This Week in Psychedelics - 6.24.16

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Cannabis

• Is Legalization Coming to Naples, Home of Mafia-Controlled Cannabis? (Leafly)
• Microsoft is going into the marijuana business, but the cannabis cloud is already crowded (Quartz)
• Colorado Survey Finds Adolescent Marijuana Use Did Not Rise After Legalization (Reason)
• How Can Cannabis Help People with Sickle Cell Anemia? (Leafly)
• Why not allow cannabis clubs in Colorado? Debate rages (The Cannabist)
• How Does Cannabis Consumption Affect Neurodegenerative Diseases? (Leafly)
• Croatia Makes Medical Cannabis History: How Did It Happen? (Leafly)
• We went to one of the largest marijuana business conferences in the world – here's what it was like (Business Insider)
• What Situations Make You Paranoid When You're High? We Debated Cannabis Paranoia (Leafly)
• Cannabis Can Literally Mend Your Broken Heart (Green Rush Daily)
• Titans' Derrick Morgan wants NFL to study health benefits of cannabis (ESPN)
• Will Cleveland Celebrate Its Next Title with Decriminalized Cannabis? (Leafly)
• Pot Fans Unite At Cannabis Conference In NYC (CBS New York)
• Dogs fall ill after eating discarded cannabis in a park (The Telegraph)

LSD

• THE LONG, STRANGE TRIP OF LSD (SFGate)
• Scientists: Caffeine is Harmful, Unlike Cocaine and LSD (Clapway)
• Documentary: Czechoslovak Communists experimented with LSD (Prague Daily Monitor)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Magic Mushrooms for Mental Health (Brain Blogger)
• Live Every Day Like You're On Mushrooms (The Atlantic)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Global Drug Survey Warns It's the "Worst Time in a Generation" to Take MDMA (The Science Explorer)
• Three 12-year-old girls in hospital after taking ecstasy (The Guardian)
• Mum whose teenage son died of ecstasy overdose warns predatory drug pushers are deliberately designing pills for children (Mirror)
• Ecstasy pills increasingly made with child-friendly logos, says expert (The Guardian)
• Ecstasy link to teenager who died after music event at The O2 (The Wharf)
• St Columb father-of-two died after MDMA overdose (Cornish Guardian)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Plant Medicine Science: How Ayahuasca Works to Treat Depression (GroundReport)
• SBS2 Celebrates Vice Partnership By Doing Ayahuasca With James Franco (SBS)

Dissociatives

• Bench murder trial for maniac driver who slammed into florist while high on PCP, meth begins (New York Daily News)
• Police: Drunken man had more than 50 grams of PCP (Bryan-College Station Eagle)
• Naked man likely took PCP before trying to break into Garfield Heights home, report says (Cleveland.com)

Opiates/Opioids

• Heroin use in U.S. reaches "alarming" 20-year high (CBS News)
• Walgreens Leads Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse in Washington with New Programs to Help Curb Misuse of Medications and the Rise in Overdose Deaths (PharmiWeb.com)
• Why Are Dealers Cutting Fentanyl into Recreational Drugs? (VICE)
• What Gary Johnson Should Have Said About Heroin (Forbes)
• Popping pain pills: Opiate addiction has become bigger problem than heroin, cocaine in the past (Naples Daily News)
• Poppylands: Understanding Myanmar's addiction to heroin (Al Jazeera)
• 5 steps to reverse an overdose: How to use naloxone (CBC News)
• Mexico is growing 61000 new acres of opium (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Kratom

• The Ins and Outs of Using Kratom as an Alternative Addiction Treatment (Psychedelic Times)
• What to Do When You Are Addicted to Kratom (Kratom Project)
• Kratom, the obscure tea that NC senators want to keep away from the kids (The News & Observer)
• Kratom Experience – How Does Kratom Make You Feel (Kratom Project)

Kava

• The Rise Of The Kava Bar (VinePair)
• Vanuatu's kava cup runs low as thirst increases for drink of choice (The Guardian)
• Call to regulate kava consumption age (The Fiji Times)
• Mid City Now Has a Kava Bar (Eater New Orleans)

Khat

• Kenya: Muguka Farmers Demand Inclusion in Miraa Taskforce (AllAfrica)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Michael Pollan Explains Why Psychedelic Drugs Are the Ultimate Meal for Your Mind (Mother Jones)
• How Getting High and Listening to Music Games Your Dopamine Reward System (Inverse)
• Is Brazil the New Epicenter of Psychedelic Science in the World? (The Huffington Post)
• Drugs and Violence: It's More Complicated Than You Think (VolteFace)
• Psychedelics on the Dark Web (Deep Dot Web)
• Here's a Plan: Drug-Test the Rich (ATTN:)
• Drug trafficker gets 20 years thanks to emails he never sent (Engadget)
• Beyond Psychedelics 2016: Global Psychedelic Forum in Prague Takes a Holistic Approach (Psychedelic Times)

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 - 6.17.16

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Cannabis

• New Report Blasts DEA For Spending 4 Decades Obstructing Marijuana Science (The Huffington Post)
• Justin Trudeau Makes a Surprising Case for Legalizing Marijuana (TIME)
• Meet Kevin Sabet, the Marijuana Industry's Public Enemy No. 1 (ATTN:)
• CDC: Changes In State Marijuana Laws Associated With Declining Teen Use (NORML)
• Microsoft Partners With Marijuana Software Company (Marijuana.com)
• Ever wondered how cannabis affects driving? This advert tests stoners reactions to show them how slow they are (Mirror)
• Can Cannabis Users Donate Blood? (Leafly)
• How Cannabis Helps People with Peripheral Neuropathy Manage Pain and Get Back on Their Feet (Psychedelic Times)
• 9th Circuit Rejects RFRA Defense for Convicted Hawaii Cannabis Ministry Founder (Baptist Joint Committee For Religious Liberty)
• The Cannabis Craze Has Come To Cocktails (VinePair)
• Girl Ditches Several Prescription Medications For Raw Cannabis Juice & Look What Happened (Collective Evolution)
• Cannabis Dosing: A Talk with Dr. Dustin Sulak (Reality Sandwich)
• Legal Pot Shops Denied Postal Service (Disinformation)
• How Does Cannabis Affect Your Memory? (Leafly)
• 10 Photos That Prove Stoners Are Ingenious (ATTN:)
• Sonoma County agencies coordinate raids on cannabis oil labs (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)

LSD

• Brian Wilson: 'The voices started after LSD' (SFGate)
• Pittsburgh Pirates Dock Ellis Pitches No-Hitter on LSD (Call to the Pen)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Psilocybin may be safe, effective for treatment-resistant depression (Healio)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• How MDMA Treats PTSD: A Psychedelic Light for Veterans with PTSD (Psychedelic Times)
• New Survey Says The World Is Taking Too Much MDMA (Your EDM)
• Taking ecstasy is more dangerous than ever before (Metro)
• Super-expensive Ecstasy is probably not even MDMA in New Zealand (Stuff.co.nz)
• Father on losing both sons to ecstasy on same night (BBC)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Ayahuasca Goes Global: ICEERS Founder Benjamin De Loenen on the Second World Ayahuasca Conference in Brazil (Psychedelic Times)
• The Australian ayahuasca debate (SBS)
• Ayahuasca sends Festival d'Été artist Yann Perreau on a new musical trip (The Georgia Straight)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• Rehabbing Our Ideas About Addiction (The Wall Street Journal)
• Ibogaine Treatment for Addicts: Progress and Resistance (Reality Sandwich)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• NBOMe is the dangerous new drug that could truly terrify you for hours on end (News.com.au)
• TarCo toxicologist warns of dangers of synthetic LSD (WFAA)

Dissociatives

• Why Do the British Love Ketamine So Much? (VICE)
• Driver on PCP receives prison time for aggravated assault (KAGS)

Opiates/Opioids

• Canadian Doctor Says US Should Give Free Heroin To Addicts (The Daily Caller)
• Provincial health officials pushing Feds to approve Naloxone inhalers (CKNW)

Kratom

• Which Kratom is Best For Opiate Withdrawal? (Kratom Guides)
• Kratom: Natural painkiller or addictive drug? (WBAL)

Kava

• Kava Could Be Vanuatu's Biggest Export: Diplomat (Pasifik News)
• Shortage of kava in the country (The Fiji Times)
• Kava price discussions (The Fiji Times)

Khat

• Ministry works to engage more farmers in yaqona planting (Fiji Village)
• Tanzania: Khat Chewers Court Both Prosecution, Health Risks (All Africa)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Study Shows That LSD, Psilocybin, and MDMA May Decrease Acts of Domestic Violence (Psychedelic Times)
• DEA Wants Inside Your Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs (The Daily Beast)
• The Times – Decriminalization a 'first step' (Drug WarRant)
• Meet the Hallucinogenic Fish That Can Give You LSD-Esque Nightmares (Atlas Obscura)
• How Psychedelic Drugs Might Help Treat Mental Illness (Refinery29)
• Psychedelic drugs can be the shortcut to a mental state we may be wired to crave (Quartz)
• Why do humans have an innate desire to get high? (The Conversation)

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 - 6.10.16

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Cannabis

• Marijuana Legislation 2016: Up To 12 States Could Vote On Cannabis This November (Inquisitr)
• As Fear and Intolerance Of Marijuana Declined, So Did Adolescent Use (Forbes)
• Cabinet vote on decriminalizing cannabis delayed a week (The Times of Israel)
• South Florida man creates company, car made of cannabis hemp (Local 10)
• Poll: Majority Of Americans Say Make Marijuana Legal (NORML)
• The Truth About Marijuana and Addiction (ATTN:)
• Women Are Growing a More Diverse Cannabis Industry (ELLE)
• Killer Pot? An Analysis Of The Cannabis Wrongful Death Suit In Colorado (Above The Law)
• Canada: Rising Popularity Of Medical Cannabis Among Veterans Associated With Declining Opioid Use (NORML)
• Survey: Pediatric Oncology Providers Favor Cannabis For Pediatric Treatment (NORML)
• How Tommy Chong Became a Marijuana Legalization Advocate (ATTN:)
• Cannabis Companies Under the Influencers For Advertising (Forbes)
• Los Angeles restaurant unveils CANNABIS cocktails... and you don't need a medical marijuana card to indulge (Daily Mail)
• Here's How Marijuana Affects Your Memory (ATTN:)
• Study Finds Long-term Cannabis Smoking Causes Gum Disease, No Other Health Risks (Inquisitr)

LSD

• Researcher explorers America's longest running LSD experiment (UCalgary News)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Denting The Ecstasy Myth: Doctors Weigh In After Deaths (Electronic Beats)
• 'Stay safe, have fun': Final message from mum of tragic woman, 22, who died after 'taking  MDMA at nightclub' (The Sun)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Ayahuasca's Power Comes From the One-Two Punch of Anti-Depressants and DMT (Inverse)
• Peru's ayahuasca industry booms as westerners search for alternative healing (The Guardian)
• Legal Support for Psychedelics: ICEERS Founder Benjamin De Loenen Discusses the Ayahuasca Legal Defense Fund (Psychedelic Times)
• We Asked a Veteran Peruvian Ayahuasca Shaman About Dumb Tourists (VICE)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• 'Deadliest Catch' Update: Elliott Neese hints return in Season 13, undergoes Ibogaine treatment (Sportsrageous)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• How 'Spice' is Causing Health Emergencies (TIME)
• Rye Hunt took powerful psychedelic drug NBOMe before he disappeared, family believes (ABC Online)
• Son beat mother to death 'believing she was a witch' after taking legal high (Mirror)

Dissociatives

• Ketamine's Effects on Depression Captures Global Media Attention (Newswire)
• Watch Erick Morillo open up on his addiction to Ketamine (Stoney Roads)
• Naked UGA student dives into garbage truck hopper, PCP impairment suspected (Athens Banner-Herald)
• Defendant in PCP-possession case carries folding knife into court hearing (The Washington Post)
• Man high on PCP during fatal hit & run sentenced (KMTV)

Opiates/Opioids

• Prince's Death Highlights a Debate Within the Drug Treatment Community (ATTN:)
• Why the Inventor of the Antidote Naloxone Lost His Stepson to Heroin (Newsweek)
• The Truth Behind the Opioid Addiction Epidemic (ATTN:)
• Fentanyl, The Drug That Killed Prince, Is 100 Times Stronger Than Heroin (SELF)
• Are Opioids the Next Antidepressant? (The New York Times)

Absinthe

• Columbus distillery begins selling absinthe (Columbus Business First)

Kratom

• Recreational drug kratom hits the same brain receptors as strong opioids (Chemical & Engineers News)
• Side Effects Of Long Term Kratom Use (Kratom Project)
• Herb Kratom Faces Hurdles to Become Legal Dietary Supplement (Natural Products INSIDER)
• Tips to Avoid Kratom Tolerance (Kratom Project)

Kava

• Cocktails and Kava - how some New York diplomacy bought Key to Fiji strongman's table (Stuff.co.nz)

Khat

• Somalia Agrees to Hold On Khat Ban for the Exchange of Direct Flights and Respect for Refugees (All Africa)
• Yemeni Officials Ban Popular Narcotic (Vocativ)
• Police confiscate khat leaf (Viet Nam News)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• The Secrets Inside 1960s Editions of the US Government's Private Drugs Newsletter (VICE)
• Can meditation and psychedelics have the same benefits for your mind? (CNN)
• What drugs are on the rise in Britain? (The Guardian)
• DEA Tweet Highlights a Struggle Within the Drug Policy Community (ATTN:)
• London Is Officially the Cocaine Capital of Europe, but There's Just One Problem (Disinfo)
• Bay State Officials Want To Emulate the Drug War to Collect Cigarette Taxes (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 - 6.3.16

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Cannabis

• Colombia Close to Legalizing Medical Cannabis (Leafly)
• We Spoke with the People Trying To Stop Marijuana Reform (ATTN:)
• "Cannavaping" Could Be an Efficient and Safe Way to Deliver Medical Cannabis (The Science Explorer)
• 2 Rare, Heartwarming Video Clips of Terence McKenna Smoking Cannabis and Taking it Easy (High Existence)
• Cannabis on tribal land a '50/50' gamble for Native Americans in Washington (The Guardian)
• International law allows for the legalization of cannabis (Science Daily)
• I Only Ate Cannabis-Infused Foods for Two Days. Here's What Happened (Willamette Week)
• Cannabis Saved My Life – Depression (Reset.me)
• Why Cannabis-Growing Techniques Differ So Much Between the U.S. and Europe (Leafly)
• Industrial cannabis activists showcase their cause with 'all hemp' luncheon (The Washington Times)
• New York's Cannabis Growers Lobby for More Medical Patients (High Times)
• What happens when you get stoned every day for 20 years (The Independent)
• San Francisco Gym Focuses on Using Cannabis to Enhance Fitness (The Marijuana Times)
• How Does Cannabis Consumption Affect Insomnia? (Leafly)
• State investigates $500,000 in missing medical marijuana oil (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
• Indoor vs. Outdoor Cannabis Growing: 3 Key Differences (Leafly)

LSD

• Investigating the Urban Legend That LSD Will Make You Think You're Orange Juice (Complex)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Severe Depression Treatment: Magic Mushrooms Found To Be Effective? (Info-Europa)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Science Explains What Molly Does to Your Sex Life (Mic)
• Ecstasy in comeback as new generation discovers dance drug (The Guardian)
• European Partiers Got Smart, Ditched Bad Ecstasy for Pure MDMA (Inverse)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Exploring the Sacred Power of 5 MeO DMT: Podcast with Dr. Gerardo Sandoval (Psychedelic Times)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Eagles' Debut: Don Henley on How Peyote, the Occult Shaped Hit LP (Rolling Stone)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• A Deadly New Hallucinogen Is Being Peddled On The Street As LSD (Digg)

Dissociatives

• Ketamine could treat chronic pain (SBS)
• Meta-analysis shows ketamine effective against persistent post-surgical pain (Medical Xpress)
• New Mesa clinic offers alternative therapy for pain, depression (East Valley Tribune)
• Man High on PCP Acts Erratically, Stabs Man, San Diego Police Say (Patch)
• Police: Woman on PCP bit teenager, resisted arrest (Bryan-College Station Eagle)

Opiates/Opioids

• FDA OKs first implant treatment for opioid addiction (Engadget)
• Burmese Opium Farmers Protest Eradication (High Times)
• CVS Health will expand access to naloxone in seven more states (American Pharmacists Association)
• CU Boulder study: Narcotic painkillers cause chronic pain (The Denver Post)
• Prince Reportedly Died from a Fentanyl Overdose (ATTN:)
• Taliban instability could fuel opium trade (OODA Loop)
• Heroin being laced with drug 100 times more powerful than morphine (FOX 8)
• Why it's easier to be prescribed an opioid painkiller than the treatment for opioid addiction (Disinformation)
• The One Paragraph That Prompted an Opioid Epidemic (ATTN:)

Kratom

• Kratom, the Herb of Last Resort for Recovering Addicts, Is in Legal Trouble (Gizmodo)
• The Best Type of Kratom for Opiate Withdrawal (Kratom Project)
• How Long Does Kratom Last? (Kratom Revealed)

Khat

• Closure of Somalia miraa market threatens economy, Munya (Citizen Digital)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• New British Law Makes Psychoactive Substances Presumptively Illegal (Reason)
• Combating the War on Drugs Around the World with Harm Reduction Education and Policy (Psychedelic Times)
• Two New Psychedelic Films That Will Open Your Mind To Plant Medicines (Collective Evolution)
• The New and Ancient Psychedelic Revolution: Preparing the Way for the New Story of Humanity (Psychedelic Times)
• TripSit Factsheets now use PsychonautWiki's Subjective Effects Index (TripSit.me)
• Psychedelic Honey from Nepal Proved to be 'Healing' (Nature World News)
• I Took LSD, Coke, and Edibles on the Job to See How They'd Affect My Work (VICE)

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 - 5.27.16

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Cannabis

• Curbing The Cannabis Industry's Growing Power Consumption (OPB)
• The Shake: Next President Urged to Give Cannabis a Fair Shake (Leafly)
• Big Pharma Seeks to Capitalize on Pain-Reducing Compound Derived From Cannabis (Truth-Out)
• Can Cannabis Change Capitalism? VICE Columnist, Author Thinks So. (Leafly)
• Bernie Sanders Encourages Californians to Legalize Marijuana This Fall (Reason)
• What We Know About Using Marijuana While Breastfeeding (ATTN:)
• The Keurig of weed vaporizers is launching next year (The Verge)
• A Member of Congress Made a Huge Admission About Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Whoopi Goldberg on the Challenges of Launching a Female-Focused Cannabis Brand (Yahoo! Style)
• Feds: Marijuana Trafficking Falls Following Statewide Legalization (NORML)
• VA Docs May Soon Be Allowed to Talk to Vets About Medical Pot (Reason)
• Radical Rant: Why 'We Need More Research' On Cannabis Is Bullshit (High Times)
• Nasdaq rejects listing application by cannabis social network (Reuters)
• How To Grow Cannabis: Starting Marijuana Seeds (Reset.me)
• Study: Rates Of Problematic Cannabis Use Falling Among Teens (NORML)
• NYC Police Commissioner Says Marijuana Trade Is Too Violent to Be Legalized (Reason)
• Here Are the 5 Best Marijuana Strains for Depression (ATTN:)
• Maitland couple let son grow cannabis farm in their home to pay off his drug debt (Metro)
• Canadian Police Shut Down Dozens of Unlicensed Marijuana Dispensaries (TIME)
• The Unexpected Opponent to California's Marijuana Legalization Measure (Reason)
• This is How Many College Students Drink Alcohol and Smoke Pot (TIME)
• Marijuana millionaires cash in on cannabis legalisation (The Guardian)
• Creating reference standards for cannabis testing: an interview with Adam Ross (News-Medical.net)
• Effects of Cannabis on Alzheimer's Disease investigated in mice (Pravda)
• Cannabuzz: Who Hates Cannabis? And Why? (The Portland Mercury)
• The 5 Best Marijuana Strains for Migraines (ATTN:)
• Smoking cannabis ALTERS your DNA 'causing mutations that can trigger serious illness, including cancer' (Daily Mail)
• Stoned sheep went on 'psychotic rampage' after eating cannabis plants dumped in quiet Welsh village (Daily Mail)

LSD

• Swapping LSD for Coffee at Work Is Probably a Bad Idea (The Daily Beast)
• Had LSD Never Been Discovered Over 75 Years Ago, Music History Would Be Entirely Different (Mic)
• The Early, State-Sanctioned LSD Experiments in Communist Bulgaria (Atlas Obscura)
• A Trip Down Memory Lane: LSD at Harvard (The Harvard Crimson)
• The 52: Was Ellis on LSD when he pitched no-hitter? (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
• 'No drugs for me' – Vogue Williams quashes rumours she'll take LSD on TV (Irish Independent)
• How LSD Changes The Way Our Brains Work (Brain Blogger)
• Why LSD Is Making A Worrying Comeback (Refinery29)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Long-awaited human trials suggest that magic mushrooms can treat depression (Quartz)
• Magic Mushrooms Could Be the Future of Antidepressants (VICE)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Ecstasy and MDMA are stronger now than ever before! (Stoney Roads)
• Bitter Life Lessons That Sunk In After 5 Weekends On MDMA (Pedestrian)
• Teenage boy fighting for life after taking ecstasy known as 'Rockstar' (Manchester Evening News)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Indigenous groups unhappy with the growing number of Ayahuasca retreats (Peru this Week)
• DMT Is the Next Big Hallucinogenic Drug. What Is It, and What Does It Do to Your Brain? (Mic)
• We Asked Why Someone Would Take Ayahuasca More Than 20 Times (VICE)
• Americans travel to Kentucky to try 'spiritual enlightenment' drug (WLWT)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Alabama church using psychedelic drugs to worship (WVTM)

Dissociatives

• 'Party Drug' Could Be Johnson & Johnson's Entry Into Antidepressant Market (Guru Focus)
• Ketamine found more effective for treating highly-agitated patients during transport to hospital (Science Daily)
• New meta-analysis shows ketamine effective against persistent post-surgery pain and could provide major cost-savings globally (EurekAlert!)
• Erick Morillo opens up about ketamine addiction (Mixmag)
• Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Ketamine's Rapid Antidepressant Action (Psychiatry Advisor)
• Westchester County Man Sentenced For Killing Passenger While Driving On PCP (Daily Voice)
• Police: Officers investigating possible shooting charge woman with PCP possession (The Frederick News-Post)

Opiates/Opioids

• How a pharma company made billions off mass murder by faking the science on Oxycontin (Boing Boing)
• How cracking down on America's painkiller capital led to a heroin crisis (The Guardian)
• Drug Deaths From Fentanyl, Heroin Increasing (Hartford Courant)
• What You Need to Know About This Critical Anti-Overdose Drug (ATTN:)
• Naloxone Price Hikes Spark Congressional Interest (Maine Public Broadcasting)
• 8 Countries that Produce the Most Opium in the World (Tech Insider)
• Afghan opium farmers celebrate bumper poppy harvest (BDlive)

Kratom

• Kratom & Pregnancy Safety (Kratom Project)
• How to Properly Dose Kratom – Low Medium & High Dosages (Kratom Project)
• Dangerous drug banned in 6 states, on the rise in SWFL (Wink News)
• Kratom & Coffee – A Strong Energizing Combination (Kratom Project)
• What is The Best Way to Take Kratom? (Kratom Revealed)
• Kratom Testing in Drug Tests (Kratom Project)
• NC lawmakers consider banning Kratom (WNCT)
• Arkansas's ban of the natural painkiller Kratom has left sufferers and former opiate addicts in the lurch (Arkansas Times)
• Wisconsin one of six states to ban drug Kratom (WIZM)
• Understanding Kratom Pharmacology (Kratom Project)
• Buying Kratom in Colorado – Is it Legal? (Kratom Project)

Kava

• Slight drop in kava price (The Fiji Times)
• Catching a buzz without the booze at Chicago's first kava bar (Chicago Reader)

Khat

• Herbal stimulant, khat derailing Djibouti's economy (Africa News)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Researchers Are Diving Into The World Of Psychedelic Drugs, And Compelling Results Are Arriving (A Plus)
• UK legal high ban: Laughing gas, salvia divinorum and mephedrone experiences (Daily Star)
• A History of Psychedelics (The Huffington Post)
• Splashes of Brilliance (Volteface)
• UBC study explores reducing domestic violence through psychedelic drugs (The Ubyssey)
• It's a 'psychedelic renaissance', as scientists identify medicinal qualities of hardcore drugs (Quartz)
• Challenging the Stigmas of Psychedelics: An Interview with Ashley Booth of the Aware Project (Psychedelic Times)
• LSD redux: Psychedelics may help brain functioning (Genetic Literacy Project)
• Mexico Approves Extradition of Drug Lord 'El Chapo' to the U.S. (TIME)
• Podcast with Javier Prato on Spiritual Medicine: Covering the Spectrum of Plant Healing (Psychedelic Times)
• 5 Hidden Dangers of Common Medications (ATTN:)
• Altered States of Consciousness (Philosophy Talk)
• Psychedelics, MDMA among drugs expected at Movement, Electric Forest (MLive.com)

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.