Weekly Psychedelic Links - October 2022

10.7.22

Cannabis

• Biden Announces Mass Marijuana Pardons And Calls For Cannabis Scheduling Review (Marijuana Moment)

• Amsterdam considers banning ‘cannabis tourists’ from its coffee shops (The Guardian)

• Costa Rica’s President Sends Marijuana Legalization Bill To Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)

• 'It's like the new Amsterdam': The rush to cash in on Thailand's hazy cannabis laws (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• FBI: Nearly Half of All Drug Seizures in 2021 Involved Marijuana (NORML)

• Morocco issues first permits for cannabis production (Reuters)

• Committee in Colombia Approved Adult-Use Legalization Proposal (High Times)

• Most Americans Don’t Think Marijuana Is Dangerous Despite Prohibitionist Arguments, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Regulators finally approve hempcrete for US homes (Leafly)

• OSHA report ties cannabis worker death to dust inhalation (Leafly)

• Survey: Medical Students Rarely Exposed to Scientific Data About Cannabis (NORML)

Magic Mushrooms

• Oregon enters the home stretch to authorize psilocybin mushrooms (Chacruna)

• This 'magic' mushroom dispensary in Florida is selling psychedelics and testing legal boundaries (Business Insider)

MDMA

• MindMed Collaborators Initiate Phase 1 Comparative PK/PD Trial of R-, S- and Racemic MDMA (Psychedelic Alpha)

DMT

• Prolonged DMT Infusions could be a Breakthrough for Stroke Patients (Psychedelic Spotlight)

Ayahuasca

• Combating Suicidality: A Role for Psilocybin and Ayahuasca? (Psychedelic Science Review)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• These LSD-based drugs seem to help mice with anxiety and depression — without the trip (NPR)

• Are you too high? A promising new ‘comedown drug’ may be on the way (Leafly)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Unexplained Bleeding Linked to Rat Poison in Synthetic Cannabinoids (Medpage Today)

Nitrous Oxide

• Nitrous oxide: Southend mum's campaign over 'laughing gas' (BBC)

Ketamine

• Ketamine and depression: A mechanism of the antidepressant revealed (Medical Xpress)

• PharmaTher Holdings Announces Grant of U.S. Patent Covering Ketamine for Parkinson’s Disease (Psychedelic Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Alberta to be 1st province to regulate psychedelics for therapy, government says (CBC)

• DEA Admits ‘Racial, Ethnic and Class Prejudice’ Led To Drug Criminalization And The Agency’s Own Founding (Marijuana Moment)

• New York Lawmakers File Amended Psychedelics Legalization Bill, With New Regulations And Protections (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelics may flatten your brain’s landscape, but in a good way (Leafly)

• Inflammation Nation: How Psychedelics Could Combat Widespread Chronic Pain (Psychedelics Today)

• Psychedelics: Will Policy Liberalization and Lower Barriers to Access Lead to Future Legalization? (Lexpert)

• Psychedelics are exploding in the startup community as founders say it makes them better leaders (Fortune)

• Timothy Leary’s psychedelic eugenics (Medium)

• Eleusis Holdings Plans To Be Acquired By Beckley Psytech (Lucid News)

• ‘Bad’ Psychedelic Trips Don’t Have To Be Bad (VICE)

10.14.22

Cannabis

• Colombian Chamber Of Representatives Passes Marijuana Legalization Bill In Initial Vote, With Support From Cabinet Ministers (Marijuana Moment)

• U.S. Air Force to Allow Applicants to Retest After Positive THC Test (High Times)

• Why bees love weed — and why it might even be good for them (Salon)

• Cannabis Stock’s Post Pardon Depression Could Be Cured By Lame Duck Legislation (Forbes)

• New Study Shows Cannabis Users More Likely To Have Overactive Bladders (High Times)

• Federal Reserve Bank Says Marijuana Legalization Drives Tax Revenue, Job Creation And Real Estate Sales (Marijuana Moment)

• Spliff Vape: New Tech Allows Cannabis, Nicotine To Be Vaped Simultaneously (High Times)

Magic Mushrooms

• Flight Passenger on Mushrooms Causes Chaos Mid-Flight (High Times)

• Can Psilocybin Challenge Our Pharmaceutical Dependence? (Vogue)

MDMA

• Eels Living Near Music Festivals Test Positive For MDMA And Cocaine (IFLScience)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Synthetic Marijuana In Florida Tainted With Rat Poison, 52 Sick, 4 Dead (Forbes)

• Five-Year-Old Missouri Child Gets Delta-8 Edibles in Halloween Bag (High Times)

Nitrous Oxide

• Nitrous Oxide: Harm Reduction and the Muslim Community (VolteFace)

Miscellaneous

• These States Are Voting On Marijuana And Psychedelics Legalization On Their November Ballots (Marijuana Moment)

• Elon Musk reportedly goes on 'exploratory journeys' and likes to show friends a chart of the benefits of MDMA and mushrooms over alcohol (Business Insider)

• To Standardize Psychedelic Therapy, A New Organization Launches (Forbes)

• Horizons Conference Returns to NYC for Its 15th Year (Lucid News)

• Treating postpartum depression with psychedelics (The Print)

• A Santo Daime Church’s Legal Success Paved a Path Towards Psychedelic Legalization (Lucid News)

• Instagram’s Page-Deletions of Black Women in Psychedelic Advocacy (Filter)

• Math Over Myth: These Psychedelic Stocks Made Confirmed Bottoms in Q3 (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• What Made María Sabina Unique (DoubleBlind)

• The Politics of Psychedelics: Legalisation vs Decriminalisation (Sam Woolfe)

10.21.22

Cannabis

• German cannabis legalisation plans LEAKED (VolteFace)

• Washington DC lets tourists self-certify for medical cannabis (Leafly)

• Poll: Two-Thirds of Voters Say “Nobody Should Be in Jail” for Marijuana Possession (NORML)

• States With the Most Arrests for Marijuana Possession (U.S. News and World Report)

• Why does marijuana make it hard to remember stuff? (Salon)

• NBA Won’t Test Players For Marijuana For Third Season In A Row, Report Says (Marijuana Moment)

• Nearly Four Out of Five Patients Drop or Reduce Opioids After Using Medical Weed (High Times)

• Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine Bans CBD Prescriptions for Adult Patients (TalkingDrugs)

• Cannabis Had Highest Tax Revenue in Colorado and Washington Over Alcohol, Cigarettes (High Times)

• Marijuana was illegal 4 years ago. Now, Uber Eats delivers it in Toronto (CBC)

• Missouri Police Object To New Ad For Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative That Shows Officers (Marijuana Moment)

• Oklahoma Governor Sets March Special Election for Weed Legalization Initiative (High Times)

• Texas Activists Unveil Marijuana Decriminalization, Police Reform And Abortion Rights Initiative For San Antonio 2023 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Puerto Rico Bill Would Expunge Low-Level Weed Possession Convictions (High Times)

LSD

• Acid for Anxiety: Fast and Lasting Anxiolytic Effects of LSD (Psychedelic Science Review)

• A Communist LSD Trip: The Story of Czechoslovak Acid (Prague Morning)

Magic Mushrooms

• Oregon is voting on medical psilocybin, again (Leafly)

• NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars (New York Post)

• Study To Examine Why Shrooms Evolved with Psychedelic Properties (High Times)

• Why Everyone Cares So Much About Colorado’s Psilocybin Bill (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

• MDMA-assisted psychotherapy shows promise in the treatment of eating disorder symptoms (PsyPost)

5-MeO-DMT

• The toad boom: the false narrative of ancestral 5-MeO-DMT use (Points)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Scientists Discover ‘Disconcerting’ New Imitation Ketamine on the Market (VICE)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• New novel drug test can identify latest synthetic cannabinoids (Cannabis Health News)

Ketamine

• Ketamine May Reduce Suicidal Ideation in Treatment-Resistant Depression (Psychiatry Advisor)

Miscellaneous

• Australian Lawmakers Approve Drug Decriminalization Bill For Federal Territory That Includes Nation’s Capital (Marijuana Moment)

• DEA Proposes Dramatic Increases In Marijuana And Psychedelics Production In 2023 For Research (Marijuana Moment)

• Large national survey suggests that the use of psychedelics is not associated with lifetime cancer development (PsyPost)

• Will Medical Insurers Agree to Cover Psychedelic Trips? (Bloomberg)

• Why is the American right suddenly so interested in psychedelic drugs? (The Guardian)

• Second United States Patent Granted for Small Pharma’s Psychedelics Portfolio (Psychedelic Alpha)

10.28.22

Cannabis

• Germany’s Government Approves Marijuana Legalization Plan, But Reform Depends On European Union Sign-Off (Marijuana Moment)

• Russian court upholds Brittney Griner’s sentence (Leafly)

• Biden's Marijuana Pardons Did Not Free a Single Federal Prisoner or Deliver the Expungement He Promised (Reason)

• Activist Arrested At White House Protest Pushing Biden To Release Marijuana Prisoners (Marijuana Moment)

• Missouri’s legalization measure is drawing unexpected opposition (Leafly)

• Five States To Vote on Recreational Cannabis This Election Season (High Times)

• Most Americans Say Alcohol And Tobacco Are More Dangerous Than Marijuana, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• California Lawsuit Alleges Weed Didn't Get Plaintiffs High Enough (VICE)

• Research: Does Cannabis Really Make You More Creative? (Harvard Business Review)

• Israeli Company Clones Cannabis Cells—Not Plants—With Up to 12 Times the Potency (High Times)

• It's not a myth: Marijuana really is more potent than it used to be (Salon)

• Study: Cannabis Use Not A Risk Factor in Liver Transplants (High Times)

• Strange Bedfellows Team Up To Oppose Missouri Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• Research Shows Cannabis Users Experience More Pain After Surgery (High Times)

• Support For Arkansas Marijuana Legalization Initiative Falls To Slim Majority As GOP Lawmakers Urge Opposition, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• How does THC affect prenatal development? (Leafly)

Magic Mushrooms

• The world's first Phase 3 psilocybin clinical trial is about to commence (New Atlas)

• DEA Faces New Legal Challenges Over Denying Psilocybin Rescheduling Petition And Doctor’s Federal Waiver Request (Marijuana Moment)

• New Study Will Explore Psilocybin as a Treatment To Stop Smoking (High Times)

• N.S. company launching clinical trial to examine magic mushrooms as treatment for PTSD (CBC)

• The Potential Health Benefits of Microdosing Psilocybin With Chocolate (Psychology Today)

• Psilocybin Common Denominator in Several Recent Albums (High Times)

DMT

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Enters into a Clinical Trial Agreement with Yale University for a DMT Phase 2 Depression Study (Psychedelic Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Couple Sentenced to Eight Years for Czech Ayahuasca Ceremonies (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• A Legal Ayahuasca Church Thrives in Southern California (Lucid News)

Peyote

• Native American Church Asks Congress for Peyote Funding (DoubleBlind)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• WTF is 3-MMC, Berlin’s Weird New Club Drug? (DoubleBlind)

• Electric Picnic drug testing finds 'new psychoactive substances' never seen before in Ireland (The Irish Mirror)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Utah Medical Cannabis Flooded With Synthetic Cannabinoids From Hot Hemp (Forbes)

Ketamine

• Electroconvulsive Therapy Could Be Better Than Ketamine At Treating Depression (IFLScience)

Miscellaneous

• Beckley Psytech Strengthens Pipeline and Development Team With Acquisition of Eleusis Therapeutics Limited (Psychedelic Alpha)

• People Who Use Psychedelics Are More Connected To Nature And Knowledgeable About Climate Change, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Use of Psychedelic Therapies for Treatment Resistant Patients Again Rejected by Government, Despite Strong Supporting Safety and Efficacy Data and Australia’s Worsening Mental Health Crisis (Mind Medicine Australia)

• With Promise of Legalization, Psychedelic Companies Joust Over Future Profits (The New York Times)

• Manipulating light can induce psychedelic experiences – and scientists aren’t quite sure why (The Conversation)

• The ideological war at the heart of the psychedelic renaissance (New Atlas)

• Research, remedy and regulation: the changing dynamics of psychedelic therapy in Alberta (CBC)

• An Exploration of Psychedelics and Creativity (Drug Science)

• Variants in 5-HT2A Receptor Gene Alter Psychedelic Pharmacology (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Guidelines for Ethical Sponsorship and Transparency in Psychedelic Conferences (Chacruna)

• Terence McKenna's secret bad trip (Ecstatic Integration)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 2.5.21

Cannabis

• Democratic Senate Leaders Announce Steps To Federally Legalize Marijuana In 2021 (Marijuana Moment)

• Idaho Senate Passes Measure To Block Marijuana Legalization, Even If Voters Approve It On The Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Marijuana Legalization Bills Headed to Virginia Senate and House (Filter)

• Top Minnesota Lawmakers File Marijuana Legalization Bill For 2021 (Marijuana Moment)

• New Mexico Senators File Two Marijuana Legalization Bills, With More On The Way (Marijuana Moment)

• Maryland Marijuana Legalization Bill Sponsored By Senate President And Other Top Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)

• Alabama Senate Committee Approves Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Sustainability In The Cannabis Industry: Truly Going Green (Forbes)

• Clinical Trial: Whole-Plant Cannabis Extracts Associated with Improved Outcomes in Autistic Patients (NORML)

• The “Secret Handshake”—A Program Gifting Cannabis to Unhoused People (Filter)

• Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization Not Associated with Any Rise in Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions (NORML)

• Mississippi’s high court to hear arguments to block medical cannabis (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Philadelphia: Marijuana Treatment Admissions Drop Eighty Percent (NORML)

LSD

• Neuroscience study indicates that LSD “frees” brain activity from anatomical constraints (PsyPost)

• Diamond Therapeutics Signs Agreement with McGill University for Research on Low-Dose LSD (Psilocybin Alpha)

Magic Mushrooms

• New Jersey Governor Signs Psilocybin Bill To Immediately Reduce Penalties For Possession (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic Mushroom Bills Filed In Florida And Connecticut As Movement Expands To Multiple States (Marijuana Moment)

• Federal Judge Decides Against Prison for Denver Mushroom Dealer (Westword)

• Psilocybin and Neurogenesis: The Long-Term Effects of Magic Mushrooms on Your Brain (Entheonation)

• COMPASS Pathways announces publication in Frontiers in Psychiatry of paper on therapist training programme for psilocybin therapy (GlobeNewswire)

MDMA

• MDMA and psilocybin not approved for medicinal use in Australia (9News)

• MDMA-Assisted Therapy is Less Effective if You Take Antidepressants (DoubleBlind)

DMT

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Launches Stroke Treatment Clinical Research Program with Psychedelic Drug DMT “The Spirit Molecule” (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Why Does DMT Pervade Nature? (Reality Sandwich)

Ayahuasca

• The Ancestral Healing Power of Ayahuasca (Psychedelic Science Review)

5-MeO-DMT

• Psychedelic Toads Pushed To The Limit, Conservationists Urge Synthetic 5-MeO-DMT Option (Forbes)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Mindset Selects Compounds from Its Third Psilocybin-Inspired Drug Family to Move into in vivo PoC Studies (Psilocybin Alpha)

Nitrous Oxide

• Nitrous Nation (The New York Times)

Ketamine

• Proposed law could bar SC 1st responders from using ketamine to incapacitate suspects (The Post and Courier)

• PharmaTher Signs Exclusive Worldwide License Agreement for Patented Microneedle Delivery Technology to Deliver Ketamine (Psilocybin Alpha)

• PharmaTher Announces Successful Completion of Pre-IND Meeting with FDA for the Clinical Development of Ketamine in the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelic Wellness-Focused Company Delic to Acquire Ketamine Infusion Centers LLC (PR Newswire)

• Core One Labs Announces Its Entrance into the Ketamine Space with Proposed Acquisition of Ketamine Infusion Centers of Texas (BioSpace)

Miscellaneous

• Drug Decriminalization Goes Into Effect in Oregon (Rolling Stone)

• Cambridge City Council Decriminalizes Psychedelics And Urges Police To End Drug Arrests More Broadly (Marijuana Moment)

• Washington Lawmakers Introduce Long-Awaited Bill To Decriminalize All Drugs And Expand Treatment (Marijuana Moment)

• Mass General Launches New Center to Study Psychedelics in Psychiatry (Massachusetts General Hospital)

• Psychedelics as Antidepressants (Scientific American)

• Health Canada considers amending Special Access Program (Psillow)

• QAnon shaman turns against Trump, says he would testify that president incited Capitol riots (National Post)

• Biden Quietly Announces Harm Reduction Among His Drug Priorities (Filter)

• Timothy Leary’s Castalia Foundation Has Been Co-opted to Promote Conspiracy Theories about COVID and Elite Pedophile Rings (Psymposia)

• Tryp Therapeutics Appoints Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris to Scientific Advisory Board (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Neuroscience students launch Psychedelic Society (The Glasgow Guardian)

• Pharmacological Testing in Psychedelic Research (Psychedelic Science Review)

• How To Setup Music for Psychedelic Sessions (+ 6 More Playlists for Psilocybin) (Maps of the Mind)

• Marlene Dobkin de Rios: A Case for Complex Histories of Women in Psychedelics (Chacruna)

• Is Microdosing Psychedelics the Secret to Sobriety? (MEL Magazine)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 11.27.20

Cannabis

• Mexico’s Senate-Passed Marijuana Legalization Bill Moves To Chamber Of Deputies (Marijuana Moment)

• House Leadership Announces Vote On MORE Act To End Marijuana Prohibition Will Take Place Next Week (NORML)

• Marijuana Legalization Opponents Ask Courts To Overturn Voters’ Will In Several States (Marijuana Moment)

• Which States Are Poised to Advance Marijuana Legalization Reforms in 2021? (NORML)

• North Macedonia May Legalize Marijuana To Boost Tourism, Prime Minister Says (Marijuana Moment)

• New Jersey: Attorney General Issues Directive Halting Low-Level Marijuana Prosecutions (NORML)

• Republican Lawmakers And Celebrities Push Trump To Free Marijuana Prisoners Before Leaving Office (Marijuana Moment)

• Upcoming UN vote may be watershed moment for global medical cannabis – if only symbolic (Marijuana Business Daily)

• North Dakota: Gov. Burgum Issues Additional Pardons for Low-Level Marijuana Offenses (NORML)

• Connecticut Lawmakers Will Put Marijuana Legalization On The Ballot If Legislature Rejects Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Federal Report: Marijuana Treatment Admissions Among Youth Decline Sharply in Legalization States (NORML)

• Number Of Banks Working With Marijuana Industry Continues To Drop Amid COVID, Federal Report Shows (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• First Modern Dose-Response Study of LSD Confirms the Critical Role of the Serotonin 2A Receptor (Psychedelic Science Review)

• New doc 'My Psychedelic Love Story' remembers Timothy Leary (Fast Company)

Magic Mushrooms

• Psilocybin & migraine: First of its kind trial reports promising results (New Atlas)

• Two-Track Effort To Allow Psychedelic Mushrooms In Washington State Launches Amid Broader Drug Decrim Push (Marijuana Moment)

MDMA

• Research Suggests Past Antidepressant Usage Reduces Efficacy of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD (Psilocybin Alpha)

• MDMA and Life Threatening Illnesses – A Commentary to Our Study (Psychedelic Support)

• Facilitating MDMA Therapy as a Treatment for PTSD with Marcela Ot’alora G (Chacruna)

Ayahuasca

• Two Arrested and Charged in Czech Republic for Distributing Ayahuasca (Lucid News)

• How Did Ayahuasca, Indigenous Diversity and Conservation Become Commodities in the Amazon? (Chacruna)

Ketamine

• Thailand's 'largest ketamine bust' turns out to be cleaning agent (BBC)

Datura

• Californian cave artists may have used hallucinogens, find reveals (Science Magazine)

Miscellaneous

• Vancouver Just Voted to Decriminalize All Drugs (VICE)

• Peter Thiel backs Berlin start-up making psychedelics in $125 million round (CNBC)

• What Removing the “Hallucinations” from Psychedelics Means for Psychotherapy (DoubleBlind)

• The world's first psychedelics hotline could help you work through a trip (Inverse)

• These Four Former Pro Athletes Are Using Psychedelics To Heal Their Brain Injuries (Forbes)

• Oregon County Prosecutor Stops Drug Possession Cases Early Following Decriminalization Vote (Marijuana Moment)

• BBC Two Programme to Follow Psychedelics vs. Antidepressants Trial (Psilocybin Alpha)

• University of Bristol hands free drug testing kits to students (BBC)

• Another Aspect of Reality: Maria Nys Huxley’s Influence on Psychedelic History (Chacruna)

• Middle East Science Diplomacy Focused on Psychedelics Could Generate Peace Dividends (Psychedelics Today)

• Catching Up With the Psychedelic Entourage Effect-Part 1: How We Got Here (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Psychedelics show religion isn’t the only route to spirituality (Psyche)

• Yu Maeda: A Psychedelic Artist Blending Japanese and American Influences (Sam Woolfe)

• Why California’s Future Psychedelics Legislation Should Start with Decriminalization of All Drugs (Chacruna)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 11.20.20

Cannabis

• Mexican Senate Passes Bill To Legalize Marijuana Nationwide (Marijuana Moment)

• Israel Announced Intentions To Legalize Recreational Cannabis (High Times)

• Argentina redraws medical cannabis rules, allowing home cultivation (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Cannabis resin now 25% more potent, global study reveals (The Guardian)

• New Jersey Senate Approves Marijuana Decriminalization Despite Contentious Psychedelics Provision (Marijuana Moment)

• CBD is not a narcotic, says EU court as it rules French ban is illegal (The Guardian)

• Lawmakers In Wisconsin Capital Vote To Allow Marijuana Use In Public (Marijuana Moment)

• How marijuana legalization made strides across the US in this election (The Guardian)

• New Jersey Senate And Assembly Committee Pass Marijuana Sales Bills Despite Pushback From Equity Advocates (Marijuana Moment)

• New Jersey: Senate Lawmakers Approve Legislation to End Low-Level Marijuana Arrests (NORML)

LSD

• Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Lover of Timothy Leary, High Priest of LSD, Dies at 74 (The New York Times)

• MindMed Receives Approval of Protocol Design to Evaluate Microdoses of LSD For Adult ADHD In Phase 2a Clinical Trial from Swiss and Dutch Health Authorities (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Florida man on LSD tackles Disney security guard at Animal Kingdom (Orlando Weekly)

Magic Mushrooms

• First Non-Palliative Canadian Granted Access To Psilocybin Therapy (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Usona Offers Psilocybin to Eligible Researchers at No Cost (Usona Institute)

• Revive Therapeutics Announces Research Collaboration with PharmaTher for Development of Psilocybin in Cancer and Discovery of Novel Uses of Psychedelics (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psilocybin increases the expression neuroplasticity-related genes in rats (PsyPost)

• Psilocybin for Depression Study Approved and Funded by German Government (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Pilot Study of Psilocybin-Assisted Group Therapy in Older AIDS Survivors (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Single Dose of Psilocybin Reduces Migraines for at Least 2 Weeks (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Aeruginascin Identified in Psilocybe cubensis Magic Mushrooms (Psychedelic Science Review)

• NeonMind Commences Preclinical Trial to Examine Psilocybin for Weight Loss (Psilocybin Alpha)

• How will Oregon’s new psilocybin therapy program work? (OPB)

• Numinus Announces Compassionate Access Trial of Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy for Substance Use Disorders (Psilocybin Alpha)

• ACT and PcbAP for Depression – A Natural Synergy Part 2: The Technical Integration (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Field Trip Health Ltd. Announces Expansion to The Netherlands and Launch of Proprietary Truffle Program (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ketamine

• Happiness during ketamine infusion predicts treatment-resistant depression outcomes (Healio)

• Ketamine May Be Helpful in Treating Alcohol Use Disorder (Psychology Today)

• Veterans Are Using Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy To Help With PTSD (Green Entrepreneur)

Miscellaneous

• Vancouver proposes decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs (The Globe and Mail)

• Canadian Officials Respond To Psychedelics Decriminalization Petition, Saying No Legal Changes Needed (Marijuana Moment)

• UK on the Brink of a Psychedelic Therapy Revolution (Filter)

• One Simple Way Biden Could Prove He Regrets His Role in the Drug War (Slate)

• How Tripping Can Help Us Reimagine Capitalism Ahead of Psychedelic Commercialization (DoubleBlind)

• High Country: The Aspen Brain Institute examines the promising future of psychedelic-assisted therapy (The Aspen Times)

• The Oregon Model (The Baffler)

• Keys for Integrating Psychedelic Experiences (Psychedelics Today)

• Kin Spruijt: A Psychedelic Nurse in a Dutch Psychiatric Clinic (Chacruna)

• Paraphernalia Decrim Advances in DC—Just Not for Drug Sellers (Filter)

• Breaking Barriers So Psychedelic Experiences Can Become Mainstream (Forbes)

• What is the Default Mode Network? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Avoiding Negative Experiences With Microdosing (The Third Wave)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 10.23.20

Cannabis

• Virginia: Medical Cannabis Dispensing Begins (NORML)

• Missouri medical marijuana dispensaries open to long lines, happy patients (Leafly)

• Montana Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Marijuana Legalization Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

• USDA Approves Hemp Plans For Six Additional States And Three Indian Tribes (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia Bill To Ban Police Searches Based On Marijuana Smell Gets Governor-Suggested Changes (Marijuana Moment)

• Pennsylvania House Votes To Protect Medical Marijuana Patients From DUI Charges (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• LSD: new scientific study shows microdosing elevates mood and cognition (Boing Boing)

• ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’ Review: Errol Morris’ Touching LSD Romance Adds New Dimension to Timothy Leary (IndieWire)

• Could Giving Acid to Dolphins Help Us Talk to Aliens? (DoubleBlind)

• Bill Wilson, LSD and the Secret Psychedelic History of Alcoholics Anonymous (Lucid News)

Magic Mushrooms

• First Psilocybin for Depression Clinical Trial Launched in Sweden (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Phase 2 Clinical Trial to Evaluate Safety and Efficacy of Psilocybin in Cancer Patients with Major Depressive Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psilocybin and Mindfulness for Depression: Complementary Actions Starting to Emerge (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Pharmaceutical Startup Developing Sublingual Psilocybin Raises $34 Million To Fund Clinical Trials (Forbes)

• Numinus First Canadian Public Company to Complete Legal Harvest of Psilocybe Mushrooms (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Allied Expands Pharmaceutical Pipeline By Filing US Provisional Patent for Psilocybin Based Therapeutics (GlobeNewswire)

MDMA

• Government urged to sell cocaine and ecstasy in pharmacies (The Guardian)

Ayahuasca

• Ayahuasca, Capitalism and the New Age (Chacruna)

Peyote

• What Groups Are Doing to Protect Against Peyote Poaching (Green Entrepreneur)

Ketamine

• Ketamine-Induced Brain Rhythm Causes Dissociation: From Mice to Man (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Pharmather to Advance Ketamine as Potential Dyskinesia Treatment (Parkinson's News Today)

Miscellaneous

• Early Christians Might Have Been High on Hallucinogenic Communion Wine (VICE)

• People who microdose psychedelic drugs report that the benefits greatly outweigh the drawbacks (PsyPost)

• DEA recruits cite ‘monkey noises’ among claims of racism (Associated Press)

• Scientists identify a powerful anti-inflammatory compound in psychedelic drugs (Massive Science)

• Watch The Oregon Drug Decriminalization Campaign’s New TV Ads For Historic Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• 2020’s psychedelic drug ballot measures, explained (Vox)

• An Open Letter and Call to Action for MAPS Canada (Psymposia)

• Media Company Delic Corp. Announces RTO, Becomes Latest Psychedelics Company Planning to Go Public (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Jedi Flipping: What It’s Like to Mix Shrooms, Acid, and Molly (DoubleBlind)

• How to Talk to Your Therapist About Psychedelics (Psychology Today)

• “Psychedelics are Not Cotton Candy and Rainbows” with Sensei Kevon Simpson (Chacruna)

• Psyched Wellness Becomes Latest Psychedelics Company to Go Public (CSE: PSYC) (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Examining the Effects of Psychedelics on Experiential Avoidance (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Nina Graboi, A Forgotten Woman in Psychedelic Lore (Chacruna)

• Revive Therapeutics Signs Supply Agreement With Havn Life Sciences for Psychedelic Compounds (Psilocybin Alpha)

• 6 Herbs to Enhance Your Next Psychedelic Trip (DoubleBlind)

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