This Week in Psychedelics - 9.2.16

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Cannabis

• 9th Circuit Says Medical Marijuana Cardholders Have No Second Amendment Rights (Reason)
• States Voting on Marijuana This Year (ATTN:)
• Chatting with the Man Who Legally Changed His Name to 'Free Cannabis' (VICE)
• Medical Marijuana: New York Set To Approve Home Delivery Of Cannabis (Inquisitr)
• New Campaign in Colorado Looks to Keep Underage Kids From Using Cannabis (Merry Jane)
• Tommy Chong Has a Major Request for Pres. Obama Before He Leaves Office (ATTN:)
• Promoting Cannabis Legalization: Advice From The Experts (Dope Magazine)
• These Athletes Add Cannabis To Their Workout Regimen (Forbes)
• More Americans Are Using Marijuana and Don't See it as Harmful (TIME)
• When Bob Dylan Turned the Beatles On To Marijuana (Reality Sandwich)
• UC Irvine Professor: Cannabis Shows Promise Treating Opioid Addiction (Green Rush Daily)
• California Veterans Group Distributed Free Cannabis (Green Rush Daily)
• California Cannabis: Show Me The Money (Above the Law)
• Four Cannabis Entrepreneurs Share Their Strangest Moments (Forbes)
• Cannabis Growers Seek Blue Ribbons For Their Buds At Oregon's State Fair (NPR)
• How cannabis harms your will to work: Just ONE joint reduces motivation (Daily Mail)

LSD

• How the Brain Processes Language on Acid Is a Trip (Motherboard)
• Grateful Dead fan who sold LSD has life sentence cut by Obama (Mashable)
• John Lennon on his first acid trip (Boing Boing)
• Turn on! LSD pioneer Ram Dass recalls pal Timothy Leary (New York Daily News)
• I Use LSD to Help Me Deal with the Trauma of Being Kidnapped by My Dad (VICE)
• 1924: A rabbi who sought the light anywhere, including in LSD, is born (Haaretz)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Treating Depression: Human Study Shows Psilocybin Works Where Conventional Antidepressants Don't (Psychedelic Times)
• Bad Trips Might Be Good For You (I4U News)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• What the 1980s Glue Sniffing Epidemic Can Teach Us About Preventing Ecstasy Deaths (VICE)
• This Chemist Should Have Won a Nobel Peace Prize (VolteFace)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• This Is How Ayahuasca Affects the Brain (Motherboard)
• Questions raised about what caused woman's death inside Berea church (WKYT)
• Discovery of illegal drug lab, used to manufacture DMT, prompts extensive hazardous materials response in Northampton (MassLive)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Peyote and the racialized war on drugs (The Christian Century)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• Witness to Transformation: John Harrison on Ibogaine Addiction Treatment (Psychedelic Times)

Dissociatives

• Man Who Died when Tased Was High on PCP: NY AG (Patch: Southeast)
• Sheriff: Man on flakka and LSD smashes window, attacks woman (WFXT)

Opiates/Opioids

• Surgeon General Writes to Every Doctor in U.S. About Opioid Epidemic (TIME)
• Should the cost of naloxone be determined by its public health impact? (Modern Healthcare)

Kratom

• The DEA Is Placing Kratom And Mitragynine On Schedule I (Forbes)
• Why Banning the Controversial Painkiller Kratom Could be Bad News for America's Heroin Addicts (Kratom Project)
• Why are many states hurrying in banning the kratom? (Kratom Project)
• The Problem With the DEA Ban on Kratom (ATTN:)
• Which countries allow kratom usage without restrictions? (Kratom Project)
• Kratom and Pregnancy: Can a Pregnant Woman Take Kratom? (Kratom Guides)

Kava

• High price leads to weak kava sales (The Fiji Times)
• Competition between Fiji and Vanuatu kava (The Fiji Times)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• America Can Learn A Lot From Portugal's Drug Policy (NORML)
• Cocaine 'worth €50m' discovered at Coca-Cola plant (BBC News)
• Philippine Anti-Drug Strategy: 'Kill Them All' (Reason)
• Canadian Vacationers Charged With Smuggling $22 Million of Cocaine on Cruise Ship in Australia (TIME)
• The war on drugs failed. What now? (The Christian Century)
• 500 legal experts launch bid to reform drug policies (Buenos Aires Herald)

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 - 8.26.16

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Cannabis

• These Five States Are Next To Vote On Cannabis Legalization (Green Rush Daily)
• DEA Concession Means Marijuana Could Be Approved As a Medicine (Reason)
• Is Naked Weed Report a Win for Women in the Cannabis Industry? (Merry Jane)
• Marijuana's Mystifying Misclassification (Reason)
• What Will Recreational Marijuana Legalization Mean for California? (Reason)
• Oregon's Legal Marijuana Raised More Than $25 Million in Tax Revenue This Year (TIME)
• Michigan Marijuana Legalization Initiative Probably Won't Make Ballot (Reason)
• Stoner secretly grows cannabis in Glastonbury council's hanging baskets... for 18 years (RT)
• A Greener Weed: Certified Pesticide-Free Cannabis Comes to Colorado (Modern Farmer)
• Trial of cannabis withdrawal spray Sativex popular with middle-aged pothead dads (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• What Gambling Can Tell Us About Legalizing Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Bob Marley's kids launch a new cannabis 'lifestyle brand' in Oregon (The Oregonian)
• Die Antwoord to Launch Their Own Cannabis Product Line "Zef Zol" (Merry Jane)
• To help baby girl, family drives to Denver for cannabis (KOAT)
• Sexist Cannabis: Marijuana relieves pain for men, not women – study (RT)
• Medical Marijuana is as healthy as Medical LSD and Heroin (Clapway)

LSD

• LSD Triggers Strong Activation Of Mind's Semantic Networks, Study Finds (Medical Daily)
• Would you take LSD to give you a boost at work? WIRED takes a trip inside the world of microdosing (WIRED)
• LSD Might Make You More Creative (TIME)
• Beatles' Acid Test: How LSD Opened the Door to 'Revolver' (Rolling Stone)
• Here's What Happens to Your Brain on LSD (Esquire)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Study: Psilocybin Helps Smokers Quit Long Term (High Times)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• With the Proper Setting, Women May Respond Better to MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Than Men (Psychedelic Times)
• How Your Menstrual Cycle Can Affect Your Reaction to MDMA (VICE)
• This Is What Sex on MDMA Is Like (Cosmopolitan)
• Why You Gurn When You Take MDMA (VICE)
• The growing popularity, and potency, of ecstasy and MDMA (BBC News)
• Double-strength MDMA causing 'more mental health issues' (The Week)
• German Police Allegedly Confuse Viagra for Ecstasy in Traffic Stop (THUMP)
• Irish teenager who first did ecstasy in third year: 'Most schools have dealers amongst students' (Irish Independent)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• The science of the hallucinogenic drug ayahuasca (Science Alert)
• How Two Plants Combine To Form The Powerful Drug Ayahuasca (Gizmodo: India)
• Filipino tourist dies during Ayahuasca session (Peru This Week)
• Yoga, Ayahuasca, and a Course in Miracles: Notes on the Ongoing Revelation (Reality Sandwich)
• BBC presenter takes drug in Brazil to "get close to God" - and describes his five-hour hallucination (Mirror)
• Police investigating App State student's possible drug-related death, drug lab (WBTV)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Travelers Warned Not to Bring Peyote or Marijuana Creams from Mexico (Breitbart)
• The people who take drugs to see God (BBC News)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• Ibogaine treatment costs explained (Genesis Ibogaine Treatment Center)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Centre bans nine new party drugs (DNA: India)

Dissociatives

• Ketamine: The Musical 'Does Not Make You Want to Do Ketamine' (The Village Voice)
• 'Special K' for depression (Seton)
• Stamford Man High on PCP Urinated in Public Near Children: PD (Patch: Stamford)
• Angry, PCP-Using Brother Shoots Pregnant Sister and Kills Her Baby: Prosecutor (Patch: Chicago)
• Man believed to be on PCP in violent struggle with police (The Hour)

Opiates/Opioids

• Seattle Considers Safe Space for Heroin Use (Reason)
• When Chinatown was overrun by gambling and opium dens (New York Post)

Kratom

• FDA Seizes Kratom Pain Relievers Because They Are Too Effective (The Libertarian Republic)
• I-Team: Could a dietary supplement lead to a heroin relapse? (WCPO)
• Does Kratom Cause Weight Loss? (Kratom Project)
• How to Get Rid of Kratom Hangover? (Kratom Guides)

Kava

• Thousands drinking kava in NZ, but is it a cure or a killer? (TVNZ)
• Launch of Kava Strategy and Quality Standard (Vanuatu Daily Post)
• Hawaiian healing herbs help health (The Garden Island)
• Vatanitawake Speaks Out Against Church Practices (Fiji Sun)

Khat

• County sees first convictions in khat case (Bloomington Pantagraph)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• The Mainstreaming of Psychedelics (High Times)
• Almost 1,800 People Have Died in Seven Weeks in the Philippines' War on Drugs (TIME)
• The Ancient Roots of Psychedelic Harm Reduction at Modern Festivals (Psychedelic Times)
• Alcohol Prohibition Was a Dress Rehearsal for the War on Drugs (Reason)
• A Psychedelic Right (VolteFace)
• Growing research finds psychedelics effective in treating disease (The Baltimore Sun)
• Psychedelics: The Trip from Criminality to Validity (Reality Sandwich)
• Is Sex Better on Drugs? (Thrillist)
• Blame the War on Drugs for stoned, face-eating murderers (Boing Boing)
• College Student Who Tried to Bite Man's Face Off Told Cops: 'You Won't Find Any Drugs in Me' (TIME)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 8.19.16

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Cannabis

• Why We Should Demand That Congress Reschedule Marijuana (NORML)
• 9th Circuit Says Feds May Not Prosecute State-Legal Medical Marijuana Suppliers (Reason)
• Arizona Is the Fifth State Where Voters Will Decide Whether to Legalize Pot This Year (Reason)
• Canada to allow medical patients to grow own cannabis (Fox News)
• Medical cannabis in Israel to become more accessible (Haaretz)
• Post-Traumatic Marijuana: Some Military Veterans Are Embracing the Drug as Scientists Scramble to Study it Effects (TIME)
• Cannabis and Blue Dreams of Unity at the DNC Convention (The Weed Blog)
• When Treating Bipolar Disorder with Cannabis, Research Suggests the Amount of CBD May Be Key (Psychedelic Times)
• Poll: Two-Thirds Of Californians Support Legalizing Retail Sales Of Marijuana To Adults (NORML)
• Is Cannabis Better for Chronic Pain Than Opioids? (Leafly)
• The NHS are testing a cannabis product for the first time (The Independent)
• Majority back decriminalisation of cannabis use, poll suggests (Radio New Zealand)
• How an Ailing Artist Helped Unite Italians Around Cannabis (Leafly)
• SF pot dispensary vibe: The country club of cannabis clubs (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Reasonable Doubt: the history of marijuana law in Canada (NOW Magazine)
• Marijuana Advocates to DEA: Talk to the Hand (ATTN:)
• Oregon's cannabis fair celebrates growing pot industry (KHOU)

LSD

• The secret LSD-fueled experiment that inspired Stranger Things (The Guardian)
• How to build IKEA furniture on LSD (The Boston Globe)
• New study shows LSD's effects on language (Medical Xpress)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Psychedelic mushrooms growing alarmingly popular among middle schoolers (WTVM)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Why So Many People in the UK Are Dying from Ecstasy Overdoses (VICE)
• Science Reveals Whether Sex Feels Best on MDMA, Alcohol or Weed (Maxim)
• Why Do So Many Women Keep Dying At This Music Festival? (Broadly)
• Mixmag Launches Campaign for Safe Ecstasy Usage (EDM Tunes)
• Expert discusses MDMA research (Medical Xpress)
• Brit holidaymaker in hospital after suspected overdose in Ibiza nightclub (The Sun)
• Man jailed after supplying ecstasy to friend who died at Sterosonic festival (The Guardian)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Ayahuasca Benefits And Risks: Hallucinogenic Drug May Enhance Meditation (Medical Daily)
• Visions, purging and Peru: what happened when I went to an ayahuasca retreat (Yahoo! Lifestyle)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• CBP Reminds Public that Peyote is Prohibited Item (KRGV)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• Iboga Healing and the Collective Unconscious (Reality Sandwich)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• 'Zombie Drug' Paranoia Resurfaces After Teen's Terrifying Homicidal Outburst (Reason)
• Proposed N-Bomb drug law change too harsh, contends Drug Foundation (Stuff.co.nz)

Dissociatives

• Ketamine May Be The Next Great Hope In Treating Mental Illness (The Huffington Post)
• Australia's largest trial of ketamine to treat depression begins (Scimex)
• Could ketamine help heavy drinkers cut down on booze? (Dazed)
• Apparently intoxicated, half-naked man blocks roadway; police suspect PCP (The Examiner)

Opiates/Opioids

• FDA paves a path for OTC naloxone (Behavioral Health)
• People Are Overdosing on 'Game of Thrones' Heroin (TIME)
• A Life-Saving Overdose Drug Is Getting Harder to Afford (ATTN:)

Absinthe

• This Isn't Your Grandfather's Absinthe (Munchies)

Kratom

• How Can Kratom Be a Stimulant, Sedative, and Hallucinogen, too? (Kratom Project)
• 3 Things Pharmacists Should Know About Kratom (Pharmacy Times)
• PTSD and Kratom (Kratom Project)
• What are the best ways to take Kratom? (Kratom Guides)

Kava

• Methodist church relaxes certain conditions of smoking and kava ban (Fijivillage)
• Kava company reached out to the world (The Fiji Times)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Which Drugs Make Your Dick Shrink the Most and Why (VICE)
• Philippine Leader Duterte Calls U.N. 'Very Stupid' For Criticizing His Drug War (TIME)
• The global drug wars have failed, how can DU30's 'war' succeed? (The Manila 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 - 8.12.16

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Cannabis

• DEA Rejects Marijuana Rescheduling but Eliminates a Research Barrier (Reason)
• The FDA Quietly Approved a Synthetic Form of Marijuana as Medicine (ATTN:)
• Share of Americans Who Admit Current Pot Use Nearly Doubles in Three Years (Reason)
• Hillary Clinton Campaign Says She Would Reschedule Marijuana (TIME)
• Marijuana Haters Say They Have Millions to Spend Against Legalization Effort (L.A. Weekly)
• Robbery of Portland Cannabis Dispensary Points Out a Glaring Vulnerability: Cash (Willamette Week)
• People Are Shaming Malia Obama for Smoking Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Canada to allow medical patients to grow own cannabis (Reuters)
• Study: Frequent Marijuana Consumers Not More Likely To Access Health Care Services (NORML)
• Weed spit test can detect if you're driving high in 3 minutes (Engadget)
• Arizona Will Vote On Legalizing Marijuana in November (TIME)
• Build Your Own Cannabis Library with These Must-Read Books About Marijuana (Leafly)
• Dumped Signatures Push Medical Marijuana Initiative off Missouri's Ballot (Reason)
• 7 Scientific Effects of Marijuana That Experts Want to Study (TIME)
• Lupus Can Be Treated by Cannabis (Green Rush Daily)
• Libertarian presidential candidate's staffers set up booth at cannabis conference (KATU)
• How to Talk to Your Kids About Pot (TIME)
• How Cannabis Helps With Glaucoma (Green Rush Daily)
• Even Cheech and Chong would be impressed with this "Happy Kit" (Boing Boing)
• Justin Trudeau Lights Up Canadian Cannabis Stocks (New Cannabis Ventures)
• Warning over using butane to produce super-strength cannabis (BBC)
• Two dozen people treated for overdose after eating cannabis-laced sweets (The Telegraph)

LSD

• AVN Awards News: 'South Park' Creators Apparently Took Acid At Racy Ceremony [VIDEO] (Enstarz)
• The Beatles' Revolver and a Half-Century of LSD (TIME)
• John Waters Remembers 'Multiple Maniacs', His LSD-Fueled Cavalcade of Perversion (VICE)
• Couple take LSD then attempt to build flat-pack furniture (Daily Star)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• When Psychiatrists Fought Like Hell to Keep MDMA Legal (Inverse)
• The Party Drug With The Power To Ease Anxiety, Depression, And PTSD (GOOD Magazine)
• LETHAL ECSTASY WARNING: British Clubbers in Ibiza warned over deadly pills after bust uncovers drugs with FIVE times the normal strength circulating on the party island (The Sun)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Scientists Developed a Way to Make DMT Trips Last Longer Than Ever (VICE)
• When Headaches Won't Stop: Why Some People Are Choosing DMT and Ayahuasca to Treat Chronic Migraines (Psychedelic Times)
• An Artist Documented Ayahuasca's Secrets as Sounds and Textile Art (The Creators Project)
• Tripping on the Psychedelic Ayahuasca, Without the Trip to Peru (Dallas Observer)
• 9 Investigates: DEA orders Orange County church to stop psychedelic tea ceremonies (WFTV)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• N-Bomb: The new drug on Narcotics Control Bureau's radar (The Indian Express)
• DRUG TEEN TRAGEDY: Cops find body in search for 16-year-old boy who was last seen 'tripping' on 'N Bomb' drug and running naked near river (The Sun)

Dissociatives

• Talking Psychedelic Spectacles with the Co-director of "Ketamine: The Musical" (Papermag)

Opiates/Opioids

• It's Opium Season in America (Pretend You Don't Know) (Inverse)
• Treating Heroin Addicts (The New York Times)
• FDA Supports Greater Access to Naloxone to Help Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths (FDA Voice)
• Opioid overdose: What Naloxone can and cannot do (The Weston Forum)
• Shift in care could reverse the opioid epidemic (The Hill)
• This man turned an opium field into a sustainable coffee farm in Thailand (Eco-Business)

Kratom

• What is Kratom and why won't the FDA approve it as medicine? (KPCC)
• Can Kratom be detected in Urine test or drug tests? (Kratom Project)

Kava

• Kava flowing after Fiji's win (Māori Television)
• Kava Stall Mysteriously Burns At Market (Fiji Sun)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Philippines President Duterte on vigilante drug war: "You can't stop me" (CBS News)
• DEA regularly mines Americans' travel records to seize millions in cash (USA Today)
• Integrating a Psychedelic Experience Through Personal and Spiritual Practices (Psychedelic Times)
• Two Photos Show the Consequences of the World's War on Drugs (ATTN:)
• The Chemicals Found in Meth (ATTN:)
• The Diverging Mind (VolteFace)

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 - 8.5.16

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Cannabis

• THE STONED AGE: Scientists discover humans have been using cannabis for over 10,000 YEARS (The Sun)
• Study Finds Lifelong Cannabis Users Are Healthy (Reset.me)
• A Pathway Towards Marijuana Legalization: The Significance of the Democratic Platform (NORML)
• DEA: Marijuana Seizures Decline In 2015 (NORML)
• Illinois Is the Latest State to Decriminalize Small Amounts of Marijuana (TIME)
• Here's how many cannabis plants Alaskans can now legally possess at home (Alaska Dispatch News)
• DEA Continues to Delay Decision on Rescheduling Cannabis (Merry Jane)
• A Police Veteran Explains Why Law Enforcement Should Embrace Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Drug Warriors Start Pulling in Millions to Fight Marijuana Legalization (Reason)
• How Medical Marijuana Farming in Israel Could Help California's Cannabis Industry (L.A. Weekly)
• Louis Armstrong and Cannabis: Celebrating the Jazz Legend's Lifelong Love of "the Gage" (Leafly)
• What Are the Side Effects of High-THC Cannabis? (Leafly)
• Blue ribbons all round as Oregon hosts America's first cannabis growers fair (International Business Times)
• Is cannabis really getting stronger? (The Conversation)
• An Edible Marijuana Pioneer Is Ready for Billion-Dollar Cannabis Brands (Bloomberg)
• Calif. Cops Are Using Meth Lab Law to Keep Going After Legal Medical Marijuana Companies (Reason)
• Minnesota Medical Cannabis Program Takes New Step Adding Intractable Pain (KSTP)
• The Twisty Glass blunt makes rolling papers obsolete (Boing Boing)
• Detroit's Marijuana Dispensaries Get Lit At Night (Wired)
• Cannabis chef takes fine dining to new high (Times of India)
• Is cannabis getting stronger? Scientists claim increased strength can puts users at risk of developing mental health problems (Mirror)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Psilocybin Helps Sufferers of Body Dysmorphic Disorder See Themselves Again (Psychedelic Times)
• Beat the blues with magic mushrooms (The Hindu)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Taboo-Shattering TED Talk Reveals How MDMA Can Improve Your Psychological Immune System (High Existence)
• Ecstasy And Cocaine Use Surges Among Households Earning More Than £50,000 (The Huffington Post)
• Las Vegas's Clark County Coroner Confirms EDC Death was Drug-Related (Thump)
• 'I lost my 15-year-old daughter to ecstasy but I want drugs to be legal' - Mum's fight for change in laws (Mirror)
• Bristol man died after huge ecstasy overdose from single pill (Bristol Post)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• 'Ayahuasca is changing global environmental consciousness' (The Guardian)
• AP Photos: In Brazil's Amazon, worship with psychedelic tea (The Washington Post)
• A Hallucinogenic Plant, Two Indigenous Tribes And A Trip To Remember (Worldcrunch)
• Ayahuasca rituals becoming big business in Brazil's Amazon jungles (Fox News Latino)
• Ayahuasca Shaman Dreading Another Week Of Guiding Tech CEOs To Spiritual Oneness (JWZ.org)
• In Brazil's Amazon, Worship with Psychedelic Tea (Tempo.co)
• The Mystery of DMT, Free Will and the Keys to Creative Success with Mitch Schultz (Disinfo)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• How a hallucinogen from Africa may have cured N.J. woman's addiction (NJ.com)

Dissociatives

• This Brooklyn Nightclub Created a Musical Entirely About Ketamine (Thump)
• Cleveland Clinic team approved for $11.8 million to study treatment-resistant depression (Cleveland.com)
• Anaesthetically pleasing: 'Ketamine the Musical' opens in Bushwick (Brooklyn Paper)
• Salem County man nabbed with PCP in drug investigation (NJ.com)

Opiates/Opioids

• Big Pharma is jacking up the price of the 'antidote' to the overdose crisis (Business Insider)
• Teen athletes less likely to abuse opioids, study finds (CNN)
• BRIEF-CVS Health to increase access to FDA-approved nasal naloxone for patients without insurance (Reuters)
• This man turned an opium field into a sustainable coffee farm in Thailand (Ensia)
• The opium armies: Drugs and war across the ages (Livemint)
• Fentanyl Is Also Dangerous For Law Enforcement Officers And Dogs (Forbes)

Absinthe

• The strange and intriguing history of absinthe (Chattanooga Pulse)
• Exploring The Myth And Reality Of Absinthe (Uproxx)

Kratom

• Kratom: New 'Emerging Public Health Threat', Says CDC (Forbes)
• Kratom – A Creative Solution to America's Addiction Epidemic (Kratom Project)
• Opioid-Like Herbal Supplement to Stay on Shelves in Texas, At Least For Now (KUT)
• Kratom Basics for New Users (Kratom Project)
• Can there be adequate control? (New Straits Times)
• Kratom's effects on skin (Kratom Project)

Khat

• New bill seeks to control miraa sale (The Standard Digital)
• Hope as talks over miraa exports from Kenya to Somaliland begin (The Standard Digital)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• The Hidden Psychedelic History of Philosophy: Plato, Nietzsche, and 11 Other Philosophers Who Used Mind-Altering Drugs (High Existence)
• The Philippines' New War on Drugs Has Killed Hundreds in Just Over a Month (Reason)
• Obama's Biggest Commutation Announcement Yet Will Help More than 200 Imprisoned in Drug War (Reason)
• Ross Ulbricht's Conviction, Sentencing for Running Silk Road Should be Overturned, Argues New Reply Brief (Reason)
• Making Sure Ecstasy is Ecstasy: Volunteers Test Drugs at U.K. Music Fests (NPR)
• Here's what happens when you take weed, cocaine, LSD, charas, meth or heroin (The Health Site)
• This Photo Has Given the War on Drugs in the Philippines a Human Face (TIME)
• Olympic Athletes Are Turning to an Unexpected Drug This Year (ATTN:)
• Young adults taking less LSD, mephedrone and ketamine (Police Professional)

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.