Cannabis
- Marijuana Compound Removes Toxic Alzheimer's Protein From The Brain (Science Alert)
- Forget protein shakes. The newest workout supplement? Marijuana. (The Boston Globe)
- Research Finds That Cannabis Used To Grow Wild In Ancient Europe (Herb)
- Craft brewers walk regulatory tightrope with cannabis-related products (MiBiz)
- Utah: Medical Access Initiative Certified For 2018 Ballot (NORML)
- Use of Toxic Pesticides Increased in California’s Illegal Weed Farms (High Times)
- Cannabis: the new tobacco? (CBC)
- Florida: Court Strikes Down Legislative Ban On Medical Cannabis Smoking (NORML)
- Oklahoma: Polling Shows Strong Voter Support For Upcoming Medical Marijuana Vote (NORML)
- World’s First Cannabis Bank Advances in California (Leafly)
- Bad Vibes? Heavy Marijuana Users Hold On to Negative Feelings (Live Science)
- Greece Prepares for First Government-Backed Medical Marijuana Expo (High Times)
- Senators Approve Funds For Feds To Restore Cannabis Genetics (Forbes)
- Epileptic HS football player ineligible for college play because of cannabis oil use (FOX4KC)
- Longtime Cannabis Activist Marc Emery Fined $5,000 For Drug Trafficking (High Times)
- Georgia Kidnapped This Boy Because His Parents Used Marijuana to Stop His Seizures (Reason)
- Cannabis Entrepreneurs Specialize Way Beyond Buds And Brownies (Forbes)
- Nick Etten: Rescue the returned: Medical cannabis could save veterans’ lives (The Spokesman-Review)
- Cannabis-based autism treatments front and center at suburban conference (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Wine may battle cannabis for key consumers with legalization (North Day Business Journal)
- Smoking Not Your Style? Try a Cannabis Cocktail. (Reason)
- Does cannabis kill brain cells? (Mashable)
- American Cannabis Stocks Offer Compelling Relative Value (Forbes)
- Reason's Classic Pot Brownies (Reason)
- Cannabis Tax Relief, Workers' Rights Bills Fail in Sacramento (East Bay Express)
- This Is Not a Pot Pipe (Reason)
- Enforcement grapples with new cannabis environment (The Ledger)
LSD
- Security Troops At Wyoming Nuclear Missile Base Used And Distributed LSD – OpEd (Eurasia Review)
- Does Microdosing LSD Really Improve Cognition? (71Republic)
Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms
- Fifteen years of crime reporting left me with PTSD. Magic mushrooms helped me begin to recover (The Independent)
- Mushrooms Aren't Magic (Reason)
- 'Magic' mushrooms: The next great legalization debate (The Sacramento Bee)
MDMA/Ecstasy
- We went undercover in a Chinese MDMA factory (Mixmag)
- Study: Party Drug ‘Molly’ Often Not Really Pure MDMA; Pill-Testing At Concerts Could Curb Use (Study Finds)
- Dad who lost two sons to MDMA overdoses on same night calls for drugs to be legalised after Mutiny festival deaths (The Sun)
- Tragic young dad and teenage girl may have taken ‘Green Heineken ecstasy pills’ before festival drug deaths (The Sun)
Ayahuasca/DMT
- The Muká Diet of the Yawanawá Indigenous People in Acre, Brazil (Chacruna)
Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals
- The Truth About Research Chemicals (Psychedelic Heaven)
- What's in the ‘Bath Salts’? — Chromatography Explores (Chromatography Today)
Dissociatives
- A ‘breakthrough’ depression drug inspired by ketamine is attracting more attention from big pharma (Business Insider)
Opiates/Opioids
- Mexico detains wife of drug baron blamed for U.S. heroin scourge (Reuters)
- Taliban commander orders closure of opium labs in towns and cities (The Guardian)
- Naloxone and the High Price of Doing Nothing (The Fix)
- Tons of Poppies Destroyed in California’s Biggest Opium Bust (FOX40)
- AMA Castigated for Rightly Opposing a National 3-Day Limit on Opioid Prescriptions (Reason)
- One-Third of New Heroin Users Become Dependent on It (Live Science)
Kratom
- DEA 'waiting for analysis': Kratom may soon be banned (KIRO)
- Source of Kratom Contaminated With Salmonella Is Unknown, CDC Warns (Inverse)
- Which Brands Linked With Nationwide Kratom Salmonella Outbreak? (Kratom Guides)
- Could Kratom Solve the Opioid Epidemic? (San Diego Entertainer Magazine)
- Is Kratom Legal In Georgia 2018 (Kratom Guides)
- Confusion persists over Kratom law in Tennessee (WSMV)
Khat
- Authorities arrest three suspects for smuggling Khat leaves (ANTARA News)
Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy
- The Psychedelic Renaissance: Trip Reports from Timothy Leary, Michael Pollan, and Tao Lin (The New Yorker)
- Trips Worth Telling (Medium)
- Asia's newest drug war leaves more than 90 people dead in less than two weeks (Los Angeles Times)
- You're Not a Drug Dealer? Here's Why the Police Might Disagree (The New York Times)
- Ending America's War on Drugs Would Finally Unleash the Therapeutic Potential of Psychadelics (TIME)
- Navigating Your Way Through the Psychedelic Field: How to Get Involved (Psychedelics Today)
- LAPSS Into Higher Consciousness: Interview with Brad Adams, Ph.D. (Psychedelic Times)
- Prohibition, the Constitution, and the Path to Legalization (Andrew Joseph)
- Bangladesh's Deadly Narcotics Crackdown Sparks Fears of a Philippines-Style Drug War (TIME)
- Hidden Horrors of "Zero Tolerance" – Mass Trials and Children Taken From Their Parents (The Intercept)
- Psychedelics And Cluster Headaches (Psychedelic Heaven)
- An Overdose Is Not a Murder (Reason)
- Microdosing - All You Need to Know About This Dangerous Fad (The Quint)
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