Cannabis
Maine Marijuana Sales Can Finally Begin, Officials Announce Four Years After Voters Legalized It (Marijuana Moment)
Cannabis Customers Can Now Buy Marijuana From Vending Machines In Colorado (CBS Denver)
South Dakota Could Pass Two Marijuana Ballot Measures In November (Marijuana Moment)
Mexican President Says Marijuana Legalization Will Advance Through Congress As Session Approaches (Marijuana Moment)
Study: After-Hours Marijuana Use Doesn’t Negatively Impact Job Performance (NORML)
Federal Court Denies DEA Request To Dismiss Marijuana Rescheduling Case (Marijuana Moment)
The Future Is Here: Weed Vending Machines Are Coming to Massachusetts (MERRY JANE)
Local Marijuana Bans In California Keep Illicit Market Alive And Block Revenue, Study Shows (Marijuana Moment)
Vermont: Bicameral Committee Meets in Effort to Finalize Marijuana Sales Measure (NORML)
Marijuana Activists Ask Supreme Court To Hear Their Case Against DEA (Marijuana Moment)
Trump Voices Concern That Putting Marijuana On The Ballot Makes Republicans Lose (Marijuana Moment)
Poll: Republicans Like Marijuana Legalization, Too (Even If It’s Kamala Harris’s Idea) (Forbes)
Parents of toddler with severe epilepsy seek legal review of cannabis oil guidelines (The Guardian)
DEA Proposes Hemp And CBD Rules To Comply With Crop’s Legalization (Marijuana Moment)
That Study Linking Prenatal Weed Use to Autism Has a Few Serious Flaws (MERRY JANE)
This Is Weighing Down Multi-State Cannabis Operator Profitability (New Cannabis Ventures)
AAA gives grants to police, non-profits to combat marijuana-impaired driving (WAND-TV)
The FDA Is Now Hiring People to Study Thousands Cannabis Products (MERRY JANE)
Drive to Free Black Woman With Marijuana Life Sentence Exposes “Habitual Criminal” Laws (Filter)
Texas Ban On Selling Smokeable Hemp Temporarily Lifted By Judge (Marijuana Moment)
County Will Let Marijuana Offenders Off the Hook If They Get a Card After Arrest (Phoenix New Times)
LSD
Director Oliver Stone admits lacing 'up-tight' dad's drink with LSD to loosen him up (Mirror)
Magic Mushrooms
The Mystical Experience is Critical for the Therapeutic Effects of Psilocybin (Psychedelic Science Review)
Why the DEA Went After a Small-Time Mushroom Dealer in Denver (Lucid News)
Mydecine™ Launches World’s First Natural-Sourced cGMP Psilocybin for Global Research, Sales, and Distribution Enterprise (Psilocybin Alpha)
Investigation launched after Home Office psilocybin rescheduling response (Health Europa)
Johns Hopkins Wants To Hear About Your Psychedelic Journeys For New ‘Real-World’ Study (Marijuana Moment)
How to Make Shroom Tea: The Ultimate Mushroom Tea Guide (DoubleBlind)
Magic Mushrooms, Memory and Resistance in the Sierra Mazateca (Chacruna)
MDMA
Can Taking MDMA with LSD Help Prevent a ‘Bad Trip’? New Clinical Trial Investigates (Psilocybin Alpha)
Psychedelics Group Raises $30 Million From Execs At GoDaddy, SpaceX And Others For MDMA Study (Marijuana Moment)
Buddhist University Partners with MAPS to Offer MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Training (Lucid News)
Police issue warning about Donald Trump-shaped ecstasy pills (The Guardian)
DMT
Reports of positive encounters with autonomous entities after taking DMT suggest drug may have therapeutic potential (PsyPost)
Ayahuasca
Remembering Dr. Jordi Riba, Ayahuasca Research Pioneer (1968–2020) (Chacruna)
Psychedelic brew ayahuasca produces therapeutic benefits lasting up to six months, study finds (PsyPost)
Russian Jailed for 11.5 Years Over Ayahuasca Bottle From Peru (The Moscow Times)
Tripping on Ayahuasca has always been fun, but now it might be good for you (GOOD)
Ketamine
Ketamine response biomarker may help tailor antidepressant treatments (Healio)
How Ketamine Infusions Helped Me (Pain News Network)
Miscellaneous
Plant Medicine Church in Oakland Gets Raided by Local Police Department (DoubleBlind)
Advocates Unveil Guide For Psychedelic Healing Ceremonies They Hope To Legalize In Oakland (Marijuana Moment)
This Dot-Com Guru is Asking Trump to Legalize Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)
After the pandemic, could psychedelic treatment help us heal? (Mic)
Psychedelics Could Help People with Addiction and Anxiety (CBS News)
Canada takes step to decriminalize drug possession amid opioid crisis (The Globe and Mail)
A plan to overhaul the UK’s unjust drugs policy is just around the corner (LabourList)
The Phoenix Effect: Reversing Mental Age With Psychedelics (qwerky science)
Field Trip Psychedelics Inc. Expands Stateside With Psychedelic-Enhanced Psychotherapy Clinic in New York City (Psilocybin Alpha)
Watch The First Ad For Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)
Breaking Down a Model Bill to Decriminalize All Drugs (Filter)
From pot to shrooms: What's next for decriminalization? (Toronto Sun)
This is Your Brain on Ego Death (Psychedelic Science Review)
Beckley Psytech Reveals Scientific Advisory Board Consisting of Renowned Psychedelic Experts (Psilocybin Alpha)
Inside the Work of a New York Psychedelic Trip Guide (Filter)
What Psychedelics Could Mean for Eating Disorders (Lucid News)
The Role of the Claustrum in the Psychedelic Experience (Psychedelic Science Review)
IntelGenx Enters into Feasibility Agreement with ATAI Life Sciences to Develop Pharmaceutical-Grade Polymeric Film-Based Psychedelics (Psilocybin Alpha)
Higher Profile: Madison Margolin, Co-Founder, DoubleBlind Magazine (High Times)
Spiritual Politics with Ismail Lourido Ali (Chacruna)
CFN Enterprises Inc. Adds Cybin Corp. to Growing Psychedelics Client Roster (Yahoo! Finance)
Nutritional High Completes Acquisition of Psychedelic Science Corp (Psilocybin Alpha)
Psychedelic drugs heighten perception, but do they foster creativity and inspire art? (MEAWW)
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