Cannabis
Connecticut Becomes 18th State to Legalize Marijuana for Adults (NORML)
Louisiana Governor Signs Bill To Legalize Smokable Medical Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)
Rhode Island Senate Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)
Mexico’s Supreme Court Moves To End Marijuana Prohibition Itself After Lawmakers Fail To Act (Marijuana Moment)
House Appropriations Bill Removes Anti-Marijuana Rider and Includes Banking Protections (NORML)
Conan O’Brien Celebrates Retirement By Smoking Marijuana With Seth Rogen On TV (Marijuana Moment)
Flint’s old police academy sold for marijuana grow facility despite objections (MLive.com)
A Study Finds That Crash Injuries in 5 States Rose After They Legalized Marijuana Use but Not After They Allowed Marijuana Sales (Reason)
Missouri Activists Plan Marijuana Legalization Initiative For 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)
General Motors Is Having a Hard Time Hiring New Employees Due to Its Anti-Weed Policies (MERRY JANE)
LSD
Berlin Now Has an LSD Shop, Thanks to a Loophole in the Law (VICE)
Microdosing LSD modulates the perception of time independently of other consciousness-altering effects (PsyPost)
Magic Mushrooms
It’s Been a Psychedelic Summer of Love for Brood X Cicadas (Lucid News)
Marley One Is The First Global Functional And Psychedelic Mushroom Brand (Forbes)
Canada’s Expanding Psilocybin Grey Market (Truffle Report)
B.C. health researchers harness the 'magic' of psychedelic mushrooms (CBC)
Numinus files for patent covering application of Rapid Production Process for Psilocybin (Proactive Investors)
MDMA
The 'MDMA Houseboat' Where Soldiers Went to Deal with the Effects of War (VICE)
MDMA Gangs Are Literally Polluting Europe (VICE)
Meth use higher in small towns, cocaine and ecstasy use higher in cities - study (Newshub)
Ayahuasca
DEA Denies Soul Quest’s Religious Exemption: Impacts on the Ayahuasca Community (Chacruna)
Doing the Ayahuasca Dieta Year-Round (Reality Sandwich)
Israelis And Palestinians Turn To Ayahuasca To Heal Conflict Wounds (Benzinga)
Salvia Divinorum
Salvia Trip: The Basics (DoubleBlind)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
Move Over, Psilocybin And Ketamine: A New Compound Derived From A Naturally-Growing Hallucinogen May Revolutionize Psychiatry (Forbes)
Cybin Announces Completion of its 51st Pre-Clinical Psychedelic Molecule Study (Psilocybin Alpha)
Mydecine Selects Substance Use Disorder and Smoking Cessation for Novel Psychedelic Molecule MYCO-004 (Psilocybin Alpha)
Synthetic Cannabinoids
Clinical Trial: Low Dose of Synthetic THC Augments Analgesic Efficacy of Opioids (NORML)
Ketamine
Ketamine Might Help Alcohol Addiction by Rewiring the Brain (Discover)
Toronto company receives government funding for first-of-its-kind ketamine trial for bipolar depression (The GrowthOp)
Can tripping on ketamine cure PTSD? I decided to try. (Popular Science)
Miscellaneous
Atai Life Sciences Goes Public; Now the Largest Publicly Traded Psychedelic Company (Psychedelic Invest)
Texas Will Study Benefits Of Psychedelics For Military Veterans Under Bill Enacted Without Governor’s Signature (Marijuana Moment)
The Future Of Psychedelic Medicine Might Skip The Trip (Forbes)
COVID pandemic fuelling major increase in drug use worldwide: UN report (United Nations)
Maine Lawmakers Approve Bill To Decriminalize All Drugs On 50th Anniversary Of Nixon’s ‘War On Drugs’ (Marijuana Moment)
MAPS Canada Wants Changes to Canadian Drug Bill C-22 (Truffle Report)
Former Head Of Psychiatry Products At FDA Joins Psychedelic Drug Developer Cybin (Forbes)
Awakn Life Sciences Appoints Addiction Expert Prof. David Nutt as Chief Research Officer (Psilocybin Alpha)
Mrs. So-and-So, Women’s Participation in Psychedelic Trials (Chacruna)
Entheon Biomedical Subsidiary, HaluGen Life Sciences, Announces Agreement with Third Wave (Psilocybin Alpha)
Psychedelics and Perception Part 1: The First Era of Research (Psychedelic Science Review)
Queering Psychedelics: A Pathway to Inclusive Research (Truffle Report)
My Psychedelic Journaling Practices (Maps of the Mind)
Plant Medicines as a Force for Indigenous Sovereignty (EntheoNation)
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