Cannabis
- Historic House Appropriations Committee Vote On Marijuana (NORML)
- YouTube's cannabis content purge "a huge loss of cultural history" (Straight Cannabis)
- U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer Says Cannabis May Be De-Regulated Nationwide Within Four Years (Willamette Week)
- Legalising cannabis ‘would save £900m’ (The Times)
- State Democrats plan to endorse marijuana legalization (New York Post)
- State Marijuana Laws Dodge Supreme Court Bullet (Marijuana Moment)
- Doctors Want More Information on Medical Cannabis, Study Finds (Leafly)
- Texas Health Department Considers Cracking Down on CBD (Reason)
- Many U.S. Oncologists Recommending Medical Marijuana (Hemp Gazette)
- 4 Must-Read Quotes on Marijuana From DEA Head Robert Patterson (The Motley Fool)
- California Cannabis Regulations May Make Weed Shippers Report Themselves to the Feds (WIRED)
- Drugs Minister banned from talking about pot — as hubby runs giant cannabis farm (The Sun)
- Canadian pot growers say marijuana byproduct a wasted opportunity for industry (ChatNewsToday)
- These Experts Say Weed Could Help Ease Your Endometriosis Pain (POPSUGAR)
- On marijuana and opioids — the DEA has no clue what it’s talking about (The Hill)
- Marijuana Users Don't Mind Being Labeled Stoners And Potheads (Forbes)
- The Legacy of Stop-and-Frisk in New York's Marijuana Arrests (The New York Times)
- Chittenden, Windsor set plans to erase marijuana convictions (VTDigger)
- Cannabis use up among parents with children in the home (Science Daily)
- Oregon Cannabis Growers Turning to Hemp as CBD Extract Booms (Leafly)
- Cannabis Advocates Defend Cynthia Nixon's 'Reparations' Comments (Forbes)
- Marijuana Could Be A $3.1B Business In New York, Report Finds (Patch)
- Cannabis Cup At Cal Expo Will Have Marijuana After City Council Vote (CBS Sacramento)
- We Can’t Avoid Menopause But Cannabis Makes It Easier (Leafly)
- Chart: Putting the $55 billion US retail cannabis market in perspective (Marijuana Business Daily)
- Cannabidiol significantly reduces seizures in patients with severe form of epilepsy (PsyPost)
- Weed legal states often have fewest drug problems (Rooster Magazine)
- Cannabis bills get mixed reception from Legislature (Colorado Springs Independent)
- Can Massachusetts become a leader in marijuana research? (MassLive)
- Arizona veterans hope federal bill clears path for cannabis research in the VA (Arizona's Family)
- Part 3, How to Start a Cannabis ‘Mother Plant’ (Leafly)
- Marijuana-Growing Nuns Documentary ‘Breaking Habits’ Sells to Cranked Up (Variety)
- California Today: A Start-Up Steps Up to Help Sweep Away Old Pot Convictions (The New York Times)
- Medlab kicks off cannabis spray trial for cancer patients at Royal North Shore hospital (Stockhead)
- Two District Attorneys May Stop Prosecuting Most Marijuana Offenses (The New York Times)
- Most Georgians want legal recreational cannabis, poll shows (Marijuana Business Daily)
- New Study Highlights The Social Impacts Of Cannabis Legalization In California (Forbes)
- Medical Cannabis Is So Expensive, This Mum Might 'End Up On The Street' (Ten Daily)
- What Do Cannabis Entrepreneurs Owe Victims of the Drug War? (Reason)
- Should Florida let patients smoke medical marijuana? A judge will now decide (Miami Herald)
- He lost his daughter, his future, all because of something that's now legal (Rooster Magazine)
- Big Opportunities In Europe's Cannabis Market Come With Big Risks (Forbes)
- Medical cannabis should be legalised, says Royal College of Nursing (The Telegraph)
- California cannot afford to wait on banking for cannabis businesses (The Sacramento Bee)
- Meet the New Faces of Cannabis—10 People Now Shaping Legal Weed in Oregon (Willamette Week)
- Bill Shorten Says Conservative Politicians Need To "Get Out Of The Way" Of Medical Cannabis Patients (BuzzFeed News)
- BDS Analytics, a Boulder-based cannabis data leader, lands $3.5 million investment (The Denver Post)
- RAND Study Says Cannabis Ads May Increase Underage Use (Leafly)
- How One Chocolatier Wants to Bring Luxury Cannabis to a Mall Near You (Eater)
- Nina Fern: "The Highly" Intellectual Cannabis Periodical (Forbes)
LSD
- Might LSD be good for you? (The Spectator)
- Silicon Valley's long obsession with LSD (Big Think)
- Take a hit of acid and call me in the morning (The Boston Globe)
- Webb: Indiana lawmakers to 'study' medical marijuana. They should look at LSD, too. (Evansville Courier and Press)
- LSD to make a comeback? (Swissinfo)
- Will LSD cure my Brexit obsession? (The Spectator)
Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms
- Denver And Oregon Now Want To Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms (The Fresh Toast)
MDMA/Ecstasy
- Brieing is the new cheese and MDMA drug craze middle class women are trying (Metro)
- The College Student’s Guide To MDMA, Aka Molly (Study Breaks)
- Dutch researchers find ecstasy and cocaine are getting stronger (Mixmag)
- MDMA Opens Door for PTSD Patients to Work Through Trauma (UConn Today)
- DanceSafe Warns Against Super-Strong UPS Shaped Ecstasy Pills (Your EDM)
Ayahuasca/DMT
- What It's Like to Take Ayahuasca at a Psychedelic Healing Retreat (VICE)
Salvia Divinorum
- Salvia and Sage: Nature’s Elixir of Health (The Sun-Gazette)
Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals
- 'Spice epidemic in jails risk to nurses' (BBC)
Dissociatives
- Intranasal Ketamine Succeeds for Resistant Depression in Phase 3 Trial (Medscape)
- Specific Features in Mood Disorders May Affect Outcome of Ketamine Treatment (MD Magazine)
- Lily Allen kicked out of awards after accidental ketamine trip (Daily Star)
Opiates/Opioids
- This ‘cure’ only makes the opioid crisis worse (New York Post)
- The Challenge of Ensuring Accessibility to Naloxone for Those Who Need It Most (The American Journal of Managed Care)
- Opioid Death Rates Are Not Correlated With Prescription Rates Across States (Reason)
- Would Naloxone Training Save Lives? (TechnoStalls)
- The County’s Sitting on Thousands of Doses of Naloxone (Voice of San Diego)
- FDA Head Acknowledges Suffering Caused by Opioid Crackdown (Reason)
- Naloxone Reverses Deadly Overdoses, But Then What? (North Carolina Health News)
- Nevada Records Show 'Opioid-Related' Deaths Usually Involve Illicit Drugs or Mixtures (Reason)
Kratom
- Kratom Legalization! Explore What New Research States About It (Kratom Guides)
- Why Is Kratom So Much Controversial? (Kratom Guides)
- Lawmakers urge Louisiana Department of Health to study kratom: why? (Best of New Orleans)
- Kratom: A dangerous opioid or natural panacea? (WTVD)
- Drug expert says ‘kratom’ substance seized from two Edmonton stores helped wean him off opioids (The Star)
Kava
- Kava Is the Alternative High You Need to Know About (The Manual)
- Vanuatu confident of meeting kava target (Radio New Zealand)
Khat
- Why Ethiopian farmers choose Khat over coffee (Reuters)
Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy
- Michael Pollan: ‘I was a very reluctant psychonaut’ (The Guardian)
- Global Study Finds Tobacco, Alcohol More Harmful Than Illicit Drugs (High Times)
- The struggle to turn psychedelics into life-changing treatments (WIRED)
- Can Psychedelic Drugs Be Medically Useful? (The Wall Street Journal)
- The case for legalising drugs is overwhelming – so why won't governments listen? (The Telegraph)
- Britain's first ever city centre recreational drug testing facility opens in Bristol (ITV News)
- Michael Pollan Opens Up About His Powerful Psilocybin Trip on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show (Psychedelic Frontier)
- Drug Use by State: 2018’s Problem Areas (WalletHub)
- Introduction to Cognitive Enhancement, Microdosing, and Nootropics (Psychedelic Times)
- Carl Jung on Why You Should Be Wary of Psychedelics (Psychedelic Frontier)
- How Often Should Psychedelics Be Done? (Psychedelic Heaven)
- Completed suicide among methamphetamine users: A national study (Drug and Alcohol Research Connections)
- My Adventures With the Trip Doctors (The New York Times)
- How to meditate on psychedelics with Vincent Horn of Meditate.io (Psymposia)
- Northern Ireland drug offences rise by 20% (BBC)
- After the Ceremony Ends: An Interview with Dr. Katherine Coder Pt. 1 (Psychedelic Times)
- Review shows lack of evidence supporting use of antidepressants for insomnia (Medical Xpress)
- Breaking Free From Prohibition: A Human Rights Approach to Successful Drug Reform (Julian Buchanan)
- Movement to Legalize Drug Use Gains in a Former Soviet Republic (The New York Times)
- Oliver North Worked With Cocaine Traffickers to Arm Terrorists. Now He'll Be President of the NRA. (The Intercept)
- Is the ‘war on drugs’ preventing a second revolution in mental health treatment? (WikiTribune)
- After decades of dormancy, psychedelic research makes a comeback (The Globe and Mail)
- With governments asleep, a music festival is leading the world on drug policy (The Canary)
- Thanks to Psychedelic Drugs, "Treatment-resistant" Depression is No Longer a Thing (Andrew Joseph)
- Take it from someone who spent years taking heroin and crack: addiction isn't a physiological problem. It's a mental health one (The Independent)
- When will politicians quit the war on drugs? (UnHerd)
- Walking Backwards, or, The Magical Art of Psychedelic Psychogeography by Greg Humphries & Julian Vayne (Psychedelic Press UK)
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