This Week in Psychedelics - 11.27.15

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Cannabis

• Medical Marijuana Supporters File Petition To Get DEA Chief Fired (ATTN:)
• Using Marijuana During Pregnancy Does Not Make A Mother Unfit (Reason)
• How Cannabis Can Take Your Sex Life to the Next Level (Leafly)
• Sarah Palin Says Legal Pot Is 'Absolutely No Big Deal' (Reason)
• Myrcene: There's More To Marijuana Than Cannabinoids (Reset.me)
• Desperate family calls for medicinal cannabis amnesty after police come knocking (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Five Scientific Benefits to Smoking Marijuana on Thanksgiving (ATTN:)
• Is Cannabis Addictive? (Leafly)
• Why Driving While High Laws Are Very Troubling (ATTN:)
• Alaska Regulators Propose Allowing Cannabis Cafés (Reason)
• How California Will Legalize Pot in 2016 (Reason)
• Golden Leaf eyes joint listing as cannabis market grows (Financial Times)
• DHS office says no to cannabis connected food donation (KGW)
• Mexican girl's medical cannabis win raises hope for others (Yahoo! News)
• Cannabis Wedding Expo: Plan a weed wedding at this first-of-its-kind event (The Cannabist)
• Will Denver Okay a Two-Year Moratorium On New Pot Businesses?: Cannabis Events (Westword)
• Do Pot and Pregnancy Mix? (Reason)
• 'Godmother' of cannabis meets her tech-happy children at SF pot summit (CNET)
• Poll shows rising support for Cannabis decriminalization among Israeli college students (The Jerusalem Post)
• Colorado Cannabis Clubs are Coming -- But How Soon? (Leafly)
• Cannabis Coffee Makers Are Hoping to Become Bulletproof 2.0 (Bloomberg)
• Bed heads: Colorado's Airbnb-style website for cannabis lovers (The Guardian)
• Oregrown: A High Class Cannabis Establishment in Bend, Oregon (Marijuana Politics)
• Clinical study at CAMH tests how cannabis affects volunteers' driving skills (The Star)
• Colorado police officers warns of marijunana [sic] dangers (Sioux City Journal)
• Cannabis oil use in Missouri off to slow start (KMBC)
• Cannabis Confiscated at North Iceland Farm (Iceland Review)
• Proof strong cannabis DOES harm your brain: Regularly smoking 'skunk' found to damage area that carries signals - and can lead to mental illness (Daily Mail)

LSD

• How LSD Microdosing Became the Hot New Business Trip (Rolling Stone)
• Switzerland Briefly Legalized LSD Therapy and Then Couldn't Let It Go (VICE's Motherboard)
• Mississippi Man Died After Police Hogtied Him for More Than an Hour (ATTN:)
• Inside the Plot to Get Every American High on Acid (The Daily Beast)
• What Happens When Military Troops Are Given LSD? (First to Know)
• Forget Coffee, Silicon Valley's New Productivity Hack Is 'Microdoses' of LSD (GQ)
• 'The Sunshine Makers': Film Review (The Hollywood Reporter)
• LSD Microdosing Is a Thing (The Interrobang)
• A Brief History of Microdosing (VICE's Motherboard)
• Forget Coffee, Silicon Valley's Young Professionals Turn to LSD (Social News Daily)
• Taking LSD for breakfast 'can cure anxiety and insomnia' (Metro)
• Ex-soldier high on LSD almost killed 3 generations of same family in car crash (Mirror)
• Man drowns after LSD beach trip (New Zealand Herald)
• Silicon Valley professionals are taking LSD at work to increase productivity (The Telegraph)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Microdoses of LSD and mushrooms as an alternative to Adderall (or coffee!) (Boing Boing)
• deGeneration X: Did I Just Eat Mushrooms in Indonesia (Paste Magazine)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• How to Legally Buy a Kilo of Pure MDMA (VICE's Motherboard)
• US Border Protection Just Seized $880,000 in MDMA (VICE's Thump)
• This is what ecstasy looks like under a microscope (The Week)
• This Australian Man's Testimony About The Alleged Long-Terms Effects of Ecstasy Use Is Heartbreaking (VICE's Thump)
• How ecstasy-related deaths in Britain can be traced to illegal logging in Cambodia (The Telegraph)
• Former bikini model walks free over ecstasy supply charges (The Courier Mail)
• Hugging woman exposes bikini model drug dealer (9news.com.au)
• Ecstasy pills seized at SA schoolies (The Australian)
• Drug dealer caught with 34kg of MDMA at M6 hotel fails to get sentence cut (Express & Star)
• College student killed himself while on massive MDMA comedown (Metro)
• Athens man accused of ecstasy trafficking, $180K seized from Whitehall Road home, banks (Online Athens)
• 'It all seems like fun and games and a cheap $25 pill but it's not worth it' (News.com.au)
• Canadian Arrested While Importing Ecstasy (Windsor Square)
• Student who took MDMA died after suffering 'suicide Tuesday' symptoms (The Times)
• Trenton man caught eating MDMA (The Trentonian)
• Businessman raped air stewardess he met on millionaire dating website after spiking drink with ecstasy (Mirror)
• North Devon homeless man tried to sell ecstasy and methadrone in attempt to 'big himself up' (North Devon Journal)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• What Ayahuasca Taught Me About Taking Care of My Health (VICE's Motherboard)
• Exclusive Clip: Experience "Jungle Fever" From The Movie "Aya: Awakenings" (Reset.me)
• DMT Journeys with Devin James Fry (Austin Chronicle)
• Art of the Day: 'Plant Spirit: After Castaneda', by Merrilee Challiss (Nashville Scene)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Meet the Godfather of the Dangerous LSD Substitute NBOMe on Today's 'Daily VICE' (VICE)
• 13 hospitalized in San Diego after overdose of synthetic drug Spice (Los Angeles Times)
• Man stabbed 32 times by friend high on psychedelic drug known as Mr Happy (Mirror)
• SA man charged over 'liquid acid' (Yahoo! News)
• Horrifying new drug made knifeman slaughter pal in desperate battle to escape dream world (Daily Star)

Dissociatives

• Police release 911 call of a suspected PCP overdoes of 500-pound man (The Washington Post)
• Chicago cop charged with murder in killing of black teen (CBS News)
• Ketamine as an antidepressant (Kelowna Capital News)
• Scuba Keeps Offering People Ketamine on Twitter (VICE's Thump)
• Does it tell the whole story? Video recorded inside West Allis jail cell after man's arrest goes viral (Fox6 Now)
• Ketamine and Dance Music: The Drug's Surprising Rise in Popularity (Magnetic Mag)
• Police: Nearly 500 pound man dies after possible PCP overdose (W*USA 9)

Opiates/Opioids

• FDA Approves Nasal Naloxone To Combat Opioid Overdosing (Hospitals & Health Networks)
• Heroin, Survivor of War on Drugs, Returns With New Face (The New York Times)
• America's Heroin Problem Is Helping Mexican Drug Cartels Expand (ATTN:)
• Injection rooms for addicts to open next year in drug law change, says Minister (The Irish Times)
• Americans' growing taste for heroin is killing thousands of people outside America (Quartz)
• Iranian Police Seize 555 Kilograms of Opium (Tasnim News Agency)
• Delaware's heroin babies: Starting life in withdrawal (Delaware Online)
• Iranian Official Demands Europe's Cooperation to Curb Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan (Fars News Agency)
• BRIEF-Indivior says received a complete response letter from FDA on naloxone nasal spray (Reuters)
• Thousands of drug users are rescuing each other with antidote naloxone (The Washington Post)
• Rantz: Seattle wants to essentially legalize heroin (My Northwest)
• Viewpoint: 'Addiction deserves all the same life-saving measures any other disease demands' (Monadnock Ledger-Transcript)
• Activists promote opiate antidote as U.S. overdoses surge (Reuters)
• No FDA Nod for Second Nasal Naloxone in Opioid Overdose (Medscape)

Absinthe

• Eat. Drink. Do. Wigle Whiskey debuts Absint Minded absinthe (Next Pittsburgh)

Kratom

• Drug task force explains reason behind pulling Kratom off Talladega County shelves (ABC 33/40)
• Banning kratom: Wisconsin treats safe herbal supplement like a dangerous drug (Wisconsin Watchdog)
• Will other counties in Alabama outlaw Kratom? (WIAT)
• Bus Bound for Phuket Packed With Kratom, Alcohol and Cigarettes, say Police (Phuket Wan)
• Sam Dunkovich: Why is Wisconsin banning natural pain relievers? (The Cap Times)

Khat

• Man detained after Khat seizure at Dublin Airport (Breaking News)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Never before published photos from Psychedelic Conference II in Santa Barbara, 1983 (Boing Boing)
• Common Sense: The Need To Improve Harm Reduction Services At Music Events (Reset.me)
• DEA Boss Clings On Amid Campaign for His Ouster (U.S. News & World Report)
• Cut Sentences for Low-Level Drug Crimes (The New York Times)
• The origin story of the Timothy Leary archives (Boing Boing)
• The stunning paradox of Iran's war on drugs: How it actually makes America look worse (Salon)
• Psychedelic Parenting Is About More than Just Drugs (VICE's Motherboard)
• Dream Tripping: Getting High in Deep Sleep (Psychedelic Press UK)
• Miley Cyrus Brings Her Dead Petz for a Messy, Psychedelic Performance in Detroit: Live Review (Billboard)
• I Tried Getting 'High' on Drugless Psychedelic Alternatives in the Suburbs (VICE's Motherboard)
• Kalamazoo Institute of Arts explores psychedelic British and American screen prints of '60s and '70s (Michigan Live)
• Prosthetic Penises and Spilled Milk: Miley's Psychedelic Tour Wardrobe (Moviepilot)
• Miley Cyrus review - new psychedelic direction is a bad trip (The Guardian)
• Turn on, tune in, drop - um - in to check out 'Strange Days' (NIU Today)
• The Flaming Lips and Miley Cyrus Share Psychedelic, Colorful "Lighter" Video (Pitchfork)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 11.20.15

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Cannabis

• Justin Trudeau Takes a First Step Toward Marijuana Legalization in Canada (TIME)
• Marijuana Legalizers Who Ran For President (Reason)
• Instagram is Waging a War on Weed (ATTN:)
• Jamaica's Pioneering Journey Towards Cannabis Regulation (The Huffington Post)
• Study: Marijuana Consumers Less Likely To Suffer From Metabolic Syndrome (NORML)
• Bernie Sanders Is Not The First Major-Party Presidential Candidate To Say Marijuana Should Be Legal (Reason)
• How Your DNA Affects Your Marijuana Habits (ATTN:)
• Under The Radar: Medicating In A Prohibition State (Reset.me)
• New marijuana rules get tougher on pesticides in Oregon cannabis industry (The Oregonian)
• American Medical Association Pushes for Pot Pregnancy Warnings (TIME)
• Drug Use Is Not a Crime in This One Country (ATTN:)
• First Legal Cannabis Harvest Happens in New York State (Time Warner Cable News)
• New cannabis testing rules burden small labs (KTVZ)
• Study: Cannabinoids are Safe, Effective for Pain Treatment (NORML)
• Marc Emery: In Canada, cannabis regulation is the new prohibition (Straight.com)
• In Oregon There Are Now More Marijuana Shops than Starbucks or McDonald's (Disinformation)
• 5 Things to Know Before Your Interview With a Cannabis Company (Entrepreneur)
• Veterans fight for the right to use cannabis (KYMA)
• Terminal patients' cannabis proposal becomes battleground for marijuana in Florida (Miami Herald)
• Danish cannabis is stronger than ever (Medical Xpress)
• How to cook a marijuana marinated turkey (Boing Boing)
• Snoop Dogg's Pot Products Look Like Artisanal Chocolate (Wired)
• Cannabis Accessories Have Gone High End: a Few Gift Ideas (ABC News)
• Three Make The Jump From Wall Street To Cannabis Startups And Tell Us What It's Like (Forbes)
• Can Pot Save This Colorado Town? (Reason)
• Dover planners OK permit for cannabis dispensary (New Hampshire Union Leader)
• Illinois State Police warn of new cannabis drug 'shatter' (WLS-TV)

LSD

• The Beckley Foundation calls for regulation of LSD and other psychedelics for recreational use at the International Drug Police Reform Conference. (The Beckley Foundation)
• Man who took LSD died because Mississippi police hog-tied him, autopsy finds (The Times-Picayenne)
• Northern California jury rejects LSD-defense in Halloween murder conviction (San Jose Mercury-News)
• Jersey City man charged with having 2,000 doses of LSD (NJ.com)
• DOC NYC Exclusive: Cook Up LSD With A Clip From 'The Sunshine Makers' (The Playlist)
• Athens man tripping on LSD has head-on collision (Online Athens)
• Police restraints, not LSD, killed Tennessee man (RT)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Magic Mushrooms, High on the Potential for Treating Depression and Anxiety, Get a Scale (Inverse)
• Wisconsin Study Looks At How We Metabolize Psilocybin (Reset.me)
• New Documentary Explores Psilocybin's Role In Embracing Life And Death (Reset.me)
• Groundbreaking Documentary Unravels New Perspectives On Life & Death (PR Newswire)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Here Are Some MDMA Safety Tips That Could Save Your Life (Your EDM)
• Theatre: ecstasy may be the magic pill for PTSD (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Montreal Cop Caught Selling Ecstasy (MTL Blog)
• Give Me Your Love reveals the agonies of ecstasy (The Australian)
• CeeLo on Woman Who Accused Him of Slipping Her Ecstasy: 'It Was Something That Was Blown Out of Proportion' (The Root)
• Police: Twins charged with distributing MDMA (The Eagle)
• Popular student fell 60ft to his death after taking a cocktail of drugs (The Argus)
• Former drag racer jailed for 13 years over ecstasy distribution network (ABC Online)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Ayahuasca Retreats USA - 1st Public, Legal Ayahuasca USA Church (Ayahuasca Healings)
• Demystifying The Dietary Recommendations Prior To An Ayahuasca Ceremony (Reset.me)
• My Crazy, Scary, Sacred Ayahuasca Story (Reset.me)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Brain-Melting Drugs Wreak Havoc in Isla Vista (Santa Barbara Independent)
• Increased Usage of LSD-like Synthetic Drugs Identified in I.V. (The Daily Nexus)
• Six years' jail for York killer of Liam Miller - the friend who stabbed him 32 times during 'drug-induced psychosis' (York Mix)
• Court documents show teen admits to selling synthetic LSD at OKC high school (MSN)
• Autopsy Results Released in Death of UCSB Student (The Daily Nexus)

Dissociatives

• International Rescheduling of Ketamine (Canadian Veterinary Medical Association)
• Ketamine: Facts, Effects and Hazards (Medical News Today)
• Ketamine: All You Need to Know About Its Use, Misuse, and Health Effects (Food World News)
• Fears over Ketamine's future (Horse & Hound)
• Erratic driver stopped, admits to using PCP: police (Journal Inquirer)
• Veterinarians stress about ketamine's future (VIN News Service)
• Ketamine use rising in Kaohsiung schools: city councilor (Focus Taiwan)

Opiates/Opioids

• FDA Approves Nasal-Spray Version Of Overdose Drug Naloxone (The Huffington Post)
• It's Not Just Heroin: Drug Cocktails Are Fueling The Overdose Crisis (Common Health)
• After six years on the rise, Afghan opium crop cultivation decreases, UN survey (Associated Press of Pakistan)
• We have a clearer picture of who's fueling the US heroin epidemic — and how they're doing it (AOL News)
• Heroin antidote Narcan as a nasal spray gets clearance from US regulators (The Guardian)
• Easier access to drug aids battle against opiates (The Republican American)
• Barack Obama's doomed new war against drugs (Macleans)
• ANF foils attempt to smuggle heroin, opium at Port Qasim (Pakistan Today)
• School nurses equipped to fight heroin, opiate 'epidemic' (Chicago Tribune)
• FDA clears new, easy-to-use version of heroin antidote (NEWS10 ABC)
• Heroin on the Highway: Drug use raises new danger for Tri-State drivers (WCPO)
• History of Vermont's first opium epidemic (Burlington Free Press)
• Poppy crops given go-ahead (The Naracoorte Herald)

Absinthe

• 7 Weird Cocktails That Will Turn You Nutty This Weekend (HungryForever)
• Absinthe and Old Lace: Mason Bates' 'KC Jukebox' premieres (Communities Digital News)

Kratom

• Kratom: a legal drug that is gaining popularity, but could be dangerous (KATC)
• Talladega authorities demand removal of Kratom from stores (WIAT)
• Working for You: Kratom Dangers (ABC 33/40)
• Kratom package seized at Phuket Town Post Office (Phuket Gazette)
• Police arrest 13 in kratom bus-delivery bust (Phuket Gazette)

Kava

• Natural Alternative to Valium (The Gazette Review)
• Kava: an alternative to alcohol (The Daily Tar Heel)
• Kava culture (The Himalayan Times)
• LETTERS: Kava culture in Fiji (The Himalayan Times)
• Vanuatu kava quality issues being addressed (Radio New Zealand)
• Ministry to launch kava quality control campaign (Vanuatu Daily Post)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• The Trip Planners (The New Yorker)
• How to Follow your Heart ... with Shamanism (Eagle Shaman)
• How Obama's War on Drugs Destroys Legal Immigrant Families (Reason)
• 2015 strategy released (Drug WarRant)
• Space Photos of the Week: Pluto Gets A Little Psychedelic (Wired)
• Man jailed after cops mistook soap for cocaine on I-78 files suit (The Morning Call)
• Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery showcases 'Psychedelic Haze' exhibit (The Independent)
• Merrilee Chaliss' psychedelic visions are mind-bendingly cool (Nashville Scene)
• One in 10 People in U.S. Have Abused Drugs (TIME)
• Review: To Fathom Hell or Soar Angelic by Ben Sessa (Psychedelic Press UK)
• Noumenautics: Metaphysics - Meta-ethics, Psychedelics by Peter Sjöstedt-H is out now (Psychedelic Press UK)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 11.13.15

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Cannabis

• The Push for Legal Marijuana Spreads (The New York Times)
• Mexico Supreme Court Decision Paves Way for Marijuana Legalization (Breitbart)
• DEA chief: Medical marijuana is "a joke." Science: No, it's not. (Vox)
• 100 Plus Studies Concur - Cannabis Beats Cancer, Yet It's Still Not Legal (Waking Times)
• Senate Approves Funding Bill That Allows Veterans to Access Medical Marijuana (Drug Policy Alliance)
• Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are Battling Over One Key Marijuana Issue (ATTN:)
• Marijuana Patients Call for DEA Chief Resignation (ATTN:)
• Here's What Marijuana Does to Your Sex Habits (ATTN:)
• Where Hillary Clinton's Marijuana Proposal Falls Short (Reason)
• Hillary Clinton Just Made a Big Statement on Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Autistic Student Sues School District Over Drug Sting Entrapment, Judge Dismisses Case (Reason)
• Why Ohio's Marijuana Initiative Went Down in Flames (Reason)
• Why Our Veterans Are Fighting for Marijuana (ATTN:)
• On Pot, Can We Keep Up With the Neighbors? (Townhall.com)
• Cannabis Is A Human Right, Say Mexican Judges (Civilized)
• U.S. Senate Votes to Allow Veterans Access To Medical Marijuana (Reset.me)
• Medical Marijuana Goes On Sale in Illinois (TIME)
• Washington's Marijuana Regulators Give Up Cap on Pot Stores (Reason)
• Colorado Marijuana Taxes Are Sending Kids To College (ATTN:)
• Parents Of Severely Epileptic Girl Turn To Illegal CBD Oil (Reset.me)
• The world's largest scientific society wants to help make cannabis safer for everybody (Quartz)
• Legal Cannabis Big Data And Market Research Leaders Just Combined Forces To Get Investors Buzzing (Forbes)
• Snoop Dogg Just Launched His Own Brand of Pot (TIME)
• Instagram Won't Stop Deleting Cannabis Dispensaries' Accounts (Williamette Week)
• Cannabis Startup Meadow Unveils A Platform For Dispensaries To Manage Orders, Patient Intake (TechCrunch)
• Ex-NFL Star Kyle Turley Promoting Pot's Healing Potential (ATTN:)
• Mile-high city just got higher: Denver's first cannabis-friendly B&B (The Guardian)
• The Five Most Dangerous Drugs to Society According to Police (ATTN:)
• Holy Smokes! Snoop Dogg launches line of cannabis products (CNN)
• Londonderry: Man sentenced for trying to bring cannabis into courthouse (BBC News)
• John Kasich Explains "The Problem with Marijuana" (Reason)
• Cops nab doc suspected in fake permit scheme for medical pot (The Jerusalem Post)

LSD

• LSD is back — now it's an austerity drug (The Times)
• Why is LSD becoming popular again? (The Week)
• Is LSD making a comeback? Acid use on the rise as prices hit rock bottom (Metro)
• Friday A/V Club: You Are Watching LSD-TV (Reason)
• Former NIU student charged with delivering LSD (Daily Chronicle)
• 3 charged in connection with LSD delivery (Northern Star)
• Nick Cave's son took LSD before cliff fall death inquest hears (The Guardian)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Personal Story: Psilocybin Mushrooms Helped Me Cope With PTSD And Feel Alive (Reset.me)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Why MDMA May Be the Ultimate Psychotherapy ([guff])
• Impure MDMA: A drug epidemic (The News Hub)
• CNN Pokes Its Nose Into Dance Music's Thriving Drug Culture (Vice's Thump)
• Why does someone dying from alcohol poisoning get no media coverage, while an ecstasy-related death does (Independent)
• What Is It Actually Like Having Sex On MDMA? (The Debrief)
• 'Medical ecstasy' helping war veterans with PTSD (WMBF)
• Real Truth: Ecstasy Deaths Receive More Coverage Because It's Illegal (Your EDM)
• Pop That: Is Hip-Hop's Fascination With Molly Over? (DJ Booth)
• Los Angeles Rave Task Force Discuss Harm Reduction Drug Policies At Festivals (Your EDM)
• Montreal police officer charged with trafficking ecstasy (CBC News)
• Whitstable teenager Josh Oliver, 15, died after taking MDMA at girlfriend's house (Canterbury Times)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT (The Nexian)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Justin Trudeau's Mother Is a Wild Kooky Hippie Who Took Peyote Before a State Dinner (Gawker)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• How an illegal psychedelic drug could help treat opiate addiction (The Verge)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Co-conspirator in nation's largest synthetic hallucinogen ring sentenced (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Dissociatives

• New Study Says Ketamine May Reduce Pain in Adolescents with CRPS/RSD (The Legal Examiner)
• What happens to your brain when you go under anesthesia (Independent)
• Ketamine depression trial receives $2 million funding (ABC News)
• Driver Charged In Fatal Hit-And-Run Was On PCP (WOWT NBC Omaha)
• Three caught with PCP on Stamford's West Side (Stamford Advocate)
• Man Who Crashed into North Austin Convenience Store Was Reportedly on PCP (Patch)
• Stamford woman charged with biting cop (Stamford Advocate)
• Legislative threat to animal anesthetic (Pet Business World)

Opiates/Opioids

• DEA: Mexican Cartels Increasing Heroin Availability In U.S., Overdose Deaths Surge (Breitbart)
• Prescription painkillers source of addiction for most women (EurekAlert!)
• Records from British India could help us understand modern drug use (Redorbit)
• Opiates disguised as crafting supplies easily bought online (WGCL)
• Police offer heroin addicts treatment instead of jail (Chicago Tribune)
• Confessions of a heroin dealer (WECT)
• Ex-heroin addict says key to solving regions epidemic is stopping today's stigma (WPXI)
• Heroin addiction 'isn't a moral thing,' grieving mom says (The Des Moines Register)
• Rising fentanyl use has people applying for take-home Naloxone kits in Edmonton (Edmonton Sun)

Absinthe

• Absinthe Bar 'The Green Hour' Opens Tonight in Germantown (Nashville Eater)

Kratom

• Highway police bust four people at checkpoint with 13 bags of kratom (Phuket Gazette)
• In Carrboro's first kava bar, Krave, getting cozy is hard (Indy Week)

Kava

• $25 Million A1 Kava & Spice Labasa Factory Plan Revealed (Fiji Sun Online)
• Vanuatu hopes for kava export growth (Radio New Zealand)
• Isabel drinks more alcohol (Solomon Star)

Khat

• Judge Erred by Suppressing Officer's Drug ID, Panel Says (New York Law Journal)
• Major khat seizure at Melbourne airport (9News)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Three San Francisco International Airport Security Screeners Charged With Fraud And Smuggling Drugs (United States Department of Justice)
• How One Organization Is Helping Keep Psychedelic Healers Out Of Jail (Reset.me)
• These Psychedelics May Be The Latest Treatment For Anxiety, And Much More (The Mind Unleashed)
• Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness (Disinformation)
• The War on Drugs Could Be Making Our Communities More Dangerous (VICE)
• Mark McGuire Shares His Blissed-Out New Album—and the Psychedelic Story That Inspired It (VICE's Thump)
• When He Called for an End to the War on Drugs, Trump Claims, He Meant It Should Be Waged More Aggressively (Reason)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 11.6.15

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Cannabis

• Mexico's Supreme Court Declares Individuals Have the Right to Consume and Cultivate Marijuana (Drug Policy Alliance)
• Is Marijuana The 'New Same-Sex Marriage'? (ATTN:)
• Groundbreaking Research: Cannabis Treats ADHD Better Than Adderall (Health Nut News)
• Mexico's Supreme Court Gets Ball Rolling On Marijuana Reform (TIME)
• Bernie Sanders Just Introduced a Historic Marijuana Bill (ATTN:)
• Michigan Creates 'Bogus Crimes' by Conflating Cannabis Extracts with Synthetic THC (Reason)
• Magistrate Snatches Newborn From Mother Who Used Cannabis Tea for Pain Relief (Reason)
• Massive cardboard box of cannabis flung from van during police chase (Evening Standard)
• Germany mulls state cannabis body for pain relief (Deutsche Welle)
• Ohio Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Marijuana Legalization (Reason)
• 19 Year-Old Suing Orlando Bike Cop Who Punched Him Over Smell of Weed (ATTN:) 
• DEA Chief Says Medical Marijuana Is a 'Joke' (TIME)
• Why Marijuana Bans Are Racist (ATTN:)
• Napster Co-Founder Backs Push to Legalize Pot in California (TIME)
• Why Does Cannabis Cause Paranoia in Some But Helps Anxiety in Others (Leafly)
• After mines, jail closed, town turns to cannabis to boost economy (USA Today)
• Uruguay's radical cannabis plans (BBC News)
• Hemp, the sober cannabis cousin to marijuana, is making waves in SC (The Post and Courier)
• 11 Things Colorado Can Now Fund Thanks to Legal Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Nine Totally Legal Substances Way More Addictive Than Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Marijuana candy: trick or treat? (Scienceline)
• Cannabis investor hires employees from DEA in expansion push (The Boston Globe)
• New Book Explains Marijuana Laws For Every U.S. State (Reset.me)
• DEA Chief Says Medical Marijuana 'Is A Joke' (Reason)
• Why the Head of the DEA is Wrong About Medical Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Hinkle: Bernie Sanders is right, but not enough (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
• GTSO: Edibels Recall Highlights Need for Newer, Better Cannabis Solutions (MarketWatch)
• Ohio Votes Down Legalizing Pot for Medical and Recreational Use (TIME)
• Investors should take a deep breath before they try cannabis (The Globe and Mail)

LSD

• Did the CIA's Experiments With Psychedelic Drugs Unwittingly Create the Grateful Dead? (Collectors Weekly)
• The Secret Montreal Experiments They Don't Want You To Know About (MTL Blog)
• Acid Test 50th Anniversary Celebration (Grateful Web)
• Death Metal, Dylan and LSD: A Q&A with Shakey Graves (American Songwriter)
• Stamford woman brings pipe and LSD into passport office (The Advocate)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Magic Mushrooms Are Legal in New Mexico: How 'Bout That? (Inverse)
• SCIENCE MATTERS: Mushrooms show how all nature is connected (The Chronicle Herald)
• University of Wisconsin tunes in to magic mushroom medicine (The Washington Times)
• Psychedelic mushroom artwork gets to the point (The Queensland Times)
• We Exist in the Space Between Space - Reflections on my First Mushroom Trip 20 Years After the Fact (Disinformation)
• UW Conducts Study On Benefits Of Psilocybin Mushrooms (Wisconsin Public Radio)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• This Is What An MDMA Assisted Therapy Session Looks Like (Collective Evolution)
• Insomniac Steps Up Drug Awareness For Annual Halloween Festival (Your EDM)
• Lisa Ling: I was a '90s rave queen (CNN)
• Dog nearly dies after eating Ecstasy tablets (Pet Business World)
• Parklife festival death: Robert Hart 'took ecstasy', inquest told (BBC News)
• Student Hospitalized for MDMA Poisoning (The Wesleyan Argus)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Personal Story: How Ayahuasca And A Dieta Helped Me Find Unconditional Love (Reset.me)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Peyote in the United States: Prisoner of Wars as the War Wanes (Drogas, Política Y Cultura)
• The use of peyote reaches the Supreme Court (Hoy En Animal)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• 'Herbal seizures'-atypical symptoms after ibogaine intoxication: a case report (7thSpace Interactive)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Setting the Record Straight on 'Synthetic Drugs' -- and What We Should Do About Them (The Huffington Post)
• Governor Signs Griffo Bill Banning 'N-Bomb' Synthetic Drug (Madison County Courier)

Dissociatives

• All About the Psychedelic Club Drug Being Used to Treat Depression (Health.com)
• Ketamine May Reduce Chronic Pain in Adolescents (Pharmacy Practice News)
• The Search for a 'Safer' Ketamine (MedPage Today)
• Despite "Flurry of Interest," Ketamine Remains Unproven for Depression (Mad in America)
• Dog ingests PCP At Fort Funston, Still Wigging Out Weeks Later (SFist)
• CRPS Message Being Heard in Emergency Rooms (National Pain Report)
• Grandmother who was given party drug Ketamine by the NHS is left with irreversible liver damage after doctors failed to monitor its effects (Daily Mail)

Opiates/Opioids

• Injection rooms for addicts to open next year in drug law change, says Minister (The Irish Times)
• In Heroin Crisis, White Families Seek Gentler War on Drugs (The New York Times)
• $8.4 billion spent on counter-drug efforts in Afghanistan - country remains leading producer of opium (Ottawa Citizen)
• '60 Minutes' Blames the Pharmaceutical Industry For America's Heroin Epidemic (Forbes)
• Family doctors encouraged to prescribe naloxone when necessary (Clinical Advisor)
• Heroin Use is Skyrocketing, DEA Says (TIME)
• Heroin Deaths Are Surging, But Deadliest Drugs Still Come In Pill Bottles (The Huffington Post)
• Naloxone is no silver bullet for heroin epidemic but is saving lives (Michigan Live)
• Take-home Naloxone the new front in Saskatchewan's war against Fentanyl (Global News)
• Teaching kids to use naloxone robs their childhood (Cincinnati.com)

Absinthe

• VIDEO: Absinthe leads to poolside mayhem in The Ultimate Fighter house (SportsJoe)
• On the Bar: Sazerac is conspicuous by its absinthe (Yakima Herald-Republic)
• The Whitney adds an Absinthe Room to its offerings (Detroit Metro Times)

Kratom

• Meet up to eat up: Miami food clubs connect online communities in real life (Miami Herald)

Kava

• Kava for the treatment of generalised anxiety disorder (K-GAD): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (Trials Journal)
• Local kava demand high (Fiji Broadcasting Corporation)

Khat

• Chewing themselves into madness? Khat is 'finishing' men in the Horn of Africa (Mail & Guardian Africa)
• Two Somali soldiers killed in khat confrontation (Mareeg)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Cops Around the Country Quietly Begin Rebelling Against the Drug War (The Anti Media)
• Ireland to 'decriminalise' small amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use (Independent)
• More Americans Than Ever Use Prescription Drugs (NBC News)
• Why Is it Still Illegal to Visit the US if You Admit to Using Drugs? (VICE News)
• Ecstasy, Fake LSD, and Sort-Of Magic Mushrooms: The Future of Dance Music's Drugs (SPIN)
• Why Banning Smart Drugs for College Students Is Impossible, Evil (Reason)
• Chris Christie's Speech on Drugs is a Must-Watch (ATTN:)
• This is what a sensible drug policy looks like (Boing Boing)
• Comedians on Acid: Hippie madness at the end of the 60s (Dangerous Minds)
• Psychiatrist publishes novel based on psychedelic drug research (Weston, Worle & Somerset Mercury)
• 'Driest Place on Earth' Turned into Psychedelic Canvas of Reds, Purples and Greens Flowers (NYC Today)
• Voodoo Fest 2015: Step inside the Pepsi Dome for a 3-D psychedelic art experience (The Times Picayune)
• Is Coldplay Making a Psychedelic Album? 'A Head Full of Dreams' Teaser Emerges (Music Times)
• Air Force Cadet Accused Of Dealing Drugs Faces Court Martial (Colorado Public Radio)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 10.30.15

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Cannabis

• 50 Pounds of Pot Accidentally Mailed to the Wrong Address (TIME)
• Will Canada or Mexico legalize pot before the United States? (Boing Boing)
• The Next Country To Legalize Cannabis: Iran (New Republic)
• How Important Is the 2016 Election for Cannabis? (The Huffington Post)
• Bernie Sanders Proposes Removing Marijuana From Federal Drug List (TIME)
• Disturbing New Video of Teen Killed by Cop Over Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Has The Rate of U.S. Marijuana Usage Really Doubled? (Reset.me)
• Federal agents seize 30,000 marijuana plants on Menominee Native American tribal land (Boing Boing)
• The GOP Candidates Failed the Marijuana Test (ATTN:)
• Marijuana Legalization: A Second Thought (Disinformation)
• MythPuffers: The Curse Of The White Lighter (NYU Local)
• Pot Pleasure, Pot Problems (Reason)
• How America Gets It's Weed (Disinformation)
• Landmark Case in Mexico's Supreme Court Could Pave the Way for Marijuana Legalization (Drug Policy Alliance)
• Snoop Dogg Launches Online Platform for All the Cannabis Lovers (BET)
• Pot for your pup? Startups cash in on cannabis trend (SFGate)
• Netherlands and Israel, a Marriage of Cannabis (The Times of Israel)
• Cannabis farm worth more than half a million pounds discovered in Hoylake (Liverpool Echo)
• How smoking cannabis raises the risk of STROKE: Drug 'significantly narrows blood vessels in the head' (Daily Mail)
• DEA Raid on Wisconsin Tribe's Cannabis Crop Infuriates and Confuses Reformers (U.S. News & World Report)
• Peter Dunne backs NZ clinical trials for medicinal cannabis (Stuff.co.nz)

LSD

• Report: NIU student 'Timi' Okedina used LSD, pot before falling from dorm window (Northwest Herald)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• What's the best way to give up smoking? Take Magic Mushrooms, says study (Newstalk)
• Autumn is the season of magic mushrooms and psychedelic maple trees (The Spectator)
• Ministers and magic mushrooms: Why religion is about more than mysticism (Christian Today)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• MDMA-assisted psychotherapy could come into play in 2021 (Mixmag)
• Mississippi Police Just Fell for the Oldest Halloween Drug Myth (ATTN:)
• Muay Thai fighter bust for supplying MDMA for tattoo bill (The Queensland Times)
• Queensland news: Former Gold Coast Titan under-20 player Dan Kilian accused of being drug mule (Herald Sun)
• An Urban Legend Evolves: First Pot, Now MDMA in Trick-or-Treat Bags (Reason)
• Is that candy or Ecstasy? Halloween warnings spook parents (CBS News)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• On Finding Ayahuasca and Taking the Psychedelic Drug for the First Time (Inverse)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• On Hunt for the Eeriest Ghost Town in Mexico (Yahoo! Travel)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• North Country Sen. Griffo wants to ban synthetic drug 'N-Bomb,' says mimics LSD's hallucinogenic effects (North Country Now)
• Punishment for 'N-Bomb' soldiers (New Zealand Herald)
• Soldiers hospitalised in Palmerston North after taking mystery substance (Manawatu Standard)

Dissociatives

• What if Drugs Had Branding Slogans: Special K / Ketamine (Magnetic Magazine)
• King's scientists to give ketamine to students (The Tab)
• Low-dose Ketamine Eases Pain, Reduces Opioid Use in ED (Medscape)
• Vet drug ketamine faces regulation scrutiny (Horsetalk)
• Hong Kong police make biggest ketamine seizure in nine years (South China Morning Post)
• Stafford man accused of multiple PCP-fueled attacks (The Free-Lance Star)

Opiates/Opioids

• Now Kids Are Being Trained to Stop Heroin Overdoses (The Daily Beast)
• Heroin vs. Fentanyl: What's the difference? (WMUR)
• Children, teens to receive naloxone training (EMS1.com)
• How CVS pharmacies are trying to stop fatal heroin overdoses with an over-the-counter remedy (PIX11)
• Myanmar anti-drug crusaders uncover $500K ledger of payoffs (WiscNews)

Absinthe

• The absinthe allure; Oregon distillers make up for liquor's long "absinthe" (The Bulletin)
• Arbutus Distillery: Delicious craft spirits in bewitching packaging (VUE Weekly)

Kratom

• Rethink 'War on Drugs', say Phuket pollsters (Thai Visa News)

Khat

• The Investigators: Smugglers Trying To Bring Drugs, Weapons, Fake Money Through FJK Airport (WABC-TV)
• These are the 9 most popular and bizarre drugs in the Middle East (Al-Bawaba)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Censored UN paper calling for decriminalization marks beginning of the end of drug war as we knew it (Salon)
• Turn on, tune in to psychedelics as medicine (NOW Magazine)
• In Search of Burt Shonberg's Lost 1960s Psychedelic Art (Los Angeles Weekly)
• China's Five-Year Plan Now Has Its Own Psychedelic Music Video (Wall Street Journal)
• Newly Digitized 'Phenakistocope' Animations That Pre-Date GIFs by Over 150 Years (Colossal)
• This desert's become a psychedelic wonderland (New York Post)
• Saudi prince held in massive drug bust in Lebanon (CBS News)
• Absurd Creatures: Don't Do Drugs. But If You Do, Look At This Trippy Critter (Wired)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.