This Week in Psychedelics - 5.7.21

Cannabis

• Mexican Lawmakers Fail To Legalize Marijuana Ahead Of Supreme Court Deadline (Marijuana Moment)

• Alabama Medical Marijuana Bill Heads To Governor’s Desk Following Legislature’s Approval (Marijuana Moment)

• Louisiana House Votes To Legalize Medical Marijuana Flower And Advances Bill To Prepare For Recreational Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Texas House Passes Marijuana Decriminalization Bill, Sending It To Senate (Marijuana Moment)

• Philadelphia: Mayor Signs Law Prohibiting Pre-Employment Drug Screening for Cannabis (NORML)

• Frequent Marijuana Consumers Are Actually More Physically Active Than Non-Users, Study Finds, Smashing Stereotypes (Marijuana Moment)

• Neat idea, Canna Bumps: Thanks for keeping marijuana illegal (Leafly)

• Switzerland Just Got One Step Closer to Federally Legalizing Weed (MERRY JANE)

• Cannabis Offers Immediate Nausea Relief, Study Shows (Forbes)

• French Lawmaker Displays Marijuana Joint In Parliament As New Report Calls For Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• 58% of Americans Don't Know the Difference Between THC and CBD, Survey Says (MERRY JANE)

• Colorado Governor Signs Bill To Expand Medical Marijuana Access For Students In Schools (Marijuana Moment)

• Kansas: House Lawmakers Approve Medical Marijuana Bill (NORML)

• Minnesota Marijuana Legalization Bill Clears 11th House Committee On Path To The Floor (Marijuana Moment)

• Colorado: Legislature Approves Measure Eliminating Civil Penalties for Possessing Between One and Two Ounces of Cannabis (NORML)

• Kansas Lawmakers Approve Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• Wilmington, Delaware City Council Votes to Support Cannabis Legalization (NORML)

• Cannabis 'gravest threat' to mental health of young people (The Irish Times)

Magic Mushrooms

• MycoMeditations' Psilocybin-Assisted Wellness Retreat Urgently Addresses COVID-19's Impact on Mental Health (PR Newswire)

• Psychedelics and Veganism: Personal Change Catalysed by Psilocybin (Sam Woolfe)

• Psyched Wellness Signs Supply Agreement for Amanita Muscaria (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psilocybin and the Will to Live (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Optimi Health Partnership with Numinus Wellness Provides Update on First All-Natural Psilocybin Protocol (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• A Psychedelic Drug Passes a Big Test for PTSD Treatment (The New York Times)

Mescaline

• A Century of Mescaline (Chacruna)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• The Power of Synthetic Cannabinoids and Why Big Pharma Prefers Them (Cannabis Science and Technology)

Ketamine

• Champignon Brands Changes Name to Braxia Scientific to Reflect the Integration of Ketamine and Psychedelic Clinics and its Research and Development Priorities (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Ketamine, esketamine effective for depression but have limitations (Healio)

• What’s in the ketamine bill that just passed the House Judiciary Committee in Colorado? (KDVR)

Miscellaneous

• 100 Most Influential People in Psychedelics (Psychedelic Invest)

• Texas House Approves Psychedelics Research Bill As Marijuana Reform Measures Also Advance (Marijuana Moment)

• Can a genetic test predict your response to psychedelic drugs? (New Atlas)

• What Happens When Big Pharma Starts Selling Mass-Market Hallucinogens (The Federalist)

• Now that New York Legalized Cannabis, Could Psychedelics Be Next? (DoubleBlind)

• The push to legalize psychedelics has ignored Indigenous communities (Mic)

• Psychedelics at a Crossroads: We Need Constructive Not Extractive Capital (Dr. Bronner's)

• Red Light Holland Receives Patent Pending Status For ‘Find Your Dose’ Customization of Microdosing Kits Based on Biometric and Movement Data (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelics are transforming the way we understand depression and its treatment (The Irish Times)

• Portland Advocates Push for Psychedelic Decriminalization (Truffle Report)

• Can Psychedelics Provide Relief for Autistic Individuals? (Psychedelics Today)

• Nova Mentis Launches Autism Clinical Study (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Why drugs should be not only decriminalised, but fully legalised (New Statesman)

• Ketanserin’s Contributions to Psychedelic Research (Psychedelic Science Review)

• MindMed Announces Project Angie, Targeting the Treatment of Pain with Psychedelics (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Navigating the Legal Landscape of Psychedelics (Sam Woolfe)

• Culture, entrepreneurial spirit makes Okanagan viable for psychedelic research (iNFOnews)

• Psychedelics and Ecological Consciousness (Reality Sandwich)

• DoubleBlind Editor-in-Chief Shelby Hartman on Covering the World of Psychedelics (Muse by Clio)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 4.23.21

Cannabis

• Schumer Celebrates 4/20 Marijuana Holiday On Senate Floor (Marijuana Moment)

• US House Passes Bill To Normalize Adult-Use Cannabis Commerce (NORML)

• Virginia Governor Signs Marijuana Legalization Bill In Ceremonial Event—Even Though It’s Already Enacted (Marijuana Moment)

• New Jersey Supreme Court Rules Company Must Cover Employee's Medical Marijuana Costs (MERRY JANE)

• Nine In Ten Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana For Recreational Or Medical Use, New Pew Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Florida Supreme Court Kills 2022 Marijuana Legalization Initiative That Hundreds Of Thousands Had Signed (Marijuana Moment)

• Border weed: How the hometown of tater tots became a cannabis capital (Politico)

• Louisiana Lawmakers Approve Bill To Legalize Medical Marijuana Flower For Patients (Marijuana Moment)

• Veterans Medical Marijuana Safe Harbor Act Reintroduced (NORML)

• Minnesota Marijuana Legalization Bill Clears Eighth Committee On Route To The House Floor (Marijuana Moment)

• Two-thirds of La. voters support legalizing marijuana; state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle eye legalization (WAFB)

LSD

• Today Is Bicycle Day, Which Isn’t Quite What You Think (Mother Jones)

• LSD Side-Effects: Risks To Be Aware of When Consuming LSD (The Third Wave)

Magic Mushrooms

• Oregon’s and Compass’s Opposite Approaches to Psilocybin Therapy Should Coexist, Says Initiator of Measure 109 (Chacruna)

• Revive Therapeutics Announces Successful Research Results for Oral Thin Film Psilocybin and Filing of U.S. Provisional Patent Application (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• MDMA and magic mushrooms reconsidered for rescheduling by Therapeutic Goods Administration (The Canberra Times)

• This is why sex on MDMA feels so good, according to experts (Gentside UK)

Ayahuasca

• Advocacy Group Aims to Decriminalize Ayahuasca in Portland (Willamette Week)

• Some Vermonters Turn to Ayahuasca as a 'Last Resort' to Heal Their Bodies and Minds (Seven Days)

5-MeO-DMT

• Researchers In Europe, U.S. Team Up To Produce First Ever 5-MeO-DMT Psychedelic Training Program (Forbes)

• Toad Conservation (Chacruna)

Peyote

• Hello, Religious Privilege is Good and Here's Why (Patheos)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• 18-MC Has Unique Brain Functions and Mechanisms (Psychedelic Science Review)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Study explores synthetic cannabinoid for cancer-related anorexia (Outsourcing-Pharma.com)

Ketamine

• PharmaTher Announces Submission of IND Application with the FDA for Phase 2 Clinical Trial Evaluating Ketamine in the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Ketamine Infusion: How Ketamine Can Treat Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, and More (DoubleBlind)

PCP

• State's medical expert to grand jury: 'Police didn't kill Daniel Prude' (WXXI News)

Miscellaneous

• Norway opposition torpedoes plan to decriminalise drug use (France 24)

• Washington State Lawmakers Downgrade Proposed Drug Possession Penalties Ahead Of House Floor Vote (Marijuana Moment)

• Biden Is Allegedly Planning to Double Down on Trump's Prohibitionist Drug Policies (MERRY JANE)

• MindMed To Commence Trading on Nasdaq (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The “Equity Elephant”: Why Psychedelic Mutualism and Cooperatives are Crucial for an Accessible Future (Psychedelics Today)

• Jewish psychedelics movement blasts off with first-ever conference (The Times of Israel)

• ATAI Nasdaq IPO Plans Announced (Truffle Report)

• Researchers Slam Drug War At Federally Hosted Psychedelics Event (Marijuana Moment)

• There’s a Land Grab for Psychedelic Patents: Here’s What We Can Do About It (Psychedelic Times)

• You're Not Hallucinating: Black People Are Being Left Out of the Psychedelic Renaissance (The Root)

• People who regularly use psychoactive substances experienced negative impacts during COVID-19 (News-Medical.net)

• Most Canadians not ready to expand drug legalization beyond cannabis: poll (Coast Reporter)

• Extinction Rebellion founder says psychedelic drugs 'helped start environmental movement' (Wales Online)

• Silo Wellness Announces Five New Psychedelic Wellness Retreats in Jamaica (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelic Experience launches new website to help navigate the world of psychedelics (PR Newswire)

• The Overlap Between Kink/BDSM and Psychedelics (Chacruna)

• Cybin Demonstrates Proof of Concept of Its Deuterated Tryptamines for the Treatment of Depression and Addiction (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Michael Pollan: A Catalyst to the Psychedelic Renaissance (The Third Wave)

• If You're Going to Solo Trip On Psychedelics, Bear This in Mind (VICE)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 3.5.21

Cannabis

• Virginia Lawmakers Vote to Legalize Marijuana in 2024 (TIME)

• Mexican Lawmakers To Vote On Marijuana Legalization Next Week (Marijuana Moment)

• Morocco Expected To Pass Cannabis Legalization Soon (High Times)

• New Mexico House Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill, With Senate Action Imminent (Marijuana Moment)

• Hawaii Marijuana Legalization Bill Heads To Senate Floor, Along With Separate Measure To Expand Decriminalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Third Minnesota House Committee Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Tennessee Senators Approve Medical Marijuana Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• Alabama Senators Approve Marijuana Decriminalization Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• Washington, D.C. Could Allow Marijuana Sales Under Mayor’s New Bill And Democratic Control Of Congress (Marijuana Moment)

• Top Washington, D.C. Lawmaker Files Competing Legal Marijuana Bill Days After Mayor Unveils Her Plan (Marijuana Moment)

• Montana: Lawmakers Seek to Amend Voter-Approved Marijuana Legalization Law (NORML)

• Mississippi House Replaces Senate’s Alternate Medical Marijuana Program With What Voters Originally Approved (Marijuana Moment)

• 'I really love weed': Seth Rogen brings his cannabis company, Houseplant, to U.S. (NBC News)

• Study Indicates Most Patients Don’t Think Doctors Will Understand Cannabis (High Times)

• Pennsylvania Governor Grants 69 Marijuana Pardons As Lawmakers Move Bipartisan Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Iowa Senators Approve Bill To Reduce Marijuana Penalties (Marijuana Moment)

• Review study: Cannabis and driving cognition (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Illinois city uses weed sales tax for reparations (Leafly)

• Marijuana Legalization Could Curb West Virginia’s Overdose Crisis, Governor Says (Filter)

• Decline In Banks Working With Marijuana Businesses Has ‘Leveled Off,’ New Federal Data Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• A New Observational Study Focusing On Cannabis For PTSD Treatment Has Been Approved (Forbes)

• Prisons should trial free cannabis, says UK's former chief drug adviser (The Guardian)

• Connecticut Polls Shows Majority Support For Marijuana Legalization And Expungements As Lawmakers Consider Reform (Marijuana Moment)

• Texas Voters’ Support For Legalizing Marijuana Is Increasing, New Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• Benefits of microdosing LSD might be placebo effect, study finds (The Guardian)

• Can Psilocybin and LSD Relieve Existential Suffering? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• DEA: 'We've seen a very large increase in LSD' (KABB)

Magic Mushrooms

• Iowa Lawmakers Hold Historic Hearing On Psilocybin Decriminalization, But Do Not Advance Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• TheraPsil Launches Psilocybin Therapy Training Program (Truffle Report)

• Core One Labs Initiates First Strain Production for Biosynthetic Psilocybin (BioSpace)

• PsyBio Therapeutics Initiates Pilot Scale Development of Proprietary Biosynthetic Psilocybin with Global Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization (Psilocybin Alpha)

• MINDCURE Completes Its Initial Strategic Equity Investment in ATMA, Canada’s First Commercial Provider of Legal, Psychedelic-Assisted, Therapy Utilizing Psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Numinus and Syreon Provide Psilocybin Compassionate Access Trial Update (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Promise and challenges for psilocybin and MDMA use in treatment (Peter Attia MD)

DMT

• A Beginner’s Guide to DMT Vape Pens (Truffle Report)

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals to Conduct Phase 1 DMT Stroke Program Study with Hammersmith Medicines Research (UK) (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Mail Order Ayahuasca Is Now A Thing (DoubleBlind)

• How Colombian Yagé Communities Confronted the COVID-19 Pandemic (Chacruna)

• Ayahuasca In the Fight Against Drug Addiction (CBD Testers)

5-MeO-DMT

• A Beginner’s Guide to Psychedelic Amphibians (Truffle Report)

Iboga

• MINDCURE Announces Manufacturing of Synthetic Ibogaine to be Used in Company's Clinical Research (PR Newswire)

• MINDCURE Discovers Potential Opportunity for Ibogaine-Assisted Psychotherapy to Treat Neuropathic Pain and Traumatic Brain Injury (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Drug Testing and Synthetic Cannabis in Prisons (Drug Science)

• Dangerous batch of synthetic cannabis may be behind Christchurch death (Stuff.co.nz)

Ketamine

• PharmaTher Expands to Neuromuscular Diseases with Exclusive License Agreement for Ketamine in the Treatment of Lou Gehrig’s Disease (GlobeNewswire)

• Awakn Announces Exclusive License Deal with the University of Exeter to Commercialise the ‘Ketamine in the Reduction of Alcoholic Relapse’ (KARE) Intervention Validated in a Phase II Clinical Trial (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Washington State Supreme Court finds state's felony drug possession law unconstitutional (Q13 Fox)

• U.S. Tells Mexico Drug War’s Failure Requires New Strategy (Bloomberg)

• Sewage Samples Reveal the Dutch, Australians Are Biggest Users of Synthetic Drugs (VICE)

• Canada’s Government Moves To End Mandatory Minimums For Drugs, But Voters Back Full Decriminalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Want To Take A Psychedelic Trip Without Drugs? There’s Now An App For That (Forbes)

• European companies set to dominate psychedelics market (Sifted)

• Online Psychedelic Community Options to Ride Out the Rest of Covid-19 (Psychedelics Today)

• Are Natural Psychedelics Or Synthetic Psychedelics Better For Your Body? (Healing Maps)

• CryptoPsychedelic Conferences Examine Links Between Psychedelics and Blockchain Technology (Lucid News)

• Psychedelics and Environmental Sustainability (Truffle Report)

• Growing popularity of therapeutic psychedelic experiences creates demand for underground guides (CBC)

• Investing In Psychedelics: Why Is It In Such High Demand These Days? (Healing Maps)

• Most People With Addiction Outgrow It Naturally. We Need to Hear Them. (Filter)

• Finding the Psychedelic Sweet Spot (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Does Animal Consciousness Expand From Psychedelics Too? (Reality Sandwich)

• Best Practices For Tripsitters (Maps of the Mind)

• What Effects Do Psychedelics Have on Social Perception? (Truffle Report)

• Christian Siriano’s Psychedelic Trip (The Cut)

• Red Light Holland’s iMicro Digital Care App Launches Virtual Telecounseling with a Membership Program Led by Certified Therapist and Microdosing Expert (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Growing interest in psychedelic treatments for mental illness, but expert warns more robust research needed (CBC)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 5.22.20

Cannabis

• Virginia Governor Officially Signs Marijuana Decriminalization Bills Into Law (Marijuana Moment)

• House Approves Marijuana Banking, Again, As Part Of Coronavirus Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Municipalities Moving Away from Marijuana Testing for Employees (NORML)

• Nebraska And Montana Marijuana Activists Resume Ballot Signature Gathering Amid Coronavirus (Marijuana Moment)

• Scientists Say the Legal Age to Start Smoking Weed Should Be 19, Not 21 (MERRY JANE)

• Company Recalls Injectable CBD Products Following FDA Warning Letter (Marijuana Moment)

• Oklahoma OKs Weed Delivery and Medical Marijuana Sales for Out-of-State Visitors (MERRY JANE)

• Los Angeles explosion shows perils of illicit cannabis market (Leafly)

• Federal Judge Orders Ohio To Let Marijuana Decriminalization Campaigns Collect Signatures Electronically (Marijuana Moment)

• Louisiana: House Lawmakers Advance Measures to Greatly Expand Medical Cannabis Access (NORML)

• FDA Notifies Public About Recall Of CBD Product That Tested High For Lead (Marijuana Moment)

• Could COVID-19 Be the Catalyst for the Federal Government to Legalize Marijuana? (The Motley Fool)

• No Evidence Prenatal Cannabis Exposure Causes Cognitive Impairment, Finds Major Review (Filter)

• UK cannabis firm bought by US-based fund in multimillion pound deal (The Guardian)

• Study: Adult-Use Legalization Associated with Decline in Youth Treatment Admissions (NORML)

• Jamaica Allows Online Medical Marijuana Purchases At ‘Herb Houses’ To Stop COVID Spread (Marijuana Moment)

• The Legal Cannabis Industry Has Created Almost 250,000 Jobs in the US (MERRY JANE)

• Massachusetts reopening plan for recreational marijuana calls for curbside delivery to start May 25 (MassLive)

• Teen Pot Use Has Not Increased in Uruguay, Despite Nationwide Legalization (MERRY JANE)

• Illinois Announces $31 Million In Marijuana Revenue-Funded Grants To Repair Drug War’s Harms (Marijuana Moment)

• Missouri bans certain medical cannabis edible shapes (Marijuana Business Daily)

• U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Unveils Revised Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Minnesota House-Passed Bill To Allow Whole-Plant Medical Marijuana Killed By Senate (Marijuana Moment)

• How to get high and help the planet, too (Mic)

• D.C. Mayor’s Budget Plan Seems To Set Stage For Legal Marijuana Sales (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic Cannabis: Using the Plant for Healing Trauma (Psychedelics Today)

• Legalizing Marijuana Boosts Hotel Bookings As Cannabis Tourism Takes Off, Study Shows (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• Florida sheriff who killed man as teen also concealed LSD use on job application (New York Post)

Magic Mushrooms

• Poll Indicates America’s Growing Acceptance of Psilocybin Mushrooms (High Times)

• NY Assembly Bill to Legalize Psilocybin Raises Questions Among Activists (Lucid News)

• This Startup is Building a Huge Magic Mushroom Farm in Jamaica (Futurism)

• Mota Ventures To Buy German Psilocybin Manufacturer (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD Will Likely Become a Legal Service in 2023 (MERRY JANE)

DMT

• Experiencing the Impossible on DMT (Sam Woolfe)

Ayahuasca

• ‘Completely devastating’: Family of man who died after hallucinogenic tea ceremony at Orange County church files lawsuit (WFTV)

Iboga

• Privilege & Access: Iboga and Ibogaine (Chacruna)

Ketamine

• There are 3 Types of Ketamine—Which One Works Best? (DoubleBlind)

• Is Ketamine the Cure for Chronic Depression? (Men's Health)

Datura

• Four of family fall ill after consuming datura seeds believing it will immunize them from COVID-19 (The New Indian Express)

Miscellaneous

• Should You Take Psychedelics While You’re Sick with COVID? (DoubleBlind)

• Psychedelics May Relieve Chronic Pain Via Changes in Brain Neuroplasticity (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Colorado’s Nowak Society Launches Public Education Campaign on Psychedelics (Psychedelic Times)

• Psychedelics and Endurance Sports: Increased Energy and Reduced Fatigue? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Urgent Action Needed: COVID-19 Pandemic Devastating Amazonia (Chacruna)

• This Drug Designer Is Creating a New Psychedelic to Treat Anxiety and Depression (VICE)

• Numinus Wellness Inc. commences trading on TSX Venture Exchange as NUMI (Yahoo! Finance)

• Champignon Sponsors Non-profit Coalition, TheraPsil - Medical Psilocybin Access Project for Palliative Cancer Patients and Health Professionals (GlobeNewswire)

• Drug Dealers Are Using Food Delivery and Dating Apps to Sell During Lockdown (MERRY JANE)

• Orthogonal Thinker Launches Foundation Focused On The Advancement Of Psychedelics Research And Advocacy (Yahoo! Finance)

• Decriminalization offers an ethical counterbalance to address sexual misconduct in psychedelic therapy (Psymposia)

• Empower Signs Term Sheet to Acquire Interest in Dosed Movie and Launches New Psychedelics Company Dosed Wellness Ltd. (Benzinga)

• Were There Psychoactive Plants in the Bible? (DoubleBlind)

• Meditation and Psychedelics as Tools for Journalists (Medium)

• Harm Reduction Works: An Exciting New Alternative to Narcotics Anonymous (Filter)

• Psychedelic experiences disrupt routine thinking — and so has the coronavirus pandemic (The Conversation)

• The Effects Of COVID-19 On The Hungarian Drug Market (TalkingDrugs)

• Psychedelics reconnect the brain’s motherboard, help patients restore cognitive abilities: leading expert on mood disorders (The Sociable)

• Psychedelics and the Internet: A Look into Technology’s Role in Human Evolution (DMT Times)

• Expanded Access to the Art of Integration (Chacruna)

• Decriminalization and the War on Drugs (Decriminalize Nature)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 4.24.20

Cannabis

• Lebanon Passes Legislation Legalizing Medical Marijuana Cultivation As Economy Struggles Amid Coronavirus Fallout (Newsweek)

• Mexican Supreme Court Again Extends Marijuana Legalization Deadline (Marijuana Moment)

• Due to COVID-19, Connecticut’s Legislative Session Cut Short, Cannabis Legalization Stalled (Cannabis Wire)

• On 4/20, ACLU Highlights Racist Marijuana Enforcement In New Report (Forbes)

• Virginia Lawmakers Reject Governor’s Delay Of Marijuana Legalization Study (Marijuana Moment)

• Scotland is set to get its first legal cannabis farm to produce drug for use in medicine (The Scottish Sun)

• Majority Of Americans Think Marijuana Legalization Is A Successful Policy, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Americans Think Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol, But Social Stigmas Remain (MERRY JANE)

• Early exposure to cannabis boosts young brains' sensitivity to cocaine, rodent study finds (Science Daily)

• New Jersey Voters Set To Approve Marijuana Legalization Referendum, Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• Clinical Trials for Treating COVID-19 with Cannabis Begin in Israel (MERRY JANE)

• Everything to Know About Cannabis and Coronavirus (The Cut)

• Cannabis industry launches COVID-19 relief efforts in Colorado (KDVR)

• DEA Marijuana Scheduling Lawsuit Will Be Appealed To Supreme Court Following Dismissal (Marijuana Moment)

• 24 Million Americans Will Spend Stimulus Check on Weed or Booze, Survey Says (MERRY JANE)

• New Jerseyans back referendum to legalize weed by huge margin, new poll shows (New Jersey Globe)

• Lawmakers File Bill To Let Marijuana Businesses Access Federal Coronavirus Relief Funds (Marijuana Moment)

• Feast or famine: The effect of marijuana on weight (The Spokesman-Review)

• Smoking Weed Causes Less DNA Damage Than Tobacco, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

• There is no difference between the effects of indica and sativa marijuana strains, scientists say (Insider)

• Weed advocacy groups call for prison depopulation to slow COVID-19 spread (Mugglehead)

LSD

• Mick Jagger once bought a giant mansion while tripping on LSD (Far Out Magazine)

Magic Mushrooms

• Until Next Time: California’s Mushroom Decriminalization Effort Ends (Filter)

• Empower Clinics launches psilocybin research and psychedelic treatment subsidiary (Proactive Investors)

• Champignon secures stable psilocybin supply for traumatic brain injury, PTSD studies at the University of Miami (Proactive Investors)

• Two New Crystalline Forms of Norpsilocin (Psychedelic Science Review)

Ketamine

• Defense Department Approves Ketamine-Based Antidepressant for Some Patients (Military.com)

• Utah Clinician Exemplifies Innovation in Ketamine Therapy (Lucid News)

Miscellaneous

• D.C. Would Vote To Decriminalize Psychedelics, Poll Shows (Forbes)

• Medical Researchers Worry Silicon Valley Could Screw Up Psychedelics (OneZero)

• Thiel Backs Psychedelic-Drug Startup in Latest Funding Round (Bloomberg)

• The Prohibited Medicine (Medium)

• Why Dark-Web Drug Marketplaces Can Be a Refuge (Filter)

• The Structure and Function of the Serotonin 5-HT2C Receptor (Psychedelic Science Review)

• How the Illicit Drug Trade Is Adapting to the Coronavirus Pandemic (World Politics Review)

• UN Experts Agree – The Right to Health of People Who Use Drugs Must Be Prioritised in Global COVID-19 Response (TalkingDrugs)

• Welcome to Entheogen (Medium)

• Psychedelics Make a Comeback as Therapies for Brain Injury, PTSD, Anxiety and Even Addiction (BioSpace)

• Can Psychedelics Treat Climate Grief? (The Nation)

• Russian NGO Accused of “Narco-Propaganda” Over COVID-19 Advocacy For People Who Use Drugs (TalkingDrugs)

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