CANNABIS
Oldest evidence of cannabis smoking found in ancient Chinese cemetery (Ars Technica)
Nevada bans employers from refusing to hire those who fail marijuana tests (CNN)
Maryland Legalizes Medical Marijuana Edibles, With Caveats (Reason)
Drivers With Common THC Limit Are Not More Likely To Cause Accidents, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Oregon: Governor Signs Law Prohibiting Landlords From Discriminating Against Medical Marijuana Patients (NORML)
Texas governor signs law legalizing hemp, CBD products (The Hill)
Court squashes Colombia’s ban on smoking pot and drinking beer in public (Colombia Reports)
Coroner claims woman overdosed on cannabis, scientists call bullshit (The Next Web)
Illinois Cancer Patient Sentenced to Four Years in Jail Over Cannabis Edibles (MERRY JANE)
Study: Veterans Often Substitute Medical Cannabis for Alcohol, Prescription Drugs (NORML)
U.S. Postal Services Unveils New Policy On Mailing Hemp-Derived CBD Products (Marijuana Moment)
Recreational Weed Hurts Medical Cannabis Programs, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)
Huge Cement Blocks Bar Access to Illicit Toronto Dispensaries (Leafly)
Poll Reveals Top Reasons People Support Or Oppose Marijuana Legalization (Marijuana Moment)
Nearly All Hospice Professionals Support Medical Marijuana Access, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)
Las Vegas OK’d Cannabis Lounges but Nevada Just Said No (Leafly)
Marijuana arrests target mostly blacks and Hispanics in region (Times Union)
Baby Boomers Are Consuming Pot at Ten Times the Rate of Past Senior Generations (MERRY JANE)
Ohio board rejects adding insomnia, depression as conditions for medical pot; tables autism, anxiety (WBNS)
California Appeals Court Rules Cannabis Possession in Prison Legal (Courthouse News)
Legal Cannabis May Not Lower Opioid Overdose Deaths After All (Gizmodo)
Ontario Law Now Prevents Pot Shops From Showing Vape Pens to Customers (MERRY JANE)
Oregon Is About to OK Cannabis Exports. What’s Next? (Leafly)
Alabama Bucks Its History of Prohibition, Plants First Hemp Crop Since 1937 (MERRY JANE)
Federal Employment Protections Demanded In Appropriations Bill (NORML)
Oklahoma’s Medical Marijuana Industry Sold $23 Million Worth of Weed in May (MERRY JANE)
LSD
The U.S. Army Once Kept $1 Billion Worth of LSD in a Maryland Office for Some Reason (Gizmodo)
The Highs and Lows of LSD Literature (The New York Times)
MAGIC MUSHROOMS
Magic mushrooms could replace antidepressants within five years, says new psychedelic research centre (The Independent)
'They broke my mental shackles': could magic mushrooms be the answer to depression? (The Guardian)
I Took Magic Mushrooms To Treat The World’s Worst Headaches... And Got Arrested For It (HuffPost)
MDMA
Ecstasy warning over high strength MDMA pills at Parklife (Daily Star)
More than 2000 children need help to ditch ecstasy problem (Mirror)
DMT
What’s DMT and why are techies and entrepreneurs secretly taking the drug? (The American Genius)
AYAHUASCA
Psychedelics, dance steps and giant snakes: inside the ayahuasca show (The Guardian)
5-MEO-DMT
Mike Tyson Says Smoking Toad Venom Cured His Addictions (Civilized)
SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS
Synthetic Marijuana Is Making People Bleed From Their Eyes and Ears (Cosmopolitan)
Milton teens found in medical distress didn't overdose on opioids, police say (CBC)
KETAMINE
FDA Overlooked Red Flags In Testing of New Depression Drug (Daily Beast)
PCP
'It's an evil drug': Authorities see increase in demand of PCP (KTUL)
OPIOIDS
Naloxone nasal spray is more available in Philly neighborhoods with more white residents, study finds (Philly Voice)
Drug Users Armed With Naloxone Double As Medics On Streets Of San Francisco (California Healthline)
Free heroin? Unusual clinic offers 'chance at being human again' (CBC)
Insys, the Opioid Drug Maker, Files for Bankruptcy (The New York Times)
Former champion MMA fighter describes battle with heroin addiction (WKRC)
COCAINE
Michael Gove: Cocaine 'mistake' a 'deep regret' (BBC)
Plumbers, builders and cabbies are doing it in the local pub – stop calling cocaine a middle class drug (The Sun)
Why Peruvian wellness and a 'cocaine massage' could change your life (The Independent)
Teens with prenatal cocaine exposure exhibit altered patterns of amygdala functional connectivity (PsyPost)
CAFFEINE
Algorithm provides customized caffeine strategy for alertness (ScienceDaily)
If We Wrote About Caffeine Like We Do Other Drugs… (Filter)
TOBACCO
Texas Raises Age To Buy Tobacco To 21 (Inquisitr)
A Flurry of States Have Raised Their Smoking Ages. But Big Tobacco's Involvement Has Some Health Groups Uneasy (TIME)
E-cig companies use cartoon characters as logos, and new study shows it works (The Conversation)
FDA finalizes guidance for premarket tobacco product applications for electronic nicotine delivery systems as part of commitment to continuing a strong oversight of e-cigarettes (FDA)
Tobacco 21 to take effect June 24 in Mankato (Mankato Free Press)
ALCOHOL
A Ten-Year Plan To Reduce Global Alcohol Consumption Is Showing Results (Forbes)
Prohibition worked better than you think (Vox)
Alcohol main cause of substance-related deaths in hospital (CBC)
Drinking alcohol at conception shown to harm rats – new study (The Conversation)
We Drink Basically The Same Wine As Ancient Romans — And That's Not So Great (NPR)
NOOTROPICS
The Truth About Nootropics and What They Do to Our Brains, According to a Neuroscientist (Good Housekeeping)
10 Modafinil Myths You Can’t Afford To Believe (Dreamland Magazine)
KRATOM
Kratom: A Legal Drug That’s Dangerously Addictive (Child Mind Institute)
KAVA
Australia’s discussion of kava imports reflects lack of cultural understanding (The Conversation)
Crackdown on health standards at Vanuatu kava bars (Radio New Zealand)
DATURA
Dentist Arrested for slow poisoning her brother, niece (Medical Dialogues)
MISCELLANEOUS
AOC Pushes To Make It Easier To Study Shrooms And Other Psychedelic Drugs (Forbes)
Seven Tory leadership candidates admit they’ve dabbled in drugs after Gove shock coke revelation (The Sun)
Say "High" to the World's First Venture Fund Exclusively for Psychedelics (MERRY JANE)
Drugs expert barred from policy panel after criticising Home Office (The Guardian)
Rhode Island Senate Approves Bill Allowing Supervised Consumption Sites For Illegal Drugs (Marijuana Moment)
Fashion is having a seriously psychedelic moment (Los Angeles Times)
I Think I Hated This Tech Conference on Psychedelics (WIRED)
New Government Estimates Offer Early Hope That Drug Overdose Deaths Are Waning (TIME)
Harm Production: Ontario’s Brutal Cuts Add Fuel to the Overdose Fire (Filter)
El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals about the war on drugs (The Guardian)
Dark Web Drug Sellers Dodge Police Crackdowns (The New York Times)
Palm Beach County wants to start Florida’s second needle exchange program (The Palm Beach Post)
What to do when your friend gets too high (The Tab)
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On the Monday following each edition of “This Week in Psychoactives,” I post a “Last Week in Psychoactives” video recap to my YouTube channel. After that is done, I retroactively add the video to the corresponding blog post. Here is this week’s video recap: