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This Week in Psychedelics - 7.29.16

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Can You Get Away with Mailing Cannabis Through the USPS? (Leafly)
  • The Average Legal Marijuana User Spends $645 A Year On The Green Stuff (Consumerist)
  • German, Italian Lawmakers Debate Bills to Expand Cannabis Access (Leafly)
  • Hillary Clinton Evolving on Cannabis? Maybe. Slowly. A Little. (Leafly)
  • Survey: Military Vets Strongly Support Medical Cannabis Access (NORML)
  • Poll: A Plurality of Republicans Now Want to Legalize Marijuana (Reason)
  • Massachusetts: Adult Use Marijuana Measure Qualifies For November Ballot (NORML)
  • Bhutan Emerges as Contraband Cannabis Hub (High Times)
  • Could therapeutic cannabis help slow opioid abuse? (New Hampshire Union Leader)
  • Cannabis startups and the ghost of Nancy Reagan (Recode)
  • Oregon's Counties Still Living Under Cannabis Prohibition, Mapped (The Potlander)
  • Cannabis fair gives away free pot samples (KOIN)
  • The Problem Plaguing Marijuana Legalization (ATTN:)
  • After Legalization in Colorado, Reports of Kids Who Accidentally Ate Marijuana Rose (Reason)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • We Asked an Optometrist Why Molly Makes Your Eyeballs Shake (VICE)
  • Why You Get 'Brain Zaps' After Taking MDMA, and How You Can Stop Them (VICE)
  • Woman, 19, dies after taking ecstasy on Leeds night out (The Guardian)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • DMT is becoming more popular in Australia (News.com.au)

Iboga/Ibogaine

Dissociatives

  • How Nitrous Oxide Inspired Early Psychedelic Literature (VICE)
  • New trials use ketamine to treat alcohol addiction (The Drinks Business)
  • From ketamine to cupboard therapy: the future of mental health treatment (The Guardian)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Naloxone Eases Pain of Heroin Epidemic, but Not Without Consequences (The New York Times)
  • Overdose-reversal drug naloxone now available in Florida without an individual prescription (Tampa Bay Times)
  • Macedonian Experts See Opium Poppy as a Possible Solution to Economic Woes (Latin American Herald Tribune)
  • Calm Down About the 'Opioid Epidemic' (Reason)

Absinthe

  • Cannabis Absinthe is Real and Here's Where to get it (Green Rush Daily)
  • In Prague, Better Alcohol Means Better Absinthe (Munchies)

Kratom

  • Kratom Vs SSRI Antidepressants – Which is the Best? (Kratom Guides)
  • Poison control centers are getting a surge of calls about 'natural' painkiller kratom (STAT)

Kava

  • This Tea Will Get You High (Gizmodo)

Khat

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • How LSD and shrooms could help treat anxiety, addiction, and depression (Vox)
  • America's "Psychedelic Spring"—Why Are These Drugs Growing in Cultural Importance Again? (AlterNet)
  • First ever festival to test users' drugs (BBC News)
  • Did Psychedelics Create the Search for Meaning in Western Civilization? (Psychedelic Times)
  • Olympic Drug Cops Will Scan for Genetically Modified Athletes (Wired)
  • The Drug War and the Crime of Drive (or Walking) While Black (Reason)
  • The Worst Drugs to Get Caught With in America (ATTN:)
  • Yahoo must explain how it got a drug trafficker's deleted email (Engadget)
  • Anti-Drug War Philly DNC Protesters March Giant Joint (Reason)
  • Drugs and the Divine: Where Psychedelics Overlap with Spiritual Practices (Publishers Weekly)

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 - 7.22.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • DEA Opens the Door to Cannabis Research with Clinical PTSD Trials (Psychedelic Times)
  • Big Pharma's Concerned About These Marijuana Stats (ATTN:)
  • Colorado town finds THC in water, warns residents not to drink or bathe in it (The Denver Post)
  • Montana: Medical Cannabis Restoration Initiative Qualifies For November Ballot (NORML)
  • Poll: Two-Thirds Of Americans Say 'Efforts To Enforce Marijuana Laws Cost More Than They Are Worth' (NORML)
  • Pennsylvania Legalizes Industrial Hemp (Reason)
  • This Former Prison Was Purchased by a Marijuana Company (ATTN:)
  • Cannabis: Bronze Age Yamna culture may have introduced cannabis to Europe and Asia 5,000 years ago (International Business Times)
  • Dabado Helps Cannabis Concentrate Users Put Down The Blow Torch (Forbes)
  • Cannabis industry bolstering retail, manufacturing job growth in Colorado (The Denver Post)
  • People Using This Health Remedy Are Often Denied Organ Transplants (ATTN:)
  • HelloMD looks to its 'Quora for cannabis' as a source of growth (TechCrunch)
  • Why Does Cannabis Get You "High" and Make You Feel Good? (Leafly)
  • Government could make $150 million annually from taxing cannabis (Stuff.co.nz)
  • First medical cannabis dispensary in Florida receives Authorization to Dispense (WPTV)
  • A Strange Blend: Why Are Europeans Mixing Cannabis and Tobacco? (Leafly)
  • Fund-raising in Cannabis, Initially Slow, Is Going Higher and Higher (Yahoo! Finance)
  • "Why do Republicans Respect Marijuana Prohibition Like it Came From Moses?" (Reason)

LSD

  • Doors of Perception: How Aldous Huxley Brought LSD Therapy to His Readers (Psychedelic Times)
  • How LSD Went From Research to Religion (JSTOR Daily)
  • Watch: Kristen Wiig is sorry for that time she slipped Seth Myers LSD (Vox)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Studying ecstasy or MDMA's effects may lead to autism or PTSD drug development (International Business Times)
  • A New Documentary Explores Whether or Not MDMA Use Can Solve Your Relationship Problems (Thump)
  • This Ecstasy Review Site Is a Hotbed of Perfect Pill-Related Prose (Thump)
  • Scientists say MDMA needs to be studied, not demonised (ScienceAlert)
  • Drug dealers selling Pokemon ecstasy pills to target youngsters and cash in on computer game craze (Mirror)

Ayahuasca/DMT

Iboga/Ibogaine

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • What Is Fake LSD And How Can You Avoid It (High Times)

Dissociatives

  • New Trials Are Using Ketamine to Treat Alcohol Addiction (Motherboard)
  • Woman High on PCP Steals Car from North Haven Gas Station: Police (Patch)
  • Police rescue woman who climbed crane after taking PCP (Bristol Herald Courier)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Congress Is Doing Something About the Opioid Epidemic (ATTN:)
  • Our Opioid Crisis Reveals Deep Racial Bias In Addiction Treatment (TIME)
  • This Judge Wants Drug Dealers to Pay for Naloxone (ATTN:)
  • As Prescription Painkiller Addiction Soars, Drug Companies Raise Overdose Treatment Price By 1000% (Mintpress News)
  • To End the Opioid Epidemic, We Need Way More Than OD Treatments (Wired)
  • US War In Afghanistan Is Fueling Global Heroin Epidemic & Enabling The Drug Trade (Mintpress News)

Absinthe

Kratom

Kava

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Why People Are Drinking Tobacco in the Amazon (Munchies)
  • How to Become an Addiction Recovery Coach Who Incorporates Psychedelic Integration (Psychedelic Times)
  • Drugs, Dissociatives and Displacement: The Festival Drug Report - Part 1 (VolteFace)
  • The Reason Saliva Drug Testing Hasn't Caught On (ATTN:)
  • What if all drugs were totally legal? (Boing Boing)
  • Mississippi's prison town are in danger of collapse, thanks to tiny reforms in the War on Drugs (Boing Boing)
  • The True Cost of This $2 Drug Test (ATTN:)
  • Emulating Nixon, Trump Sounds Softer Than Dukakis on Drugs (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 - 7.15.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • The Democratic Party Made a Big Move on Marijuana (ATTN:)
  • Facebook And Google Cannabis Policy Enforcement Makes No Sense (BuzzFeed)
  • "420" Dating: An Interview with Molly Peckler, Cannabis Dating Website Founder (Leafly)
  • This Fancy Weed Chocolate Helps You Not Get Too Stoned (Wired)
  • Study: Medical Marijuana Laws Linked To Less Prescription Drug Use, Medicare Spending (NORML)
  • Oregon Launches New Cannabis Worker Permit (Leafly)
  • Baby Boomer Parents, Have You Come Out of the Cannabis Closet to Your Adult Kids? (Leafly)
  • Allen St. Pierre Tenders His Resignation (NORML)
  • New Research Sheds Light on Cannabis' Bronze Age Roots (Leafly)
  • The Altered State Exhibit at Oakland Museum of California (Reality Sandwich)
  • North Dakota medical cannabis petition deadline approaching (Valley News Live)
  • Two Texas Lawyers Make Viral Song About Weed (ATTN:)
  • Medicinal cannabis the right oil for Ellie the Staffy, her owner believes (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  • Should L.A. County Tax Medical Cannabis to Fight Homelessness? (Leafly)
  • Colorado Pot Regulation Amendment Pulled By Its Own Supporters (Reason)
  • A Cannabis Company Co-Founder Says the CEO Groped and Smelled Her (Willamette Week)
  • Sen. Feinstein Will Not Be Giving Up the Drug War Anytime Soon (Reason)
  • Cannabis users who put tobacco in joints 'more likely to be addicted' (The Guardian)

LSD

  • Toddler may have ingested LSD near Oregon Country Fair, officials say (The Oregonian)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • Understanding Different Magic Mushrooms: A Guide to 4 Common Psilocybin Mushrooms (Psychedelic Times)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Scientists Really Want to Be Allowed to Study MDMA (Inverse)
  • Ecstasy: The Unplanned Addiction (Doctor Tipster)
  • Could ECSTASY treat autism? Scientists call for tests on the illegal rave drug as they claim it could have 'therapeutic effects for disorders' (Daily Mail)
  • New drugs warning after TITP ecstasy find (The Courier)
  • Boy, 13, in critical condition after 'taking MDMA' (Metro)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • Psychedelics being used to cure alcoholism (KOAT)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • Whatever's in Synthetic Marijuana, It's the Opposite of Chill (Wired)
  • New York Like Scene From 'The Walking Dead' After Large-Scale Marijuana Overdose (TIME)
  • 33 people collapse on busy street after smoking 'synthetic cannabis' (The Telegraph)
  • 'N bomb' drug gave teenager fatal heart attack (Irish Independent)

Dissociatives

  • Ketamine Could Be Used To Treat Alcoholics And Alcoholism (Yahoo! News)
  • Club Drug Ketamine ('Special K') Could Treat Depression (AOL UK)
  • What are the effects of ketamine? (The Guardian)
  • Sergeant: North Tulsa PCP bust second largest I've ever seen (KOKI)
  • Resident On PCP Calls Police To Describe Hallucinations: Cops (Patch)
  • Prosecutor: woman drinking, had PCP in system before deadly crash (Chicago Sun-Times)

Opiates/Opioids

  • The scourge of heroin and opioid deaths still doesn't match AIDS at its worst (PolitiFact)
  • Naloxone nasal spray gets temporary Health Canada approval (CBC News)
  • Chaka Khan Enters Rehab for the Same Drug That Killed Prince (ATTN:)
  • Congress Finally Passes Bipartisan Legislation To Address Opioid Epidemic (The Huffington Post)
  • Obama to sign bill to battle heroin addiction (CNBC)

Kratom

Kava

  • Farmers say police involved in kava theft in Fiji (Radio New Zealand)
  • THESE 3 NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS ARE GUARANTEED TO IMPROVE YOUR SEX LIFE (Maxim)

Khat

  • Ingredients for date rape drug, khat, firearms seized by border agents in Manitoba (CBC News)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

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 - 7.8.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Win-Win for Jamaica and Cannabis Harm Reduction as Marijuana Kiosks Set to Appear in Airports (Psychedelic Times)
  • These Pro MMA Fighters Don't Just Use Cannabis, They Embrace It (Leafly)
  • New study aims to examine whole-plant marijuana as treatment for sports injuries (The Denver Post)
  • The DEA Can't Legalize Medical Marijuana (Reason)
  • Does cannabis affect sperm? (Stuff.co.nz)
  • Epileptic children to get cannabis-based drug ahead of trials, NSW Premier says (ABC)
  • FDA Approves Insys Therapeutics' 2nd Cannabis-Based Drug (Forbes)
  • Signatures for Ark. Medical Cannabis Act verified, measure will be on November ballot (KATV)
  • Task Force Offers Hints of What Legal Pot Will Look Like in Canada (Reason)
  • Attempt to Limit Strength of THC in CO (NORML)
  • The One Job the Marijuana Industry Desperately Needs (ATTN:)
  • Wine Country Collective Offers Social Cannabis Tastings (Merry Jane)
  • Cannabis Capitalist: Scotts Miracle-Gro CEO Bets Big On Pot Growers (Forbes)
  • Tech Thursday: Steps To Protecting Cannabis In An Industry Ripe For Lawsuits (Dope Magazine)
  • Mixing cannabis with tobacco 'increases risk of addiction': Smoking drug 'makes you 60% LESS likely to want to quit' (Daily Mail)

LSD

  • Redman talks about that time he took acid and got shocked with an electric cattle prod (Boing Boing)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • Psychedelic Safe, Possibly Effective for Refractory Depression (Medscape)
  • Psilocybin and the Shadow: Magic Mushrooms as a Tool For Healing Emotional Trauma (High Existence)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Tragic student Jane Khalaf's ecstasy death would have been prevented if she had different hospital treatment (Mirror)
  • Heartbroken mum warns teenagers to 'value life' after her daughter died from toxic reaction to ecstasy (Mirror)
  • Epsom man died after taking mock ecstasy inquest hears (Get Surrey)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • Inside a Psychedelic Healing Retreat (VICE)
  • This Swedish island promises shamans and psychedelic tea (The Local)
  • 9 Investigates hallucinogenic drug used in local church (WFTV)

Salvia Divinorum

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • Convicted dealer linked to teen's NBOMe death pleads guilty to more charges (WRTV)

Dissociatives

  • Researchers seeking volunteers to test effectiveness of ketamine in treating alcoholism (iNews)
  • Man high on PCP runs car into home on Fourth of July (The Lufkin News)

Opiates/Opioids

  • A Conspiracy Theory that became a "Conspiracy Fact": The CIA, Afghanistan's Poppy Fields and America's Growing Heroin Epidemic (Center for Research on Globalization)
  • Mexico Now World's Third Biggest Producer of Opium Poppy (teleSUR)
  • Push to legalize poppy plantations in Mexico touches on farmers' livelihood (Fox News Latino)
  • Naloxone Widely Spread Throughout the United States (World Report Now)
  • Naloxone to be immediately distributed to released inmates in Ontario (The Globe and Mail)
  • Heroin addiction specialists see younger users getting treatment (9NEWS)

Kratom

Kava

Khat

  • The African drug some don't want to live without (BBC)
  • Uganda: Mairungi Farmers Protest Law (All Africa)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • How Psychedelic Drugs Could Help Treat Addiction (Motherboard)
  • From LSD trips to getting caught in the girls' toilets - 9 things you didn't know about Cary Grant (Bristol Post)
  • 'People Would Do Anything to Get a Fix': Female Drug Dealers Share Their Stories (Broadly)
  • Where the Presidential Candidates Stand on Drug Policy (Forbes)
  • Finding a Doctor or Medical Professional That Incorporates Psychedelic Integration (Psychedelic Times)
  • Are Psychedelics Addictive? Understanding the Cultural and Social Roots of Addiction (Psychedelic Times)
  • 5 Bizarre Beliefs About Drugs From History (Bustle)
  • What Is Addiction Recovery Coaching? Integrating a Psychedelic Experience with a Recovery Coach (Psychedelic Times)
  • Psychedelia isn't dead, just ask videogames (Kill Screen)
  • DARE training teaches about new drug trends (West Hawaii Today)

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 - 7.1.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Is the DEA About To Legalize Marijuana? (Forbes)
  • Marijuana Could Be Legalized in California November Vote (TIME)
  • Scientists claim the US government is still limiting cannabis research (Science Alert)
  • Cannabis conversation urged at North American Leaders Summit (The Hill)
  • The Smart and Big Money Continues to Flow into the Cannabis Market (Forbes)
  • Doctors seek to open lab to test medical cannabis for quality (The Baltimore Sun)
  • Cannabis Church to hold first service, combats marijuana stigma (Lansing State Journal)
  • Corporate Cannabis Has Arrived – and That Might Be a Good Thing (Leafly)
  • Ask a Pot Lawyer: Rescheduling Weed (The Portland Mercury)
  • Colorado City Official: It Will Take Time to Change 'Opinions That Pot is Bad' (TIME)
  • How to Clone Cannabis Plants (Leafly)
  • Public Health Service 'ill-equipped' to provide treatment for cannabis users despite surge in numbers seeking help, experts warn (The Independent)
  • Father who claimed cannabis oil cured his cancer dies a year later aged just 34 (Daily Mail)

LSD

  • Watch What Happens When a Portrait Artist Takes LSD (AlterNet)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • What Are the Effects of Psilocybin Mushrooms? The Medicinal and Spiritual Benefits of Psilocybin (Psychedelic Times)
  • Dog accidentally eats Psilocybin Mushrooms, trips tennis balls (theCHIVE)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • 9 Things That Happen in the Brain and Body on MDMA (The Science Explorer)
  • What Is MDMA and What Are Its Benefits? Treating Anxiety and Mental Illness with Ecstacy (Psychedelic Times)
  • Say Why To Drugs: unravelling the myster-E of MDMA (The Guardian)
  • Would legalising ecstasy save lives? (Closer)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • 10 Daily Routines to Prepare for Ayahuasca Ceremonies (Eagle Condor Alliance)
  • Australia's DMT Debate Could Reboot Psychedelic Thinking (Inverse)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

  • Mescaline: The Hallucinogenic Equivalent of The Eagles (Inverse)

Iboga/Ibogaine

Dissociatives

Opiates/Opioids

  • Mexico's opium poppy farmers are fed up with the job's dangers (VICE)
  • Heroin use at 20-year high in US drug 'epidemic', UN says (Fox News)
  • UN report says plunge in opium production won't affect heroin supply (Daily Times)
  • Inside the Twisted Economics of a 1949 Saigon Opium Detox Clinic (TIME)
  • Coprescribing Naloxone With an Opioid Aids Chronic Pain (Medscape)
  • Heroin Overdose Deaths Have Tripled in 5 Years, DEA Says (ABC News)

Kratom

  • Why Are States Rushing to Ban Kratom? (Merry Jane)
  • Taking Kratom on an Empty Stomach – Is it needed? (Kratom Project)
  • 'Legal Psychoactive' Drug Concerns NC Lawmakers, Health Officials (WCQS)
  • Which Type of Kratom is Good for Sleep and Fibromyalgia? (Kratom Guides)
  • Using Kratom for Premature Ejaculation (Kratom Project)

Kava

  • I tried a cup of kava, the South Pacific drink that some say could replace alcohol – here's what it was like (Business Insider)

Khat

  • Embu miraa farmers demand inclusion in task force (Citizen TV)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • The fascinating, strange medical potential of psychedelic drugs, explained in 50+ studies (Vox)
  • Four Reasons Gay People Might Have Better Insight Into Addiction and the Drug War (The Influence)
  • How to Tell If Your Drugs Have Gone Bad (VICE)
  • Psychedelic drugs: what hallucinating is all about (The Guardian)
  • The Scientific Way to Create a Music Festival Drug Schedule (Inverse)
  • International Day Against Drug Abuse: How UK deals with new psychoactive substances (International Business Times)
  • Dealers Reveal the Sketchiest Places Your Drugs Have Been (Complex)
  • These maps show how dangerous illegal drugs flow around the globe (Business Insider)
  • 4 types of drugs and what they do to your body: Heroin, Cocaine, Meth and LSD (India Today)
  • Trips and Traps: Psychedelics Seek Legitimacy in the World of Modern Medicine (VolteFace)
  • The Difference Between Being Happy and Being High (VICE)
  • Startups and psychedelics: Founders trip on smart drugs (The Financial Express)
  • Shamanic Healer Anahata Ananda Talks About Shamanic Breathing to Create the Psychedelic Experience and Conscious Relationships on Psychedelic Milk International Podcast (Benzinga)

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.