report (The Guardian)

  • Black Americans Were Prescribed Opioids Less Frequently Because Of Racial Bias, New Analysis Shows (WBUR)

  • Nasal spray found to be quickest, easiest way to deliver antidote naloxone for opioid overdose (News-Medical.net)

  • What We Can Learn From a Tiny Baltic Country's Two-Decade Fentanyl Crisis (VICE)

Methamphetamine

  • The rise in meth and cocaine overdoses, explained (Vox)

Caffeine

  • Drinking green tea, rather than black, may help you live longer, new study suggests (CNN)

Nicotine

Benzodiazepines

  • Benzodiazepines: Another Prescription Drug Problem (The Fix)

Alcohol

  • U.S. Alcohol-Related Deaths Have Doubled, Study Says (NPR)

  • 'Sober curiosity': Dry January a wellspring for booze-free beverages (The Washington Times)

  • The real reason midlife women should give up booze: PROFESSOR DAVID NUTT reveals how alcohol increases risk of breast cancer, bad skin and hot flushes (Daily Mail)

GHB

  • GHB: The drug used as a 'rapist's weapon of choice' (BBC)

  • Britain’s “Most Prolific” Rapist Spurs Misguided GHB Crackdown (Filter)

Kratom

  • Kratom, usually made use of as a replacement for many opioids, is currently prohibited in France (OBN)

Miscellaneous

  • Medical University of South Carolina To Launch New Psychedelic Research Center (High Times)

  • Transforming psychedelics into mainstream medicines (STAT)

  • More than 60,000 Mexicans have disappeared amid drug war, officials say (The Washington Post)

  • The 'psychedelics coach' with drug-fuelled career advice (BBC)

  • People are seeing ‘Cats’ while high out of their minds. These are their stories. (The Washington Post)

  • This D.C. Group Wants To Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms And Some Psychedelic Plants (WAMU)

  • Philly’s supervised injection site backers say they won’t delay opening while Justice Dept. appeals (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

  • Addiction Treatment Facilities Fall Badly Short, Shows Federal Study (Filter)

  • People Visiting Safe Injection Sites Are Less Likely To Die Compared To Other Drug Consumers, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chafee Backs Decriminalizing Drugs (Marijuana Moment)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 11.15.19

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Cannabis

  • CDC Identifies Vitamin E Oil Additive as a “Very Strong Culprit of Concern” in Vaping-Related Lung Injuries (NORML)

  • First cannabis-based medicines approved for use on NHS (The Guardian)

  • The Media Is Spinning the Latest Weed and Birth Defects Study All Wrong (MERRY JANE)

  • Michigan Teen Receives Double Lung Transplant After 'Enormous' Damage From Vaping (TIME)

  • Ohio bans vitamin E acetate from medical marijuana vapes after CDC links it to lung illnesses (Cincinnati Enquirer)

  • Pew Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Say “Marijuana Should Be Made Legal” (NORML)

  • Bernie Sanders Wants To Legalize Medical Marijuana For Military Veterans (Marijuana Moment)

  • Apple Removing Vaping-Related Apps From App Store Today Amid Public Health Concerns (MacRumors)

  • From ‘Veronica Mars’ to toxic vapes: The rise and fall of Honey Cut (Leafly)

  • You Can Get A Master's In Medical Cannabis In Maryland (NPR)

  • Mass Lifts Ban on Medical Cannabis Flower Vapes, But Oil Carts Still Restricted (MERRY JANE)

  • Marijuana Prohibition Is Delaying Federal Response To Vaping Crisis, CDC Says (Marijuana Moment)

  • Surprise! Michigan adult-use cannabis sales begin Dec. 1 (Leafly)

  • Young Americans Are Smoking More Weed and Less Tobacco, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

  • Millions of Brits using street cannabis to treat chronic health conditions (Health Europa)

  • How Vietnam veterans expanded America’s cannabis strains (Leafly)

  • Cannabis Is the Most Effective Treatment for Endometriosis, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

  • Neil Young says his US citizenship application is being held up because he uses marijuana (CNN)

  • Illegal Pot Grows Are Poisoning Animals and the Environment in National Parks (MERRY JANE)

  • Where Presidential Candidate Deval Patrick Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

Magic Mushrooms

  • What’s Lost When Psychedelic Mushrooms Become Synthetic Psilocybin (DoubleBlind)

  • Taking a Deep Look at Psilocybin for Depression Research (Psychedelics Today)

  • Explorer’s Guide: Microdosing Magic Psilocybin Truffles (Maps of the Mind)

MDMA

  • DJ fell from cliff in Cornwall and died while on MDMA (Cornwall Live)

  • ‘Beautiful’ girl, 15, died after taking MDMA that cost just £2.50 (The Sun)

  • A Guide to Taking Ecstasy as Safely as Possible (VICE)

Ayahuasca

5-MeO-DMT

  • Meet 5-MeO-DMT, the 'powerful' psychedelic that improves depression in one hour (Big Think)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Project CBD releases special report on synthetic cannabinoids and vaping-related lung injuries (Project CBD)

  • ‘Synthetic Marijuana’ Is A Dangerous Misnomer That People Need To Stop Using (The Fresh Toast)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Amazon and eBay 'must block illicit nitrous oxide sales' (BBC)

Ketamine

  • Why ketamine is so good against depression (ZME Science)

Opioids

  • New fingerprinting technology will reveal whether someone has recently used heroin – even if they have washed their hands afterwards (Daily Mail)

  • At-home naloxone kits have reversed over 50K opioid overdoses in B.C.: health authority (Global News)

  • Vancouver pilots new fentanyl-patch program to combat opioid crisis (The Globe and Mail)

  • Mass. Has The First Jail In The Country That's Also A Licensed Methadone Treatment Provider (WBUR)

  • Bill Would Require Ohio Pharmacists Be Educated About Naloxone Law (Statehouse News Bureau)

  • Pa. is treating more opioid overdoses as homicides. Defense lawyers are learning to fight back. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

  • Bill would let Florida schools keep, administer OD antidote naloxone (WPTV)

  • Narcan carries heavy costs (The Salem News)

Cocaine

  • A Pack of Feral Hogs Sniffed Out a Cocaine Stash in Italy (Rolling Stone)

  • Startling number of senior citizens abusing cocaine in the UK (New York Post)

Methamphetamine

  • Why Meth Is Making a Big Comeback (VICE)

  • Meth Has Many Medical Benefits. Stigma Holds Them Back. (Filter)

  • Her baby was stillborn because of meth, police say. Now she’s charged with murder (Los Angeles Times)

Caffeine

Tobacco

  • The Vaping Industry Is Furious at President Trump — Could it Cost Him the Election? (Rolling Stone)

  • Pending Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes in Massachusetts Authorizes Forfeiture of Vapers' Cars (Reason)

  • Vaping May Be Worse for Heart Health Than Tobacco Cigarettes, New Study Finds (TIME)

  • New York will raise the age to purchase tobacco starting Wednesday (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

  • House votes to ban flavored tobacco, heavily tax vaping products (Boston Herald)

  • Cardiologists warn vaping is so dangerous and addictive it should be banned (Sky News)

  • With vape curbs pending, White House questions FDA tobacco role (Chicago Tribune)

  • More vapers are making their own juice, but not without risks (CNN)

  • What The U.S.-China Trade War Has Meant For North Carolina Tobacco Farmers (WUNC)

  • Minnesota was winning the war on teen tobacco use. Then vaping became popular. (TwinCities.com)

Alcohol

  • Denver Wants to Test Out Public Drinking Zones in 2020 (MERRY JANE)

  • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: The 'heartbreaking' reality (BBC)

Kratom

Khat

  • Experts Now Warn Chewing Khat Increases Chronic Liver Disease Risk (Newswire)

Miscellaneous

  • Paul Stamets Announces the Launch of First-Ever Microdosing App (The Third Wave)

  • Santa Cruz Will Consider Decriminalizing Psychedelics This Week (Marijuana Moment)

  • Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram are the newest dark alleyways dealers use to sell drugs (Rooster Magazine)

  • Psychedelics as Anti-Inflammatory Agents (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Festival-goers in Victoria could be subject to pill testing in 2020 under new bill (The New Daily)

  • Study: How Punitive Policies Harm Pregnant Drug Users (Filter)

  • Cincinnati-area high school announces mandatory drug tests for all students beginning in 2020 (WIS TV)

  • Postal Service Unveils ‘Drug Free USA Forever’ Stamp Commemorating 1980s Anti-Drug Program (Marijuana Moment)

  • The Drug Policy Reform Movement Debates Its Next Moves (Filter)

  • The Sydney students synthesising psychedelics for health research (The University of Sydney)

  • CSSDP to provide free drug-testing kits to students (The McGill Tribune)

  • Drug policies used to criminalise the LGBTQIA+ community in Uganda (Talking Drugs)

  • How psychedelics could reduce existential distress for end-of-life patients (The Varsity)

  • What is Psychedelic Microdosing? (News-Medical.net)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 10.11.19

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CANNABIS

  • California vape maker Kushy Punch caught making illegal products (Leafly)

  • Mexican Senate Leader Says Marijuana Will Be Legalized This Month (Marijuana Moment)

  • 9 States That Could Vote to Legalize Marijuana in 2020 (The Motley Fool)

  • Study Funded By Feds Debunks Myths About Marijuana Legalization’s Alleged Harms (Marijuana Moment)

  • California Bill Will Allow the Use of Medical Marijuana in Hospitals (MERRY JANE)

  • Pilot Study Shows Marijuana Can Help Chronic Pain Patients Stop Taking Opioids (Marijuana Moment)

  • Texas Officials Suddenly Shut Down Medical Marijuana Dispensary Licensing Process (Marijuana Moment)

  • California's Massive Power Shut-Off Is Jeopardizing the State’s Weed Industry (MERRY JANE)

  • Inventors File Patent Application For Scratch-And-Sniff Marijuana Packages (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis stocks have flamed out this year (CNN)

  • This Michigan City Will Now Allow Cannabis Cafes and Outdoor Weed Festivals (MERRY JANE)

  • Maine on track for legal marijuana sales by spring 2020 (Bangor Daily News)

  • Number Of Banks Accepting Marijuana Business Grew Again Last Quarter, Feds Report (Marijuana Moment)

  • The budding industry of cannabis tech (TechCrunch)

  • Can Cannabis Treat Dementia? New Australian Study Aims to Find Out (MERRY JANE)

  • Majority Of New Yorkers Say Marijuana Should Be Legalized, Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

MDMA

  • Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: How MDMA Is Changing Treatment for PTSD (Psychiatry Advisor)

  • Teen who died at Leeds Festival had MDMA, cocaine and ketamine in her system (ExaminerLive)

  • Listen In concert: MDMA linked to hospitalisations, four arrested for climbing marquee (Stuff.co.nz)

AYAHUASCA

  • Rythmia Scholarship Program Democratizes Access to Life-Changing Retreat (Yahoo! Finance)

  • How I Lived Twelve Years in a Colombian Ayahuasca Cult Led by a Sexual Abuser (Chacruna)

  • Montreal conference will put spotlight on hallucinogenic ayahuasca (CTV News)

  • I have HIV and ayahuasca and psilocybin have saved me (Chacruna)

5-MEO-DMT

  • Toad Venom May Be The Next Psychedelic Frontier (The Fix)

  • Naturalist and Artist Team Up to Save Sonoran Desert Toads (Psychedelic Times)

PEYOTE

SAN PEDRO

  • Ultimate San Pedro Cactus Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety (Reality Sandwich)

IBOGA

  • Ibogaine: Promising Addiction Treatment or Snake Oil? (The Fix)

NOVEL PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES

  • Scottish prisons 'awash' with synthetic drugs linked to violence (BBC)

SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS

  • Florida Prison Neglect Contributes to Synthetic Cannabinoid Deaths (Filter)

  • The shocking number of Birmingham people hospitalised by spice and cannabis last year (Birmingham Live)

KETAMINE

  • Ketamine infusion therapy: A promising way to treat mental illness (News8000.com)

OPIOIDS

  • Sesame Street takes on opioids crisis as muppet's mother battles addiction (The Guardian)

  • Addicts will get heroin twice a day under pioneering crime-slashing plan in town where the killer class A drug is cheaper than cigarettes (Daily Mail)

  • Addiction Experts Are Outraged A Pharma Lobbyist Is On A Federal Drug Abuse Panel (BuzzFeed News)

  • Community responders more likely to seek help during overdose when naloxone does not work (Medical Xpress)

  • Kenya struggles to cope with growing number of heroin users (Reuters)

  • Washington health officials suggest everyone carries Naloxone as fentanyl use rises (KING5.com)

  • Beyond the Sacklers: Free-trade policies contributed to the opioid epidemic (STAT News)

  • Police oppose naloxone overdose kits: 'not our job to save lives' (The National)

COCAINE

  • Tulsi Gabbard Says Country Should Move To Legalize Drugs Like Cocaine And Heroin (Marijuana Moment)

  • Face to face with a cartel assassin: 'I'll never do cocaine again after realising the human cost of the drug' (iNews)

METHAMPHETAMINE

  • Home buyers, beware: Contamination from cooking meth can linger for years (Ars Technica)

  • Party drug, LSD prices remain flat in contrast to meth mayhem (Stuff.co.nz)

CAFFEINE

TOBACCO

  • E-Cig Vaping May Cause Lung and Bladder Cancer, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

  • Smoking Fewer Than 5 Cigarettes a Day Damages Your Lungs Almost as Much as Smoking a Whole Pack, Study Says (TIME)

  • Schools Across the Country Are Installing Vape Detectors to Sniff Out Students (MERRY JANE)

  • 'We Vape, We Vote': How vaping crackdowns are politicizing vapers (CNN)

  • Oregon and Rhode Island Have Joined the Flavored Vape Ban (MERRY JANE)

  • New York’s Vape Flavor Ban Has Been Blocked—For Now (Filter)

  • Juul Is the New Big Tobacco (Bloomberg)

  • How tobacco smuggling costs Minnesota hundreds of thousands of dollars a year (TwinCities.com)

  • India Banned E-Cigarettes — But Beedis And Chewing Tobacco Remain Widespread (NPR)

ALCOHOL

  • Are Whiskey Pods A Stealth Way For Teens To Get Alcohol? (Forbes)

KRATOM

KAVA

MISCELLANEOUS

  • The Future of Drug Education Is So Much Better than D.A.R.E. (VICE)

  • Is it time you got yourself a shaman? (London Evening Standard)

  • Parents Are Using Magic Mushrooms, LSD To Be Better Parents, Be More ‘Present’ For Their Kids (The Inquisitr)

  • SNP set to back decriminalisation of drugs in bid to tackle death toll crisis (Daily Record)

  • How the Drug War Blob Took Over The Washington Post (New Republic)

  • Regulatory Hurdles Facing Psychedelics (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • An open letter to the newly founded Center for Psychedelic Research at Johns Hopkins (Psymposia)

  • Drug dealers get rich and stay legal by outsourcing to China (Rooster Magazine)

  • Nothing has changed since I was sacked. Drugs policy still doesn’t work (The Guardian)

  • Binghamton Group Gets Grant For Substance Abuse Policy Change (News Break App)

  • Florida Student Gets Suspended for Handing Out “End the Drug War” Flyers (MERRY JANE)

  • Amanda Feilding has spent 54 years experimenting with psychedelics — for the sake of science (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  • The War on Drugs Is a War on the Climate (Gizmodo)

  • We need a more nuanced discussion about drugs and suicide (iNews)

  • Trippy Talk with Psychedelic Legend Dennis Mckenna (Reality Sandwich)

  • Psychedelics and the Workplace (Medium)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 9.20.19

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CANNABIS

  • A Malaysian Man Was Just Sentenced to Death for Selling Medical Marijuana (MERRY JANE)

  • The Vape Health Crisis Is Pushing Cannabis Labs to Now Test for Vitamin E (MERRY JANE)

  • Federal judge rules that Indiana’s smokable hemp ban is unconstitutional (Hemp Industry Daily)

  • Beto O'Rourke Proposes Drug War Reparations Funded By Marijuana Taxes (Forbes)

  • After A Period Of Confusion And Fear, Many District Employees Can Use Marijuana Off The Clock (DCist)

  • President Influences Public Opinion On Marijuana Legalization, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Legal Weed Convinced Over 150,000 People to Move to Colorado, Study Reports (MERRY JANE)

  • Marijuana Offenses Would No Longer Get Immigrants Deported Under New Congressional Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • Support Grows For Marijuana Legalization Bill In Colombia (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • The mad scientist behind America’s mind-control quest with LSD (New York Post)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

  • The world’s first magic mushroom research center is launching in Jamaica (Quartz)

  • Ann Arbor group aims to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms, plants (mlive.com)

  • Fantastic Fungi Offers a Gateway Into the World of Magic Mushrooms (Westword)

  • Tourists Are Flocking To This Tiny Mountain Village For A Trip On Mexico’s Magic Mushrooms (mitú inc)

  • Can magic mushrooms really cure depression? (The Telegraph)

MDMA

  • What Hustlers’ Ketamine-MDMA Drug Cocktail Would Really Do (Refinery29)

AYAHUASCA

  • Getting Arrested and Released for Ayahuasca in Israel (Kahpi)

5-MEO-DMT

  • A single dose of 5-MeO-DMT produces rapid and persistent improvements in life satisfaction and psychopathological symptoms (PsyPost)

IBOGA

  • This Company is Developing a Drug Based on Ibogaine for the Opioid Crisis (DoubleBlind)

  • A Detox Drug Promises Miracles—If It Doesn't Kill You First (WIRED)

NOVEL PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES

  • Could psychedelics tackle the obesity crisis? A longtime researcher in the field says his latest mouse study suggests potential (Endpoints News)

  • The State of the Art of Psilacetin (4-AcO-DMT) (Psychedelic Science Review)

SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS

KETAMINE

OPIOIDS

  • OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma Files for Bankruptcy as Part of a Tentative Settlement (TIME)

  • In Michigan, you can now get Narcan online (Detroit Free Press)

  • Canadian Pharmacist Faces Punishment for Giving Out Naloxone (Filter)

COCAINE

METHAMPHETAMINE

CAFFEINE

TOBACCO

  • India bans e-cigarettes as global vaping backlash grows (The Guardian)

  • New York Bans Sale of Flavored E-cigarettes, the First State in the U.S. to Do So (TIME)

  • Michigan Joins New York in Banning Sale of Flavored E-cigarettes Amid Vaping Health Concerns (TIME)

  • Vapers seek relief from nicotine addiction in — wait for it — cigarettes (NBC News)

  • Fort Lauderdale Passes Ordinance Raising Age For Tobacco Sales To 21 (CBS Miami)

  • Is Juul Making It Easy for Kids to Vape in School? New Study Suggests Yes (Yahoo!)

  • Flavored tobacco a major factor in the popularity of waterpipe smoking, study finds (FIU News)

KRATOM

  • A Leaf Of Faith: Kratom Documentary Review (Kratom Guides)

  • Legal Status Of Kratom In Pennsylvania (Kratom Guides)

  • Point Pleasant Beach Looks To Ban 'Kratom' (Patch)

KAVA

  • Fijians urged not to share the kava bowl (Newsie)

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Missouri Man Becomes 8th Person to Die of Vaping-Related Illness in the U.S. (TIME)

  • Ontario Teen Lands in ICU in Canada’s First Reported Case of ‘Vape Pen Illness’ (Leafly)

  • Viking berserkers may have used henbane to induce trance-like state (Ars Technica)

  • White House Cancels Pro-Vaping Meeting as Illness Cases Rise (Bloomberg)

  • It’s Official: VICE's Reporting Makes Readers Take Drugs More Safely (VICE)

  • The whole-planet view (Aeon)

  • Psychedelics and Seniors: Can Drugs Such As Marijuana And Psilocybin Improve Their Quality Of Life? (Forbes)

  • Nanaimo company gets licence to test psychedelic drugs (Nanaimo News Bulletin)

  • Class A drug use among young adults at 16-year high (The Guardian)

  • I Traveled the World Meeting Drug Dealers. Here’s What I’ve Learned (VICE)

  • Why Aren't There More People of Color in the Recovery Movement? (The Fix)

  • Behind the U.S.'s Bogus War on Taliban Drug Labs (VICE)

  • Tripping on virtual reality: The artists trying to replicate psychedelic experiences in VR (New Atlas)

  • Drugs and Creativity (Dope Magazine)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 9.13.19

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CANNABIS

  • Three Companies Subpoenaed in Weed Vape Illness Investigation (Rolling Stone)

  • British vapers are safe, claim health experts after deaths in US (The Guardian)

  • U.S. Pot Industry Faces Antitrust Overhang: Cannabis Weekly (Bloomberg)

  • Overregulation Drives Illegal Marijuana Market In Legal States, Study Suggests (Marijuana Moment)

  • These Cops Are Seizing Cash from People Who Smell Like Weed Before They Fly to California (VICE)

  • New Mexico Will Now Allow Out of State Residents to Get Medical Marijuana Cards (MERRY JANE)

  • Canadian Company Planning to Introduce Odourless Cannabis (Leafly)

  • Harmful Stereotypes About Marijuana Consumers Persist In The Media, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • DEA Wants 3.2 Million Grams Of Marijuana Legally Grown In 2020 (Forbes)

  • Tim Hortons’ WiFi Blocks Legal Cannabis Websites (Leafly)

  • Cannabis smoking may lower diabetes risk in obese individuals: study (Speciality Medical Dialogues)

  • Joe Biden Says Marijuana Should Remain Illegal As A Misdemeanor At Democratic Debate (Marijuana Moment)

  • Legal Marijuana Is A ‘Positive Amenity’ For New Colorado Residents, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Where Presidential Candidate Mark Sanford Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief' (NPR)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

  • Motion to prevent sale of magic mushrooms defeated by Vancouver council (CBC)

  • Could Magic Mushrooms Soon Be Used for Therapy in Denver? (5280)

MDMA

  • King's College London needs volunteers for a new MDMA study (Mixmag)

DMT

AYAHUASCA

  • Watch the Vibrations of Ayahuasca Songs Projected on Water (DoubleBlind)

NOVEL PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES

  • Chilling map shows which synthetic drugs are killing Kiwis around New Zealand (Newshub)

KETAMINE

  • Tripping My Way Toward Wellness One Ketamine Infusion at a Time (The Bold Italic)

OPIOIDS

  • Data Touted by OxyContin Maker to Fight Lawsuits Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story (ProPublica)

  • ACLU Sues Bureau of Prisons for Denying a Federal Prisoner Buprenorphine (Filter)

  • Taliban's Opium Fields Blocking Chinese Conquest of Afghanistan (Breitbart)

  • These Newborn Babies Cry for Drugs, Not Milk (The New York Times)

COCAINE

  • Cocaine burned massive hole in man's throat before untimely death: report (Fox News)

METHAMPHETAMINE

CAFFEINE

  • Drinking tea improves brain health, study suggests (ScienceDaily)

TOBACCO

  • Trump Announces Disastrous Plan to Ban Flavored Vapes Across the US (Filter)

  • FDA criticizes Juul for telling students its e-cigs are ‘totally safe’ (Engadget)

  • Denver Pushing to Raise Tobacco Purchasing Age, License Retail Stores (Westword)

  • Utah representative pushes to ban e-cigarette products, claiming study found illegal drugs in e-liquids (Fox 13 Now)

  • Bloomberg Takes on Vaping After Giving $1 Billion to Fight Tobacco (The New York Times)

ALCOHOL

  • Only a fraction of the costs of excessive drinking are paid for by alcohol taxes (Medical Xpress)

  • Doctor Warns Alcohol Is The Most Dangerous Substance To Unborn Babies (WCCO)

KRATOM

KHAT

  • Judge rules Somali man detained for stimulant can stay in US (SFGate)

DATURA

  • Killer Hallucinogenic Weed Blooming in Upper West Side Median Strip: Report (NBC New York)

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Oregon Voters Could See Measure To Decriminalize All Drugs On 2020 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Researchers Find Unexpected White Blood Cells in Patients With Mysterious Vaping Illness (VICE)

  • Berkeley City Council To Vote On Decriminalizing Psychedelics (Marijuana Moment)

  • Why some South American indigenous tribes give their dogs psychedelic drugs (The Outline)

  • Google puts drug addiction recovery info front and center (Engadget)

  • Emotional breakthroughs during psychedelic experiences linked to future increases in mental well-being (PsyPost)

  • NSW Health backs plan for early warning system on drugs (The Sydney Morning Herald)

  • New law gives NZ police discretion not to prosecute drug users, but to offer addiction support instead (The Conversation)

  • The HPPD Debate: Is Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder Real? (MERRY JANE)

  • REPORT: 1/4 Of Youth Have Seen Drugs For Sale On Snapchat & Instagram (Your EDM)

  • DARPA wants benefits of psychedelics but without hallucinations (The Sociable)

  • Too many hooked on prescription drugs - health chiefs (BBC)

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Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychoactives" 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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