CANNABIS
Governor Signs Bill Legalizing Medical Marijuana In The U.S. Virgin Islands (Marijuana Moment)
Cannabis in Congress: Why Federally Legal Weed Could Soon Be a Reality (Rolling Stone)
What Alex Berenson’s new book gets wrong about marijuana, psychosis, and violence (Vox)
A Study Found That People Enjoyed Sex More When High Than When Drunk (Brides)
Rhode Island Governor Proposes Legalizing Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)
Trinidad and Tobago to Decriminalise Cannabis, Consider Legalisation (Talking Drugs)
Attorney General Nominee Commits To Leave State-Legal Marijuana Programs Alone (NORML)
The technology behind the world's largest cannabis dispensary (Engadget)
Now that Canada Legalized, What's Next for Marijuana Law Reform? (Civilized)
Is CBD a Miracle Cure or a Marketing Scam? (Both.) (Reason)
New Congressional Bill Would Enshrine Rescinded Marijuana Memo Into Federal Law (Marijuana Moment)
All the Things the New Anti-Weed Crusade Gets Horribly Wrong (VICE)
Surging Cannabis Use Drags Down Beer Sales To Its Lowest Ebb, Says Top Analyst (Forbes)
Cannabis Business Booms But That Does Not Mean A Beverage Alcohol Bust (Forbes)
Marijuana Legalization Will Be A Top Priority For Hawaii Legislature In 2019 (Marijuana Moment)
How Dangerous is Marijuana, Really? (The Marshall Project)
Lawmakers In Portugal Debate Two Marijuana Legalization Bills (Marijuana Moment)
How Britain became the world’s largest expert in medical marijuana (The Spectator)
Gubernatorial Report Card: Learn Where Your Governor Stands on Marijuana Policy (NORML)
Now you can get weed delivered to you anywhere in California, even in cities that ban pot (Desert Sun)
The mature stoner: why are so many seniors smoking weed? (The Guardian)
New York Gov. Cuomo Releases Marijuana Legalization Details (Marijuana Moment)
Is Legalizing Marijuana Too Risky? (The New York Times)
Canadians Spent $1.6 Billion on Legal Weed in 2018: Report (VICE)
New York City Cannabis Film Festival Spotlights the Hard Work Towards Legalization — And the Harder Work Still to Come (Civilized)
Where Presidential Candidate Kirsten Gillibrand Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)
Where Presidential Candidate Julián Castro Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)
Don't Call It "Weed," and Other Tips from the Cannabis Media Summit (The New Yorker)
Oklahoma Cops Jail Four Men for Transporting Legal Hemp (Reason)
What Brooklyn's First Dispensary Says About Medical Marijuana in New York (Civilized)
Illinois Governor Pledges To Legalize Marijuana In Inaugural Address (Marijuana Moment)
Smoking cannabis just once can change a teenager's brain (The Independent)
The Reasonable Way to View Marijuana's Risks (The New York Times)
GOP Congressman Refiles Marijuana Research Bill With Important Changes (Marijuana Moment)
Cannabis stocks fall after attorney general nominee's comments about marijuana (MarketWatch)
It's Time To Unshackle Cannabis Research Efforts (Forbes)
Senators Urge Federal Agency To Update Hemp Policies During Government Shutdown (Marijuana Moment)
Where the (Legal) Weed At? More States Eye Cannabis Legalization (The Root)
OPINION: Some growers complacent about using irradiation on cannabis (The GrowthOp)
Kalamazoo pub looks to become cannabis club (WOOD-TV)
Bob Marley brand of cannabis-infused drinks on the way (USA Today)
What It's Like Running a CBD Company as a One-Woman Show (Civilized)
Sen. Chuck Schumer Welcomes Major Cannabis Company To New York’s Hemp Industry (Marijuana Moment)
White Rabbit High Tea is a 420-Friendly Wonderland for Grown-Ups (Civilized)
The MBA graduate who fired up cannabis distribution (Financial Times)
Marijuana Stock Aurora Cannabis Is Rising After It Bought Whistler Medical Marijuana (Barron's)
LSD
Acid and the sexual psychonauts (Wellcome Collection)
This guy wrote a short story about carrier sailors tripping on acid and it’s glorious (Navy Times)
Doctors warn trippers of severe danger of using LSD-laden 'deadly stamps' (The Nation)
MAGIC MUSHROOMS
A Melbourne Hospital Will Trial Magic Mushroom Therapy for Dying Patients (VICE)
Denver Could Become First City to Decriminalize Psychedelic Mushrooms (Rolling Stone)
Magic Mushrooms warning as foragers told mild winter has led to abundance of psychedelic fungi (The Telegraph)
Fun with Anxiety: Why I’m Considering Becoming a Scofflaw (Portland Mercury)
MDMA
Police dog went to rave and got high on ecstasy (Metro)
The Future of MDMA: Phase 3 and Beyond (Psymposia)
MDMA hospitalisation cases in NSW hit record (The Sydney Morning Herald)
How will MDMA be rescheduled in the future? You may be disappointed. (Psymposia)
Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian Admit to Doing Ecstasy After Kim Says Made Her Sex Tape While High (People)
Rugby teenager held after boy fell ill 'taking ecstasy' (BBC)
AYAHUASCA
Psychedelic drug ayahuasca could help treat diabetes (Rooster Magazine)
NOVEL PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES
Media moral panic over ‘Monkey Dust’ (again) (AOD MEDIA WATCH)
SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS
What is Synthetic Weed? Know the Side Effects, Street Names and More (Campus Safety Magazine)
Intoxication from synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists often missed (MDLinx)
Feds to seek 3-year prison sentence for Capitol Petro owner for selling synthetic marijuana (Madison.com)
'Concerning new trends' around synthetic drugs in New Zealand - report (TVNZ)
Sheffield police 'in far better position' as war on spice drug abuse continues (The Star)
NITROUS OXIDE
Crawley footballer caught with Sussex’s ‘biggest ever haul’ of laughing gas (Crawley Observer)
KETAMINE
Crystal Meth, Ketamine 'Godfather' and Former Communist Party Chief Executed (Newsweek)
Handcuffed, drugged with ketamine: Truth behind Thai cave rescue (news.com.au)
Ketamine a Viable Alternative to Opioids for Severe Pain In ER (Pharmacy Practice News)
Ketamine infusions could work better than antidepressants for patients with hard-to-treat depression, anxiety and substance abuse (Daily Mail)
PCP
PCP-fueled burglar gets 10 years in prison (The Herald-Mail)
Driver high on PCP has been charged with 5th DUI, New Castle police say (The News Journal)
OPIATES/OPIOIDS
New App Uses Sonar to Detect Opioid Overdoses (Scientific American)
Police dog given Narcan to reverse overdose at Port Canaveral (WFLA)
Report: Americans Are Now More Likely To Die Of An Opioid Overdose Than On The Road (WBUR)
The FDA Is Trying to Make It Easier for Drug Companies to Provide Over-the-Counter Opioid Overdose Antidote (TIME)
Profiting From Death - The Naloxone Money Story (Psychology Today)
Philly paramedics treated more overdoses last year — but used less Narcan (Billy Penn)
Man Charged With Homicide For Sharing Drugs With Woman Who Later Died (The Appeal)
Sacklers Directed Efforts to Mislead Public About OxyContin, New Documents Indicate (The New York Times)
Exposure to fentanyl doesn’t kill but misinformation does (Philly.com)
B.C. health official questions value of handing out free naloxone nasal spray (CBC)
Are Narcan parties real? 'Sounds like something for Hollywood,' addiction expert says (The Enquirer)
Jackson County deputy recovering from accidental Fentanyl overdose (WJHG)
New bill would make Naloxone more available (Idaho Press)
It Happened Here: North Yakima cracks down on ‘underground’ opium dens (Yakima Herald)
Mass Overdose in California Kills 1, Injures 12 (TIME)
He was a small-time heroin dealer in Virginia. Four women he dated have fatally overdosed. (The Washington Post)
Madelyn Linsenmeir to Cops in Booking Video: 'I'm Very Ill Right Now' (Seven Days)
Alternative Development Project in Laos enables former opium farmers to learn about Coffee Cultivation from experts (UNODC)
Drop in Clallam County opioid deaths attributed to naloxone (Peninsula Daily News)
What You Should Know About Using Naloxone (WBUR)
COCAINE
Kings of cocaine: how the Albanian mafia seized control of the UK drugs trade (The Guardian)
Coke dealers now selling cocaine in eco-friendly reusable packages (Rooster Magazine)
Born to run: Just not on cocaine (Science Daily)
Florida man chews up seat of police car after cocaine arrest, officials say (Fox News)
Cocaine user didn’t know it was fentanyl. He died. Sheriff says the crisis has arrived (The Fresno Bee)
METHAMPHETAMINE
Cannabis convictions fall in New Zealand while meth still on the rise (Newshub)
Call to Develop Meth Addiction Meds Mustn’t Obscure Woeful Lack of Access to Existing Tools (Filter)
ALCOHOL
A new study says the CDC inflated women’s risk of alcohol-exposed pregnancies (Quartz)
How Prohibition Fueled the Klan (The New York Times)
Genetic risks play part in fetal alcohol syndrome (UW Medicine)
New study calls to end alcohol ads during sport (AdNews)
As Americans Drink Less Alcohol, Booze Makers Look Beyond the Barrel (The Wall Street Journal)
Tough booze ban for WA's Pilbara to reduce alcohol-related violence (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Wine is different from other alcohols, not responsible for binge drinking, French minister claims (Fox News)
7 states that have strict laws about how and when you can drink alcohol (INSIDER)
How to know if an opened bottle of alcohol has gone bad (INSIDER)
KRATOM
Case Study Report: Herbal Supplement Kratom Associated With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (Neurology Advisor)
Kratom: Lawmaker pushing bill to make Utah first state to regulate the 'miracle cure' (ABC 4)
Georgia may regulate popular herbal supplement (FOX 5 Atlanta)
How To Market Your Kratom Business Legally (Kratom Guides)
Local doctors warn parents about kratom (WHEC)
KAVA
Cheers mate: Australia to allow kava imports to bolster Pacific ties (Reuters)
MISCELLANEOUS
Singapore Creates New Drug Offences with Lengthy Sentences (Talking Drugs)
The ‘war on drugs’ is ineffective and violates human rights, say researchers and NGOs (Equal Times)
Overwhelming majority of voters support pill-testing – Guardian Essential poll (The Guardian)
Former Premier calls for legislation of drugs to stop deaths (Perth Now)
Psychedelics appear to have promising effects on human well-being — but rigorous research is lacking (PsyPost)
Watch a Florida Cop Botch a Drug Field Test on Video, Then Arrest an Innocent Man (Reason)
'Evidence backs pill testing trials': physicians tell Berejiklian (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Meet the Painter Who Turns His Psychedelic Experiences Into Gallery Art (GQ)
Denver Mayor Hancock Used To Support A Safe-Injection Site. Now It’s Not So Clear (Colorado Public Radio)
Serotonergic Psychedelics LSD & Psilocybin Increase the Fractal Dimension of Cortical Brain Activity in Spatial and Temporal Domains (bioRxiv)
Family of 'beautiful' teen plead for pill testing after suspected festival drug overdose (The Age)
Drug-testing service in Durham highlights dangers of the illegal trade (Chronicle Live)
Psychedelics: a lost and found weekend (Financial Times)
Facing Our Fears With Psychedelic Meditation (Tam Integration)
Creating While Clean (GQ)
Four-letter word a flaw in anti-pill testing argument (news.com.au)
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