Cannabis
- Cannabis-based medicines get green light as UK eases rules (The Guardian)
- 'It hits you very quickly': Canada brews first cannabis beer (The Guardian)
- N.J. won't prosecute any weed cases until September. It's a big step toward legalization. (NJ.com)
- Aurora Cannabis Inc. to offer medical pot coverage for employees (The Toronto Star)
- Federal Report On Marijuana Legalization Required Under New Bill (Forbes)
- Looming cannabis legalization forces 14 RCMP sniffer dogs into early retirement (The Globe and Mail)
- California Officials Say No To Marijuana-Infused Alcohol And Bars With Cannabis Consumption (Marijuana Moment)
- How Self-Care And Women's Health Are Shaping The Cannabis Industry (Forbes)
- Sessions Says States Are Free To Legalize Marijuana, But DOJ Can Enforce Federal Law (Marijuana Moment)
- Cannabis companies poaching key talent from the food and beverage sectors (The Globe and Mail)
- Tennessee GOP Governor Candidate Puts Trump In Medical Marijuana Ad (Marijuana Moment)
- Pennsylvania: Auditor’s Report Says Marijuana Legalization Would Yield Over $500 Million In New Annual Revenue (NORML)
- Americans View Marijuana As Significantly Less Harmful Than Cigarettes (Marijuana Moment)
- Legalizing Marijuana Brings Illicit Consumers To The Legal Market, Study Says (Marijuana Moment)
- V.A. Shuns Medical Marijuana, Leaving Vets to Improvise (The New York Times)
- Why Marijuana Consumers Have Smaller Waistlines Than Non-Users (Marijuana Moment)
- The biggest American cannabis business is in Canada (Quartz)
- Senators Push Sessions To Stop Blocking Marijuana Cultivation Applications (Marijuana Moment)
- An exclusive look inside the UK’s legal medical cannabis farm (New Scientist)
- West Virginia Congressional Candidate Running On Marijuana Gets Political Boost (Marijuana Moment)
- Most in US think cannabis has health benefits, despite lack of data – study (The Guardian)
- Cannabis, coworking, and the marijuana-industry land rush (Curbed)
- Politicians Turn To Facebook To Promote Marijuana Legalization Views (Marijuana Moment)
- A Look Inside Amsterdam's Cannabis Liberation Day 2018 (Leafly)
- Blazing a trail: as legal cannabis goes global, will Britain be next? (The Guardian)
- No, Marijuana DNA Is Not From Outer Space (And Other Cannabis-Related Fake News) (Marijuana Moment)
- At 70, Founding A Cannabis Startup Can Be Quite A Trip (Forbes)
- A More Palatable Cannabis Edible (Chicago Magazine)
- The Paranoid Truth About Edible Weed (Psychedelic Heaven)
LSD
- Exploring Meow Wolf on two hits of acid (Rooster)
- GMU Student Sentenced to 3 Years for Selling LSD to Frat Brother Who Jumped to His Death (NBC4 Washington)
Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms
- No Magic Mushrooms On The Denver Ballot This Year. Supporters Are Looking To 2019 (Colorado Public Radio)
- Psilocybin Truffles vs. Psilocybin Mushrooms (The Third Wave)
- A startup backed by Peter Thiel has churned out 20,000 doses of magic mushrooms, and is making more (Business Insider)
- Op Ed: Kicking Down the Doors of Perception Regarding Psilocybin (Westword)
MDMA/Ecstasy
- What happens when you give an octopus MDMA? (Psymposia)
- Sister of teen who died after taking ecstasy shares heartbreaking image of her brother on life support (The Sun)
- Police warn 'fatal' Ecstasy pills shaped like Darth Vader being sold to schoolchildren online (Bristol Live)
Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT
- Underground 5-MeO-DMT Facilitators: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly with James Oroc (Psychedelic Times)
- Thieves caught on video stealing psychedelic toads from park (WGAL)
- Jon Hopkins on Psychedelic Meditation and Taking DMT to His Own Music (SPIN)
Iboga/Ibogaine
- What is iboga and can it actually cure opioid addiction? (ZME Science)
Dissociatives
- Hennepin Ketamine Study Raises Questions About Ethics And Consent (Forbes)
- Ketamine could help reduce opioid use in the ER (Medical News Today)
- Social anxiety is being cured by giving people cat tranquilizers (Rooster)
- I tried ketamine to treat my depression. Within a day, I felt relief. (Vox)
- PCP-fueled melee leaves officers injured, earns several assault charges (Maryland Independent)
Opiates/Opioids
- Suboxone: Prescribed for addiction, diverted to the streets – an 'instant relief' for withdrawal (Cincinatti.com)
- Governor of violent Mexican state wants regulation of opium poppies (WSAU)
- Prison Inmates 40 Times More Likely to Die From Opioid Overdose Two Weeks After Release (Newsweek)
- Thank Drug Warriors for the Escalating Death Toll From Superpotent Synthetic Opioids (Reason)
- Fentanyl killed 763 people in Kentucky - twice as many as heroin (Courier Journal)
- How to Stop a Heroin Overdose (Teen Vogue)
- Narcan Saved My Life And Demi Lovato’s. Here’s What You Need To Know About It. (HuffPost)
- “I really did not want to do it”: Smoking opium to investigate drug crime (New Statesman)
Kambô
- New Urban Practices Around Kambô (Chacruna)
Kratom
- What Is Kratom? How the Plant Could Help Fight the Opioid Crisis (Inverse)
- 5 Reasons to add kratom to your life (NetNewsLedger)
- What Is The Definition Of Kratom And How To Pronounce It? (Kratom Guides)
- Psychoactive herb kratom on radar of B.C. doctors and poison control centre (Vancouver Sun)
- White Vein Vs Green Vein Kratom: Differences And Similarities (Kratom Guides)
Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy
- Czech Drug Tsar calls for legalisation and regulation of drugs (Transform Drug Policy Foundation)
- Rethinking psychedelics: U of T study looks at the practice of microdosing to ease anxiety and sharpen focus (University of Toronto)
- Legalizing Drugs Would Boost US Budgets By $100 Billion, Harvard Researcher Concludes (Marijuana Moment)
- Drug finds in prison increased by 23% in one year, Ministry of Justice reveals (Sky News)
- Melania Trump to be briefed on babies born addicted to drugs (Associated Press)
- Colleges just don’t understand harm reduction (Psymposia)
- Drug Testing Organizations Save Lives, So Why Haven't Rave and Concert Organizers Embraced Them? (The Appeal)
- Healing With the Psychonauts: Psychedelic Medicine Goes Mainstream (Leafly)
- How psychedelic microdosing might help ease anxiety and sharpen focus (Medical Xpress)
- Gen Z Is More Into Coke, Ket and LSD Than We Thought (VICE)
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