This Week in Psychedelics - 2.24.17

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Cannabis

• White House Promises 'Greater Enforcement' of Federal Marijuana Laws (TIME)
• Washington may have finally found bipartisan consensus with Congressional Cannabis Caucus (Salon)
• Polling: Voters Support Marijuana Law Reform By Record Numbers (NORML)
• Most Republicans Oppose Federal Interference With Marijuana Legalization (Reason)
• When Retirement Comes With a Daily Dose of Cannabis (The New York Times)
• Australia Loosens Cannabis Import Rules to Speed Patient Access (Leafly)
• Dutch Lawmakers Extend Tolerance Policy to Cannabis Cultivation (Leafly)
• Houston D.A. Will No Longer Prosecute Pot Cases, Outraging Other Prosecutors (Reason)
• Understanding the Intersection of Poverty and Access to Medical Marijuana (Psychedelic Times)
• Which Teens Are Most Likely to Smoke Pot? The Smart Ones, Study Finds (TIME)
• How a Federal Crackdown on Marijuana Could Affect Mexican Cartels (ATTN:)
• The Future of Designer Cannabis: Interview with Josh of Level Blends (Psychedelic Times)
• Which U.S. Presidents Would Have Tried Cannabis? (Leafly)
• Irvine-Based Lawyer Discusses History of Cannabis and How It'll Effect Employment In The Future (OC Weekly)
• Colorado's First Drive-Through Cannabis Shop Will Open Next Month (Leafly)
• Microdosing with Cannabis (Psychedelic Press UK)
• Cleveland's Cannabis College Is Here to Train Ohio's Next Medical Marijuana Professionals (Merry Jane)
• What Researchers Found in California's Marijuana (ATTN:)
• How and where to attend cannabis-infused dinners (and a cooking class) in Los Angeles (Los Angeles Times)
• The Weed You're Smoking Might Not Be What You Think (ATTN:)
• Texas Has a Medical Cannabis 'Prescription' Problem (Leafly)

LSD

• Microdosing LSD: Author Ayelet Waldman 'finds insight' through drug experiment (ABC)
• LSD gets stuck in your brain — literally. This could help us develop better (health) drugs (ZME Science)
• Acid Flashbacks (VolteFace)
• LSD 'microdosing' trend popular with tech entrepreneurs may be putting their lives at risk, claim Cambridge University students (Daily Mail)
• 'I was given LSD at 14': Inside Australia's notorious cult The Family where children were drugged and brainwashed to believe their female leader was Jesus Christ (Daily Mail)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Teen Dies of MDMA Overdose After Fear of Sniffer Dogs Finding Her Pills (Noiseporn)
• Crime lord offered to kill drug dealers who sold ecstasy to teenager Leah Betts (Mirror)
• Driver took MDMA and crashed into 12 cars (ITV)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Ayahuasca, meditation and activism: On cultivating the mindful politics of love (Salon)
• Powerful hallucinogenic drug DMT seized by police in New Glasgow (CBC News)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Stephen Colbert tells Alex Jones to stop 'mixing steroids with peyote' (Monsters & Critics)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• Ibogaine: A Powerful Plan That Could Kick Serious Drug & Alcohol Addictions (Collective Evolution)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• N-bomb inquest told young people need drug education (The Irish Times)
• Man charged in Prince Albert after six people hospitalized following apparent overdoses of psychedelic drug 2C-B (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)
• Daniel Horton from London drowned on holiday in Liskeard after taking what he thought was LSD (Cornwall Live)
• Woman fighting for her life after taking 'bad batch of MDMA' – a month after 20 partygoers were hospitalised with similar drug (Daily Mail)

Dissociatives

• A New Treatment for Depression Could Help Millions of Americans (Digital Journal)
• New antidepressant works on mice in hours, not weeks (Knowridge Science Report)
• RESTORE KETAMINE INFUSION: The New Treatment for Depression That Works in Hours is Now Available in Pensacola Florida (MENAFN)

Opiates/Opioids

• Psychedelics Help Reduce Opioid Addiction, According to New Study (AlterNet)
• Seattle Is Taking a Big Step in the Fight Against Opioid Addiction (ATTN:)
• 25% of all overdoses are from heroin (CNN)
• How Doctors Are Fueling the Opioid Epidemic (TIME)
• Teens Say Heroin Is 'Probably Impossible' to Get (Live Science)
• America's Opium War: How Fentanyl Will Lead All Overdose Deaths in 2017 (Paste)
• China White, Mexico's New Heroin Threatening the United States (InSight Crime)
• The War That Made Asia: How the Opium War Crushed China (The National Interest)
• Naloxone: How it saves lives by reversing the effects of opioids (Ottawa Citizen)
• Bloodletting, voodoo and opium: New Orleans museum spotlights medical methods of the past (The Washington Post)
• What's Disappearing from Veteran's Hospitals Is Alarming (ATTN:)
• Mexican Heroin Cartel Operating in North Carolina (CNS News)
• First 'End Heroin' walk happening in Birmingham this weekend (AL.com)
• Legislators Who Supported Criminal Justice Reform Now Sponsoring Tougher Heroin Bills (Reason)
• Where does heroin come from? (Asbury Park Press)

Kava

• Counting on the Trendy to Revive Kava, a Traditional Drink (The New York Times)
• Kava becomes popular (The Fiji Times)

Khat

• Clerk charged with selling 'khat' at East Raleigh convenience store (The News & Observer)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Is Eating Hallucinogenic Himalayan Honey A Good Idea? (The Alternative Daily)
• Understanding How Psychedelics Therapy Uses Rebirth to Treat Psychological Disorders (Psychedelic Times)
• Photographers in the Philippines Recall Harrowing Scenes of the Drug War (TIME)
• Psychedelic therapy gains traction as evidence based treatment for IPV (Blasting News)

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 are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 2.17.17

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Cannabis

• Ireland to legalise cannabis for medicinal purposes (The Independent)
• So We Have Attorney General Sessions – What's Next For Marijuana? (NORML)
• Iowa State University's NORML Chapter Fought Back – and Won – in the 8th Circuit Court (NORML)
• Cannabis and Legalization: A Practical Guide to Using Marijuana For Therapeutic Purposes (Psychedelic Times)
• Ganja Could Be Legalised In The Future According To Drugs Suppression Police (Buriram Times)
• NORML Forms Multi-State Workplace Drug Testing Coalition (NORML)
• Washington State Destroys 2000 Cannabis Plants and Clones Over $29,000 Tax Delinquency (New Cannabis Ventures)
• Colorado Releases First-of-Its-Kind Guide to Cannabis Worker Rights, Safety (Leafly)
• A Catapult on the Mexico Border Was Used to Hurl Drugs Into U.S. (TIME)
• Colorado Governor Talks Cannabis Colleges in California Capitol (Leafly)
• Georgia senators to work to slash THC potency in medical cannabis (Online Athens)
• Leafly Investigation: California Has a Dirty Cannabis Problem (Leafly)
• Cannabis Isn't Making You Lazy, Your Bad Habits Are (Leafly)
• Cannabis bouquet delivery service (Boing Boing)
• Swedish patients given cannabis for chronic pain (The Local)
• Pop Music and Cannabis: A Romance That Began in the 1930s (Leafly)
• UK set for cannabis boom as GW Pharma storms ahead (The Telegraph)
• Los Angeles may finally get cannabis right, and help minorities get a stake in the industry (Los Angeles Times)
• New Luxury Cannabis Brand Brings Haute High To Consumers (Yahoo! Finance)

LSD

• A neuroscientist explains why Donald Trump needs LSD (Raw Story)
• The Incredible Story of Albert Hofmann and the Birth of LSD (Merry Jane)
• LSD to Cure Depression? Not So Fast (The New York Times)
• Bill Gates once coyly defended LSD use by saying 'I never missed a day of work' (Business Insider)
• LSD 'microdosing' is trending in Silicon Valley – but can it actually make you more creative? (The Conversation)
• Misadventures In Tuning In: Considering The Limits Of Music, LSD And Science (NPR)
• Mick Jagger 'bought country estate while high on LSD' (The Telegraph)
• Legalize LSD – Drug policy should draw from science instead of culture (Argonaut)
• Inside the bizarre 1960s cult, The Family; LSD, yoga and UFOs (The Guardian)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Do you suffer from 'suicide' headaches? Magic mushrooms or LSD might provide relief (Genetic Literacy Project)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Marriage Is Driving Some To Drugs And It May Not Be A Bad Thing (The Huffington Post)
• Leaked Police Memo Reveals What Was In Melbourne's Deadly MDMA (EDM Tunes)
• Two Lovers, Two Doses of MDMA (Inverse)
• Enough chemicals to make one billion ecstasy pills were seized in the Netherlands (The Outline)
• Ecstasy and other recreational stimulants tied to heart damage: study (The Globe and Mail)
• Drug-dealing teenager who supplied MDMA that killed schoolgirl at music festival walks FREE from court (Mirror)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• The Spiritual and Therapeutic Benefits of Icaros Songs in an Ayahuasca Ceremony (Psychedelic Times)
• Could The Psychedelic Drug Ayahuasca Cure Depression? (MSN)
• Re-reading Ayahuasca: Cultural complexities of the vine unpicked (Psychedelic Press UK)
• Uncommon hallucinogen DMT believed to have been found in Leask (CBC News)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Island Lake man gets probation for growing peyote (Northwest Herald)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• The Ibogaine Institute Launches To Transform (Satellite Press Releases)

Dissociatives

• Taking party drug before combat could reduce PTSD in armed forces, study suggests (Plymouth Herald)
• Ketamine as Preventative PTSD Drug for Troops Headed Into Battle? Not So Fast (Seeker)
• More Than a Pound of PCP Seized During Federal Drug Interdiction Investigation (United States Department of Justice)
• Mother of Terence Crutcher's children arrested after car wreck (Tulsa World)
• Man On PCP Burglarizes Takoma Park Home: Police (Takoma Park Patch)

Opiates/Opioids

• Proposed bill could charge heroin dealers with murder (KTVB)
• Rite Aid expands naloxone non-prescription availability in six states (Drug Store News)
• When failed drug war meets failed real war (Personal Liberty Digest)

Kratom

• Which are the Best Kratom Strains for Euphoria? (Kratom Guides)

Kava

• Traditional leaders propose limits to kava consumption (The Fiji Times)
• Tonga Parliament concerned about hike in price of kava (One Papua New Guinea)

Khat

• Banned Khat drug 'pushed underground' in Wales, users say (BBC)
• Experts settle the debate on Miraa and bedroom matters (Tuko.co.ke)
• Tanzania: Army Man in Police Hands for Transporting Khat (allAfrica)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• The Loudest Critic of Duterte's War on Drugs Is Preparing for Arrest (TIME)
• Four Ways to Access Psychedelic Therapy Without Using Illegal Substances (Psychedelic Times)
• Alcohol leads to more violence than other drugs, but you'd never know from the headlines (The Conversation)
• Psychedelics a Viable Therapeutic Option for Depression (Psychiatry Advisor)
• Psychedelic Advocacy and The Reality of Truth: Interview with Mike "Zappy" Zapolin (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 are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 2.10.17

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Cannabis

• How Jeff Sessions Could Impact Legal Marijuana Immediately (ATTN:)
• Legalizing Marijuana Would Hurt Mexican Drug Cartels More Than Trump's Border Wall (Reason)
• Ministers endorse bill to export medicinal cannabis (The Times of Israel)
• Cannabis set to be licensed for medicinal use in Ireland (The Irish Times)
• Wisconsin May Be the Next to Legalize Medical Cannabis (Leafly)
• Vegas, Baby: Retail Cannabis Shops Could Open in July (Leafly)
• Colorado Agriculture Office Hosts Cannabis-Curious Officials From Other States (Leafly)
• The Underexplored Potential of Cannabis to Treat Opioid Addiction (Psych Central)
• Meet the Makers of Oregon's First Cannabis and Hemp Beer for Sale (Merry Jane)
• Will Falling Cannabis Prices Hurt Marijuana Stocks? (FOX Business)
• 9 Reasons Israel Is the Capital of Cannabis Research (Leafly)
• Leah Heise on the Power of Women – and Men – in Cannabis (Westword)
• San Francisco College Students Will Soon Be Able to Take a Class on Recreational Marijuana (TIME)
• Searching for Jack Herer, the 'Emperor' of American Cannabis (Leafly)
• Entrepreneurs Help Consumers Enjoy Cannabis Discretely (Forbes)
• Border officers find nearly 2 tons of weed camouflaged as limes (CNN)

LSD

• The Tim Scully Interview: Manufacturing 750,000,000 Doses of LSD to Save the World (High Existence)
• What An Acid Trip Reveals About How The Brain Creates Meaning (The Huffington Post)
• A microdose (of LSD) a day helped keep the doctor away (The Boston Globe)
• LSD: What's The Reality, Where's The Illusion And Does It Even Matter? (MensXP)
• Cruel thugs give hamster hallucinogenic drug LSD and then film its reaction in sickening video (Mirror)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Front Porch: Authority to talk about psychedelic mushrooms (The Daily Herald)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Dad of ecstasy victim Leah Betts says family would be targeted by online trolls if photo was released today (Mirror)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Ayahuasca Tourism: How a Psychedelic Therapist Can Help You Stay Safe When Traveling Abroad (Psychedelic Times)
• Super Bowl party leads police to drug lab (Tioga Publishing)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Here's what was in Melbourne's toxic batch of 'MDMA' (Mixmag)

Dissociatives

• Study shows ketamine may prevent PTSD symptoms (UPI)
• History of Psychosis May Not Exclude Ketamine for Depression (Medscape)

Opiates/Opioids

• Florida police seize thousands of packets of heroin featuring Donald Trump's face on packaging (New York Daily News)
• $8.5 Billion U.S. Counter Narcotics Effort in Afghanistan Boosts Opium Production (Liberty News Now)

Kambô

• Way of the Frog Medicine: Interview with Master Kambo Practitioner Simon Scott (Psychedelic Times)

Kratom

• Kratom: A weapon against drug addiction or dangerous alternative? (WRIC)

Kava

• Workshop to look at growth of kava culture in NZ (Radio New Zealand)
• Vanuatu body happy with kava licence to naturalised citizens (Radio New Zealand)

Khat

• Miraa not bad for sexual health - Kenyan experts (Nairobi News)
• 110 pounds of khat seized at Pittsburgh International Airport (Tribune-Review)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Jeff Sessions, Fan of the Drug War and Asset Forfeiture, Confirmed as Attorney General (Reason)
• Museum series explores 'psychedelic science' (Farmington Daily Times)
• Neil Gorsuch Sympathizes With Drug Dealers (Reason)
• Three Ways College Campuses Are Influencing the Future of Psychedelics (Psychedelic Times)
• Psychedelic drugs like magic mushrooms and LSD have key differences – here's what you should know (Business Insider)
• So A Minister, A Rabbi, And A Buddhist Took Drugs For Science... (The Huffington Post)
• How psychedelics can revolutionize the way we live (Dazed)
• Psychedelics Being Tested For Use In Treating Various Conditions (CBS)
• The psychedelic renaissance (Boulder Weekly)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 2.3.17

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Cannabis

• Marijuana Prices Are About to Change (ATTN:)
• Colorado Report Says Adolescent Marijuana use 'Has Not Changed Since Legalization' (Reason)
• What Happens to Your Brain If You Start Smoking Weed Before 17 (ATTN:)
• Where Is The Future For Marijuana Banking Reform? (NORML)
• Burger King Drive-Thru Workers Arrested After Allegedly Selling Marijuana at the Drive-Thru (TIME)
• Maine Becomes Eighth State to Eliminate Marijuana Possession Penalties (NORML)
• California Looks to Build $7 Billion Legal Cannabis Economy (Leafly)
• Neurobiologist illuminates the under explored potential of cannabis to address opioid addiction (Science Daily)
• Alaska Rejects Plan to Allow On-Site Consumption at Cannabis Stores (Leafly)
• Hemp and Pot Restrictions Not Dying Fast Enough (Reason)
• Understanding Medical vs. Adult-Use Cannabis Dispensaries (Leafly)
• Cannabis, the hottest new pet supplement (The Signal)
• What Does Gorsuch Think About Cannabis? Not Much. (Leafly)
• Will Cannabis Have Appellations Like Wine? (Merry Jane)
• Cannabis Tax May Not Cure Ailing State Budget (GoodTimes)
• The Many Ways the Cannabis Industry Lacks Traditional Marketing Expertise (Entrepreneur)
• Taxes and Red Tape Keep Colorado's Marijuana Black Market Profitable (Reason)
• Canadian Cannabis Producer to Begin Exports to Chile (Leafly)
• Fun Cannabis History Facts That Will Impress People (Merry Jane)
• How Cannabis Ecommerce Challenges Are Driving Web Innovation (The Advocate)

LSD

• Science Has Finally Discovered Why LSD Trips Last So Long (Maxim)
• LSD's grip on brain protein could explain drug's long-lasting effects (Science News)
• LSD Helps Explain How Our Brains Assign Meaning to Experience (Seeker)
• Russell Brand compares being a dad to LSD trip (Daily Star)
• How 'micro-dosing' LSD helped a woman to 'improve her mental health and save her marriage' (The Independent)
• Give us this day our daily dose: Ergot, LSD and the Israelites (Psychedelic Press UK)
• Denzel Nkemdiche lost passion for football, experimented with LSD at Ole Miss (The Comeback)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• A psychedelics expert says magic mushrooms will be approved for depression by 2027 – here's why (Yahoo! Finance)
• Magic Mushrooms as Mental Health Treatment (U.S. News and World Report)
• A man who took magic mushrooms for a scientific study said it helped him see a basic truth about relationships (Business Insider)
• Magic mushroom' drug eases cancer patient anxiety (Knowridge Science Report)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Government-Approved Study of MDMA for PTSD Accepting Applications for Participants Soon (The Joint Blog)
• Someone Tried To Make A POV Experience Video Of MDMA (Stoney Roads)
• Three pupils 'collapse after taking ecstasy at prestigious school' (Metro)
• Teen drug dealer admits selling ecstasy which killed tragic schoolgirl and left two others in hospital (Mirror)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• 9 Investigates: Local church offering 'legal' ayahuasca (WFTV)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• ART SEEN: Artist explores contemporary meaning of peyote and ayahuasca (Vancouver Sun)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• Recovering From Addiction: Interview with Ibogaine Aftercare Provider Justin Hoffman (Psychedelic Times)
• New York Times Carries a Full Page Ad about Plant Medicine Ibogaine to Combat the Opiate Epidemic Presented by Social Movement "Your Mind Has Rights" (Satellite Press Releases)
• The Latest Addiction Treatment is Making Noise – Ibogaine Claims to Offer Addiction Interruption (Military Technologies)
• Global ibogaine: A lucrative safe-haven for the cannabis industry? (The Leaf)
• Ibogaine Aftercare and Integration: Interview with Justin Hoffman and Tishara Lee Cousino (Psychedelic Times)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Teen died after taking LSD-type drug, stripping and jumping into river (Exeter Express and Echo)

Dissociatives

• How Ketamine Could Be Used to Treat Alcoholism (Munchies)
• Ketamine's Versatility Makes it a Powerful Tool for EMS (JEMS.com)
• Can Craving for Cocaine Be Blocked in Addicted Individuals? (Psychology Today)
• Antidepressants Induce Resilience and Reverse Susceptibility (Science Daily)
• How Ketamine could cure depression (Drug Target Review)
• Lawyer says client on PCP when he lit fire in Springfield courthouse (MassLive)

Opiates/Opioids

• Life-saving naloxone prices soar along with its usage (Lancaster Online)
• Afghanistan: As Taliban Depends More on Heroin Anti-Cultivation Efforts Plummet (Breitbart)
• Health groups want to increase access to naloxone (The Washington Times)
• DEA seizes $1.8 million in heroin, fentanyl (Boston Herald)
• Kroger pharmacies make Naloxone available without a prescription (WHSV)
• Fix Narcotic Abuse Cycle Before Throwing Naloxone at Every Overdose Patient (JEMS.com)
• Could THIS stop heroin addictions? Scientists discover electroshock therapy helps to reduce cravings (Daily Mail)

Absinthe

• When Happy Hour Was "Green Hour" in Paris (Smithsonian)

Kambô

• Five Methods to Reduce Overall Risk When Taking Kambo (Psychedelic Times)

Kratom

• National Institute of Health study on "Dangers of Kratom" references evidence that doesn't exist (MuckRock)
• DEA Asked Public To Comment On Its Proposed Kratom Ban And 99 Percent Opposed It (The Huffington Post)
• DEA withdraws plan to ban kratom (Gates-Chili Post)
• Controversial Kratom Growing in Popularity (Monthly Prescribing Reference)

Kava

• Krave Kava Bar opens in Greensboro (Greensboro News & Record)
• Greater Binghamton's first kava bar to open on First Friday (Binghamton Homepage)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Ethan Nadelmann's Farewell Letter to Drug Policy Alliance Staff (Drug Policy Alliance)
• Rodrigo Duterte Just Put the Philippines' Drug War on Hold (TIME)
• Senate Judiciary Advances the Nomination of Marijuana Prohibitionist Jeff Sessions to be the Attorney General (NORML)
• Here's That Time Jeff Sessions Wanted to Execute Drug Dealers (Reason)
• A Healing Crisis to Make You Whole: Breaking Down the Benefits of Holotropic Breathwork (Psychedelic Times)
• The truth about 'microdosing', which involves taking tiny amounts of psychedelics like LSD (Business Insider)
• Bluenosers latest, literal drug trip doc in the works (The Chronicle Herald)
• Repairs Uncover Cocaine Worth $434K in Airplane's Nose Gear (NBC 6 Miami)
• Bay Area Patients Find Psychiatric Relief From Psychedelic Therapy (CBS San Francisco)

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 are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 1.27.17

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Cannabis

• Pot Protesters Welcome President Trump With 4,200 Joints (Reason)
• Georgia eases draconian law on cannabis use (The Guardian)
• Israel's Ariel University opens first academic course on medical cannabis (The Jerusalem Post)
• NORML Chapters Organize State Lobby Days for Marijuana Law Reforms (NORML)
• Maine Poised to Push Back Retail Cannabis Until 2018 (Leafly)
• Cannabis and Epilepsy Treatment (Leafly)
• Authorities seize 3,000 pounds of marijuana disguised as watermelons (CBS7)
• Israel to fund research for medical cannabis crops (The Times of Israel)
• Trump's AG Nominee Continues to Waffle on Cannabis (Leafly)
• Using Veganics for Growing Organic Cannabis (Leafly)
• Cannabis workshop educates on new program, future potential (The Guam Daily Post)
• Texas Judge Says Teacher Shouldn't Be Disciplined for Consuming Cannabis in Colorado (Reason)
• How Cannabis Became Illegal in Israel in the First Place (Haaretz)
• Can You Trademark a Cannabis Brand? 'Stash' Case Offers Two Answers (Leafly)
• Inside the #Trump420 Movement (TIME)
• Cannabis Drug Company Zynerba Is Gearing Up For A Big Summer (Forbes)
• Great-grandmother battles Ministry of Healthy over medicinal cannabis products (Stuff.co.nz)
• High Hopes for the Legal Cannabis Industry (PR Newswire)

LSD

• Ever Had a Really Long Acid Trip? Now Science Knows Why (WIRED)
• The Micro-Dose vs. The Mystical Experience: Has LSD Turned its Back on the Psychedelic Revolution? (High Existence)
• When Nixon's Henchmen Plotted to Assassinate a Journalist with LSD (The Daily Beast)
• 'A Really Good Day' Recaps A Month-Long Adventure Of Microdosing LSD (NPR)
• Here's how underground chemist Tim Scully planned to save the world with LSD (The Verge)
• How Tripping On Acid Makes Music More Meaningful (Inverse)
• Why I take LSD at work, a true story (Well+Good)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• How Microdosing Psilocybin May Keep Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) at Bay (Psychedelic Times)
• Magic Mushrooms Can Manage Anxiety And Depression In Cancer Patients; According To Research (iTech Post)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Three Ways You Can Get Involved With the Phase 3 Trials of MDMA as a PTSD Treatment (Psychedelic Times)
• MDMA By Any Other Name: How Street Names Harm the Reputation of Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelic Times)
• MAPS Looks to Make MDMA into an FDA-Approved Psychotropic Agent (Monthly Prescribing Reference)
• MDMA: a tool for psychotherapy? (The McGill Daily)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Tourist boom for ayahuasca a mixed blessing for Amazon (The Guardian)

Salvia Divinorum

• Murder suspect Harris Binotti filmed losing control while flipping out on mindbending drugs (The Scottish Sun)

Dissociatives

• Researchers Build Multi-Regional Brain Chip to Study PCP's Effects on Brain (medGadget)
• Taking ketamine 'could help alcoholics quit booze', experts claim (Metro)

Opiates/Opioids

• Heroin injection sites may open soon in U.S. (Lancaster Online)
• How Repealing Obamacare Could Impact the Drug Crisis (ATTN:)
• The Story Behind the Viral Photo of an Opioid Overdose (TIME)
• Recent deaths prompt state warning about carfentanil (Centre Daily Times)
• Bill Maher: Heroin 'a Gateway to Being a Republican' (Rolling Stone)

Kratom

• America's war against opioid addiction - and the battle for kratom, the dietary supplement that has changed thousands of lives (The Telegraph)
• Kratom: What We Know (Medscape)
• Another blow to fighting opium addiction with the scheduling of Kratom (Psychedelic Press UK)

Kava

• Santo kava farmers fear 'silent killer' investor threat to their production (Asia Pacific Report)
• Board: Women's Kava Drinking Worrying (Fiji Sun)
• Woman Clan Leader Says Men Also Abuse Kava (Fiji Sun)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• BREAKING: Attorney General Vote Delayed (NORML)
• How College "Psychedelic Clubs" are Changing the Conversation on Drugs (Leafly)
• Monero, the Drug Dealer's Cryptocurrency of Choice, Is on Fire (WIRED)
• Why psychedelic drugs are having a medical renaissance (PBS)
• Pill testing sounds like a great idea, but there's a catch (The Age)
• Better living through mushrooms (City Pulse)

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 are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.