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10.7.22

Cannabis

  • Biden Announces Mass Marijuana Pardons And Calls For Cannabis Scheduling Review (Marijuana Moment)

  • Amsterdam considers banning ‘cannabis tourists’ from its coffee shops (The Guardian)

  • Costa Rica’s President Sends Marijuana Legalization Bill To Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)

  • 'It's like the new Amsterdam': The rush to cash in on Thailand's hazy cannabis laws (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  • FBI: Nearly Half of All Drug Seizures in 2021 Involved Marijuana (NORML)

  • Morocco issues first permits for cannabis production (Reuters)

  • Committee in Colombia Approved Adult-Use Legalization Proposal (High Times)

  • Most Americans Don’t Think Marijuana Is Dangerous Despite Prohibitionist Arguments, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Regulators finally approve hempcrete for US homes (Leafly)

  • OSHA report ties cannabis worker death to dust inhalation (Leafly)

  • Survey: Medical Students Rarely Exposed to Scientific Data About Cannabis (NORML)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Oregon enters the home stretch to authorize psilocybin mushrooms (Chacruna)

  • This 'magic' mushroom dispensary in Florida is selling psychedelics and testing legal boundaries (Business Insider)

MDMA

  • MindMed Collaborators Initiate Phase 1 Comparative PK/PD Trial of R-, S- and Racemic MDMA (Psychedelic Alpha)

DMT

Ayahuasca

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • These LSD-based drugs seem to help mice with anxiety and depression — without the trip (NPR)

  • Are you too high? A promising new ‘comedown drug’ may be on the way (Leafly)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Unexplained Bleeding Linked to Rat Poison in Synthetic Cannabinoids (Medpage Today)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Nitrous oxide: Southend mum's campaign over 'laughing gas' (BBC)

Ketamine

  • Ketamine and depression: A mechanism of the antidepressant revealed (Medical Xpress)

  • PharmaTher Holdings Announces Grant of U.S. Patent Covering Ketamine for Parkinson’s Disease (Psychedelic Alpha)

Miscellaneous

  • Alberta to be 1st province to regulate psychedelics for therapy, government says (CBC)

  • DEA Admits ‘Racial, Ethnic and Class Prejudice’ Led To Drug Criminalization And The Agency’s Own Founding (Marijuana Moment)

  • New York Lawmakers File Amended Psychedelics Legalization Bill, With New Regulations And Protections (Marijuana Moment)

  • Psychedelics may flatten your brain’s landscape, but in a good way (Leafly)

  • Inflammation Nation: How Psychedelics Could Combat Widespread Chronic Pain (Psychedelics Today)

  • Psychedelics: Will Policy Liberalization and Lower Barriers to Access Lead to Future Legalization? (Lexpert)

  • Psychedelics are exploding in the startup community as founders say it makes them better leaders (Fortune)

  • Timothy Leary’s psychedelic eugenics (Medium)

  • Eleusis Holdings Plans To Be Acquired By Beckley Psytech (Lucid News)

  • ‘Bad’ Psychedelic Trips Don’t Have To Be Bad (VICE)

10.14.22

Cannabis

  • Colombian Chamber Of Representatives Passes Marijuana Legalization Bill In Initial Vote, With Support From Cabinet Ministers (Marijuana Moment)

  • U.S. Air Force to Allow Applicants to Retest After Positive THC Test (High Times)

  • Why bees love weed — and why it might even be good for them (Salon)

  • Cannabis Stock’s Post Pardon Depression Could Be Cured By Lame Duck Legislation (Forbes)

  • New Study Shows Cannabis Users More Likely To Have Overactive Bladders (High Times)

  • Federal Reserve Bank Says Marijuana Legalization Drives Tax Revenue, Job Creation And Real Estate Sales (Marijuana Moment)

  • Spliff Vape: New Tech Allows Cannabis, Nicotine To Be Vaped Simultaneously (High Times)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Flight Passenger on Mushrooms Causes Chaos Mid-Flight (High Times)

  • Can Psilocybin Challenge Our Pharmaceutical Dependence? (Vogue)

MDMA

  • Eels Living Near Music Festivals Test Positive For MDMA And Cocaine (IFLScience)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Synthetic Marijuana In Florida Tainted With Rat Poison, 52 Sick, 4 Dead (Forbes)

  • Five-Year-Old Missouri Child Gets Delta-8 Edibles in Halloween Bag (High Times)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Nitrous Oxide: Harm Reduction and the Muslim Community (VolteFace)

Miscellaneous

  • These States Are Voting On Marijuana And Psychedelics Legalization On Their November Ballots (Marijuana Moment)

  • Elon Musk reportedly goes on 'exploratory journeys' and likes to show friends a chart of the benefits of MDMA and mushrooms over alcohol (Business Insider)

  • To Standardize Psychedelic Therapy, A New Organization Launches (Forbes)

  • Horizons Conference Returns to NYC for Its 15th Year (Lucid News)

  • Treating postpartum depression with psychedelics (The Print)

  • A Santo Daime Church’s Legal Success Paved a Path Towards Psychedelic Legalization (Lucid News)

  • Instagram’s Page-Deletions of Black Women in Psychedelic Advocacy (Filter)

  • Math Over Myth: These Psychedelic Stocks Made Confirmed Bottoms in Q3 (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • What Made María Sabina Unique (DoubleBlind)

  • The Politics of Psychedelics: Legalisation vs Decriminalisation (Sam Woolfe)

10.21.22

Cannabis

  • German cannabis legalisation plans LEAKED (VolteFace)

  • Washington DC lets tourists self-certify for medical cannabis (Leafly)

  • Poll: Two-Thirds of Voters Say “Nobody Should Be in Jail” for Marijuana Possession (NORML)

  • States With the Most Arrests for Marijuana Possession (U.S. News and World Report)

  • Why does marijuana make it hard to remember stuff? (Salon)

  • NBA Won’t Test Players For Marijuana For Third Season In A Row, Report Says (Marijuana Moment)

  • Nearly Four Out of Five Patients Drop or Reduce Opioids After Using Medical Weed (High Times)

  • Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine Bans CBD Prescriptions for Adult Patients (TalkingDrugs)

  • Cannabis Had Highest Tax Revenue in Colorado and Washington Over Alcohol, Cigarettes (High Times)

  • Marijuana was illegal 4 years ago. Now, Uber Eats delivers it in Toronto (CBC)

  • Missouri Police Object To New Ad For Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative That Shows Officers (Marijuana Moment)

  • Oklahoma Governor Sets March Special Election for Weed Legalization Initiative (High Times)

  • Texas Activists Unveil Marijuana Decriminalization, Police Reform And Abortion Rights Initiative For San Antonio 2023 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Puerto Rico Bill Would Expunge Low-Level Weed Possession Convictions (High Times)

LSD

Magic Mushrooms

  • Oregon is voting on medical psilocybin, again (Leafly)

  • NYC smoke shops are selling magic mushroom candy bars (New York Post)

  • Study To Examine Why Shrooms Evolved with Psychedelic Properties (High Times)

  • Why Everyone Cares So Much About Colorado’s Psilocybin Bill (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

  • MDMA-assisted psychotherapy shows promise in the treatment of eating disorder symptoms (PsyPost)

5-MeO-DMT

  • The toad boom: the false narrative of ancestral 5-MeO-DMT use (Points)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • Scientists Discover ‘Disconcerting’ New Imitation Ketamine on the Market (VICE)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

Ketamine

  • Ketamine May Reduce Suicidal Ideation in Treatment-Resistant Depression (Psychiatry Advisor)

Miscellaneous

  • Australian Lawmakers Approve Drug Decriminalization Bill For Federal Territory That Includes Nation’s Capital (Marijuana Moment)

  • DEA Proposes Dramatic Increases In Marijuana And Psychedelics Production In 2023 For Research (Marijuana Moment)

  • Large national survey suggests that the use of psychedelics is not associated with lifetime cancer development (PsyPost)

  • Will Medical Insurers Agree to Cover Psychedelic Trips? (Bloomberg)

  • Why is the American right suddenly so interested in psychedelic drugs? (The Guardian)

  • Second United States Patent Granted for Small Pharma’s Psychedelics Portfolio (Psychedelic Alpha)

10.28.22

Cannabis

  • Germany’s Government Approves Marijuana Legalization Plan, But Reform Depends On European Union Sign-Off (Marijuana Moment)

  • Russian court upholds Brittney Griner’s sentence (Leafly)

  • Biden's Marijuana Pardons Did Not Free a Single Federal Prisoner or Deliver the Expungement He Promised (Reason)

  • Activist Arrested At White House Protest Pushing Biden To Release Marijuana Prisoners (Marijuana Moment)

  • Missouri’s legalization measure is drawing unexpected opposition (Leafly)

  • Five States To Vote on Recreational Cannabis This Election Season (High Times)

  • Most Americans Say Alcohol And Tobacco Are More Dangerous Than Marijuana, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • California Lawsuit Alleges Weed Didn't Get Plaintiffs High Enough (VICE)

  • Research: Does Cannabis Really Make You More Creative? (Harvard Business Review)

  • Israeli Company Clones Cannabis Cells—Not Plants—With Up to 12 Times the Potency (High Times)

  • It's not a myth: Marijuana really is more potent than it used to be (Salon)

  • Study: Cannabis Use Not A Risk Factor in Liver Transplants (High Times)

  • Strange Bedfellows Team Up To Oppose Missouri Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

  • Research Shows Cannabis Users Experience More Pain After Surgery (High Times)

  • Support For Arkansas Marijuana Legalization Initiative Falls To Slim Majority As GOP Lawmakers Urge Opposition, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • How does THC affect prenatal development? (Leafly)

Magic Mushrooms

  • The world's first Phase 3 psilocybin clinical trial is about to commence (New Atlas)

  • DEA Faces New Legal Challenges Over Denying Psilocybin Rescheduling Petition And Doctor’s Federal Waiver Request (Marijuana Moment)

  • New Study Will Explore Psilocybin as a Treatment To Stop Smoking (High Times)

  • N.S. company launching clinical trial to examine magic mushrooms as treatment for PTSD (CBC)

  • The Potential Health Benefits of Microdosing Psilocybin With Chocolate (Psychology Today)

  • Psilocybin Common Denominator in Several Recent Albums (High Times)

DMT

  • Algernon Pharmaceuticals Enters into a Clinical Trial Agreement with Yale University for a DMT Phase 2 Depression Study (Psychedelic Alpha)

Ayahuasca

Peyote

  • Native American Church Asks Congress for Peyote Funding (DoubleBlind)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • WTF is 3-MMC, Berlin’s Weird New Club Drug? (DoubleBlind)

  • Electric Picnic drug testing finds 'new psychoactive substances' never seen before in Ireland (The Irish Mirror)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Utah Medical Cannabis Flooded With Synthetic Cannabinoids From Hot Hemp (Forbes)

Ketamine

  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Could Be Better Than Ketamine At Treating Depression (IFLScience)

Miscellaneous

  • Beckley Psytech Strengthens Pipeline and Development Team With Acquisition of Eleusis Therapeutics Limited (Psychedelic Alpha)

  • People Who Use Psychedelics Are More Connected To Nature And Knowledgeable About Climate Change, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Use of Psychedelic Therapies for Treatment Resistant Patients Again Rejected by Government, Despite Strong Supporting Safety and Efficacy Data and Australia’s Worsening Mental Health Crisis (Mind Medicine Australia)

  • With Promise of Legalization, Psychedelic Companies Joust Over Future Profits (The New York Times)

  • Manipulating light can induce psychedelic experiences – and scientists aren’t quite sure why (The Conversation)

  • The ideological war at the heart of the psychedelic renaissance (New Atlas)

  • Research, remedy and regulation: the changing dynamics of psychedelic therapy in Alberta (CBC)

  • An Exploration of Psychedelics and Creativity (Drug Science)

  • Variants in 5-HT2A Receptor Gene Alter Psychedelic Pharmacology (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Guidelines for Ethical Sponsorship and Transparency in Psychedelic Conferences (Chacruna)

  • Terence McKenna's secret bad trip (Ecstatic Integration)

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Weekly Psychedelic Links - July 2022

7.1.22

Cannabis

  • Fentanyl-laced marijuana is a myth. It’s time to end the hype (Leafly)

  • Medical Weed Cards No Longer Required in Virginia Starting July 1 (High Times)

  • Hemp, CBD get permanent legal status in NC after 11th-hour rescue (MSN.com)

  • Scientists find THC in over 60% of CBD products they tested — and that may be a huge problem (ZME Science)

  • UN Report Dramatizes Uptick in Global Cannabis Use (High Times)

  • Louisiana Governor Signs Bill Providing Medical Marijuana Workplace Protections For State Employees (Marijuana Moment)

  • Maryland Court: Cops Can Stop, Question Someone Who Smells of Pot (High Times)

  • Nevada Cannabis Consumption Lounges Could Go Live By End Of 2022 (Marijuana Moment)

  • Edibles, beverages infused with cannabis ingredient THC become legal Friday in Minnesota (Star Tribune)

  • Inside The Process To Legalize Recreational Cannabis In Germany (Forbes)

  • California Bill to Require Cannabis Warnings About Mental Disorder Risks Advances (High Times)

  • Pennsylvania Lawmakers Advance Medical Marijuana DUI Protections And Cannabis Banking Reform Bills (Marijuana Moment)

  • Texas Supreme Court Bans Smokable Hemp Production, Sales (High Times)

  • Montana Lawsuit Challenges Marijuana Ban In State’s Third-Largest City (Marijuana Moment)

  • House Panel Approves Amendment to Protect State Legal Cannabis Programs (High Times)

  • Feds Fund Development Of Hemp-Based, 3D-Printed Materials To Build Affordable Housing (Marijuana Moment)

  • New Vermont Guidance Looks to Eliminate Plastic Waste From State’s Cannabis Industry (High Times)

  • Cannabis users are at greater risk for emergency and inpatient care: study (Fox News)

Magic Mushrooms

  • These Mormons Have Found a New Faith — in Magic Mushrooms (Rolling Stone)

  • New Jersey Senate President Files Psilocybin Legalization Bill That Includes Home Grow Option, Unlike Current Marijuana Law (Marijuana Moment)

  • Tryp Therapeutics Strengthens IP Portfolio with Provisional Patent Application for Binge Eating Disorder Treatment (Psychedelic Alpha)

  • Digging Up Druggable Targets: Psilocybin Efficacy in a Model of OCD (Psychedelic Science Review)

MDMA

  • First-of-its-kind MDMA group therapy trial set to commence (New Atlas)

  • Over One Hundred Years of MDMA Research (Drug Science)

Ayahuasca

  • How the Shipibo Came to Be the Most Common Group Serving Ayahuasca to Foreigners (DoubleBlind)

Peyote

  • Decriminalize Nature Targets Peyote: Drug Reform or Settler Colonialism? (Chacruna)

  • Big business could wipe out Mexico’s sacred psychedelic peyote cactus (openDemocracy)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • How Did A Minnesota Honor Roll Student Die As Her Parents Were Sleeping Upstairs? (Oxygen)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • A Loophole in Japan’s Weed Laws Is Getting Tens of Thousands High (VICE)

Miscellaneous

  • Colorado Activists Turn In Signatures To Put Psychedelics Legalization And Therapeutic Psilocybin Program On Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • War on drugs prolonged Colombia’s decades-long civil war, landmark report finds (The Guardian)

  • Is there a future for psychedelic treatment in Saudi Arabia? (Arab News)

  • Do Bad Psychedelic Patents Matter? (Lucid News)

  • 4 Recommendations for Disability Inclusion in Psychedelic Therapy Research (Psychiatric Times)

7.8.22

Cannabis

  • WNBA Star Brittney Griner Pleads Guilty To Cannabis Charge As Russia Calls Out U.S. Hypocrisy In Maintaining Criminalization (Marijuana Moment)

  • Make no mistake, marijuana edibles are legal now in Minnesota (Leafly)

  • Washington, D.C. Mayor Signs Medical Cannabis Self-Certification Bill (High Times)

  • Pennsylvania Bill Gives Medical Cannabis Patients DUI Protection (High Times)

  • Oklahoma: Advocates Turn in Signatures to Place Adult-Use Legalization Measure on November Ballot (NORML)

  • Study Shows Flower Still Reigns Supreme in U.S., Canada as Consumer Favorite (High Times)

  • Arkansas Activists Set To Turn In Double The Signatures Needed To Put Marijuana Legalization On Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Nebraska Medical Marijuana Activists Turn In Ballot Signatures After Campaign Suffers Legal Setback (Marijuana Moment)

  • Albania Prompted to Implement Medical Cannabis Reform After U.N. Criticism (High Times)

  • U.S. Army Wants To Make Sniper Uniforms Out Of Hemp (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • A man whose daily headaches felt like an ice pick in his eyes says he tried 12 treatments but only found relief after taking LSD (Insider)

Magic Mushrooms

  • New Study Shows Mood, Mental Health Improved by Microdosing Psilocybin (High Times)

  • Indiana Nurse Faces Ten Years in Prison for Microdosing Psilocybin Mushrooms (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Two Cancer Patients Battle to Make Psilocybin Accessible for Palliative Care (Scientific American)

  • Rural Oregon counties are lining up against psilocybin launch (OPB)

MDMA

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Pushes for Psychedelic Reform in Congress (DoubleBlind)

  • GOP Congressman’s Amendment Would Direct Military To Study Psilocybin And MDMA Benefits For Service Members (Marijuana Moment)

DMT

  • Algernon Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on Its Phase 1 DMT Stroke Study (Psychedelic Alpha)

Iboga

  • ‘To Heal and to Care for’: Protecting Iboga and Indigenous Voices in the Face of Corporatisation (Volteface)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • DEA Announces Hearing On Proposed Ban Of Five Psychedelic Compounds Following Significant Pushback (Marijuana Moment)

  • Mindset Pharma Receives Allowance for Patent Application Covering its Short-Duration Novel Psychedelic Medications for The Treatment of Central Nervous System Disorders (Psychedelic Alpha)

Ketamine

  • PharmaTher Announces Positive Results from Study For Ketamine Microneedle Patch (Psychedelic Alpha)

Miscellaneous

  • The Never-Ending Psychedelic Trip of Michael Pollan (Rolling Stone)

  • Journey Colab scores $12M to move psychedelics-based addiction treatment into clinic (Fierce Biotech)

  • User perceptions of the benefits and harms of hallucinogenic drug use: A web-based questionnaire study (Drug Science)

  • Tripping the Reward Circuit: Psychedelics for Substance Use Disorders (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Psychedelics Give a Glimpse of Enlightenment (Psychology Today)

7.15.22

Cannabis

  • Feds Must Defend Historical Rationale Of Banning Guns For Medical Marijuana Patients, Revised Lawsuit Argues After SCOTUS Ruling (Marijuana Moment)

  • ‘Green way of life’: Thailand sees cannabis boom after law change (Al Jazeera)

  • Washington DC just legalized weed for all adults—but it’s locals only (Leafly)

  • Oklahoma, North Dakota, Arkansas, and Nebraska submit signatures to put cannabis on November ballot (Leafly)

  • Study Shows Decrease in Heavy Truck Crash Rates Since Cannabis Legalization (High Times)

  • NYPD Will Keep Testing Officers For Marijuana, Reversing Course Hours After Announcing Policy Change Mandated By City (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis Laws in France Have Disproportionately Affected Muslims (High Times)

  • New York Firefighters Won’t Be Tested For Marijuana, Department Says Following NYPD Leak (Marijuana Moment)

  • Argentine Supreme Court Endorses Medical Cannabis Home Grow (High Times)

  • Pennsylvania Governor Signs Marijuana Banking And Insurance Reform Bill Into Law (Marijuana Moment)

  • Portland Weed Demand Hits Three-Year Low (High Times)

  • Pennsylvania Police Arrested Over 13,000 People for Marijuana Possession in 2021 (NORML)

  • The Fight for Medical Cannabis in Indonesia (High Times)

  • Weed, Like Change, Nourishes The Soil To Regenerate The Cannabis Industry (Forbes)

LSD

  • Why David Bowie wasn’t a fan of LSD (Far Out)

Magic Mushrooms

  • DEA May Find Itself In Federal Court Again Over Refusal To Provide Psilocybin Access To Terminally Ill Patients (Marijuana Moment)

  • Oregon therapeutic psilocybin program sparks some confusion (OPB)

MDMA

  • World's first ecstasy 'shop' set to trial in the Netherlands (Mixmag)

  • Luxury Champagne Recalled Again Over Ecstacy Contamination (Newsweek)

  • MDMA: Rolling from Counterculture to the Clinic Counter (Psychedelic Science Review)

Ayahuasca

  • Study suggests ayahuasca users tend to eat healthier, get more exercise, and experience physical and mental health benefits (PsyPost)

Ketamine

  • PharmaTher Announces Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Covering Ketamine for the Potential Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and Motor Disorders (Psychedelic Alpha)

Miscellaneous

  • Ann Shulgin, Forerunner of Today's Psychedelic Re-Emergence, Dies at 91 (Transform Press)

  • House Approves Marijuana And Psychedelics Amendments As Part Of Must-Pass Defense Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • What Ethnographers Have Learned from People Who Use Drugs (Undark)

  • Inside the Chemistry Lab Where the MDMA Godfather Synthesized Novel Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

  • The Tory Leadership Candidates on Drugs (Volteface)

  • Filament Health Issued Third Patent By United States Patent and Trademark Office (Psychedelic Alpha)

  • Doctors Urge Access to Psychedelic Therapies in New Mexico (TIME)

  • Can Psychedelics Treat Inflammation and Eye Disease? Eleusis Thinks So. (Lucid News)

  • Villain Or Victim? Understanding The Role of Women In The Latin American Drug Trade (TalkingDrugs)

  • San Francisco’s New DA Vows to Ramp Up City’s Drug War (Filter)

  • The Battle for Psychedelic Patents (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • How To Become a Psychedelic Therapist (DoubleBlind)

  • 5 Countries Where Psychedelics are Legal (Psychedelic Spotlight)

7.22.22

Cannabis

  • Senate Leadership Introduces Legislation to End Federal Marijuana Prohibition (NORML)

  • District of Columbia: Mayor Signs Legislation Prohibiting Most Employers from Discriminating Against Cannabis Consumers (NORML)

  • Legal cannabis is producing more plastic waste than pot (Leafly)

  • Colorado Company To Research Cannabis As A Treatment For Parkinson’s Disease (Forbes)

  • Biden Says He’s ‘Working On’ Bill To Release Cannabis Inmates (High Times)

  • Germany, Luxembourg, Malta And The Netherlands Discuss Marijuana Legalization At Historic Joint Meeting (Marijuana Moment)

  • Colorado Springs Recreational Cannabis Initiative Qualifies for November Ballot (High Times)

  • Minnesota Is Home To America's First Cannabis Disc Golf Course (MIX 108)

  • House Passes Bill Permitting Weed Ads on TV and Radio (High Times)

  • Colorado's New Lead Marijuana Monitor Treks Through Heavy Issues (Westword)

  • Cannabis Telemedicine Launches in Montana (High Times)

  • Montana Marijuana Businesses Face Seemingly Endless Cycle Of Local Votes On Allowing Them To Operate (Marijuana Moment)

  • People Busted for Weed in the U.K. Could Lose Passports Under Proposed Rules (High Times)

  • Missouri Marijuana Legalization Measure In Danger Of Not Qualifying For Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Denver officials want to save struggling cannabis delivery businesses (The Denver Post)

  • Study Finds Australians Support Cannabis Use Over Smoking Tobacco (High Times)

  • House Will Not Vote On Marijuana Amendments For Veterans And Public Housing Residents After Committee Snag (Marijuana Moment)

  • Marijuana use is higher among US states that have legalized recreational cannabis use (News-Medical)

LSD

  • The Doors of Expression: LSD Alters Epigenetics and Protein Induction (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Science Feature: MindMed’s LSD Trial for ADHD (Microdose)

  • Watch John Lennon explain that 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' was not about LSD (Far Out)

Magic Mushrooms

  • The Sloppy Science of Psilocybin Microdosing Surveys (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • A single dose of psilocybin has long-lasting antidepressant-like effects in fruit flies (PsyPost)

  • Restrictions on Psilocybin ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Are Easing as Research Ramps Up (Scientific American)

MDMA

  • Patient safety issues halt trial for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy during Health Canada review (CBC)

  • 'Corrective' measures ordered, but Health Canada says 2nd MDMA trial can continue (CBC)

DMT

  • Teenager Used LSD And DMT To Help Overcome Trauma, Case Report Says (IFLScience)

Ayahuasca

  • Churches sue to use hallucinogenic tea in religious practice (UPI)

  • The Global Ayahuasca Boom: What About the Conservation of the Ayahuasca Vine? (Chacruna)

5-MeO-DMT

  • The Story Behind a 1984 Hallucinogenic Pamphlet From Denton Is Just as Trippy as Its Subject (Dallas Observer)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • Mydecine Files Full Patent Application Covering MYCO-006 Family of Novel Short-Acting MDMA Analogs (Psychedelic Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Weed vapes probably sending a toxic gas to your lungs, study finds (Salon)

  • Cannabis getting stronger with synthetic versions added leading to psychosis, report warns (Independent.ie)

Ketamine

  • Largest-ever clinical study of ketamine therapy shows that at-home model can be a safe, effective treatment for anxiety and depression; 62% fewer patients report suicidal ideation after four sessions (PR Newswire)

  • Ketamine Beneficial For Treating Neonatal, And Pediatric Epilepsy: Study (Medical Dialogues)

Miscellaneous

  • The Long, Strange Relationship Between Psychedelics and Telepathy (VICE)

  • DEA Sued Over ‘Unlawful’ Delays On Psychedelic And Marijuana Public Records Requests Through FOIA (Marijuana Moment)

  • Colorado Psychedelics Legalization Measure Qualifies for November Ballot (DoubleBlind)

  • Keeping the Hippie Dream Alive (The New York Times)

  • Accessibility Is Key for the Psychedelic Revolution (Pharmacy Times)

  • Podcast aims to raise awareness about future of psychedelic treatments (CBC)

  • Skip the trip – does the world need non-hallucinogenic psychedelics? (leafie)

  • New Regulations for Psychedelics? Here's What Investors Need to Know (The Motley Fool)

7.29.22

Cannabis

  • Weedmaps again advertising illegal marijuana retailers and products, complaints allege (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Singapore Executes Man for Cannabis Trafficking (High Times)

  • House Passes Bipartisan Marijuana Research Bill, With Senate Expected To Send It To President Soon (Marijuana Moment)

  • Zimbabwe OKs First Medicinal Cannabis Sales (High Times)

  • Secret Australian marijuana facility exposes location after turning sky pink (The Washington Post)

  • Biden Administration Proposes Prisoner Swap To Free Brittney Griner (High Times)

  • Over 850 Doctors in Thailand Protest Pot Legalization (High Times)

  • Senator Files Bill To Allow Marijuana Advertising On TV And Radio In Legal States (Marijuana Moment)

  • The 'World's Biggest Cannabis Scam' Is Totally Unravelling (VICE)

  • Bronx Cannabis Hub Fosters Opportunity in Communities Hit Hard by Arrests (Filter)

  • Cannabis Users Less Likely to Face Complications After Spinal Fusion Surgery (High Times)

  • 15 State Attorneys General File Brief Opposing Lawsuit To Help Put Medical Marijuana On Nebraska Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Thai businesses cash in on cannabis, from milk tea to toothpaste (Reuters)

  • Missouri Marijuana Legalization Initiative Short Of Signatures Needed For Ballot In County Reviews (Marijuana Moment)

  • New Hampshire stands alone in New England as only state without legal marijuana (WMUR)

LSD

  • New Zealand Government Grants $650K For LSD Microdosing Trials (Benzinga)

  • Operation Julie: Rural Wales LSD bust becomes a musical (BBC)

Magic Mushrooms

  • DEA Sued Again Over Refusal To Allow Psilocybin Access For Patients Despite Federal Law (Marijuana Moment)

  • Why some of Colorado’s foremost shrooms advocates won’t be voting to legalize psilocybin (The Denver Post)

  • Legal psilocybin prescriptions in Canada (Drug Science)

  • Project Solace: The World’s Largest Medical Psilocybin Access and Data Project (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • COMPASS Pathways launches phase II clinical trial of psilocybin therapy in anorexia nervosa (Psychedelic Alpha)

DMT

  • U.S. Patent Grant to Strengthen Small Pharma’s DMT Patent Strategy With Injectable Formulation (Psychedelic Alpha)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • DEA Cancels Proposed Ban Of Five Psychedelics, Giving Scientists More Time To Research Therapeutic Benefits (Marijuana Moment)

  • Working with Indigenous allies is the ethical way to develop psychedelic-based pharmaceuticals (STAT News)

  • Festival drugs: Warning over 'imposter' substances threat (BBC)

  • Ecstasy for the 21st Century: Designer Drugs to Improve MDMA Therapy (Psychedelic Science Review)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Easy On The Eyes — This Company Reports Using a Unique Synthetic Cannabinoid Derivative To Treat Glaucoma (Benzinga)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Doctors warn ‘dangerous’ laughing gas is becoming an ‘epidemic’ amid rise in hospitalisations (The Independent)

  • A Law will Prohibit the Sale of Nitrous Oxide or “Laughing Gas” to Minors in Bulgaria (Novinite.com)

Ketamine

  • At Home Sublingual Ketamine Exhibits Rapid And Significant Antidepressant And Anxiolytic Effects (Medical Dialogues)

  • Ketamine found to be unlikely to lead to addiction (Medical Xpress)

  • Silo Pharma Announces Positive Results from its Topically Administered Formulation of Ketamine (Psychedelic Alpha)

Miscellaneous

  • Biden Administration Plans For Legal Psychedelic Therapies Within Two Years (The Intercept)

  • San Francisco Launches Bid to Decriminalize Psychedelics (Filter)

  • Your Genes May Determine How You React To Psychedelic Drugs (IFLScience)

  • The Psychoactive Substances Act on Trial (Volteface)

  • The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs (WIRED)

  • Trump Urges ‘Very Quick Trial’ and Death Penalty for Drug Dealers (High Times)

  • The Psychedelics Industry’s Next Hurdle Is How to Go Mainstream (Bloomberg)

  • One in four Americans say they’ve tried at least one psychedelic drug (YouGov)

  • Microdosing: Scientists tackle psychedelic trend becoming ‘creative enhancer of choice’ (The Sydney Morning Herald)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 3.25.22

Cannabis

  • Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill Officially Scheduled For House Floor Vote Next Week (Marijuana Moment)

  • Rwanda Begins Cannabis Production (High Times)

  • New Hampshire Lawmakers Approve State-Run Marijuana Legalization Bill With Amendments, Sending It Back To House Floor (Marijuana Moment)

  • South Dakota: Governor Signs Legislation Preserving Patients’ Home Cultivation Rights (NORML)

  • U.S. Senate Unanimously Approves Marijuana Reform Bill On Same Day That House Schedules Legalization Vote (Marijuana Moment)

  • New York’s Cayuga Nation To Sell Recreational Cannabis (High Times)

  • What Do Joe Biden’s Cannabis Policy And Seinfeld Have In Common? Nothing. Literally. (Forbes)

  • After Surge Of Deadly Robberies At Marijuana Shops In Washington State, Officials Push For Federal Banking Reform (Marijuana Moment)

  • Study raises questions about risks of using medical marijuana for mood and anxiety disorders (CNN)

  • Group Launches Petition to Bring Recreational Pot to Colorado Springs (High Times)

  • Can cannabis ward off nightmares? Here’s what we know about how weed affects dreams (GreenState)

LSD

Magic Mushrooms

  • Hawaii Senators Amend Psilocybin Study Resolution To Make Access Contingent On Federal Approval (Marijuana Moment)

  • Psilocybin Is Effective in Reducing Weight Gain, New Study Shows (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Missouri looks to legalize shrooms (KMOV)

  • Stargazer Mushroom Strain: Cultivation, Effects, & More (DoubleBlind)

  • Beyond Psilocybin: These Mushrooms May Offer Brain-Boosting Compounds, Too (Discover)

  • Optimi Health Begins Cultivation Of Natural Psilocybin For Use In Clinical Trials (GlobeNewswire)

MDMA

  • MDMA Therapy for PTSD Looks Safe and Effective in New Trial Data (Gizmodo)

  • MDMA assisted therapy significantly reduces eating disorder symptoms (leafie)

  • You Won’t Feel High After Watching This Video (The Cut)

5-MeO-DMT

  • Demand for This Toad’s Psychedelic Toxin Is Booming. Some Warn That’s Bad for the Toad. (The New York Times)

Ketamine

Miscellaneous

  • The US Gets Its First Free, Rapid Drug-Checking Mail Program (Filter)

  • Utah Governor Signs Bill To Study Use Of Psychedelics For Mental Health Therapy (Marijuana Moment)

  • Another Michigan City Approves Psychedelics Decriminalization As Activists Pursue Statewide Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

  • The Brave New World of Legalized Psychedelics Is Already Here (The Nation)

  • Another Psychedelics Company Is Crashing (Psychedelic Spotlight)

  • Connecticut Lawmakers Advance Psychedelics Therapy Bill (High Times)

  • Three Bills Seek to Shift Psychedelics Policy in New York State (Lucid News)

  • COMPASS Pathways and partners launch The Centre for Mental Health Research and Innovation, in the UK (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Can Psychedelic Masculinity Stop War? (Lucid News)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 3.4.22

Cannabis

  • Maryland House Advances Cannabis Legalization Bills (High Times)

  • D.C. Lawmakers Approve Ban On Pre-Employment Marijuana Testing For Most Workers (Marijuana Moment)

  • Where does Biden’s Supreme Court nominee stand on marijuana legalization? Here’s what we found (Leafly)

  • Medicinal Cannabis Flower Sales Begin In Minnesota (High Times)

  • Virginia House Committee Kills Bill To Begin Marijuana Sales This Year (Marijuana Moment)

  • Rhode Island Lawmakers Introduce Cannabis Legalization Bill (High Times)

  • NCAA Moves To Lower Marijuana Penalties For Student Athletes And Increase THC Threshold In Drug Tests (Marijuana Moment)

  • Nebraska Medical Cannabis Bill Fizzles in Committee (High Times)

  • Get ready for the Northeast to become cannabis country (Politico)

  • France Moves to Begin Cultivating Medical Cannabis (High Times)

  • Virginia lawmakers cracking down on cannabis compound Delta-8 due to safety concerns (WAVY)

  • South Dakota House Rejects Marijuana Legalization Bill That Was Temporarily Revived In ‘Smoke Out’ Vote (Marijuana Moment)

  • Ecuador Kicks Off Medical Cannabis Production (High Times)

  • Washington state to require pesticide testing for adult-use cannabis products (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Ohio Lawmakers Advance Bill To Allow Medical Cannabis for Autism (High Times)

  • Confusion over CBD for Children (Drug WarRant)

  • Pennsylvania Senate Committee Holds Second Marijuana Legalization Hearing As Reform Bill Is Drafted (Marijuana Moment)

  • Georgia Lawmakers Consider Bill to Expand Medical Pot Program (High Times)

LSD

  • Landmark trial compares LSD and psilocybin trips, finds few differences (New Atlas)

  • Mystical experiences might bridge the gap between LSD-induced “madness” and healing (PsyPost)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Colorado may be the next state to decriminalize ‘magic’ mushrooms (The Durango Herald)

  • Terminal cancer patient denied magic mushrooms after Health Canada rule change (CBC)

  • Psilocybin Leaps Ahead of Other Psychedelics in Trials and Studies (Lucid News)

  • The Plan to Reschedule Psilocybin at the UN (TalkingDrugs)

  • 'We need emergency access': 82 Canadian professionals request psilocybin for therapy training (Vancouver Sun)

  • Oregonians more interested in taking psilocybin for well-being than depression or anxiety (OPB)

  • How Will Oregon Teach and Train Psilocybin Healers? (Filter)

  • Magic mushrooms, psilocybin and microdosing: Growing trend draws e-vendors, scientists (CBC)

MDMA

5-MeO-DMT

  • Could 5-MeO-DMT Allow For More Affordable Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy? Beckley Psytech Thinks So (Forbes)

Iboga

  • MINDCURE Achieves Key Development Milestone for Novel Ibogaine Program (PR Newswire)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • PharmaDrug Receives Positive Results for DMT-Analogue Program to Treat Glaucoma (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

Ketamine

  • Dr. Bronner’s to Provide Psychedelic-Therapy as Employee Healthcare Benefit (Dr. Bronner's)

  • Ketamine Could Treat Alcohol Use Disorder, Study Shows (Lucid News)

  • Dying to Stay Alive: A Ketamine Disaster (Mad in America)

  • Yale researchers study ketamine as a potential treatment for depression in patients with Parkinson’s disease (Yale Daily News)

  • Adding Lithium Might Enable Ketamine's Antidepressant Activity in Ketamine-Resistant Patients, Study Suggests (Brain and Behavior Research Foundation)

Miscellaneous

  • It’s Time to Start Studying the Downside of Psychedelics (VICE)

  • Utah Psychedelics And Mental Health Bill Heads To Governor’s Desk After Senate Approval (Marijuana Moment)

  • In Oregon, Psychedelics Regulators Confront Conflicts of Interest (VICE)

  • More People Are Microdosing for Mental Health. But Does It Work? (The New York Times)

  • The Need for an International Psychedelic Religious Survey (Psychedelics Today)

  • Psychedelic Therapeutics Market May Receive Federal Approval Before Marijuana Does (MarketWatch)

  • Staring into the Abyss: Examining Venezuela’s Drug Policies (TalkingDrugs)

  • Global Survey: Some Microdosing Individuals Have Altered Psychiatric Drug Dosage (Psychiatry Advisor)

  • How Psychedelics Will Impact Mainstream Product Development (Yahoo!)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 1.28.22

Cannabis

  • Thailand Becomes First Country in Asia to Decriminalize Marijuana (TIME)

  • New York medical cannabis approved for ‘any’ condition a doctor recommends (Leafly)

  • Mississippi: Lawmakers Advance Medical Cannabis Access Bill to Governor’s Desk (NORML)

  • Amazon Endorses Federal Cannabis Legalization (High Times)

  • Europeans choosing cannabis over ecstasy (The Portugal News)

  • Delaware Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee Vote (Marijuana Moment)

  • Arkansas voters could see 3 recreational marijuana initiatives on ballot (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Cannabis Events Come Out of Hiding in New York City (The New York Times)

  • North Dakota recreational marijuana measure fails to qualify for ballot (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Wisconsin Republicans Announce Limited Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • Legal Cannabis Opens a Pandora’s Box of Equity Issues (Capital and Main)

  • Ohio Lawmakers Will Be Forced To Consider Marijuana Legalization As State Validates Activist Signatures (Marijuana Moment)

  • Active Ingredient in Cannabis Protects Aging Brain Cells (Neuroscience News)

  • Majority Of Americans Say They’d Vote For A Politician Who Smokes Marijuana, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • What Happens When You Quit Cannabis? (IFLScience)

  • Missouri Marijuana Legalization Measures Take Differing Approaches to Expungement (Marijuana Moment)

  • Minnesota Groups Bind Together to Oppose Legal Cannabis (High Times)

  • Don’t Feed Marijuana Buds To Donkeys, New Study Warns (Marijuana Moment)

  • South Dakota: House Lawmakers Move to Repeal Citizen-Initiated Home Cultivation Rights (NORML)

LSD

  • FDA clears phase 2b study of LSD treatment for generalized anxiety (Healio)

Magic Mushrooms

  • No difference between psilocybin microdosing and placebo, trial finds (New Atlas)

  • Colorado Activists File Revised Ballot Initiatives To Legalize Psilocybin And Establish ‘Healing Centers’ (Marijuana Moment)

  • Oregon Lawmakers File Psilocybin Equity Bill As State Implements Legal Use Program (Marijuana Moment)

  • Oklahoma Republicans File Bills To Decriminalize Psilocybin And Encourage Research On Medical Benefits (Marijuana Moment)

  • Numinus Identified as a Licensed Psilocybin Supplier by Health Canada (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Psilocybin: Following in the Footsteps of Cannabis Along the Path to Legality (JD Supra)

  • Psyched Wellness Provides Update on Anti-Inflammatory Study with the National Research Council of Canada (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • How is Oregon Preparing for the Facilitated Use of Psilocybin? (Lucid News)

  • Red Light Holland’s Partner CCrest Laboratories Approved By Health Canada to Supply Psilocybin to the Special Access Program (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Diamond Therapeutics Looks At Low-Dose Psilocybin (The Dales Report)

  • Mydecine Partners with Combat Stress to Treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans (Psilocybin Alpha)

DMT

  • Algernon Pharmaceuticals Discloses Novel Salt Patent Strategy as Part of its Psychedelic Drug DMT Intellectual Property (Psilocybin Alpha)

5-MeO-DMT

  • A Psychedelic Craze Has Taken Hold Among The Rich, Toad Venom (Baller Alert)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • The Future of Psychedelic Medicine Will Be Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of (VICE)

  • Awakn Life Sciences Files Patent Application for a New Class of Entactogen-Like Molecules to Treat a Broad Range of Addictions (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ketamine

  • New study indicates ketamine is less effective than electroconvulsive therapy for severe depression (PsyPost)

  • Ketamine Intravenous Therapy Shown to Improve Depression, Reduce Suicidal Ideation (Psych Central)

  • Have We Eliminated Stigma Surrounding Ketamine-Assisted Treatment? (Volteface)

Miscellaneous

  • Missouri Legislators Introduce Bill to Give Terminally Ill Patients Access to Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

  • Virginia House Committee Pushes Back Psychedelics Decriminalization Bill Until 2023, But Senate Proposal Still Pending (Marijuana Moment)

  • Lawmakers Propose Study of Natural Psychedelics for Mental Health Use (Westword)

  • Introducing Vital: Immersive, Inclusive, and Personal Psychedelic Training for Professionals (Psychedelics Today)

  • Psychedelic Perceptions in 2021: Popular Culture & Controversy (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Family Tripping: How Multigenerational Psychedelic Drug Experiences Can Provide Connection (Everything Zoomer)

  • Psychedelic Capital: Public vs. Private Markets (Truffle Report)

  • Sensible policy on psychedelic drugs is growing more common (The Economist)

  • Inside the Growing Wellness Trend of Psilocybin Mushroom Microdosing (The Hollywood Reporter)

  • Hallucinogen chemistry guides antidepressant drug discovery (Chemical and Engineering News)

  • Decriminalize Nature and Students For Sensible Drug Policy Create a Community Healing Alliance (High Times)

  • Have You Taken Psychedelics? Participate In The Canadian Psychedelics Survey Sponsored By MAPS PBC (The Dales Report)

  • Laganja Estranja’s Psychedelic Life (DoubleBlind)

  • Psychedelics and Parkinson’s Disease: Improving Patient Quality of Life (Truffle Report)

  • Psychedelic and Plant Medicines: A Portal to Transformative Realms of Possibility (Nonprofit Quarterly)

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