Cannabis
Canadians Involved In Marijuana Industry Not Welcome In US, Feds Confirm (Marijuana Moment)
DEA Reclassifies Plant-Derived Marijuana Medicine To Schedule V (NORML)
FBI: Marijuana Arrests Spike For Second Straight Year, Far Outpace Arrests For All Violent Crimes (NORML)
Youth Marijuana Use Isn’t Increasing After States Legalize, Meta-Analysis Of 55 Studies Concludes (Marijuana Moment)
Marijuana Looks Like An Alien World Under An Electron Microscope (Marijuana Moment)
Maine Officials Investigating Restaurant That Calmed Lobsters With Marijuana (TIME)
Lawmaker Pushes For Marijuana Legalization In Kenya (Marijuana Moment)
Coca-Cola Is Eyeing a Possible Entry Into the Cannabis Market (TIME)
Brooklyn DA erases 56 marijuana convictions, vacates over 3,000 pot warrants (New York Daily News)
Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions (BBC)
Amsterdam’s Marijuana Strategy Means Cops Don’t Have Much To Do, Comedy Central Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Molson Coors Plans To Sell Marijuana-Infused Teas, Seltzers And Beer (Marijuana Moment)
Wall Street’s Marijuana Madness: ‘It’s Like the Internet in 1997’ (The Wall Street Journal)
Republicans in a US territory just legalized marijuana (Vox)
Cannabis Stocks Had A Roller Coaster Of A Week (NPR)
Are Police Breaking The Law To Campaign Against Marijuana Legalization? (Marijuana Moment)
How EMTs and Doctors Treat Cannabis Overconsumption (Leafly)
House GOP Blocks Marijuana Tax Fairness Vote (Marijuana Moment)
TSA Will Report Weed at LAX to Cops, Who Can't Do Anything About It (Reason)
Researchers Injected People With THC To Test Their Motor Skills (Marijuana Moment)
It's Not Just Cannabis Stocks -- Salaries And Jobs In Legal Weed Are Climbing Too (Forbes)
Why millennials prefer cannabis to booze: ‘Zero enjoyment out of drinking’ (and it’s cheaper) (MarketWatch)
Willie Nelson Wants To Smoke Marijuana With Trump And Putin (Marijuana Moment)
Kindergartner can take cannabis drug to school, judge says (Los Angeles Times)
O’Rourke And Cruz Clash On Marijuana And Drugs At Senate Debate (Marijuana Moment)
Pot Faux Pas: A Cannabis Club Owner Weighs In On Marijuana Etiquette (WBUR)
Here’s Where Maine’s US Senate Candidates Stand On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)
Legal marijuana: Vote for it, even if you aren't going to smoke it (Detroit Free Press)
Leading Congressional Marijuana Opponent In Danger Of Losing Seat, Polls Find (Marijuana Moment)
Idaho Gubernatorial Candidates Disagree On Marijuana Legalization (Marijuana Moment)
LSD
What Happens When You Give L.S.D. to an Elephant? (The New York Times)
Silicon Valley figures remember Steve Jobs's death — and debate the rumor that he was 'tripping' when he died (Business Insider)
Could LSD Microdosing Be Beneficial? (Labmate Online)
Sofia Boutella on Playing a Character Spiked with LSD in Gaspar Noé’s ‘Climax’ (Collider)
Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms
Reclassification recommendations for drug in 'magic mushrooms' (ScienceDaily)
Could "Magic Mushrooms" Help You Stop Smoking? (The Fix)
MDMA/Ecstasy
Pilot Study Finds MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Significantly Reduces Social Anxiety in Autistic Adults (Psychedelic Times)
Scientists Dosed an Octopus With MDMA and It Engaged In Some Serious Heavy Petting (The Inertia)
Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline
'Psychedelic Indiana Jones' claims he can 'predict FUTURE' with shamanic drug (Daily Star)
Morning Glory Seeds
Children eating flower seeds to get high (Click 2 Houston)
Dissociatives
Ketamine gives hope to patients with severe depression. But some clinics stray from the science and hype its benefits (STAT)
Party drug used for depression at UW Health amid research on psychedelics (Wisconsin State Journal)
Opiates/Opioids
A major study questioned the evidence for safe injection sites. It’s now been retracted. (Vox)
Fentanyl crisis: Is China a major source of illegal drugs? (BBC)
The Health 202: Congress reaches deal on major opioids' package (The Washington Post)
Solving America’s painkiller paradox (Vox)
DEA launches '360 Strategy' to combat heroin and prescription drug abuse epidemic in Baltimore (Baltimore Sun)
Pulitzer Prize winner Terry DeMio on life as a heroin beat reporter (Psymposia)
Kratom
FDA Death Data On Kratom Linked To Adulterated Products, Not The Kratom Plant Itself (Benzinga)
Kratom Dosage In Powder And Capsules (Kratom Guides)
Kratom In Missouri: Legality And Where To Find Locally (Kratom Guides)
Kava
Price of kava fluctuates (The Fiji Times)
Khat
New drug ‘khat’ finds way into Bangladesh (The Independent)
Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy
Capitalism on Psychedelics: The Mainstreaming of an Underground (Chacruna)
For $1000, These ‘Sitters’ Will Save You from a Bad Acid Trip (VICE)
The Risks of Long-Term Microdosing (The Third Wave)
Why I regret my war on drugs (UnHerd)
When supplies of drugs run low, drug prices mysteriously rise, data shows (Ars Technica)
Psychedelic Film and Music Festival to feature trippy entertainment ‘for healing’ (AM New York)
Get Ready for Your Psychedelic Voyage by Reading Experience Reports (Psychedelic Times)
‘Without drug traffickers, we’d have peace’: Colombian villagers flee new killings (The Guardian)
Some 129 countries sign up to Trump's pledge at U.N. to fight drugs (Reuters)
Making amyl nitrite an illegal drug would be ineffective, warns former AFP chief (The Guardian)
The Invisible Majority: People Whose Drug Use Is Not Problematic (Filter)
It's time we walked the talk on treating drugs as a health issue (Stuff.co.nz)
$18 Million Worth of Cocaine Found in Bananas Donated to Texas Prison, Authorities Say (TIME)
Does Donald Trump Want To Ban Chocolate, Or Is He Just Confused? (Marijuana Moment)
Integrating Huichol and Mazatec Wisdom Without Doing Harm: Interview with Mario Gómez Mayorga (Psychedelic Times)
Sheffield University criticised over 'never inject alone' drug advice (The Telegraph)
Why doctors should support regulated markets in illicit drugs (The BMJ)
Drug Tolerance Explained (Psychedelic Heaven)
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