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This Week in Psychedelics - 1.7.22

Cannabis

  • Sadiq Khan plans pilot to ‘decriminalise’ minor cannabis offences in London (The Guardian)

  • Legal recreational marijuana sales begin in Montana (KPAX)

  • Federal Marijuana Monopoly Finally Ends As Two Companies Harvest Cannabis Approved By DEA (Marijuana Moment)

  • New year rings in key changes to state marijuana markets (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • GOP-Controlled New Hampshire House Votes To Legalize Marijuana Possession And Cultivation (Marijuana Moment)

  • Colorado: Governor Issues Pardons to Over 1,300 Marijuana Offenders (NORML)

  • Wyoming Marijuana Activists Turn Focus To 2024 Ballot For Decriminalization And Medical Cannabis Initiatives (Marijuana Moment)

  • The top cannabis research studies of 2021 (Leafly)

  • Incoming Virginia GOP Governor Won’t ‘Overturn’ Legal Marijuana Possession, But Casts Doubt On Sales (Marijuana Moment)

  • Top Kansas Democrats Unveil Plan To Put Medical And Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization On The 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Two recreational marijuana initiatives might appear on Oklahoma ballot in fall (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Iowa Democrats Unveil Marijuana Resolution To Put Legalization On Ballot For Voters To Decide (Marijuana Moment)

  • New Republican-Led Bill Would Legalize Medical Cannabis In Kentucky (Marijuana Moment)

  • South Dakota Lawmakers Prepare Dozens Of Cannabis Reform Bills (High Times)

  • Marijuana Decriminalization Reduces Arrests And Racial Disparities In Law Enforcement, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Tiny but mighty: Micro-cultivators dominated 2021 (Leafly)

  • The cost of medical marijuana in Louisiana (KSLA)

  • Israeli startup a go-to resource in medical cannabis world (I24News)

  • Oklahoma Pot Farm Slapped with RICO From Next Door Neighbor (High Times)

  • Cannabis users report higher quality of life than non-users (Leafie)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Washington Psilocybin Bill Would Legalize Supported Adult Use (Bill of Health)

  • COMP360 psilocybin study of 89 healthy participants published in Journal of Psychopharmacology (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • New Hampshire Bipartisan Bills Want to Reduce Penalties on Psilocybin, Other Drugs (Truffle Report)

  • Tryp Therapeutics Announces Advancement of Phase 2a Clinical Trial in Binge Eating Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Filament Health Announces Health Canada Approval for Phase II Trial Administering New Psilocybin Microdose Formulation (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Red Light Holland Psilocybin Truffles, Sold in The Netherlands, Complete Second Evaluation Under a Health Canada Approved cGMP Laboratory (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Psilocybin therapy options could expand in Hawaiʻi (Hawai'i Public Radio)

MDMA

  • Drug testing: Dramatic drop in bath salts being sold as MDMA (Radio New Zealand)

  • Microdosing MDMA: What Research Says About Doing It For Mental Health Issues (Healing Maps)

DMT

  • Entheon Biomedical Provides Update on DMT Human Trial and Announces Regulatory Submission to Ethics Committee (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

  • IRS defends denial of Des Moines church's tax-free status over use of psychedelic drug (KCCI)

  • Anti-Drug GOP Senator Helps Psychedelic Church With Fight Against DEA And IRS (Marijuana Moment)

Iboga

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse to Test Ibogaine For Addiction Treatment (Truffle Report)

  • Caribbean Facility Finds Consistent Success Using Ibogaine for Anxiety and Trauma Treatment (PR Newswire)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • MindMed Successfully Completes Phase 1 Clinical Trial of 18-MC (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Mindset Pharma Teams Up with The McQuade Center to Develop 2 Families of Novel Psychedelic Compounds (Psychedelic Spotlight)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Using cannabinoids to treat obesity (Medical Xpress)

  • More needs to be done to tackle synthetic cannabinoids, experts say (Stuff.co.nz)

Ketamine

  • Awakn Life Sciences Expands World's First Ketamine Study Beyond Gambling Disorder to Include Additional Behavioral Addictions (Yahoo!)

  • PharmaTher Announces Publication of Research Data for KETABET™ (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

  • The Promises and Perils of Psychedelic Health Care (The New York Times)

  • Health Canada Grants Special Access to Restricted Drugs for Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Magic mushroom companies are on the Nasdaq now. That’s a recipe for a bad trip (The Guardian)

  • Psychedelics Can Change Your View on the Nature of Reality (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Psychedelics in 2022: What to Expect (Truffle Report)

  • Fact Check-London Mayor not decriminalising drugs (Reuters)

  • Psychedelics 2021: A Year in Review (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Will overdose deaths force an end to the US ‘war on drugs’? (Financial Times)

  • Philippines' Duterte says will never apologise for drug war deaths (Reuters)

  • New York Prisons Punished 1,600 People for False Drug Test Results (Filter)

  • Now psychedelics are coming to your medicine cabinet (ISRAEL21c)

  • How Psychedelic Therapy Fuses Indigenous Shamanism With Western Science (IFLScience)

  • Pop Culture Boosts Acceptance of Plant Medicine (GlobeNewswire)

  • Can A Psychedelic Experience Improve 2022? (Reality Sandwich)

  • Psychedelic Drug Policy Reform in 2021: A Year in Review (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Psychedelics Will Have a Big Presence at SXSW in 2022 (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Was 2021 the Year Psychedelics Conquered Capitalism? (Green Entrepreneur)

  • Startup To Host Psychedelic Trips In The Metaverse (Forbes)

  • Is ‘The Trip’ Essential to The Psychedelic Experience? (Psychedelic Spotlight)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 10.15.21

Cannabis

  • Man to be Hanged in Singapore for Importing About Two Pounds of Pot (High Times)

  • Activists seek to legalise marijuana in hippie haven of Nepal (The Times)

  • Companies are selling saliva kits so customers can figure out the best marijuana strain and get HIGH (Today UK News)

  • Republican Ohio Lawmakers Announce Marijuana Legalization Bill, Reflecting Recent Bipartisan Shift On Issue (Marijuana Moment)

  • New NORML Report Highlights Concerns Regarding Sale of Unregulated Delta-8 THC, Similar Products (NORML)

  • Marijuana legalization used to right wrongs from drug war (UPI)

  • Virginia Medical Marijuana Patients See High Prices And Long Waits For Approvals (Marijuana Moment)

  • Harborside Announces Planned Commercial-Scale Renewable Energy Microgrid Project at Salinas Production Campus (PR Newswire)

  • South Dakota Activists Launch Marijuana Legalization Signature Drive To Get On 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Survey: 60% of cannabis users want to get high with a grandparent (Leafly)

  • Mississippi ‘Not Quite Ready’ to Implement Medical Cannabis (High Times)

LSD

  • Is LSD Addictive? Is It Safe To Use For Mental Health Issues? We Provide Guidance (Healing Maps)

Magic Mushrooms

San Pedro

  • What is San Pedro? Facts about the Psychoactive Plant (The Third Wave)

Ketamine

Miscellaneous

  • Voters Across The U.S. Will Decide On Marijuana And Psychedelics Ballot Measures Next Month (Marijuana Moment)

  • How COVID-19 Opened the Door to a New Era in Psychedelic Medicine (TIME)

  • No, Psychedelic Treatment Doesn't Look Like 'Nine Perfect Strangers' (Verywell Health)

  • On Sacred Reciprocity: Giving Back to our Indigenous Predecessors in the Psychedelic Movement (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Trying Psychedelics Just Once Might Reduce Your Chances Of Cardiometabolic Disease, Study Finds (IFLScience)

  • Is Mysticism Becoming A Problem For Psychedelic Medicine? (Forbes)

  • Is There a Dependable Way to Induce an Ego Death Experience with Psychedelics? (Lucid News)

  • Ego Death: Is This The Most Important Result From Psychedelic Therapy? (Healing Maps)

  • Why Psychedelic Stocks Have Crashed in the Last 3 Months (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Navigating a Double-Edged Sword: Toward Psychedelic Apprenticeship (Chacruna)

  • Psychedelic Reciprocity: Patents and Indigenous Knowledge (Truffle Report)

  • Stewarding Psychedelic and Ecological Biospheric Wisdom with Deborah Parrish Snyder (Chacruna)

  • Numinus Upgrades Psychedelics Lab to Increase Research Service Capabilities (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • The Therapeutic Effects of Psychedelics: 2A or Not 2A?-Part 2 (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Exploring Creepy Psychedelic Art (Reality Sandwich)

  • Mindset Pharma Expands Benchmarking Data for First Generation Psychedelics Through the COPE Program with InterVivo Solutions (Psilocybin Alpha)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 9.3.21

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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

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 - 8.27.21

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Cannabis

  • Legal Pot Delivery Sales Launch in Denver, Colorado (High Times)

  • New Jersey: Many Cities Opting Out of Retail Marijuana Sales Ahead of Rollout (NORML)

  • New Mexico Approves Cannabis Rules and Prepares for Legalization (High Times)

  • Manitoba and Quebec still won’t let you grow weed at home (Leafly)

  • Third North Carolina Senate Committee Approves Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • Marijuana firms and advocates struggle as Instagram targets accounts (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • The Ecology of Good Weed (Nautilus)

  • What is delta-10? (Leafly)

  • Feds And California Governor Exploring Rules For Medical Marijuana Use In Hospitals (Marijuana Moment)

  • Commercial Drivers Consume Cannabis More than Any Other Drug, Data Shows (High Times)

  • Ohio Attorney General Certifies 2022 Marijuana Legalization Ballot Petition (Marijuana Moment)

  • Aurora sends first shipment of ‘free’ marijuana to France (Marijuana Business Daily)

LSD

Magic Mushrooms

  • Will A Psilocybin Patch Be The Next Big Thing In Psychedelics? (Forbes)

  • Psilocybin Therapy and the Rise of Existential Medicine (DoubleBlind)

  • All-Inclusive Magic Mushroom Retreats Are the New Luxury ‘Trips’ (Bloomberg)

  • Tryp Therapeutics Completes Psychotherapy Training for Phase 2a Study at the University of Florida (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • The Rise of Shroom Slang and the New Language of Tripping (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

  • Women Behind the Scenes in Psychedelic Science: Making MDMA a Legal Medicine with Amy Emerson (Chacruna)

DMT

  • Psilera Collaborates with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to Research DMT and New Analogues to Combat Addiction (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • How Long Does DMT Last? (Healing Maps)

  • PharmaDrug Announces Clinical Research Collaboration with The Johns Hopkins University to Evaluate DMT in a Comparative Clinical Study (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • DMT-Inspired Artwork by Harry Pack (Sam Woolfe)

  • What Is DMT? From Its Purpose To Understanding Its Side Effects (Healing Maps)

Ayahuasca

5-MeO-DMT

  • Spanish couple arrested over toad-venom and ayahuasca rituals (The Guardian)

Peyote

Salvia Divinorum

  • Twitter Thread Of The Craziest Experiences People Had Tripping On Salvia Proves We Were Lucky To Survive The 2000s (BroBible)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • Scientists Isolate Two New Compounds from Toad Venom (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Mindset Pharma Broadens its IP Portfolio by Filing U.S. Provisional Patent Extending its DMT and 5-MeO-DMT Inspired Psychedelic Drug Candidates (Psilocybin Alpha)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Neuropathy After Recreational Use of Laughing Gas (MedPage Today)

Ketamine

  • There’s Finally an Accurate Drug-Checking Kit for Ketamine (Filter)

  • Same But Different: Antidepressant Mechanisms of Psilocybin and Ketamine (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Awakn Life Sciences Initiates the First Ketamine Treatment Study for Gambling Addiction Led by Professor Celia Morgan (Yahoo! Finance)

  • Ketamine For Pain: Understanding The Pros And Cons (Healing Maps)

  • HMNC Brain Health and Develco Pharma Partner to Initiate Ketamine Study Targeting Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) (Yahoo! Finance)

Miscellaneous

  • California Bill To Legalize Psychedelics Possession Put On Pause Until 2022 (Marijuana Moment)

  • Wisconsin University Launches Psychedelics Center With Goal Of Increasing Diversity In Research (Marijuana Moment)

  • Startup Miraculix Creates First Rapid, Mobile Test Kits For Concentrations of MDMA, LSD, and Psilocybin (Lucid News)

  • Psychedelics and Breastfeeding: What We Know—and Don’t Know—About a Taboo Subject (DoubleBlind)

  • Study to Determine if Psychedelics Help to Quit Cigarette Smoking (High Times)

  • Freaks of Color Tell Psychedelic Stories That Inspire (Lucid News)

  • The Stamets Stack: Can Microdosing Really Change Your Brain? (DoubleBlind)

  • Biden’s Extension of Title 42 Subjects Refugees to More Drug-War Violence (Filter)

  • This West Philly Doctor Says Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Could Change Your Life (Philadelphia Magazine)

  • 10 Best Trippy Festivals and Events Coming Up (Reality Sandwich)

  • UK Venture Round Shines Spotlight on Europe’s Psychedelics Scene (Labiotech.eu)

  • Psychedelic-Induced Theism: Common Misconceptions (Truffle Report)

  • The Meaning of Psychedelics (Maps of the Mind)

  • Why the Term ‘Drug’ is Difficult to Clearly Define (Sam Woolfe)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 8.6.21

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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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