This Week in Psychedelics - 11.6.20

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Cannabis

  • Voters Approve All Seven Marijuana-Legalization Initiatives Across Five States (Filter)

  • New Zealand Voters Narrowly Reject Nationwide Marijuana Referendum In Final Vote Tally (Marijuana Moment)

  • Four More Ohio Cities Approve Marijuana Decriminalization Measures (Marijuana Moment)

  • 2020 Ballot Initiative Effective Dates (NORML)

  • Texas Sees Its First Hemp Harvest in 80 Years (The Austin Chronicle)

  • Clinical Trial: Plant-Derived Cannabis Oil Effective for Patients with Fibromyalgia (NORML)

LSD

Magic Mushrooms

  • Oregon Legalizes Psilocybin Therapy (DoubleBlind)

  • Psychedelic Treatment with Psilocybin Relieves Major Depression, Study Shows (Johns Hopkins Medicine)

  • Havn Life Sciences to Support the First Modern Psilocybin Depression Study in Germany with Mind Foundation (Psilocybin Alpha)

DMT

Ayahuasca

  • COVID and the Future of Ayahuasca in Brazil (Chacruna)

  • The Colonization of the Ayahuasca Experience (JSTOR Daily)

Mescaline

Peyote

  • Why Matthew McConaughey Spent Hours In A Cage With A Mountain Lion (TheThings)

Ketamine

  • People Are Using Ketamine at Home to Escape Their Pandemic Reality (VICE)

  • Use of Acute and Maintenance Intravenous Ketamine in Outpatients With Depression (Psychiatry Advisor)

Miscellaneous

  • Every Single Marijuana And Drug Policy Ballot Measure Passing On Election Day Bolsters Federal Reform Push (Marijuana Moment)

  • Oregon becomes 1st state in the US to decriminalize drug possession (OPB)

  • DC voters approve decriminalizing ‘magic mushrooms,’ other psychedelics (Fox 5)

  • There's No Good Evidence that Psychedelics Can Change Your Politics or Religion (Scientific American)

  • From Mining to Mushrooms (Psymposia)

  • Improved colour blindness symptoms associated with recreational psychedelic use (Drug Science)

  • Biden Says Anti-Drug Policies Harmed Black Communities, And It Was A ‘Mistake’ To Support Them (Marijuana Moment)

  • Hate & Social Media in Psychedelic Spaces (Chacruna)

  • Empowering Queer, LGBTQ, and Two-Spirit Voices in Psychedelics with Marca Cassity (Chacruna)

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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.