This Week in Psychedelics - 8.27.21

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Cannabis

  • Legal Pot Delivery Sales Launch in Denver, Colorado (High Times)

  • New Jersey: Many Cities Opting Out of Retail Marijuana Sales Ahead of Rollout (NORML)

  • New Mexico Approves Cannabis Rules and Prepares for Legalization (High Times)

  • Manitoba and Quebec still won’t let you grow weed at home (Leafly)

  • Third North Carolina Senate Committee Approves Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • Marijuana firms and advocates struggle as Instagram targets accounts (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • The Ecology of Good Weed (Nautilus)

  • What is delta-10? (Leafly)

  • Feds And California Governor Exploring Rules For Medical Marijuana Use In Hospitals (Marijuana Moment)

  • Commercial Drivers Consume Cannabis More than Any Other Drug, Data Shows (High Times)

  • Ohio Attorney General Certifies 2022 Marijuana Legalization Ballot Petition (Marijuana Moment)

  • Aurora sends first shipment of ‘free’ marijuana to France (Marijuana Business Daily)

LSD

Magic Mushrooms

  • Will A Psilocybin Patch Be The Next Big Thing In Psychedelics? (Forbes)

  • Psilocybin Therapy and the Rise of Existential Medicine (DoubleBlind)

  • All-Inclusive Magic Mushroom Retreats Are the New Luxury ‘Trips’ (Bloomberg)

  • Tryp Therapeutics Completes Psychotherapy Training for Phase 2a Study at the University of Florida (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • The Rise of Shroom Slang and the New Language of Tripping (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

  • Women Behind the Scenes in Psychedelic Science: Making MDMA a Legal Medicine with Amy Emerson (Chacruna)

DMT

  • Psilera Collaborates with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to Research DMT and New Analogues to Combat Addiction (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • How Long Does DMT Last? (Healing Maps)

  • PharmaDrug Announces Clinical Research Collaboration with The Johns Hopkins University to Evaluate DMT in a Comparative Clinical Study (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • DMT-Inspired Artwork by Harry Pack (Sam Woolfe)

  • What Is DMT? From Its Purpose To Understanding Its Side Effects (Healing Maps)

Ayahuasca

5-MeO-DMT

  • Spanish couple arrested over toad-venom and ayahuasca rituals (The Guardian)

Peyote

Salvia Divinorum

  • Twitter Thread Of The Craziest Experiences People Had Tripping On Salvia Proves We Were Lucky To Survive The 2000s (BroBible)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • Scientists Isolate Two New Compounds from Toad Venom (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Mindset Pharma Broadens its IP Portfolio by Filing U.S. Provisional Patent Extending its DMT and 5-MeO-DMT Inspired Psychedelic Drug Candidates (Psilocybin Alpha)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Neuropathy After Recreational Use of Laughing Gas (MedPage Today)

Ketamine

  • There’s Finally an Accurate Drug-Checking Kit for Ketamine (Filter)

  • Same But Different: Antidepressant Mechanisms of Psilocybin and Ketamine (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Awakn Life Sciences Initiates the First Ketamine Treatment Study for Gambling Addiction Led by Professor Celia Morgan (Yahoo! Finance)

  • Ketamine For Pain: Understanding The Pros And Cons (Healing Maps)

  • HMNC Brain Health and Develco Pharma Partner to Initiate Ketamine Study Targeting Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) (Yahoo! Finance)

Miscellaneous

  • California Bill To Legalize Psychedelics Possession Put On Pause Until 2022 (Marijuana Moment)

  • Wisconsin University Launches Psychedelics Center With Goal Of Increasing Diversity In Research (Marijuana Moment)

  • Startup Miraculix Creates First Rapid, Mobile Test Kits For Concentrations of MDMA, LSD, and Psilocybin (Lucid News)

  • Psychedelics and Breastfeeding: What We Know—and Don’t Know—About a Taboo Subject (DoubleBlind)

  • Study to Determine if Psychedelics Help to Quit Cigarette Smoking (High Times)

  • Freaks of Color Tell Psychedelic Stories That Inspire (Lucid News)

  • The Stamets Stack: Can Microdosing Really Change Your Brain? (DoubleBlind)

  • Biden’s Extension of Title 42 Subjects Refugees to More Drug-War Violence (Filter)

  • This West Philly Doctor Says Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Could Change Your Life (Philadelphia Magazine)

  • 10 Best Trippy Festivals and Events Coming Up (Reality Sandwich)

  • UK Venture Round Shines Spotlight on Europe’s Psychedelics Scene (Labiotech.eu)

  • Psychedelic-Induced Theism: Common Misconceptions (Truffle Report)

  • The Meaning of Psychedelics (Maps of the Mind)

  • Why the Term ‘Drug’ is Difficult to Clearly Define (Sam Woolfe)

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