Cannabis
Gallup Poll Finds Almost Half Of US Adults Have Tried Marijuana (High Times)
Meet THC-O, a hemp-derived compound three times stronger than THC (Leafly)
Study Shows Cancer Patients Consume Less Cannabis Than General Public (High Times)
Ohio Activists Submit Revised Marijuana Legalization Petition For 2022 Ballot After State Rejected Earlier Version (Marijuana Moment)
Consumption Lounges on the Horizon for Nevada (High Times)
NBA Star Kevin Durant Teams Up With Weedmaps To Destigmatize Marijuana In Sports (Marijuana Moment)
LSD
Exploring the Role of Serotonin 2A Activation in LSD’s Effects on Empathy (Psychedelic Science Review)
Magic Mushrooms
Diamond Therapeutics Announces Health Canada Approval of Clinical Trial with Low-Dose Psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)
DMT
Biomind Labs to Advance a Phase II Clinical Trial on DMT for Treatment-Resistant Depression (Business Wire)
Ayahuasca
The Sustainability of Ayahuasca (Reality Sandwich)
Ayahuasca and Femininity (Reality Sandwich)
Can Ayahuasca Alter Personality? (Reality Sandwich)
5-MeO-DMT
Psychedelic toad venom could soon be a clinical treatment for depression (Sifted)
Salvia Divinorum
Developing a Novel Psychedelic: Salvinorin A (Psychiatric Times)
Synthetic Cannabinoids
Belfast: Youths Hospitalised After Unknowingly Vaping Spice Instead of CBD (Vaping Post)
Ketamine
A New Ketamine Test Kit is Now Available (DanceSafe)
What Happens If Ketamine Treatment Doesn’t Work? (Healing Maps)
The Pros And Cons Of Ketamine For Anxiety: Here’s What We Know (Healing Maps)
PCP
How PCP Became A Weapon of Police Propaganda [Part 2] (Psychedelics Today)
Miscellaneous
Mixing Psychedelics and SSRIs Is Generally Safe, with Significant Exceptions (Lucid News)
At-Home Genetic Testing Can’t Tell You If You’re Going to Have a Bad Trip (VICE)
California Bill To Legalize Possession Of Psychedelics Clears Another Hurdle But Faces Key Challenge Next Week (Marijuana Moment)
Rat poison is just one of the potentially dangerous substances likely to be mixed into illicit drugs (The Conversation)
Denver Launches the Nation’s First Psychedelic Harm Reduction Training for First Responders (Lucid News)
Ann Arbor City Council Declares Psychedelics Awareness Month For September (Marijuana Moment)
Tech Startup Tripp To Use Virtual Reality To Improve Psychedelic Therapy (Forbes)
Beckley Psytech completes oversubscribed $80m (£58m) fundraise to develop portfolio of psychedelic medicine breakthroughs (Beckley Psytech)
Chacruna Launches Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative (Truffle Report)
Psychedelics Can Help Mitigate Symptoms Of Racial Trauma For People Of Color, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Media Company DoubleBlind Is The Master Class Of Psychedelics (Forbes)
Israeli team aims to treat neurological disorders with psychedelics (The Jerusalem Post)
Washington Governor Unveils New Process To Commute Hundreds Of Drug Possession Sentences (Marijuana Moment)
9 Celebrities on Their Life-Changing Psychedelic Experiences (DoubleBlind)
Whole-Body Effects of Psychedelics Part 2 – Blood and Immune System (Psychedelic Science Review)
DEA Seizes Life Savings of New Orleans Grandfather Without Charging Him With a Crime (Reason)
Can Harm Reduction Reform the Drug Courts? (Filter)
Kathleen Harrison: Wisdom, Endurance, and Hope – Reflections from a Psychedelic Woman (Chacruna)
Moving Deckchairs On The Titanic: Drug Policy Reform in the UK (TalkingDrugs)
Post-Traumatic Growth With Psychedelics (Truffle Report)
Psychedelics, Out Of Body Experiences, and Lucid Dreaming (Reality Sandwich)
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