Cannabis
- Maine Legislators Override Governor's Veto of Marijuana Legalization (Reason)
- Zimbabwe legalises marijuana for medicinal use (The Independent)
- Thailand Authorises Country’s First Medical Cannabis Programme (Talking Drugs)
- Cannabis versus Cancer (Scientific American)
- Seattle wipes criminal marijuana convictions for hundreds of people (The Independent)
- Study: Frequent Cannabis Use Unrelated To Brain Morphology (NORML)
- Legislation Introduced To End The Federal Government’s Marijuana Production Monopoly (NORML)
- YouTube Remains Silent as Weed Pages Are Purged (High Times)
- An easy policy fix: Jeff Sessions should finally reschedule cannabis (The Hill)
- So far, California has 6,000 licensed cannabis businesses. Here’s what that looks like (The Orange County Register)
- Ninth Circuit Court Rejects Challenge To DEA’s Classification Of Marijuana Extracts (NORML)
- NFL player makes medical marijuana history: 'I have a life to live' (CNN)
- Weed 101: How to Choose Marijuana (Rolling Stone)
- Igniting A Powder Keg: Discussing Cannabis And Cryptocurrency With Dübercoin CEO Glenn Ballman (Forbes)
- It's Dumb Not to Have Investments in Cryptocurrencies, Cannabis in a Portfolio (The Street)
- Trudeau vows cannabis will be legal by summer as senators urge delay (CBC)
- Marijuana Gives Health-Conscious Consumers Something Alcohol Cannot (Forbes)
- Feinstein drops opposition to legal pot, giving legal marijuana a new ally (McClatchy DC Bureau)
- NORML Working With Cory Gardner's Office on Hands-Off-Colorado-Pot Bill (Westword)
- At 89, legendary psychiatrist and marijuana advocate still wonders about Harvard professorship (Boston Globe)
- New York Voters Strongly Support Legalizing Marijuana, Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)
- Some Prosecutors Are Erasing Old Weed Convictions. Why Isn’t Yours? (HuffPost)
- Getting off opioids with medical marijuana: Patients turn to pot over pills (CNN)
- Is Israeli Cannabis a Bubble Waiting to Burst? (Merry Jane)
- The Quest for an Ancient Culture’s Cannabis-Filled Cooking (Atlas Obscura)
- Moorenko’s Ice Cream Introduces Cannabis Coffee to Silver Spring (Bethesda Magazine)
- Veterans' grass-roots movement shares health benefits of marijuana (CNN)
- Growing 4 cannabis plants for recreational use is not a ‘grow-op,’ experts say (Global News)
- Investing in Australia’s Cannabis Industry: 5 Companies to Watch (Leafly)
- Quebec Lawmaker Explains Provincial Ban on Home-Grown Cannabis (High Times)
- Cannabis tycoons plot to make drug legal in Britain in next five years (The Sun)
- Lidl offers locally grown cannabis to Swiss shoppers (The Guardian)
- Medical marijuana may help combat the opioid crisis. But there are better solutions. (Vox)
- Police Raid Dispensary Over Cannabis-Infused Candy (High Times)
- Medicinal cannabis should be more than pot luck (Asia and the Pacific Policy Society)
- Boyack: Medical cannabis initiative opponents are trying to mislead you (Daily Herald)
- OrganiGram: Medical Cannabis Leader In The Maritimes (Seeking Alpha)
- Aurora Cannabis Set to Challenge Canopy Growth in Australia? (Smallcap Power)
LSD
- I Had a Bad Trip on LSD: This is My Story (71 Republic)
- Diplo, Sia and Labrinth Will Drop New Team Effort 'LSD' This Thursday (Billboard)
Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms
- Shrooms Could Help Scientists Better Understand Consciousness (Tonic)
MDMA/Ecstasy
- Trials testing MDMA as a treatment for alcoholism have begun (Mixmag)
- Active ingredient in ecstasy may help veterans with PTSD, study finds (CNN)
- Ecstasy as PTSD relief for soldiers: ‘I was able to forgive myself.’ (Watertown Daily Times)
- 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-assisted psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans, firefighters, and police officers: a randomised, double-blind, dose-response, phase 2 clinical trial (The Lancet)
- Ecstasy as a Remedy for PTSD? You Probably Have Some Questions. (The New York Times)
- Ecstasy island: The is the story of how MDMA reached the UK in 1988 (Mixmag)
- Lady Gabriella Windsor's ex claims they took ECSTASY at Windsor Castle and swam NAKED in Queen's swimming pool at Buckingham Palace (Mirror)
Ayahuasca/DMT
- The Global Ayahuasca Community Is Reeling in the Wake of Recent Murders (VICE)
- Gun used to kill shaman was purchased by Canadian man lynched in Peru: authorities (Global News)
- Peru's brutal murders renew focus on tourist boom for hallucinogenic brew (The Guardian)
- The epidemiology of 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) use: Benefits, consequences, patterns of use, subjective effects, and reasons for consumption (SAGE Journals)
- I had an 11-year addiction to heroin — and I beat it with ayahuasca (San Francisco Chronicle)
Iboga/Ibogaine
- New hope for opioid addicts with innovative ibogaine treatment (San Francisco Chronicle)
Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals
Deadly new drug has reached Australia, pill testing reveals (The New Daily)
Dissociatives
- Pharma giants are looking to ketamine for clues to the next blockbuster depression drug — and science says they're onto something big (Business Insider)
- Police say Bryan man rammed his car into other vehicle, possessed PCP (The Eagle)
Opiates/Opioids
- Cocaine Deaths Are Rising At An Alarming Rate, And It’s Because Of Fentanyl (BuzzFeed News)
- The US Opioid Crisis Started in India (VICE)
- Maine Gov. Vetoes Bill Increasing Access to Naloxone Overdose Drug (Governing)
- To Save Lives, Make Naloxone an Over-the-Counter Drug (Reason)
- De Blasio Moves to Bring Safe Injection Sites to New York City (The New York Times)
- Questions Raised About Study Of Device To Ease Opioid Withdrawal (NPR)
- Afghan Farmers Stick to Growing Opium in the Face of Less Lucrative Options (U.S. News and World Report)
- The Four Main Reasons People in Denver Overdose on Heroin (Westword)
- A Vet Helped Smuggle Drugs by Implanting Puppies With Heroin, Police Say (TIME)
Kratom
- Experts Are Concerned that Kratom Will Become the Next Marijuana (Tonic)
- Pro-Kratom Scientist Blasts Denver Ban, Federal Policies as Recipe for Death (Westword)
- What is Kratom and why is it banned in 5 states? (CBS17)
- Maya Distribution, LLC Recalls Dragon Label Kratom Because Of Possible Salmonella Contamination (US Recall News)
Khat
- Khat (Plant) Market to Set Phenomenal Growth from 2018 to 2023 (The Financial Analyst)
Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy
- Politicians Are Finally Getting On Side With Pill Testing After The Success Of Groovin The Moo (Junkee)
- Antidepressant Use Leads to Worse Long Term Outcomes, Study Finds (Mad in America)
- Storming the Gates of Psychedelia: Scientists Commit to Collaboration in the Face of Capitalist Competition (Chacruna)
- The Timothy Leary Project: Interview with Jennifer Ulrich (Psychedelic Times)
- The New Science of Psychedelics (The Wall Street Journal)
- Jon Hopkins interview: My new album is a psychedelic experience (Evening Standard)
- President Duterte’s Son Cleared of Drug Trafficking, as Extrajudicial Killings Continue (Talking Drugs)
- The FDA receives a petition to prohibit sugar alongside cannabis, LSD and heroin (Herb)
- Everything You Need to Know About Microdosing (The Cut)
- Pill Testing Probably Won’t Happen In NSW Any Time Soon Because Of This Idiot (Junkee)
- A New Netflix Series Tells the Story of the Philippines' Drug War. But Its Critics Are Condemning Amo as Propaganda (TIME)
- The Best Books About Microdosing and Psychedelic Therapy (The Strategist)
- New Clues In The Psychedelic Treatment Of Depression (High Existence)
- Kacey Musgraves: ‘Psychedelics have made me compassionate’ (Hollywood.com)
- People Trying to Quit Their Psychiatric Medications Can Get Help from This Online Group (Healthline)
- Australia’s First Sanctioned Pill Testing Trial Is Just the Beginning (Sydney Criminal Lawyers)
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