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Weekly Psychedelic Links - October 2022

10.7.22

Cannabis

  • Biden Announces Mass Marijuana Pardons And Calls For Cannabis Scheduling Review (Marijuana Moment)

  • Amsterdam considers banning ‘cannabis tourists’ from its coffee shops (The Guardian)

  • Costa Rica’s President Sends Marijuana Legalization Bill To Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)

  • 'It's like the new Amsterdam': The rush to cash in on Thailand's hazy cannabis laws (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  • FBI: Nearly Half of All Drug Seizures in 2021 Involved Marijuana (NORML)

  • Morocco issues first permits for cannabis production (Reuters)

  • Committee in Colombia Approved Adult-Use Legalization Proposal (High Times)

  • Most Americans Don’t Think Marijuana Is Dangerous Despite Prohibitionist Arguments, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Regulators finally approve hempcrete for US homes (Leafly)

  • OSHA report ties cannabis worker death to dust inhalation (Leafly)

  • Survey: Medical Students Rarely Exposed to Scientific Data About Cannabis (NORML)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Oregon enters the home stretch to authorize psilocybin mushrooms (Chacruna)

  • This 'magic' mushroom dispensary in Florida is selling psychedelics and testing legal boundaries (Business Insider)

MDMA

  • MindMed Collaborators Initiate Phase 1 Comparative PK/PD Trial of R-, S- and Racemic MDMA (Psychedelic Alpha)

DMT

Ayahuasca

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • These LSD-based drugs seem to help mice with anxiety and depression — without the trip (NPR)

  • Are you too high? A promising new ‘comedown drug’ may be on the way (Leafly)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Unexplained Bleeding Linked to Rat Poison in Synthetic Cannabinoids (Medpage Today)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Nitrous oxide: Southend mum's campaign over 'laughing gas' (BBC)

Ketamine

  • Ketamine and depression: A mechanism of the antidepressant revealed (Medical Xpress)

  • PharmaTher Holdings Announces Grant of U.S. Patent Covering Ketamine for Parkinson’s Disease (Psychedelic Alpha)

Miscellaneous

  • Alberta to be 1st province to regulate psychedelics for therapy, government says (CBC)

  • DEA Admits ‘Racial, Ethnic and Class Prejudice’ Led To Drug Criminalization And The Agency’s Own Founding (Marijuana Moment)

  • New York Lawmakers File Amended Psychedelics Legalization Bill, With New Regulations And Protections (Marijuana Moment)

  • Psychedelics may flatten your brain’s landscape, but in a good way (Leafly)

  • Inflammation Nation: How Psychedelics Could Combat Widespread Chronic Pain (Psychedelics Today)

  • Psychedelics: Will Policy Liberalization and Lower Barriers to Access Lead to Future Legalization? (Lexpert)

  • Psychedelics are exploding in the startup community as founders say it makes them better leaders (Fortune)

  • Timothy Leary’s psychedelic eugenics (Medium)

  • Eleusis Holdings Plans To Be Acquired By Beckley Psytech (Lucid News)

  • ‘Bad’ Psychedelic Trips Don’t Have To Be Bad (VICE)

10.14.22

Cannabis

  • Colombian Chamber Of Representatives Passes Marijuana Legalization Bill In Initial Vote, With Support From Cabinet Ministers (Marijuana Moment)

  • U.S. Air Force to Allow Applicants to Retest After Positive THC Test (High Times)

  • Why bees love weed — and why it might even be good for them (Salon)

  • Cannabis Stock’s Post Pardon Depression Could Be Cured By Lame Duck Legislation (Forbes)

  • New Study Shows Cannabis Users More Likely To Have Overactive Bladders (High Times)

  • Federal Reserve Bank Says Marijuana Legalization Drives Tax Revenue, Job Creation And Real Estate Sales (Marijuana Moment)

  • Spliff Vape: New Tech Allows Cannabis, Nicotine To Be Vaped Simultaneously (High Times)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Flight Passenger on Mushrooms Causes Chaos Mid-Flight (High Times)

  • Can Psilocybin Challenge Our Pharmaceutical Dependence? (Vogue)

MDMA

  • Eels Living Near Music Festivals Test Positive For MDMA And Cocaine (IFLScience)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Synthetic Marijuana In Florida Tainted With Rat Poison, 52 Sick, 4 Dead (Forbes)

  • Five-Year-Old Missouri Child Gets Delta-8 Edibles in Halloween Bag (High Times)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Nitrous Oxide: Harm Reduction and the Muslim Community (VolteFace)

Miscellaneous

  • These States Are Voting On Marijuana And Psychedelics Legalization On Their November Ballots (Marijuana Moment)

  • Elon Musk reportedly goes on 'exploratory journeys' and likes to show friends a chart of the benefits of MDMA and mushrooms over alcohol (Business Insider)

  • To Standardize Psychedelic Therapy, A New Organization Launches (Forbes)

  • Horizons Conference Returns to NYC for Its 15th Year (Lucid News)

  • Treating postpartum depression with psychedelics (The Print)

  • A Santo Daime Church’s Legal Success Paved a Path Towards Psychedelic Legalization (Lucid News)

  • Instagram’s Page-Deletions of Black Women in Psychedelic Advocacy (Filter)

  • Math Over Myth: These Psychedelic Stocks Made Confirmed Bottoms in Q3 (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • What Made María Sabina Unique (DoubleBlind)

  • The Politics of Psychedelics: Legalisation vs Decriminalisation (Sam Woolfe)

10.21.22

Cannabis

  • German cannabis legalisation plans LEAKED (VolteFace)

  • Washington DC lets tourists self-certify for medical cannabis (Leafly)

  • Poll: Two-Thirds of Voters Say “Nobody Should Be in Jail” for Marijuana Possession (NORML)

  • States With the Most Arrests for Marijuana Possession (U.S. News and World Report)

  • Why does marijuana make it hard to remember stuff? (Salon)

  • NBA Won’t Test Players For Marijuana For Third Season In A Row, Report Says (Marijuana Moment)

  • Nearly Four Out of Five Patients Drop or Reduce Opioids After Using Medical Weed (High Times)

  • Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine Bans CBD Prescriptions for Adult Patients (TalkingDrugs)

  • Cannabis Had Highest Tax Revenue in Colorado and Washington Over Alcohol, Cigarettes (High Times)

  • Marijuana was illegal 4 years ago. Now, Uber Eats delivers it in Toronto (CBC)

  • Missouri Police Object To New Ad For Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative That Shows Officers (Marijuana Moment)

  • Oklahoma Governor Sets March Special Election for Weed Legalization Initiative (High Times)

  • Texas Activists Unveil Marijuana Decriminalization, Police Reform And Abortion Rights Initiative For San Antonio 2023 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Puerto Rico Bill Would Expunge Low-Level Weed Possession Convictions (High Times)

LSD

Magic Mushrooms

  • Oregon is voting on medical psilocybin, again (Leafly)

  • NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars (New York Post)

  • Study To Examine Why Shrooms Evolved with Psychedelic Properties (High Times)

  • Why Everyone Cares So Much About Colorado’s Psilocybin Bill (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

  • MDMA-assisted psychotherapy shows promise in the treatment of eating disorder symptoms (PsyPost)

5-MeO-DMT

  • The toad boom: the false narrative of ancestral 5-MeO-DMT use (Points)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • Scientists Discover ‘Disconcerting’ New Imitation Ketamine on the Market (VICE)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

Ketamine

  • Ketamine May Reduce Suicidal Ideation in Treatment-Resistant Depression (Psychiatry Advisor)

Miscellaneous

  • Australian Lawmakers Approve Drug Decriminalization Bill For Federal Territory That Includes Nation’s Capital (Marijuana Moment)

  • DEA Proposes Dramatic Increases In Marijuana And Psychedelics Production In 2023 For Research (Marijuana Moment)

  • Large national survey suggests that the use of psychedelics is not associated with lifetime cancer development (PsyPost)

  • Will Medical Insurers Agree to Cover Psychedelic Trips? (Bloomberg)

  • Why is the American right suddenly so interested in psychedelic drugs? (The Guardian)

  • Second United States Patent Granted for Small Pharma’s Psychedelics Portfolio (Psychedelic Alpha)

10.28.22

Cannabis

  • Germany’s Government Approves Marijuana Legalization Plan, But Reform Depends On European Union Sign-Off (Marijuana Moment)

  • Russian court upholds Brittney Griner’s sentence (Leafly)

  • Biden's Marijuana Pardons Did Not Free a Single Federal Prisoner or Deliver the Expungement He Promised (Reason)

  • Activist Arrested At White House Protest Pushing Biden To Release Marijuana Prisoners (Marijuana Moment)

  • Missouri’s legalization measure is drawing unexpected opposition (Leafly)

  • Five States To Vote on Recreational Cannabis This Election Season (High Times)

  • Most Americans Say Alcohol And Tobacco Are More Dangerous Than Marijuana, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • California Lawsuit Alleges Weed Didn't Get Plaintiffs High Enough (VICE)

  • Research: Does Cannabis Really Make You More Creative? (Harvard Business Review)

  • Israeli Company Clones Cannabis Cells—Not Plants—With Up to 12 Times the Potency (High Times)

  • It's not a myth: Marijuana really is more potent than it used to be (Salon)

  • Study: Cannabis Use Not A Risk Factor in Liver Transplants (High Times)

  • Strange Bedfellows Team Up To Oppose Missouri Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

  • Research Shows Cannabis Users Experience More Pain After Surgery (High Times)

  • Support For Arkansas Marijuana Legalization Initiative Falls To Slim Majority As GOP Lawmakers Urge Opposition, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • How does THC affect prenatal development? (Leafly)

Magic Mushrooms

  • The world's first Phase 3 psilocybin clinical trial is about to commence (New Atlas)

  • DEA Faces New Legal Challenges Over Denying Psilocybin Rescheduling Petition And Doctor’s Federal Waiver Request (Marijuana Moment)

  • New Study Will Explore Psilocybin as a Treatment To Stop Smoking (High Times)

  • N.S. company launching clinical trial to examine magic mushrooms as treatment for PTSD (CBC)

  • The Potential Health Benefits of Microdosing Psilocybin With Chocolate (Psychology Today)

  • Psilocybin Common Denominator in Several Recent Albums (High Times)

DMT

  • Algernon Pharmaceuticals Enters into a Clinical Trial Agreement with Yale University for a DMT Phase 2 Depression Study (Psychedelic Alpha)

Ayahuasca

Peyote

  • Native American Church Asks Congress for Peyote Funding (DoubleBlind)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • WTF is 3-MMC, Berlin’s Weird New Club Drug? (DoubleBlind)

  • Electric Picnic drug testing finds 'new psychoactive substances' never seen before in Ireland (The Irish Mirror)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Utah Medical Cannabis Flooded With Synthetic Cannabinoids From Hot Hemp (Forbes)

Ketamine

  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Could Be Better Than Ketamine At Treating Depression (IFLScience)

Miscellaneous

  • Beckley Psytech Strengthens Pipeline and Development Team With Acquisition of Eleusis Therapeutics Limited (Psychedelic Alpha)

  • People Who Use Psychedelics Are More Connected To Nature And Knowledgeable About Climate Change, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Use of Psychedelic Therapies for Treatment Resistant Patients Again Rejected by Government, Despite Strong Supporting Safety and Efficacy Data and Australia’s Worsening Mental Health Crisis (Mind Medicine Australia)

  • With Promise of Legalization, Psychedelic Companies Joust Over Future Profits (The New York Times)

  • Manipulating light can induce psychedelic experiences – and scientists aren’t quite sure why (The Conversation)

  • The ideological war at the heart of the psychedelic renaissance (New Atlas)

  • Research, remedy and regulation: the changing dynamics of psychedelic therapy in Alberta (CBC)

  • An Exploration of Psychedelics and Creativity (Drug Science)

  • Variants in 5-HT2A Receptor Gene Alter Psychedelic Pharmacology (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Guidelines for Ethical Sponsorship and Transparency in Psychedelic Conferences (Chacruna)

  • Terence McKenna's secret bad trip (Ecstatic Integration)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 8.30.19

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CANNABIS

  • DEA Says It Will Finally Let Others Grow Research-Grade Cannabis (Leafly)

  • Mexican Marijuana Cartels Are Spraying a Lethal Pesticide Throughout California (MERRY JANE)

  • Crime Rates Drop After Marijuana Dispensaries Open Nearby, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Weed May Put Women at Risk of Miscarriage, But Enhances Male Fertility (MERRY JANE)

  • Marijuana Enhances Sex And Masturbation, Survey Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Chicago to Clear Thousands of Cannabis Arrests During Legalization (Leafly)

  • Washington State Bans CBD in Food and Beverages (Leafly)

  • Americans View Marijuana As Far Less Harmful Than Alcohol And Tobacco, Survey Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Global cannabis use grows 60% in a decade (Cannabis Ground)

  • Green light: ten towns named for legalised cannabis-growing experiment (DutchNews.nl)

  • Chocolate Complicates Marijuana Edibles Potency Testing, Scientists Find (Marijuana Moment)

  • Researchers Unlock What Gives Cannabis Its Anti-Inflammatory Qualities (Yahoo! Finance)

  • Medical cannabis at school? California Assembly OKs bill that would let students take prescription weed (Palm Springs Desert Sun)

  • CBD Companies Positioning Themselves For Cannabis Legalization (Forbes)

  • Weed-Infused Beer Is Coming to California BevMo! Stores This Fall (MERRY JANE)

  • Company creates breath detector for pot and alcohol (WPVI-TV)

  • Disneyland Busted Robert Downey Jr. For Smoking Marijuana, He Reveals While Accepting Disney Award (Marijuana Moment)

  • NJ Governor Vetoes Cannabis Expungement, Calls for Stronger Bill (Leafly)

  • Where Presidential Candidate Joe Walsh Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • The Detail: Modern-day LSD users inspiring a new wave of science (Stuff.co.nz)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

  • World-first trial investigating psilocybin psychotherapy for anorexia commencing in US (New Atlas)

  • Harry Styles once got so high on magic mushrooms he bit part of his tongue off (Mirror)

  • Do Canadians have a constitutional right to magic mushrooms? (Quartz)

  • The Fight to Make Shroom Therapy Legal in Oregon (VICE)

MDMA

  • MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy May Help Patients With Severe PTSD, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Socially Anxious People Are Taking MDMA and Other Psychedelics to Cope (VICE)

  • Here are Some of the Toxic Chemicals Being Found in Australian Ecstasy (VICE)

  • Four Deaths At Music Events In The UK This Weekend Spark Warning Over Super Strength Ecstasy (Your EDM)

  • Teenager dies after suspected ecstasy overdose at nightclub (Metro)

DMT

  • DMT’s Mind-Bending Science—An Interview with Dr Jimo Borjigin (Kahpi)

  • DMT: Dead Man's Treasure (DMT Times)

AYAHUASCA

5-MEO-DMT

  • Just One Puff Of Psychedelic Toad Slime Could Have Sustained Benefits For Well-Being (IFLScience)

  • Watch Tony Robbins and Mike Tyson Share 5-MeO-DMT and Ayahuasca Stories (Psychedelic Times)

IBOGA

  • Ibogaine Treatment And Its Effectiveness In Fighting Opiate Addiction (Longevity)

KETAMINE

  • Trump Orders ‘a Lot’ of Ketamine for Depressed Veterans (The Atlantic)

PCP

  • Uber driver, passenger killed by man high on PCP in Prince George's County, police say (WUSA9.com)

DXM

  • Cough Medicine A Cheap, Easy Drug Teens can use Instead of LSD (Patch)

OPIOIDS

  • Johnson & Johnson must pay over $572 million for its role in Oklahoma opioid crisis, judge rules (NBC News)

  • Naloxone to be available at Washington state pharmacies (KIRO)

  • You can now get naloxone online in Virginia — but it’ll cost you (The Virginian-Pilot)

  • Middle school students in North Korea mobilized to harvest opium resin (Daily NK)

COCAINE

  • Lupe Fiasco Wants You to Know the Medical Benefits of Cocaine (XXL Mag)

METHAMPHETAMINE

  • US Customs mistakes honey for meth, man spends 82 days in jail (KCRG)

CAFFEINE

  • Now You Can Get The Same Health Benefits From Coffee You Used To Get From Red Wine (Forbes)

  • Caffeine does not influence stingless bees (Phys.org)

TOBACCO

  • Vermonters must be 21 to buy tobacco, starting September 1 (Burlington Free Press)

  • Arkansas increases legal age to buy tobacco products (WREG)

  • Juul Commits $100 Million to New System to Help Retailers Block Sales to Minors (TIME)

  • Wisconsin bill would set age at 21 to buy tobacco, nicotine (Wisconsin State Journal)

ALCOHOL

  • Changing treatment practices for alcohol use disorder could save lives (Medical Xpress)

  • Alcohol really is no excuse for bad behaviour – research reveals you’re still the same person after a drink (The Conversation)

KRATOM

KHAT

DATURA

  • Hyderabad: Family searched on Internet, found datura to kill dad (Deccan Chronicle)

MISCELLANEOUS

  • CDC identifies a death potentially linked to vaping (Engadget)

  • Why Psychedelics Look like the Next Billion-Dollar Business (Stockhouse)

  • Psychedelic Treatments Are Ready to Tackle Alcoholism and Alzheimer's Disease (Folha de S.Paulo)

  • Buttigieg Pledges To Decriminalize Possession Of All Drugs In First Term As President (Marijuana Moment)

  • The Normalizing of Burning Man Culture (Forbes)

  • Do Plants Have Something to Say? (The New York Times)

  • Houston Narcotics Cop Who Instigated a Deadly Drug Raid Is Charged With Murder (Reason)

  • Magic mushrooms for better health? Psychedelic drugs are having a moment across US (Medical Xpress)

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On the Monday following each edition of “This Week in Psychoactives,” I post a “Last Week in Psychoactives” video recap to my YouTube channel. After that is done, I retroactively add the video to the corresponding blog post. Here is this week’s video recap, which actually covers the past four weeks’ worth of news since I was away on vacation for a few weeks:

This Week in Psychedelics - 9.28.18

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Cannabis

  • Canadians Involved In Marijuana Industry Not Welcome In US, Feds Confirm (Marijuana Moment)

  • DEA Reclassifies Plant-Derived Marijuana Medicine To Schedule V (NORML)

  • FBI: Marijuana Arrests Spike For Second Straight Year, Far Outpace Arrests For All Violent Crimes (NORML)

  • Youth Marijuana Use Isn’t Increasing After States Legalize, Meta-Analysis Of 55 Studies Concludes (Marijuana Moment)

  • Marijuana Looks Like An Alien World Under An Electron Microscope (Marijuana Moment)

  • Maine Officials Investigating Restaurant That Calmed Lobsters With Marijuana (TIME)

  • Lawmaker Pushes For Marijuana Legalization In Kenya (Marijuana Moment)

  • Coca-Cola Is Eyeing a Possible Entry Into the Cannabis Market (TIME)

  • Brooklyn DA erases 56 marijuana convictions, vacates over 3,000 pot warrants (New York Daily News)

  • Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions (BBC)

  • Amsterdam’s Marijuana Strategy Means Cops Don’t Have Much To Do, Comedy Central Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Molson Coors Plans To Sell Marijuana-Infused Teas, Seltzers And Beer (Marijuana Moment)

  • Wall Street’s Marijuana Madness: ‘It’s Like the Internet in 1997’ (The Wall Street Journal)

  • Republicans in a US territory just legalized marijuana (Vox)

  • Cannabis Stocks Had A Roller Coaster Of A Week (NPR)

  • Are Police Breaking The Law To Campaign Against Marijuana Legalization? (Marijuana Moment)

  • How EMTs and Doctors Treat Cannabis Overconsumption (Leafly)

  • House GOP Blocks Marijuana Tax Fairness Vote (Marijuana Moment)

  • TSA Will Report Weed at LAX to Cops, Who Can't Do Anything About It (Reason)

  • Researchers Injected People With THC To Test Their Motor Skills (Marijuana Moment)

  • It's Not Just Cannabis Stocks -- Salaries And Jobs In Legal Weed Are Climbing Too (Forbes)

  • Why millennials prefer cannabis to booze: ‘Zero enjoyment out of drinking’ (and it’s cheaper) (MarketWatch)

  • Willie Nelson Wants To Smoke Marijuana With Trump And Putin (Marijuana Moment)

  • Kindergartner can take cannabis drug to school, judge says (Los Angeles Times)

  • O’Rourke And Cruz Clash On Marijuana And Drugs At Senate Debate (Marijuana Moment)

  • Pot Faux Pas: A Cannabis Club Owner Weighs In On Marijuana Etiquette (WBUR)

  • Here’s Where Maine’s US Senate Candidates Stand On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

  • Legal marijuana: Vote for it, even if you aren't going to smoke it (Detroit Free Press)

  • Leading Congressional Marijuana Opponent In Danger Of Losing Seat, Polls Find (Marijuana Moment)

  • Idaho Gubernatorial Candidates Disagree On Marijuana Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • What Happens When You Give L.S.D. to an Elephant? (The New York Times)

  • Silicon Valley figures remember Steve Jobs's death — and debate the rumor that he was 'tripping' when he died (Business Insider)

  • Could LSD Microdosing Be Beneficial? (Labmate Online)

  • Sofia Boutella on Playing a Character Spiked with LSD in Gaspar Noé’s ‘Climax’ (Collider)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • Reclassification recommendations for drug in 'magic mushrooms' (ScienceDaily)

  • Could "Magic Mushrooms" Help You Stop Smoking? (The Fix)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Pilot Study Finds MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Significantly Reduces Social Anxiety in Autistic Adults (Psychedelic Times)

  • Scientists Dosed an Octopus With MDMA and It Engaged In Some Serious Heavy Petting (The Inertia)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

  • 'Psychedelic Indiana Jones' claims he can 'predict FUTURE' with shamanic drug (Daily Star)

Morning Glory Seeds

Dissociatives

  • Ketamine gives hope to patients with severe depression. But some clinics stray from the science and hype its benefits (STAT)

  • Party drug used for depression at UW Health amid research on psychedelics (Wisconsin State Journal)

Opiates/Opioids

  • A major study questioned the evidence for safe injection sites. It’s now been retracted. (Vox)

  • Fentanyl crisis: Is China a major source of illegal drugs? (BBC)

  • The Health 202: Congress reaches deal on major opioids' package (The Washington Post)

  • Solving America’s painkiller paradox (Vox)

  • DEA launches '360 Strategy' to combat heroin and prescription drug abuse epidemic in Baltimore (Baltimore Sun)

  • Pulitzer Prize winner Terry DeMio on life as a heroin beat reporter (Psymposia)

Kratom

  • FDA Death Data On Kratom Linked To Adulterated Products, Not The Kratom Plant Itself (Benzinga)

  • Kratom Dosage In Powder And Capsules (Kratom Guides)

  • Kratom In Missouri: Legality And Where To Find Locally (Kratom Guides)

Kava

Khat

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Capitalism on Psychedelics: The Mainstreaming of an Underground (Chacruna)

  • For $1000, These ‘Sitters’ Will Save You from a Bad Acid Trip (VICE)

  • The Risks of Long-Term Microdosing (The Third Wave)

  • Why I regret my war on drugs (UnHerd)

  • When supplies of drugs run low, drug prices mysteriously rise, data shows (Ars Technica)

  • Psychedelic Film and Music Festival to feature trippy entertainment ‘for healing’ (AM New York)

  • Get Ready for Your Psychedelic Voyage by Reading Experience Reports (Psychedelic Times)

  • ‘Without drug traffickers, we’d have peace’: Colombian villagers flee new killings (The Guardian)

  • Some 129 countries sign up to Trump's pledge at U.N. to fight drugs (Reuters)

  • Making amyl nitrite an illegal drug would be ineffective, warns former AFP chief (The Guardian)

  • The Invisible Majority: People Whose Drug Use Is Not Problematic (Filter)

  • It's time we walked the talk on treating drugs as a health issue (Stuff.co.nz)

  • $18 Million Worth of Cocaine Found in Bananas Donated to Texas Prison, Authorities Say (TIME)

  • Does Donald Trump Want To Ban Chocolate, Or Is He Just Confused? (Marijuana Moment)

  • Integrating Huichol and Mazatec Wisdom Without Doing Harm: Interview with Mario Gómez Mayorga (Psychedelic Times)

  • Sheffield University criticised over 'never inject alone' drug advice (The Telegraph)

  • Why doctors should support regulated markets in illicit drugs (The BMJ)

  • Drug Tolerance Explained (Psychedelic Heaven)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

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This Week in Psychedelics - 5.18.18

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Cannabis

  • Historic House Appropriations Committee Vote On Marijuana (NORML)
  • YouTube's cannabis content purge "a huge loss of cultural history" (Straight Cannabis)
  • U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer Says Cannabis May Be De-Regulated Nationwide Within Four Years (Willamette Week)
  • Legalising cannabis ‘would save £900m’ (The Times)
  • State Democrats plan to endorse marijuana legalization (New York Post)
  • State Marijuana Laws Dodge Supreme Court Bullet (Marijuana Moment)
  • Doctors Want More Information on Medical Cannabis, Study Finds (Leafly)
  • Texas Health Department Considers Cracking Down on CBD (Reason)
  • Many U.S. Oncologists Recommending Medical Marijuana (Hemp Gazette)
  • 4 Must-Read Quotes on Marijuana From DEA Head Robert Patterson (The Motley Fool)
  • California Cannabis Regulations May Make Weed Shippers Report Themselves to the Feds (WIRED)
  • Drugs Minister banned from talking about pot — as hubby runs giant cannabis farm (The Sun)
  • Canadian pot growers say marijuana byproduct a wasted opportunity for industry (ChatNewsToday)
  • These Experts Say Weed Could Help Ease Your Endometriosis Pain (POPSUGAR)
  • On marijuana and opioids — the DEA has no clue what it’s talking about (The Hill)
  • Marijuana Users Don't Mind Being Labeled Stoners And Potheads (Forbes)
  • The Legacy of Stop-and-Frisk in New York's Marijuana Arrests (The New York Times)
  • Chittenden, Windsor set plans to erase marijuana convictions (VTDigger)
  • Cannabis use up among parents with children in the home (Science Daily)
  • Oregon Cannabis Growers Turning to Hemp as CBD Extract Booms (Leafly)
  • Cannabis Advocates Defend Cynthia Nixon's 'Reparations' Comments (Forbes)
  • Marijuana Could Be A $3.1B Business In New York, Report Finds (Patch)
  • Cannabis Cup At Cal Expo Will Have Marijuana After City Council Vote (CBS Sacramento)
  • We Can’t Avoid Menopause But Cannabis Makes It Easier (Leafly)
  • Chart: Putting the $55 billion US retail cannabis market in perspective (Marijuana Business Daily)
  • Cannabidiol significantly reduces seizures in patients with severe form of epilepsy (PsyPost)
  • Weed legal states often have fewest drug problems (Rooster Magazine)
  • Cannabis bills get mixed reception from Legislature (Colorado Springs Independent)
  • Can Massachusetts become a leader in marijuana research? (MassLive)
  • Arizona veterans hope federal bill clears path for cannabis research in the VA (Arizona's Family)
  • Part 3, How to Start a Cannabis ‘Mother Plant’ (Leafly)
  • Marijuana-Growing Nuns Documentary ‘Breaking Habits’ Sells to Cranked Up (Variety)
  • California Today: A Start-Up Steps Up to Help Sweep Away Old Pot Convictions (The New York Times)
  • Medlab kicks off cannabis spray trial for cancer patients at Royal North Shore hospital (Stockhead)
  • Two District Attorneys May Stop Prosecuting Most Marijuana Offenses (The New York Times)
  • Most Georgians want legal recreational cannabis, poll shows (Marijuana Business Daily)
  • New Study Highlights The Social Impacts Of Cannabis Legalization In California (Forbes)
  • Medical Cannabis Is So Expensive, This Mum Might 'End Up On The Street' (Ten Daily)
  • What Do Cannabis Entrepreneurs Owe Victims of the Drug War? (Reason)
  • Should Florida let patients smoke medical marijuana? A judge will now decide (Miami Herald)
  • He lost his daughter, his future, all because of something that's now legal (Rooster Magazine)
  • Big Opportunities In Europe's Cannabis Market Come With Big Risks (Forbes)
  • Medical cannabis should be legalised, says Royal College of Nursing (The Telegraph)
  • California cannot afford to wait on banking for cannabis businesses (The Sacramento Bee)
  • Meet the New Faces of Cannabis—10 People Now Shaping Legal Weed in Oregon (Willamette Week)
  • Bill Shorten Says Conservative Politicians Need To "Get Out Of The Way" Of Medical Cannabis Patients (BuzzFeed News)
  • BDS Analytics, a Boulder-based cannabis data leader, lands $3.5 million investment (The Denver Post)
  • RAND Study Says Cannabis Ads May Increase Underage Use (Leafly)
  • How One Chocolatier Wants to Bring Luxury Cannabis to a Mall Near You (Eater)
  • Nina Fern: "The Highly" Intellectual Cannabis Periodical (Forbes)

LSD

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • Denver And Oregon Now Want To Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms (The Fresh Toast)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Brieing is the new cheese and MDMA drug craze middle class women are trying (Metro)
  • The College Student’s Guide To MDMA, Aka Molly (Study Breaks)
  • Dutch researchers find ecstasy and cocaine are getting stronger (Mixmag)
  • MDMA Opens Door for PTSD Patients to Work Through Trauma (UConn Today)
  • DanceSafe Warns Against Super-Strong UPS Shaped Ecstasy Pills (Your EDM)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • What It's Like to Take Ayahuasca at a Psychedelic Healing Retreat (VICE)

Salvia Divinorum

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • 'Spice epidemic in jails risk to nurses' (BBC)

Dissociatives

  • Intranasal Ketamine Succeeds for Resistant Depression in Phase 3 Trial (Medscape)
  • Specific Features in Mood Disorders May Affect Outcome of Ketamine Treatment (MD Magazine)
  • Lily Allen kicked out of awards after accidental ketamine trip (Daily Star)

Opiates/Opioids

  • This ‘cure’ only makes the opioid crisis worse (New York Post)
  • The Challenge of Ensuring Accessibility to Naloxone for Those Who Need It Most (The American Journal of Managed Care)
  • Opioid Death Rates Are Not Correlated With Prescription Rates Across States (Reason)
  • Would Naloxone Training Save Lives? (TechnoStalls)
  • The County’s Sitting on Thousands of Doses of Naloxone (Voice of San Diego)
  • FDA Head Acknowledges Suffering Caused by Opioid Crackdown (Reason)
  • Naloxone Reverses Deadly Overdoses, But Then What? (North Carolina Health News)
  • Nevada Records Show 'Opioid-Related' Deaths Usually Involve Illicit Drugs or Mixtures (Reason)

Kratom

  • Kratom Legalization! Explore What New Research States About It (Kratom Guides)
  • Why Is Kratom So Much Controversial? (Kratom Guides)
  • Lawmakers urge Louisiana Department of Health to study kratom: why? (Best of New Orleans)
  • Kratom: A dangerous opioid or natural panacea? (WTVD)
  • Drug expert says ‘kratom’ substance seized from two Edmonton stores helped wean him off opioids (The Star)

Kava

Khat

  • Why Ethiopian farmers choose Khat over coffee (Reuters)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Michael Pollan: ‘I was a very reluctant psychonaut’ (The Guardian)
  • Global Study Finds Tobacco, Alcohol More Harmful Than Illicit Drugs (High Times)
  • The struggle to turn psychedelics into life-changing treatments (WIRED)
  • Can Psychedelic Drugs Be Medically Useful? (The Wall Street Journal)
  • The case for legalising drugs is overwhelming – so why won't governments listen? (The Telegraph)
  • Britain's first ever city centre recreational drug testing facility opens in Bristol (ITV News)
  • Michael Pollan Opens Up About His Powerful Psilocybin Trip on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show (Psychedelic Frontier)
  • Drug Use by State: 2018’s Problem Areas (WalletHub)
  • Introduction to Cognitive Enhancement, Microdosing, and Nootropics (Psychedelic Times)
  • Carl Jung on Why You Should Be Wary of Psychedelics (Psychedelic Frontier)
  • How Often Should Psychedelics Be Done? (Psychedelic Heaven)
  • Completed suicide among methamphetamine users: A national study (Drug and Alcohol Research Connections)
  • My Adventures With the Trip Doctors (The New York Times)
  • How to meditate on psychedelics with Vincent Horn of Meditate.io (Psymposia)
  • Northern Ireland drug offences rise by 20% (BBC)
  • After the Ceremony Ends: An Interview with Dr. Katherine Coder Pt. 1 (Psychedelic Times)
  • Review shows lack of evidence supporting use of antidepressants for insomnia (Medical Xpress)
  • Breaking Free From Prohibition: A Human Rights Approach to Successful Drug Reform (Julian Buchanan)
  • Movement to Legalize Drug Use Gains in a Former Soviet Republic (The New York Times)
  • Oliver North Worked With Cocaine Traffickers to Arm Terrorists. Now He'll Be President of the NRA. (The Intercept)
  • Is the ‘war on drugs’ preventing a second revolution in mental health treatment? (WikiTribune)
  • After decades of dormancy, psychedelic research makes a comeback (The Globe and Mail)
  • With governments asleep, a music festival is leading the world on drug policy (The Canary)
  • Thanks to Psychedelic Drugs, "Treatment-resistant" Depression is No Longer a Thing (Andrew Joseph)
  • Take it from someone who spent years taking heroin and crack: addiction isn't a physiological problem. It's a mental health one (The Independent)
  • When will politicians quit the war on drugs? (UnHerd)
  • Walking Backwards, or, The Magical Art of Psychedelic Psychogeography by Greg Humphries & Julian Vayne (Psychedelic Press UK)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

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This Week in Psychedelics - 11.24.17

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Study Finds Alcohol 10 Times More Deadly Than Cannabis on the Road (Leafly)
  • Michigan: Legalization Coalition Turns in 360,000 Signatures to Place Issue on 2018 Ballot (NORML)
  • California Weed Club Caught Pretending to Be a Church (TIME)
  • Study: Medical Cannabis Registrants More Likely To Cease Using Opioids Compared To Non-Participants (NORML)
  • California releases cannabis regulations, with no limit on farm size (Sonoma Index-Tribune)
  • Good News: Congo Is Ditching Conflict Metals For Cannabis (High Times)
  • Pennsylvania Couple Sues Drug Warriors Who Thought Hibiscus Was Marijuana (Reason)
  • Is The TSA More Chill About Weed Than San Francisco? (Reason)
  • Caffeine Is More Dangerous Than Marijuana (ATTN:)
  • Pennsylvania Town Used Confidential Informant and Undercover Cops to Arrest a Man For Selling Bongs (Reason)
  • Bush-Era Attorney General Cautions Against Cannabis Crackdown (Leafly)
  • Cannabis Crunch – Ex-Cops Selling Weed, Dubious Marijuana 'Overdose' And Don't Trust Sessions (Psychedelic Times)
  • Don't Blame Wildfires for Rising California Cannabis Prices (Leafly)
  • Last stop for cannabis advertising on Muni buses, trains, stations and stops (SFGate)
  • Can The Standard Hotel Really Open a Cannabis Shop in Its Lobby? (Leafly)
  • Does medical marijuana really work? The truth behind the buzz. (HuffPost)
  • Massachusetts Towns Reject Cannabis Bans, Bucking Early Trend (Leafly)
  • RightSciences raises cash to develop cannabis and hemp-based medicinal patches (GeekWire)
  • Across State Lines: One Medical Cannabis Refugee's Journey to Colorado and Back (Leafly)
  • Talk About Marijuana At Thanksgiving This Year (NORML)
  • How One Painting Class Is Bringing Art, Cannabis, and People Together (Leafly)
  • Oakland reviewing 255 permit applications to cultivate, deliver cannabis (San Francisco Chronicle)
  • Medical cannabis clinic, possible pot shop coming to Old Strathcona (Edmonton Journal)
  • Italian toddler hospitalized after mistaking cannabis for chocolate (The Local)

LSD

  • Observations from 4000 LSD Sessions: A Dialogue with Stanislav Grof (Reality Sandwich)
  • LSD is making a comeback, but not in the way you'd expect (My Fox Boston)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • The California Psilocybin Legalization Initiative Looks to put Magic Mushrooms on the Ballot (The Weed Blog)
  • Johns Hopkins studying effects of psilocybin on brains of long-term meditators (Psymposia)
  • Posttreatment Brain Effects of Psilocybin in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression (Psychiatry Advisor)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: Is There a Role for MDMA in the Treatment of PTSD? (Medical News Bulletin)
  • 'A Void No One Can Fill': Mum's heartbreaking tribute to daughter, 18, who died after 'taking MDMA at Newcastle nightclub' (The Sun)
  • 3 charged after cat allegedly abused and drugged with MDMA, with videos sent to family (CBC News)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • Criminalization Makes It Harder to Study Ayahuasca, Scientists Say (VICE)
  • How Tripping on Ayahuasca Could Help People with Eating Disorders (Broadly)
  • What is DMT and why you should care. (Psychedelics Daily)
  • NM veterans vouch for ayahuasca therapy (Albuquerque Journal)
  • Wook Describes His Wild Method of Transporting DMT Crosscountry (Your EDM)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

Dissociatives

  • Your Healthy Family: Ketamine being used to treat PTSD and severe depression (KOAA)
  • The Effect of a Single Dose of Intravenous Ketamine on Suicidal Ideation: A Systematic Review and Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis (The American Journal of Psychiatry)
  • OKC grandmother arrested after child swallows PCP (KSWO)
  • Police: Driver arrested after crashing into vehicle while on PCP (The Herald-News)

Opiates/Opioids

Absinthe

Kratom

  • Can Kratom Help With Withdrawal From Methadone? (Kratom Guides)
  • Using Kratom For Suboxone Withdrawal (Kratom Guides)
  • Seeking Alternative Addiction Treatment, Mainers Experiment With Kratom (Maine Public)
  • FDA finally rules on kratom: It's a potential killer (New York Post)
  • Where FDA Sees Deadly Drug, South Florida Advocates See Natural Alternative To Prescription Drugs (WUSF)
  • Denver bans sale of Kratom, drug often used as painkiller (9NEWS)
  • Mom of man killed by kratom calls for research, not ban (WTSP)

Kava

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Hunting for the Most Potent Psychedelic Toad Venom on Earth (VICE)
  • Psychedelic Treatments for Cluster Headaches (Psychedelic Times)
  • What The Women's Rights Movement Shares With The Drug War (High Times)
  • Could Oregon Be the First State to Legalize Psychedelic Therapy? (Psymposia)
  • Psychedelic society launches in Glasgow to try to change the law on mind-altering drugs (The Herald Scotland)
  • Mainstreaming psychedelics. Are we there yet? (Rick Strassman MD)
  • Hallucination machine lets you blow your mind without taking psychedelic drugs (RT)
  • LAPD Officer Gaxiola Caught Allegedly Planting Cocaine on Suspect by Own Body Cam Footage (ATTN:)
  • Mind menders: how psychedelic drugs rebuild broken brains (New Scientist)
  • WATCH: Fox News host wants you to have a psychedelic experience before you die (Raw Story)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.