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This Week in Psychedelics - 3.26.21

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Cannabis

  • Virginia Governor Signals He’ll Push To Legalize Marijuana On July 1, Ahead Of Schedule (Marijuana Moment)

  • Connecticut Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill As Governor Pushes Competing Reform (Marijuana Moment)

  • Illinois Lawmakers Approve Bill To Legalize Any Amount Of Marijuana And Expunge Past Records (Marijuana Moment)

  • New York lawmakers reach historic deal on a marijuana legalization bill (Leafly)

  • North Dakota Senate Rejects House-Passed Marijuana Legalization Bill, Ceding Issue To Activists For Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

  • Scotland's first medical cannabis clinic approved (BBC)

  • Maryland adult-use marijuana legalization effort fails for this year (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Delaware Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee Vote (Marijuana Moment)

  • Minnesota Marijuana Legalization Bill Clears Fourth House Committee (Marijuana Moment)

  • Texas Cops Just Arrested and Killed a Man for Possessing One Joint Worth of Weed (MERRY JANE)

  • New Mexico Governor Plans Special Session On Marijuana As Legalization Bill Stalls On Final Stretch (Marijuana Moment)

  • New Weed Bill Aims Block Big Alcohol and Tobacco From Dominating Legal Weed Market (MERRY JANE)

  • Senators Reintroduce SAFE Banking Act To Normalize Cannabis Commerce (NORML)

  • More evidence needed to back cannabis as pain treatment, says review (Imperial College London)

  • CBD Could Stop Coronavirus Cells From Replicating in the Lungs, Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

  • Advocacy group for Hispanic marijuana entrepreneurs launches (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • THC Can Remain in Breast Milk for Up to Six Weeks After Use, New Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

  • Study: “No Evidence” That Medical Cannabis Access Laws Encourage Youth Marijuana Use (NORML)

  • Shitty Government Weed Might Have Just Ruined Major New Study on Veterans and PTSD (MERRY JANE)

LSD

Magic Mushrooms

  • Psychedelic for meth users: Sydney trial aims to conquer addiction (The Sydney Morning Herald)

  • This Toronto man is treating a rare neurological disorder with psilocybin mushrooms (Regina Leader-Post)

  • Denver Psilocybin Panel Talks Expanded Decriminalization (Truffle Report)

  • This New BIPOC-Run Group Is Educating People About Legal Mushroom Therapy in Oregon (MERRY JANE)

5-MeO-DMT

  • A porn star has been charged with reckless homicide after he used toad venom to cure a photographer's cocaine addiction (Insider)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

Ketamine

  • Ketamine bill headed to Colorado House for consideration (KDVR)

  • Ketamine Providers Debate Standards of Care (Lucid News)

PCP

  • Why America Is the Only Place in the World Where People Use PCP (VICE)

Miscellaneous

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This Week in Psychedelics - 3.19.21

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Cannabis

  • White House staffers asked to resign or work remotely after revealing past marijuana use (CNN)

  • Wyoming Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill Sponsored By Top GOP Leaders (Marijuana Moment)

  • Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers File Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana, While Governor Pushes Full Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

  • Nebraska Gov. Ricketts warns: 'If you legalize marijuana, you're going to kill your kids' (USA Today)

  • People of Color Made Up 94% of All Pot Arrests in New York in 2020, NYPD Data Reports (MERRY JANE)

  • Marijuana Banking Bill Reintroduced In Congress With Broad Bipartisan Support From More Than 100 Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)

  • Big Alcohol and Big Tobacco Coalition Emerges to Shape Legalization in Their Favor (NORML)

  • Delaware Lawmakers File Marijuana Legalization Bill Despite Governor’s Ongoing ‘Concerns’ (Marijuana Moment)

  • New Mexico Marijuana Legalization Bill Heads To Senate Floor Following Contentious Committee Hearing (Marijuana Moment)

  • Colorado Is Trying to Implement 15% THC Cap on High-Potency Cannabis Concentrates (MERRY JANE)

  • North Dakota Marijuana Legalization Bill Receives First Senate Committee Hearing Following House Passage (Marijuana Moment)

  • Congress and USPS Inadvertently Restrict Consumer Access To Vaporizer Cartridges, Batteries, Etc (NORML)

  • New PTSD study finds cannabis safe, but not as effective as assumed (Leafly)

  • Pennsylvania: Police Arrested 20,200 Adults for Marijuana Possession During Pandemic (NORML)

  • New Evidence Shows CBD Can Help Fight Alzheimer's Disease (MERRY JANE)

  • Medical cannabis can reduce essential tremor: turns on overlooked cells in central nervous system (EurekAlert!)

  • Cultivating a Single 8th of Weed Creates 41-Pound Carbon Footprint, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

LSD

  • The true story of Michel Foucault's LSD trip that changed history (Salon)

Magic Mushrooms

  • COMPASS Pathways Is Trying to Patent Psilocybin for More Mental Health Conditions Than You Can Name (Psymposia)

  • Experts chosen to create Oregon’s new system of psilocybin-assisted therapy (OPB)

  • Can Magic Mushrooms Heal Us? (The New York Times)

  • Revive Therapeutics Announces Successful Research Results for Psilocybin to Treat Traumatic Brain Injury and Filing of International Patent Application (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Can Psilocybin Assisted Psychotherapy Change Attachment Style? (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Shrooms Movie: The Best (And Worst) Movies to Watch on Shrooms (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

DMT

  • Pharmadrug Initiates DMT Research Activities via Collaboration with the University of Michigan for Foundational DMT Research Study (Psilocybin Alpha)

5-MeO-DMT

  • Former porn star Nacho Vidal to stand trial for death by toad venom (Euro Weekly News)

Ketamine

  • First ketamine-assisted psychotherapy Bristol clinic opens (BBC)

  • 'How ketamine helped me kick my alcohol addiction' (The Telegraph)

  • Having Sex on Ketamine: Getting Physical on a Dissociative (Reality Sandwich)

  • On Ketamine and Memories (Truffle Report)

  • Ketamine: A Legal, yet Overlooked Psychedelic (Sapiensoup Blog)

PCP

  • Rochester mayor lied to public about Daniel Prude case, report finds (New York Post)

Miscellaneous

  • D.C. Psychedelics Decriminalization Initiative Officially Takes Effect (Marijuana Moment)

  • Sounding the Alarm on Compass’s Interference with Oregon’s Psilocybin Therapy Program (Dr. Bronner)

  • Psychedelic drug users tend to have better overall physical health than non-users, study finds (PsyPost)

  • Rhode Island Senators File Drug Decriminalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • Psychedelic Capitalism and Other Myths: Is the Joke On Us? (Psychedelics Today)

  • Capitalism Goes Rogue with Patent Claims on Psychedelics (Chacruna)

  • Australian government backs psychedelic drug clinical trials to treat mental illness (The Guardian)

  • Why Oneness is Not Incompatible with Identity Politics (Chacruna)

  • The Bread That Made an Entire Island Hallucinate (VICE)

  • Psychedelic therapy could 'reset' depressed brain (BBC)

  • Do Psychedelics Alter the Menstrual Cycle? (DoubleBlind)

  • Psychotic- vs. Psychedelic-Induced Hallucinations: A Closer Look (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • ‘The ketamine blew my mind’: can psychedelics cure addiction and depression? (The Guardian)

  • Fish and Trips: Psychoactive Denizens of the Deep (Truffle Report)

  • Why Microdosing is the Lightsaber of Modern-Day Jedis (The Third Wave)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 2.26.21

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Cannabis

  • Murphy signs N.J. legal weed bills, ending 3-year saga (NJ.com)

  • North Dakota House votes to legalize recreational marijuana (KXNet.com)

  • Alabama Senate passes medical marijuana legislation (WTVM)

  • South Dakota: House Members Approve Legislation to Delay Implementation of Voter-Approved Medical Cannabis Law (NORML)

  • Virginia OKs smokable flower in move that could spur medical marijuana sales (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Marijuana legalization passes in Minnesota House Committee vote (KIMT)

  • Cannabis legalization bill headed to House floor (Albuquerque Journal)

  • FDA to include cannabis on essential drugs list (Bangkok Post)

  • Virginia Conference Committee Faces Saturday Deadline To Finalize Marijuana Legalization Proposal (Marijuana Moment)

  • Pa. lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill to legalize recreational marijuana (WHTM)

  • Marijuana legalization proposed in Maryland Legislature (The Washington Post)

  • Kansas Governor’s Medical Marijuana Bill Introduced As Lawmakers Take Up Separate Legalization Proposal (Marijuana Moment)

  • Colorado families ask for statewide school cannabis access (The Colorado Sun)

  • Study: Enactment of Marijuana Legalization Laws Associated with Reductions in Opioid Prescribing Patterns (NORML)

  • Legal Marijuana States See Reduced Workers’ Compensation Claims, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Missouri pushes back deadline for medical cannabis businesses to open (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Study: Cannabis Mitigates Symptoms in Patients with Treatment-Resistant Fibromyalgia (NORML)

  • South Carolina Voters Support Legalizing Medical Marijuana By A Five-To-One Ratio, New Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Aion Therapeutic Opening the First International Treatment Center for Psychedelic Psychiatry in Jamaica; Hires Leading Psychiatrist as Medical Director (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Penis Envy Mushrooms: Murder & Conspiracy Behind the World’s Trippiest Shroom (DoubleBlind)

  • Red Light Holland, the First Public Candian Psychedelics Company, Is Ready To Sell You Magic Truffles (Lucid News)

MDMA

DMT

  • PharmaDrug Files For FDA Orphan Drug Designation For DMT In Kidney Transplantation and Expands on Its Psychedelics Strategy (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • The Ultimate Guide to DMT Pricing (Reality Sandwich)

Iboga

Morning Glory Seeds

  • Microdosing LSA: People are Microdosing Acid’s Less Known, Legal Cousin (DoubleBlind)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Synthetic cannabis: an unknown gamble with potentially fatal consequences (Stuff.co.nz)

Ketamine

  • Elijah McClain's mother relieved he 'is no longer labeled a suspect' after investigation into officers' actions (CNN)

  • Aurora, Colorado, to hire independent police monitor after investigation into Elijah McClain's death (KDRV)

  • What To Look For When Searching For A Ketamine Clinic (Healing Maps)

PCP

  • Rochester police officers involved in suffocation death of Daniel Prude will not face charges (KTLA)

Miscellaneous

  • Norway seeks to decriminalise recreational drug use (RTÉ)

  • Vermont Introduces Bill to Decriminalize Entheogenic Plants (Truffle Report)

  • NYU Langone Health Establishes Center for Psychedelic Medicine (NYU Langone Health)

  • Missouri Bill Would Add MDMA, Psilocybin Mushrooms And LSD To Right-To-Try Law (Marijuana Moment)

  • Psychedelic Therapy Needs to Confront the Mystical (VICE)

  • After a Year of Controversy, MAPS Canada Executive Director Mark Haden Announces Resignation (Psymposia)

  • Washington Supreme Court Strikes Down Criminalization Of Drug Possession (Marijuana Moment)

  • Casey William Hardison: A Clandestine Chemist’s View on Cognitive Liberty (Filter)

  • Why the US Has Embraced Drug Law Reform, But the UK Won't (VICE)

  • The Guardian view on illegal drugs: the laws don’t work (The Guardian)

  • An Urgent Plea to Users of Psychedelics: Let’s Consider a More Ethical Menu of Plants and Compounds (Tim Ferriss Blog)

  • What If We Pay People to Stop Using Drugs? (The New Republic)

  • Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin: A Retrospective (Truffle Report)

  • The Farmer and The Cowman Should Be Friends: Why the Pharmaceutical Industry and Grassroots Reformists Should Join Forces (Psychedelics Today)

  • Microneedle patches for microdosing psychedelic pharmaceuticals (EurekAlert!)

  • Meet the Psychedelic Rapper Running for New York City Mayor (DoubleBlind)

  • The Case For Psychedelic Couples Counseling (GQ)

  • Love and Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Bridging the Divide (Chacruna)

  • How Psychedelics Impact Startle Response (Truffle Report)

  • The Problem and Paradox of Bad Trips, Part 2 (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Joe Rogan: Dedemonizing Psychedelics (Reality Sandwich)

  • Psychedelics, Capitalism, and the Commodification of the Sacred (The Third Wave)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 9.18.20

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Cannabis

  • House Postpones Vote On Bill To Federally Legalize Marijuana Until After Election (Marijuana Moment)

  • These states are voting on cannabis legalization this November (CNN)

  • Vermont Bill To Legalize Marijuana Sales One Step Away From Governor’s Desk After House Vote (Marijuana Moment)

  • Vermont House Approves Marijuana Expungement And Decriminalization Expansion Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • How cannabis use impacted mental health during COVID (Cannabis Health News)

  • Virginia House And Senate Approve Marijuana Expungement Bills (Marijuana Moment)

  • NORML Files Amicus Brief to the Supreme Court Challenging Cannabis’ Schedule I Prohibited Status Under Federal Law (NORML)

  • Nebraska Medical Marijuana Activists Will Pursue 2022 Ballot Measure After Court Blocks This Year’s Effort (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis Pilot Programs Are Sprouting in Europe (Cannabis Wire)

  • Mississippi Medical Marijuana Ballot Language Threatens To Confuse Voters With Two Questions (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cancard Will Effectively Decriminalise Medicinal Cannabis In The UK From November 1st (Seedsman)

  • Policy Briefing: World Health Organisation Cannabis Rescheduling And Its Relevance For The Caribbean (TalkingDrugs)

  • Slim Majority Of Arizona Voters Support Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure, New Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Americans will spend $60 billion on illicit marijuana this year, report says (Leafly)

  • USDA Approves Hemp Plans For Utah And Another Indian Tribe (Marijuana Moment)

  • The Feds Are Funding a Study to See If Milk From Hemp-Eating Cows Will Get You High (MERRY JANE)

  • Missouri Sends $2.1M In Medical Marijuana Revenue To Military Veterans Health Programs (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cheap Cannabinoids That May Cure Cancer (Nanalyze)

LSD

Magic Mushrooms

  • Usona Puts New Psilocybin Synthesis Method in the Public Domain (Lucid News)

  • First clinical trial launched to test psilocybin therapy for depression in cancer patients (News-Medical.net)

  • Stopping a Too-Intense Mushroom Trip: Should You Even Try? (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

  • Australians Are Lending Their Weight to Get Shrooms and MDMA Rescheduled (VICE)

Ayahuasca

  • Legal Ayahuasca Churches Are Spreading Across Canada (VICE)

  • Ayahuasca Makes you See, and Tobacco Makes You Dream (Chacruna)

  • Ayahuasca Impacts the Big 5 Personality Traits (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • A Woman Takes Ayahuasca and Discovers a Universal Truth (Patheos)

Peyote

  • Indigenous Voices in Peyote Conservation: Preserving Medicine for Future Generations (Psychedelic Today)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Aurora City Council Approves Temporary Ketamine Ban For First Responders (CBS Denver)

PCP

  • Daniel Prude video initially withheld by Rochester police, documents show (Fox News)

Miscellaneous

  • UC Berkeley launches new center for psychedelic science and education (Berkeley News)

  • Can Psychedelics Treat Physical Illness? (DoubleBlind)

  • Ann Arbor to consider decriminalizing psychoactive mushrooms, plants (Detroit Metro Times)

  • Why Psychedelic Medicine Startups Are Poised To Get A Share Of Next Billion Dollar Market (PR Newswire)

  • Compass Pathways Seeks $100 Million IPO For Psilocybin-Based Treatment (Seeking Alpha)

  • How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Psychedelic Community (High Times)

  • Why Set and Setting Matters for Microdosing (Medium)

  • Compass Pathways IPO to Begin Trading 18th September on Nasdaq: CMPS (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Federal Workplace Drug Testing Proposal Could Discriminate Against People Of Color (Marijuana Moment)

  • Women in the History of Psychedelic Plant Medicines (Chacruna)

  • How Psychedelics Are Entering the Mainstream (Psychology Today)

  • Could Group Therapy Make Psychedelic Drug Treatments More Accessible? (Forbes)

  • IntelGenx inks double deals to develop oral film psychedelics for psychiatric use (Fierce Pharma)

  • Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth (Chacruna)

  • Red Light Holland’s Science and Innovation Division, Scarlette Lillie Joins Medical Psychedelics Working Group with Leading Academics; Professor David Nutt and Professor Jo Neill (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Conscious Parenting with Plant Medicine Allies (Reality Sandwich)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 9.4.20

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Cannabis

  • Drone Drops Hundreds Of Free Bags Of Marijuana In Israel (Marijuana Moment)

  • Virginia Senate Approves Two Marijuana Bills As Lawmakers Pursue Broader Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

  • Sheriff Files Lawsuit To Keep Medical Marijuana Off Nebraska’s Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Malta is officially out of weed (The GrowthOp)

  • Vermont Marijuana Sales Legalization Bill Inches Closer To Final Form After Conference Meeting (Marijuana Moment)

  • Are rosin vape carts going to take over the market? You better hope so. (Leafly)

  • Mississippi Medical Marijuana Initiative Has ‘Strong Chance Of Passage,’ Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)

  • USC researchers think THC in marijuana could treat deadly COVID complication (Bakersfield.com)

  • How Legal Weed Destroyed a Counterculture Icon (Politico)

  • USDA Approves Hemp Plans For Maine, Missouri And Another Indian Tribe (Marijuana Moment)

  • Study: Over Three in Four Cannabis Consumers Prefer Flower Over Concentrates (NORML)

  • California Must Turn Over Marijuana Documents To DEA, Federal Court Rules (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis extract may protect honey bees from pesticides (StratCann)

  • State Of California Officially Promotes Marijuana Industry With New Campaign (Marijuana Moment)

  • Marijuana Use Growing in Popularity Among Seniors (NORML)

  • Marijuana Legalization Group Helps Craft New Impaired Driving Prevention Bill In Congress (Marijuana Moment)

  • Medical cannabis failing Delaware patients (Cape Gazette)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Revive Therapeutics Enters into Clinical Trial Agreement to Evaluate Psilocybin for the Treatment of Methamphetamine Use Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Mindset Pharma Announces Promising Test Results of its Novel and Proprietary Psilocybin-Inspired Compounds (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Red Light Holland Announces Arrangement to Launch Sale of Psychedelic Truffle Microdosing Packs in the Netherlands (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Cancer patients say psilocybin can be both therapy and “a beautiful experience” (Inverse)

MDMA

  • Regulator weighs push to legalise MDMA for mental health treatment (Brisbane Times)

DMT

  • How to Integrate a Difficult-to-Remember DMT Experience (Maps of the Mind)

  • Machine Elves and a Journey Into The DMT Spirit World (DoubleBlind)

Ayahuasca

  • 'A Hail Mary': Psychedelic Therapy Draws Veterans to Jungle Retreats (The New York Times)

  • Miley Cyrus went vegan after ‘puking up seals’ while on hallucinogenic drug (Metro)

Peyote

  • Peyote Decriminalization Opposed by Groups Seeking to Protect the Plant from Poaching (Lucid News)

Iboga

  • Healing the Soul with Spray Paint and Iboga with Chor Boogie (Chacruna)

Ketamine

PCP

DXM

  • Dextromethorphan (DXM) Guide: Effects, Uses, Legality, and Safety (Reality Sandwich)

Miscellaneous

  • Compass Pathways Files for U.S. IPO, to list on Nasdaq (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Scientists induce psychedelic-like experiences from a placebo alone (PsyPost)

  • Three-In-Five DC Voters Support Psychedelics Decriminalization Initiative, New Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Numinus Announces Filing of Final Short Form Prospectus for Offering of up to $4,000,000 (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Why one in five young people have microdosed through lockdown (Dazed)

  • New Wave Holdings Corp Appoints Dr. Wade Davis to Psychedelic Research Advisory Board (PR Newswire)

  • Dr. Matthew Johnson Joins AWAKN Life Sciences (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Oregon Could become the First State to Decriminalize Drugs in November (The Appeal)

  • Focus on the family: How the War on Drugs destroyed America’s foster care system (Leafly)

  • Lamotrigine and Psychedelics (Spirit Pharmacist)

  • The Mechanisms of Change in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • The Neuroscience of Psychedelic Visuals (Reality Sandwich)

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