This Week in Psychedelics - 10.22.21

Cannabis

• Luxembourg first in Europe to legalise growing and using cannabis (The Guardian)

• Switzerland to legalise recreational and medical cannabis usage (The Local)

• Virginia Has Sealed 64,000 Marijuana Distribution Charges Since Legalization Took Effect This Summer (Marijuana Moment)

• New York: Employers Are Prohibited from Testing Most Employees for Cannabis (NORML)

• Top Mexican Senator Says Marijuana Legalization Bill May Be Taken Up Within Weeks (Marijuana Moment)

• South Dakota Lawmakers Advance Marijuana Legalization Bill As Activists Pursue 2022 Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

• Oregon illegal pot grows: More calls to send National Guard (AP News)

• USPS Releases Final Rule Banning Mailing Of Hemp, CBD And Marijuana Vapes (Marijuana Moment)

• Alabama Announces Medical Cannabis Licenses Won’t Be Available Until 2022 (High Times)

• Impact Of Marijuana Legalization On Crime Reduction Is Being Underestimated, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Recreational Cannabis Law in Washington, D.C. May Soon Be Operational (High Times)

• New York: Officials Advance Home Cultivation Regulations for Qualified Patients (NORML)

• Minnesota Denies Coverage of Medical Marijuana for Injured Workers (High Times)

• Brit jailed for 25 years in Dubai over CBD vape oil speaks of 'shocking' conditions in call to mum (ITV)

• Indica and Sativa Labels Can’t Be Trusted, Study Indicates (High Times)

• Americans Want To Live Where Marijuana Is Legal, Real Estate Survey Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Study: Cannabis Use Benefits ADHD Symptoms in Adults, According to Self-Reports (ADDitude)

LSD

• LSD vs. Psilocybin Microdosing for Mental Health and Workplace productivity (The Third Wave)

• Can You Overdose On LSD? This Is What To Know (Healing Maps)

Magic Mushrooms

• Boris Johnson to consider calls to legalise magic mushroom drug psilocybin (BBC)

• Open-label study of COMP360 psilocybin therapy for depression in cancer patients demonstrates feasibility of simultaneous psilocybin administration in small groups (Psilocybin Alpha)

• COMPASS Pathways is granted new US patent for crystalline psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Doing Shrooms Alone: The Art of Tripping Solo (DoubleBlind)

• Psyched Wellness Announces Preliminary Data Showing Potential New Functional Property and Health Benefit of Amanita Muscaria Mushroom (AME-1) To Inhibit Human Mast Cell Activation (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The “Unsung History” of Psilocybin Research: Gastón Guzmán and His Scientific Contribution (Chacruna)

• Numinus Advances Phase 1 Trial on Proprietary Psilocybin Product (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Magic Mushrooms Could One Day Treat Depression. How Do They Work? (ScienceAlert)

MDMA

• Treating Hypoactive Sexual Disorder With MDMA (Reality Sandwich)

DMT

• First Patient Dosed in Phase IIa DMT-Assisted Therapy Clinical Trial (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Small Pharma Granted Fast-Track Designation From U.K. Regulator for DMT-Assisted Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Cybin Announces Completion of 74 Pre-Clinical Psychedelic Molecule Studies (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Emyria passes MDMA analogue development milestone with Eurofins to lead extensive compound screening program (Proactive Investors)

Nitrous Oxide

• Nang gang: Nitrous oxide helps alleviate depression, study finds (The Big Smoke)

Ketamine

• Are Ketamine Clinics Paving the Way for Legal Psychedelic Therapy? (DoubleBlind)

• Why Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Has Gone Mainstream (Forbes)

• PharmaTher Engages Alcami for Clinical and Commercial Manufacturing of Novel Ketamine Products (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Easthampton, Mass. Decriminalizes Natural Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• Oakland Psychedelics Activists Launch Initiative To Legalize Community-Based Sales With Support From City Council (Marijuana Moment)

• DEA Proposes Dramatic Increase In Marijuana And Psychedelic Production In 2022, Calling For 6,300 Percent More MDMA Alone (Marijuana Moment)

• Preventing Sexual Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Bank Of America Cancels Account Of Marijuana And Psychedelics Research Institute Registered With DEA (Marijuana Moment)

• Activist Apes Erect 2,001-Pound Monolith In Front Of DEA Headquarters, Demanding Feds ‘Evolve’ On Drug Policy (Marijuana Moment)

• How Do I Talk To My Doctor About Psychedelics? (Truffle Report)

• Addressing Abuse and Repair: An Open Letter to the Psychedelic Community (Chacruna)

• This New Company Believes Psychedelics Can Treat Dementia (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Campaign Launches to Decriminalize Drugs in Washington, DC (Filter)

• Can microdosing psychedelics impact an insurance application? (News24)

• Even in a Year of Massive Reforms, Racist Myths Pervade the Drug Policy Debate (TalkingDrugs)

• Countdown to ecstasy: how music is being used in healing psychedelic trips (The Guardian)

• Homecoming: The Psychedelic Digital Companion Therapists Are Already Using (Forbes)

• The Whitewashing of Psychedelic Medicine (Reality Sandwich)

• Field Trip Health Ltd. Continues Expansion With Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Centers in Seattle, Vancouver and Fredericton (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Baltimore Study Boosts Movements to Decriminalize Drugs and Sex Work (Filter)

• Carlos Santana still takes hallucinogens (MSN)

• ‘Shrooms! Shamans! Kosher LSD! Why Los Angeles Is Suddenly Tripping Out (Los Angeles Magazine)

• How Nutrition Can Improve the Psychedelic Experience (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Why creatives should microdose LSD and cannabis before big pitches (AdAge)

• Psychedelics and Sports: Can They Propel Athletes to Unprecedented Pinnacles of Ability? (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Tryp Therapeutics Reports Clinical Hold on Proposed Phase 2a Study in Eating Disorders (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The Neuroanatomy of a Psychedelic Trip: The Basics (Healing Maps)

• atai Life Sciences Launches atai Impact, a Philanthropic Program to Harness the Power of Innovative Mental Health Approaches for Positive Social Change (Psilocybin Alpha)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 7.16.21

Cannabis

• Schumer, Senate Democrats unveil new bill to decriminalize marijuana (The Hill)

• Can Marijuana Make You a Better Athlete? (The New York Times)

• Missouri Man Released From Prison After Serving 11 Years for Possessing One Pound of Weed (MERRY JANE)

• Cannabis vs. HIV: UNC researcher lands $4M grant to explore possibility (WRAL Tech Wire)

• DEA Approves Denver Marijuana Facility for Medical Research (Westword)

• Tennessee Republican Lawmaker’s New Bill Would Put Three Marijuana Questions Before Voters On 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Michigan governor moves to regulate delta-8 THC products (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Missouri Governor Vetoes Medical Marijuana Tax Deduction Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Analysis: Marijuana Legalization Correlates with Higher Home Values (NORML)

• Study Shows Cannabis Terpenes Provide Pain Relief, Contribute to ‘Entourage Effect’ (The University of Arizona Health Sciences)

• Cannabis may have originated in northwest China, study suggests (Henry Herald)

LSD

• Auckland University researchers to trial LSD microdoses on advanced-stage cancer patients (Newshub)

• LSD vs. Acid: A Brief History of Acid Slang (DoubleBlind)

• Calls to reclassify LSD out of class A as mental health research picks up steam (Newshub)

• Genetic Determinants of the LSD Response (Psychedelic Science Review)

Magic Mushrooms

• Psilocybin Mushrooms in Mexico in Danger of Extinction (Chacruna)

• Living In Peace: Cancer Patients Extralegally Seeking Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy Amid DEA Suit (Maps of the Mind)

MDMA

• Vancouver psychedelics company gets Health Canada greenlight for MDMA therapy study (CBC)

• The Re-Emergence of Ecstasy - But Not at the Club (JD Supra)

Ayahuasca

• DMT, active component in ayahuasca, aids in the growth of new neurons (PsyPost)

• First Study on Psychedelics and Epigenetics Explores Ayahuasca’s Effects on Gene Expression (Lucid News)

• Megan Fox Said She Went To “Hell For Eternity” During A Hallucinogenic Tea Trip With Machine Gun Kelly And It “Bonded” Them Even More (BuzzFeed News)

• The Ayahuasca Experience: A Pilgrimage to the Spirit (DoubleBlind)

• Lessons From Ayahuasca (Maps of the Mind)

5-MeO-DMT

• From Hunter Biden To HGTV Star Christina Haack, Psychedelic Toad Venom Hits The Mainstream (Forbes)

Peyote

• The Traditional & Medicinal Use of Peyote in North America with Oscar Matzuwa (EntheoNation)

Iboga

• MINDCURE Announces Filing of U.S. Provisional Patent Applications for Company’s First Fully Synthetic Routes to Create an Ibogaine Psychedelic Compound (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• The Rise in Synthetic Cannabinoids and Cathinones (Psychiatric Times)

Ketamine

• Microdoses of psilocybin and ketamine enhance motivation and attention in rodent models relevant to depression (PsyPost)

• Ketamine, esketamine do not differ in cognitive effects for treatment-resistant depression (Healio)

• Dissociation as Medicine? Exploring Dissociation & Dissociative Psychedelics like Ketamine (Psychedelics Today)

• Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for Frontline Workers (Truffle Report)

• Awakn Life Sciences Initiates Research Program to Further Develop Ketamine-Assisted Therapies for Treating Addiction (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Ketamine Therapy and Addiction Risk Management: Part I (Truffle Report)

• Here’s How Ketamine Affects The Brain (Healing Maps)

Miscellaneous

• California Bill To Legalize Psychedelics Possession Advances Again, With New Amendments That Add Limits (Marijuana Moment)

• In the Light of Dying Stars (Here and Now Studios)

• Ethan Nadelmann Reexamines Adult Drug Use in New Podcast ‘Psychoactive’ (Rolling Stone)

• Biden Selects White House Drug Czar Who Helped Implement State Marijuana Program And Touted Medical Benefits (Marijuana Moment)

• World Reimagined: The Growth of the Psychedelic Industry (Nasdaq)

• Syncing Psychedelic Sessions with Moon Cycles (Maps of the Mind)

• Advocacy Group Asks to Delay California Psychedelics Bill Until 2022 (Truffle Report)

• Mass. Communities Move Toward Decriminalizing Psychedelics, With Some Pushback (WGBH)

• Shamanic Ceremony Leaders Join Forces to Shape Legal Strategy through the Sacred Plant Alliance (Lucid News)

• Can Coca Leaf Avoid the Wrongs of The Psychedelic Revolution? (Chacruna)

• Religious Access to Psychedelics is No Substitute for Decriminalization (DoubleBlind)

• Is public discourse on drug overdoses improving? (Drug WarRant)

• Active vs. Passive Coping Distinguishes Antidepressants and Psychedelics (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Food Suggestions for Before, During, and After Psychedelic Sessions (Maps of the Mind)

• Ultimate Guide on the Legalization and Decriminalization of Drugs (Reality Sandwich)

• Psychedelics and Death: Transitioning from this World with Consciousness (Chacruna)

• The interesting origins of psychedelic therapy (Freethink)

• New Frontiers in the Law of Psychedelics (JD Supra)

• Psychedelic Decriminalization Creating Market Opportunities (PR Newswire)

• Going Offline for Psychedelic Journeys (Maps of the Mind)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 1.15.21

Cannabis

• South Dakota: Republican Governor Officially Backing Litigation to Reject Voter-Approved Marijuana Legalization Initiative (NORML)

• Montana Lawmakers Reject Funding To Implement Voter-Approved Marijuana Legalization Program (Marijuana Moment)

• Mississippi: Medical Organizations Join Legal Fight to Overturn Election Result Legalizing Medical Cannabis Access (NORML)

• Amsterdam doubles down on plans to restrict tourist access to cannabis coffee shops (CNN)

• New Jersey Is ‘On The Verge’ Of Implementing Marijuana Legalization, Governor Says In State Of The State Speech (Marijuana Moment)

• Mexico releases long-awaited medical cannabis regulations (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Activists Give Out Free Marijuana To Encourage COVID Vaccination With ‘Joints For Jabs’ Campaign (Marijuana Moment)

• USDA Releases Final Rule For Hemp, Two Years After Crop Was Federally Legalized (Marijuana Moment)

• UK grants second only licence to grow medical marijuana (Financial Times)

• Virginia Governor Unveils Bill To Legalize Marijuana As Lawmakers Schedule First Hearing (Marijuana Moment)

• New Mexico Governor Says Marijuana Legalization Is A 2021 Priority (Marijuana Moment)

• Kansas Lawmakers Push To Legalize Medical Marijuana In 2021 (Marijuana Moment)

• Colorado authorities issue recall of contaminated cannabis (Marijuana Business Daily)

• USDA Approves Hemp Regulatory Plans From Rhode Island And Another Indian Tribe (Marijuana Moment)

• The Future of Fully Legal Cannabis (Playboy)

• Top Texas Lawmakers Say Medical Marijuana Expansion Is On The Table For 2021 (Marijuana Moment)

• Survey: Most Americans Say Marijuana Possesses Less Abuse Potential Than Alcohol (NORML)

• North Dakota Activists Submit 2022 Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

• North Dakota Lawmakers File Bill To Significantly Expand Marijuana Decriminalization Law (Marijuana Moment)

• Legalizing marijuana boosts junk food sales (The Academic Times)

• Medical Marijuana Leads To Reduced Opioid Use, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis dispensaries struggle to find financial support amid pandemic (KRON4)

• FDA Unveils Plan To Fill CBD Research Gaps With ‘Real-World Data’ In 2021 (Marijuana Moment)

• Introducing Mode: The world's first smart cannabis dosing device (KVVU-TV)

• Arizona Prepares To Accept Marijuana Applications Next Week As New Draft Legalization Rules Are Issued (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• LSD Could Be the Key to Alleviating the Mental Health Crisis—if Government Allows It (Foundation for Economic Education)

• MindMed Expands Psychedelic Microdosing Division, Adds Groundbreaking Study Evaluating LSD Microdosing Through Next-Gen Digital Clinical Markers (Psilocybin Alpha)

Magic Mushrooms

• Psychedelic Mushrooms Grew in a Man's Veins After He Injected Them (Gizmodo)

• NeonMind Engages Dr. C. Laird Birmingham to Develop Protocols for Phase 2 Clinical Trial Using Psilocybin to Treat Obesity (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psilocybin is Being Studied to Help Treat Autism Spectrum Disorder (Baystreet)

• Psilocybin produces an immunology-related genetic response in the prefrontal cortex of pig brains (PsyPost)

• CBDV Begins Research on Psilocybin with Section 56 Exemption from Health Canada (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Core One Labs Announces Breakthrough in Solving Psilocybin Dosing Problems by Introducing Biosynthetic Psilocybin to its Patented Thinstrip Delivery Method (AccessWire)

• Silo Pharma Provides Details of Patent License Agreement for Psilocybin and Cancer Applications (GlobeNewswire)

• Revive Therapeutics Announces Research Collaboration with North Carolina State University for Natural Biosynthesis Enzymatic Platform To Develop Psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Should You Say “I Love You” While on MDMA? (DoubleBlind)

• Awakn Life Sciences Appoints CRO to Conduct Phase II Study of MDMA as a Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

Peyote

• Inside a Massive, Illicit Peyote Ceremony During Mexico's COVID Lockdown (VICE)

Iboga

• Ibogaine vs. Iboga Alkaloids for Treating Addiction (Psychedelic Science Review)

Nitrous Oxide

• Police investigation launched after cargo of nitrous oxide canisters discovered in Ribble Valley (Burnley Express)

Ketamine

• A Deadly ‘Ketamine Cocktail’ Is Causing Overdoses on the Streets of Bangkok (VICE)

• Novamind Expands Psychedelic Medicine Access in Utah (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Somerville, Massachusetts Decriminalizes Naturally Occurring Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• COMPASS Pathways establishes Centre of Excellence with Sheppard Pratt to accelerate research and improve patient experience in mental health care (COMPASS Pathways)

• New York, Virginia And Other States Consider New Drug Decriminalization Bills (Marijuana Moment)

• The World's ‘Largest Illegal Darknet Marketplace’ has Been Shut Down (VICE)

• UFC looks into Johns Hopkins study on psychedelic drugs as potential therapy for fighters (ESPN)

• Michigan Prosecutor Won’t Pursue Most Marijuana Or Psychedelics Cases, ‘Regardless Of The Amount’ (Marijuana Moment)

• DEA Agents Report Agency’s Lack of Basic COVID-19 Safety Measures (Filter)

• When Getting High Is a Hobby, Not a Habit (New York Times)

• How This Black-Led Psychedelic Collective Is Combining Anti-Racism With ‘Sacred Plant Medicine’ (Vogue)

• Eleusis Accelerates Psychedelic Drug Discovery and Development Team with Appointment of David Nichols, Ph.D., as Director of Molecular Pharmacology (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Coping with Antidepressants and Psychedelics (Spirit Pharmacist)

• Psychedelic Illusions are Not Pathological, and May Even Help You See Better (Chacruna)

• Engineering Psychoplastogens: Toward a Safer Alternative for Treating Depression (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Silo Pharma Enters into Sponsored Research Agreement for Potential Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Approach with University of Maryland, Baltimore (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Revealing Trends in Russia’s Dark-Web Drug Markets (TalkingDrugs)

• Numinus Wellness Forges Forward into Psychedelic Discovery Research with the Orbitrap Exploris 120 Mass Spectometer (Cision)

• Having A Bad Trip On Psychedelics: Is There Some Value? (Healing Maps)

• The Emerging Revival of Psychedelics in Neuroscience (Psychology Today)

• Mental Health Demand For Development Of Psychedelic Drug Therapies Is Increasing (PR Newswire)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 8.30.19

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

• Despite rising popularity, ayahuasca supplies not imperiled as yet, expert finds (NutraIngredients-usa.com)

• Is Ayahuasca a “Drug”? (Chacruna)

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

• Kratom is linked with numerous deaths. But it won’t be easy for Pennsylvania to ban it. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• Why Kratom Is Becoming Performance Tool For Athletes (Kratom Guides)

KHAT

• In Ethiopia, a rehab centre takes on khat addiction (Medical Xpress)

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:

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This Week in Psychoactives - 7.19.19

CANNABIS

• California Claims the Crown for the Nation’s First Recreational Pot Cafes (MERRY JANE)

• Australian Researchers Say You Can Treat Cannabis Dependency with... Cannabis? (MERRY JANE)

• Senate Schedules Hearing On Marijuana Business Banking Access (Forbes)

• That Alarming CBD Liver Damage Study Is Bunk—And the Media Should Know Better (Leafly)

• Were Vikings POTHEADS? Archaeologists uncover evidence of cannabis at 1,000-year-old settlement (The Sun)

• Legalizing Marijuana Leads To Fewer Illegal Grow Sites In National Forests, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Pennsylvania Adds Anxiety as Medical Marijuana Qualifying Condition (MERRY JANE)

• New Roadside Cannabis Test Approved for Use in Canada (Leafly)

• Marijuana Legalization Associated With Decreased Interest In Alcohol, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• New Hampshire: Governor Signs Marijuana Annulment Measure (NORML)

• As More States Legalize, DEA Chops Down Fewer Marijuana Plants, Federal Data Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• Pot-smoking parents are harsher with discipline: study (New York Post)

• Marijuana Legalization Could Be On The Horizon For British Virgin Islands (Marijuana Moment)

• Recent cannabis use tied to memory deficits, slowed mental processing (Reuters)

• Kamala Harris Evolved Slowly on Legalization, but She’s All About It Now (Leafly)

• Thousands Of Comments Urge FDA To Allow CBD In Foods And Supplements (Marijuana Moment)

• Three Republicans Stand in the Way of Federal Weed Legalization (Rolling Stone)

• Medical cannabis is gaining momentum in Asia (CNBC)

• THC Testing is Bullshit and You're Getting Screwed (Beard Bros Pharms)

• Sound Garden owners plan Maryland’s first medical cannabis lounge in Fells Point (The Baltimore Sun)

LSD

• Kid Cudi reveals iconic Coachella jam was the result of an LSD trip (Dancing Astronaut)

• Everything We Know About The YouTube Engineer Who Injured 8 People On LSD Rampage (YourTango)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

• What Psilocybin Could Mean for End-of-Life Care (Psychology Today)

MDMA

• REPORT: First MDMA/Psychotherapy Trial Successful In Combatting Alcoholism (Your EDM)

• Breakthrough PTSD treatment using party drug MDMA coming soon to Philly region (PhillyVoice)

• Hamilton schoolboy dies after ‘ecstasy’ horror as three more teens rushed to hospital (The Scottish Sun)

• Will MDMA Show Up On a Drug Test? (VICE)

• Mum's unusual pledge after daughter dies from MDMA overdose at festival (Yahoo! News)

AYAHUASCA

• Olivia Newton-John proposed to boyfriend after taking hallucinogen drug! (All4Women)

Yopo

• An Introduction to Yopo in the Venezuelan Piaroan Tradition (DMT Times)

5-MEO-DMT

• Upcoming World Bufo Alvarius Congress Looks to Nurture Global 5-MeO-DMT Community (Psychedelic Times)

SAN PEDRO

• Man selling giant hallucinogenic cactus says he's not a drug dealer (Newshub)

SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS

• Kids thought this was 'natural cannabis' vape juice... it was Spice. Nine people who ended up in hospital could have died (Manchester Evening News)

KETAMINE

• Ketamine-like drug for depression could get UK licence within the year (The Guardian)

• Ketamine for Depression: Clinical Evidence and Concerns (Psychiatry Advisor)

OPIOIDS

• "We Didn't Cause the Crisis": David Sackler Pleads His Case on the Opioid Epidemic (Vanity Fair)

• Delta to carry Narcan on planes after passenger ‘carried out in body bag’ following overdose (The Independent)

• Media Frame: Fentanyl Panic is Worsening the Overdose Crisis (The Appeal)

• The Louvre Removed the Name of OxyContin-Linked Sackler Family From Its Walls (TIME)

• States Are Making Progress on Opioids. Now the Money That's Helping Them May Dry Up (The New York Times)

• Opioid Shipments Increased by Over 50% as Addiction Crisis Grew, Federal Data Shows (TIME)

• What to call someone who uses heroin? (ScienceDaily)

COCAINE

• Passenger from Colombia fails to fool Spanish police with his cocaine-under-the-toupee trick (CBS News)

• What Does Cocaine Do to the Heart? (VICE)

METHAMPHETAMINE

• Asia's meth trade is worth an estimated $61B as region becomes 'playground' for drug gangs (CNN)

• How Myanmar Became A Global Center For Meth & Other Synthetic Drugs (The Fix)

• Police Warn Flushing Drugs Could Create Terrifying 'Meth Gators' (People)

CAFFEINE

• Under 16s set to be 'banned' from buying caffeine-filled energy drinks (Edinburgh Live)

• Hot coffee or iced? Study says higher temp provides more health benefits (KABC)

• Daily coffee doesn't affect cancer risk (Medical Xpress)

TOBACCO

• New York Raises Statewide Smoking Age to 21 (TIME)

• Raising tobacco sales age to 21: Ohio becomes latest state in national trend (Cincinnati.com)

• Tobacco Plants Made to Produce Useful Compounds (Scientific American)

ALCOHOL

• Study Suggests Alcohol Causes Skin to Sunburn Faster (Paste Magazine)

KRATOM

• Drug Researchers Raise Concern Over "Misleading" Evidence in Kratom Studies (Inverse)

• What to know about kratom for depression (Medical News Today)

• Kratom Ban Back on the Table in Oxford (Hotty Toddy)

KHAT

• Miraa farmers mull tough sanitary laws with eyes fixed on new export markets (The Star)

MISCELLANEOUS

• Berkeley City Council Considers Decriminalizing Psychedelics This Week (Marijuana Moment)

• Science of microdosing psychedelics 'remains patchy and anecdotal', says review (Imperial College London)

• El Chapo, the Notorious Drug Kingpin, Has Been Sentenced to Life in Prison in the U.S. (TIME)

• New data shows drug overdose deaths fell in 2018. But there’s a big catch. (Vox)

• Scotland drug deaths – 1,200 deaths recorded in 2018 as worst ever figures released (The Sun)

• People who microdose psychedelic substances report improved mood and focus (Medical Xpress)

• New Bill Ensures Some Retroactive Drug War Justice for New Hampshire (High Times)

• Future of drug-sniffing dogs uncertain after Colorado Supreme Court ruling (The Coloradoan)

• Microdosing has a critic — one of its pioneers (Rooster Magazine)

• Police Thought They Beat the Darknet Drug Markets – They Didn't (VICE)

• Nutrition Is an Overlooked Aspect of Harm Reduction (Filter)

• Framing addiction as a disease: Research shows that message might backfire (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• Survey reveals extent of music festival drug use (The Australian)

• The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Problematic Process for Religious Exemption for Use of Prohibited Psychoactive Substances (Chacruna)

• The Risky Business of Psychedelic Therapy (Medium)

• How Congress can expand access to addiction treatment — immediately (The Hill)

• Inside the Philippines Prison That Sparked Duterte’s Murderous Drug War (Filter)

• Mother of festival drug death victim says Gladys Berejiklian needs to show courage (The Guardian)

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Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychoactives" 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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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:

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