CANNABIS
Scientists unlock the secrets of marijuana’s pain-relief potential, study says (Miami Herald)
Study Explores How Different Marijuana Extracts Kill Types Of Cancer Cells (Marijuana Moment)
Senate Banking Committee Holds Hearing On Cannabis Banking (NORML)
Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Give Marijuana Businesses Access To Insurance Coverage (Marijuana Moment)
Miami Cops Can No Longer Use Just “Weed Odor” as Excuse to Search Cars (MERRY JANE)
Marijuana Compound CBD Shows Promise For Treating Cocaine And Meth Addiction, Study Suggests (Marijuana Moment)
Top Congressional Chairman And Presidential Candidate File Marijuana Legalization Bills (Forbes)
Federal Officials Give Hemp Legalization Update At Senate Hearing (Marijuana Moment)
How legal weed companies are starting to address driving while high (Fast Company)
Michigan Cuts Cannabis Fees in 19 Cities Impacted by Drug War (Leafly)
Presidential Candidate Proposes Medical Marijuana Waivers For Military Veterans (Marijuana Moment)
California seizes $30 million in black market cannabis from illegal pot shops (Los Angeles Times)
Record number of states considered marijuana legalization in 2019 (The Hill)
New York City Council Passes Two Marijuana Reform Resolutions (Marijuana Moment)
Former Drug Warrior Biden Unveils Cannabis Decriminalization Plan (Leafly)
Enslaved on a British cannabis farm: ‘The plants were more valuable than my life’ (The Guardian)
Marijuana Legalization More Popular Than Free College And $15 Minimum Wage, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)
UK hemp farm could lose £200,000 in crop destruction (BBC)
Why marijuana’s illegal classification is based on politics, not science (The GrowthOp)
Entrance to illegal pot dispensary blocked again as cat-and-mouse game continues (The Toronto Star)
Pot-smoking teen caused Maui brushfire, police say (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
FDA (Again) Rejects Petition To Further Restrict Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)
Mystery Solved: Icelandic Horses Probably Ate Cannabis (The Reykjavík Grapevine)
It’s Getting Harder to Fire People for Using Pot (Bloomberg)
Were Vikings Growing Cannabis in Newfoundland 1,000 Years Ago? (Leafly)
Young Americans Are More Likely To Smoke Marijuana Than Cigarettes, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Testing CBD: Defenders test finds huge unreported range in THC levels (WCNC)
Here's How Much Legal Marijuana Canada Has Sold Since Legalizing Adult-Use Cannabis (Yahoo! Finance)
UFC teams with Aurora Cannabis on CBD study in fighters (CNN)
Hundreds Of Pet Owners Tell FDA That CBD Is Helping Their Furry Companions (Marijuana Moment)
Did Indigenous Canadians use Cannabis Before Europeans Arrived? (Leafly)
The Real Difference Between Smoking and Eating Marijuana (The Atlantic)
Medical marijuana or your guns: Missourians may have to choose (KSHB)
The New, Cool Term For Cannabis? It's Still Up For Grabs. (Green Entrepreneur)
MAGIC MUSHROOMS
Psilocybin Initiative Leader Starting National Decriminalization Group (Westword)
Both CBD and Psilocybin show potential in fighting alcohol use disorder (Regina Leader-Post)
MDMA
3-year-old fights for her life after mistaking ecstasy for candy in Ibiza (New York Post)
Girls hospitalised after taking MDMA at Victorian school camp (Geelong Advertiser)
AYAHUASCA
Ayahuasca and Dreaming (Chacruna)
A Clinical Psychologist’s First Experience with Ayahuasca (Chacruna)
SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS
Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions Trying to Synthesize THC From Yeast (VICE)
Alabama Corrections K-9 dies after allergic reaction inside prison (Montgomery Advertiser)
KETAMINE
Mindfulness-Based Prevention Outcomes for Cocaine Dependence Improved by Ketamine Injection (Psychiatry Advisor)
Spring Center of Hope discusses possible effects of ketamine on mood (Chron)
PCP
PCP Is ‘No Worse’ Than Other Drugs When Used Properly, Says Hamilton Morris (Inquisitr)
OPIOIDS
Summit County concert promotes free app to connect naloxone carriers to people overdosing (Cleveland.com)
The biggest civil trial in U.S. history will start with these Ohio counties (The Washington Post)
Five drug companies stop making fentanyl for Canadian market (The London Free Press)
Former narcotics officer sues sheriff’s office following fentanyl exposure (WREG)
An editorial board of user-activists takes on the opioid crisis (Columbia Journalism Review)
COCAINE
Internal Probe Reveals SEAL Team 10 Operators’ Cocaine Use (The Daily Beast)
METHAMPHETAMINE
Police Admit They Were Totally Just Joking About Those 'Meth-Gators' (TIME)
Rising Meth-Involved Deaths of Major Concern Amid Estimated 2018 Overdose Fall (Filter)
CAFFEINE
Too much caffeine during pregnancy may damage baby's liver (EurekAlert!)
The latest on caffeine limits (Medical Xpress)
Is Caffeine Fueling Your Anxieties? (HealthDay)
Young Man Dies from an Accidental Caffeine Overdose, Coroner Rules (Legal Reader)
TOBACCO
Daily E-Cigarette Use Can Help Smokers Quit, According to One of the Most Comprehensive Studies Yet (TIME)
Nicotine Testing for High Schoolers Is a Drug War-Style Disaster (Filter)
Facebook, Instagram is age-restricting alcohol, tobacco content (WITN)
FDA targets teens with e-cigarette prevention ads (Engadget)
ALCOHOL
Costa Rica: Tainted alcohol death toll rises to 20; 41 people affected overall (USA Today)
Leaked draft of the National Alcohol Strategy shows why Australia can't stop drinking (Australia Broadcasting Corporation)
Is it safe to drink alcohol while breastfeeding? (Medical Xpress)
Why Some People Have A Higher Alcohol Tolerance Than Others (HuffPost)
Pabst Blue Ribbon Seeks Buzz With Hard Coffee (NPR)
Playboy model’s skin left rotting from alcohol addiction (New York Post)
KAMBÔ
Kambo: A Powerful Amazonian Frog Secretion That Offers Healing! (MenaFN)
KRATOM
Kratom for excessive weight loss (The Bona Venture)
Can you use Kratom for Performance-Enhancing? (Chart Attack)
Nebraska Regional Poison Center warns of dangers of using Kratom (KPTM)
KHAT
The Role of Khat in Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis (Small Wars Journal)
Kenyan khat farmers receive a lifeline as they start exporting the potent twigs to Israel joining rival Ethiopia (Business Insider)
MISCELLANEOUS
Psychedelics Decriminalization Moves Forward In Cities Around The U.S. (Marijuana Moment)
More people try drugs for the first time in the summer, study says (CNN)
President Duterte’s War on Drugs Is a Pretense (The New York Times)
Mark Kleiman, who changed the way we think about crime and drugs, has died at 68 (Vox)
Football, basketball and drug testing: Texas school district to randomly test extracurricular students (USA Today)
Military police called in to help tackle county lines drug dealers at train stations (Mirror)
Vancouver’s overdose task force calls for safer supply of drugs (The Globe and Mail)
India Persecutes Leading Legal Advocate for People Who Use Drugs (Filter)
When Drug Addiction Is Criminalized We All Lose (The National Interest)
Ethical and Sustainable Access to Entheogenic Plants (Chacruna)
Will Oakland Lead the Psychedelic Revolution? (The Bold Italic)
The complex forces at work behind drug deaths at music festivals (The New Daily)
Psychonaut Hamilton Morris on Drugs After Prohibition (Reason)
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