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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 - 5.14.21

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Cannabis

  • Republicans Push for Federal Legalization of Marijuana to Ensure 'Individual Liberty' (Newsweek)

  • Minnesota House Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • Kansas Senate Running Out Of Time To Pass Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill That Cleared House (Marijuana Moment)

  • Nebraska Activists Relaunch Medical Marijuana Ballot Campaign After Legislative Filibuster Blocks Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • Louisiana: House Lawmakers Advance Marijuana Decriminalization Legislation (NORML)

  • Cherokee Nation Just Decriminalized Weed Possession in State Where Pot Is Still Illegal (MERRY JANE)

  • Feds Announce New Standard THC Dose To Be Used In Marijuana Research, Effective Immediately (Marijuana Moment)

  • Ignorance Still Plagues The Field Of Cannabis Medicine (Forbes)

  • America’s most conservative states are embracing medical pot (Politico)

  • Georgia: Governor Signs Legislation into Law Expanding Access to Low-THC Medical Cannabis (NORML)

  • Medicinal cannabis improves quality of life, finds largest study of UK patients (Cannabis Health News)

  • Cannabis may slightly reduce RA disease activity based on 'very uncertain' evidence (Healio)

  • Don’t Bring CBD Pet Shampoo Onto Military Bases, U.S. Air Force Warns (Marijuana Moment)

  • Understanding the History of Rastafari and the Sacramental Use of Ganja with Jahlani Niaah (Chacruna)

Magic Mushrooms

  • How Psychedelic Mushrooms Went from Schedule I to Psychotherapy (The Pacific Index)

  • Who’s in Charge of Psilocybin? (Chacruna)

  • OHSU doctors study how psilocybin interacts with other meds (KATU)

  • Havn Life Develops New Method for Rapid Psilocybin Testing (StreetInsider.com)

  • Cybin Advances Psilocybin as Treatment for Depression and Addiction (Innovation and Tech Today)

  • Numinus Wellness and Optimi Health Submit All-Natural Psilocybin Extract to Health Canada for Pre-Clinical Trial Application (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

DMT

  • Small Pharma on conducting world’s first clinical trials for psychedelic DMT and listing in Canada (Proactive Investors)

5-MeO-DMT

  • Hunter Biden’s Admission Of Toad Venom Use Signals A Sea Change For Addiction Treatments (Lucid News)

Peyote

  • Decriminalize Nature Releases Peyote Conservation Plan (Truffle Report)

  • Open Letter to the Psychedelic Movement Regarding Peyote in Policy Efforts and How to be an Ally to Indigenous Peoples of North America (Chacruna)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

Synthetic Cannabinoids

Nitrous Oxide

  • Municipality of Amsterdam to ban laughing gas (I Am Expat)

Ketamine

  • Colorado lawmakers move to restrict law enforcement’s use of Ketamine (KKTV)

  • Delic's Acquisition Target, Ketamine Infusion Centers, Announces Proposal to Acquire 2 Additional Clinic Locations (Yahoo! Finance)

Miscellaneous

  • The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same. (The New York Times)

  • Drug Possession Is Officially A Crime Again In Washington, But As A Misdemeanor Instead Of Felony (Marijuana Moment)

  • Drug Advice Is Better Than Government Approach of 'Just Doing Nothing', Research Finds (VICE)

  • How this NHL star’s brain trauma led him to found a psychedelics startup (Fast Company)

  • Aspen City Council not quite sold on decriminalizing psychedelics (Aspen Daily Times)

  • Some people with color blindness report improved color vision after psychedelic drug use (PsyPost)

  • How a Psychedelic 12-Step Program Is Saving Lives (Rolling Stone)

  • Psychedelic Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder? (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • An Introduction to Psychedelic Phenethylamines (Spirit Pharmacist)

  • Anaïs Nin and the Vocabulary of the Psychedelic Experience (Chacruna)

  • Psychedelics Move to The Forefront of Innovative Research as the FDA Approves Large-Scale Testing (PR Newswire)

  • Psychedelic Intellectual Property (Reality Sandwich)

  • Routes of Administration in Psychedelic Drug Research (Psychedelic Science Review)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 4.9.21

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Cannabis

  • Virginia Becomes First Southern State To Legalize Cannabis (HuffPost)

  • How London Could Effectively Decriminalise Cannabis (VICE)

  • Mexico Marijuana Legalization Bill Advances In Senate For Second Day In A Row (Marijuana Moment)

  • Connecticut Lawmakers Approve Governor’s Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

  • Delaware: Cannabis Activists Take on Corporate Marijuana, Patients Stage Boycott (NORML)

  • Texas Lawmakers Tackle Marijuana Decriminalization, Medical Cannabis And Hemp In Committee Hearings (Marijuana Moment)

  • Alabama House Committee Approves Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill Already Passed The Senate (Marijuana Moment)

  • Montana Governor’s Marijuana Bill Revived After Initial Committee Defeat (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

Magic Mushrooms

  • Denver dabbles with magic mushrooms, but using them to treat mental health disorders remains underground (Los Angeles Times)

  • Oregon Health Authority advisory board discusses plan for legal psilocybin (Daily Emerald)

MDMA

  • MindMed Announces the Publication of New Data on Personalized MDMA Dosing (Psilocybin Alpha)

5-MeO-DMT

Iboga

  • Inside Ibogaine, One of the Most Promising and Perilous Psychedelics for Addiction (TIME)

Ketamine

  • Ketamine normalizes hyperactivity in key brain region of depressed patients (PsyPost)

Miscellaneous

  • Third Massachusetts City Approves Psychedelics Decriminalization Measure (Marijuana Moment)

  • California Senators Approve Bill To Legalize Possession Of Psychedelics Like LSD, MDMA And Psilocybin (Marijuana Moment)

  • Maine Unveils Legislation to Decriminalize Possession of All Drugs (Filter)

  • Is it Possible to Create an Ethical Psychedelics Company? (VICE)

  • Psychedelics As Therapeutic Treatments To Be Focus Of New UW-Madison Master's Program (WPR)

  • Washington Lawmakers Hear Drug Decrim Bill After Supreme Court Strikes Down Prohibition (Marijuana Moment)

  • Drugs Could Soon Be Decriminalised In The Australian Capital Territory. Here's Why That Would Be A Positive Step. (TalkingDrugs)

  • Microdosing psychedelic drugs associated with increases in conscientiousness and reductions in neuroticism (PsyPost)

  • Ancient cave painters may have been stoned, study says (Salon)

  • The Third Wave’s Paul Austin Has Been Accused of Stealing Information For His Psychedelic Provider Directory (Psymposia)

  • Can 12-Step Groups and Psychedelic Addiction Treatment Coexist? (VICE)

  • Working with Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy and Psychedelics: Everything You Need to Know (Psychedelics Today)

  • Music is a ‘Hidden Therapist’ in Psilocybin Therapy (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • UNDP Brazil Condones Forced Abstinence and Religious Pathologisation of People Who Use Drugs (TalkingDrugs)

  • More People Are Self-medicating with Psychedelics, Says New Study (Green Entrepreneur)

  • How Do People Even Find Drug Dealers? (VICE)

  • ICSS for Assessing the Abuse Potential of Psychedelics (Psychedelic Science Review)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 10.23.20

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Cannabis

  • Virginia: Medical Cannabis Dispensing Begins (NORML)

  • Missouri medical marijuana dispensaries open to long lines, happy patients (Leafly)

  • Montana Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Marijuana Legalization Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

  • USDA Approves Hemp Plans For Six Additional States And Three Indian Tribes (Marijuana Moment)

  • Virginia Bill To Ban Police Searches Based On Marijuana Smell Gets Governor-Suggested Changes (Marijuana Moment)

  • Pennsylvania House Votes To Protect Medical Marijuana Patients From DUI Charges (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • LSD: new scientific study shows microdosing elevates mood and cognition (Boing Boing)

  • ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’ Review: Errol Morris’ Touching LSD Romance Adds New Dimension to Timothy Leary (IndieWire)

  • Could Giving Acid to Dolphins Help Us Talk to Aliens? (DoubleBlind)

  • Bill Wilson, LSD and the Secret Psychedelic History of Alcoholics Anonymous (Lucid News)

Magic Mushrooms

  • First Psilocybin for Depression Clinical Trial Launched in Sweden (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Phase 2 Clinical Trial to Evaluate Safety and Efficacy of Psilocybin in Cancer Patients with Major Depressive Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Psilocybin and Mindfulness for Depression: Complementary Actions Starting to Emerge (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Pharmaceutical Startup Developing Sublingual Psilocybin Raises $34 Million To Fund Clinical Trials (Forbes)

  • Numinus First Canadian Public Company to Complete Legal Harvest of Psilocybe Mushrooms (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Allied Expands Pharmaceutical Pipeline By Filing US Provisional Patent for Psilocybin Based Therapeutics (GlobeNewswire)

MDMA

  • Government urged to sell cocaine and ecstasy in pharmacies (The Guardian)

Ayahuasca

  • Ayahuasca, Capitalism and the New Age (Chacruna)

Peyote

Ketamine

Miscellaneous

  • Early Christians Might Have Been High on Hallucinogenic Communion Wine (VICE)

  • People who microdose psychedelic drugs report that the benefits greatly outweigh the drawbacks (PsyPost)

  • DEA recruits cite ‘monkey noises’ among claims of racism (Associated Press)

  • Scientists identify a powerful anti-inflammatory compound in psychedelic drugs (Massive Science)

  • Watch The Oregon Drug Decriminalization Campaign’s New TV Ads For Historic Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

  • 2020’s psychedelic drug ballot measures, explained (Vox)

  • An Open Letter and Call to Action for MAPS Canada (Psymposia)

  • Media Company Delic Corp. Announces RTO, Becomes Latest Psychedelics Company Planning to Go Public (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Jedi Flipping: What It’s Like to Mix Shrooms, Acid, and Molly (DoubleBlind)

  • How to Talk to Your Therapist About Psychedelics (Psychology Today)

  • “Psychedelics are Not Cotton Candy and Rainbows” with Sensei Kevon Simpson (Chacruna)

  • Psyched Wellness Becomes Latest Psychedelics Company to Go Public (CSE: PSYC) (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Examining the Effects of Psychedelics on Experiential Avoidance (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Nina Graboi, A Forgotten Woman in Psychedelic Lore (Chacruna)

  • Revive Therapeutics Signs Supply Agreement With Havn Life Sciences for Psychedelic Compounds (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • 6 Herbs to Enhance Your Next Psychedelic Trip (DoubleBlind)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 5.22.20

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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

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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