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This Week in Psychedelics - 6.11.21

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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

5-MeO-DMT

Iboga

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 - 5.15.20

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Cannabis

  • Cannabis banking reform included in latest Congressional COVID relief bill (Leafly)

  • NYC Officially Enacts Ban on Pre-Employment Cannabis Testing (With Exceptions) (MERRY JANE)

  • Albania, once haven of illicit cannabis, set to legalise crop for medical use (Reuters)

  • Montana’s legalization campaign hits the streets, safely distanced (Leafly)

  • Lawmakers In Virginia Capital Vote To End Marijuana Testing Of City Workers (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis May Stop Coronavirus From Infecting People, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

  • Cannabis employees are in high demand during economic crash (Politico)

  • Louisiana Lawmakers Vote To Expand Medical Marijuana Conditions List Again (Marijuana Moment)

  • The Bizarre Case of a Death Allegedly Caused by CBD Oil (VICE)

  • Poll: Respondents in Adult-Use Marijuana States Say Legalization Has Been Successful (NORML)

  • Utah Approves Cannabis Drive-Thrus and Delivery to Facilitate Social Distancing (MERRY JANE)

  • CBD might not cause you to fail a drug test, but CBN might (The Baltimore Sun)

  • USDA Approves Hemp Plans For Massachusetts And Five Indian Tribes (Marijuana Moment)

  • Body's own marijuana helps us forget traumatic memories (Medical Xpress)

  • A CDC study found people who smoked cannabis had a slightly higher risk of fungal infections than those who didn't (Insider)

  • El Paso, Texas Lawmakers Approve Measure To Reduce Arrests For Low-Level Marijuana Possession (Marijuana Moment)

  • Organic Weed Certified by the State Is Coming to California (MERRY JANE)

  • Maryland Governor Vetoes Bill To Shield Marijuana Conviction Records From Public View (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • MindMed Advances Phase 2 LSD Microdosing Trial For Adult ADHD, Appoints Principal Investigator (Markets Insider)

  • Taking LSD or Psilocybin Alone Won’t Treat Alcohol Addiction, Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Oregon Campaigns To Legalize Psilocybin Mushrooms And Decriminalize Drugs Team Up To Qualify For Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • NeonMind Completes Design of Preclinical Psilocybin Psychedelic Mushroom Study (Yahoo! Finance)

  • Silo Wellness Offers Free Psilocybin Retreat for Covid-19 Frontline Workers (Lucid News)

  • The Definitive History of Psilocybin Mushrooms (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

  • Interim Analysis Shows At Least 90% Chance of Statistically Significant Difference in PTSD Symptoms after MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy (MAPS)

DMT

  • Thousands of DMT Users Report Positive Encounters with Spirit Entities, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

Ayahuasca

  • Florida Ayahuasca Church Seeks Federal Exemption (Lucid News)

  • The Corona Crisis: A View from the Ayahuasca Capital of Iquitos (Chacruna)

Peyote

  • A Word in Edgewise About the Sustainability of Peyote (Chacruna)

Iboga

Nitrous Oxide

  • Antarctic Penguins Poop Out So Much Laughing Gas, It Has a Funny Effect on Researchers (ScienceAlert)

Ketamine

  • Ketamine is being tested as a treatment for coronavirus in new study (Happy Mag)

  • Prescribed Ketamine Turned These Men Violent, Allege Lawsuits (VICE)

  • Champignon Brands Acquires Ketamine Wellness Clinic (Green Market Report)

Miscellaneous

  • North Star Announces Ethical Pledge for Era of Psychedelic Business (Lucid News)

  • Portland Activists Will Pursue Psychedelics Decriminalization Through City Council Rather Than Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Small-Time Drug Dealers Rethink Strategies for the Virus Era (The New York Times)

  • Everything’s Canceled: How the Psychedelic Community is Coping (DoubleBlind)

  • Bipolar and Psychedelics: An Investigation into the Potential and Risks (Psychedelics Today)

  • 'Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics': Film Review (Hollywood Reporter)

  • COVID-19 Is the Biggest Drug and Alcohol Enabler Right Now, Survey Finds (MERRY JANE)

  • MAPS Founder Rick Doblin: You’re Never Too Old For A Psychedelic Experience (Forbes)

  • The Startup Turning Yeast Into Psychedelics (Technology Networks)

  • Psychedelics Co. Champignon Announces New CEO, $10M In Funding And M&A Deal (Benzinga)

  • Warning: Increase in Recent Seizures by Homeland Security in the US (Chacruna)

  • 60 Minutes try psychedelics and have a surprisingly good trip (AOD Media Watch)

  • UK's Most Famous UFO Sighting Was Just a Hallucinogen-Induced Military Experiment, New Book Claims (Sputnik News)

  • New Wave Holdings Corp Forms Psychedelic Research Advisory Board and Appoints Dr. Richard Knowles (Yahoo! Finance)

  • The Kaleidoscopic Forest of Amazonian Shamans (Kahpi)

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