CANNABIS
Illinois just legalized marijuana (Vox)
Oregon Is Now the First State That Can Export Weed (MERRY JANE)
Oregon: Governor Signs Marijuana Expungement Measure Into Law (NORML)
House Resoundingly Approves Broad Marijuana Federalism (Reason)
Hungry at the Pot Shop? Anchorage Just Legalized Edibles Consumption in Dispensaries (MERRY JANE)
Hawaii: Governor to Let Marijuana Decriminalization Become Law (NORML)
Access to cannabis for medical reasons is now allowed in Ireland under new law (TheJournal.ie)
New Mexico: New Marijuana Decriminalization Law Goes Into Effect Next Week (NORML)
N.Y. Lawmakers Pass Bill to Decriminalize Marijuana and Expunge 900,000 Arrests (TIME)
Where Presidential Candidate Joe Sestak Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)
Cannabis Ingredient CBD Could One Day Become an Antibiotic (Newsweek)
MAGIC MUSHROOMS
Hallucinogenic Fungi Turn Cicadas Into Sex-Crazed Zombies (VICE)
Canadians Can Now Order Shrooms From This Dispensary (VICE)
Zero Psilocybin Arrests in Denver First Month After Decriminalization (Westword)
MDMA
Inside the multi-million dollar drug labs where your MDMA is made (SBS)
Australians who use drugs like ecstasy are killing fish... in Holland (SBS)
Preston teenager dies after taking MDMA and cannabis (BBC)
DMT
A Natural Source of DMT Has Been Discovered in Mammal Brains (Inverse)
AYAHUASCA
A Tribute to the Mother of Ayahuasca Research, Marlene Dobkin de Rios (1939-2012) (Kahpi)
IBOGA
The Iboga Plant (The Third Wave)
NITROUS OXIDE
Rotterdam to ban laughing gas at festivals, mayor says (DutchNews.nl)
KETAMINE
Intranasal Ketamine for the Relief of Cluster Headache (Practical Pain Management)
Ketamine Infusion Improves Abstinence in Cocaine-Dependent Patients (MD Magazine)
Ketamine and dexmedetomidine combo requires close watch in surgical patients (Medical Dialogues)
VA Imposes Strict Limits on Controversial Ketamine-Based Depression Treatment (Military.com)
Lamar Odom Discusses How Ketamine Saved His Mental Health (The Fix)
Ketamine Against Depression: Does the New Drug Work? (Interesting Engineering)
PCP
Hartford Man Set House On Fire After Confrontation About PCP Use (Patch)
OPIOIDS
Naloxone coprescription laws may lead to more than 7-fold increase in dispensing (Healio)
How judges added to the grim toll of opioids (Reuters)
Get "Dosed": New Doc Explores Psychedelics as an Antidote to the Opioid Crisis (MERRY JANE)
Mexico is world’s No. 2 opium producer with 5.6% of production: UN (Mexico News Daily)
New Jersey’s naloxone giveaway distributes 32,000 doses of opioid-reversing drug (WHYY)
The Opioid Crisis: How the candidates would solve it (Big Think)
They Mentioned 'Narcan' on HBO's Euphoria—What Is That? (Men's Health)
In the midst of opioid crisis, Harrisburg dismisses evidence on treatment (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
COCAINE
ONDCP Reports Cocaine Production in Colombia is Leveling Off (The White House)
Kerry Katona admits ‘cocaine was my best friend’ at lowest point (The Sun)
CAFFEINE
Coffee can help you lose weight, study finds (The Independent)
TOBACCO
San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass a Ban on E-Cigarettes (TIME)
Half of tobacco and vape shops don’t ID teens, undercover research finds (Fox 8)
Scientists engineer low-nicotine tobacco to help combat nicotine addiction (Earth.com)
Six months in, Philly assesses its smoking ban in inpatient rehabs (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Low rates of recommended treatment for tobacco dependence in patients hospitalized with SUDs (News-Medical.Net)
Banning e-cigarettes, not tobacco products, is 'ludicrous,' some public health experts say (NBC News)
Bryon follows other southern MN locations by raising tobacco age to 21 (KIMT)
ALCOHOL
Alcohol is third leading preventable cause of death in US (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
Alcohol ranked most harmful drug in Australia, says report (SBS)
Breaking The Booze Habit, Even Briefly, Has Its Benefits (NPR)
Sam’s Club launches alcohol delivery through Instacart (TechCrunch)
Alcohol-Free Bars Caught on in the U.S. and U.K. But Can They Go Global? (Yahoo! Finance)
KAMBÔ
The Kambo Ceremony (The Third Wave)
KRATOM
FDA issues warnings to companies selling kratom products for opioid addiction (NBC News)
MISCELLANEOUS
How Previous Drug Use Can Stop You Getting Into America (VICE)
Illegal drug classifications are based on politics not science – report (The Guardian)
Dzulkefly: Govt to decriminalise drug possession for personal use (The Star)
Psychedelics research at Imperial College enters a new phase (Felix)
Drug dogs set to be used in schools and colleges (Daily Echo)
Campaigners accuse Tory politicians of drugs hypocrisy (The Guardian)
Attempts to Build a Safe Injection Site for San Francisco Drug Users Pushed to 2020 (Reason)
If Everyone Tripped on Psychedelics, We’d Do More About Climate Change (VICE)
What can we learn from studying psychedelics in special populations? (Chacruna)
The science of roadside drug testing (stuff.co.nz)
Dopey: ‘We needed somewhere to tell wild drug stories’ (BBC)
Why is psychedelic culture dominated by privileged white men? (Aeon)
What it’s like to test drugs for a living: inside the specialist unit that’s especially busy during festival season (inews.co.uk)
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On the Monday following each edition of “This Week in Psychoactives,” I post a “Last Week in Psychoactives” video recap to my YouTube channel. After that is done, I retroactively add the video to the corresponding blog post. Here is this week’s video recap: