This Week in Psychedelics - 12.31.21

Cannabis

• Germany Moves To Legalize Cannabis, Second Country After Malta In Europe (Forbes)

• New Marijuana Laws Take Effect Across The U.S. With The New Year (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis in ’22: Is federal legalization on the horizon? (Profiles in Legalization)

• These European Countries Could Legalize Cannabis In 2022 (Forbes)

• New Mexico County Prepares for Recreational Cannabis (U.S. News and World Report)

• New Hampshire Lawmakers File Multiple Marijuana Legalization Bills Ahead Of 2022 Session (Marijuana Moment)

• Indiana Marijuana Legalization And Regulatory Bills Pre-Filed For 2022 Session (Marijuana Moment)

• 2021 Roundup of Cannabis Reform in Europe (and 2022 Predictions) (High Times)

• Cannabis Company Says Afghanistan Plans Hinge On International Recognition Of Taliban Regime (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis Testing Prohibited for Most Philadelphia Job Applicants Starting 2022 (High Times)

• How Decriminalization Impacts Racial Disparities in Cannabis Arrests (Filter)

• New Mexico Releases Final Adult-Use Cannabis Rules (High Times)

• Wisconsin Governor Grants Marijuana And Drug-Related Pardons, Setting State Clemency Record (Marijuana Moment)

• Rochester, New York Mayor-Elect Plans Guaranteed Basic Income From Cannabis Taxes (High Times)

• One-Third Of Programmers Use Marijuana While Working, With Many Touting Creative Benefits, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Australia Cannabis Legalization Support Has Doubled in Six Years (High Times)

• Mississippi Governor Won’t Sign Medical Cannabis Bill Without Major Changes (High Times)

LSD

• When Trey Parker and Matt Stone went to the Oscars on LSD (Far Out Magazine)

Magic Mushrooms

• New Hampshire Lawmakers File Psilocybin And Broader Drug Decriminalization Bills For 2022 (Marijuana Moment)

• Brain Damage From Alcohol May Be Reversed By Using Magic Mushrooms, Per Study (Healing Maps)

• Depression and Grief Wrecked a Man's Life—Until He Took Magic Mushroom Ingredient (Newsweek)

• COMPASS Patent Challenge Targets Crystallography Errors (Psychedelic Science Review)

MDMA

• Warning over high-dose MDMA circulating in Sydney (9News)

Ayahuasca

• Iowa Church Using Hallucinogen During Services Denied Tax-Exempt Status (Newsweek)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Children collapse in school after vaping £10 fake cannabis oil laced with Spice ‘sold on Snapchat’ (The Sun)

Nitrous Oxide

• Business offers to deliver dangerous nitrous oxide nangs to your home (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Ketamine

• Ketamine Therapy Is Going Mainstream. Are We Ready? (The New Yorker)

• I Took Ketamine for My Depression. Things Got Pretty Weird. (The New York Times)

Miscellaneous

• Drug testing at festivals becomes legal at New Year (New Zealand Herald)

• Feds Announce Funds For Drug Harm Reduction Studies, Including On Decriminalization And Safe Consumption Sites (Marijuana Moment)

• Looking Back at 2021’s Psychedelics Milestones (Truffle Report)

• National Group Submits Colorado Psychedelics Decriminalization Ballot Measures (High Times)

• Here Are The Biggest Marijuana, Psychedelics And Drug Policy News Stories Of 2021 (Marijuana Moment)

• Highlights from a landmark year in psychedelic science (New Atlas)

• How AI Could Prevent the Development of New Illicit Drugs (Undark)

• It’s Been A Banner Year For MAPS Public Benefit Corporation And The Women Leading It (Forbes)

• 2021: A Year in Review for the Psychedelics Business (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• SXSW Selects Multiple Marijuana And Psychedelics Panels For 2022 Festival (Marijuana Moment)

• The Psychedelic Drugs Market to Be Defined By Exceptional Digitization (Lake Shore Gazette)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 10.22.21

Cannabis

• Luxembourg first in Europe to legalise growing and using cannabis (The Guardian)

• Switzerland to legalise recreational and medical cannabis usage (The Local)

• Virginia Has Sealed 64,000 Marijuana Distribution Charges Since Legalization Took Effect This Summer (Marijuana Moment)

• New York: Employers Are Prohibited from Testing Most Employees for Cannabis (NORML)

• Top Mexican Senator Says Marijuana Legalization Bill May Be Taken Up Within Weeks (Marijuana Moment)

• South Dakota Lawmakers Advance Marijuana Legalization Bill As Activists Pursue 2022 Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

• Oregon illegal pot grows: More calls to send National Guard (AP News)

• USPS Releases Final Rule Banning Mailing Of Hemp, CBD And Marijuana Vapes (Marijuana Moment)

• Alabama Announces Medical Cannabis Licenses Won’t Be Available Until 2022 (High Times)

• Impact Of Marijuana Legalization On Crime Reduction Is Being Underestimated, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Recreational Cannabis Law in Washington, D.C. May Soon Be Operational (High Times)

• New York: Officials Advance Home Cultivation Regulations for Qualified Patients (NORML)

• Minnesota Denies Coverage of Medical Marijuana for Injured Workers (High Times)

• Brit jailed for 25 years in Dubai over CBD vape oil speaks of 'shocking' conditions in call to mum (ITV)

• Indica and Sativa Labels Can’t Be Trusted, Study Indicates (High Times)

• Americans Want To Live Where Marijuana Is Legal, Real Estate Survey Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: Cannabis Use Benefits ADHD Symptoms in Adults, According to Self-Reports (ADDitude)

LSD

• LSD vs. Psilocybin Microdosing for Mental Health and Workplace productivity (The Third Wave)

• Can You Overdose On LSD? This Is What To Know (Healing Maps)

Magic Mushrooms

• Boris Johnson to consider calls to legalise magic mushroom drug psilocybin (BBC)

• Open-label study of COMP360 psilocybin therapy for depression in cancer patients demonstrates feasibility of simultaneous psilocybin administration in small groups (Psilocybin Alpha)

• COMPASS Pathways is granted new US patent for crystalline psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Doing Shrooms Alone: The Art of Tripping Solo (DoubleBlind)

• Psyched Wellness Announces Preliminary Data Showing Potential New Functional Property and Health Benefit of Amanita Muscaria Mushroom (AME-1) To Inhibit Human Mast Cell Activation (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The “Unsung History” of Psilocybin Research: Gastón Guzmán and His Scientific Contribution (Chacruna)

• Numinus Advances Phase 1 Trial on Proprietary Psilocybin Product (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Magic Mushrooms Could One Day Treat Depression. How Do They Work? (ScienceAlert)

MDMA

• Treating Hypoactive Sexual Disorder With MDMA (Reality Sandwich)

DMT

• First Patient Dosed in Phase IIa DMT-Assisted Therapy Clinical Trial (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Small Pharma Granted Fast-Track Designation From U.K. Regulator for DMT-Assisted Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Cybin Announces Completion of 74 Pre-Clinical Psychedelic Molecule Studies (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Emyria passes MDMA analogue development milestone with Eurofins to lead extensive compound screening program (Proactive Investors)

Nitrous Oxide

• Nang gang: Nitrous oxide helps alleviate depression, study finds (The Big Smoke)

Ketamine

• Are Ketamine Clinics Paving the Way for Legal Psychedelic Therapy? (DoubleBlind)

• Why Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Has Gone Mainstream (Forbes)

• PharmaTher Engages Alcami for Clinical and Commercial Manufacturing of Novel Ketamine Products (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Easthampton, Mass. Decriminalizes Natural Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• Oakland Psychedelics Activists Launch Initiative To Legalize Community-Based Sales With Support From City Council (Marijuana Moment)

• DEA Proposes Dramatic Increase In Marijuana And Psychedelic Production In 2022, Calling For 6,300 Percent More MDMA Alone (Marijuana Moment)

• Preventing Sexual Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Bank Of America Cancels Account Of Marijuana And Psychedelics Research Institute Registered With DEA (Marijuana Moment)

• Activist Apes Erect 2,001-Pound Monolith In Front Of DEA Headquarters, Demanding Feds ‘Evolve’ On Drug Policy (Marijuana Moment)

• How Do I Talk To My Doctor About Psychedelics? (Truffle Report)

• Addressing Abuse and Repair: An Open Letter to the Psychedelic Community (Chacruna)

• This New Company Believes Psychedelics Can Treat Dementia (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Campaign Launches to Decriminalize Drugs in Washington, DC (Filter)

• Can microdosing psychedelics impact an insurance application? (News24)

• Even in a Year of Massive Reforms, Racist Myths Pervade the Drug Policy Debate (TalkingDrugs)

• Countdown to ecstasy: how music is being used in healing psychedelic trips (The Guardian)

• Homecoming: The Psychedelic Digital Companion Therapists Are Already Using (Forbes)

• The Whitewashing of Psychedelic Medicine (Reality Sandwich)

• Field Trip Health Ltd. Continues Expansion With Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Centers in Seattle, Vancouver and Fredericton (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Baltimore Study Boosts Movements to Decriminalize Drugs and Sex Work (Filter)

• Carlos Santana still takes hallucinogens (MSN)

• ‘Shrooms! Shamans! Kosher LSD! Why Los Angeles Is Suddenly Tripping Out (Los Angeles Magazine)

• How Nutrition Can Improve the Psychedelic Experience (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Why creatives should microdose LSD and cannabis before big pitches (AdAge)

• Psychedelics and Sports: Can They Propel Athletes to Unprecedented Pinnacles of Ability? (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Tryp Therapeutics Reports Clinical Hold on Proposed Phase 2a Study in Eating Disorders (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The Neuroanatomy of a Psychedelic Trip: The Basics (Healing Maps)

• atai Life Sciences Launches atai Impact, a Philanthropic Program to Harness the Power of Innovative Mental Health Approaches for Positive Social Change (Psilocybin Alpha)

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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 Psychedelics - 8.21.20

Cannabis

• Maine Marijuana Sales Can Finally Begin, Officials Announce Four Years After Voters Legalized It (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis Customers Can Now Buy Marijuana From Vending Machines In Colorado (CBS Denver)

• South Dakota Could Pass Two Marijuana Ballot Measures In November (Marijuana Moment)

• Mexican President Says Marijuana Legalization Will Advance Through Congress As Session Approaches (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: After-Hours Marijuana Use Doesn’t Negatively Impact Job Performance (NORML)

• Federal Court Denies DEA Request To Dismiss Marijuana Rescheduling Case (Marijuana Moment)

• The Future Is Here: Weed Vending Machines Are Coming to Massachusetts (MERRY JANE)

• Local Marijuana Bans In California Keep Illicit Market Alive And Block Revenue, Study Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• Vermont: Bicameral Committee Meets in Effort to Finalize Marijuana Sales Measure (NORML)

• Marijuana Activists Ask Supreme Court To Hear Their Case Against DEA (Marijuana Moment)

• Trump Voices Concern That Putting Marijuana On The Ballot Makes Republicans Lose (Marijuana Moment)

• Poll: Republicans Like Marijuana Legalization, Too (Even If It’s Kamala Harris’s Idea) (Forbes)

• Parents of toddler with severe epilepsy seek legal review of cannabis oil guidelines (The Guardian)

• DEA Proposes Hemp And CBD Rules To Comply With Crop’s Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• That Study Linking Prenatal Weed Use to Autism Has a Few Serious Flaws (MERRY JANE)

• This Is Weighing Down Multi-State Cannabis Operator Profitability (New Cannabis Ventures)

• AAA gives grants to police, non-profits to combat marijuana-impaired driving (WAND-TV)

• The FDA Is Now Hiring People to Study Thousands Cannabis Products (MERRY JANE)

• Drive to Free Black Woman With Marijuana Life Sentence Exposes “Habitual Criminal” Laws (Filter)

• Texas Ban On Selling Smokeable Hemp Temporarily Lifted By Judge (Marijuana Moment)

• County Will Let Marijuana Offenders Off the Hook If They Get a Card After Arrest (Phoenix New Times)

LSD

• Director Oliver Stone admits lacing 'up-tight' dad's drink with LSD to loosen him up (Mirror)

Magic Mushrooms

• The Mystical Experience is Critical for the Therapeutic Effects of Psilocybin (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Why the DEA Went After a Small-Time Mushroom Dealer in Denver (Lucid News)

• Mydecine™ Launches World’s First Natural-Sourced cGMP Psilocybin for Global Research, Sales, and Distribution Enterprise (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Investigation launched after Home Office psilocybin rescheduling response (Health Europa)

• Johns Hopkins Wants To Hear About Your Psychedelic Journeys For New ‘Real-World’ Study (Marijuana Moment)

• How to Make Shroom Tea: The Ultimate Mushroom Tea Guide (DoubleBlind)

• Magic Mushrooms, Memory and Resistance in the Sierra Mazateca (Chacruna)

MDMA

• Can Taking MDMA with LSD Help Prevent a ‘Bad Trip’? New Clinical Trial Investigates (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelics Group Raises $30 Million From Execs At GoDaddy, SpaceX And Others For MDMA Study (Marijuana Moment)

• Buddhist University Partners with MAPS to Offer MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Training (Lucid News)

• Police issue warning about Donald Trump-shaped ecstasy pills (The Guardian)

DMT

• Reports of positive encounters with autonomous entities after taking DMT suggest drug may have therapeutic potential (PsyPost)

Ayahuasca

• Remembering Dr. Jordi Riba, Ayahuasca Research Pioneer (1968–2020) (Chacruna)

• Psychedelic brew ayahuasca produces therapeutic benefits lasting up to six months, study finds (PsyPost)

• Russian Jailed for 11.5 Years Over Ayahuasca Bottle From Peru (The Moscow Times)

• Tripping on Ayahuasca has always been fun, but now it might be good for you (GOOD)

Ketamine

• Ketamine response biomarker may help tailor antidepressant treatments (Healio)

• How Ketamine Infusions Helped Me (Pain News Network)

Miscellaneous

• Plant Medicine Church in Oakland Gets Raided by Local Police Department (DoubleBlind)

• Advocates Unveil Guide For Psychedelic Healing Ceremonies They Hope To Legalize In Oakland (Marijuana Moment)

• This Dot-Com Guru is Asking Trump to Legalize Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• After the pandemic, could psychedelic treatment help us heal? (Mic)

• Psychedelics Could Help People with Addiction and Anxiety (CBS News)

• Canada takes step to decriminalize drug possession amid opioid crisis (The Globe and Mail)

• A plan to overhaul the UK’s unjust drugs policy is just around the corner (LabourList)

• The Phoenix Effect: Reversing Mental Age With Psychedelics (qwerky science)

• Field Trip Psychedelics Inc. Expands Stateside With Psychedelic-Enhanced Psychotherapy Clinic in New York City (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Watch The First Ad For Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• Breaking Down a Model Bill to Decriminalize All Drugs (Filter)

• From pot to shrooms: What's next for decriminalization? (Toronto Sun)

• This is Your Brain on Ego Death (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Beckley Psytech Reveals Scientific Advisory Board Consisting of Renowned Psychedelic Experts (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Inside the Work of a New York Psychedelic Trip Guide (Filter)

• What Psychedelics Could Mean for Eating Disorders (Lucid News)

• The Role of the Claustrum in the Psychedelic Experience (Psychedelic Science Review)

• IntelGenx Enters into Feasibility Agreement with ATAI Life Sciences to Develop Pharmaceutical-Grade Polymeric Film-Based Psychedelics (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Higher Profile: Madison Margolin, Co-Founder, DoubleBlind Magazine (High Times)

• Spiritual Politics with Ismail Lourido Ali (Chacruna)

• CFN Enterprises Inc. Adds Cybin Corp. to Growing Psychedelics Client Roster (Yahoo! Finance)

• Nutritional High Completes Acquisition of Psychedelic Science Corp (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelic drugs heighten perception, but do they foster creativity and inspire art? (MEAWW)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 7.31.20

Cannabis

• Congress Planning Vote On Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill In September, Sources Say (Marijuana Moment)

• Congress Votes To Protect Legal Marijuana (NORML)

• Democratic Party Delegates Reject Marijuana Legalization Amendment To 2020 Policy Platform (Marijuana Moment)

• Prescribed CBD could help people quit cannabis (Drug Science)

• Louisiana: Medical Cannabis Expansion Laws Take Effect (NORML)

• New York Senate Votes To Expunge Marijuana Convictions For More People (Marijuana Moment)

• New Jersey: Supermajority Back Legalization Measure Ahead of November Vote (NORML)

• Biden Proposes Federal Aid To Help States Expunge Marijuana Records (Marijuana Moment)

• Use of medicines mixed with marijuana allowed in local health promotion hospitals (The Nation Thailand)

• MD Judge: Cops Can’t Search You Because They Smell Weed (Filter)

• THC Microdosing Provides Pain Relief without Psychoactive Effects (Legal Reader)

• Navy Bans Hemp Shampoo For Sailors And Marines As Part Of Broader CBD Prohibition (Marijuana Moment)

• Survey: Many Employees Acknowledge Using Marijuana Immediately Following Their Pre-Employment Drug Test (NORML)

• First woman in Scotland prescribed cannabis legally after years of chronic pain (The Scotsman)

• Women Who Use Marijuana More Often Have Better Sex, Study Says (Marijuana Moment)

• Hedonism and Weed Leads to Happiness (Drug WarRant)

• Cannabis cravings: A new study addresses why it happens (Chicago Tribune)

• Cannabis lowers self reported headaches by nearly 50 percent (Drew Reports News)

LSD

• LSD Chemist William Leonard Pickard to be Released From Prison (Psymposia)

• How LSD is Made (DoubleBlind)

• Was Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green an Acid Casualty? (Celeb Stoner)

Magic Mushrooms

• Man Accused of Selling Mushrooms Faces Up to Twenty Years (Westword)

• Mindset Pharma Announces Filing of Groundbreaking Psilocybin Synthesis Patent (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Palliative Canadians await August 4th decision on psilocybin mushroom approval – TheraPsil urges Health Minister to ‘do the right thing’ (TheraPsil)

• Are magic mushroom edibles Canada’s next drug trend? (The GrowthOp)

• Shroom Expert Duo Releases 2020's First Psilocybin-Focused Cookbook Through Green Candy Press (Newsfile)

Ayahuasca

• Is Ayahuasca Cultural Heritage of Brazil? (Chacruna)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• MindMed Completes Dosing 18-MC Phase 1 Study (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Crystal Structures of Hydrofumarate Salts of DMT Analogues EPT and MALT Solved (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Solved: The Crystal Structure of the Iodide Salts of DMPT and DMALT (Psychedelic Science Review)

Ketamine

• Ketamine May Help Treat MS-related Fatigue, Small Pilot Trial Suggests (Multiple Sclerosis News Today)

• Aleafia Health Approved by Janssen Pharmaceuticals to Administer Antidepressant SPRAVATO® (Psilocybin Alpha)

Datura

• Family poisoned in France after mistaking Hell's bells for spinach (CTV News)

Miscellaneous

• DC Officials Count Enough Valid Signatures To Put Psychedelics Decriminalization On Ballot, Activists Say (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic drugs can greatly reduce psychiatric symptoms among special forces veterans, study finds (PsyPost)

• The Business Of Drugs: What Happened To Alexander Shulgin After The DEA Raid (Screen Rant)

• RIP Arnold Trebach, Who Helped Make Opposition to the Drug War Respectable (Reason)

• Empower Clinics Announces the Revocation of Cease Trade Order (Psilocybin Alpha)

• How Set and Setting Shape Psychedelic Cultures (Chacruna)

• Better living through chemistry? The CEO of Dr. Bronner’s wants to turn America on to drugs (Medium)

• The Psychedelic Picture Trip (Maps of the Mind)

• Novamind Closes the Acquisition of Cedar Psychiatry, a Leading Psychedelic Therapy Organization in the U.S. (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Are there Disadvantages to Microdosing Psychedelics? (DoubleBlind)

• New Psychedelic Online Conferences and Safe Spaces for People of Color (Chacruna)

• Ease restrictions on medical psychedelics to aid research, experts say (The Guardian)

• US Psychiatry Clinics Gear Up For New Psychedelic Treatments (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Entheos Foundation: Amadeus Diamond brings New Zealand psychedelic charity to life (Newshub)

• What It’s Like to Have Sex on Different Kinds of Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• Empower Clinics Reports Fiscal 2019 Results (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The Technodelic Augmented Reality of SoundSelf: Interview with Robin Arnott (Psychedelic Times)

• GreenStar Biosciences Announces Filing of Third Provisional Patent Application by Eleusian Biosciences (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelic Therapy Offers a Synergy of Biological, Psychosocial Interventions (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Learning Network)

• Founders explain how microdosing on psychedelics has helped them spur new business ideas (Business Insider)

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