Cannabis
Top Mexican Senator Says Marijuana Legalization Bill Will Be Approved This Month (Marijuana Moment)
Trump Budget Proposes Ending State Medical Marijuana Protections And Blocking DC From Legalizing (Marijuana Moment)
New Mexico Senate Committee Rejects Marijuana Legalization Bill Days Before Session Ends (Marijuana Moment)
USDA Won’t Increase THC Limit On Hemp Despite Requests From Farmers And Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)
Croatia Introduces Bill to Legalize Recreational Marijuana: MP Mirela Holy (Total Croatia News)
Students at a Colorado university can soon major in cannabis (Mashable)
Kentucky Lawmakers Approve Medical Marijuana Bill In Committee Vote (Marijuana Moment)
Pro Tip: Don't Ever Inject Marijuana (MERRY JANE)
Scotland’s first medicinal cannabis clinic to open ‘soon’ prescribing marijuana for chronic pain, depression and anxiety (The Scottish Sun)
Marijuana Decriminalization Approved By Virginia Senate And House (Marijuana Moment)
Weed and AI Can Help Us Find New Ways to Get Stoned (VICE)
Las Vegas dispensary offers free joints to Nevada primary voters (Leafly)
Medical Marijuana Can Treat Vomiting and Pain Linked to GI Disorders, Study Says (MERRY JANE)
Texas Researchers Say They Found A Way To Help Cops ID Pot With 100% Accuracy – Using Lasers. (KUT)
Cans suck the THC buzz out of pot drinks. Where does that leave Canopy Growth? (Yahoo! Finance)
Study: Medical Cannabis Access Associated with Fewer Workers’ Comp Claims (NORML)
New Hampshire: Home Cultivation Legislation Advances (NORML)
Magic Mushrooms
Denver Makes History With First Meeting of Psychedelic Mushroom Panel (Westword)
The Top Psilocybin Mushroom Stocks to Watch in New Year 2020 (Baystreet)
Cybin Partners With Toronto Centre For Psychedelic Science For Psilocybin Research Project (Benzinga)
MDMA
UK Teen Dies After Consuming MDMA and Reportedly Being Denied Access to Water (EDM)
Ira Glass Talks High Maintenance and What Taking Ecstasy Taught Him (GQ)
DMT
How DMT Switches the Brain’s Reality Channel (Kahpi)
Ketamine
UK Assessment Agency Rejects Spravato Ketamine Nasal Spray (Psychedelic Science Review)
Another Round of Research Shows Ketamine May Help Alcoholism (Medscape)
PCP
Houston is the largest metro area with significant PCP problem, report says (Houston Chronicle)
Opioids
Study: Opioid Substitution Meds, Not Detox, Prevent Overdose (Filter)
Injected Heroin Use Still Near All-Time Highs in U.S., May Explain Hepatitis-C Rise (The New York Times)
What an 1890s opioid epidemic can teach us about ending addiction today (STAT)
Cocaine
UC researchers develop antibody to neutralize cocaine high (WKRC)
Methamphetamine
Will “Sobering Centers” Help People Who Use Methamphetamine? (Filter)
What meth does to your body and why it makes people so manic (Cincinnati.com)
Caffeine
Michael Pollan Explains Caffeine Cravings (And Why You Don't Have To Quit) (NPR)
New Research Suggests Drinking Coffee Can Help Make Bones Stronger (CBS Philly)
Is Coffee Good For You? (The New York Times)
Nicotine
Trump doesn’t want the FDA to regulate tobacco (STAT)
Dismantling NY Mag’s Disgraceful Hit-Job on Vaping (Filter)
House committee OKs bill to put nicotine and tobacco purchase age in line with federal law (The Neighbor)
Proposal would raise legal age to buy tobacco in Idaho to 21 (Twin Falls Times-News)
Benzodiazepines
Author Jordan Peterson is recovering from physical dependence to benzodiazepine in Russia (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
GHB
Banning GHB at Raves Is Dangerous (TalkingDrugs)
Nootropics
If You’re Going to Use Nootropics, Shouldn’t You Know Exactly What You’re Taking? (Futurism)
Are Nootropics And Brain Supplements Side-Effects Free? (KHTS)
Kratom
Missouri lawmaker proposes bill to ban kratom (KFVS)
The 7 Dangers of Vaping Kratom You Might Not Know (Kratom Guides)
Miscellaneous
Move Over, Pot: Psychedelic Companies Are About to Go Public (Bloomberg)
Trump Again Applauds Death Penalty For Drug Offenses (Marijuana Moment)
Everything You Should Know About the Campaign to Decriminalize Naturally Occurring Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)
Eleusis Benefit Corp: Taking the “Psychedelic” Out of Psychedelics (Psymposia)
The Emergence of a New Market: Psychedelic Science Conferences (Chacruna)
Conservative Indiana Adopted Needle Exchanges But Still Faces Local Resistance (Kaiser Health News)
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