Cannabis
House Postpones Vote On Bill To Federally Legalize Marijuana Until After Election (Marijuana Moment)
These states are voting on cannabis legalization this November (CNN)
Vermont Bill To Legalize Marijuana Sales One Step Away From Governor’s Desk After House Vote (Marijuana Moment)
Vermont House Approves Marijuana Expungement And Decriminalization Expansion Bill (Marijuana Moment)
How cannabis use impacted mental health during COVID (Cannabis Health News)
Virginia House And Senate Approve Marijuana Expungement Bills (Marijuana Moment)
NORML Files Amicus Brief to the Supreme Court Challenging Cannabis’ Schedule I Prohibited Status Under Federal Law (NORML)
Nebraska Medical Marijuana Activists Will Pursue 2022 Ballot Measure After Court Blocks This Year’s Effort (Marijuana Moment)
Cannabis Pilot Programs Are Sprouting in Europe (Cannabis Wire)
Mississippi Medical Marijuana Ballot Language Threatens To Confuse Voters With Two Questions (Marijuana Moment)
Cancard Will Effectively Decriminalise Medicinal Cannabis In The UK From November 1st (Seedsman)
Policy Briefing: World Health Organisation Cannabis Rescheduling And Its Relevance For The Caribbean (TalkingDrugs)
Slim Majority Of Arizona Voters Support Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure, New Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Americans will spend $60 billion on illicit marijuana this year, report says (Leafly)
USDA Approves Hemp Plans For Utah And Another Indian Tribe (Marijuana Moment)
The Feds Are Funding a Study to See If Milk From Hemp-Eating Cows Will Get You High (MERRY JANE)
Missouri Sends $2.1M In Medical Marijuana Revenue To Military Veterans Health Programs (Marijuana Moment)
Cheap Cannabinoids That May Cure Cancer (Nanalyze)
LSD
Scientists Uncover the Molecular Origins of an LSD Trip (Inverse)
Figuring Out a Mouse-Sized Dose of LSD (Psychedelic Science Review)
LSD Won’t Make a Good Painkiller (Pain News Network)
Magic Mushrooms
Usona Puts New Psilocybin Synthesis Method in the Public Domain (Lucid News)
First clinical trial launched to test psilocybin therapy for depression in cancer patients (News-Medical.net)
Stopping a Too-Intense Mushroom Trip: Should You Even Try? (DoubleBlind)
MDMA
Australians Are Lending Their Weight to Get Shrooms and MDMA Rescheduled (VICE)
Ayahuasca
Legal Ayahuasca Churches Are Spreading Across Canada (VICE)
Ayahuasca Makes you See, and Tobacco Makes You Dream (Chacruna)
Ayahuasca Impacts the Big 5 Personality Traits (Psychedelic Science Review)
A Woman Takes Ayahuasca and Discovers a Universal Truth (Patheos)
Peyote
Indigenous Voices in Peyote Conservation: Preserving Medicine for Future Generations (Psychedelic Today)
Nitrous Oxide
Aurora City Council Approves Temporary Ketamine Ban For First Responders (CBS Denver)
PCP
Daniel Prude video initially withheld by Rochester police, documents show (Fox News)
Miscellaneous
UC Berkeley launches new center for psychedelic science and education (Berkeley News)
Can Psychedelics Treat Physical Illness? (DoubleBlind)
Ann Arbor to consider decriminalizing psychoactive mushrooms, plants (Detroit Metro Times)
Why Psychedelic Medicine Startups Are Poised To Get A Share Of Next Billion Dollar Market (PR Newswire)
Compass Pathways Seeks $100 Million IPO For Psilocybin-Based Treatment (Seeking Alpha)
How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Psychedelic Community (High Times)
Why Set and Setting Matters for Microdosing (Medium)
Compass Pathways IPO to Begin Trading 18th September on Nasdaq: CMPS (Psilocybin Alpha)
Federal Workplace Drug Testing Proposal Could Discriminate Against People Of Color (Marijuana Moment)
Women in the History of Psychedelic Plant Medicines (Chacruna)
How Psychedelics Are Entering the Mainstream (Psychology Today)
Could Group Therapy Make Psychedelic Drug Treatments More Accessible? (Forbes)
IntelGenx inks double deals to develop oral film psychedelics for psychiatric use (Fierce Pharma)
Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth (Chacruna)
Red Light Holland’s Science and Innovation Division, Scarlette Lillie Joins Medical Psychedelics Working Group with Leading Academics; Professor David Nutt and Professor Jo Neill (Psilocybin Alpha)
Conscious Parenting with Plant Medicine Allies (Reality Sandwich)
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