CANNABIS
Read Congress’s New H.R. 420 Marijuana Bill (Marijuana Moment)
Washington Governor to Pardon Thousands of People Prosecuted for Marijuana Prior to Legalization (Drug Policy Alliance)
Marijuana Legalization Bills Already Filed In Half A Dozen Red States For 2019 Sessions (Marijuana Moment)
Congress Just Legalized Hemp, but What Does That Mean for CBD? (VICE)
Weed is safer than alcohol, people believe, yet they respect pot users less than drinkers (Rooster Magazine)
Alcohol Sales Aren’t Impacted By Marijuana Legalization, Trade Association Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Pot company recalls cannabis product sold in Alberta over contamination concern (The GrowthOp)
New York Bills Would Allow Medical Marijuana Smoking And Cannabis At Schools (Marijuana Moment)
Vancouver approves city's first 3 cannabis outlets (CBC)
Feds To Spend $1.5 Million On Research Into Marijuana’s Lesser Known Components (Marijuana Moment)
What Advocates of Legalizing Pot Don’t Want You to Know (The New York Times)
Is Marijuana as Safe as We Think? (The New Yorker)
New Congressional Cannabis Caucus Takes Shape (Marijuana Moment)
Cities Across Michigan Ban Legal Marijuana Sales (NORML)
D.C. Lawmaker Files Bill To Legalize Marijuana Sales Despite Federal Concerns (Marijuana Moment)
MPs criticise NHS over failure to prescribe medical cannabis (The Guardian)
Soda made from cannabis will soon hit store shelves (KOMO)
Quebec cannabis retailers can't meet demand with limited supply (Montreal Gazette)
Oregon grew three times as much cannabis as it smokes — and that could change the weed game forever (Rooster Magazine)
Most Medical Marijuana Patients Stop Or Reduce Pharmaceutical Use With Cannabis, Survey Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Can CBD Support Fertility? (Civilized)
Federal Officials Recognize How Marijuana’s Legal Status Blocks Research, Documents Show (Marijuana Moment)
Cannabis Companies Struggle To Become More Sustainable (Forbes)
New Hampshire Lawmakers File Three Marijuana Bills Ahead Of Possible Full Legalization (Marijuana Moment)
Massachusetts inching closer to licensing ‘cannabis cafes’ (Boston Herald)
FDA Officials Confiscated CBD Edibles, Yuma Shop Owner Says (Phoenix New Times)
Kamala Harris Calls For Legalizing Marijuana And Ending War On Drugs In New Book (Forbes)
Virginia Lawmaker Adds Full Legalization To Growing List of Marijuana Bills Being Consideration (Marijuana Moment)
Legalize marijuana to beat Pennsylvania’s opioid crisis (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Case for Legalizing Weed (Reason)
Kansas lawmaker makes racist comments about African Americans, marijuana (The Kansas City Star)
For racial justice, legalized marijuana must be taxed correctly (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
LSD
Acid Farmers: The Original LSD Producers that Turned on the World (Prohbtd)
Man who drove on LSD convicted of homicide in fatal crash (Madison.com)
MAGIC MUSHROOMS
Psilocybin Decriminalization Backers Submit Signatures for May 2019 Ballot (Westword)
MDMA
Can Santa Cruz MDMA Research Change Mental Health? (Good Times)
'What’s with the dumb warning?': Why young drug users do not believe the agony of ecstasy (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Cultivating Inner Growth: The Inner Healing Intelligence in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy (Psychedelic Frontier)
Belarus MDMA Death Case Highlights Danger of Prohibition (Talking Drugs)
AYAHUASCA
Where Do Ayahuasca Visions Actually Come From? (Kahpi)
Ayahuasca Joined the Parliament of the World’s Religions (Kahpi)
IBOGA
How One Ibogaine Clinic Has Learned From Its Mistakes (The Third Wave)
NOVEL PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES
Monkey dust 'first of its kind' task force set up to tackle use of illegal substance (Staffordshire Live)
Super-strength fake ketamine 50 times more potent arrives in UK for first time (Mirror)
Calculating the fatal dose of novel psychoactive substances (The Pharmaceutical Journal)
Testing shows Bath-Salt Laced MDMA Circulating Over NYE (Rave Jungle)
SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS
Slidell man sentenced to 30 years for death of teen who smoked Mojo (WNGO)
UK to reconsider classification of synthetic drug spice (Financial Times)
How The Wave Of Synthetic Cannabinoids Got Started (NPR)
NITROUS OXIDE
New police warning over 'dangerous' laughing gas craze after used cannisters are found in Barwell (Leicester Mercury)
KETAMINE
Dual studies highlight ketamine’s potential to treat anxiety and addiction (New Atlas)
Intranasal ketamine as effective as fentanyl at relieving acute pain in kids (MDLinx)
Harebrained Approach To Treating Depression With Horse Tranquilizer Turns 10 Years Old (PR Newswire)
Ketamine shows potential in anxious treatment-resistant depression (Healio)
A Survey of the Thriving Ketamine Infusion Therapy Industry in Denver, Colorado (MENAFN)
OPIATES/OPIOIDS
Former Insys CEO pleads guilty to opioid kickback scheme (Reuters)
Despite an opioid crisis, most ERs don’t offer addiction treatment. California is changing that. (Vox)
A White House Report on the Opioid Crisis Overlooks Gender Differences in Addiction (Tonic)
Heroin vaccine to be tested in Syracuse (WRVO)
This smartphone app can detect an opioid overdose and save your life (CNBC)
Most With OD Can Be Discharged From ED an Hour After Naloxone (Medscape)
D.C. police don’t carry the overdose antidote naloxone. Should they? (The Washington Post)
I Was Injecting Heroin in the Bathroom While Working at One of the UK's Biggest Papers (VICE)
Looking Into the Lifesaving Naloxone (The Link)
COCAINE
Eco-friendly drug dealers are now selling cocaine in reusable plastic vials (Metro)
Cocaine overtakes opioids as drug-related killer for first half of 2018 (CBC)
Why Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform Could Mean Mean Thousands Out of Prison — Including Cannabis Convicts (Civilized)
Model claims social media influencers use cocaine to stay thin (Courier Mail)
Cocaine Prevalent Among Footballers In England According To Expert (Pundit Arena)
Benzodiazepines
How benzos and Xanax culture propel the opioid crisis (CBC)
KRATOM
Is the Kratom Nature’s Answer to Opioids? (The New York Times)
Bill prepared to keep kratom legal in Utah (KUTV)
Does kratom kill? (AlterNet)
What is American Kratom Association (aka kratom)? (Kratom Guides)
A Guide of Preparing Kratom Tea (Endo Nurse Magazine)
Elephant Kratom: What Is Up With This Mysterious Plant Strain? (Kratom Guides)
MISCELLANEOUS
The extraordinary therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs, explained (Vox)
UK Drug Checking Study Shows How Coachella Should Do Harm Reduction (Inverse)
Music festivals are offering to test the safety of people’s drugs, and police increasingly like the idea (The Washington Post)
Pill testing at festivals leaves room for potentially fatal error (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Rally in support of festival pill testing organized in Sydney (Mixmag)
While law makers squabble over pill testing, people should test their drugs at home (The Conversation)
How the Sinaloa Cartel is using Chinese chemicals to fuel America's opioid crisis (VICE)
Democrats Faked Online Push to Outlaw Alcohol in Alabama Race (The New York Times)
Safehouse hires leader to open Philly’s supervised injection site (WHYY)
Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret Of Freemasonry (Graham Hancock)
Psychedelics and Blockchain: Two Technologies Key to Our Future (Chacruna)
A Journey in Sound: Music in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy (Psychedelic Support)
Best Psychedelic Videos of 2018 (The Daily Psychedelic Video)
Ian Hamilton: Dry January is no match for the growing harms of alcohol consumption (The BMJ)
Overdoses Prompt Policy Change in Vermont Prisons (Seven Days)
Four reasons medication-assisted treatment may not help inmates (CommonWealth Magazine)
Trump’s Border Wall Won’t Block the Drug ‘Pipeline’ (Reason)
Two Ayurvedic Tips to Support Winter Psychedelic Integration (Tam Integration)
Why Drug Traffickers Laugh at Trump's Border Wall (Reason)
Experience: I manage the drug service in the ‘drug death capital’ of Europe (Medium)
Traveling High & Tripping Hard by Joseph Davida (Psychedelic Press UK)
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