Cannabis
Bill To Federally Legalize Marijuana Approved By Key House Committee (Marijuana Moment)
Marijuana Arrests Fall Precipitously Nationwide in 2020 (NORML)
California Governor Signs Bill To Allow Medical Marijuana Use In Hospitals For Severely Ill Patients (Marijuana Moment)
Kansas City, MO: City Council Approves Measure Eliminating Pre-Employment Marijuana Testing for Most City Workers (NORML)
Hundreds prescribed medical cannabis in bid to persuade lawmakers to offer it on NHS (Mirror)
Mississippi Lawmakers Move to Implement Medical Cannabis Legislation (High Times)
Los Angeles: District Attorney to Vacate Some 60,000 Marijuana Convictions (NORML)
DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No 'Accepted Medical Use' (Reason)
The Making Of New York’s $150 Million ‘Cannabis Campus’ (Forbes)
What are they smoking? CNN says study found cannabis could double heart attack risk – but did it? (The Cannigma)
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Unveil Marijuana Legalization Bill With Focus On Social Equity (Marijuana Moment)
Your Smartphone Can Tell If You’re High On Marijuana, Study Finds (Forbes)
Nebraska Advocates Launch Signature Drive For 2022 Medical Marijuana Ballot Measures (Marijuana Moment)
Curbside Recreational Weed Pickups End in Massachusetts (High Times)
Federal Grant Approved to Study Medical Marijuana Impact in Arkansas (High Times)
LSD
Cannot treat LSD and its carrier material as separate, says court Cannot treat LSD and its carrier material as separate, says court (The Times of India)
Magic Mushrooms
From Sugar To Psychedelics: The European Companies Testing Biosynthetic Psilocybin In Humans (Forbes)
Decrim California’s Plan to Regulate Psilocybin Via Ballot (Truffle Report)
My Bipolar Mother's Quest For Relief With Magic Mushrooms (VICE)
Oregon Board to Vote on Psilocybin Facilitator Program (Truffle Report)
Red Light Holland: Initial Results From Red Light Oregon Market Research in Oregon Show 86% of Adults Interested in Psilocybin Services are Interested in Microdosing (Psilocybin Alpha)
MDMA
MINDCURE Launches “Desire Project” To Treat Female Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder With MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy (Psilocybin Alpha)
Levels of MDMA and cocaine in river running through Glastonbury Festival site so high they could harm wildlife, scientists say (Independent.ie)
Police urging parents to inspect Halloween candy after ecstasy discovered (Fox News)
MDMA: A Catalyst for ED-PTSD Treatment (Psychedelic Science Review)
DMT
Companies Compete to Create DMT Therapies (Lucid News)
Ayahuasca
Will Smith Embarked On A Dozen Ayahuasca Rituals In Peru After Denzel Washington Sold Him On The “F*ck It 50s” (BroBible)
Man charged after alleged sex assault linked to ayahuasca ceremony (CBC)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
Delix Therapeutics Closes $70 Million Series A Financing to Advance Pipeline of Novel Psychoplastogen Therapeutics to Treat Brain Disorders (Psilocybin Alpha)
BetterLife Files Patent for TD-0148A for Treatment of Cluster Headaches and Related Disorders (Psilocybin Alpha)
Mindset Pharma Expands Pipeline: Identifies Additional Next Generation 5-MeO-DMT-Inspired Lead Candidates (Psilocybin Alpha)
Ketamine
Ketamine use on patients with excited delirium and cocaine intoxication increases intubation rate (News-Medical.net)
Miscellaneous
Ending The Silence Around Psychedelic Therapy Abuse (Mad in America)
Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat Physical Pain? (Scientific American)
Toronto University Health Network Launches Psychedelic Psychotherapy Research Centre (Psilocybin Alpha)
Seattle City Council Takes First Step Toward Decriminalizing Psychedelic Plants And Fungi (Marijuana Moment)
Florida Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Study Psychedelics (Truffle Report)
DoubleBlind Magazine's First-Ever Psychedelics Billboard Campaign Is Turning New Yorkers On To Plant Medicine (Benzinga)
Psychedelics might reduce internalized shame and complex trauma symptoms in those with a history of childhood abuse (PsyPost)
Massachusetts Lawmakers Discuss Drug Decriminalization And Safe Injection Sites At Hearing (Marijuana Moment)
Bay Staters for Natural Medicine on Easthampton Decrim (Truffle Report)
‘Psychedelics renaissance’: new wave of research puts hallucinogenics forward to treat mental health (The Guardian)
Are Psychedelic Drugs the Answer to Veterans’ PTSD? (Men's Health)
19-Year-Old New Hampshire Lawmaker Prepares Bills To Decriminalize Psilocybin And All Drugs (Marijuana Moment)
Elon Musk Embraces Potential of Psychedelics at CodeCon (High Times)
How Effective Is Fireside Project's Psychedelic Hotline? New Study Aims To Find Out (Forbes)
Psychedelics and Pregnancy: A Look Into the Safety, Research and Legality (Psychedelics Today)
Pantheistic Insights: Vegetarianism in Psychedelic Culture (The Oak Tree Review)
'The End In Mind' Conference Answers Questions About Psychedelics For End-Of-Life Patients (Forbes)
Community Alert! Arrests and Encounters with Law Enforcement are Increasing (Chacruna)
People Are Facing Legal Repercussions for Serving Plant Medicine — Here’s What’s Being Done to Help Them (DoubleBlind)
Does psychedelic microdosing work? Brain study will be the real acid test (The New Daily)
Psychedelia in the Soviet Union (Reality Sandwich)
The Mystical Experience Defines Psychedelics (Lucid News)
Investors Turning to Psychedelic Market as Renaissance Continues into New Wave of Diseases (PR Newswire)
Why Psychedelic Therapy Needs Best Practices & How to Get There (The Third Wave)
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