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This Week in Psychedelics - 10.7.16

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Cannabis

  • FDA's Advice to the DEA on Marijuana (ATTN:)
  • Why Public Health Experts Say Cannabis Should Be Treated Like Tobacco (Broadly)
  • How States Are Spending Their Marijuana Revenue (ATTN:)
  • Keith Stroup: Marijuana Smoking Up, Marijuana Arrests Down (ATTN:)
  • How cannabis could help the fight against Alzheimer's (Mirror)
  • Ancient Cannabis 'Burial Shroud' Discovered in Desert Oasis (National Geographic)
  • California's Marijuana Legalization Faces an Unlikely Foe: Growers (TIME)
  • Adult Use Ballot Initiatives Leading In Latest Polls (NORML)
  • Study: Cannabis production uses as much energy as data centers (Albuquerque Business First)
  • Meeting the Scientist Who Discovered THC (Reality Sandwich)
  • 'Cannabis' drug could help thousands of epilepsy sufferers following trial at Great Ormond Street Hospital (Mirror)
  • Like Barcelona, Bilbao is Taking Steps to Regulate Cannabis Social Clubs (Leafly)
  • A Big Shift Is Necessary to Successfully Market Cannabis to Minorities (The Huffington Post)
  • Calif. Newspapers Warm to Pot Legalization, Thanks to Taxes and Regulations (Reason)
  • Americans Are Still Getting Arrested for Marijuana Possession at Staggering Rates (Disinfo)
  • Cannabis Industry Technology Is Becoming That Prime Kush (Forbes)
  • Is Cannabis Safe to Use During Pregnancy? New Study Clarifies Risks (Leafly)
  • Where Voters Are Likeliest to Legalize Marijuana in a Month (Reason)
  • Colorado Gives Cannabis Candy a New Look to Avoid Confusion (Leafly)
  • Cannabis businesses dip their toes into world of franchising (The Denver Post)
  • Tennessee: Cities Move To Reduce Marijuana Possession Penalties (NORML)
  • Cannabis reduces creativity, but user generally not aware (Daily Science)

LSD

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Using MDMA to Treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (VolteFace)
  • High Society: Ecstasy (VICE)
  • Miley Cyrus' Suggestion Sick Ellen Take MDMA Wasn't Insane (Inverse)
  • How taking ecstasy helped me mourn my mother (iNews)
  • Southend man collapsed outside Chameleon nightclub and died after taking MDMA (Essex Live)
  • Teenager, 18, froze to death after taking ecstasy and runing from a golf glub hotel into a LAKE wearing just his boxer shorts because he thought demons were in his hotel room (Daily Mail)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • Ancient Medicine in a Modern World: How Ayahuasca Can Heal the Plague of Depression and Anxiety (Psychedelic Times)
  • Aya Quest Native Americas church holding Ayahuasca healing ceremonies in the USA (Digital Journal)

Dissociatives

  • Ketamine As Medicine? Anesthetic And Club Drug Could Treat Migraines, Chronic Pain (Medical Daily)
  • New Study Compares Ketamine to Electro Shock Therapy in Treating Severe Depression (WKSU)
  • The Tulsa Effect: Chicago Officer Beaten Unconscious By Man On PCP (Law Officer)

Opiates/Opioids

  • How America Is Battling Its Horrific Opioid Epidemic (Wired)
  • Heroin is now legal in Canada – if you have a prescription (Idaho Statesman)
  • Health Canada approves non-prescription naloxone nasal spray (The Globe and Mail)
  • The Great Binge: Heroin, Cocaine and Opium Over the Counter (New Historian)
  • Not just for medics: Drugs that reverse opioid overdoses are being pushed to the masses (STAT)

Absinthe

Kratom

Kava

  • Why Experts are Now Saying Kava is Not Only Safe, but Needed Now More Than Ever (PR Newswire)
  • Wait for endorsement of kava standards (The Fiji Times)

Khat

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history (The Guardian)
  • DEA Paid Millions to Confidential Informants Who Could No Longer Be Trusted (Reason)
  • President Obama Shortens the Sentences of 102 Drug Offenders (TIME)
  • Addiction & Recovery: The Definitive Expert Resource Guide For You, Your Family, or Your Patients (Lumiere Healing Centers)
  • 12 legal drugs that will give you a psychedelic trip (The Daily Dot)
  • Choosing the Right Therapy: The Differences Between Psychedelic Integration and Recovery Coaching (Psychedelic Times)
  • LSU studies effects of psychedelic drugs, and other news of higher education (The New Orleans Advocate)
  • The Problem With Denying Organ Transplants to Drug Users (ATTN:)
  • Below the Mainstreaming: A Review of Beyond Psychedelics (Psychedelic Press UK)
  • Risky research could herald mindful revolution (Imperial College London)

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 - 9.30.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Where Your Representatives Stand on Marijuana (ATTN:)
  • FBI: Marijuana Arrests Decline Significantly In 2015 (NORML)
  • Pharma Company Admits Opposing Marijuana Legalization to Protect Its Corporate Profits (ATTN:)
  • Blockchain Startups Want to Solve Cannabis' Banking Problem (Merry Jane)
  • Why Marijuana Advocates Are Criticizing Chelsea Clinton (ATTN:)
  • Colorado Will Use Extra Marijuana Revenue to Prevent Bullying in Schools (TIME)
  • Do You Know These Stoner Superstitions About Cannabis Rules and Etiquette? (Leafly)
  • Alaska's first commercial cannabis harvest begins (Alaska Dispatch News)
  • A company just had another successful test of a cannabis drug for epilepsy – and now their stock is spiking (Business Insider)
  • Why You Shouldn't Blame Gary Johnson's Memory on Pot (ATTN:)
  • Meet "Asamiko" the New Cannabis Mascot of Japan (Merry Jane)
  • Common Sense Proposal Would Treat Marijuana Like Tobacco in New Jersey (Reason)
  • BDS Analytics Launches Scientific Consumer Survey of Nation's Cannabis Users (Westword)
  • How this tiny Middle Eastern nation came to lead the world in medical marijuana research (The Cannabist)
  • Weed Weekends: Are Marijuana Bars Coming To Denver? (Dope Magazine)
  • Medical Marijuana Replaces More Dangerous Drugs (Reason)
  • Alaska Reporter Who Quit On Air in Support of Marijuana Legalization Facing 24 Years in Prison (Reason)
  • Everything You Need to Know About Cannabis Flavonoids (Merry Jane)
  • Gentleman ejected from Uber for smoking "medicine" (Boing Boing)
  • Hebrew U fund invests in cannabis sorting technology (The Times of Israel)
  • 5 Experts Weigh in on Cannabis Concentrates and How to Use Them (Leafly)
  • The fitness-first, cannabis-second 420 Games come to Denver this weekend, boulder next (The Denver Post)
  • How to Combine Cannabis and Prostate Play (Leafly)
  • Chubut first to accept cannabis oil (Buenos Aires Herald)

LSD

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Ecstasy prices reveal its path from city to city (Futurity)
  • How Ecstasy Augments Psychological Therapy in PTSD (Medscape)
  • Ecstasy drug therapy (Al Jazeera)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • Actual Scientists Found That Ayahuasca Can Help You Think More Creatively (The Huffington Post)
  • The Agonizing Enlightenment of Ayahuasca (Reality Sandwich)
  • Attend The 2nd World Ayahuasca Conference to Meet Leading Healers And Experts (Reset.me)
  • "How Ayahuasca Helped Me Recover from a Traumatic Injury" (Psychedelic Times)
  • Ayahuasca and anal beads: the hallucinogenic art of Donna Huanca (The Guardian)
  • What is hallucinogen Ayahuasca? (ABC Online)
  • DMT, a hard-core hallucinogenic, also known as 'dream time', causing danger (Herald Sun)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

  • "Peyote at a Crossroads": Documentary Traces an Ancient Bond Between Plant and People (KRTS)

Morning Glory Seeds

Dissociatives

Opiates/Opioids

  • Just say no to Narcan? Heroin rescue efforts draw backlash (CBS News)
  • Is methadone an answer to Alaska's heroin crisis? (Alaska Dispatch News)
  • Rite Aid Expands Naloxone Dispensing Program in Four Additional States (Yahoo! Finance)
  • The US heroin habit is growing, and 2 of Mexico's most powerful cartels are fighting to supply it (Business Insider)
  • NYC wants to make it safer for drug addicts to shoot up (New York Post)
  • CVS Health (CVS) Announces Expansion of Naloxone Accessibility (Street Insider)
  • Pennsylvania Artist Tackles Heroin Epidemic, Despite Police Intervention (The Huffington Post)
  • Naloxone can help save lives in the battle against heroin and opiates (The Journal Times)
  • 10Listens: The cost of anti-overdose drug Naloxone (WBIR)

Kratom

Kava

Khat

  • Miraa continues to serve as unifying symbol of divided Horn of Africa (Daily Nation)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • ACLU Urges Mass. Court to Vacate 24,000 Drug Cases Based on Tainted Lab Evidence (Reason)
  • Here's What Happened When a German Reporter Took a Bunch of Hard Drugs on TV (Thump)
  • New Species Discovered, And It's A Psychedelichen (VolteFace)
  • Is the FDA Too Cozy With Drug Companies? (TIME)
  • Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte Invokes the Holocaust to Defend 'War on Drugs' (TIME)
  • Psychedelic experiences might "cure" smoking and OCD. Should we allow them? (Vox)
  • David Bowie on cocaine in 1974 (Boing Boing)
  • Donald Trump Shows How Drugs are Used as Weapons in Politics (ATTN:)
  • Maine Gov. Paul LePage's 'Binder of Drug Dealers' Shows He Was Lying About the Race of Arrestees (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 - 9.23.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Medical cannabis sales soar in German pharmacies (RT)
  • Tommy Chong Seeks Obama's Pardon for Drug Paraphernalia Conviction (Hollywood Reporter)
  • Memphis and Nashville May Take Steps to Decriminalize Marijuana (TIME)
  • Will The Marijuana Vote Be A Factor This November? (NORML)
  • Cannabis Attracting Mainstream Research Analysts (Forbes)
  • Inside the Company Helping Native Americans Grow Cannabis (VICE)
  • Cannabis Companies Are Attracting Marijuana Investors With a Lost of Green (LA Weekly)
  • 3 Phoenix Cops Resign After Forcing Man to Eat Marijuana (TIME)
  • Can Cannabis Help Anorexia? How Medical Marijuana May Treat the Emotional Trauma Behind Anorexia (Psychedelic Times)
  • California Marijuana Legalization Would Cause 'Sea Change' in Capital for Cannabis Startups (Inc.)
  • Study: Opioid Prevalence Falls Following Medical Cannabis Legalization (NORML)
  • Longest Strike in Colombia’s History Dries Up Bogotá’s Cannabis Supply (Leafly)
  • Legalise cannabis protests outside NZ police stations (Stuff.co.nz)
  • Cannabis oil hailed as 'a miracle' for epileptic son (Vancouver Sun)
  • Nine cannabis clubs ordered to 'cease and desist' in Colorado Springs (Colorado Springs Gazette)
  • Oakland conference focuses on budding relationship between cannabis and Bay Area tech (San Francisco Business Times)
  • Teenage cannabis use rises in Europe - EU Espad survey (BBC News)

LSD

  • How LSD Affects Language (AlterNet)
  • LSD Legalization Activists Savor a Rare Win (Inverse)
  • LSD Candy and Explosive Love Beads: Revelations from the US Government's Private Drug Newsletter (VICE)
  • Weekly Dose: LSD – dangerous, mystical, or therapeutic? (The Conversation)
  • LSD, Spirituality, and Creativity in the Sixties: Interview with Fred Weaver III, M.D. (Psychedelic Times)
  • Lick and get high: LSD stamps creep into Vietnam (VNExpress)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • Can 9/20 Become the 4/20 of Magic Mushrooms? (VICE)
  • Psychedelic Mushrooms Help Your Brain (Snopes)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • 'My therapist gave me a pill': can MDMA help cure trauma? (The Guardian)
  • Legitimising MDMA, 'The Love Drug', For Couples Therapy (VolteFace Magazine)
  • Mum Fiona Spargo-Mabbs, whose son Daniel died after taking ecstasy at illegal rave brings fight for mandatory drugs education to Downing Street (Croydon Guardian)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • Ethical Ayahuasca Tourism: A Guide for First Time Ayahuasca Users with Matthew Watherston (Psychedelic Times)
  • Ayahuasca as Antidote (Reality Sandwich)
  • How do you cope with losing your hair? I took ayahuasca and felt like an imbecile (The Guardian)

Morning Glory Seeds

  • Multiple Eureka High Schoolers Hospitalized After Consuming Psychedelic Seeds (Lost Coast Output)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

Dissociatives

  • Police officials confirm PCP found in shooting victim Terence Crutcher's car (KFAQ)
  • Police: Fleeing driver on crack and PCP crashed into cruisers (York Dispatch)

Opiates/Opioids

  • DEA Blocks Research Into Promising Opioid Alternatives (Slate)
  • Over 7,000 Candidates Took Money from Opioid Companies During the Epidemic (ATTN:)
  • 6 Ways to Fight America's Heroin Epidemic (TIME)
  • Seattle's new war on drugs: Giving heroin addicts 'safe sites' to shoot up (Los Angeles Times)
  • Oregon Pharmacies Can Now Prescribe Naloxone For Overdoses (OPB News)
  • Searching for naloxone to cure a heroin overdose? The FDA wants an app for that. (The Washington Post)

Kratom

  • What it's like to be high on kratom, according to the people who use it (The Washington Post)
  • Why Kratom's Getting Banned – And How We Can Stop This Madness (Kratom Project)
  • Kratom Movement Draws Attention From Congress, And More On The DEA's Plan To Schedule 1 (Forbes)
  • Survey: Kratom 'Very Effective' for Chronic Pain (Pain News Network)

Kava

Khat

  • Khat cargo plane overshoots the runway at Bardale Airport (Mareeg)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • How Drug Cartels Operate Like Silicon Valley Startups (Motherboard)
  • Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte Wants Six More Months for His Drug War (TIME)
  • Colorado Drug Warriors Mistakenly Storm Innocent Family's Home (Reason)
  • 10 Psychedelic Artists You Should Know (Merry Jane)
  • 'Dying to Know': a sedate look at psychedelic pioneers Ram Dass, Timothy Leary (The Seattle Times)
  • The Daughter of a British Aristocrat Has Been Killed by Philippine Drug War Vigilantes (TIME)
  • Is the Drug Trade Really Bank-Rolling Terrorism? (VICE)
  • The Journey of a Psychedelic Marine (Reality Sandwich)
  • New directions in our understanding of addiction: The role of psychedelics (Understanding Addiction)
  • Neil Woods: A 'Traitor' To The War On Drugs (Disinfo)
  • Rodrigo Duterte's Top Critic Has Been Demoted in a Senate Probe into the Drug War (TIME)

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 - 9.16.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Holland-Style Marijuana Lounges Coming to America (ATTN:)
  • Germany and Austria Are Pouring Billions Into Cannabis Prohibition (Leafly)
  • Canada Wants the U.S. to Change Its 'Ludicrous' Marijuana Policy (TIME)
  • Opioid Maker Donates to Help Halt Marijuana Legalization in Arizona (Reason)
  • Nationwide rally for legalisation of medicinal cannabis to take place outside police stations (Stuff.co.nz)
  • The benefits of cannabis reform are now undeniable (iNews)
  • More American Adults are Consuming Cannabis than Ever Before (The Marijuana Times)
  • Cannabis Industry Expected to Be Worth $50 Billion by 2026 (Bloomberg)
  • Two Major Canadian Banks Refuse to Take Cannabis Clients Due to 'The Nature of Their Business' (Cannabis Business Times)
  • Study Suggests Pot Has Been Blamed for Fetal Risks Caused by Tobacco (Reason)
  • How Women Grow is cultivating cannabis leaders in North America (YourStory)
  • Ophelia Chong: On Photography, Race And Art In The Cannabis Industry (Dope Magazine)
  • Washington State Will Test Pot for Banned Pesticides More Frequently (TIME)
  • Cannabis 101: Cues to determine shelf life of that new legal marijuana (Food Safety News)
  • The Cannabis-Based Biotech Sector's Best Buyout Candidates (Forbes)
  • Major rise in amount of cannabis sold by German pharmacies (Deutsche Welle)
  • How to Decarboxylate Cannabis and Make Better Edibles (Merry Jane)
  • Report Shows Pot Prohibitionists' Desperation (Reason)
  • Diversity Issues Threaten to Derail Maryland's Medical Cannabis Program (New Cannabis Ventures)
  • These Factors Can Impact How Quickly or Slowly Your Cannabis Burns (Leafly)

LSD

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • What Ecstasy Does to Your Body: The Science Behind Music's Most Controversial Drug (Billboard)
  • The many overlooked benefits of ecstasy (Quartz)
  • Ecstasy making a comeback as purity rises in MDMA form, experts warn (ABC Online)
  • Crystal ecstasy is on the rise among young Australians (News.com.au)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • The Science of Ayahuasca: Inside the ICEERS Study at the Temple of the Way of Light (Psychedelic Times)
  • Hipsters Are Healing Their Souls With 'Grandmother' Drug (Newser)
  • The Tradition of Ayahuasca in the Amazon: Creating the Temple of the Way of Light (Psychedelic Times)
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the ups and downs of ayahuasca (The New Yorker Radio Hour)

Iboga/Ibogaine

  • Fear and loathing in the five-star rehab: Inside the controversy around ibogaine, the psychedelic drug that just may cure addiction (Salon)
  • Iboga: Kicking Heroin Addiction with the Ultimate Ancestral Trip (iBogaine Thailand)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

Dissociatives

  • Ketamine: known anaesthetic as quick remedy for depression (Health Canal)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Heroin Is Being Laced With a Terrifying New Substance: What to Know About Carfentanil (TIME)
  • The story behind the photo of two heroin users and their four-year-old child (The Independent)
  • Prescription heroin gets green light in Canada (CNN)
  • Drug deaths reach record levels as purity of heroin and cocaine rises (The Telegraph)
  • The turbulent history of the opium trade (The Asian Age)
  • Naloxone may not help synthetic heroin overdose (WTHR)
  • TN makes naloxone available without Rx (Knoxville News Sentinel)

Kratom

  • After Banning Kratom, DEA Says It Might Be a Useful Medicine (Reason)
  • Why is the US banning kratom, the virtually harmless herb? (The Guardian)
  • DEA targeting of addiction treatment kratom will protect Big Pharma profits (RT)
  • Kratom Proponents Present 120,000-Signature Petition To White House To Stop DEA Rush To Ban Coffee-Like Herb In U.S., Seek Opportunity To Comment (PR Newswire)
  • What The DEA's Plan To Schedule 1 Kratom Will Mean For Million (Forbes)

Kava

  • Kava, with caveats: is this popular psychoactive tea bad for your liver? (The Verge)
  • What's Behind The Intoxicating Rise Of Kava Bars In The U.S. (Forbes)
  • High kava demand (The Fiji Times)
  • Kava in short supply (The Fiji Times)

Khat

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Why Today's Illegal Drugs Are More Dangerous Than Ever (ATTN:)
  • Recovering from Depression: Two Meditations for Integrating a Psychedelic Experience (Psychedelic Times)
  • Jay-Z: 'The War on Drugs Is an Epic Fail' (The New York Times)
  • Philippine President Rodigo Duterte Targets Over 1,000 More Officials In His Drug War (TIME)
  • GOP Aide Urges Republicans to Oppose Criminal Justice Reform Because 'Drug Trafficking is a Violent Crime' (Reason)
  • Rio Branco, Brazil, to be transformed into the global epicenter of ayahuasca culture and debate for 2016 World Ayahuasca Conference (Psychedelic Press UK)
  • The Incoherence of Schedule I (CATO Institute)
  • Silene Capensis: The African Dream Herb (World of Lucid Dreaming)
  • Paul Howard Was The First Silk Road Vendor To be Arrested (News BTC)
  • Inside Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's War On Drugs (TIME)
  • Fresh take on American Buddhism and psychedelics (Massey University)
  • Stretching on Psychedelics, The Mystery of Sound and Enhancing Your Life Through Inner Work (Disinfo)

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 - 9.9.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • The Reason a Record Number of States Can Vote to Legalize Weed This Fall (ATTN:)
  • CDC: Young People Say Marijuana Is Becoming Less Available (NORML)
  • Can Cannabis Cure Cancer? (Leafly)
  • Women Are Changing The Way Cannabis Is Viewed, Consumed, And Understood (GOOD Magazine)
  • Court To Cops: Residing In A State Where Marijuana Is Legal Does Not Automatically Make A Motorist 'Suspicious' (TechDirt)
  • What's the Donald Trump Weed Position And Will It Benefit Cannabis Users? (Inquisitr)
  • The American Legion Wants Marijuana Reclassified to Help Treat PTSD (Reason)
  • Social Cannabis Use Makes the Ballot in Denver (Leafly)
  • Alaska Cannabis Regulators Poised to Approve Retail Licenses (Leafly)
  • Poll: Record Percentage Of Californians Backing Adult Use Initiative (NORML)
  • Italian Law Enforcement Join Push for Cannabis Legalization (Leafly)
  • Young veterans find purpose as cannabis watchmen in Colorado (The Seattle Times)
  • 7 Must Attend Cannabis Events This Fall (Merry Jane)
  • 4 Lessons Learned Working in the New Cannabis Industry (Small Business Times)
  • Black Rock OG Supports Cannabis Law Reform (NORML)
  • San Francisco's private cannabis lounge: leather seating, chess and a concierge (The Guardian)
  • Study: Cannabis May Treat Vascular Dementia (The Weed Blog)
  • Melissa Etheridge developing cannabis collection (TV3.ie)

LSD

  • How the CIA Used LSD to Destroy the New Left (Dissident Voice)
  • LSD dealer sentenced to life granted clemency by Obama (Dazed)
  • Oteil Burbridge Talks About Taking Owsley LSD At The Gorge With Dead & Company (Live for Live Music)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • Many Silicon Valley professionals are microdosing with psilocybin, LSD before work (Natural News)
  • Is tripping on mushrooms the secret to happiness? (Fusion)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Drug Safety Organization The Loop Have Issued a Warning About Orange 'Tesla' Pills (THUMP)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • The Ayahuasca Pre-Diet: How to Prepare for an Ayahuasca Ceremony, According to Shamans (Psychedelic Times)
  • The Drug of Choice for the Age of Kale (The New Yorker)
  • DMT: 'The Spirit Molecule' Explained (World of Lucid Dreaming)
  • This Silicon Valley angel investor loves a drug that gave him hours of seizures (SFGate)

Iboga/Ibogaine

  • Ibogaine Therapy: Why You Probably Need Multiple Treatments to Fully Recover from Addiction (Psychedelic Times)
  • Heart Medicine: Interview with Elizabeth Bast and Chor Boogie (Psychedelic Times)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • Anything-goes culture surrounds dangerous bath salts, designer drugs (Palm Beach Post)

Dissociatives

  • Ketamine Is an Essential Medicine, Says Anesthesiologists (VICE)
  • Ketamine has split personality: risky club drug, effective anesthetic (KTOO)
  • Man sentenced for PCP-fueled armed robberies at bars on Cleveland's West Side (Cleveland.com)

Opiates/Opioids

  • The Global Heroin Epidemic: 90% of World's Supply Still Comes From Afghanistan (Sputnik International)
  • Heroin Epidemic's New Terror: Carfentanil (Rolling Stone)
  • America is suffering from a heroin epidemic. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton don't seem to care (The Week)
  • How Opioids Are Contributing to the High Maternal Death Rate in America (ATTN:)

Kratom

  • Outrage over DEA's Kratom Decision (Pain News Network)
  • Kratom Ban In The US: What Is It, Effects & Why Is It Being Banned? (Morning Ledger)
  • Kratom Petition Attracts 55K Signatures In Six Days, 100K Needed For Response From White House (Inquisitr)
  • DEA ban on kratom affecting local businesses (KRDO)
  • Why You Should Never Smoke Kratom (Kratom Project)

Khat

  • Somalia: Puntland state slams Federal Government ban on Khat (Garowe Online)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • The Death Toll From Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's War on Drugs Has Exceeded 2,400 (TIME)
  • Netherlands Leads the Dark Net Polls in Drug Distribution (The Merkle)
  • Indonesia's Drug Czar Is Buying Up Weapons After Saying He Wants a Duterte-Style Drug War (TIME)
  • What Happens When You Flush Pills Down the Drain (ATTN:)
  • What Happened When We Tested Women's Drugs at a Music Festival (Broadly)
  • [Event] The Legal Regulation of Psychedelics (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.