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This Week in Psychedelics - 5.20.16

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Will Canada become America's cannabis capital? (The Guardian)
  • NFL Player Eugene Monroe Donates $80,000 to Medical Cannabis Research (Merry Jane)
  • How One Guy's Illegal U-Turn Brought Down a Cannabis Gang (VICE)
  • Cooking With Cannabis (Medical Jane)
  • Trouble in Bogota: How the Risks of Homemade Cannabis Remedies are Being Felt in Colombia (Leafly)
  • California is poised to become the center of cannabis culture (Los Angeles Times)
  • The case for legalizing cannabis (Toronto Star)
  • NC Support for Medical at All Time High - 2016 (NORML of North Carolina)
  • The Downside to The DEA Rescheduling Cannabis (Merry Jane)
  • Cannabis convention controversy: The 'free' samples that'll run you $299 (Alaska Dispatch News)
  • House Member Vote To Permit Military Veterans Access To Medical Cannabis (NORML)
  • Cannabis-Infused Spa Treatments Are Mom Approved (Merry Jane)
  • First Clinical Trial With Cannabis for Huntington's Disease Shows Promising Results (High Times)
  • Cannabis By The Numbers: How Much Money Will States Bring in From Marijuana in 2016? (Merry Jane)
  • New State Laws Permit Medical Marijuana Use In Hospitals (NORML)
  • They Called It A Miracle: Cannabis Oil Helps Infant Beat Aggressive Eye Cancer (Reset.me)
  • Arizona Cannabis Legalization Has Some Powerful Opponents (ATTN:)
  • Cannabis for Canines (Reason)
  • Say Why To Drugs – the highs and lows of cannabis (The Guardian)
  • Cannabis Prices Are Plummeting Thanks To Legalization (Green Rush Daily)
  • Colorado's Lessons from Legal Pot (Reason)
  • Best Marijuana Strains for People Who Can't Sleep (ATTN:)
  • Cannabis Changes the Game of Real Estate (Eugene Weekly)
  • Baird confronted at cannabis conference by illness sufferers (SBS)
  • Here Are 5 Highly Reviewed Marijuana Strains for Arousal (ATTN:)
  • Anti-Pot Analyst Claims Fatal Crashes in Washington 'Have Risen 122 Percent' (Reason)

LSD

  • Watch this brief history of LSD, and glimpse of its future (Boing Boing)
  • The first modern images of a human brain on LSD (The Daily Psychedelic Video)
  • That Escalated Quickly: Why You Should Do Acid (Daily Nexus)
  • Boys take LSD at Donald Trump rally, philosophize about nation's future (Daily Pakistan)
  • Vogue Williams reveals she's not doing LSD for new show: 'No drugs for me' (Irish Examiner)
  • NH police still investigating bad LSD trip at UMass Outing Club last week (MassLive)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • Magic mushrooms lift severe depression in clinical trial (The Guardian)
  • The FDA Calls Psilocybin Trips Food Poisoning, but Mushrooms May Mend the Brain (Inverse)
  • Psilocybin and End-of-Life Anxiety: Reducing Stress for Terminal Cancer Patients (Psychedelic Times)
  • Psychedelic Mushrooms: Strong Medicine For A Troubled World (Reset.me)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • 7 Ways to Reduce the MDMA Hangover (AlterNet)
  • ILLEGAL! Presents: In Love With EMMA (VolteFace)

Ayahuasca/DMT

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

  • Alabama church members smoke pot, eat mushrooms and peyote: those are the sacraments (AL.com)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • Man, 21, who had to learn to eat and walk again after taking psychedelic drug 'NBOMe' shares picture of himself in a 10-day coma in hospital to warn others of the dangers (Daily Mail)

Dissociatives

  • Ketamine: painkiller, party drug – and possibly next-generation antidepressant (The Conversation)
  • Promising Data With Ketamine in Chronic and Phantom Limb Pain (Medscape)
  • This Personal Tragedy Gave Me a Mission to Save Our Youth (The Good Men Project)
  • Stamford police: Woman stuffs 20 bags of PCP down pants (Stamford Advocate)
  • Blue Springs man sentenced to 20 years in prison for PCP conspiracy (KMBZ)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Mexico debates legalizing opium poppy for medicine (Medical Xpress)
  • Dangerous heroin-fentanyl combination fuels overdoses (CBS)
  • The Price of This Anti-Overdose Drug Is Skyrocketing (ATTN:)
  • 'Opioid Epidemic' Myths (Reason)
  • Church must not condemn opium farmers, says Mexican bishop (The Tablet)

Kratom

Kava

  • Yaqona Industry Recovery Expected To Take 3 To 6 Years (Fiji Sun)

Khat

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • The War on Drugs May Have Misrepresented Psychedelics; Here's Why That Matters (Medical Daily)
  • LSD-Like Drugs Are Out of the Haze and Back in the Labs (The New York Times)
  • Why psychedelics could be a new class of antidepressant (The Guardian)
  • Psychedelic Artist Alex Grey Plans a Freaky Temple in New York (CityLab)
  • The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia (The New Yorker)
  • Creatives, designers and drugs: what are they on, and why? (It's Nice That)
  • Countries Show Progress at the UN Meeting, But General Assembly Falls Short on Drug Policy Reform (Psychedelic Times)
  • 1970s magazine ads for cocaine paraphernalia (Boing Boing)
  • Print Your Own Drugs, For Health and Fun (Reason)
  • Psychedelics, Sexuality, and Transformation: An Interview with Author and Podcaster James Jesso (Psychedelic Times)
  • Colombia Seizes 8.8 Tons of Cocaine, President Says It's 'Biggest' Find in History (TIME)
  • Scientists: Mother's Voice is Like LSD or Magic Mushrooms (Clapway)
  • Newsbeat analyses Newcastle University's DIY drug testing kits in a laboratory (BBC)
  • Psychedelic Font: How Wes Wilson Turned Hippie Era Turmoil Into Art (NPR)

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 - 5.13.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • State Department Says DEA Is Wrong on Marijuana Monopoly (Marijuana.com)
  • This car is made out of cannabis hemp (New York Post)
  • Britons want cannabis to be legalised - change is inevitable, says ex-minister (The Guardian)
  • Study Questions Laws Against Driving While on Marijuana (TIME)
  • Colombians Rally for Cannabis Reform (Merry Jane)
  • Gary Johnson's Cannabis Consumption Is Irrelevant To His Presidential Fitness (Forbes)
  • Vacant California prison could be turned into cannabis production site (SFGate)
  • CBS News Caught Blatantly Distorting Cannabis Study, Says Legal Pot Doubles Fatal Car Crashes (MintPress News)
  • At 2016 NYC Cannabis Parade, a push for legalizing pot (Crain's New York Business)
  • Group marches to Arch advocating legal cannabis use (Fox 2 Now)
  • Parents seek cannabis oil to treat kids (WRBL)
  • Poll: Swing State Voters Favor Marijuana Legalization (NORML)
  • Chatbot can answer all of your cannabis questions (ReadWrite)
  • First Lawsuit of Its Kind Blames Marijuana for Murder (Reason)
  • Talking With Teenagers About Marijuana (The New York Times)
  • The Absurd Reason This Student Was Suspended Over Marijuana (ATTN:)
  • Cannabis Saved My Life—Myoclonic-Astatic Epilepsy (Reset.me)
  • Pot Matters: Cannabis and Veterinary Medicine (High Times)
  • There's a Major Problem Marijuana Legalization Has yet to Address (ATTN:)
  • High hopes riding on 'Cannabis Car' (The Sacramento Bee)
  • The 5 Best Marijuana Strains for Arthritis (ATTN:)
  • Chef Chris Sayegh Is Ready To Serve You Cannabis Cuisine (Inquisitr)
  • Fake money and fake weed (Boing Boing)
  • Rise in children as young as 10 selling cannabis: Number convicted at highest level in a decade (Daily Mail)

LSD

  • How the 'Acid King' Won a Lawsuit Against the US Government (VICE)
  • How LSD Breaks Down Your Reality Tunnels and the Science Behind Psychedelic Ego Death (Psychedelic Times)
  • The Link Between LSD and Music (TrendinTech)
  • I Was the Haçienda's Resident Acid Dealer (THUMP)
  • Naked teenager roamed Ellesmore Port high on LSD (The Chester Chronicle)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • Two People Accused in Psychedelic Mushroom Growing Operation (WDAY)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Federal Approval Brings MDMA From Club to Clinic (Silicon Valley's Metro)
  • Deadly 'LEGO' ecstasy pills warning as two women rushed to hospital (Daily Star)
  • Two men arrested after cops seized £5million worth of ecstasy 'Super Pills' just days after teen died (The Sun)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • Ayahuasca Tourism Is Ripping Off Indigenous Amazonians (VICE)
  • Mineral 'Church' Seeks Exemption From DEA, County Approval (Centralia Chronicle)
  • How I Overcame Anxiety And Found Spiritual Fulfillment Through Ayahuasca (Reset.me)
  • Sheriff: Ashland couple arrested for DMT drug lab in California (KTVL)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

  • URI Student Caught with LSD, Shrooms, DMT, Mescaline and More, Police Say (Patch)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

Dissociatives

  • Is Special K the Anti-Depressant We've Waited For? (The Daily Beast)
  • Ketamine and Depression: A Breakthrough? (Discover)
  • Why Won't the UK Legalise Ketamine As an Anti-Depressant? (VICE)
  • APD: Woman arrested in South Austin for DWI with child in car was high on PCP (KEYE TV)
  • South Windsor man gets 10 years for PCP-fueled stabbings (WTNH)
  • Police Taser knife-wielding man high on PCP (The Hour)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Purdue Pharmaceuticals Misled Doctors about Its Bestselling Painkiller (ATTN:)
  • Push continues for legal poppy farming (Mexico News Daily)
  • Opioid Addicts Are Abusing This Common Over-The-Counter Medication (ATTN:)
  • Prince's Death Highlights Problems With Opioid Overdose Antidote Naloxone (Tech Times)
  • Where Will Opioid Panic Lead? How About Regulating Your Access to Diarrhea Medication? (Reason)
  • White House Drug Czar Pushes For More Spending on 'Access' to Opioid Addiction Treatment (Reason)

Kambô

  • The Brits Using Amazonian Frog Poison to Fight Depression and Alcohol Abuse (VICE)

Kratom

Kava

Khat

  • Oman crime: 2,000 packets of Khat seized in Dhofar (Times of Oman)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Scientific research using psychedelic drugs is surging overseas - why not here? (The Age)
  • Researchers develop a drug-sniffing car that can pinpoint your stash (Engadget)
  • Drug Lord 'El Chapo' Guzman Moved to Prison Near U.S. Border (TIME)
  • How Tylenol Could Influence Your Personality (ATTN:)
  • Morning Glory Seeds From Home Depot Are a Good Proxy for LSD (Until You Vomit) (Inverse)
  • Why I Came Out Of the Psychedelic Closet (Reality Sandwich)
  • Newsbeat analyses Newcastle University's DIY drug testing kits in a laboratory (BBC)
  • Opinion: A Sober Look at Psychedelic Research (Albi)
  • Michelle Rodriguez Coped With Paul Walker's Death With Psychedelics And Fast Cars (Inquisitr)

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 - 5.6.16

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • This Groundbreaking Study Is Big Pharma's Worst Nightmare (ATTN:)
  • Marijuana Legalization Did Not Initially Boost Underage Access in Washington (Reason)
  • The President of the United States Made a Marijuana Joke at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (ATTN:)
  • Germany to legalise cannabis for medicinal purposes (The Telegraph)
  • California Marijuana Initiative Seems to Have Plenty of Signatures (Reason)
  • Meet One Iowa Family Fighting for Cannabis Oil Law Reform (WHO-TV)
  • California Chef Brings Cannabis to Fine Dining, for $500 per Person (NBC)
  • Feds Agree to Tolerate the Country's Largest Medical Marijuana Dispensary (Reason)
  • This Man Ran a Huge Cannabis Factory Next to a Police HQ (VICE)
  • Vermont: House Members Turn Back Marijuana Reform Efforts (NORML)
  • Want to Try Cannabis Juicing? Check Out These Recipes and Guidelines (Leafly)
  • 5 reasons marijuana is not medicine (The Washington Post)

LSD

  • Two Men High on LSD Spoke Without Opening Their Mouthes (Clapway)
  • How to Pick Music for People on LSD, From a Scientist Whose Job That Is (Motherboard)
  • Seen at 11: Could Acid Micro-Doses Help Improve Focus And Creativity? (CBS)
  • LSD, Hookers, Hit Men, and the Top Levels of the CIA (WhoWhatWhy)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • Why MDMA and 'Shrooms Are Potential Major Tools to Fight Domestic Violence (AlterNet)
  • Magic Mushrooms Put the Human Brain in Dream Mode and Facilitate Higher Thinking (Inverse)
  • Sukaramaddava and Psilocybin (Disinfo)
  • Psychedelic Psychology: Mushrooms Make Social Rejection Less Painful (High Times)
  • From fresh food to magic mushrooms (Harvard Gazette)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • A new study says MDMA purity levels are at an all-time high (Mixmag)
  • Europe Is Experiencing a New Wave of Super-Potent Ecstasy (VICE)
  • Girl's death after taking 'MasterCard' ecstasy prompts police warning (The Guardian)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • A Chemical Found in Ayahuasca Could Completely Reverse Diabetes (David Wolfe)
  • Is Peru's Psychedelic Potion a Cure or a Curse? (The Wall Street Journal)
  • Will the Actors in Icaros: A Vision Win Ayahu-Oscars For Their On-Set Tripping? (Bedford + Bowery)
  • Blacksburg police execute search warrant in DMT manufacturing investigation (The Roanoke Times)
  • DMT Lab discovered in Christianburg (NRVN News)

Dissociatives

  • Problematic drug has a byproduct that makes it a great antidepressant (Ars Technica)
  • Ketamine on the NHS: Docs to dish out party drug to depressed Brits (Daily Star)
  • UN takes no action on ketamine (American Veterinary Medical Association)
  • Does ketamine prevent chronic pain after surgery? (Scoop.co.nz)
  • DC Bus Hijacker Allegedly Smoked PCP Before Incident (ABC)
  • Woman arrested for April 2 fatal crash; blood test shows PCP (12 News)

Opiates/Opioids

  • A New Version of Fentanyl Is Turning up in the U.S. (ATTN:)
  • Was Prince's Life Taken by America's Prescription Drug Epidemic? (Disinfo)
  • Report: Prince Autopsy Confirms Presence of Painkiller in System (ATTN:)
  • Prince Was Set to Meet with Opioid Addiction Doctor a Day After He Died (TIME)
  • Mexico's Heroin Farmers: The Trail of Destruction Starts in the Poppy Fields (VICE)
  • Pharmacist debunks belief that naloxone enables addicts (Central Kentucky News)
  • Bountiful Afghan Opium Harvest Yield Profits for the Taliban (The New York Times)
  • Islamic State Eradicating Afghan Poppy Crops (Voice of America)
  • The War on Opium in Afghanistan (The Huffington Post)

Kratom

  • Chronic Pain Patients Discover Alternative to Opioids (Pain News Network)
  • Kratom for treatment of arthritis pain (Kratom Project)
  • Kratom: What is it, and why did Alabama ban it? (Newsaegis)
  • A dangerous high with a legal substance (WOAI)

Kava

Khat

  • Somali student faces death sentence for trafficking 'khat' leaves (New Straits Times)
  • Raila Odinga promises new market for miraa traders (Citizen TV)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Getting Certified in Psychedelic Therapies and Reseach at the CA Institute of Integral Studies (Psychedelic Times)
  • Could Psychedelic Drugs Help Keep Ex-Inmates Out Of Jail? (Motherboard)
  • New Report Details Devastating Effects Of Mass Incarceration On The U.S. (The Huffington Post)
  • Psychedelic Activists Aren't the LSD-Dropping Hippie Flakes You Think They Are (Inverse)
  • Ketamine, Mushrooms and Mephedrone: What Happened When Drugs Were Banned in the UK (VICE)
  • Will Drug Legalization Radically Change Our Culture? A Talk with ACS President Jeff Kundert (Psychedelic Times)
  • Michigan Seeks Science of 'Drugged Driving' (Courthouse News Service)
  • The Legend of the Miami Cannibal Provides Lessons in Shoddy Drug Journalism (Forbes)
  • Home improvement store asked to pull seeds with LSD-like effects off shelves (WCVB)
  • A Bold New Plan to Help Addicts and End the Drug War (Reason)
  • Psychedelic drugs can deepen religious experiences (Religion News Service)
  • Meet MAPS, the psychedelic research foundation that's winning Silicon Valley Gives (San Jose Mercury News)
  • Drug testing expert was high on LSD, ketamine and cocaine every day for eight years (Metro)
  • Non-Violent Drug Offenders Get Life +185 Years (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 - 4.29.16

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • The DEA Made an Unexpectedly Bold Move on Marijuana (ATTN:)
  • Marijuana is kosher for Passover, leading rabbi rules (The Independent)
  • Cannabis festival in D.C. will push pot legalization (The Washington Times)
  • Nobody Knows How High You Are Right Now—It's Really Hard to Measure (Wired)
  • Early Lessons From Marijuana Legalization in Colorado (Reason)
  • Cannabis CEOs Share The Trends That Spur Their Business (Forbes)
  • This Facebook Post About the Ohio Killings Nails a Major Problem with Marijuana Prohibition (ATTN:)
  • Boston cannabis convention draws thousands (WCVB)
  • Is Cannabis a Friend to the Flaccid or the Enemy of Erections? (Leafly)
  • Bernie Sanders Wants to Legalize Marijuana...and Maybe Ban Cigarettes? (Reason)
  • Study: Cannabis fights arthritis-related cartilage loss (Extract)
  • Maine Will Vote on Marijuana Legalization in November (TIME)
  • Support for medicinal cannabis growing among Grey Power groups and elderly (Stuff.co.nz)
  • Who Smokes Marijuana In America? (NORML)
  • America's Biggest Cannabis Busts (Merry Jane)
  • Here's the Most Beautiful Pot Paraphernalia You Ever Did See (Wired)
  • The Most Powerful People in the Marijuana Industry (Reason)
  • Practical Cannabis: On the Quest for a Legal, Recreational High in America (Reality Sandwich)
  • Cannabis Makes You Watch Cat Videos (According to Google Trends) (Leafly)
  • Cannabis Growers Think Scientists Want to Steal Their Shit (Merry Jane)
  • Why the IRS Taxes State-Licensed Marijuana Merchants on Nonexistent Profits (Reason)
  • Ban on THC-Infused Gummy Bears Advances in Colorado (Reason)
  • Heavy cannabis use could lead to earlier death, study suggests (International Business Times)

LSD

  • Scientists: Shrooms Help People; What About LSD? (Clapway)
  • B.C. scientists to auction off LSD images to raise money for PTSD study (The Province)
  • How Music Enhances Your LSD Experience and May Benefit Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelic Times)
  • LSD destabilizes the brain's "sense of self" neural network (The Tartan)
  • Could LSD help treat patients with psychiatric disorders? (WWLP)
  • Man took LSD, severed penis and jumped out window (Sunday World)
  • LSD won't stop men from beating women (Politics.co.uk)
  • Alarming Increase Of LSD Users (The Reykjavík Grapevine)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • 'Magic mushrooms' study challenges stereotypes of psychedelic drug use (The Badger Herald)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • My Life As an Ecstasy Dealer On the 90s Club Circuit (VICE)
  • Tales of War and Hope from a MAPS Psychedelic Dinner: Raising Support to Treat PTSD with MDMA (Psychedelic Times)
  • New Research Explores the Use of MDMA Therapy to Treat End-of-Life Anxiety (Psychedelic Times)
  • Researchers throw fundraiser to buy 1 kilo of MDMA (CBC News)
  • Brit drug dealer jailed for six years after smuggling 35,000 ecstasy tablets into Ibiza (Daily Star)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • The Inauguration of the UDV Temple in Santa Fe: A Sweet Taste of Justice (The World Post)
  • Despite risks, Americans flock to Amazon for Ayahuasca ritual and spiritual awakening (Fox News Latino)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

  • Protecting the Peyote for Future Generations: Building on a Legacy of Perservearance (Reality Sandwich)

Dissociatives

  • Off-Label Ketamine Prescribing: US Psychiatrists Troubled (Medscape)
  • Ketamine effective for treatment-resistant depression (Healio)
  • Man high on meth, PCP attacks customers with shard of glass (KIRO)
  • Telltale tint? Police seize heroin, PCP from Lexus stopped for heavily tinted window (Mass Live)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Prince had prescription drugs in his possession when he died, say law enforcement sources (The Guardian)
  • Study: Opioid Abuse Rates Lower In Medical Cannabis States (NORML)
  • Mexico explores regulating opium to fight drug violence (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
  • What is naloxone? (CNN)

Absinthe

  • 7 Things You Didn't Know About Absinthe (Afar)

Kratom

Khat

  • Kenya: Govt Offers Support for Miraa Farmers (AllAfrica.com)
  • Khat pickers with bad fingerprints in Mbeere South denied ID cards (The Star)
  • Police discover huge haul of khat - after dealer flags down patrol car for help (Manchester Evening News)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Here's the Info About Antidepressants the Pharmaceutical Industry Is Keeping From You (Disinfo)
  • Museum of Drug Policy Pops Up in New York For U.N. Special Session on "World Drug Problem" (Reason)
  • I Have a Rare Visual Disorder That's Like Being on Psychedelics All the Time (VICE)
  • The Philippine Election Frontrunner Says He Would Kill His Own Children If They Took Drugs (TIME)
  • UBC study finds psychedelic drugs may reduce domestic violence (EurekAlert!)
  • Victoria police officer can advocate for drug legalization, tribunal rules (The Globe and Mail)
  • Smoking Scorpions for a 'sting of pleasure' (Disinfo)
  • Terence McKenna: Octopus (Visual Language/VR-2) (The Daily Psychedelic Video)
  • Aldous Huxley's Hands - A Mind-Bending Trip into Psychedelic Science (Examiner)

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 - 4.22.16

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • The Growing Acceptance of Marijuana Smoking in Society (NORML)
  • Decriminalizing cannabis would hurt Islamic State, mafia- Style prosecutor (Town Hall)
  • Canada's Health Minister Says Pot Legalization Bill Coming Soon (TIME)
  • How the President Can End Pot Prohibition Without Congress (Reason)
  • DEA Finally Approves Study on Cannabis and PTSD (Leafly)
  • California startup offering subscription snack box with cannabis-infused treats (FOX News)
  • Does Marijuana Cure Depression? Why Treating Depression With Cannabis Requires Moderation (Psychedelic Times)
  • Puff The Magic Dragon is not about smoking weed (Boing Boing)
  • Watch Californians Explain Why They Use Medical Marijuana (TIME)
  • Native American Church Resists Pot Enthusiasts (Courthouse News Service)
  • "Crawl for Cannabis" aims to bring legal medical marijuana to Missouri (FOX 2 Now)
  • A New Crop of Marijuana Geneticists Sets Out to Build Better Weed (Wired)
  • Whoopi Goldberg's Women's Health-Focused Cannabis Products To Begin Shipping Soon (Forbes)
  • A Brief History of Marijuana Law in America (TIME)
  • The Best Portable Vaporizer for Most People (The Wirecutter)
  • What the World Can Learn From Colorado's Marijuana Experience (Reason)
  • Holy Moses These Fake Nuns Totally Grow Weed (Wired)
  • What a Looming Patent War Could Mean for the Future of America's Marijuana Industry (VICE)
  • The Lemonade Is $150. The Pot Is Free. (Reason)
  • The Best Marijuana Strains for Treating Social Anxiety (ATTN:)
  • Here's the Real Reason We Associate 420 With Weed (TIME)
  • Marijuana Memo: Seriously, Guys. Do We Even Ned 420 Anymore? (Wired)
  • What I Learned From Medical Marijuana Refugee Families (ATTN:)
  • All the Apps You Need to Make This 420 the Best 420 EVAR (Wired)
  • The Best Marijuana Strains for Cramps (ATTN:)
  • If Weed Got Branding Like This, Maybe the Man Wouldn't Hate on It (Wired)
  • A Marijuana Miracle: From Disabled Vet With Debilitating MS To Modern Weed Warrior (Reset.me)
  • Cannabis users gather at London '420 picnic' (The Guardian)
  • Best Marijuana Strains for Productivity (ATTN:)
  • The Guardian view on cannabis and psychosis: how do we protect teenagers? (The Guardian)
  • Cannabis: scientists call for action amid mental health concerns (The Guardian)
  • Heavy cannabis use 'DOES have a negative affect on your brain - in regions linked to learning and memory' (Daily Mail)

LSD

  • How an Army of Deadheads (And Their LSD) Invented Silicon Valley (WIRED)
  • Medical Marijuana Designed for Instagram; What About LSD? (Clapway)
  • Bicycle Day marks LSD discovery by Albert Hoffman as psychotherapy research continues (ABC Online)
  • New LSD study opens depression treatment path using opioid system for major depression relief (Bel Marra Health)
  • What LSD tells us about human nature (The Guardian)
  • LSD Makes Your Brain More 'Flexible', Less Anxious (The Daily Beast)
  • Photos: Flashing back to the days when Laguna Beach was an LSD mecca (The Orange County Register)
  • Really bad trip: Frenchman on LSD beats girlfriend, hacks penis, & jumps out window (RT)
  • Your Brain On LSD Looks A Lot Like A Baby's (NPR)
  • The woman behind a new LSD study has a history of experimenting on herself (PRI)
  • Minneapolis Brewer Forced to Rename Its LSD Beer (The Daily Meal)
  • Vogue Williams to take LSD on new RTE show (BreakingNews.ie)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • 'Magic Mushroom' Drug Psilocybin May Help with Feeling Rejected (Live Science)
  • Psychedelic Mushrooms Can Ease Your Crippling Anxiety (Your EDM)
  • The Latest Prescription Psychedelics Idea? Treat Addiction With Magic Mushrooms (Inverse)
  • How Shrooms Work and Affect the Brain: What Psilocybin Is Really Doing to Your Head (Mic)
  • Psychedelic Pizza Hoax Spawn EPD Investigation (North Coast Journal)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Meet a Former Soldier Who Overcame His Life-Threatening PTSD With MDMA-Therapy (The Science Explorer)
  • New study examines the effect of ecstasy on the brain (Medical Xpress)
  • MDMA Effects: Drug Reduces Serotonin Transport In Brain, Leading To Cognitive Deficits (Medical Daily)
  • VIDEO: Warning sounds as drug death investigation progresses (Sunshine Coast Daily)
  • Ecstasy to blame for my son's death, says mother of student who drowned in canal (Evening Standard)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • How Ayahuasca Works to Heal the Illnesses of Civilization (Psychedelic Times)
  • Church Offering Halluicinogenic Experiences Near Mineral on Hiatus, Moves Retreats to Peru (Centralia Chronicle)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

Dissociatives

  • Repeated Ketamine May Sustain Antidepressant Effect (Medscape)
  • Galvanising support for ketamine as an essential medicine (Veterinary Record)
  • Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court Judge slams rise of 'monkey dust' drug (StaffsLive)
  • Man who ran naked down I-71 on pot, PCP (Cincinnati.com)
  • Man accused of home invasion, PCP possession (Monroe News Star)

Opiates/Opioids

  • SNL tried to joke about the heroin epidemic in America. Not all of America laughed. (The Washington Post)
  • Medical LSD to be Legalized; Is Heroin Next? (Clapway)
  • A Controversial Response to Heroin Epidemic: Supervised Injections (U.S. News & World Report)
  • Using Naloxone (Narcan) As A Last Resort (Forbes)
  • How history and paranoia keep morphine away from India's terminally-ill patients (Quartz)
  • No end yet to Afghanistan's opium trade (Reuters)

Kratom

Kava

Khat

  • Somalia:The Financial and Cultural Importance of Khat and the Current Threat to its Use (SomalilandPress)
  • Uhuru and Ruto should sweet-talk wazungu into chewing miraa (Standard Digital)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Smoking dead scorpions is KP's latest dangerous addiction (DAWN)
  • How imperialism and eugenics during America's Progressive Era spawned international drug control (Raw Story)
  • Psychedelic Advocates Take Their Case for Freedom of Consciousness to the U.N. (AlterNet)
  • Do Psychedelics Have The Power To Wake Us Up? (Collective Evolution)
  • Eight Common Items That Can Make You Test Positive for Drugs (ATTN:)
  • The Highs and Lows of the Psychedelic Experience: How to Avoid the Dangers of Psychedelics (Psychedelic Times)
  • How Long It Takes for 6 Commons Drugs to Leave Your System (ATTN:)

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.