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This Week in Psychedelics - 11.11.16

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Cannabis

  • Cannabis in the 2016 Election: Could a Pivotal Political Year Lead to New Psychedelic Policies? (Psychedelic Times)
  • How the 2016 Election Became a Watershed for Weed (TIME)
  • What Will Happen to Your Weed Under Donald Trump (ATTN:)
  • When Adults Can Legally Smoke in States That Legalized This Year (ATTN:)
  • Legal Weed Has Arrived. Get Ready for the Budweiser of Bud (Wired)
  • This Man Can Walk Again Because of Marijuana (ATTN:)
  • Want Your Marijuana Startup to Succeed? Study Patent Law (Wired)
  • Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Gives Advice to States That Legalize Marijuana (ATTN:)
  • Prop 64: Why so much of California's cannabis industry isn't ready (Mercury News)
  • Mom Treated Her Sick Kid With Weed—and Lost Custody (ATTN:)
  • Cannabis May Be Added to the Mix by Alcohol Giant as Laws Ease (Advertising Age)
  • More Big Markets OK Recreational Cannabis; Is the Event Industry Ready? (Special Events)
  • Wurk raises $1 million to help cannabis companies manage their people (TechCrunch)
  • Sheriff Admits He Issued a False Alarm About THC-Tainted Halloween Treats (Reason)
  • Cannabis growers tell court they joined Liberal Party to push legal marijuana (The Age)
  • New Luxury Cannabis Brands Bring Fashion, Accessories And Boutique Hotels (Dope Magazine)
  • Cannabis Corp.: Big pot's e-retail empire (CBS News)
  • Cannabis abuse possible cause of psychosis (Science Daily)

LSD

  • Would you take LSD to improve your performance at work? (The Times)
  • Iggy Pop Remembers Bob Dylan Wannabes, Ruining Joe Perry's Acid Trip (Rolling Stone)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • MDMA may pose greater danger to women than men, say scientists (The Guardian)
  • Cops warning over 'poisoning' wave of MDMA pills after teen death on Bonfire night (The Sun)
  • Jordan Gratwick, of Hartley Wintney, dies from "toxic levels" of MDMA (Basingstoke Gazette)

Ayahuasca/DMT

Iboga/Ibogaine

  • The Health Risks of Ibogaine Treatment and What Every Ibogaine Provider Should Ask You For (Psychedelic Times)

Salvia Divinorum

  • Salvia Velada: Experiencing a Traditional Mazatec Shaman Ceremony (VICE)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • N Bomb, NPS's among hundreds of deadly new 'party drugs' on Australian market for summer, experts warn (ABC Online)

Dissociatives

  • Nature Nate Returns to Rap After a Breakdown Spurred by a PCP-Laced Blunt (Dallas Observer)
  • Driver high on PCP in fatal wreck gets 20 years to life in prison (New York Post)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Feds Move to Bank Pink, Heroin Substitute That's Killed Dozens (NBC News)
  • Deaths of Utah 13-Year-Old Boys Blamed on Dangerous Drug Known as 'Pink' (TIME)
  • Recall issued for device that delivers overdose reversal drug Naloxone (Fox 13)
  • Naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug, now in most Ohio pharmacies: What you need to know (Cleveland.com)

Kratom

Khat

  • Miraa merchants in Qatar face execution (The Star)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Heroin for Trauma and Psychedelics for PTSD: Meeting People Who Self-Medicate with Illegal Drugs (VICE)
  • Strange Brew: DMT Cinema goes Mainstream (Reality Sandwich)
  • Psychedelic researchers invite voters to 'Catharsis' (The Leaf Online)
  • Politics of drugs (The News on Sunday)
  • Commuted Sentence Shows Injustice of Crack Penalties and 'Three Strikes' Provision (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 - 11.4.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Study: Recreational Marijuana in Canada Could Generate More Money Than Booze (TIME)
  • What We Know About the Other Components of Cannabis (ATTN:)
  • Fake Memes About Hillary Clinton's Marijuana Policy Are Spreading (ATTN:)
  • Watch Pusha T's PSA Supporting Cali Marijuana Bill (Rolling Stone)
  • Medicinal cannabis crops now legal in Australia (The Guardian)
  • Why Big Pharma is Spending so Much Money to Defeat Marijuana Initiatives (Reason)
  • Study: Marijuana Retailers Not Selling To Youth (NORML)
  • Lower Taxes Will Help Bring Legal Weed out of the Black Market (Reason)
  • Studies: Changes In Marijuana's Legal Status Not Associated With Increased Use By Young People (NORML)
  • New Study Shows Cannabis May Improve Night Vision (Merry Jane)
  • Colorado Politicians Lend Lies to Pot Prohibitionists in Arizona and California (Reason)
  • Here's Why Fears About Weed in Halloween Candy Are Overblown (ATTN:)
  • Cannabis Tampons: 4 Facts To Know, Including Pain And Anxiety Relief (Medical Daily)
  • California's Marijuana Initiative Is Needlessly Punitive and Restrictive (Reason)
  • 5 Cannabis Stocks to Invest in Before Election Day (Leafly)
  • Willie Nelson: The Outlaw Country legend reflects on his personal cannabis history (The Denver Post)
  • Illinois Sheriff Passes Off Japanese Candy As Marijuana-Infused Halloween Treat (Reason)
  • Will Seattle cannabis tourism take a hit if other states legalize weed? (MyNorthwest.com)
  • Why You Shouldn't Buy Cannabis on the Streets of Prague (Leafly)
  • Healing with Massage and Cannabis (The Stranger)
  • Texas cannabis oil businesses face staggering fee increase for licensing (The Denver Post)
  • Costs of Growing Cannabis at Home vs. Buying Bud at a Dispensary (Leafly)
  • MS sufferer avoids jail after she tells judge she thought cannabis was OK because Prince Charles talked of its benefits on TV (The Telegraph)
  • Eagles' Josh Huff Latest NFL Player with Marijuana Problem (Reason)
  • North Coast cannabis industry runs on cash (The North Bay Business Journal)
  • San Diego Police Seize Family's Bank Accounts Because the Dad Ran a Medical Marijuana Business (Reason)
  • Cannabis addiction support centre to close doors after government cuts funding (ABC Online)
  • Marijuana's Catch-22: Is There No Way for Cannabis to Succeed? (Fox Business)

LSD

  • Transhumanist Proves Schrödinger's Cat Experiment Isn't Better on LSD (Inverse)
  • Tom Wolfe interview: 'I never took LSD – it was far too dangerous' (The Telegraph)
  • Unforgettable photos of psychedelia and debauchery from the golden age of LSD (CNN)
  • Music Composed & Played by LSD-Influenced Musicians (Los Angeles Free Press)
  • Filmmaker Roger Corman talks about his lovely LSD trip (KPCC)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Staying Hydrated on Molly: The Tricky Relationship Between MDMA and Water Intoxication (Psychedelic Times)
  • Why Couples Are Taking Illegal Drug MDMA To Save Their Marriages (Your Tango)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • The Nuclear Option: A Personal Story of Treating Social Anxiety with 5-MeO-DMT Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelic Times)
  • Brazil's Psychedelic Rehab Center Treats Drug Addicts With Ayahuasca (Motherboard)
  • Was Moses tripping when he saw the burning bush? Should you try? (The Times of Israel)
  • Millennials boost Columbia tourism in search for hallucinogenic plant (Metro)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

  • 'Doctor Strange' includes an Easter egg about tripping on mescaline (The Daily Dot)

Iboga/Ibogaine

  • An Anti-Addiction Drug Called Ibogaine Could Be a Wonder Cure—Or an Addict Killer (Scientific American)

Dissociatives

Opiates/Opioids

  • What Donald Trump Gets Wrong About the Opioid Epidemic (ATTN:)
  • Opioid Poisoning In Toddlers Increases 205% (TIME)
  • Heroin Isn't The Scariest Part Of The Drug Crisis (Forbes)
  • What It's Like Saving Lives on the Front Lines of Vancouver's Opioid Crisis (VICE)

Kratom

Kava

Khat

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Undercover With a Border Militia (Mother Jones)
  • Obama Commutes Sentences of 98 Drug Offenders, Including 42 Lifers (Reason)
  • The "Do-nothing Congress" moved the needle on drug reform (The Hill)
  • The Existential Medicine (Baltimore Magazine)
  • A Filipino Mayor Is Among 10 Dead in the Latest Wave of Drug-Related Killings (TIME)
  • The 'dark web' isn't all guns and drugs (Engadget)
  • Countess Amanda Feilding Has Spent 50 Years as a Pioneer of Psychedelics Research and Altering Her Own Mental State (AlterNet)

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 - 10.28.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Marijuana Legalization Looks Likely in Three States (Reason)
  • Fascinating Ways That Virtual Reality and Cannabis Are Intersecting (Merry Jane)
  • Denver Initiative Would Finally Allow Marijuana Use Outside the Home (Reason)
  • California to Vote On Wiping Old Weed Arrests (Motherboard)
  • Drug Busts Still Lead Arrest Statistics, Even as Marijuana Prohibition Fades (Reason)
  • 2,500-Year-Old Burial Hints at Ancient Cannabis Use (Live Science)
  • Values Survey: 63 Percent of Americans Say Marijuana Should Be Legal (NORML)
  • In Switzerland, High-CBD Cannabis Being Sold Legally as 'Tobacco Substitute' (Leafly)
  • The next big billion-dollar cannabis markets investors are rushing to (CNBC)
  • 'This is Your Brain on Drugs' Guy Supports Marijuana Legalization (Reason)
  • Weed Delivery App 'Eaze' Bags $13M As Highest-Funded Cannabis Startup Yet (Forbes)
  • Careers in Cannabis | Public Relations (The Huffington Post)
  • NORML vs Big Alcohol and Big Pharma (NORML)
  • Colorado's Marijuana Industry Had a $2.39 Billion Impact Last Year: Report (TIME)
  • If You're Pro-Cannabis, Why Would You Not Vote for Prop. 64? (Leafly)
  • British Sugar to cultivate cannabis plants in Norfolk for GW Pharmaceuticals (The Telegraph)
  • Illicit cannabis farming thrives in Lebanon (BBC News)
  • Arkansas Won't Hold a Vote to Let People Grow Medical Marijuana (TIME)
  • Want to Try Cannabis with Your Partner? 6 Tips for First-Time Cannabis Couples (Leafly)
  • NORML Releases Gubernatorial Report Card: Learn Where Your Governor Stands On Marijuana Policy (NORML)
  • CBS2 Exclusive: At Underground Dinner, Guests Eat Meals Cooked In Cannabis (CBS New York)
  • Florida Prohibitionists Fight Medical Marijuana With Halloween Legend (Reason)
  • Who Is This Anti-Marijuana Zealot Sheldon Adelson? (NORML)
  • Supplier Negotiations in a Non-Vertically Integrated and Emerging Cannabis Market (Small Business Trends)
  • Heavy Cannabis Use Reduces Bone-Mineral Density (Medscape)

LSD

  • Anthony Bourdain: Taking LSD was a 'very, very, very positive experience for me' (MSN)
  • Studies Link LSD Trips to Long-term Bliss (Interesting Engineering)
  • This is what it looks like when you're on LSD (Metro)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Can Ecstasy Help Relieve Social Anxiety Epidemic Among Autistic People? (KQED)
  • Is It Safe To Use MDMA, AKA Molly, Every Now And Then? (UPROXX)
  • Sex on Hold, and Sex on MDMA (OZY)
  • Dangerously Strong 'Superman' Pills Are in Circulation (Stoney Roads)
  • Party lad asked couple home to 'watch them have sex' – and dropped dead from MDMA overdose (Daily Star)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • Women Are Leading Amazon Ayahuasca Ceremonies for the First Time (Motherboard)
  • Millennials on Spirit Quests Are Ruining Everything About Ayahuasca (Motherboard)
  • Ayahuasca—The Fashionable Path of Awakening? (High Existence)
  • The Most Powerful Psychedelic Drug: What Is DMT And What Are The Effects? (The Recovery Village)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

  • 4 Things Native American Doctors Got Right Long Before Modern Medicine (Medical Daily)

Iboga/Ibogaine

  • What Is Iboga: A Plant With Unparalleled Power Over Addiction (Reset.me)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

Dissociatives

  • The Effects of Low-Dose Ketamine on Acute Pain in an Emergency Setting: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (PLOS ONE)
  • Father charged after police say PCP, Xanax found in 20-month-old daughter's system (WEAR TV)

Opiates/Opioids

  • John Oliver Takes on America's Opioid Crisis on Last Week Tonight (TIME)
  • Michigan Senate approves allowing naloxone in schools (Bedford Now)
  • Report Shows Increase in Afghanistan Opium Poppy Cultivation (ABC News)
  • Naloxone Training Lauded As Key To Preventing Heroin Deaths (WCCO)
  • The overdose crisis is bringing back one of the worst policies of the 'war on drugs' (Business Insider)
  • Opium fuels the stalemate in America's longest war (CNN)
  • How Opium Fuels the Taliban's War Machine in Afghanistan (The Diplomat)
  • As Naloxone Availability Increases, Pharmacist's Role Expands (Pharmacy Times)

Kratom

Kava

Khat

  • Royal Oman Police arrests three for smuggling Khat into Oman (Times of Oman)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Should We Legalize Psychedelics For Science? (Seeker)
  • Philippine Senator Calls for International Probe of Rodrigo Duterte's Savage Drug War (TIME)
  • Achieving the "Set" in Set and Setting: 4 Principles to Make the Most of Your Experience (Psychedelic Times)
  • Netflix CEO jokes that the future of entertainment could be drugs (Engadget)
  • Street Drug Names: Molly, Ice, Roxy, And Other Names For Weed, Heroin, and Opioids (International Business Times)
  • Wife of Drug Lord 'El Chapo' Guzman Fears He is 'Losing His Mind' in Mexican Jail (TIME)
  • 10 ways humans have gotten high for centuries (Business Insider)

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 - 10.21.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • WikiLeaks Shows Hillary Clinton Was Against Pot Legalization In 'All Senses Of the Word' (Reason)
  • What Does California's Prop 64 Say About Home Marijuana Cultivation? (Root Simple)
  • Germany's First Legal, Homegrown Cannabis Is Being Sown Now (Leafly)
  • Why Some Growers Oppose Marijuana Legalization (ATTN:)
  • Turkey legalises controlled cannabis production in 19 provinces (The Independent)
  • Does Cannabis Increase Creativity? Studies Suggest It Depends on Dose and Personality (Psychedelic Times)
  • SNP backs decriminalising cannabis for medical use (BBC)
  • Medical Cannabis in Israel: Patients & Caregivers (Dope Magazine)
  • British Regulator Declares Cannabis Compound a Medicine (Reason)
  • NORML Sues Over Missing Ballot Item in Florida (NORML)
  • Two Major Surveys Find Record Support for Legalizing Marijuana (Reason)
  • Cannalytics Survey: Cannabis Consumers Most Likely To Identify As Independent Voters (NORML)
  • Report: Tax Revenue From Retail Marijuana Exceeds Expectations (NORML)
  • Six False Claims About Marijuana From Maine's Governor (ATTN:)
  • Richard Branson to cannabis advocates: Fight to legalize it. (CNET)
  • Not Your Average Medication: Self-Titrating Cannabis Safely (Dope Magazine)
  • Cannabis Company Files To List On The New York Stock Exchange (Forbes)
  • Colorado Cannabis Companies Still Jump Through Financial Hoops (WRTV)
  • Cannabis Opponents in Massachusetts Launch Ludicrous Ad to Combat "Question 4" (Merry Jane)
  • Investors seek high returns in marijuana stocks (CNBC)
  • Publisher launches online cannabis magazine (Page Six)
  • Cannabis users five times more likely to develop schizophrenia than someone who has never smoked it (Daily Mail)

LSD

  • Man 'high on LSD' rescues dog from imaginary fire (Metro)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Ecstasy warning after teenage girl dies following house party (The Independent) 

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • Ayahuasca: Drink The Jungle, New Must-See Documentary (Reset.me)
  • It's Tea, Not Drugs! Detained Brazilian Healer Appeals to Temer, Putin for Help (Sputnik News)

Iboga/Ibogaine

  • Iboga and the Heart of Harm Reduction: An Interview with Dimitri Mugianis (Psychedelic Times)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • Myster drug that put 16 people in hospital at the weekend was hallucinogen N-bomb and not 'flakka' (Daily Mail)

Dissociatives

  • Scientists are increasingly excited about ketamine, a party drug that could prevent depression (Business Insider)
  • Ketamine: an essential veterinary and medical drug that doesn't need further controls (The Telegraph)
  • Chicago PD Releases Graphic Video Footage of Suspect on PCP Attacking Female Police Officer (PJ Media)
  • Naked Cleveland man high on PCP to police: 'I am the Incredible Hulk' (Cleveland.com)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Ultra-potent synthetic heroin is spreading across America (VICE News)
  • Bill to legalise opium, marijuana cleared for tabling in Parliament (Hindustan Times)
  • Naloxone without prescription now offered at 1,300 Ohio pharmacies (The News-Herald)

Kratom

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • We Spoke to a BC Researcher Who Wants to License Psychedelic Trip Sitters (VICE)
  • Philippine President Defends Killing of Children in Drug War—Says They're 'Collateral Damage' (Reason)
  • What Neuroimaging of the Psychedelic State Tells Us about the Mind-Body Problem (Reality Sandwich)
  • Finding Meaning in Difficulty: People Say Their Challenging Psychedelic Experiences are Still Positive (Psychedelic Times)
  • How the War on Drugs Fuels Brazil's Deadly Prison Riots (TIME)
  • In the Zendo Tent: Joe Mattia Talks Psychedelic Harm Reduction at Burning Man (Psychedelic Times)
  • This Is What Drug-Abuse Education Looks Like in Indonesia (TIME)
  • Politicians Should Try Drugs—and Honesty (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 - 10.14.16

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Police arrest more people for marijuana use than for all violent crimes combined (Boing Boing)
  • Pew Poll: Public's Attitude Shifts Dramatically In Favor Of Marijuana Legalization (NORML)
  • Former NFL Players Dump Painkillers for Cannabis (Merry Jane)
  • Legal Medical Pot Helps Older Americans Remain in the Workforce (Reason)
  • Police use military helicopter to seize one cannabis plant from 81yo arthritis patient (RT)
  • Arkansas Can Vote on Medical Marijuana Proposal in November, State Supreme Court Rules (TIME)
  • SNP members to vote on medicinal cannabis (The Scotsman)
  • Will Voting Yes on the Cannabis Social-Use Initiative Allow Consumption at Concerts? (Westword)
  • Military Veterans Are Finding Careers, Community, Purpose, and Treatment in the Cannabis Industry (Merry Jane)
  • U.K. Regulator Says Some Cannabis Products Count as Medicine (TIME)
  • Study: Cannabis Inhalation Improves Parkinson's Symptoms (NORML)
  • Cannabis Suppositories Show Immense Promise (Green Rush Daily)
  • Is Cannabis the World's Next Disruptive Innovator? (Leafly)
  • Cannabis Beer Brewer Prepares for National Distribution (U.S. News and World Report)
  • Cannabis Summit Suggests Shift in Utah's Stance on Medical Marijuana (Leafly)
  • The Martha Stewart of pot? Seattle entrepreneur JJ McKay launches cannabis lifestyle brand 'The Fresh Toast' (GeekWire)
  • Cancer Patient Battles for Medical Cannabis (NBC 5 Chicago)
  • Growing good cannabis businesses in Detroit (Detroit Metro Times)
  • Are Stock Options Limited for Cannabis Investors? (Marijuana Times)
  • 20 Small Business Ideas in the Growing Cannabis Industry (Small Business Trends)
  • Smoking cannabis can 'make teenagers stupid' - and the younger they start the worse it will be (Mirror)
  • Study links heavy cannabis use with bone disease (UPI)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • How MDMA can help patients suffering from PTSD (International Business Times) 
  • My Brother Died of An Ecstasy Overdose But I'm Still Campaigning to Reopen Fabric (THUMP)
  • Rush's Lifeson: That Time I Did Ecstasy With My Wife, We Drank Orange Juice & Listened to Tool on 6k Watts (Ultimate Guitar)
  • Robbie Williams admits he still thinks about taking ecstasy, despite being a teetotal for years (Digital Spy)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • How ayahuasca is drawing western travellers to the Amazon (News.com.au)
  • Inside the disturbing psychotropic drug that tormented Cy Walsh before he killed his father, Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh (The Advertiser)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

Dissociatives

  • Ketamine offers hope for recurrent depression sufferers (Irish Examiner)
  • What are PCP and TCP? (KOKI)
  • 'I returned to the music festival where my daughter died after taking ketamine' (Metro)
  • Autopsy: Oklahoma police victim had PCP in system when he died (Fox News)
  • Cops: Middletown woman threatened victim with two knives after taking PCP (The Middletown Press)

Opiates/Opioids

  • 'Eradication has been close to zero' in the worlds biggest producer of heroin (Business Insider)
  • Fake, Deadly Xanax Is Appearing Around the U.S., and It's Dangerous (ATTN:)
  • Combating overdoses: Ontario to expand use of methadone alternative Suboxone (CTV News)
  • President Obama and Macklemore Discuss the Dangers of Opioid Addiction in New Documentary (TIME)
  • FDA splits on naloxone dose (American Pharmacists Association)
  • Should Public Schools Stock Naloxone? (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
  • Heroin: The poisoning of America (CNN)

Kratom

  • DEA Withdrawing Awful Attempt to Completely Ban Kratom (Reason)
  • How the DEA's Attempt to Reschedule Kratom Could Endanger Public Health and Addiction Treatment (Psychedelic Times)
  • Kratom Vendors File Lawsuit Against Feds (Pain News Network)
  • Fed's Kratom crackdown remains in limbo (Lagniappe)
  • Critics Say Fed Kratom Research Flawed (Pain News Network)

Kava

  • Kava: from Ceremonial Drink to Modern Mood-Booster (Smart Drug Smarts)
  • What is kava, is it really a good remedy for anxiety and can you get it in the UK? (Metro)

Khat

  • Projection neurons in the cortex and hippocampus: differential effects of chronic khat and ethanol exposure in adult male rats (Dove Medical Press)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Every 25 Seconds: The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States (Human Rights Watch)
  • Ross Ulbricht's Silk Road Appeal: One Judge Seems to Question His Life Sentence Without Parole (Reason)
  • The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir (The New Yorker)
  • A New Class of Psychedelic Research and Therapy Specialists: Interview with Janis Phelps of CIIS (Psychedelic Times)
  • "Psychedelic Supervisor" Could Be Upcoming Profession (EDM Tunes)
  • Looney Tunes Anti-Drug PSAs from the 1970s (Boing Boing)
  • Psychedelic Series #1: Over the Mountain (Mad in America)
  • State Duma Committee approves blocking websites with information on psychedelic drugs (Russian Legal Information Agency)
  • How Doctors Can Tell If You're Looking for Drugs (ATTN:)
  • Brian Wilson: 'Psychedelics fried my brain' (Xposé.ie)
  • How to Treat Your Pain Without Drugs (TIME)
  • Three drugs that could transform mental health treatment (Imperial College London)
  • Drug Sentences Will Never Be Fair (Reason)
  • Bringing Mindfulness to Addiction: My Session with a Psychedelic Integration and Recovery Coach (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.