Cannabis
Congress Planning Vote On Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill In September, Sources Say (Marijuana Moment)
Congress Votes To Protect Legal Marijuana (NORML)
Democratic Party Delegates Reject Marijuana Legalization Amendment To 2020 Policy Platform (Marijuana Moment)
Prescribed CBD could help people quit cannabis (Drug Science)
Louisiana: Medical Cannabis Expansion Laws Take Effect (NORML)
New York Senate Votes To Expunge Marijuana Convictions For More People (Marijuana Moment)
New Jersey: Supermajority Back Legalization Measure Ahead of November Vote (NORML)
Biden Proposes Federal Aid To Help States Expunge Marijuana Records (Marijuana Moment)
Use of medicines mixed with marijuana allowed in local health promotion hospitals (The Nation Thailand)
MD Judge: Cops Can’t Search You Because They Smell Weed (Filter)
THC Microdosing Provides Pain Relief without Psychoactive Effects (Legal Reader)
Navy Bans Hemp Shampoo For Sailors And Marines As Part Of Broader CBD Prohibition (Marijuana Moment)
Survey: Many Employees Acknowledge Using Marijuana Immediately Following Their Pre-Employment Drug Test (NORML)
First woman in Scotland prescribed cannabis legally after years of chronic pain (The Scotsman)
Women Who Use Marijuana More Often Have Better Sex, Study Says (Marijuana Moment)
Hedonism and Weed Leads to Happiness (Drug WarRant)
Cannabis cravings: A new study addresses why it happens (Chicago Tribune)
Cannabis lowers self reported headaches by nearly 50 percent (Drew Reports News)
LSD
LSD Chemist William Leonard Pickard to be Released From Prison (Psymposia)
How LSD is Made (DoubleBlind)
Was Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green an Acid Casualty? (Celeb Stoner)
Magic Mushrooms
Man Accused of Selling Mushrooms Faces Up to Twenty Years (Westword)
Mindset Pharma Announces Filing of Groundbreaking Psilocybin Synthesis Patent (Psilocybin Alpha)
Palliative Canadians await August 4th decision on psilocybin mushroom approval – TheraPsil urges Health Minister to ‘do the right thing’ (TheraPsil)
Are magic mushroom edibles Canada’s next drug trend? (The GrowthOp)
Shroom Expert Duo Releases 2020's First Psilocybin-Focused Cookbook Through Green Candy Press (Newsfile)
Ayahuasca
Is Ayahuasca Cultural Heritage of Brazil? (Chacruna)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
MindMed Completes Dosing 18-MC Phase 1 Study (Psilocybin Alpha)
Crystal Structures of Hydrofumarate Salts of DMT Analogues EPT and MALT Solved (Psychedelic Science Review)
Solved: The Crystal Structure of the Iodide Salts of DMPT and DMALT (Psychedelic Science Review)
Ketamine
Ketamine May Help Treat MS-related Fatigue, Small Pilot Trial Suggests (Multiple Sclerosis News Today)
Aleafia Health Approved by Janssen Pharmaceuticals to Administer Antidepressant SPRAVATO® (Psilocybin Alpha)
Datura
Family poisoned in France after mistaking Hell's bells for spinach (CTV News)
Miscellaneous
DC Officials Count Enough Valid Signatures To Put Psychedelics Decriminalization On Ballot, Activists Say (Marijuana Moment)
Psychedelic drugs can greatly reduce psychiatric symptoms among special forces veterans, study finds (PsyPost)
The Business Of Drugs: What Happened To Alexander Shulgin After The DEA Raid (Screen Rant)
RIP Arnold Trebach, Who Helped Make Opposition to the Drug War Respectable (Reason)
Empower Clinics Announces the Revocation of Cease Trade Order (Psilocybin Alpha)
How Set and Setting Shape Psychedelic Cultures (Chacruna)
Better living through chemistry? The CEO of Dr. Bronner’s wants to turn America on to drugs (Medium)
The Psychedelic Picture Trip (Maps of the Mind)
Novamind Closes the Acquisition of Cedar Psychiatry, a Leading Psychedelic Therapy Organization in the U.S. (Psilocybin Alpha)
Are there Disadvantages to Microdosing Psychedelics? (DoubleBlind)
New Psychedelic Online Conferences and Safe Spaces for People of Color (Chacruna)
Ease restrictions on medical psychedelics to aid research, experts say (The Guardian)
US Psychiatry Clinics Gear Up For New Psychedelic Treatments (Psilocybin Alpha)
Entheos Foundation: Amadeus Diamond brings New Zealand psychedelic charity to life (Newshub)
What It’s Like to Have Sex on Different Kinds of Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)
Empower Clinics Reports Fiscal 2019 Results (Psilocybin Alpha)
The Technodelic Augmented Reality of SoundSelf: Interview with Robin Arnott (Psychedelic Times)
GreenStar Biosciences Announces Filing of Third Provisional Patent Application by Eleusian Biosciences (Psilocybin Alpha)
Psychedelic Therapy Offers a Synergy of Biological, Psychosocial Interventions (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Learning Network)
Founders explain how microdosing on psychedelics has helped them spur new business ideas (Business Insider)
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