Cannabis
- Canada becomes second country to legalise cannabis use (The Guardian)
- Portugal's parliament legalizes cannabis-based medicines (Reuters)
- Oklahoma voted to legalize medical marijuana (Vox)
- Marijuana legalization is having its best year ever (Vox)
- Poll: Record Percentage Of Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana (NORML)
- Texas Republican Party Endorses Marijuana Decriminalization (Forbes)
- Home Office looks at allowing cannabis oil for boy with epilepsy (The Guardian)
- Senate Democratic Leader Introduces Far-Reaching Marijuana Descheduling Bill (NORML)
- New York: State-Commissioned Report Will Recommend Legalizing Marijuana (NORML)
- What Might Medical Cannabis Mean for our Children? (Beckley Foundation)
- Why Are Cannabis Industry Leaders Donating to Anti-Immigration Candidates? (Cannabis Wire)
- Full marijuana legalization up for a vote today in Delaware House (Delaware Online)
- New York State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker to Allow Patients who are Prescribed Opioids to Access the State's Medical Marijuana Program (Drug Policy Alliance)
- Why a Top Conservative Politician Is Calling for Marijuana to Be Legalized in the U.K. (TIME)
- Counting Canada, More Than 100 Million People Live in Places Where Pot Is Legal (Reason)
- Alexander discusses DOH's plans to legalize recreational marijuana (Spectrum News)
- NYPD Will Start Using Summonses, Not Arrests, for Marijuana (The New York Times)
- Legislation To Protect Legal Consumption In Federal Housing Introduced (NORML)
- Massachusetts crafts 'social equity' program to help minorities and drug offenders enter marijuana industry (MassLive)
- Senators Vote To Block Marijuana Banking Amendment (Forbes)
- Pot pros to budtenders: stop telling pregnant ladies to smoke cannabis (Rooster)
- PAX’s ‘Session Control’ helps you control your vape high (Engadget)
- NORML Releases Comprehensive Report Summarizing Local Decriminalization Laws (NORML)
- Sister-in-law of Home Office Minister who banned cannabis oil confesses: I have used it too, so make it legal (Daily Mail)
- Will Marijuana Be Legal in the U.S. Anytime Soon? Canada Law Revives Talk of Weed Legalization Nationwide (Newsweek)
- Denver Contradicts Itself by Targeting Previously Tolerated Cannabis Tour Buses (Reason)
- What is cannabis oil and how does it work? (The Guardian)
- Will Doug Ford change how Ontarians buy legal marijuana? (CityNews Toronto)
- Can cannabis oil really treat epilepsy and what would impact of medicinal reclassification be? (The Independent)
- This New Data Reveals the Scale of the UK's Cannabis Industry (VICE)
- Review needed on medicinal cannabis cases, says May (BBC)
- Cannabis 101: Where Entrepreneurs, Lawyers and Caregivers Go To Learn (Forbes)
- Higher Standards Pop-up Offers Next-Level Cannabis Accessories (Hollywood Reporter)
- Marine veteran gets first look at cannabis products (The Gainesville Sun)
LSD
- Meet the Canadian “Psychedelic Revolutionaries” Who Pioneered LSD Research (MERRY JANE)
- When Timothy Leary Got Artists to Take LSD (Artsy)
- Considering Microdosing LSD for Treatment-Resistant Depression? Read This First (Third Age)
- Johnny Depp Admits He Gets Lines Fed to Him on Set, Believes LSD Would’ve Helped Find Osama bin Laden Faster (Indie Wire)
Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms
- Psilocybin Mushrooms vs. LSD for Mental Health Issues (Psychedelic Heaven)
MDMA/Ecstasy
- Study: Ecstasy could be far less dangerous than past research suggests (Big Think)
- MDMA Being Used in New Trials to Help Beat Alcoholism (Your EDM)
- FDA Moves Closer to Approving Ecstasy (The Beacon)
- Ecstasy-assisted psychotherapy is bringing peace to people with PTSD (Yahoo! News)
- Patrick Coakley died after taking fatal MDMA overdose (Kent Online)
- Student who supplied killer ecstasy to friend says he should not be blamed as taking drugs is university 'culture' (The Telegraph)
Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT
- New Study: Ayahuasca Tea Rapidly Helps Patients Overcome Severe Depression (Kahpi)
- Enhancing Your Ayahuasca Experience: Harnessing the Power of Intention and Belief (Kahpi)
Iboga/Ibogaine
- Gabon's sacred plant 'Iboga' under threat of extinction (Africanews)
Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals
- Cartoon Dystopia: 25I-NBOMe and Why You Should Test Your LSD (Psymposia)
Dissociatives
- Minneapolis police asked medical workers to use ketamine on suspects (The Seattle Times)
- First Ketamine Guidelines for Pain Released (WebMD)
- Ketamine a safer option for agitated patients and providers (EMS1.com)
- Can Ketamine Cure Depression? (Psychedelic Heaven)
- PD: Man on PCP did pushups in the middle of the road (CT Post)
Opiates/Opioids
- Facebook redirects would-be opioid buyers to crisis helpline (Engadget)
- How legal drug companies helped revive the heroin trade (The Washington Post)
- Afghanistan is producing more opium than ever before (We Are The Mighty)
- Researchers May Have Underestimated the Number of Opioid Overdose Deaths (TIME)
- Many Doctors Give Morphine to Babies Born With Opioid Addiction. A New Study Suggests There's a Better Way (TIME)
- Opiate addiction and the history of pain and race in the US (The Conversation)
- Purdue Pharma, company behind Oxycontin, just laid off its entire sales team (VICE News)
- Heroin use in Pacific Northwest linked to incurable kidney disease (UW Medicine Newsroom)
Kratom
- The House Just Passed a Bill That Could Make Kratom Illegal (Inverse)
- What Is It Like To Be High On Kratom And What It Feels Like? (Kratom Guides)
- 3 Best Kratom Strains You Should Try If You Suffer From Anxiety (Kratom Guides)
- How Much Does An Ounce Of Kratom Cost? (Kratom Guides)
Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy
- New law gives critically ill people 'Right to Try' psychedelics (Rooster)
- The DEA Is Worried Sick About Touching Contaminated Drug Money (The Daily Beast)
- Alleged Silk Road Mentor Indicted, Extradited to United States (Reason)
- Can People Who Had a Drug Addiction Ever Drink Alcohol? (Tonic)
- New Study Shows Drug War Sends Users to Dark Web (Reason)
- We need to offer safety drugs testing to users across society, not just at festivals and nightclubs (Metro)
- Psychedelics Are Promising, But Many Psychiatrists Don't Want to Use Them (Tonic)
- Congress Wants To Give Jeff Sessions Unprecedented New Drug War Powers (Reason)
- Staten Island Law Enforcement Won’t Stop Fighting the War on Drugs (The Village Voice)
- Psychedelic Drugs Promote Neural Plasticity (Worldhealth.net)
- While we discuss cannabis oil, we should remember that the government is blocking life-saving research into MDMA and magic mushrooms (The Independent)
- Would psychedelics really lead to democratic transformation? (Open Democracy)
- Mental health of a self-selected sample of psychedelic users and self-medication practices with psychedelics (ResearchGate)
- Psychedelics and Male-Perpetrated Violence (The Third Wave)
- Transformational Festivals and the New Psychedelic Revolution: A Conversation with James Oroc (Psychedelic Times)
- A mind-bending psychedelic art temple is coming to Upstate New York (Time Out)
- The Underground World of Psychedelics and the Potential of Plant Medicine (NYU News)
- Psychonautics: A Comic’s Exploration Of Psychedelics (Film Threat)
- The Power and Promise of Psychedelics: Michael Pollan Show Us How to Change Our Minds (AlterNet)
- Drug Checking in Latin America: the Countries Leading the Way (Talking Drugs)
- How underground groups use psychedelic drugs for healing (Futurity)
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