Cannabis
Native American tribe in North Carolina legalizes medical cannabis (Marijuana Business Daily)
Marijuana Sales Increased In Multiple States During COVID, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Study suggests cannabis can induce a psychedelic-like “oceanic” experience (PsyPost)
Weedmaps adds in-app cannabis purchasing for iPhone users (TechCrunch)
Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace Leafly to go public (The Seattle Times)
Senate Votes To Let Researchers Study Marijuana From Dispensaries (Marijuana Moment)
Here’s where New York’s next governor stands on marijuana legalization (Leafly)
California High Court: Recreational Cannabis Law Doesn’t Apply To Inmates In Prison (CBS SF BayArea)
These States Possess the Highest Number of Cannabis Consumers Per Capita (NORML)
Illinois Announces Cannabis Dispensary License Lottery Winners (Forbes)
Wisconsin Lawmakers Unveil New Marijuana Legalization Bill—At A Cannabis Shop In Illinois (Marijuana Moment)
Scientists Think Cannabinoids in Sativex Can Actually Beat Brain Cancer (MERRY JANE)
Wyoming Officials Clear 2022 Marijuana Ballot Initiatives For Signature Gathering (Marijuana Moment)
Oklahoma Activists Prepare 2022 Ballot Measures to Legalize Marijuana And Overhaul State’s Medical Cannabis System (Marijuana Moment)
Nebraska Medical Marijuana Advocates Reveal Updated 2022 Ballot Strategy Featuring Two Separate Initiatives (Marijuana Moment)
Magic Mushrooms
A 13th Century Fresco Might Feature a Psychedelic Mushroom (InsideHook)
In Canada, End-of-Life Therapy May Be the Path to Legal Psilocybin (Filter)
Canadian Groups Push For Legal Psilocybin: Survey Shows Support (Truffle Report)
Myth Busting: Magic Mushroom Spores Have Little to do with Potency (Psychedelic Science Review)
How magic mushroom ingredient psilocybin helps patients with depression or PTSD change how they feel, by rewiring the brain with more connections (South China Morning Post)
Tryp Therapeutics Partners with Calvert Labs to Conduct Exploratory Studies for Proprietary Psilocybin Formulations (Psilocybin Alpha)
Ayahuasca
An Exploration of Ayahuasca Art History (Reality Sandwich)
5-MeO-DMT
Why Are Celebrities Smoking Toad Venom? (Yahoo!)
Salvia Divinorum
atai Launches Revixia Life Sciences to Develop Salvinorin A for a Variety of Mental Health Conditions (Psilocybin Alpha)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
Psilera Initiates Landmark Preclinical Studies with New Psychedelic Derivatives aimed at Reducing Alcohol Consumption (Psilocybin Alpha)
Bexson Biomedical Launches New Project, Applying Subcutaneous Delivery Technology To Multiple Psychedelic Compounds For Therapeutic Use (Psilocybin Alpha)
Synthetic Cannabinoids
Where Cannabis Synthetic Spice Came From and Is It Related To HHC? (CBD Testers)
Ketamine
Could Ketamine Restore Child-like Brain Plasticity and Learning? (Lucid News)
Will Ketamine Help Sleep? We Explain Any Benefits (Healing Maps)
We Just Got Closer to Understanding Why Ketamine Is Such a Powerful Antidepressant (ScienceAlert)
Study finds cognitive safety of ketamine and esketamine for patients with treatment-resistant depression (News-Medical.net)
How Much Does A Ketamine Infusion Cost? (Healing Maps)
PCP
Why Does The Psychedelic Scene Ignore PCP? [Part 1] (Psychedelics Today)
Miscellaneous
These States Could Have Marijuana And Psychedelics Legalization On The Ballot In 2022 (Marijuana Moment)
Fireside Project Expands Psychedelic Support Service with App Launch (Lucid News)
Biden Exploring Clemency For People With Federal Drug Convictions, White House Says (Marijuana Moment)
Wearable Psychedelics Could Soon Give Users Maximum Control Over Their Trip (VICE)
Why Aren’t Psychedelic Drugs Prohibited in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics? (Psychedelic Science Review)
Psychedelics May Inspire Healthier Habits, Survey Finds (Lucid News)
Tripping Together (NEO.LIFE)
Campaign will target middle-class drug users (The Times)
Psychedelics As Medicine: Right To Try Case Versus DEA (JD Supra)
Prisoners Sue After Drug Testing of Their Legal Mail Gave False Positives (Filter)
Psychedelic Research Has a Racist Past (Mad in America)
The Wonderful and Absurd Life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary: Fashion Icon, Fugitive, and Psychedelic Pioneer (Part Two: Freedom and Unfreedom) (Chacruna)
Safely Exploring High Doses of Psychedelics (Maps of the Mind)
The Cosmic Giggle: Laughter and Psychedelics (Reality Sandwich)
Psychedelic Decriminalisation Only Scratches the Surface (VolteFace)
In Awe: Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy and the Mystical Experience (Psychedelic Science Review)
What Do I Need To Know About Tripping Alone In Nature? (Lucid News)
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