Cannabis
Bernie Sanders Pledges Legal Marijuana In All 50 States On Day One As President (Forbes)
Businesses Are More Profitable And Innovative In States With Legal Marijuana, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Nepal’s Communist Party Wants to Legalize Weed and Ban Booze (MERRY JANE)
Vermont Committee Unanimously Approves Bill To Legalize Marijuana Sales (Marijuana Moment)
Another Vermont House Committee OKs Bill To Legalize Marijuana Sales (Marijuana Moment)
Gallup: Twelve Percent of Adults Acknowledge Smoking Marijuana (NORML)
Virginia Lawmakers Approve Another Marijuana Decriminalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)
CBD May Treat Psychosis Rather Than Cause It, Study Shows (MERRY JANE)
Liberal Americans Are Six Times More Likely To Smoke Marijuana Than Conservatives, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Whoopi Goldberg's cannabis company has shut down (CNN)
Cannabis in South Africa: the duplicity of colonial authorities (TalkingDrugs)
Magic Mushrooms
Inside the Campaign to Legalize Magic Mushrooms in California (Reason)
MDMA
Speech Pattern Technology Can Now Detect If You’re High on MDMA (MERRY JANE)
5-MeO-DMT
Supportive Context is Associated With Positive Effects From Inhaling 5-MeO-DMT (Psychedelic Science Review)
5-MeO-DMT: The 20-Minute Psychoactive Toad Experience That’s Transforming Lives (Forbes)
PCP
What is PCP? The ‘angel dust’ drug used in Netflix’s The Stranger (The Tab)
Opioids
The highs and lows of the opium trade in southern Africa (TalkingDrugs)
"Gray death" drug is so dangerous, police say you shouldn't even touch it (CBS News)
Cocaine
A fingerprint can show if someone has taken cocaine or just touched it (New Scientist)
Enhanced cocaine vaccine blocks the high in mice (Futurity)
Caffeine
Caffeine has been a boon for civilization, Michael Pollan says. But it has come at a cost. (The Washington Post)
Nicotine
The vaping 'flavor ban' goes into effect today. Here's what it does (The Hill)
Mismatched tobacco laws could put federal funding for NC at risk (The News & Observer)
American Lung Association Gives Arizona Failing Grades in Tobacco Control Report (Phoenix New Times)
American Lung Association gives Georgia low grades for tobacco use (11Alive.com)
Michigan receives 'F' grade for tobacco prevention, new report shows (WWMT)
Alcohol
Baby boomers are the booziest generation – and are driving a 60 per cent rise in alcohol-related hospital admissions (The Telegraph)
Kratom
Natural herb kratom may have therapeutic effects and relatively low potential for abuse or harm (Medical Xpress)
Maryland bills aim to restrict kratom (The Southern Maryland Chronicle)
Kava
The great kava boom: how Fiji's beloved psychoactive brew is going global (The Guardian)
Miscellaneous
Measure To Decriminalize Psychedelics Advances In Washington, D.C. (Marijuana Moment)
Scientists find a new trippy link between psychedelics and climate change (Inverse)
Psychedelics linked to persisting reductions in cannabis, opioid, and stimulant use (PsyPost)
Could wearable microdosing technology be a thing one day? (Psymposia)
DEA’s National Drug Threat Assessment Shows Decrease in Drug Overdose Deaths (Pharmacy Times)
A New Nonprofit Is Betting on Psychedelic Therapy (Outside Magazine)
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