CANNABIS
Alaska Is Officially The First State To Legalize On-Site Marijuana Consumption (Marijuana Moment)
Missouri Police Searching for Marijuana in a Stage 4 Cancer Patient's Hospital Room Incites a Viral Video (TIME)
Vermont Bill To Legalize Marijuana Sales Moves To House (Marijuana Moment)
House-Passed Legal Marijuana Bill Advances In New Mexico Senate (Marijuana Moment)
New Hampshire House Passes Bill to Allow Home-Grown Medical Cannabis (High Times)
Legal Marijuana Sales Don’t Increase Use, But Allowing Possession Does, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
The SAFE Banking Act Reintroduced (NORML)
Congressional Bill Would Let VA Doctors Recommend Marijuana To Veterans (Marijuana Moment)
New York marijuana: What to know about cannabis edibles, hospitalizations, poison control (The Journal News)
Independent Voters Support Marijuana Legalization, Regardless Of Partisan Lean, Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)
Where’s the Cheapest Cannabis? A State-by-State Comparison (Leafly)
Marijuana Tourism From China To Amsterdam: Study Sheds Light On Motivations (Marijuana Moment)
Florida: State Lawmakers Vote to Restore Patients’ Right To Smoke Medical Cannabis (NORML)
Bipartisan Bill Shields Federal Workers From Being Fired For Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)
Missouri House Approves Bill To Expunge Marijuana Records For Medical Patients (Marijuana Moment)
We Finally Know What’s in New Jersey’s Cannabis Legalization Bill (Leafly)
Colorado Lawmakers Considering Allowing Marijuana Deliveries (Marijuana Moment)
Cannabis Black Market Thriving Despite Legalization (Forbes)
New York Senate And Assembly Include Marijuana Legalization In Budget Proposals (Marijuana Moment)
Black Lawmakers to Block Legalized Marijuana in N.Y. if Their Communities Don’t Benefit (The New York Times)
Where Presidential Candidate Beto O’Rourke Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)
New Mexico Bill to Create State-Run Dispensaries Appears Dead (Leafly)
Minnesota Senate Committee Kills Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)
Aurora Cannabis Just Hit a Dubious Milestone (The Motley Fool)
CBD sport drug testing (Natural Products Insider)
Parents warned of ‘hallucinogenic’ fake cereal bar ‘laced with CANNABIS’ being sold to London schoolchildren that makes kids ‘violently ill’ (The Sun)
LSD
Can American Troops Win Wars by Dropping Acid? (The Daily Beast)
Stanford U. Employee Pleads Not Guilty to Near-Fatal Stabbing (Patch)
Sailor from Navy carrier's nuclear department admits to 'wrongfully' bringing LSD aboard (Task and Purpose)
LSD-Fueled Innovation From Your Friends at Silicon Valley (71 Republic)
The Acid King, Leonard Pickard, in his own words (Rooster)
MAGIC MUSHROOMS
Psychedelic Mushrooms Can Help Depression, Anxiety, Addiction (NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)
Psychedelic Mushrooms Can Boost Creativity and Empathy for a Week (Futurism)
MDMA
The environmental impacts of MDMA production warrant consideration (Earth.com)
Greens candidate who said you should be able to buy packets of MDMA at Woolies says her ‘turn of phrase’ was ‘incorrect’ (news.com.au)
Highly Accredited Doctor States “MDMA Not Too Dangerous” (EDMTunes)
Drug testing service finds 'potentially dangerous' MDMA levels in pills at New Zealand festivals (TVNZ)
DMT
Blindness MIRACLE cure: Experts in huge breakthrough with 'God molecule' psychedelic drug (Daily Star)
Microdosing Psychedelic Drugs Was Just Found to Reduce Anxiety and Depression (Esquire)
AYAHUASCA
Ayahuasca Can Help Us Heal Deep Wounds of Global History (Kahpi)
Ayahuasca in Asia: Amazonian hallucinogenic plant medicine finds following in the East despite shady status (South China Morning Post)
PEYOTE
Native American Church Works to Conserve, Sustain Peyote (Voice of America)
SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS
Efficacy of Cannabinoids for Agitation, Aggression in Alzheimer Disease Inconclusive (Psychiatry Advisor)
Assessing Personality Traits of Youth Who Use Synthetic Cannabinoids (Clinical Advisor)
Scientists Produce Active Ingredients in Marijuana Using Yeast (Haaretz)
Synthetic Weed: The Furthest Thing from Real Cannabis (Greencamp)
NITROUS OXIDE
A Brief, 200-Year History of Humanity’s Love for Laughing Gas (VICE)
Laughing Gas Parties Were A Big Hit With 19th Century Society (Ancient Origins)
KETAMINE
Is Esketamine the Game-Changer for Depression We Want? (Rolling Stone)
Louisiana doctor uses FDA-approved ketamine to treat depression (WWLTV)
NYC club kids divided on using ketamine for depression (Page Six)
OPIATES/OPIOIDS
“Yellow Peril”—How Blaming China for Fentanyl Continues a Racist Legacy (Filter)
Deregulating buprenophine prescribing for opioid use disorder will save lives (STAT)
Trump’s budget proposal does nothing for the opioid epidemic (Vox)
The Washington Post Blames Obama for Fentanyl Deaths (Reason)
Va. bills on naloxone in schools, nuisance animal control signed by Gov. Northam (WTOP)
Indy coffee shop owner saves man’s life just hours after store hosted naloxone training (Fox 59)
New trend in drug abuse: Youth mix opium with weed (GhanaWeb)
State health officials encourage people to carry naloxone (WPRI)
COCAINE
New way of testing for cocaine discovered (Phys.org)
How Brit cocaine users have blood on their hands and are complicit in the UK’s knife crime epidemic (The Sun)
ALCOHOL
Agreement reached to increase alcohol limits on beer in Utah (The Washington Post)
Instacart's Expanded Coverage Is Increasing Competition In The Alcohol Market (Forbes)
Alcohol marketing awareness linked to 'higher risk' drinking among UK teens (EurekAlert!)
House bill would require signs: 'Pregnancy and alcohol do not mix' (Detroit Free Press)
Alcohol may not be as good for the heart as once thought (WILX)
What Happens When You Give Up Alcohol For A Month? Here's What Happened When I Tried (Bustle)
KRATOM
Kratom Industry Group Has First Qualifier For Its GMP Standards Exceeding FDA's (HBW Insight)
Kratom banned in Caledonia (The Dispatch)
Mixing Ayahuasca And Kratom: What You Ought To Know This Combination (Kratom Guides)
DEA calls this widely used supplement a ‘drug of concern’ (MDLinx)
Lowndes County officials to decide on Kratom ban (WVTA)
Dietary Supplement? Or Drug? The Kratom Regulation Debate (Filter)
Kratom-Related Poisonings Are Soaring, Study Finds (Get Smart About Drugs)
Advocates decry Ohio pharmacy board vote to ban kratom (The Columbus Dispatch)
KAVA
New kava bar finds its roots in downtown Phoenix (The State Press)
KHAT
The Flower Men of Saudi Arabia (Al Jazeera)
MISCELLANEOUS
The UN Chief Executives Board unanimously endorses decriminalisation of people who use drugs (Transform)
Can LSD and magic mushrooms help win wars? This Marine officer says ‘yes’ (Marine Corps Times)
New Alabama law would require residents to pass drug tests to get food stamps (The Hill)
Nicotine 101: The Truth About What It Is and What it Does (Filter)
Stop Funding Southeast Asia’s Brutal Drug War (The New York Times)
Addressing federal conflicts over supervised drug consumption sites (The Hill)
How to Become a Psychedelic Therapist (Psychedelic Support)
Women of Visionary Art: Interview with David Jay Brown and Rebecca Ann Hill (Psychedelic Times)
Blinded by the White: Addressing Power and Privilege in Psychedelic Medicine (Chacruna)
Art, Ecological Awareness, and Femininity: Interview with David Jay Brown and Rebecca Ann Hill (Psychedelic Times)
The mind’s horizon: The coming age of psychedelics, part one (AZ Daily Sun)
Iowa Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Legalize Psilocybin, MDMA and Ibogaine (Reset.me)
‘Suicide’ headaches? Magic mushrooms or LSD could offer relief (Genetic Literacy Project)
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