Cannabis
New Mexico Legalizes Adult-Use Cannabis (Forbes)
69 Percent Of Americans Now Support Legalizing Marijuana—An All-Time High, Quinnipiac Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Marijuana legalization has won (Vox)
Four More States Could Still Legalize Marijuana This Year After New Mexico, New York And Virginia (Marijuana Moment)
Nevada Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Bill To Allow On-Site Consumption Lounges (Marijuana Moment)
Alabama Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill That Already Passed The Senate Heads To House Floor (Marijuana Moment)
Women Paved the Way for Mexico’s Cannabis Legalization Movement, and Here’s How They Did It (MERRY JANE)
Limited Tennessee Medical Marijuana Bill Heads To Senate Floor (Marijuana Moment)
Sixth Minnesota House Committee Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill On Its Path To The Floor (Marijuana Moment)
Texas Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Decriminalization Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)
With Virginia moving forward, state Democratic leaders want NC to be next to legalize marijuana (Fox 8)
Magic Mushrooms
Psilocybin Therapy May Work as Well as Common Antidepressant (Scientific American)
Denver pursues further decriminalization of magic mushrooms (Axios)
Psychedelic Experience May Not Be Required For Psilocybin’s Antidepressant-Like Benefits (Neuroscience News)
Psilocybin Mushrooms Greatly Enhance Creative Thinking, New Clinical Study Confirms (MERRY JANE)
Silo Wellness Announces Intellectual Property Licensing Agreement of Psilocybin Nasal Spray in Colombia and Brasil (Psilocybin Alpha)
Wood Lover’s Paralysis: Psilocybin’s Rare Sickness (Truffle Report)
5-MeO-DMT
The Story Behind a 1984 Hallucinogenic Pamphlet From Denton Is Just as Trippy as Its Subject (Dallas Observer)
Mescaline
Keepers of the Matrix: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Sacred Cacti (DoubleBlind)
Peyote
Peyote Conservation Group Asks to Include Cultivation in California Decrim Bill (Truffle Report)
Synthetic Cannabinoids
Why Synthetic Cannabinoids Can Be a Good Thing (Green Entrepreneur)
Miscellaneous
Psychedelics In Groups? First Study Of Its Kind Shows Potential For Collective Settings (Forbes)
California Bill To Legalize Possession Of Psychedelics Clears Second Senate Committee (Marijuana Moment)
Drug-testing to be made permanent at music festivals (Newshub)
Oregon Legislature Adds Changes to Drug Decriminalization Law (Truffle Report)
COVID-19 and Psychedelic Group Work: It’s Still Too Soon (Psychedelics Today)
Washington State’s Drug Policies: Weighing Methods to Decriminalize Possession (Truffle Report)
Plant Medicine Coalition Launches Grants For Community Healing Hubs in D.C. (Truffle Report)
Ex Gov. Perry Backs Texas Psychedelics Study Bill (Truffle Report)
UCSF Launches Translational Psychedelic Research (TrPR) Program (Lucid News)
YouTube Loosens Restrictions, Expands Monetization for Drug Content (Truffle Report)
Fireside Project: The 21st Century’s First Psychedelic Peer Support Hotline (Lucid News)
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