Cannabis
Costa Rica Moves Forward with Medical Cannabis Reform (High Times)
New York Regulators Unanimously Advance Rule To Let People With Marijuana Convictions Open Shop Before Big Businesses Can Enter Market (Marijuana Moment)
Morocco Moves into Medical Cannabis Cultivation (High Times)
DC’s recreational marijuana ambitions blocked in federal bill (Marijuana Business Daily)
NCAA Relaxes Drug Testing Policies for Cannabis (NORML)
Kentucky Lawmakers Approve Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)
Delaware: House Members Fail to Advance Legalization Legislation (NORML)
Key GOP Kansas Lawmaker Files Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill In Senate (Marijuana Moment)
No, The World’s Biggest Cannabis Company Is Not Russian-Owned (Forbes)
LSD
Blackhawk's unit invests NZ$2.3M to advance microdosing LSD in phase 2 trials (Seeking Alpha)
Magic Mushrooms
Head of Oregon’s Psilocybin Advisory Board resigns (OPB)
Oklahoma House Passes Psilocybin Decriminalization And Research Bill, Sending It To Senate (Marijuana Moment)
Hawaii Senate Unanimously Approves Psilocybin Task Force Bill, With Decriminalization Measures Still Pending (Marijuana Moment)
Z Strain Mushrooms: Effects, Cultivation, and More (DoubleBlind)
Washington State Ballot Initiative Would Legalize ‘Facilitated’ Psilocybin Sessions (Marijuana Moment)
Demand grows for UK ministers to reclassify psilocybin for medical research (The Guardian)
Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca and Childbirth in the Santo Daime Tradition: Solidarity Among Women and Psychedelic Cultural Resistance (Chacruna)
San Pedro
Numinus Adds Ayahuasca & San Pedro to Federal License for Psychedelic Research (Psilocybin Alpha)
Synthetic Cannabinoids
New Machine Learning-Based Test Could Improve Detection of Synthetic Cannabinoids (PR Newswire)
Miscellaneous
Fireside Project’s New Equity Initiative Expands Psychedelic Support Services (Lucid News)
Maryland House And Senate Committees Consider Drug Decriminalization Bills (Marijuana Moment)
Rhode Island Lawmakers File Psilocybin And Broader Drug Decriminalization Bills While Legal Marijuana Momentum Increases (Marijuana Moment)
GOP Missouri Lawmaker Files Psychedelics Therapy And Decriminalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)
Will Psychedelics Become Commercialized Like Weed? (Westword)
Georgia Bill Would Create Psychedelic Study Committee To Recommend Reform Policies (Marijuana Moment)
HPPD and Flashbacks: Everything You Need To Know – And What We Don’t Know, Too (Psychedelics Today)
Drug companies are investing big in psychedelics, but can they engineer out the trip? (Chemical and Engineering News)
Psychedelics, the War on Drugs, and Violence in Latin America (Chacruna)
New Age of Psychedelics (Pharmaceutical Executive)
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