Cannabis
Cannabis banking reform included in latest Congressional COVID relief bill (Leafly)
NYC Officially Enacts Ban on Pre-Employment Cannabis Testing (With Exceptions) (MERRY JANE)
Albania, once haven of illicit cannabis, set to legalise crop for medical use (Reuters)
Montana’s legalization campaign hits the streets, safely distanced (Leafly)
Lawmakers In Virginia Capital Vote To End Marijuana Testing Of City Workers (Marijuana Moment)
Cannabis May Stop Coronavirus From Infecting People, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)
Cannabis employees are in high demand during economic crash (Politico)
Louisiana Lawmakers Vote To Expand Medical Marijuana Conditions List Again (Marijuana Moment)
The Bizarre Case of a Death Allegedly Caused by CBD Oil (VICE)
Poll: Respondents in Adult-Use Marijuana States Say Legalization Has Been Successful (NORML)
Utah Approves Cannabis Drive-Thrus and Delivery to Facilitate Social Distancing (MERRY JANE)
CBD might not cause you to fail a drug test, but CBN might (The Baltimore Sun)
USDA Approves Hemp Plans For Massachusetts And Five Indian Tribes (Marijuana Moment)
Body's own marijuana helps us forget traumatic memories (Medical Xpress)
A CDC study found people who smoked cannabis had a slightly higher risk of fungal infections than those who didn't (Insider)
El Paso, Texas Lawmakers Approve Measure To Reduce Arrests For Low-Level Marijuana Possession (Marijuana Moment)
Organic Weed Certified by the State Is Coming to California (MERRY JANE)
Maryland Governor Vetoes Bill To Shield Marijuana Conviction Records From Public View (Marijuana Moment)
LSD
MindMed Advances Phase 2 LSD Microdosing Trial For Adult ADHD, Appoints Principal Investigator (Markets Insider)
Taking LSD or Psilocybin Alone Won’t Treat Alcohol Addiction, Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)
Magic Mushrooms
Oregon Campaigns To Legalize Psilocybin Mushrooms And Decriminalize Drugs Team Up To Qualify For Ballot (Marijuana Moment)
NeonMind Completes Design of Preclinical Psilocybin Psychedelic Mushroom Study (Yahoo! Finance)
Silo Wellness Offers Free Psilocybin Retreat for Covid-19 Frontline Workers (Lucid News)
The Definitive History of Psilocybin Mushrooms (DoubleBlind)
MDMA
Interim Analysis Shows At Least 90% Chance of Statistically Significant Difference in PTSD Symptoms after MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy (MAPS)
DMT
Thousands of DMT Users Report Positive Encounters with Spirit Entities, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)
Ayahuasca
Florida Ayahuasca Church Seeks Federal Exemption (Lucid News)
The Corona Crisis: A View from the Ayahuasca Capital of Iquitos (Chacruna)
Peyote
A Word in Edgewise About the Sustainability of Peyote (Chacruna)
Iboga
Noribogaine is More Effective Than Fluoxetine in Reducing Depressive Symptoms in Rat Model (Psychedelic Science Review)
Nitrous Oxide
Antarctic Penguins Poop Out So Much Laughing Gas, It Has a Funny Effect on Researchers (ScienceAlert)
Ketamine
Ketamine is being tested as a treatment for coronavirus in new study (Happy Mag)
Prescribed Ketamine Turned These Men Violent, Allege Lawsuits (VICE)
Champignon Brands Acquires Ketamine Wellness Clinic (Green Market Report)
Miscellaneous
North Star Announces Ethical Pledge for Era of Psychedelic Business (Lucid News)
Portland Activists Will Pursue Psychedelics Decriminalization Through City Council Rather Than Ballot (Marijuana Moment)
Small-Time Drug Dealers Rethink Strategies for the Virus Era (The New York Times)
Everything’s Canceled: How the Psychedelic Community is Coping (DoubleBlind)
Bipolar and Psychedelics: An Investigation into the Potential and Risks (Psychedelics Today)
'Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics': Film Review (Hollywood Reporter)
COVID-19 Is the Biggest Drug and Alcohol Enabler Right Now, Survey Finds (MERRY JANE)
MAPS Founder Rick Doblin: You’re Never Too Old For A Psychedelic Experience (Forbes)
The Startup Turning Yeast Into Psychedelics (Technology Networks)
Psychedelics Co. Champignon Announces New CEO, $10M In Funding And M&A Deal (Benzinga)
Warning: Increase in Recent Seizures by Homeland Security in the US (Chacruna)
60 Minutes try psychedelics and have a surprisingly good trip (AOD Media Watch)
UK's Most Famous UFO Sighting Was Just a Hallucinogen-Induced Military Experiment, New Book Claims (Sputnik News)
New Wave Holdings Corp Forms Psychedelic Research Advisory Board and Appoints Dr. Richard Knowles (Yahoo! Finance)
The Kaleidoscopic Forest of Amazonian Shamans (Kahpi)
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