CANNABIS
DEA Says It Will Finally Let Others Grow Research-Grade Cannabis (Leafly)
Mexican Marijuana Cartels Are Spraying a Lethal Pesticide Throughout California (MERRY JANE)
Crime Rates Drop After Marijuana Dispensaries Open Nearby, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Weed May Put Women at Risk of Miscarriage, But Enhances Male Fertility (MERRY JANE)
Marijuana Enhances Sex And Masturbation, Survey Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Chicago to Clear Thousands of Cannabis Arrests During Legalization (Leafly)
Washington State Bans CBD in Food and Beverages (Leafly)
Americans View Marijuana As Far Less Harmful Than Alcohol And Tobacco, Survey Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Global cannabis use grows 60% in a decade (Cannabis Ground)
Green light: ten towns named for legalised cannabis-growing experiment (DutchNews.nl)
Chocolate Complicates Marijuana Edibles Potency Testing, Scientists Find (Marijuana Moment)
Researchers Unlock What Gives Cannabis Its Anti-Inflammatory Qualities (Yahoo! Finance)
Medical cannabis at school? California Assembly OKs bill that would let students take prescription weed (Palm Springs Desert Sun)
CBD Companies Positioning Themselves For Cannabis Legalization (Forbes)
Weed-Infused Beer Is Coming to California BevMo! Stores This Fall (MERRY JANE)
Company creates breath detector for pot and alcohol (WPVI-TV)
Disneyland Busted Robert Downey Jr. For Smoking Marijuana, He Reveals While Accepting Disney Award (Marijuana Moment)
NJ Governor Vetoes Cannabis Expungement, Calls for Stronger Bill (Leafly)
Where Presidential Candidate Joe Walsh Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)
LSD
The Detail: Modern-day LSD users inspiring a new wave of science (Stuff.co.nz)
MAGIC MUSHROOMS
World-first trial investigating psilocybin psychotherapy for anorexia commencing in US (New Atlas)
Harry Styles once got so high on magic mushrooms he bit part of his tongue off (Mirror)
Do Canadians have a constitutional right to magic mushrooms? (Quartz)
The Fight to Make Shroom Therapy Legal in Oregon (VICE)
MDMA
MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy May Help Patients With Severe PTSD, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Socially Anxious People Are Taking MDMA and Other Psychedelics to Cope (VICE)
Here are Some of the Toxic Chemicals Being Found in Australian Ecstasy (VICE)
Four Deaths At Music Events In The UK This Weekend Spark Warning Over Super Strength Ecstasy (Your EDM)
Teenager dies after suspected ecstasy overdose at nightclub (Metro)
DMT
DMT’s Mind-Bending Science—An Interview with Dr Jimo Borjigin (Kahpi)
DMT: Dead Man's Treasure (DMT Times)
AYAHUASCA
Despite rising popularity, ayahuasca supplies not imperiled as yet, expert finds (NutraIngredients-usa.com)
Is Ayahuasca a “Drug”? (Chacruna)
5-MEO-DMT
Just One Puff Of Psychedelic Toad Slime Could Have Sustained Benefits For Well-Being (IFLScience)
Watch Tony Robbins and Mike Tyson Share 5-MeO-DMT and Ayahuasca Stories (Psychedelic Times)
IBOGA
Ibogaine Treatment And Its Effectiveness In Fighting Opiate Addiction (Longevity)
KETAMINE
Trump Orders ‘a Lot’ of Ketamine for Depressed Veterans (The Atlantic)
PCP
Uber driver, passenger killed by man high on PCP in Prince George's County, police say (WUSA9.com)
DXM
Cough Medicine A Cheap, Easy Drug Teens can use Instead of LSD (Patch)
OPIOIDS
Johnson & Johnson must pay over $572 million for its role in Oklahoma opioid crisis, judge rules (NBC News)
Naloxone to be available at Washington state pharmacies (KIRO)
You can now get naloxone online in Virginia — but it’ll cost you (The Virginian-Pilot)
Middle school students in North Korea mobilized to harvest opium resin (Daily NK)
COCAINE
Lupe Fiasco Wants You to Know the Medical Benefits of Cocaine (XXL Mag)
METHAMPHETAMINE
US Customs mistakes honey for meth, man spends 82 days in jail (KCRG)
CAFFEINE
Now You Can Get The Same Health Benefits From Coffee You Used To Get From Red Wine (Forbes)
Caffeine does not influence stingless bees (Phys.org)
TOBACCO
Vermonters must be 21 to buy tobacco, starting September 1 (Burlington Free Press)
Arkansas increases legal age to buy tobacco products (WREG)
Juul Commits $100 Million to New System to Help Retailers Block Sales to Minors (TIME)
Wisconsin bill would set age at 21 to buy tobacco, nicotine (Wisconsin State Journal)
ALCOHOL
Changing treatment practices for alcohol use disorder could save lives (Medical Xpress)
Alcohol really is no excuse for bad behaviour – research reveals you’re still the same person after a drink (The Conversation)
KRATOM
Kratom is linked with numerous deaths. But it won’t be easy for Pennsylvania to ban it. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Why Kratom Is Becoming Performance Tool For Athletes (Kratom Guides)
KHAT
In Ethiopia, a rehab centre takes on khat addiction (Medical Xpress)
DATURA
Hyderabad: Family searched on Internet, found datura to kill dad (Deccan Chronicle)
MISCELLANEOUS
CDC identifies a death potentially linked to vaping (Engadget)
Why Psychedelics Look like the Next Billion-Dollar Business (Stockhouse)
Psychedelic Treatments Are Ready to Tackle Alcoholism and Alzheimer's Disease (Folha de S.Paulo)
Buttigieg Pledges To Decriminalize Possession Of All Drugs In First Term As President (Marijuana Moment)
The Normalizing of Burning Man Culture (Forbes)
Do Plants Have Something to Say? (The New York Times)
Houston Narcotics Cop Who Instigated a Deadly Drug Raid Is Charged With Murder (Reason)
Magic mushrooms for better health? Psychedelic drugs are having a moment across US (Medical Xpress)
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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, which actually covers the past four weeks’ worth of news since I was away on vacation for a few weeks: