Weekly Psychedelic Links - September 2022

9.2.22

Cannabis

• Oklahoma Supreme Court Gives Marijuana Activists Temporary Win As They Fight For Legalization Ballot Placement (Marijuana Moment)

• Pharmaceutical Industry Suffers Billions In Losses After States Legalize Marijuana, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Harvard Grad Student Dies in Bali From Police Brutality Over Cannabis Arrest (High Times)

• Poll: South Dakota Legalization Initiative in Danger of Failing (High Times)

• More Americans Now Smoke Marijuana Than Cigarettes, For The First Time Ever, Gallup Reports (Marijuana Moment)

• Largest ever independent study into cannabis use (BBC)

• Cannabis researchers say it’s high time to drop ‘lazy stoner’ stereotype (The Guardian)

• Pennsylvania: Governor Launches Effort to Issue Mass Pardons to Those with Low-Level Marijuana Convictions (NORML)

• Ghana's Legal Cannabis Hits a Constitutional Roadblock (TalkingDrugs)

• Joseph Schooling: Singapore Olympic star suspended for taking cannabis in Vietnam (BBC)

• Cannabis industry inches toward sustainability (Chemical and Engineering News)

• New Study Shows Evidence That Low-Dose THC Could Help Treat Veteran PTSD (High Times)

• U.S. Air Force And Space Force Reviewing ‘Common Sense’ Marijuana Drug Testing Policy Change For Recruits (Marijuana Moment)

• Qualitative Study Reveals Medical Students’ Attitudes Toward Medical Pot (High Times)

LSD

• LSD decreases binge-like drinking in a rodent model of alcoholism, but only temporarily (PsyPost)

• Is the Color of LSD an Indicator of Purity? (Lucid News)

MDMA

• Boy, 16, dies in suspected ecstasy-related incident at Leeds Festival (The Independent)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• DEA Backs Off, Won’t Criminalize Two New Psychedelics (Psychedelic Spotlight)

Nitrous Oxide

• Why Some New York Stores Will Require You to Show ID to Buy Whipped Cream (Newsweek)

• Doctors warn of rise in nerve damage linked to nitrous oxide (The Guardian)

Ketamine

• This New, Legal Cannabis and Ketamine Therapy is Designed to Heal Trauma in the Body (DoubleBlind)

• They’re Pushing Cut-Rate Ketamine Therapy on TikTok (Rolling Stone)

• Yukon woman paid $7K for private ketamine treatment, only to learn that the Yukon gov't covers it (CBC)

Miscellaneous

• An Inside Look at the Lawsuit that could “Legalize Psychedelics in Canada” (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• MindMed Completes 1-for-15 Reverse Share Split (Psychedelic Alpha)

• Student Loan Forgiveness Limited By the War on Drugs (High Times)

• Aspen, Colorado Activists Pursue Psychedelics Decriminalization For 2023 Ballot As Voters Prepare To Decide On Statewide 2022 Legalization Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic Advocate Facing Charges Calls for Help, Law Reform in New York (High Times)

• Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst? (WIRED)

• In the Wake of Decrim, Police Continue to Target Psychedelics (Lucid News)

• How Psychedelics Might Fuel a Paradigm Shift (DoubleBlind)

9.9.22

Cannabis

• California: Governor Signs Bill Prohibiting Doctors from Discriminating Against Medical Cannabis Patients (NORML)

• Nobody knows how widespread illegal cannabis grows are in California. So we mapped them (Los Angeles Times)

• UK Government Blocks Bermuda From Legalizing Marijuana On Same Day New Prime Minister Takes Office (Marijuana Moment)

• Afroman’s Ohio Residence Raided by Local Law Enforcement (High Times)

• Minnesota Arrests Black People For Marijuana At Much Higher Rates Than White People, State Data Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Cannabis Banking Legislation (High Times)

• Companies Turn to THC Beverages as Next Growing Legal Cannabis Market (High Times)

LSD

• LSD-assisted therapy induces rapid and lasting reductions in anxiety and depression symptoms, according to new research (PsyPost)

Magic Mushrooms

• Placebo-controlled study suggests that the benefits of psilocybin microdosing can be explained by expectancy effects (PsyPost)

• Psilocybin Study To Investigate the Serotonin System in Autism (Technology Networks)

• Optimi Health Completes Largest Legal Natural Psilocybin Harvest in Canadian History (Psychedelic Alpha)

• 'Flesh of the Gods': The Trippy History of Magic Mushrooms (VICE)

MDMA

• MDMA Enhances Fear Extinction Learning: From Models to Mechanisms (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Police issue MDMA warning after man dies from suspected drug overdose (Radio New Zealand)

Ayahuasca

• Why Are Scientists Dosing Fish with Ayahuasca? (DoubleBlind)

5-MeO-DMT

• As Use Of The World’s Most Potent Psychedelic Skyrockets, New Site F.I.V.E. Fills An Education Void (Forbes)

Peyote

• Conspiracy and Antisemitism in the Debate Over Peyote Decriminalization (Psychedelic Spotlight)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• New Psychedelic Entactogens: Designer Drugs Produce Designer Effects (Psychedelic Science Review)

Nitrous Oxide

• Laughing gas: 'A 20-second high is not worth losing your life over' (BBC)

Ketamine

• Scientists Discover That a Surprising Factor Improved The Effects of Ketamine in Mice (ScienceAlert)

• Low-dose ketamine is safe and effective to treat children with ADNP syndrome, study suggests (News-Medical.net)

Miscellaneous

• San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics (Leafly)

• Drug Executions in Iran Are Back on the Rise (TalkingDrugs)

• This Psychedelic Company is Leading the Way on Reciprocity and Holistic Approaches to Healing (DoubleBlind)

• WOC-led psychedelics conference champions gender equality with all-women speakers (Leafly)

9.16.22

Cannabis

• Killings, robberies, extortion. California can’t stop its booming illegal cannabis stores (Los Angeles Times)

• New Zealand Approves Domestic Medical Cannabis Products (High Times)

• World Anti-Doping Agency Set To Keep Marijuana On Banned Substance List, Saying U.S. Didn’t Back Its Removal (Marijuana Moment)

• Biden To Meet With Family of Brittney Griner (High Times)

• Study: CBD Oil Safe, Effective for Autism Patients (High Times)

• Missouri judge blocks attempt to kick legalization off ballot (Leafly)

• GOP Missouri Lawmaker Files Revised Marijuana Legalization Bill, Urging Special Session Action To Compete With Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

• Pregnant Women in Alabama Are Being Jailed For Smoking Pot (High Times)

• Oklahoma Prosecutors Are Targeting Pregnant Women For Using Medical Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

• Thai Lawmakers Withdraw Bill to Regulate Cannabis (High Times)

• New Jersey Employers Can’t Punish Workers Based On A Marijuana Test Alone, State Officials Say (Marijuana Moment)

• Nevada Judge Orders State Board to Remove Cannabis from Schedule 1 (High Times)

• Analysis: Legal Cannabis Businesses Associated with Increased Home Values (NORML)

• Weed Legalization in Germany Hampered by EU Laws (High Times)

• What’s Next For Cannabis Mergers And Acquisitions? (Forbes)

• Oregon Officials to Deploy Decoys to Catch Underage Weed, Alcohol Sales (High Times)

• Small Marijuana Growers Could Sell Directly To Consumers Across State Lines Under New Congressional Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Republican Congressmen Push for Environmental Impact Study on Cannabis (High Times)

• US Court of Appeals: Federal Scheduling of Cannabis “Irrational,” But Not Unconstitutional (NORML)

• In Hawaii, People Prefer Black Market Cannabis to State-Managed Facilities (High Times)

Magic Mushrooms

• Scientists have started to examine whether “magic” mushrooms can help in the fight against obesity (PsyPost)

• Oregon Overcomes Bureaucratic Delays to Therapist Training Program Approvals (Lucid News)

• The shroom edibles market proliferates underground (Leafly)

• Revive Therapeutics Provides Update on the Psilocybin Clinical Study for Methamphetamine Use Disorder and Oral Psilocybin Thin Film Strip Program (Psychedelic Alpha)

DMT

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Receives Approval for Groundbreaking Phase 1 DMT Human Stroke Study (Psychedelic Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Comedian Ron White Shares How Tripping On Ayahuasca In Costa Rica Turned His Life Around (BroBible)

5-MeO-DMT

• ‘I’m not a shaman – I just want to help people’: shoe designer Patrick Cox on his psychedelic toad awakening (The Guardian)

Peyote

• Native American Church of North America Advocates at Capitol Hill for Protections of Peyote (Native News Online)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Mindset Pharma Receives Scientific Advice from UK Regulator Facilitating Advancement of Phase 1 First-In-Human Clinical Trial Plan for Its Lead Clinical Candidate, MSP-1014 (Psychedelic Alpha)

Ketamine

• New study highlights ketamine’s promise for treatment-resistant depression (Popular Science)

• Dealers Are Giving Discounts on Cocaine and Ketamine in Honour of the Queen (VICE)

• Study Explores Effects of Experimenter Sex on Ketamine Response (Psychiatric Times)

PCP

• PCP (aka Angel Dust) May Actually Have Therapeutic Potential (DoubleBlind)

Datura

• Datura and the psychedelic Tao (Isham Cook)

Miscellaneous

• Atlanta is considering the decriminalization of magic mushrooms and other psychedelics (Leafly)

• Sexual Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy: Important Steps Being Taken to Support Survivors (DoubleBlind)

• Oregon Voters Continue To Support Drug Decriminalization Law They Approved In 2020, New Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelics Were the Hot Topic at This Year’s World Economic Forum (Lucid News)

• Local Michigan Lawmakers Vote To Make September Psychedelics Awareness Month After Decriminalization Enacted (Marijuana Moment)

• A Channel for Magic: Ralph Hood’s Mysticism Scale and the Occult Roots of the Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Program (Psymposia)

• Psychedelic Twitter is Swarmed by Plug Bots (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Finding Nuance in the Psychedelic Hype Bubble (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Psilera Receives First Patent Allowance for Transdermal Patch Formulations (Psychedelic Alpha)

• Adverse Events in Psychedelic Clinical Trials are Underreported (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Psychedelic South: The Quest to find Good Drugs in Alabama (Psychedelic Spotlight)

9.23.22

Cannabis

• Canada to review impact of cannabis legalization four years on (Reuters)

• Marijuana Is Staying On The Banned Substances List For International Athletes, World Anti-Doping Agency Announces (Marijuana Moment)

• California: Governor Signs Legislation Providing Employment Protections for Cannabis Consumers (NORML)

• NY finally approves medical homegrow (Leafly)

• Australian Cannabis Patients Turning to Prescriptions Over Illicit Market, Study Shows (High Times)

• New Yorkers with weed convictions will have priority in retail market, state says (Leafly)

• German Lawmakers Tour California Marijuana Businesses To Inform National Legalization Plans (Marijuana Moment)

• Las Vegas City Council Approves Cannabis Consumption Lounges (High Times)

• Leafly Report: ‘Opt-out’ towns are encouraging illegal marijuana sales (Leafly)

• University of Kentucky Opens New Cannabis Research Center (High Times)

• We spoke to the author of that new study on prenatal cannabis exposure (Leafly)

• Apple Lets Users Search For Marijuana And Pharmaceutical Interactions In Latest iPhone Health Update (Marijuana Moment)

• The Role of Cannabis in Treating Long COVID (High Times)

• Canada’s rich and complicated history of psychedelic research (Leafly)

• Oklahoma: Court Rules that Voters Can’t Decide on Legalization Ballot Measure This Year (NORML)

• Arkansas: High Court Approves Marijuana Legalization Measure for the November Ballot (NORML)

• Majority Of Maryland Voters Back Marijuana Legalization Referendum And Expungements, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Two Out Of Three Missouri Voters ‘Certain To Vote Yes’ On Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Poll: Majority in Minnesota Want Legal Weed (High Times)

• Two In Three Pennsylvania Voters Support Marijuana Legalization, New Poll Shows Amid Key Political Races (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• Miami clinic kicks off first national study of LSD, once a ‘public enemy,’ to treat anxiety (Miami Herald)

Magic Mushrooms

• The Viagra of the Himalayas—the World’s Most Expensive Fungus—Faces Serious Decline Due to Growing Demand (DoubleBlind)

• Liquid Culture vs. Spores (Reality Sandwich)

MDMA

• Disruption to Australian ecstasy market following COVID-19 restrictions, report finds (Medical Xpress)

• MindMed Collaborators Dose First Patient in Phase 1 Investigator-Initiated Trial of MDMA-Like Substances (Psychedelic Alpha)

DMT

• Researchers Studying Psychedelic Drug as Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease (High Times)

Ayahuasca

• Packers Bust Out Ayahuasca TD Celebration Weeks After Aaron Rodgers Revealed Psychedelic Use (BroBible)

• Aaron Rodgers Defends Ayahuasca, Says He May Be 'Called' to Take the Psychedelic Again (People)

Peyote

• Native American Church Leaders Ask Congress For Funds To Support Peyote Cultivation And Preservation (Marijuana Moment)

• The Complicated Ethics of Legalizing Indigenous Psychedelic Substances (Ethos)

Iboga

• You Can Now Get Ibogaine-Based Addiction Treatment In A Hospital Setting In Brazil (Forbes)

Nitrous Oxide

• What Nitrous Oxide Showed The Father of American Psychology (Lucid News)

Ketamine

• Looking at Images of People Smiling at You Extends Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine (Neuroscience News)

DXM

• Please don't cook chicken in NyQuil, the FDA asks TikTok users (NPR)

• The FDA may have unintentionally made 'NyQuil Chicken' go viral on TikTok (Engadget)

Miscellaneous

• Math Over Myth: Psychedelic Stock HAVN Life Collapses (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Psychedelics face corrupting influence of financial interests (UC News)

• Biden Administration Considers Psychedelic Therapies Task Force (Lucid News)

• Colorado Polls Show Conflicting Results On Psychedelics Ballot Measure That Voters Will Decide On In November (Marijuana Moment)

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Announces Receipt of CDN $450K Cash Refund from Australian Research Program (Psychedelic Alpha)

• Baby Boomers (Re)Discover Psychedelics as Tools for Aging with Grace (DoubleBlind)

• Does Microdosing Impact Meditation? New Study From Beckley Foundation and Quantified Citizen Investigates (Newswire)

• Colombia’s President Tells UN That ‘Democracy Will Die’ If World Leaders Don’t End Drug War And Pursue Different Strategy (Marijuana Moment)

• The Undergrowth of Psychedelic Australia (Kahpi)

• Beyond Michael Pollan: Where to learn more about psychedelics. (Medium)

• Can Psychedelics Help Veterans with Chronic Pain? (Psychedelic Spotlight)

9.30.22

Cannabis

• Switzerland: Revision of Narcotics Act – Switzerland fully legalizes medicinal cannabis (Global Compliance News)

• Free medicinal cannabis to be donated to epileptic children in the UK (Sky News)

• Medical cannabis for doggies, kitties is fully legalized in California (Leafly)

• Medical Marijuana Helps Patients Reduce Use Of Addictive Opioid Painkillers, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Maltese Non-profit Cannabis May be The Way Forward (TalkingDrugs)

• Check in, smoke up and tune out: Cannabis-friendly vacation rentals are catching on (CNBC)

• Despite The Munchies, Marijuana Legalization Is Tied To Lower Obesity Rates, Stereotype-Busting Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Investigators say more than 70% of cannabis growers use illegal water (Santa Barbara News-Press)

• Germany Versus The United States: Which Will Legalize Cannabis First (Forbes)

• As cannabis usage grows, so does the need for employers to revisit their workplace drug policies (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• Could Cannabis and Psychedelic Drugs Make Breast Cancer Treatments More Effective? (PR Newswire)

• Federal Marijuana Prohibition Is Putting Patients At Risk Of Consuming Contaminated Products, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Supreme Court trial on homegrow ban reveals a bigger issue in federal cannabis legalization (Leafly)

• Medical Marijuana Patient Plans To Sue Feds For $3.5 Million Over ‘Discriminatory’ Cannabis Raid On Tribal Land (Marijuana Moment)

• Is Big Tobacco Pivoting to Big Cannabis? (High Times)

• Wisconsin Governor’s Push To Allow Ballot Initiatives Could Put Marijuana Legalization Before Voters (Marijuana Moment)

• Majority Of D.C. Voters Support Marijuana Legalization And Oppose Crackdown On Unregulated ‘Gifting’ Market, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Missouri Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative Leads In New Poll, But With Less Than 50 Percent (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• Effects of LSD and Psilocybin in Healthy Participants (Psychiatric Times)

Magic Mushrooms

• Connecticut to Offer Legal MDMA and Psilocybin Therapy as Early as Next Year (DoubleBlind)

• DEA Claims Doctors Requesting Psilocybin For Dying Patients Have Commercial Interests (Benzinga)

• Woman’s Breast Cancer Returned Immediately After Dropping Treatment With Cannabis, Shrooms (High Times)

• Psilocybin Shows Gender-Specific Effects on CNS Reactivity and Behavioral Responses (Gilmore Health News)

• Psyence Group Completes Export of Psilocybin Mushrooms to Portugal (Psychedelic Alpha)

MDMA

• MDMA in the UK Is Finally Pure Again (VICE)

Ayahuasca

• Aaron Rodgers fumbles the science on psychedelics. Drugs like ayahuasca can alter the brain—but how? (Salon)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• 'A lot of MDMA that wasn't MDMA': The early results from inside Australia's first drug testing clinic (SBS)

• atai Life Sciences Announces Initiation of Phase 1 Trial for its MDMA Derivative, EMP-01 (Psychedelic Alpha)

• LSD-Like Molecules Counter Depression Without the Trip (UC San Francisco)

• BetterLife Files Comprehensive Patent for BETR-001 and Other LSD Derivatives (Psychedelic Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• A new urine test could help curtail the use of the latest synthetic cannabinoids to enter the drug scene (Medical Xpress)

Ketamine

• Elijah McClain’s autopsy report changed to death by ketamine (Colorado Public Radio)

• Looking at smiling faces extends the antidepressant effects of ketamine (University of Pittsburgh)

Miscellaneous

• How Interdisciplinary Research Could Reveal Psychedelics’ Blind Spots (Microdose)

• New Theory Believes Psychedelics Could Benefit Long-Term Space Travelers (High Times)

• After rocky start, hopes up in Oregon drug decriminalization (ABC)

• Psychedelic drugs: how to tell good research from bad (The Conversation)

• Do You Even Trip, Bro? A Look At Psychedelic Masculinity, From Joe Rogan To Mike Tyson (Benzinga)

• I went to the only psychedelic dispensary in North America—here’s how they do it (The Manual)

• The Racism and Classism Hidden Behind “Moms who Microdose” (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Whole-Body Effects of Psychedelics Part 3 – The Heart (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Majority Of Mainers Support Drug Decriminalization And Other Harm Reduction Policies, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Why Tripping at Raves Can Be Just As Healing as Ceremony (DoubleBlind)

• Math Over Myth: MindMed’s Self Destructive Stock Mission (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Men More Likely To Have Substance Abuse Disorder, Women More Likely To Overdose (High Times)

• Psychedelic Retreats Offer Healing Only for the Wealthy (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Psychedelic therapy could reduce anxiety, distress among patients with cancer (Healio)

• The Narrowing of Psychedelic Discourse (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Is Now a Good Time to Invest In Psychedelics Stocks? (The Motley Fool)

• The Messy Job of a Psychedelic Integration Coach (Psychedelic Spotlight)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 11.26.21

Cannabis

• The new German government plans to legalize cannabis. (The New York Times)

• Mexico Senate on Track to Endorse Recreational Cannabis by December (High Times)

• Uber Eats users in Ontario can now buy cannabis through the app (Engadget)

• New GOP weed approach: Feds must ‘get out of the way’ (Politico)

• South Dakota Supreme Court kills adult-use legalization (Leafly)

• Is Fentanyl-Tainted Marijuana 'Something Real' or 'Just an Urban Legend'? (Reason)

• A New Center at CSU Aims to Unlock the Secrets of CBD (5280)

• Indica and sativa labels are largely meaningless when it comes to cannabis complexities (The Conversation)

• St. Louis Lawmakers Unanimously Approve Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana Possession And Cultivation (Marijuana Moment)

• Analysis: Marijuana Legalization Associated with Improved Clearance Rates for Violent Crimes (NORML)

• Illinois Judge Rules Weed Odor is Not Probable Cause For Searches (High Times)

• Ohio Marijuana Activists Almost Have Enough Signatures To Force Lawmakers To Consider Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• New Mexico Issues First Adult-Use Cannabis Cultivation License (High Times)

• Taliban Contracts Australian Company To Grow Cannabis In Afghanistan (Marijuana Moment)

• Mississippi lawmakers unlikely to reach medical marijuana deal this year (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Dogs Are Being Exposed To Marijuana Through Human Poop And Pet Owners Should Beware, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Majority Of Texas Republicans Back Marijuana Legalization, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Arizona Cannabis Social Equity Program Faces Legal Challenge (High Times)

• Canada’s first regulated cannabis suppositories target female consumers (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Montana: Officials Create New Drug Court to Focus Solely on Expunging Past Marijuana Convictions (NORML)

• Few Medical Cannabis Licenses in Portugal Have Been Awarded (High Times)

• Pennsylvania order targeting vaporized products upends cannabis market (Marijuana Business Daily)

• CNN’s Sixth WEED Documentary Features the Benefits of Medical Cannabis for Autism (High Times)

LSD

• New graphic novel depicts famed history of LSD research in Sask. (CBC)

Magic Mushrooms

• Magic mushroom study hints psilocybin repairs alcohol-induced brain damage (Inverse)

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

• Metaphysics and mushrooms: Psychedelics can change how you think about the universe (Big Think)

• What Happens When Zen Monks Take Mushrooms? (Lucid News)

• HAVN Life Successfully Exports Psilocybin from its Jamaica Facility into Canada (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Police Presence at Music Festivals Linked to "Panic Overdoses": Study (EDM)

DMT

• Entheon Biomedical Provides Update on Clinical and Preclinical DMT Programs (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Ayahuasca users report psychological benefits after taking placebo at a ritualistic ceremony (PsyPost)

• Are All Ayahuasca Retreats The Same? You Might Be Surprised (Healing Maps)

Peyote

• Mining and Poaching Threatens 15,000-Year-Old Peyote Tradition in Mexico (DoubleBlind)

San Pedro

• San Pedro: What is it Like to Experience Mescaline from San Pedro? (The Third Wave)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Mescaline-Like Psychedelic Alters Synaptic Plasticity (Technology Networks)

Ketamine

• Ketamine benefits neurocognition in depression with suicidal ideation (Healio)

• Wesana Health Clinics Surpass 4,000 Administered Ketamine Treatments (Psilocybin Alpha)

• PharmaTher Applies for FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Ketamine to Treat Rare Neurological Disorder Status Epilepticus (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Navigating the Patchwork of New York City Ketamine Clinics (Lucid News)

Miscellaneous

• New Zealand Permanently Legalizes Drug Checking, a Global First (Filter)

• U.S. Reports More Than 100,000 Overdose Deaths In One Year (High Times)

• New study finds 'microdosing' psychedelics can be effective in treating anxiety, depression (The Hill)

• Responding to the 2022 Global Drug Survey Will Help Other Drug Users (Filter)

• Colorado Springs Pushing to Decriminalize Psychedelics (Truffle Report)

• The Rise of Psychedelic Retreats (The New York Times)

• How to Cultivate a More Ethical, Inclusive Psychedelic Future (Lucid News)

• Why Are Some People More Sensitive to Psychedelics Than Others? (Sam Woolfe)

• Cybin Awards Grant for Psychedelic Treatment Clinic at Lenox Hill Hospital to Benefit Underserved Communities (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Academic Centers Start to Take Psychedelics Seriously (Medpage Today)

• Psychedelics and Mysticism: The Debate Continues (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Psychedelics, Cognition, and Sleep Disorders (Truffle Report)

• Is Psychedelic Research Funding Starting to Shift? (Medpage Today)

• Revive Therapeutics Files for ODD Designation for Bucillamine Treatment Targeting Rare Liver Disorders, COVID-19 (Truffle Report)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 4.30.21

Cannabis

• Montana Bill To Implement Marijuana Legalization Heads To Governor’s Desk (Marijuana Moment)

• Texas Lawmakers Approve Marijuana And Psychedelics Reform Bills (Marijuana Moment)

• Philadelphia: City Council Votes to Prohibit Pre-Employment Drug Screening for Cannabis (NORML)

• GOP Congressman’s Bill Would Protect Marijuana Consumers’ 2nd Amendment Rights (Marijuana Moment)

• Minnesota Marijuana Legalization Bill Clears Ninth House Committee On Path To Floor (Marijuana Moment)

• Louisiana Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• South Dakota Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Litigation Challenging State’s Voter-Approved Marijuana Legalization Initiative (NORML)

• Bolsonaro’s Cabinet Crusade Against Cannabis is Racist and Classist (TalkingDrugs)

• Pennsylvania Marijuana Poll Shows Highest-Ever Support For Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• CEO Of $2 Billion Startup Fired After Experimenting With LSD At Work (Forbes)

Magic Mushrooms

• Maine Proposal Would Legalize Psilocybin Mushroom Therapy For Adults, No Medical Diagnosis Needed (Marijuana Moment)

• How an expert psilocybin tester chooses award-winning mushrooms (Inverse)

• Hawaii Legislature Seeks Marijuana Exemption From DEA While Senate Requests Legal Psilocybin Plan (Marijuana Moment)

• Revive Therapeutics Files for FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Psilocybin in Traumatic Brain Injury (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Numinus Announces Phase 1 Clinical Trial of Natural Psilocybin Mushroom Extraction Prepared at Company Lab (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Red Light Holland and Halo Collective Create Red Light Oregon, Inc. – Forwarding Intentions to Enter Oregon Medicinal Psychedelic Market (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Alcohol Addiction (Spirit Pharmacist)

• Bupropion and MDMA, Risky Combination? (Spirit Pharmacist)

DMT

• PharmaDrug Announces First FDA Orphan Drug Designation of DMT for the Prevention of Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury from Organ Transplantation (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Spain’s (Second to) Last Ayahuasca Trial (ICEERS)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Non-hallucinogenic psychedelics: scientists close in on compound (The Guardian)

• Mindset Pharma Announces Positive Preclinical Results of Its Proprietary Next Generation DMT & 5-MeO-DMT Compounds (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Eliminating Bad Trips Through Minor Tryptamines (Truffle Report)

• Cybin Selects Alcohol Use Disorder Indication for Psychedelic Molecule CYB003 (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• 'Rising rates' of synthetic marijuana in Iowa prisons prompts investigation (Des Moines Register)

Ketamine

• Bill to regulate ketamine used during police calls passes House committee (Sentinel Colorado)

• Bexson Biomedical Granted USPTO Patent On Proprietary Ketamine Formulation (Psilocybin Alpha)

• PharmaTher Expands Patent Portfolio with Filing of U.S. Patent Application for Ketamine and Repurposing of Psychedelics with panaceAI™ (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• MindMed Becomes Second Psychedelic Drug Development Company to List on the Nasdaq (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Scientists are Using AI to Develop New Psychedelic Drugs (DoubleBlind)

• UCSF Launches New Psychedelic Research Division (Benzinga)

• Drug Possession To Be A Misdemeanor—For Now—Under Washington State Bill Headed To Governor’s Desk (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic drugs without the trip? This sensor could help seek them out (Nature)

• Should Society Legalize Psychedelics? A Breakdown of the Intelligence Squared Debate (Psychedelics Today)

• Native Tribes Should Have More Say in the Psychedelic Movement (Green Entrepreneur)

• This Brain Imaging Device Could Impact Understanding Psychedelic Trips (Healing Maps)

• COMPASS Pathways announces pricing of public offering (Psilocybin Alpha)

• How To Talk With Your Kids About Psychedelics (Psychedelics Today)

• Why Psychedelics, Big in the 1960s, Are Drawing New Interest Now (Bloomberg)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 4.23.21

Cannabis

• Schumer Celebrates 4/20 Marijuana Holiday On Senate Floor (Marijuana Moment)

• US House Passes Bill To Normalize Adult-Use Cannabis Commerce (NORML)

• Virginia Governor Signs Marijuana Legalization Bill In Ceremonial Event—Even Though It’s Already Enacted (Marijuana Moment)

• New Jersey Supreme Court Rules Company Must Cover Employee's Medical Marijuana Costs (MERRY JANE)

• Nine In Ten Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana For Recreational Or Medical Use, New Pew Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Florida Supreme Court Kills 2022 Marijuana Legalization Initiative That Hundreds Of Thousands Had Signed (Marijuana Moment)

• Border weed: How the hometown of tater tots became a cannabis capital (Politico)

• Louisiana Lawmakers Approve Bill To Legalize Medical Marijuana Flower For Patients (Marijuana Moment)

• Veterans Medical Marijuana Safe Harbor Act Reintroduced (NORML)

• Minnesota Marijuana Legalization Bill Clears Eighth Committee On Route To The House Floor (Marijuana Moment)

• Two-thirds of La. voters support legalizing marijuana; state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle eye legalization (WAFB)

LSD

• Today Is Bicycle Day, Which Isn’t Quite What You Think (Mother Jones)

• LSD Side-Effects: Risks To Be Aware of When Consuming LSD (The Third Wave)

Magic Mushrooms

• Oregon’s and Compass’s Opposite Approaches to Psilocybin Therapy Should Coexist, Says Initiator of Measure 109 (Chacruna)

• Revive Therapeutics Announces Successful Research Results for Oral Thin Film Psilocybin and Filing of U.S. Provisional Patent Application (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• MDMA and magic mushrooms reconsidered for rescheduling by Therapeutic Goods Administration (The Canberra Times)

• This is why sex on MDMA feels so good, according to experts (Gentside UK)

Ayahuasca

• Advocacy Group Aims to Decriminalize Ayahuasca in Portland (Willamette Week)

• Some Vermonters Turn to Ayahuasca as a 'Last Resort' to Heal Their Bodies and Minds (Seven Days)

5-MeO-DMT

• Researchers In Europe, U.S. Team Up To Produce First Ever 5-MeO-DMT Psychedelic Training Program (Forbes)

• Toad Conservation (Chacruna)

Peyote

• Hello, Religious Privilege is Good and Here's Why (Patheos)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• 18-MC Has Unique Brain Functions and Mechanisms (Psychedelic Science Review)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Study explores synthetic cannabinoid for cancer-related anorexia (Outsourcing-Pharma.com)

Ketamine

• PharmaTher Announces Submission of IND Application with the FDA for Phase 2 Clinical Trial Evaluating Ketamine in the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Ketamine Infusion: How Ketamine Can Treat Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, and More (DoubleBlind)

PCP

• State's medical expert to grand jury: 'Police didn't kill Daniel Prude' (WXXI News)

Miscellaneous

• Norway opposition torpedoes plan to decriminalise drug use (France 24)

• Washington State Lawmakers Downgrade Proposed Drug Possession Penalties Ahead Of House Floor Vote (Marijuana Moment)

• Biden Is Allegedly Planning to Double Down on Trump's Prohibitionist Drug Policies (MERRY JANE)

• MindMed To Commence Trading on Nasdaq (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The “Equity Elephant”: Why Psychedelic Mutualism and Cooperatives are Crucial for an Accessible Future (Psychedelics Today)

• Jewish psychedelics movement blasts off with first-ever conference (The Times of Israel)

• ATAI Nasdaq IPO Plans Announced (Truffle Report)

• Researchers Slam Drug War At Federally Hosted Psychedelics Event (Marijuana Moment)

• There’s a Land Grab for Psychedelic Patents: Here’s What We Can Do About It (Psychedelic Times)

• You're Not Hallucinating: Black People Are Being Left Out of the Psychedelic Renaissance (The Root)

• People who regularly use psychoactive substances experienced negative impacts during COVID-19 (News-Medical.net)

• Most Canadians not ready to expand drug legalization beyond cannabis: poll (Coast Reporter)

• Extinction Rebellion founder says psychedelic drugs 'helped start environmental movement' (Wales Online)

• Silo Wellness Announces Five New Psychedelic Wellness Retreats in Jamaica (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psychedelic Experience launches new website to help navigate the world of psychedelics (PR Newswire)

• The Overlap Between Kink/BDSM and Psychedelics (Chacruna)

• Cybin Demonstrates Proof of Concept of Its Deuterated Tryptamines for the Treatment of Depression and Addiction (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Michael Pollan: A Catalyst to the Psychedelic Renaissance (The Third Wave)

• If You're Going to Solo Trip On Psychedelics, Bear This in Mind (VICE)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 3.19.21

Cannabis

• White House staffers asked to resign or work remotely after revealing past marijuana use (CNN)

• Wyoming Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill Sponsored By Top GOP Leaders (Marijuana Moment)

• Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers File Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana, While Governor Pushes Full Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Nebraska Gov. Ricketts warns: 'If you legalize marijuana, you're going to kill your kids' (USA Today)

• People of Color Made Up 94% of All Pot Arrests in New York in 2020, NYPD Data Reports (MERRY JANE)

• Marijuana Banking Bill Reintroduced In Congress With Broad Bipartisan Support From More Than 100 Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)

• Big Alcohol and Big Tobacco Coalition Emerges to Shape Legalization in Their Favor (NORML)

• Delaware Lawmakers File Marijuana Legalization Bill Despite Governor’s Ongoing ‘Concerns’ (Marijuana Moment)

• New Mexico Marijuana Legalization Bill Heads To Senate Floor Following Contentious Committee Hearing (Marijuana Moment)

• Colorado Is Trying to Implement 15% THC Cap on High-Potency Cannabis Concentrates (MERRY JANE)

• North Dakota Marijuana Legalization Bill Receives First Senate Committee Hearing Following House Passage (Marijuana Moment)

• Congress and USPS Inadvertently Restrict Consumer Access To Vaporizer Cartridges, Batteries, Etc (NORML)

• New PTSD study finds cannabis safe, but not as effective as assumed (Leafly)

• Pennsylvania: Police Arrested 20,200 Adults for Marijuana Possession During Pandemic (NORML)

• New Evidence Shows CBD Can Help Fight Alzheimer's Disease (MERRY JANE)

• Medical cannabis can reduce essential tremor: turns on overlooked cells in central nervous system (EurekAlert!)

• Cultivating a Single 8th of Weed Creates 41-Pound Carbon Footprint, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)

LSD

• The true story of Michel Foucault's LSD trip that changed history (Salon)

Magic Mushrooms

• COMPASS Pathways Is Trying to Patent Psilocybin for More Mental Health Conditions Than You Can Name (Psymposia)

• Experts chosen to create Oregon’s new system of psilocybin-assisted therapy (OPB)

• Can Magic Mushrooms Heal Us? (The New York Times)

• Revive Therapeutics Announces Successful Research Results for Psilocybin to Treat Traumatic Brain Injury and Filing of International Patent Application (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Can Psilocybin Assisted Psychotherapy Change Attachment Style? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Shrooms Movie: The Best (And Worst) Movies to Watch on Shrooms (DoubleBlind)

MDMA

• The Effects of MDMA on Emotional Processing (Truffle Report)

DMT

• Pharmadrug Initiates DMT Research Activities via Collaboration with the University of Michigan for Foundational DMT Research Study (Psilocybin Alpha)

5-MeO-DMT

• Former porn star Nacho Vidal to stand trial for death by toad venom (Euro Weekly News)

Ketamine

• First ketamine-assisted psychotherapy Bristol clinic opens (BBC)

• 'How ketamine helped me kick my alcohol addiction' (The Telegraph)

• Having Sex on Ketamine: Getting Physical on a Dissociative (Reality Sandwich)

• On Ketamine and Memories (Truffle Report)

• Ketamine: A Legal, yet Overlooked Psychedelic (Sapiensoup Blog)

PCP

• Rochester mayor lied to public about Daniel Prude case, report finds (New York Post)

Miscellaneous

• D.C. Psychedelics Decriminalization Initiative Officially Takes Effect (Marijuana Moment)

• Sounding the Alarm on Compass’s Interference with Oregon’s Psilocybin Therapy Program (Dr. Bronner)

• Psychedelic drug users tend to have better overall physical health than non-users, study finds (PsyPost)

• Rhode Island Senators File Drug Decriminalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic Capitalism and Other Myths: Is the Joke On Us? (Psychedelics Today)

• Capitalism Goes Rogue with Patent Claims on Psychedelics (Chacruna)

• Australian government backs psychedelic drug clinical trials to treat mental illness (The Guardian)

• Why Oneness is Not Incompatible with Identity Politics (Chacruna)

• The Bread That Made an Entire Island Hallucinate (VICE)

• Psychedelic therapy could 'reset' depressed brain (BBC)

• Do Psychedelics Alter the Menstrual Cycle? (DoubleBlind)

• Psychotic- vs. Psychedelic-Induced Hallucinations: A Closer Look (Psychedelic Science Review)

• ‘The ketamine blew my mind’: can psychedelics cure addiction and depression? (The Guardian)

• Fish and Trips: Psychoactive Denizens of the Deep (Truffle Report)

• Why Microdosing is the Lightsaber of Modern-Day Jedis (The Third Wave)

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