This Week in Psychedelics - 6.11.21

Cannabis

• Nevada: Governor Signs Bill into Law Regulating Cannabis Consumption Lounges (NORML)

• Senate Votes to Legalize Recreational Marijuana in Conn. (NBC Connecticut)

• Washington state offers ‘joints for jabs’ to boost vaccination rates (The Guardian)

• Louisiana lawmakers pass bill to decriminalize marijuana (The Hill)

• Biden Administration Wants to Uphold Ban on Adult-Use Cannabis Sales in DC (MERRY JANE)

• Testing People For Marijuana Impairment Based On THC Levels Is ‘Not Reliable,’ Federally Funded Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: Enactment of Adult-Use Marijuana Laws Doesn’t Encourage Drugged Driving Behavior (NORML)

• Medical Cannabis Users Are More Likely to Cut Back on Cigarettes, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

• NFL Funds Marijuana Research As Federal Prohibition ‘Adversely’ Impacts Studies Into Opioid Alternative For Players (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia: Marijuana Arrests Fall Dramatically Following Enactment of 2020 Decriminalization Law (NORML)

• Bill Would Finally Let Researchers Obtain Marijuana From Dispensaries (Filter)

• LA Is Literally the Worst Place to Buy Legal Weed, Thanks to Exorbitant Sales Taxes (MERRY JANE)

LSD

• Susi’s Tram Ride: Recognizing the First Woman to Take LSD (Chacruna)

• Deepak Chopra did LSD for the first time in a lab and felt his consciousness shift while staring at a photo of Mother Teresa (Insider)

• Blotter paper part of LSD mixture, must be weighed too (The Times of India)

• LSD and the Anarchic Brain (Psychedelic Science Review)

• LSD for Bipolar Disorder: Is LSD the Answer? (The Third Wave)

Magic Mushrooms

• Silo Pharma Announces Collaboration with University California San Francisco to study Psilocybin as an Anti-Inflammatory agent in Parkinson’s and Bipolar Patients (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psilocybin Oral Strips: Benefits and Drawbacks (Truffle Report)

• Mydecine Discovers Over 40 Groundbreaking Potential Pharmacologically Active Novel Compounds in Mushrooms (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Pill-iD App Lets Users Scan MDMA Pills To See What They Contain (LADbible)

• MDMA soaring in popularity in New Zealand, making its way into high schools (Newshub)

• MDMA, Water, Seizures, and Death: Interview with Gabriel Kearns, M.D. and Founder of Elevation Chemicals (Psychedelic Times)

Ayahuasca

• Is Ayahuasca Legal? (DoubleBlind)

5-MeO-DMT

• A hallucinogenic toad in peril (High Country News)

Iboga

• Iboga Conservation (Chacruna)

Nitrous Oxide

• Can Laughing Gas (Nitrous Oxide) Help People With Treatment-Resistant Depression? (Forbes)

Ketamine

• Colorado bill to restrict ketamine use outside of hospitals close to passing (Colorado Newsline)

• Deaths Resulting from Ketamine Injection Rare, Study Indicates (JEMS)

Miscellaneous

• Connecticut Governor Signs Psychedelics Study Measure As He Awaits Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• The FBI Secretly Ran an Encrypted Messaging Service To Conduct the Same Old Drug War Stings (Reason)

• Aphrodite Health Is Here To Shift The Narrative: The First Psychedelics Company ‘For Women, By Women’ (Forbes)

• Poll Shows Huge Public Opposition to “War on Drugs,” After 50 Years (Filter)

• Seattle City Council Signs Letter Proposing Psychedelic Use in Opioid Addiction Treatment (Truffle Report)

• Field Trip Health Ltd. Applies to List Its Common Shares on the NASDAQ Stock Market (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Over One Third of US Voters Know Psychedelics Have Valid Medical Use, Poll Says (MERRY JANE)

• Psychedelics For Frontline Clinicians With Covid-Related Burnout? A Study Is Looking Into It (Forbes)

• Accountability & Transformative Justice in the Psychedelic Space: A Roadmap for Change (Psychedelics Today)

• Study Links Hallucinogen Use to Emotional Dysregulation, Risk Taking Among Youth (Psychedelic News Wire)

• Life Sciences Announces Launch of Initial Public Offering (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Are Psychedelics the Next Big Cure? (Good Housekeeping)

• Is Absinthe an Hallucinogen? Debunking the Green Fairy (Truffle Report)

• Tolerance, Tachyphylaxis, and Psychedelic Drug Action (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Basics for Tripping in Nature (Maps of the Mind)

• Psychedelic Cartoons: Through the Decades (Reality Sandwich)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 6.4.21

Cannabis

• Bill To Federally Legalize Marijuana Reintroduced In Congress As Senate Prepares Separate Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• Amazon Now Supports Federal Cannabis Legalization (Forbes)

• Nevada: Lawmakers Approve Measure to Regulate Cannabis Consumption Lounges (NORML)

• Idaho Marijuana Activists Launch Limited Legalization Campaign For 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Medical cannabis has ‘96% chance of seizure reduction’ in childhood epilepsy (Cannabis Health News)

• Tennessee Governor Signs Bill To Expand State’s Limited Medical Marijuana Program (Marijuana Moment)

• Colorado: Senate Lawmakers Advance Measure Amending State’s Medical Cannabis Access Law (NORML)

• Mississippi Lawmakers Hold Medical Marijuana Hearing After Court Overturns Voter-Approved Law (Marijuana Moment)

• As legal marijuana booms, people push for justice for those impacted by war on drugs (ABC News)

• Illinois: Lawmakers Approve Equity Measure to Award Over 100 New Dispensary Licenses (NORML)

Magic Mushrooms

• Want to Measure the Magic in Your Mushrooms? You Can Now Test Psilocybin Potency at Home (DoubleBlind)

• Psilocybin May Reduce Suicidal Thoughts in Terminally Ill Patients, Suggests New Study (Lucid News)

• Psychedelic Mushroom Shops Reach The Americas (Forbes)

• Psilocybin-assisted Therapy for Mental Health: A New Paradigm? (Volteface)

• COMPASS Pathways and Kings College London publish cognition results from COMP360 psilocybin study in healthy volunteers (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The Psilocybin vs. Escitalopram Trial – Part 2 (Psychedelic Science Review)

MDMA

• One Man Took 40,000 Ecstasy Pills In Nine Years – This Is What Happened To Him (IFLScience)

5-MeO-DMT

• Studying Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT for Traumatic Brain Injuries: Interview with Amber Capone of VETS (Psychedelic Times)

San Pedro

• Microdosing Huachuma: Sacred Cactus of the Andes (EntheoNation)

Iboga

• MINDCURE Successfully Completes First Stage of Manufacturing Synthetic Ibogaine for Use in Psychedelic Clinical Research (Psilocybin Alpha)

Salvia Divinorum

• Salvia Flowers: Cultivation and Consumption (DoubleBlind)

Ketamine

• Ketamine a game changer in treating eating disorders (Toronto Sun)

Miscellaneous

• California Senate Approves Bill To Legalize Possession Of Psychedelics Like Psilocybin And LSD (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelics Patent Claim Raises Questions From Researchers Who Say They Did It First (VICE)

• Texas Bills To Expand Medical Marijuana Program And Require Psychedelics Study Head To Governor’s Desk (Marijuana Moment)

• New York Bill Would Create State-Sponsored Psychedelics Research Institute (Marijuana Moment)

• The psychologists signing up for psychedelic therapy training: ‘Amazing things can happen’ (The Guardian)

• NIH: It’s time to make your mark on the renaissance of medicinal psychedelics (STAT)

• Andrew Yang Proposes Legal Psychedelic Therapies For Veterans In NYC Mayoral Plan (Marijuana Moment)

• New Zealand scientists explore medical benefits of psychedelic drugs (Newshub)

• Can Psychedelics Help Heal Moral Injury? (Psychedelics Today)

• Psychedelics: A New Fountain of Youth? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Pandemic Drug Use and the Cartel (Reality Sandwich)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 4.16.21

Cannabis

• New Mexico Legalizes Adult-Use Cannabis (Forbes)

• 69 Percent Of Americans Now Support Legalizing Marijuana—An All-Time High, Quinnipiac Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Marijuana legalization has won (Vox)

• Four More States Could Still Legalize Marijuana This Year After New Mexico, New York And Virginia (Marijuana Moment)

• Nevada Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Bill To Allow On-Site Consumption Lounges (Marijuana Moment)

• Alabama Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill That Already Passed The Senate Heads To House Floor (Marijuana Moment)

• Women Paved the Way for Mexico’s Cannabis Legalization Movement, and Here’s How They Did It (MERRY JANE)

• Limited Tennessee Medical Marijuana Bill Heads To Senate Floor (Marijuana Moment)

• Sixth Minnesota House Committee Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill On Its Path To The Floor (Marijuana Moment)

• Texas Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Decriminalization Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• With Virginia moving forward, state Democratic leaders want NC to be next to legalize marijuana (Fox 8)

Magic Mushrooms

• Psilocybin Therapy May Work as Well as Common Antidepressant (Scientific American)

• Denver pursues further decriminalization of magic mushrooms (Axios)

• Psychedelic Experience May Not Be Required For Psilocybin’s Antidepressant-Like Benefits (Neuroscience News)

• Psilocybin Mushrooms Greatly Enhance Creative Thinking, New Clinical Study Confirms (MERRY JANE)

• Silo Wellness Announces Intellectual Property Licensing Agreement of Psilocybin Nasal Spray in Colombia and Brasil (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Wood Lover’s Paralysis: Psilocybin’s Rare Sickness (Truffle Report)

5-MeO-DMT

• The Story Behind a 1984 Hallucinogenic Pamphlet From Denton Is Just as Trippy as Its Subject (Dallas Observer)

Mescaline

• Keepers of the Matrix: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Sacred Cacti (DoubleBlind)

Peyote

• Peyote Conservation Group Asks to Include Cultivation in California Decrim Bill (Truffle Report)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Why Synthetic Cannabinoids Can Be a Good Thing (Green Entrepreneur)

Miscellaneous

• Psychedelics In Groups? First Study Of Its Kind Shows Potential For Collective Settings (Forbes)

• California Bill To Legalize Possession Of Psychedelics Clears Second Senate Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• Drug-testing to be made permanent at music festivals (Newshub)

• Oregon Legislature Adds Changes to Drug Decriminalization Law (Truffle Report)

• COVID-19 and Psychedelic Group Work: It’s Still Too Soon (Psychedelics Today)

• Washington State’s Drug Policies: Weighing Methods to Decriminalize Possession (Truffle Report)

• Plant Medicine Coalition Launches Grants For Community Healing Hubs in D.C. (Truffle Report)

• Ex Gov. Perry Backs Texas Psychedelics Study Bill (Truffle Report)

• UCSF Launches Translational Psychedelic Research (TrPR) Program (Lucid News)

• YouTube Loosens Restrictions, Expands Monetization for Drug Content (Truffle Report)

• Fireside Project: The 21st Century’s First Psychedelic Peer Support Hotline (Lucid News)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 1.31.20

Cannabis

• New Mexico Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• New Hampshire Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Illinois Is Already Getting a Weed Lounge, Just Weeks After Legalizing (MERRY JANE)

• Berkeley Council Votes To Allow Cannabis Consumption In Lounges (CBS San Francisco)

• First Alaska retail pot shops get approval for on-site consumption (Anchorage Daily News)

• Local Australian Marijuana Legalization Law Takes Effect This Week (Marijuana Moment)

• Cleveland City Council approves eliminating fines, jail time and criminal records for low level marijuana possession (Cleveland.com)

• Key Virginia Senate Committee Approves Marijuana Decriminalization Bill, While Broader Legalization Study Advances (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis Helps Protect HIV Patients’ Brains From Deteriorating, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

• President Trump: Marijuana Makes You “Lose IQ Points” (NORML)

• Abnormal imaging findings key to EVALI diagnosis in vapers (Medical Xpress)

• Find That CBG and CGC Can Kill Gastrointestinal Cancer Cells (MERRY JANE)

• Missouri Activists Launch Signature Drive To Put Marijuana Legalization On 2020 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis vaping devices reimbursement approval for Canadian veterans (Health Europa)

• American Cannabis Stocks Are Working Their Way To Wall Street (Forbes)

• Legalization may mean more cannabis and less alcohol in colleges (Medical News Today)

• U.S. Military Reiterates That CBD Is Off Limits To Service Members (Marijuana Moment)

• Across Utah more students are reporting using marijuana (KUTV)

• Weed-Sniffing K-9s in New York Are Getting Hounded into Early Retirement (MERRY JANE)

• Pennsylvania: Marijuana possession arrests decline statewide (NORML)

Magic Mushrooms

• Andrew Yang Wants To Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms For Military Veterans (Marijuana Moment)

Iboga

• 'I cannot claim to have prevailed': Miami University professor reinstated after iboga tree suspension (Cincinnati.com)

• Special Forces: How Ibogaine is Helping Former Special Operations Soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD (Psychedelic Times)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Chicago Shop Owner Gets Prison Sentence For Selling K2 Laced With Rat Poison (High Times)

• Synthetic cannabinoids on the rise in Toledo, costing taxpayers thousands for EMS (WNWO)

Opioids

• Tom Steyer Calls For Marijuana Legalization And Opioid Decriminalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Could a Naloxone Implant Have a Major Impact on the Overdose Crisis? (Filter)

• Federal Crackdown On Fentanyl Analogues Repeats the Mistakes of the Drug War, Advocates Say (The Appeal)

Caffeine

• Everyone is making coffee wrong, study suggests (Fox News)

Nicotine

• WHO Report: Tobacco Use is Declining Worldwide (Vaping Post)

• International Experts Slam World Health Organization’s Deceptive Vaping Release (Filter)

• Wisconsin can’t enforce tobacco age at 21 because of state law, causing confusion at stores (WQOW)

• Study: Teens with ADHD Face Increased Risk for Nicotine Addiction (ADDitude)

Kratom

• Reasons why kratom is getting more popular in the past decade (Augusta Free Press)

Miscellaneous

• Santa Cruz City Council Approves Psychedelics Decriminalization Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• Goop on psychedelics isn’t bad, it’s just boring (WIRED)

• Psychedelic drugs may reduce depression and anxiety by increasing psychological flexibility (PsyPost)

• Heroin and cocaine can be injected safely in UK's first 'mock drugs room' (Sky News)

• Oakland Activists Unveil Plan To Legalize Sale Of Psychedelics This Year (Marijuana Moment)

• Music festivals responsible for minuscule percentage of drug deaths (The Age)

• Are Investors Ready To Change Their Minds About Psychedelic Drugs? (Forbes)

• Drug deaths summit to take place in Glasgow (BBC)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 7.19.19

CANNABIS

• California Claims the Crown for the Nation’s First Recreational Pot Cafes (MERRY JANE)

• Australian Researchers Say You Can Treat Cannabis Dependency with... Cannabis? (MERRY JANE)

• Senate Schedules Hearing On Marijuana Business Banking Access (Forbes)

• That Alarming CBD Liver Damage Study Is Bunk—And the Media Should Know Better (Leafly)

• Were Vikings POTHEADS? Archaeologists uncover evidence of cannabis at 1,000-year-old settlement (The Sun)

• Legalizing Marijuana Leads To Fewer Illegal Grow Sites In National Forests, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Pennsylvania Adds Anxiety as Medical Marijuana Qualifying Condition (MERRY JANE)

• New Roadside Cannabis Test Approved for Use in Canada (Leafly)

• Marijuana Legalization Associated With Decreased Interest In Alcohol, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• New Hampshire: Governor Signs Marijuana Annulment Measure (NORML)

• As More States Legalize, DEA Chops Down Fewer Marijuana Plants, Federal Data Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• Pot-smoking parents are harsher with discipline: study (New York Post)

• Marijuana Legalization Could Be On The Horizon For British Virgin Islands (Marijuana Moment)

• Recent cannabis use tied to memory deficits, slowed mental processing (Reuters)

• Kamala Harris Evolved Slowly on Legalization, but She’s All About It Now (Leafly)

• Thousands Of Comments Urge FDA To Allow CBD In Foods And Supplements (Marijuana Moment)

• Three Republicans Stand in the Way of Federal Weed Legalization (Rolling Stone)

• Medical cannabis is gaining momentum in Asia (CNBC)

• THC Testing is Bullshit and You're Getting Screwed (Beard Bros Pharms)

• Sound Garden owners plan Maryland’s first medical cannabis lounge in Fells Point (The Baltimore Sun)

LSD

• Kid Cudi reveals iconic Coachella jam was the result of an LSD trip (Dancing Astronaut)

• Everything We Know About The YouTube Engineer Who Injured 8 People On LSD Rampage (YourTango)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

• What Psilocybin Could Mean for End-of-Life Care (Psychology Today)

MDMA

• REPORT: First MDMA/Psychotherapy Trial Successful In Combatting Alcoholism (Your EDM)

• Breakthrough PTSD treatment using party drug MDMA coming soon to Philly region (PhillyVoice)

• Hamilton schoolboy dies after ‘ecstasy’ horror as three more teens rushed to hospital (The Scottish Sun)

• Will MDMA Show Up On a Drug Test? (VICE)

• Mum's unusual pledge after daughter dies from MDMA overdose at festival (Yahoo! News)

AYAHUASCA

• Olivia Newton-John proposed to boyfriend after taking hallucinogen drug! (All4Women)

Yopo

• An Introduction to Yopo in the Venezuelan Piaroan Tradition (DMT Times)

5-MEO-DMT

• Upcoming World Bufo Alvarius Congress Looks to Nurture Global 5-MeO-DMT Community (Psychedelic Times)

SAN PEDRO

• Man selling giant hallucinogenic cactus says he's not a drug dealer (Newshub)

SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS

• Kids thought this was 'natural cannabis' vape juice... it was Spice. Nine people who ended up in hospital could have died (Manchester Evening News)

KETAMINE

• Ketamine-like drug for depression could get UK licence within the year (The Guardian)

• Ketamine for Depression: Clinical Evidence and Concerns (Psychiatry Advisor)

OPIOIDS

• "We Didn't Cause the Crisis": David Sackler Pleads His Case on the Opioid Epidemic (Vanity Fair)

• Delta to carry Narcan on planes after passenger ‘carried out in body bag’ following overdose (The Independent)

• Media Frame: Fentanyl Panic is Worsening the Overdose Crisis (The Appeal)

• The Louvre Removed the Name of OxyContin-Linked Sackler Family From Its Walls (TIME)

• States Are Making Progress on Opioids. Now the Money That's Helping Them May Dry Up (The New York Times)

• Opioid Shipments Increased by Over 50% as Addiction Crisis Grew, Federal Data Shows (TIME)

• What to call someone who uses heroin? (ScienceDaily)

COCAINE

• Passenger from Colombia fails to fool Spanish police with his cocaine-under-the-toupee trick (CBS News)

• What Does Cocaine Do to the Heart? (VICE)

METHAMPHETAMINE

• Asia's meth trade is worth an estimated $61B as region becomes 'playground' for drug gangs (CNN)

• How Myanmar Became A Global Center For Meth & Other Synthetic Drugs (The Fix)

• Police Warn Flushing Drugs Could Create Terrifying 'Meth Gators' (People)

CAFFEINE

• Under 16s set to be 'banned' from buying caffeine-filled energy drinks (Edinburgh Live)

• Hot coffee or iced? Study says higher temp provides more health benefits (KABC)

• Daily coffee doesn't affect cancer risk (Medical Xpress)

TOBACCO

• New York Raises Statewide Smoking Age to 21 (TIME)

• Raising tobacco sales age to 21: Ohio becomes latest state in national trend (Cincinnati.com)

• Tobacco Plants Made to Produce Useful Compounds (Scientific American)

ALCOHOL

• Study Suggests Alcohol Causes Skin to Sunburn Faster (Paste Magazine)

KRATOM

• Drug Researchers Raise Concern Over "Misleading" Evidence in Kratom Studies (Inverse)

• What to know about kratom for depression (Medical News Today)

• Kratom Ban Back on the Table in Oxford (Hotty Toddy)

KHAT

• Miraa farmers mull tough sanitary laws with eyes fixed on new export markets (The Star)

MISCELLANEOUS

• Berkeley City Council Considers Decriminalizing Psychedelics This Week (Marijuana Moment)

• Science of microdosing psychedelics 'remains patchy and anecdotal', says review (Imperial College London)

• El Chapo, the Notorious Drug Kingpin, Has Been Sentenced to Life in Prison in the U.S. (TIME)

• New data shows drug overdose deaths fell in 2018. But there’s a big catch. (Vox)

• Scotland drug deaths – 1,200 deaths recorded in 2018 as worst ever figures released (The Sun)

• People who microdose psychedelic substances report improved mood and focus (Medical Xpress)

• New Bill Ensures Some Retroactive Drug War Justice for New Hampshire (High Times)

• Future of drug-sniffing dogs uncertain after Colorado Supreme Court ruling (The Coloradoan)

• Microdosing has a critic — one of its pioneers (Rooster Magazine)

• Police Thought They Beat the Darknet Drug Markets – They Didn't (VICE)

• Nutrition Is an Overlooked Aspect of Harm Reduction (Filter)

• Framing addiction as a disease: Research shows that message might backfire (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• Survey reveals extent of music festival drug use (The Australian)

• The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Problematic Process for Religious Exemption for Use of Prohibited Psychoactive Substances (Chacruna)

• The Risky Business of Psychedelic Therapy (Medium)

• How Congress can expand access to addiction treatment — immediately (The Hill)

• Inside the Philippines Prison That Sparked Duterte’s Murderous Drug War (Filter)

• Mother of festival drug death victim says Gladys Berejiklian needs to show courage (The Guardian)

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