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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This Week in Psychedelics - 7.24.20

Cannabis

• FDA Announces Recall Of Dozens Of Hemp Products For Humans And Pets (Marijuana Moment)

• New York Senate Approves Bill Protecting Medical Marijuana Patients From Eviction (Marijuana Moment)

• Montana County Officials Say Marijuana Legalization Measures Will Qualify For State Ballot, Campaign Confirms (Marijuana Moment)

• NHS planning to manufacture cannabis oil (Yahoo! News)

• FDA Releases Guidelines On Cannabis Research Following White House Review (Marijuana Moment)

• California weighs steep new fines to combat illegal cannabis sellers (Los Angeles Times)

• Congress Approves Measure Allowing CBD Use By Military Service Members (Marijuana Moment)

• Marijuana Legalization Excluded From Draft 2020 Democratic Party Platform (Marijuana Moment)

• Researchers Believe Cannabis Should Be Explored as COVID-19 Treatment Immediately (MERRY JANE)

• Third Party Presidential Candidates Push For Marijuana Legalization And Drug Decriminalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Shepard Fairey’s 76-acre cannabis crop art will blow your mind (Leafly)

• High Times Returns to Colorado with People’s Choice Cannabis Cup (High Times)

• Massachusetts Bill To Use Marijuana Tax Revenue For Police Training Draws Criticism (Marijuana Moment)

• Canada’s cannabis pardon program is failing. Here’s why (Leafly)

• Kanye West Says He Smoked Marijuana On Eve Of His First Presidential Campaign Rally (Marijuana Moment)

• Clint Eastwood sues over false cannabis endorsements (BBC)

• Poll Shows Arizona Voters Back Legal Marijuana Measure As Officials Verify Signatures (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• LSD packets found attached to doors at four St. Lawrence County police departments (NNY360)

Magic Mushrooms

• Psilocybin & OCD: Can psychedelics treat obsessive compulsive disorder? (New Atlas)

• Red Light Holland Places First Order for Psychedelic Truffles Microdosing Packs (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Gwyneth Paltrow advocates ecstasy drug MDMA for use in couples' therapy (Daily Mirror)

DMT

• Meet Viridia, the ATAI unit exploring ayahuasca-based treatments for mental illness (Fierce Biotech)

Ayahuasca

• The Bitter Side of Ayahuasca (Lucid News)

Morning Glory Seeds

• What is LSA? The Trippy Story Behind the Morning Glory (DoubleBlind)

Nitrous Oxide

• Nitrous oxide: MP wants to see tightening of laughing gas laws (BBC)

• Parliamentary briefing on tackling the misuse of Nitrous Oxide (Drug Science)

• Why Is the UK Still Obsessed with Laughing Gas? (VICE)

Ketamine

• Medics In Colorado Dosed 902 People With Ketamine For 'Excited Delirium' In 2.5 Years (KUNC)

Miscellaneous

• Psychedelics Activists Unveil Measure To Legalize Plant Medicine Healing Ceremonies In Oakland (Marijuana Moment)

• 60-Plus Psychedelic Clinical Trials Listed on Online Directory (Lucid News)

• The Second Pandemic: Is Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy the Answer to the Mental Health Crisis Caused by COVID-19? (Psychedelics Today)

• Profitdelic: A New Psychedelic Conference Trend (Chacruna)

• Medical Psychedelics Working Group to campaign for drug rescheduling (Health Europa)

• Minister Open To Examining Drug Decriminalization (CKDR)

• Selecting Music for Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelics Today)

• The Drug War’s “Science-Based” Training on “Dopers and Parasites” (Filter)

• MagicMed Industries unveils C$1.5 million offering to expand its molecular psychedelic derivatives portfolio (Proactive Investors)

• Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy and Experiential Efficacy (Psychedelic Science Review)

• An Entire Police Station Has Been Arrested for Dealing Drugs and Torturing Suspects (VICE)

• Empower Clinics Served a Cease Trade Order (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The Psychedelic Explorer’s Mindset (Maps of the Mind)

• Psychedelic journeys helped Holocaust survivor George Sarlo. Now he’s helping others on their own journeys. (The Forward)

• How the war on drugs killed Breonna Taylor (Leafly)

• What Does Science Say About Maryland Rep. Andy Harris’s Opposition to Natural Psychedelics? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Inside Toronto’s Newest Psychedelics Clinic (Investing News)

• Psychedelics are making a wild comeback – let’s not eff it up (NOW Magazine)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 4.24.20

Cannabis

• Lebanon Passes Legislation Legalizing Medical Marijuana Cultivation As Economy Struggles Amid Coronavirus Fallout (Newsweek)

• Mexican Supreme Court Again Extends Marijuana Legalization Deadline (Marijuana Moment)

• Due to COVID-19, Connecticut’s Legislative Session Cut Short, Cannabis Legalization Stalled (Cannabis Wire)

• On 4/20, ACLU Highlights Racist Marijuana Enforcement In New Report (Forbes)

• Virginia Lawmakers Reject Governor’s Delay Of Marijuana Legalization Study (Marijuana Moment)

• Scotland is set to get its first legal cannabis farm to produce drug for use in medicine (The Scottish Sun)

• Majority Of Americans Think Marijuana Legalization Is A Successful Policy, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Americans Think Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol, But Social Stigmas Remain (MERRY JANE)

• Early exposure to cannabis boosts young brains' sensitivity to cocaine, rodent study finds (Science Daily)

• New Jersey Voters Set To Approve Marijuana Legalization Referendum, Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• Clinical Trials for Treating COVID-19 with Cannabis Begin in Israel (MERRY JANE)

• Everything to Know About Cannabis and Coronavirus (The Cut)

• Cannabis industry launches COVID-19 relief efforts in Colorado (KDVR)

• DEA Marijuana Scheduling Lawsuit Will Be Appealed To Supreme Court Following Dismissal (Marijuana Moment)

• 24 Million Americans Will Spend Stimulus Check on Weed or Booze, Survey Says (MERRY JANE)

• New Jerseyans back referendum to legalize weed by huge margin, new poll shows (New Jersey Globe)

• Lawmakers File Bill To Let Marijuana Businesses Access Federal Coronavirus Relief Funds (Marijuana Moment)

• Feast or famine: The effect of marijuana on weight (The Spokesman-Review)

• Smoking Weed Causes Less DNA Damage Than Tobacco, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

• There is no difference between the effects of indica and sativa marijuana strains, scientists say (Insider)

• Weed advocacy groups call for prison depopulation to slow COVID-19 spread (Mugglehead)

LSD

• Mick Jagger once bought a giant mansion while tripping on LSD (Far Out Magazine)

Magic Mushrooms

• Until Next Time: California’s Mushroom Decriminalization Effort Ends (Filter)

• Empower Clinics launches psilocybin research and psychedelic treatment subsidiary (Proactive Investors)

• Champignon secures stable psilocybin supply for traumatic brain injury, PTSD studies at the University of Miami (Proactive Investors)

• Two New Crystalline Forms of Norpsilocin (Psychedelic Science Review)

Ketamine

• Defense Department Approves Ketamine-Based Antidepressant for Some Patients (Military.com)

• Utah Clinician Exemplifies Innovation in Ketamine Therapy (Lucid News)

Miscellaneous

• D.C. Would Vote To Decriminalize Psychedelics, Poll Shows (Forbes)

• Medical Researchers Worry Silicon Valley Could Screw Up Psychedelics (OneZero)

• Thiel Backs Psychedelic-Drug Startup in Latest Funding Round (Bloomberg)

• The Prohibited Medicine (Medium)

• Why Dark-Web Drug Marketplaces Can Be a Refuge (Filter)

• The Structure and Function of the Serotonin 5-HT2C Receptor (Psychedelic Science Review)

• How the Illicit Drug Trade Is Adapting to the Coronavirus Pandemic (World Politics Review)

• UN Experts Agree – The Right to Health of People Who Use Drugs Must Be Prioritised in Global COVID-19 Response (TalkingDrugs)

• Welcome to Entheogen (Medium)

• Psychedelics Make a Comeback as Therapies for Brain Injury, PTSD, Anxiety and Even Addiction (BioSpace)

• Can Psychedelics Treat Climate Grief? (The Nation)

• Russian NGO Accused of “Narco-Propaganda” Over COVID-19 Advocacy For People Who Use Drugs (TalkingDrugs)

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