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This Week in Psychoactives - 9.13.19

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CANNABIS

  • Three Companies Subpoenaed in Weed Vape Illness Investigation (Rolling Stone)

  • British vapers are safe, claim health experts after deaths in US (The Guardian)

  • U.S. Pot Industry Faces Antitrust Overhang: Cannabis Weekly (Bloomberg)

  • Overregulation Drives Illegal Marijuana Market In Legal States, Study Suggests (Marijuana Moment)

  • These Cops Are Seizing Cash from People Who Smell Like Weed Before They Fly to California (VICE)

  • New Mexico Will Now Allow Out of State Residents to Get Medical Marijuana Cards (MERRY JANE)

  • Canadian Company Planning to Introduce Odourless Cannabis (Leafly)

  • Harmful Stereotypes About Marijuana Consumers Persist In The Media, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • DEA Wants 3.2 Million Grams Of Marijuana Legally Grown In 2020 (Forbes)

  • Tim Hortons’ WiFi Blocks Legal Cannabis Websites (Leafly)

  • Cannabis smoking may lower diabetes risk in obese individuals: study (Speciality Medical Dialogues)

  • Joe Biden Says Marijuana Should Remain Illegal As A Misdemeanor At Democratic Debate (Marijuana Moment)

  • Legal Marijuana Is A ‘Positive Amenity’ For New Colorado Residents, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Where Presidential Candidate Mark Sanford Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief' (NPR)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

  • Motion to prevent sale of magic mushrooms defeated by Vancouver council (CBC)

  • Could Magic Mushrooms Soon Be Used for Therapy in Denver? (5280)

MDMA

  • King's College London needs volunteers for a new MDMA study (Mixmag)

DMT

AYAHUASCA

  • Watch the Vibrations of Ayahuasca Songs Projected on Water (DoubleBlind)

NOVEL PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES

  • Chilling map shows which synthetic drugs are killing Kiwis around New Zealand (Newshub)

KETAMINE

  • Tripping My Way Toward Wellness One Ketamine Infusion at a Time (The Bold Italic)

OPIOIDS

  • Data Touted by OxyContin Maker to Fight Lawsuits Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story (ProPublica)

  • ACLU Sues Bureau of Prisons for Denying a Federal Prisoner Buprenorphine (Filter)

  • Taliban's Opium Fields Blocking Chinese Conquest of Afghanistan (Breitbart)

  • These Newborn Babies Cry for Drugs, Not Milk (The New York Times)

COCAINE

  • Cocaine burned massive hole in man's throat before untimely death: report (Fox News)

METHAMPHETAMINE

CAFFEINE

  • Drinking tea improves brain health, study suggests (ScienceDaily)

TOBACCO

  • Trump Announces Disastrous Plan to Ban Flavored Vapes Across the US (Filter)

  • FDA criticizes Juul for telling students its e-cigs are ‘totally safe’ (Engadget)

  • Denver Pushing to Raise Tobacco Purchasing Age, License Retail Stores (Westword)

  • Utah representative pushes to ban e-cigarette products, claiming study found illegal drugs in e-liquids (Fox 13 Now)

  • Bloomberg Takes on Vaping After Giving $1 Billion to Fight Tobacco (The New York Times)

ALCOHOL

  • Only a fraction of the costs of excessive drinking are paid for by alcohol taxes (Medical Xpress)

  • Doctor Warns Alcohol Is The Most Dangerous Substance To Unborn Babies (WCCO)

KRATOM

KHAT

  • Judge rules Somali man detained for stimulant can stay in US (SFGate)

DATURA

  • Killer Hallucinogenic Weed Blooming in Upper West Side Median Strip: Report (NBC New York)

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Oregon Voters Could See Measure To Decriminalize All Drugs On 2020 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Researchers Find Unexpected White Blood Cells in Patients With Mysterious Vaping Illness (VICE)

  • Berkeley City Council To Vote On Decriminalizing Psychedelics (Marijuana Moment)

  • Why some South American indigenous tribes give their dogs psychedelic drugs (The Outline)

  • Google puts drug addiction recovery info front and center (Engadget)

  • Emotional breakthroughs during psychedelic experiences linked to future increases in mental well-being (PsyPost)

  • NSW Health backs plan for early warning system on drugs (The Sydney Morning Herald)

  • New law gives NZ police discretion not to prosecute drug users, but to offer addiction support instead (The Conversation)

  • The HPPD Debate: Is Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder Real? (MERRY JANE)

  • REPORT: 1/4 Of Youth Have Seen Drugs For Sale On Snapchat & Instagram (Your EDM)

  • DARPA wants benefits of psychedelics but without hallucinations (The Sociable)

  • Too many hooked on prescription drugs - health chiefs (BBC)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 9.6.19

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CANNABIS

  • Vitamin E Suspected In Serious Lung Problems Among People Who Vaped Cannabis (NPR)

  • The Mysterious Vaping-Induced Lung Illness Has Officially Killed Two People (MERRY JANE)

  • Mexican Senator Files Marijuana Legalization Bill Ahead Of Supreme Court Deadline (Marijuana Moment)

  • Vape Pen Lung Disease Has Insiders Eyeing Misuse of New Additives (Leafly)

  • Thailand Includes Low Level Cannabis And Hemp Extracts On Its Approved Medical Marijuana list (Forbes)

  • Three million Americans tried weed for the first time last year (Rooster Magazine)

  • Hemp Farming Quadrupled In The U.S. This Year, New Report Shows (Forbes)

  • Medical marijuana laws impact use among sexual minorities differently than heterosexuals (Science Daily)

  • Body Cameras for Cannabis Delivery Raise Concerns About Privacy in Mass. (Leafly)

  • Oakland says big pot grow in homeless encampment is illegal — but leaves it alone (San Francisco Chronicle)

  • Cannabis may hold promise to treat PTSD but evidence lags behind use (Science Daily)

LSD

  • Meet the doctor behind historic New Zealand LSD microdosing experiment (Newshub)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

  • A multi-million dollar donation just created a bonanza of magic mushroom research (Quartz)

  • Oregon Psychedelics Activists Clash Over Changes To Psilocybin Mushroom Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

  • Why Do Magic Mushrooms Cause Nausea? (Psychedelic Science Review)

MDMA

  • MDMA for Racial Trauma (DoubleBlind)

  • Several Polk County high school students hospitalized after being exposed to MDMA (ABC Action News)

  • Man who took MDMA had 300 mini-seizures and parents twice told to say goodbye (Mirror)

AYAHUASCA

  • The 21 Best Scientific Papers About Ayahuasca (Chacruna)

  • Ayahuasca and the Problems of the World (Kahpi)

  • Woman, 34, dies after taking psychedelic drug during ‘spiritual cleansing’ ceremony in Cyprus (ItzaGoal365)

5-MEO-DMT

  • Inhaling Powdered Toad Secretions Just Once Is Linked to Feeling Happier For a Month (ScienceAlert)

KETAMINE

PCP

  • Casper PD: Man on PCP Left Teeth Marks in Patrol Car Door (K2 Radio)

OPIOIDS

  • OxyContin maker prepares 'free-fall' bankruptcy as settlement talks stall (Reuters)

  • Man Charged By Federal Prosecutors In Connection With Mac Miller's Death (NPR)

  • DC is offering the overdose reversing drug Naloxone for free at these select pharmacies (WJLA)

  • Researchers find alarming risk for people coming off opioids (UW Medicine)

  • Treat the fentanyl crisis like a poisoning outbreak (Los Angeles Times)

  • Liverpool's 40-year battle with heroin is reaching terrifying new levels (Liverpool Echo)

  • Hidden History: Humans Have Been Using Opium For Millennia (WGBH)

  • How Britain's opium trade impoverished Indians (BBC)

  • Ben Westhoff's 'Fentanyl, Inc.' confronts horrible truths about America's opioid epidemic (USA Today)

  • Law enforcement seizes enough fentanyl to kill 14 million people (WCVB)

COCAINE

  • Chronic cocaine use modifies gene expression (Medical Xpress)

  • Exercise can help beat cocaine addiction: Study (Times Now)

METHAMPHETAMINE

CAFFEINE

  • Drinking This Much Coffee Could Protect Against Gallstones (Newsweek)

  • Caffeine Headaches: Telltale Signs And Symptoms (Medical Daily)

TOBACCO

  • Michigan becomes first state to ban flavored e-cigarettes (The Washington Post)

  • Walgreens raises minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21 (WILX)

ALCOHOL

  • A Rat Study Finds that Acupuncture Can Treat Alcohol Addiction... in Rats (Gizmodo)

  • In Europe, people continue to consume more alcohol than in any other place in the world (World Health Organization)

  • Daybreak app more than halves alcohol use in three months (Medical Xpress)

KRATOM

  • Franklin becomes first municipality in state to ban sale of kratom (WMUR)

  • Legislation filed that would regulate sale of kratom and CBD products in Pa. (The Indiana Gazette)

  • Can Kratom be beneficial for MMA fighters and athletes? (Pro MMA Now)

  • Organic Kratom can Improve Mental and Physical Health for an Active Lifestyle (Big Time Daily)

KAVA

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Johns Hopkins Opens New Center for Psychedelic Research (The New York Times)

  • Psychedelic Drugs Draw Some Investor Attention—and Much Skepticism (The Wall Street Journal)

  • 'Treatment Facilities' Aren't What You Think They Are (The New York Times)

  • And a million of us tried psychedelics last year, too (Rooster Magazine)

  • Vaping May Hamper the Lungs' Ability to Fend off Infections (WIRED)

  • Mexico’s new drug war may be worse than old one (Associated Press)

  • How I Infiltrated a Chinese Drug Lab (VICE)

  • U of M Medical School to host first Psychedelic Symposium (Detroit Metro Times)

  • She spent more than $110,000 on drug rehab. Her son still died. (Vox)

  • Tim Ferriss, the Man Who Put His Money Behind Psychedelic Medicine (The New York Times)

  • The Science and Healing Benefits of Psychedelics (Chronogram)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 8.30.19

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CANNABIS

  • DEA Says It Will Finally Let Others Grow Research-Grade Cannabis (Leafly)

  • Mexican Marijuana Cartels Are Spraying a Lethal Pesticide Throughout California (MERRY JANE)

  • Crime Rates Drop After Marijuana Dispensaries Open Nearby, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Weed May Put Women at Risk of Miscarriage, But Enhances Male Fertility (MERRY JANE)

  • Marijuana Enhances Sex And Masturbation, Survey Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Chicago to Clear Thousands of Cannabis Arrests During Legalization (Leafly)

  • Washington State Bans CBD in Food and Beverages (Leafly)

  • Americans View Marijuana As Far Less Harmful Than Alcohol And Tobacco, Survey Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Global cannabis use grows 60% in a decade (Cannabis Ground)

  • Green light: ten towns named for legalised cannabis-growing experiment (DutchNews.nl)

  • Chocolate Complicates Marijuana Edibles Potency Testing, Scientists Find (Marijuana Moment)

  • Researchers Unlock What Gives Cannabis Its Anti-Inflammatory Qualities (Yahoo! Finance)

  • Medical cannabis at school? California Assembly OKs bill that would let students take prescription weed (Palm Springs Desert Sun)

  • CBD Companies Positioning Themselves For Cannabis Legalization (Forbes)

  • Weed-Infused Beer Is Coming to California BevMo! Stores This Fall (MERRY JANE)

  • Company creates breath detector for pot and alcohol (WPVI-TV)

  • Disneyland Busted Robert Downey Jr. For Smoking Marijuana, He Reveals While Accepting Disney Award (Marijuana Moment)

  • NJ Governor Vetoes Cannabis Expungement, Calls for Stronger Bill (Leafly)

  • Where Presidential Candidate Joe Walsh Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • The Detail: Modern-day LSD users inspiring a new wave of science (Stuff.co.nz)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

  • World-first trial investigating psilocybin psychotherapy for anorexia commencing in US (New Atlas)

  • Harry Styles once got so high on magic mushrooms he bit part of his tongue off (Mirror)

  • Do Canadians have a constitutional right to magic mushrooms? (Quartz)

  • The Fight to Make Shroom Therapy Legal in Oregon (VICE)

MDMA

  • MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy May Help Patients With Severe PTSD, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Socially Anxious People Are Taking MDMA and Other Psychedelics to Cope (VICE)

  • Here are Some of the Toxic Chemicals Being Found in Australian Ecstasy (VICE)

  • Four Deaths At Music Events In The UK This Weekend Spark Warning Over Super Strength Ecstasy (Your EDM)

  • Teenager dies after suspected ecstasy overdose at nightclub (Metro)

DMT

  • DMT’s Mind-Bending Science—An Interview with Dr Jimo Borjigin (Kahpi)

  • DMT: Dead Man's Treasure (DMT Times)

AYAHUASCA

5-MEO-DMT

  • Just One Puff Of Psychedelic Toad Slime Could Have Sustained Benefits For Well-Being (IFLScience)

  • Watch Tony Robbins and Mike Tyson Share 5-MeO-DMT and Ayahuasca Stories (Psychedelic Times)

IBOGA

  • Ibogaine Treatment And Its Effectiveness In Fighting Opiate Addiction (Longevity)

KETAMINE

  • Trump Orders ‘a Lot’ of Ketamine for Depressed Veterans (The Atlantic)

PCP

  • Uber driver, passenger killed by man high on PCP in Prince George's County, police say (WUSA9.com)

DXM

  • Cough Medicine A Cheap, Easy Drug Teens can use Instead of LSD (Patch)

OPIOIDS

  • Johnson & Johnson must pay over $572 million for its role in Oklahoma opioid crisis, judge rules (NBC News)

  • Naloxone to be available at Washington state pharmacies (KIRO)

  • You can now get naloxone online in Virginia — but it’ll cost you (The Virginian-Pilot)

  • Middle school students in North Korea mobilized to harvest opium resin (Daily NK)

COCAINE

  • Lupe Fiasco Wants You to Know the Medical Benefits of Cocaine (XXL Mag)

METHAMPHETAMINE

  • US Customs mistakes honey for meth, man spends 82 days in jail (KCRG)

CAFFEINE

  • Now You Can Get The Same Health Benefits From Coffee You Used To Get From Red Wine (Forbes)

  • Caffeine does not influence stingless bees (Phys.org)

TOBACCO

  • Vermonters must be 21 to buy tobacco, starting September 1 (Burlington Free Press)

  • Arkansas increases legal age to buy tobacco products (WREG)

  • Juul Commits $100 Million to New System to Help Retailers Block Sales to Minors (TIME)

  • Wisconsin bill would set age at 21 to buy tobacco, nicotine (Wisconsin State Journal)

ALCOHOL

  • Changing treatment practices for alcohol use disorder could save lives (Medical Xpress)

  • Alcohol really is no excuse for bad behaviour – research reveals you’re still the same person after a drink (The Conversation)

KRATOM

KHAT

DATURA

  • Hyderabad: Family searched on Internet, found datura to kill dad (Deccan Chronicle)

MISCELLANEOUS

  • CDC identifies a death potentially linked to vaping (Engadget)

  • Why Psychedelics Look like the Next Billion-Dollar Business (Stockhouse)

  • Psychedelic Treatments Are Ready to Tackle Alcoholism and Alzheimer's Disease (Folha de S.Paulo)

  • Buttigieg Pledges To Decriminalize Possession Of All Drugs In First Term As President (Marijuana Moment)

  • The Normalizing of Burning Man Culture (Forbes)

  • Do Plants Have Something to Say? (The New York Times)

  • Houston Narcotics Cop Who Instigated a Deadly Drug Raid Is Charged With Murder (Reason)

  • Magic mushrooms for better health? Psychedelic drugs are having a moment across US (Medical Xpress)

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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:

This Week in Psychoactives - 8.23.19

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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

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

AYAHUASCA

SALVIA DIVINORUM

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

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:

This Week in Psychoactives - 8.2.19

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CANNABIS

  • Thailand set to deliver first batch of medical marijuana (Reuters)

  • Pass the Duchy: Luxembourg’s grand plan to legalize cannabis (Politico)

  • Court: DEA Must Explain Its Failure to Act Upon Pending Marijuana Cultivation Applications (NORML)

  • US Government Approves Increased Production of Marijuana for Clinical Research (NORML)

  • Coast Guard Issues Order Barring Active Duty Members From Visiting Marijuana Shops (Marijuana Moment)

  • Scientist Debunks Her Earlier Study That Claimed Weed Causes Brain Damage (MERRY JANE)

  • Chart: Women account for more than a third of marijuana business executives (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Eggs and Peanuts Could Prevent Birth Defects Caused by Weed (MERRY JANE)

  • New York Governor Signs Marijuana Decriminalization And Expungements Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • At some colleges, marijuana studies are blooming (CBS News)

  • Florida Activists Clear First Hurdle To Put Marijuana Legalization On State’s 2020 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • California Working Toward Certifying “Almost Organic” Cannabis (Filter)

  • Marijuana during pregnancy might be as dangerous as alcohol (Popular Science)

  • CBN Is Another Cannabis Compound With Beneficial Properties (Forbes)

  • Is cannabis use the same as off-duty drinking by workers? Many companies still say no (CNBC)

  • He admits he once smoked marijuana, now U.S. won’t let him re-enter country (Los Angeles Daily News)

LSD

  • The Truth About The Acid-Dipped Cigarette In Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Refinery29)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

  • People Are Hungry for Shroom Legalization, and the Money to Fund It Is Growing (VICE)

  • Could magic mushrooms be the next drug legalized in Canada? (Yahoo! Finance)

  • Undesirable Effects from Magic Mushrooms (Psychedelic Science Review)

MDMA

  • To Spot MDMA Users, Festivals May Soon Roll Out Thermal Cameras (MERRY JANE)

  • Study claims ecstasy and cocaine cause less harm than tobacco and alcohol (Dance Music Northwest)

  • Youngsters have no idea when they are safe to drive after ecstasy use (DutchNews.nl)

  • Victorian schoolgirls safely back home after MDMA scare at camp (news.com.au)

AYAHUASCA

  • Ayahuasca Is About More Than Just You. It’s About Planetary Health. (Kahpi)

5-MEO-DMT

  • Holding 5-MeO Practitioners Accountable for Dangerous Behavior: Interview with Rak Razam and Mario Garnier (Psychedelic Times)

PEYOTE

  • Peyote Is Endangered, Spiritually Sacred and Becoming Legal (HowStuffWorks)

IBOGA

  • Gabon prepares for first international forum on Iboga (Africa Times)

SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS

  • Coroner's ruling: Corey-James Brown died from smoking synthetic drugs (New Zealand Herald)

NITROUS OXIDE

KETAMINE

  • Ketamine isn't an opioid and treats depression in a unique way (EurekAlert!)

  • Ketamine clinics are arriving in Richmond (WTVR)

PCP

  • PCP-Crazed Man Attacks Officers After Crash In Stafford: SCSO (Patch)

OPIOIDS

  • Your Methadone History Could Soon Be Shared Without Your Consent (Filter)

  • As Opioid Prescriptions Surged in Germany, Opioid Addiction Held Steady, While Opioid-Related Deaths Fell (Reason)

  • Device for Opioid Overdoses Releases Naloxone Automatically (Medgadget)

  • Opioid Patient Worth $200,000 a Year to Purdue, State Says (Bloomberg)

  • Drought Cripples Taliban's Record-High Opium Production Amid Peace Talks (Breitbart)

  • Colorado Wants You To Know About This Life-Saving Drug (Westword)

COCAINE

  • Exclusive NYPD Data Reveals Just How Often Fentanyl Is in Cocaine (VICE)

  • Colombia will spray Chinese glyphosate to control coca (Diálogo Chino)

  • Weird New Kinds Of Cocaine Could Start A “Hidden Epidemic” Of Health Threats (BuzzFeed News)

METHAMPHETAMINE

CAFFEINE

  • Exceeding healthy caffeine limits during pregnancy can be harmful to babies’ health (Consumer Affairs)

  • Coffee Farmers Are In Crisis. Starbucks Wants To Help. (Forbes)

TOBACCO

  • Most Americans Support Raising Minimum Age to Buy Tobacco (Gallup)

ALCOHOL

  • One in 10 Older Adults Binge Drinks, Study Says (The New York Times)

  • Facebook bans sales of alcohol and tobacco between users (CNBC)

  • Here's the Buzz on Alcohol in Space (HowStuffWorks)

  • How Much Does Alcohol Harm People Besides the Drinker? (Psychology Today)

KRATOM

KAVA

  • MIT Scientists Synthesize The Feel-Good Molecules In Kava, 'Nature's Xanax' (WBUR)

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Psychedelic Medicine Is Coming. The Law Isn’t Ready (Scientific American)

  • Another Florida Sheriff's Deputy Arrested For Arresting People on False Drug Charges (Reason)

  • Exclusion, Censorship, Internment: Brazilian Drug Policy Under Bolsonaro (Filter)

  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tripping (The Atlantic)

  • A Reddit user surveyed 650 psychedelic drug users, here’s what they found (Happy Mag)

  • Public university to host ‘psychedelic neuroscience’ symposium (The College Fix)

  • Latest update on drug-related deaths and mortality in Europe (EMCDDA)

  • Why Psychedelic Science Should Pay Speakers and Trainers of Color (Chacruna)

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