This Week in Psychedelics - 10.8.21

Cannabis

• Philadelphia Will Vote On Marijuana Referendum Calling For Statewide Legalization Next Month (Marijuana Moment)

• Top Mexican Senator Lays Out Next Steps For National Marijuana Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Nevada: New Marijuana Laws Took Effect This Month (NORML)

• Portugal Delays Recreational Cannabis Bills as Luxembourg Also Signals Delay (High Times)

• New York: Regulators Approve Patients’ Access to Medical Cannabis Flower (NORML)

• NBA Won’t Randomly Drug Test Players For Marijuana For Another Season, League Announces (Marijuana Moment)

• Lung Injuries Tied To Contaminated Vapes Were Less Common In States With Legal Marijuana And Homegrow, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• California Legalizes Smokable Hemp and Food Sales in Historic Bill (High Times)

• Preconception cannabis use linked to an increased risk of postpartum depression (PsyPost)

• More Than A Dozen Ohio Cities Will Vote On Marijuana Decriminalization Ballot Measures Next Month (Marijuana Moment)

• CBGA More Effective For Seizures Than CBD, Study of Mice Finds (High Times)

• Study: Cannabis Use Disorder Diagnosis Associated with Greater Risk of COVID Breakthrough Infections — NORML Responds (NORML)

• Bipartisan Pennsylvania Senators Unveil Marijuana Legalization Bill Amid Whirlwind Of Reform Efforts In The State (Marijuana Moment)

• Oklahoma Activists File Marijuana Legalization And Medical Cannabis Reform Initiatives For 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• Inside the World’s Largest Collection of Acid Tabs (DoubleBlind)

• Acid Communism (Daniel Pinchbeck)

Magic Mushrooms

• GOP Pennsylvania Lawmaker Files Psilocybin Research Bill For Veterans And First Responders (Marijuana Moment)

• Denver may ease magic mushrooms laws further two years after decriminalization (The Denver Post)

• Is Denver’s Psilocybin Decriminalization Having an Impact? (Filter)

• Psychedelic drug changes the emotional state of people listening to music (News-Medical.net)

• "Homebrew" Psilocybin Created By Scientists Using "Widely Available" Materials (IFLScience)

• Mydecine To Supply Lead Drug Candidate, MYCO-001, for Multi-Site NIDA Grant-Funded Smoking Cessation Study Lead by Dr. Matthew Johnson (Mydecine)

• Psygen Announces use of Psilocybin in Human Trial and Provides Update on IP Portfolio (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psyched Wellness Announces Commencement of Next Pre-Clinical Study on AME-1 (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Why You Vom When You’re Coming Up On MDMA (VICE)

• MDMA-assisted psychotherapy associated with sleep improvements among PTSD patients (PsyPost)

Peyote

• Santa Cruz Removes Peyote And Other Mescaline-Containing Cacti From Psychedelics Decriminalization Law (Marijuana Moment)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Psychedelic Capital: Novel Psychedelic Molecules (Truffle Report)

Ketamine

• Recreational ketamine use has increased in recent years, but remains rare (Medical Xpress)

• PharmaTher Initiates Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Ketamine for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Seattle Becomes Largest U.S. City To Decriminalize Psychedelics (Marijuana Moment)

• Arcata, California Decriminalizes Psychedelics (Truffle Report)

• The Psychedelics Industry Could Offer a Whole New Approach to Work (Rolling Stone)

• Will Smith Recalls Life-Changing Psychedelic Experiences in New Book (High Times)

• PSYCH Publishes Third Edition of The Psychedelics as Medicine Report (PR Newswire)

• Toronto’s Bid to Decriminalize Drugs Hangs in the Balance (Filter)

• The Need for New Psychedelic Compounds (Psychology Today)

• Risks of Serotonin Syndrome when Combining Psychedelics with Antidepressants (Chacruna)

• The 'Psychedelic Renaissance' Is Entirely About Corporate Greed (Caitlin Johnstone)

• Becoming a Yes-Sayer: Psychedelics, Nietzsche, and the Affirmation of Life (Sam Woolfe)

• Will Psychedelic Companies Embrace Indigenous Reciprocity? (Lucid News)

• What Is Hallucinogen-Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD)? (PsychCentral)

• Anima Mundi: Psychedelics and The Ensouled Earth (Psychedelics Today)

• Ensuring Equity in Psychedelic Science and Businesses (Truffle Report)

• Death and psychedelics: How science is reviving this ancient connection (Leafly)

• DoubleBlind Claims Its Ad Was the ‘First-Ever’ U.S. Psychedelic Destigmatization Campaign — It Wasn’t (Psymposia)

• Psychedelic-Induced Psychological Flexibility Can Reduce Racial Trauma (Truffle Report)

• Tryp Therapeutics Announces Collaboration with Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelics and Mental Health Therapy in Colorado: DORA and Potential Regulatory Response (JD Supra)

• Psychedelics and Perception Part 2: The First Era of Research (Psychedelic Science Review)

• It’s one big mistake (New Amsterdam Psychedelic Law)

• Madison Margolin Sounds Off on Mainstreaming of Cannabis and Psychedelics Cultures (CelebStoner)

• Numinus Upgrades Psychedelics Lab to Increase Research Service Capabilities (PR Newswire)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 9.24.21

Cannabis

• Switzerland’s Zurich to Begin Recreational Cannabis Trial in 2022 (High Times)

• U.S. House Approves SAFE Banking Act as Part of Military Spending Bill in Historic Vote (High Times)

• Green Party in Finland Calls for End of Prohibition (High Times)

• This company is smuggling tons of legal cannabis into streets, whistleblower alleges (Leafly)

• California State Fair Will Host Marijuana Competition For The First Time At 2022 Event, Officials Announce (Marijuana Moment)

• Connecticut: Qualified Patients Can Begin Home Cultivating Cannabis Next Week (NORML)

• Rhode Island Lawmakers Are ‘Very Close’ On Marijuana Legalization Deal Ahead Of Possible Special Session, Top Senator Says (Marijuana Moment)

• Lessons the Psychedelics Industry Can Learn From the Cannabis Market Bubble (Lucid News)

• Pennsylvania Senators Discuss Bill To Provide DUI Protections For Medical Marijuana Patients (Marijuana Moment)

• VA sending mixed messages for vets about cannabis use to treat PTSD (Arizona Mirror)

• Delaware: Governor Signs Measure Amending Cannabis Penalties for Minors (NORML)

• FBI Clarifies That Using Marijuana More Than 24 Times Disqualifies Would-Be Agents (Marijuana Moment)

• Former Massachusetts Mayor Sentenced for Extortion (High Times)

• Controlling cannabis and the classification of Delta-8 THC (Reuters)

• Eaze launches California program to bring free medical cannabis to low-income patients (Greenway Magazine)

• Mississippi Lawmakers Reach Deal On Medical Marijuana Legalization, Plan To Request Special Session (Marijuana Moment)

• For Chronic Pain Sufferers, Cannabis "May Be a Source of Hope" (Green Entrepreneur)

• Full-Page Washington Post Ad Calls For Marijuana Prisoner’s Freedom While Celebs Make Money In Industry (Marijuana Moment)

• Can Cannabis Help Your Gut? (TIME)

• Florida Marijuana Activists File New Legalization Initiative For 2022 Ballot Following Supreme Court Defeats (Marijuana Moment)

• Oklahoma Activists Finalize Language For Two 2022 Marijuana Ballot Initiatives (Marijuana Moment)

• Nebraska Cannabis Association launches as state's first lobbying group for marijuana-based businesses (York News-Times)

Magic Mushrooms

• Psilocybin Study for Tobacco Gets Federal Funding (Truffle Report)

• Thousands attend first-ever psychedelic shroom festival in Ann Arbor (MLive.com)

• Canadian Coalition Submits Draft for Legal Psilocybin Therapy (Truffle Report)

• Happy Global Magic Mushroom Day (9/20) for Psilocybin Fans (CelebStoner)

• Nine Perfect Strangers's Portrayal of Psilocybin Could Derail Progress in Researching Psychedelic Use for Mental Health (Teen Vogue)

• Shroom Delivery is Now a Thing (DoubleBlind)

• Magic Mushrooms May Be the Biggest Advance in Treating Depression Since Prozac (Newsweek)

• Former GOP Congresswoman Touts Psilocybin As Treatment For Alcoholism (Marijuana Moment)

• Psyched Wellness Initiates a Clinical Sleep Study on Humans for a Structure/Function Claim For AME-1 (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Amanita muscaria – A Fresh Look at An Iconic Mushroom (Psychedelic Science Review)

• The 25 Best U.S. Counties for Mushroom Foragers (moveBuddha)

• MindMed and Liechti Lab Provide Results from their Psilocybin R&D Collaboration (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Eversio Wellness Harvests Its First Legally Grown Psychoactive Mushrooms (Yahoo! Finance)

MDMA

• Awakn Life Sciences Acquires Exclusive Rights to MDMA Research from Imperial College London (Psilocybin Alpha)

DMT

• Small Pharma Successfully Completes Phase I Clinical Trial of DMT in Combination with Supportive Psychotherapy (Psilocybin Alpha)

5-MeO-DMT

• I Wanted Ego Death. This Powerful Psychedelic Gave It To Me. (BuzzFeed News)

• Lexston Initiates Research and Development Project Using Psychedelic Compound 5-Me0-DMT (TheNewswire)

Mescaline

• Mescaline, Veganism, and Schopenhauer’s Philosophy (Sam Woolfe)

Iboga

• DemeRx Doses First Subject in Phase 1/2a Study of DMX-1002 (Ibogaine) in Opioid Use Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

Salvia Divinorum

• Salvia Divinorum and Kratom Combination – What You Must Know About It (IRN Post)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Are Prodrugs the Next Wave of Psychedelic Drug Development? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Mindset Pharma Announces Further Preclinical Results Demonstrating Strong Efficacy and Improved Safety Profile for its 5-MeO-DMT-Inspired Drug Candidate, MSP-4018 (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Tryp Therapeutics Submits IND Application for Phase 2a Clinical Trial in Eating Disorders (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Clearmind Medicine Partners with The Hebrew University to Develop Novel Psychedelic Drug (Yahoo! Finance)

• Mydecine Files MYCO-003 Final Patent Application and Reports Positive Preclinical Data (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Spice is significantly more harmful than marijuana (International Business Times)

• New Study Comparing Plant-Derived and Synthetic CBD Efficacy Opens Door to Exciting Medical Uses of Cannabidiol (Yahoo! Finance)

Nitrous Oxide

• TikTok Is Hosting Ads for ‘Whipped Cream’. But It’s Actually Nitrous Oxide (VICE)

Ketamine

• Delic signs US$10 million merger deal to become top psychedelic wellness chain in the U.S. (Canadian Lawyer)

• Turning Everyday Therapist Offices into Ketamine Clinics (Lucid News)

• Statistical model defines ketamine anesthesia’s effects on the brain (MIT News)

• Is A Ketamine Infusion Covered By Insurance? (Healing Maps)

Miscellaneous

• Companies are Getting Rid of Drug Tests Because They Can’t Find Enough Workers (VICE)

• Class A drug possession ‘effectively decriminalised’ in Scotland (The Times)

• Hamilton Morris Hired by Psilocybin Startup COMPASS Pathways, Ends "Hamilton's Pharmacopeia" On Vice (Psymposia)

• Italian Advocates Collect 500,000 Signatures for Decriminalization of Cannabis and Psychoactive Substances (High Times)

• Psychedelics Are a Billion-Dollar Business, and No One Can Agree Who Should Control It (VICE)

• Meet Microdosing TikTok—And Why the Community Matters (Psychedelics Today)

• More Michigan Cities Look to Decriminalize Psychedelics (Truffle Report)

• The Michigan Poison and Drug Information Center issues notification about effects and risks of using psychedelic substances (Today@Wayne)

• Criticism of Awakn Treatment Model as Second Clinic Opens for Treating Addiction (TalkingDrugs)

• Psychedelic Patents: Nature, IP Law, & Exclusion (Truffle Report)

• How To Come Down From A High: Navigating the Downslope of a Trip (DoubleBlind)

• Armed With Two Patents, Psycheceutical Plans To Transform Psychedelic Drug Delivery (Forbes)

• Psychedelic Water founder looks to new legal era for powerful drugs (The Washington Times)

• Mycrodose Therapeutics Successfully Completes Oversubscribed Private Placement to Expand Existing Patent Portfolio of Breakthrough Advanced Drug Delivery Technologies (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Why Bristol Uni is taking a more progressive stance on drugs (The Bristol Cable)

• Numinus Completes Acquisition of Neurology Centre of Toronto (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The Removal of the Ecuadorian Drug Possession Table: A Major Government Mistake (TalkingDrugs)

• ATMA Journey Centers Offer Regulated Health Care Professionals a Means to Incorporate Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Into Their Practice (Psilocybin Alpha)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 9.3.21

Cannabis

• Appeals court rejects lawsuit seeking to force DEA to reschedule marijuana (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Anti-Pot Author Alex Berenson Gets Permanent Twitter Ban (High Times)

• How Much Legal Cannabis Is In California? It’s A State Secret. (Forbes)

• Allowing Public Marijuana Smoking Leads To Bigger NYC Arrest Decline Than In Other Legalized Places (Marijuana Moment)

• Fakkuappu: Japan Struggles with Cannabis Reform (High Times)

• Senators Flooded With Input On Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Big Pharma Seizes Brazilian Market While Medical Cannabis Bill is Stalled (TalkingDrugs)

• Alabama medical cannabis program might roll out slower than expected (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Swiss Doctors to Prescribe Cannabis Without “Exceptional Authorization” (High Times)

• Legalization Nation: The Dispensary Divide (The Nib)

• New Group Files Another Missouri Marijuana Legalization Initiative For 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Ohio Marijuana Activists Cleared To Collect Signatures For 2022 Legalization Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• How Dock Ellis Made Baseball History on LSD (DoubleBlind)

Magic Mushrooms

• Denver Psychedelics Activists Push To Expand Psilocybin Decriminalization To Allow Gifting And Communal Use (Marijuana Moment)

• Yale researchers discover healing effects of psychedelic drug (Yale Daily News)

• Heroic Hearts Project announces new study with Imperial College London into the physiological and psychological effects of psilocybin on veterans. (Volteface)

• 'Psychedelic renaissance' sees first legal collection of Australia's medicinal magic mushrooms (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• The Tragic Story Of Magic Truffles: The Elusive Wild Psilocybe (DoubleBlind)

• Red Light Holland Successfully Completes Canada’s Largest Legal Sale and Import of Psilocybe Truffles into Canada Under a Health Canada Approved Psilocybin Import Permit (Psilocybin Alpha)

DMT

• Microdose Psychedelic Insights Presents the Upcoming DMT Conference, a Deep Dive Into the Dynamic Field of DMT Therapeutics (Benzinga)

Ayahuasca

• A single dose of ayahuasca improves self-perception of speech performance in socially anxious people, study finds (PsyPost)

• Wilma Mahua Campos, Shipibo Ayahuasquera (Chacruna)

• The Importance of Traditional Ayahuasca Techniques with Carlos Tanner (EntheoNation)

5-MeO-DMT

• Psychedelic Toads Emerge In Arizona During Monsoon Season (iHeartRadio)

San Pedro

• The Effects of Mescaline in the San Pedro Cactus (The Third Wave)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Mindset Pharma Announces its Next Generation Novel 5-MeO-DMT Psychedelic Analogs Demonstrate a Significantly Improved Safety Profile in Preclinical Results (Psilocybin Alpha)

Nitrous Oxide

• Nitrous oxide: Patel orders Laughing gas review to decide on potential new law (BBC)

Ketamine

• Cops and Paramedics Involved in Elijah McClain’s Death Charged With Homicide (VICE)

Miscellaneous

• Drug Users Are Suing the Canadian Government Over the War on Drugs (VICE)

• DEA Proposes Massive Increase In Marijuana And Psilocybin Production For Research To Develop FDA-Approved Medicines (Marijuana Moment)

• 'QAnon Shaman' to plead guilty in US Capitol riot case (CNN)

• What Is the ‘Collective Unconscious’ and How Can It Help Us Understand Psychedelic Experiences? (Psychedelics Today)

• Can Psychedelics Promote Social Justice and Change the World? (Chacruna)

• Seattle Should Decriminalize All Drugs, City Task Force On Overdose Crisis Recommends (Marijuana Moment)

• Jon Hopkins Announces New Album Music for Psychedelic Therapy, Shares New Song: Listen (Pitchfork)

• Meet the women who regularly microdose psychedelics (Cosmopolitan)

• Glow Time: PsychLight Brings a Powerful Tool to Psychedelic Research (Psychedelic Science Review)

• New Psychedelic Therapy Clinic Opens in Charleston (Johnson City Press)

• Psychedelics Co. Synthesis Institute Closes $7.25M Series A Funding Through Non-Traditional VC Path (Benzinga)

• Psychedelics—The New Psychiatric Craze (Mad in America)

• Field Trip Health Ltd. Announces Launch Of “Kap Co-Operative” Program, Enabling Independent Psychedelic Therapists To Practice At Its Field Trip Health Centers; Also Launches Training Programs To Educate A New Generation Of Psychedelic Clinicians (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelics in Recovery: 12-Step Peer Support Program (Truffle Report)

• Legal Psychedelic Retreats – What They Are & Where to Find Them (EntheoNation)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 8.6.21

Cannabis

• Louisiana: Marijuana Decriminalization Law Takes Effect (NORML)

• Missouri Probation Officers Are Sending People Back to Prison for Legally Using Medical Cannabis (MERRY JANE)

• Trial to test if cannabis-based mouth spray can treat brain tumours (The Guardian)

• Wyoming Marijuana Decriminalization And Medical Cannabis Initiatives Clear First 2022 Ballot Hurdle (Marijuana Moment)

• Puerto Rico: Law Signed Protecting Medical Cannabis Patients from Employment Discrimination (NORML)

• Arkansas Marijuana Activists Push For Legalization Ballot Initiative In 2022 (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• How the CIA used LSD to fight communism (Big Think)

Magic Mushrooms

• Canadians Overwhelmingly Support Legal Access to Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy, Poll Reveals (Psilocybin Alpha)

• COMPASS Pathways’ Psilocybin Patent Questioned By UK Patent Examiner (Psymposia)

• Does This Medieval Fresco Show A Hallucinogenic Mushroom in the Garden of Eden? (Atlas Obscura)

• Filament Health Is the First Public Company to Be Issued a Patent for Extraction of Natural Psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

DMT

• Enzymes Responsible for DMT Synthesis Coexist in Mammalian Brain Cells (Psychedelic Science Review)

• PharmaDrug Forms Research Collaboration with Terasaki Institute for Novel Ocular Drug Formulation Program to Deliver DMT and Other Tryptamines to Treat Eye Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Addiction Treatment: Ayahuasca May Help Addicts Stop Abusing Alcohol and Drugs (Gilmore Health News)

Mescaline

• Could Synthetic Mescaline Protect Declining Peyote Populations? (Chacruna)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Deadly drug 25B-NBOH sold as powdered LSD in Melbourne, spike in Victorian hospitalisations (News.com.au)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Lawsuit Filed Over Massachusetts Prisons’ Use of Faulty Drug Tests (Ganjapreneur)

Ketamine

• With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment (STAT)

• Ketamine May Combat Depression in Teens (Lucid News)

Miscellaneous

• Usona Institute Breaks Ground for Global Center in Psychedelic Science (The Joplin Globe)

• Drug deaths in England and Wales highest since 1993 (BBC)

• The Story of “El Chapo” and Why the Drug War Will Never End (The Nation)

• First-ever research centre for psychedelic drug therapy is opening in Australia (Mixmag)

• Fireside Project Releases App for Psychedelic Peer Support (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Modernization of Sacred Plant Medicine Traditions: At What Cost? (Psychedelics Today)

• The Wonderful and Absurd Adventures of Rosemary Woodruff Leary: Fashion Icon, Fugitive, and Psychedelic Pioneer (Part One) (Chacruna)

• Researchers Concerned About Whitewashing of Psychedelic-Assisted Mental Health Research (Mad in America)

• Awakn Life Sciences Announces Its Second Location in the UK for “Awakn Clinics London,” Providing Treatment to the Largest City in the UK (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Two Years After Oakland’s Psychedelic Decrim, What’s Been the Impact? (Filter)

• Improving Y/Our Relationship with Psychedelics (Maps of the Mind)

• Advancing the Psychedelic Renaissance (Reality Sandwich)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 7.9.21

Cannabis

• First Full-Service Marijuana Delivery App Launches On Apple Store Following Policy Change (Marijuana Moment)

• Delta-8-THC craze concerns chemists (Chemical and Engineering News)

• Federal Marijuana Trafficking Convictions Have Fallen Dramatically Following Enactment of Statewide Legalization Laws (NORML)

• Study: Cannabis farms not as thirsty as previously thought (Eureka Times-Standard)

• FBI Loosens Marijuana Employment Policy For Would-Be Agents (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis Use Associated With Increased Decision Making Skills (Green Entrepreneur)

• Sioux Tribe Is Opening South Dakota's First and Only Medical Cannabis Dispensary (MERRY JANE)

• Brazil Gains Ground on Medical Marijuana, in Defiance of Bolsonaro (Filter)

• Temple research finds that tweaking CBD may help it curb pain and opioid use in mice (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• South Dakota Marijuana Activists Unveil Four Legalization Initiatives For 2022 Ballot, Pending Supreme Court Decision (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: Cannabis use may be associated with suicidality in young adults (The Highland County Times)

Magic Mushrooms

• Just One Dose of Magic Mushroom Compound Regrows Lost Brain Connections in Mice (ScienceAlert)

• Is This Peter Thiel–Backed Startup Trying to Monopolize the Astral Plane? (Mother Jones)

MDMA

• Director James Cameron was high on MDMA when he came up with key Terminator 2 character (Metro)

• One-third of MDMA tested at festivals actually 'dangerous' drug eutylone - KnowYourStuff (Newshub)

• My summer of love: ‘Under the spell of ecstasy, strangers went straight to limitless intimacy’ (The Guardian)

DMT

• Tripping On Your Lunch Break: Inside the Rise of Casual DMT Use (VICE)

• Microdosing DMT… Wait, That’s a Thing? (EntheoNation)

Ayahuasca

• A Brief Heritage of Ayahuasca Art (DoubleBlind)

Mescaline

• Mescaline Could Help Fight Addiction, Depression, PTSD, and Anxiety, Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

• Mescaline is Resurgent (Yet Again) As a Potential Medicine (Lucid News)

• Is Mescaline A Key Component In The Future Of Medicine? XPhyto Aims To Find Out (Forbes)

Peyote

• Inside a Peyote Pilgrimage (The New York Times)

• Two Projects Seek to Change the Legal Status of Peyote and Mushrooms in Mexico (Chacruna)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Twenty Two Plus One: Sunrise αMT at Huangshan (Maps of the Mind)

• NSW Health issues urgent alert over 'potent hallucinogen' found in MDMA (Sky News)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Warning over dangerous synthetic cannabis batch as death probed (Radio New Zealand)

Ketamine

• Colorado ketamine bill signed into law, limits police influence on sedative’s use (KDVR)

• Portrayed As Date Rape Drug, Ketamine Is Removed from California Decrim Bill (Lucid News)

Miscellaneous

• Rhode Island Governor Signs Historic Bill Legalizing Safe Consumption Sites For Illicit Drugs (Marijuana Moment)

• Study suggests psychedelic users reframe “bad trips” into positive experiences through detailed narratives (PsyPost)

• Michael Pollan is Back with Mind-Bending Thoughts on Drugs, Ego Death, and the Healing Power of Plants (GQ)

• Third California City Seeks To Decriminalize Psychedelics (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic Drugs Are Moving From The Fringes Of Medicine To The Mainstream (Forbes)

• Best Practices for Serious Psychonauts (Maps of the Mind)

• Psychedelic Motherhood: The Altered States of Birth (Chacruna)

• Tryptamine Patents: Explaining Deuterated Drug Analogs (Truffle Report)

• The Ritual: A Framework for Psychedelic Journeys (Maps of the Mind)

• Real-World Research in Psychedelic Science (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Keeping a Drug Journal (Maps of the Mind)

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