Cannabis
Mexican Supreme Court Grants Marijuana Legalization Deadline Extension (Marijuana Moment)
House Panel Votes To Let Students With Drug Convictions Keep College Aid (Forbes)
CDC confirms 2,051 cases of vaping-related lung injury (Engadget)
Medical cannabis trial will target 20,000 UK patients (The Guardian)
Quebec raising age of cannabis consumption to 21 in the new year (Leafly)
Skinny Pot: Could Weight-Loss Weed Be Next? (Rolling Stone)
Senior Citizens Are Canada's Fastest-Growing Weed-Using Demographic (MERRY JANE)
Millions of cannabis plants in California with ‘black market’ value of $1B seized and destroyed (Fox News)
Cannabis Reduces Suicidal Thoughts in People Suffering From PTSD, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)
Poll: Most Americans Support Ending Federal Cannabis Criminalization (NORML)
Calling It ‘Cannabis’ Instead Of ‘Marijuana’ Doesn’t Boost Legalization Support, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Alaska Recalls Weed Grower's Product Over Alleged Eagle 20 Contamination (MERRY JANE)
Three More Ohio Cities Approve Marijuana Decriminalization Measures, But Three Others Are Defeated (Marijuana Moment)
The NYPD Bragged About a Big Pot Bust. Turns Out It Seized 106 Pounds of Legal Hemp. (Reason)
Problematic Marijuana Use Is Declining Among People Who Consume Every Day, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Americans Think Weed Is Much Safer Than E-Cigs or Tobacco, Poll Finds (MERRY JANE)
One-time exposure to cannabinoids during early pregnancy can impair fetal development (News-Medical.net)
Illinois Will Ban Cannabis Use in Public Housing, Despite Legalization (MERRY JANE)
Drake is launching a Canadian cannabis brand (Leafly)
Don't blame legal cannabis for the vaping health crisis, focus on black market THC (USA Today)
How legalising cannabis in London would crush violence and the illegal drugs trade (The Independent)
Can cannabis help with lupus? Patients recommend it, but research is lacking (Leafly)
LSD
Logan Paul buys Timothy Leary's LSD ranch in California for $1M (SFGate)
Magic Mushrooms
Activists File Ballot Measure To Legalize Psilocybin Mushrooms In California (Marijuana Moment)
Why Johns Hopkins Medicine has Just Begun to Research Psilocybin Mushrooms (PR Newswire)
MDMA
NHL Players Are Swapping Out Opioids for Cocaine and Ecstasy, Report Says (MERRY JANE)
Young woman's split second decision to swallow two MDMA capsules because she feared cops would catch her with the illegal drugs led to her death (Daily Mail)
DMT
What is DMT? What makes it dangerous? (CBS 17)
Ayahuasca
Fake News About Ayahuasca’s Archeological Antiquity (Chacruna)
Ketamine
Ketamine Use for Pain Not Associated With Hepatotoxicity, Adverse Drug Events (MD Magazine)
Ketamine Holds Promise in Derailing Veteran Suicide (PR Web)
PCP
Trick-or-treat gum balls tested for possible PCP in Lake Stevens (KOMO News)
Claymont man pleads guilty to murdering ex-wife while they took PCP, watched TV (WDEL)
Opioids
Drug reversing effects of opioid overdose to be handed out in England (The Guardian)
Naloxone use by London police saves 103 lives so far in 2019 (Global News)
Feds Warn Of Heroin-Laced Vape Solution After Two High Schoolers Hospitalized (CBS Dallas Fort Worth)
Naloxone underprescribed to high-risk patients, Maine researchers say (Press Herald)
Advocates fear new opioid panel will minimize harm reduction focus (Calgary Herald)
Cocaine
The NHL seems to disagree about its cocaine usage (New York Post)
Methamphetamine
A Medication To Treat Meth Addiction? Some Take A New Look At Naltrexone (NPR)
Trick-or-Treaters on US Air Force Base Handed 'Goodies' That Resemble Crystal Meth (Newsweek)
Cheap and powerful 'meth 2.0' is ravaging communities and slowly killing its victims (USA Today)
Tobacco
New Study Casts Further Doubt on Warnings That Vaping Is a Gateway to Smoking (Reason)
Juul Halts Sales of Mint E-Cigarettes, Its Best-Selling Flavor (TIME)
The US vaping flavour ban: twenty things you should know (The Counterfactual)
Benzodiazepines
The Evolution of Designer Benzodiazepines (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
Nootropics
The Risks of Nootropic Use (Psychology Today)
Miscellaneous
Can a Trip-Free Psychedelic Still Help People With Depression? (VICE)
Is the 'War on Drugs' Over? Arrest Statistics Say No (The New York Times)
Trump calls for ‘war’ on drug cartels after 9 Americans killed in Mexico (Los Angeles Times)
Another UK Parliament Committee Is Calling For Drug Decriminalization (Marijuana Moment)
Why Psychedelics Could be the Future of Anorexia Treatment (Elemental)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Voices Support For Decriminalizing Psychedelics (Marijuana Moment)
Oklahoma Frees Hundreds of Minor Drug Offenders From Jail (MERRY JANE)
Fewer young people are going into drug treatment – thanks to the government, there’s virtually nowhere left to get it (The Independent)
Mexico’s drug policy is failing. That’s why the cartels are on the offensive. (The Washington Post)
Could a combination of psychedelics and meditation treat depression? (Medical News Today)
Rap and Hip-Hop Mention Drugs and Booze More Than Any Other Genre, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)
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