Cannabis
Alabama Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)
Montana Governor Signs Marijuana Legalization Implementation Bill (Marijuana Moment)
Colorado Governor Signs Bill To Double Marijuana Possession Limit And Calls For Pardons Review (Marijuana Moment)
Mississippi Supreme Court Overturns Medical Marijuana Legalization Ballot That Voters Approved (Marijuana Moment)
Colorado bans hemp-derived delta-8 THC (Marijuana Business Daily)
Minnesota: Lawmakers Vote to Legalize Medical Cannabis Flower (NORML)
Texas Medical Marijuana Expansion Bill Moves Forward In Senate After Initially Stalling (Marijuana Moment)
Louisiana Marijuana Legalization Effort Stalls After House Rejects Complementary Tax Proposal (Marijuana Moment)
The Impact of Specific Genes on Cannabis Use Disorder (Psychedelic Science Review)
LSD
Acid test: scientists show how LSD opens doors of perception (The Guardian)
The Untold Story of the CIA’s MK Ultra: A Conversation with Stephen Kinzer (Los Angeles Review of Books)
MindMed Receives FDA Type C Meeting Response for Project Lucy Phase 2b Clinical Trial (Psilocybin Alpha)
Magic Mushrooms
A single dose of psilocybin has a lasting therapeutic effect on migraine headache, according to a new placebo-controlled study (PsyPost)
Kristen Bell Tried Hallucinogenic Mushrooms to Help Manage Her Depression (People)
Wake Network Successfully Completes First Legal Importation of Psilocybin Mushrooms into the U.S. (Lucid News)
Cybin Granted IRB Approval for Phase II Clinical Trials of its Sublingual Psilocybin Formulation for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)
MDMA
FDA Clears Researchers To Study MDMA Use By Therapists Being Trained In Psychedelic Medicine (Marijuana Moment)
How MDMA, Octopuses, and Gül Dölen Reopen Minds (Chacruna)
Narcos Scotland: The 90s rave culture in Scotland brought a deadly new trend with Ecstasy (Scottish Daily Record)
DMT
Algernon Pharmaceuticals Receives Positive Feedback from U.S. FDA for Psychedelic Drug DMT Clinical Research Program for Stroke (Psilocybin Alpha)
Entheon Biomedical Announces DMT Drug Supply Agreement with Ofichem Group (Psilocybin Alpha)
Ayahuasca
Controversies on the Environmental Legislation on Ayahuasca in Brazil (Chacruna)
Can Ayahuasca Help Us Communicate with the Souls of the Dead? (DoubleBlind)
Mescaline
MindMed Announces the Approval of Mescaline Study (Psilocybin Alpha)
Peyote
Psychedelics Advocates And Indigenous Groups Split On Decriminalizing Peyote Cactus (Marijuana Moment)
Is Peyote the same as mescaline?: A Cultural History (Chacruna)
Salvia Divinorum
This DEA ‘medication of concern’ may have health benefits (MD Linx)
Synthetic Cannabinoids
Why Big Pharma Loves The Power Of Synthetic Cannabinoids (The Fresh Toast)
Ketamine
Lamar Odom says he is using ketamine to stay sober (Page Six)
PharmaTher Announces FDA Approval of Ketamine IND In The Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)
Miscellaneous
California’s Psychedelic Decriminalization Bill Heads to Senate Floor (Truffle Report)
Texas Senate Advances Bill To Study Healing Potential Of Psychedelics Like Psilocybin and MDMA (Marijuana Moment)
Psychedelic Drugs Will Follow Pot’s Path to Legalization (Bloomberg)
The future of psychedelic science (Imperial College London)
Use of hallucinogens linked to risk seeking, emotional dysregulation in youth and college students (PsyPost)
Confronting Inequity and Seeking Social Justice in the Psychedelic Movement (Chacruna)
The Jacarezinho Massacre and Lethal Drug Policy Enforcement in Brazil (Filter)
IPI: The Top Recommended Psychedelic Therapy Training (The Third Wave)
Imagine Psychedelic Dinosaurs Tripping Daily (Reality Sandwich)
An Investor Looks at Drug Development Strategies of Top Psychedelic Companies (Lucid News)
Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy: Reshaping Perspectives and Guiding Transformation (Psychedelic Times)
Do Animals and Psychedelics Go Together? (Reality Sandwich)
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