CANNABIS
Federal Data Shows Youth Marijuana Use Isn’t Increasing Under Legalization (Marijuana Moment)
Illicit Cannabis Vape Carts Hospitalized 7 in California, Doctors Say (Leafly)
Maryland Court Rules Marijuana Odor Not Enough To Search A Person (NPR)
Step Aside, Cannabinoids: Weed’s Flavonoids Fight Cancer, Too (MERRY JANE)
Marijuana Flower Offers More Pain Relief Than Other Cannabis Products, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Texas Might Have Accidentally Decriminalized Marijuana (GQ)
Bernie Sanders Calls For Legalization Of Marijuana And Safe Injection Sites (Marijuana Moment)
Canadian Men Are Twice as Likely to Use Cannabis as Women, Survey Says (MERRY JANE)
New Industry-Backed Marijuana Legalization Measure Filed In Florida (Marijuana Moment)
The FBI Just Launched a Corruption Probe Into the Weed Industry (MERRY JANE)
No eating, no drinking, and now, no marijuana before surgery, doctors say (The Boston Globe)
Oklahoma Bans Employment Discrimination Against Marijuana Patients (MERRY JANE)
Netflix Curbs Tobacco Use Onscreen, But Not Pot. What's Up With That? (NPR)
Elizabeth Warren’s Criminal Justice Plan Involves Legalizing Marijuana And Safe Injection Sites (Marijuana Moment)
State shuts down Walled Lake marijuana testing lab for fudging test results (Detroit Free Press)
Canadian woman faces lifetime ban after getting caught with CBD oil at U.S. border (CBC)
Credit Unions Can Bank Hemp Businesses, Federal Agency Announces (Marijuana Moment)
Jacksonville lawyer who claimed marijuana was legal must pay arrested clients $370k (The Florida Times-Union)
Fatty meal might affect how you absorb CBD (UPI)
North Carolina House OKs Ban on Smokable Hemp (Leafly)
Oregon Has Way Too Much Legal Weed. This Is Where It's Going (VICE)
Colorado man who says he was delivering hemp charged in SD with selling marijuana (Rapid City Journal)
Nearly every single person arrested for weed in NYC this year was black or Latinx (Queens Daily Eagle)
CBD Infused Food Products Ruled Illegal in Washington State (Sapling)
‘The system is swamped.’ Canada can’t keep up with requests to study cannabis (Science Magazine)
Marijuana Can Boost Risks of Drinking Alcohol (Psych Central)
Canadians continue to buy cannabis illegally (Quartz)
Contrary to widespread belief, cannabis addiction is possible. Here’s what it’s like (Global News)
LSD
Tripping on Broadway: A New Musical Explores LSD Use by Cary Grant and More (The New York Times)
How Peter Fonda’s LSD trip with the Beatles produced a classic John Lennon lyric (Los Angeles Times)
MAGIC MUSHROOMS
Psilocybin-assisted mindfulness meditation linked to brain connectivity changes and persisting positive effects (PsyPost)
Canada Now Has Psilocybin Dispensaries (DoubleBlind)
Why Do Magic Mushrooms Cause “The Yawns”? (Psychedelic Science Review)
The trippier side of fungus (Telluride Daily Planet)
MDMA
MDMA treatment for alcoholism reduces relapse, study suggests (The Guardian)
Man dies from 'severe reaction' to MDMA days after the authorities warned of a strong batch of the drug circulating in Jersey (Jersey Evening Post)
Woman fell off Cornwall cliff and died after quitting social media and taking MDMA pills (Cornwall Live)
Girl, one, found CHEWING on MDMA capsule she found in dumped in a playground (The Sun)
DMT
How to Breakthrough on DMT (Greencamp)
AYAHUASCA
The Ayahuasca Privilege (DoubleBlind)
SALVIA DIVINORUM
Salvia and “The Wheel” (The Psychedelic Scientist)
SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS
Dangerous Synthetic Cannabinoids Found in Liquid Claiming to be CBD (Cannabis Now)
Spice crisis deepens as 9 kids collapse after taking zombie drug and deaths surge (Mirror)
NITROUS OXIDE
Mum died after self-medicating with 100 canisters of laughing gas (Metro)
KETAMINE
A single ketamine infusion combined with mindfulness-based therapy shows promise in treatment of cocaine addiction (PsyPost)
Ketamine may not be an actual antidepressant, but may decrease the burden of symptoms (Medical Xpress)
Boise organization researches ketamine use to treat depression (The Arbiter)
Donald Trump Thinks He Can Stop Veteran Suicides With Ketamine (Spin)
OPIOIDS
Wide distribution of Naloxone effective in preventing opioid-related deaths (Medical Xpress)
‘Saved from a horrible fate’: Legal heroin prescribed to hundreds of UK drug users, figures reveal (The Independent)
76% of opium produced in the world is discovered in Iran (Tehran Times)
Access to naloxone reduces opioid overdose deaths, saves money, study says (UPI)
Naloxone, a drug that reverses overdoses, can save lives. Here's why you should learn how to use it. (The Washington Post)
How often is fentanyl in your drugs? Some hard data (Rooster Magazine)
Canada Might Have Found a Back Door to End the War on Drugs (VICE)
How the Shakers Became America’s Best Opium Producers (The Daily Beast)
Op-Ed: A drug called buprenorphine saved me from heroin addiction. It could save millions more — if we let it (Los Angeles Times)
People Have Used, Abused Opioids For Thousands of Years (The Fix)
Opium addiction in Korea's past (Korea Times)
Babies born after opioid exposure deserve legal recognition, lawyers argue (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
Wisdom teeth removal is contributing to the opioid crisis, experts warn (CBS News)
'What Would You Do?' focuses on the opioid crisis (ABC News)
COCAINE
Mexico judge approves recreational cocaine for two users (BBC)
Crack Cocaine Makes a Paris Neighborhood ‘Hell’ for Users and Residents (The New York Times)
METHAMPHETAMINE
Meth and heart disease correlation not fully understood (Medical Xpress)
The ‘fourth wave’ of the opioid crisis: Feds warn of a rise in meth use (TribLIVE)
CAFFEINE
Mormons warn that coffee, vaping are no-nos despite fancy names, alluring flavors (Fox News)
Is It Better to Drink Coffee Before or After You Exercise? The Answer Might Surprise You (Yahoo! Lifestyle)
TOBACCO
Tobacco industry anti-smoking ads reached less than half of U.S. adults (Reuters)
Why US lags behind on graphic cigarette warnings (BBC)
NYC Is Coming For Your Flavored Juul Pods (Gothamist)
ALCOHOL
Costa Rica Confirms 2 More Suspected Alcohol Poisoning Deaths, Raising Death Toll to 25 (TIME)
Why Warning Pregnant Women Not to Drink Can Backfire (The New York Times)
KRATOM
Kratom would require prescription in Michigan under Senate bill (WJRT)
Kratom Legality In Texas: Is It Legal To Buy, Carry, and Consume In The State? (Kratom Guides)
Is It Legal To Carry Kratom Products In Ohio? (Kratom Guides)
Does Kratom Really Help Athletes in Sports? (The Sports Daily)
What is kratom and why is its safety being questioned? (Health24)
KAVA
Kava Consumption Still An Issue Says Methodist Church President (Fiji Sun)
SANANGA
Sananga: Amazonian Eye Drops That Improves Vision! (The Costa Rica News)
MISCELLANEOUS
Dozens of People in Multiple States Have Lung Disease Linked to Vaping, and No One Knows Why (Gizmodo)
Vaping May Harm Your Blood Flow—Even Without Nicotine (WIRED)
The World’s First Clinical Trials on Microdosing LSD and Psilocybin Are Coming (MERRY JANE)
Berkeley, CA May Be Next the City to Decriminalize Natural Psychedelics (Filter)
Synthetic Drugs Will Change the Global Drug Trade Forever (VICE)
Extinction Rebellion founder calls for mass psychedelic disobedience (New Scientist)
Pupils who take drugs, drink and smoke more likely to be unhappy (The Guardian)
Americans spend $150B on cocaine, meth, marijuana, heroin (UPI)
Use of Marijuana, Meth, Hallucinogens Up in New SAMHSA Survey (Medscape)
What Science Says About Using Sleep Medications (Discover Magazine)
Psychedelics and Women’s Health (Psychedelic Science Review)
Argentina Tries To Stop Synthetic Drug Traffickers Sidestepping Prosecution (InSight Crime)
Should Psychedelic Therapists Have First-hand Experience with Psychedelics? (Chacruna)
Safe injection rooms are key to halting rise in drug deaths – expert (The Guardian)
Psychedelic Yoga (Psychology Today)
Man Who Died of OD Was Allegedly “Kicked Out of Treatment for Smoking” (Filter)
Why are stimulant-related deaths spiking in the U.S.? (Salon)
Turf war between rival drug gangs sparks surge in shootings (Liverpool Echo)
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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, which actually covers the past four weeks’ worth of news since I was away on vacation for a few weeks: