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This Week in Psychedelics - 3.31.17

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Cannabis

  • Canada Is Going to Legalize Marijuana in 2018 (TIME)
  • Marijuana Treated Like Alcohol? Legislation Filed In Senate and House (NORML)
  • Johns Hopkins University Dropped Out of a Clinical Trial for Smoked Cannabis, and Veterans With PTSD Want to Know Why (Reason)
  • Are You Overdosing on Cannabis? Preventing Negative Side Effects From Marijuana (Psychedelic Times)
  • List of Major Cannabinoids in Cannabis and Their Effects (Leafly)
  • Research Suggests Legal Cannabis Is Failing To Corrupt Youth (Forbes)
  • First Amendment Victory Over Ban on Political Contributions from Medical Marijuana Businesses in Illinois (Reason)
  • Colorado Has a Plan to Avoid a Marijuana Crackdown by President Trump (TIME)
  • John Kasich Says Medical Marijuana Has No Place in Stopping Ohio's Opioid Crisis (TIME)
  • Georgia lawmakers expand medical cannabis conditions, but still haven't legalized cultivation (The Cannabist)
  • Illinois Considers Cannabis Legalization, Seeking Financial Boost (Leafly)
  • Wisconsin City Removes Fines for Marijuana Possession and Consumption (NORML)
  • Cannabis infused candy floss edibles now exist and they need to come to the UK (Metro)
  • Chatting With Chef Dave Hadley: Chopped Winner and Cannabis Connoisseur (Leafly)
  • Cannabis growing expo attracts international audience (Northern Nevada Business Weekly)
  • Queensland Takes Lead as Australian Cannabis Stocks Soar (Leafly)
  • Kansas City Voters to Weigh in on Decriminalization Measure – Yes on 5 (NORML)
  • This Patient Was Denied a Kidney Transplant Over Medical Marijuana (ATTN:)
  • Could cannabis crowns become Coachella's hot new floral headpiece? (Los Angeles Times)
  • 'I gave my dying son cannabis to ease his cancer symptoms and he made a miracle recovery' reveals mum (Mirror)
  • The DEA's Approval of This Drug Highlights Its Own Hypocrisy (ATTN:)
  • How to Make DIY Cannabis-Infused Lube (Leafly)
  • Trafficked and enslaved: the teenagers tending UK cannabis farms (The Guardian)

LSD

  • Taking LSD 'could actually heal your brain' rather than just treating mental illness (Metro)
  • The extraordinary story of the Welsh LSD ring that supplied 60% of global supply and was worth equivalent of half a billion pounds (Mirror)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • I Saw The Light: Reducing anxiety, stress, depression, more with shrooms (City Paper)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • For women, ecstasy could more easily become a nightmare (The Rival)
  • MDMA spike in Tasmanian regional area could be linked to music festival, ACIC says (ABC Online)
  • Darwin has highest levels of MDMA consumption according to analysis of waste water by Australian Crime Commission (The Mercury)
  • Which capital city in Australia has the dodgiest MDMA? (Happy)

Ayahuasca/DMT

Iboga/Ibogaine

  • Can ibogaine treatment facilitate long-term recovery from addiction? (iBogaine-Thailand)

Morning Glory Seeds

  • Why Chewing Morning Glory Seeds Gets You High (Inverse)

Dissociatives

  • How Ketamine's Neurological Functions Make It a Promising Psychedelic for Psychotherapy (Psychedelic Times)
  • Ketamine: A Club Drug That May Be the Future of Antidepressants (Big Think)
  • Is ketamine use for depression safe? (ABC Online)
  • Police: Man high on PCP strips naked, trashes Turkey Hill (WFMZ)
  • Frederick man ran from officers, tossed jar of PCP, police say (The Frederick News-Post)

Opiates/Opioids

  • The Fanged Fish That Drugs Its Enemies With Opioids (Wired)
  • Seattle to let heroin addicts shoot up in first-ever government 'supervised injection facility' (The Blaze)
  • Donald Trump's Opioid Commission Is Stacked With Prosecutors and 12-Steppers (Reason)
  • Australia was waging a war on opium smuggling in early 1900s (Daily Telegraph)
  • Who's Next? Perspectives on Fentanyl Poisoning and the Opioid Crisis (Reality Sandwich)
  • Naloxone nasal spray possibly saves lives, but is hard to find (The Telegraph)
  • Proposal Would Bill Naloxone Recipients for Drug Costs (Maine Public)
  • Heroin Use Is Spiking Among White Americans (TIME)
  • Fentanyl, the Opioid Crisis and Naloxone (Psychedelic Press UK)
  • Educating Public on Naloxone Options Key to Dealing with Opioid Epidemic (Pharmacy Times)
  • Parrots on high branches gorge on poppies feeding opium addiction (Daily Mail)

Absinthe

  • I got drunk off of absinthe and didn't hallucinate. What gives? (ScienceLine)

Kratom

Kava

Khat

  • Miraa chewing causes serious mental problems, study reveals (The Standard)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • DEA Seized $4 Billion From People Since 2007. Most Were Never Charged with a Crime (Reason)
  • The Future of Permanent Psychedelic Sanctuaries Beyond Festivals (Psychedelic Times)
  • Bill Clinton Said He 'Didn't Inhale' 25 Years Ago—But the History of U.S. Presidents and Drugs Is Much Older (TIME)
  • Detroit Police Department Blames Drug War for Shooting So Many Dogs (Reason)
  • Efforts launched to legalize marijuana, heroin, cocaine, LSD and other drugs in Arizona (FOX 10)
  • LAUGHING AND LEARNING ABOUT PSYCHEDELICS (Dope Magazine)
  • Detroit Argues Dogs Killed in Drug Raid Were 'Contraband' Because They Were Unlicensed (Reason)
  • Sad Legislation or SADDEST Legislation?: The Protecting Kids from Candy-Flavored Drugs Act of 2017 (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 are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 3.24.17

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • What Would A Federal Marijuana Crackdown Look Like? (NORML)
  • Federal Marijuana Sentences Plummet: Report (NORML)
  • People Are Calling Justin Trudeau a Hypocrite Over Marijuana (ATTN:)
  • World's first marijuana gym is in (where else?) California (USA Today)
  • Why medicinal cannabis is a slow growing business in Colombia (The City Paper Bogota)
  • How Does Cannabis Interact With Other Drugs? (Leafly)
  • Legislature Considering Indiana's First Medicinal Cannabis Laws (WVIK)
  • Startups downplay tobacco as they talk up cannabis (TechCrunch)
  • How to Assess THC and CBD Levels in Cannabis Strains and Products (Leafly)
  • Mother hopes child is picked for cannabis oil trials (The Clarion-Ledger)
  • Orlando Bloom, Sharon Stone, and More Celebrate Luxury Cannabis Brand Launch (Vanity Fair)
  • The Curious Trend of Celebrities Quitting Cannabis (Leafly)
  • Oregon Issues Another Marijuana Recall for Pesticides (Oregon Cannabis Connection)
  • For many seniors, medical cannabis is more threat than remedy (San Francisco Chronicle)

LSD

  • Father John Misty Was on LSD During This Interview (Rolling Stone)
  • In 1967, LSD was briefly labeled a breaker of chromosomes (Science News)
  • Santa Monica High School freshman dies after falling from apartment building while on LSD (Los Angeles Times)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • ACSO: Utah man busted with hallucinogenic mushrooms, pot, sword (KTVB)

MDMA/Ecstasy

Ayahuasca/DMT

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

  • Pro-Marijuana Alabama Church Promotes Psychoactive Drugs as Medicine (Merry Jane)

Iboga/Ibogaine

  • Bahamas Treatment Center Uses "Clinical Ibogaine"for Addiction Therapy (EIN News)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • WA parents raise awareness of synthetic drug dangers after death of sons (Perth Now)

Dissociatives

  • American Psychiatric Association Says Ketamine Can Treat Depression, But Don't Expect the FDA to Approve It (Reason)
  • Mount Sinai researchers review progress made in using ketamine and other therapies to treat depression (News-Medical.net)
  • Workplace Depression Could Be Reduced Thanks To Restore Ketamine Infusion. A New Treatment for Depression (Digital Journal)
  • The dangerous club drug becoming more popular (New Zealand Herald)
  • Stratford Man - Allegedly High On PCP - Assaults Elderly Man, Store Clerk in Westport: Cops (Westport Patch)
  • PCP-Carrying Man Hits Hoboken Cop In Face: Police (Hoboken Patch)
  • Woman likely on PCP in crash that killed firefighter, report says (LeHigh Valley Five)
  • Cameron man arrested with PCP, pistol (Temple Daily Telegram)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Afghan Opium Production Has Flourished Under U.S. Occupation (Inquisitr)
  • From opium to fentanyl: How did we get here? (The Province)
  • Campaign heats up to make heroin-overdose reversal drug available everywhere (Yahoo! News)
  • Survey: Naloxone Successful at Reversing Overdoses in Most Cases (Pharmacy Times)
  • Positive Real-World Data for Naloxone Nasal Spray (MedPage Today)
  • Study: Pharmacies should proactively offer naloxone to all patients who meet evidence-based criteria (EurekAlert!)
  • Open borders, government crackdown on pills causing heroin epidemic – but Trump has plan to solve it (The Blaze)
  • Parrots high on drugs are raiding farmers' poppy fields to get their opium fix (Daily Mail)

Kambô

Kratom

Kava

Khat

  • Nearly three tonnes of Cathinone-contained Khat leaves seized in Hai Phong port (VietNamNet Bridge)
  • Two arrested for bid to smuggle Khat into Oman (Times of Oman)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Congress Wants To Drug Test People Applying for Unemployment (ATTN:)
  • Psychedelic Comedy and Radical Honesty: Interview with Comedian and Podcaster Duncan Trussell (Psychedelic Times)
  • Psychedelics: The Next Revolution In Psychiatry? (Wisconsin Public Radio)
  • This Catapult Exposes a Hole in the President's Proposed Border Wall (ATTN:)
  • Why coca leaf, not coffee, may always be Colombia's favourite cash crop (The Conversation)
  • With 'A Good Trip', Shane Mauss finds the intersection of comedy and psychedelics (The Daily Dot)
  • Jeff Sessions' Terrible Truth About Drugs Is a Lie (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 are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 3.17.17

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Surprise: Government-Grown Pot Is Total Schwag, Not Suitable for Research (Reason)
  • Marijuana could hold the key to treating Alzheimer's but drug laws stand in the way, say scientists (The Independent)
  • Jeff Sessions Says Marijuana Is Only 'Slightly Less Awful' Than Heroin. Science Says He's Wrong (TIME)
  • What Israel Can Teach Us About Medical Marijuana Policy and Research (Psychedelic Times)
  • Forgotten weed stash donated to Goodwill (CNN)
  • One Way the Marijuana Industry Can Address Racial Injustices (ATTN:)
  • What's Really Inside Your Cannabis Vape Cartridge? (Merry Jane)
  • Part 1, The History of Dutch Cannabis Coffeeshops (Leafly)
  • Oxford University to launch medical marijuana research program (CNBC)
  • USDA to Farmers: Be a Patriot! Grow Cannabis! (Reason)
  • Nevada senator proposes bill to legalize cannabis clubs and marijuana use at events (KRNV)
  • Farmers in Italy fight soil contamination with cannabis (CBS News)
  • How Much Tax Revenue Do Legal Cannabis Sales Generate? (Leafly)
  • Group Urges MA Lawmakers to Hold off on Cannabis Law Changes (Leafly)
  • Medical Marijuana Pharmacovigilance: What It Is And How To Get Involved (Psychedelic Times)
  • These Are the 10 Best and Worst States for Medical Cannabis (Leafly)
  • A Guide to Cannabis Seedling Diseases and How to Prevent Them (Merry Jane)
  • Denver FBI Honors Youth Program Partly Funded by Cannabis Taxes (Leafly)
  • Welcome to the world of luxury cannabis (Fast Company)
  • Snoop Dogg's New Video Features Cannabis, Clowns, and Trump (Leafly)
  • Cannabis Culture Dispensaries Owned By Emerys Tied To Organized Crime: Police (The Huffington Post)

LSD

  • 'Orange Sunshine' Is Coming out of the Psychedelic Closet (Leafly)
  • South Euclid man on LSD says spider gave birth in his stomach, report says (Cleveland.com)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • With Pot Gaining Acceptance, are "Magic Mushrooms" Next Up for Decriminalization? (Rockland County Times)
  • 'LOOK AT US' Two brothers 'on magic mushroom bender stripped naked, passionately kissed, smashed cars and punched neighbour in rampage' at US apartment block (The Sun)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Future of tinnitus treatment could involve illegal party drug (Stuff.co.nz)
  • Should People Facing Ecstasy Charges Get Lighter Prison Sentences? (L.A. Weekly)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • The Universal Archetypes of Ayahuasca Dreams and Making Sense of Your Own Visions (Psychedelic Times)
  • Mother reveals heartache after son dies in Peru from psychedelic drug experience (New Zealand Herald)
  • Ayahuasca, A Cautionary Tale For Tourists Eager To Try This Shamanic Brew (IFLScience)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • Synthetic cannabis is worse than marijuana in encouraging students to try heroin and ecstasy (Daily Mail)

Dissociatives

  • Could the Club Drug Ketamine Treat Depression? (MSN)
  • PCP Smoking Bandit Who Stole $3 Million Of Drake's Jewels Is Going To Jail (All HipHop)
  • Nude man on PCP arrested (KADN)
  • Herndon Cops Chase PCP Enthusiast Through Town: Police (Herndon Patch)

Opiates/Opioids

Kratom

  • How To Make Kratom Extract At Home? (Kratom Guides)
  • American Kratom Association Urges Local Authorities To Stop Unscientific Attacks On Kratom (PR Newswire)
  • How to Quit Using Kratom? (Kratom Guides)
  • The Best Supplements and Medications for Kratom Withdrawal (Kratom Guides)

Kava

Khat

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Three Ways Psychedelic Therapy Could Reduce Intimate Partner Violence (Psychedelic Times)
  • Philippine Vice President Slams Duterte's Drug War in a New Video (TIME)
  • Here's How Long Drugs Like Alcohol, Cocaine and LSD Stay in Your System (The Inertia)
  • The Dose Will See You Now: The Astonishing Life-Saving Potential of Psychedelic Therapy in Modern Medicine (Psychedelic Times)
  • In-depth: Psychedelic drugs being researched in Bay Area to treat mental disorders (KRON4)
  • New Federal Sentencing Data Provides a Reminder That the War on Meth Is Alive and Awful (Reason)
  • A psychedelic path (PressReader)

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 - 3.10.17

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Israel makes it official: Cannabis is not a crime (CNN)
  • George Rohrbacher: Trump Administration Plans To Ramp Up Government Regulation and Stifle New Marijuana Businesses (NORML)
  • Why Trump Could Be Good For The Cannabis Industry (Forbes)
  • The US government grants cannabis patents even though weed is illegal (Quartz)
  • Make drugs dull: legalising cannabis the Canadian way (The Spectator)
  • Does Cannabis Use Lower Your IQ? (Leafly)
  • Pennsylvania Auditor Wants to Close Budget Gap by Legalizing Marijuana (TIME)
  • Cannabis boosts risk of stroke and heart attack, independent of tobacco, new study finds (The Telegraph)
  • A "cannabis gym" is opening in San Francisco (A.V. Club)
  • Pot for pets: Owners treat sick animals with cannabis (ABC News)
  • Dancing but no dank: fed threat means toned-down Cannabis Cup (The Cannabist)
  • Epilepsy patients turning to medicinal cannabis, survey shows (The Guardian)
  • Growing Hemp Legally in Kentucky (Reason)
  • Where to Find the Best Legal Cannabis Lounges (Leafly)

LSD

  • LSD doesn't just treat mental illness, 'it could actually heal the brain' (WIRED)
  • LSD 'microdosing' is trending in Silicon Valley – but can it make you more creative? (The Memo)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • The Psilocybin Solution: The Role of Sacred Mushrooms in the Quest for Meaning (Serge De Vrindt)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • MDMA Overdose Prevention Drug to be Available at all Insomniac Events (EDM Chicago)
  • Local therapists' success treating PTSD with psychedelic drug puts FDA a step closer to approving it (Charleston Post Courier)
  • Chemical used to make MDMA dumped in Surrey pond (The Now)
  • Four schoolgirls aged 13 taken to hospital after 'taking teddy bear ecstasy pills' (The Sun)
  • Colchester student died after taking MDMA on night out (Essex Live)
  • Jordan Duffy fined for supplying MDMA before death of girlfriend Janie Roberts (Bellingen Courier Sun)

Ayahuasca/DMT

Salvia Divinorum

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • After Alex 'N Bomb' tragedy, drug education can prevent more deaths (Irish Independent)

Dissociatives

  • Can Ketamine Be Used For Treatment Resistant Depression? (Delray Newspaper)
  • Ketamine no 'wonder drug' for depression (Medical Xpress)
  • Cops say man high on PCP pointed cellphone at drivers like a gun (NJ.com)

Opiates/Opioids

  • NYC Area Heroin Epidemic Is Worst In Years If Not Ever, DEA Says (CBS New York)
  • America's heroin epidemic starts in Mexico (The Spokesman-Review)
  • Durham police will give addicts heroin to inject in 'shooting galleries' (The Guardian)
  • CVS to dispense naloxone prescription-free in four more states (Drug Store News)
  • Dozens accused of dealing fentanyl-laced heroin on Chicago's West Side (Chicago Tribune)
  • Surge in opium cultivation posing threat to security (Himalayan Times)
  • This Community's New Plan to Fight the Opioid Epidemic Started a Debate About Criminal Justice (ATTN:)
  • Mysteries at the Museum: The Elixir of Opium (Jacksonville Daily Progress)

Absinthe

  • 5 Things You Should Know About Absinthe (Paste)

Kratom

  • Kratom: Is the US trying to ban a drug helping heroin addicts beat their habit? (The Independent)
  • How to Make Kratom Tea From Crushed Leaves? (Kratom Guides)
  • Which Kratom is Best for Sleep and Insomnia? (Kratom Guides)

Kava

Khat

  • East African khat leaf is traded and chewed mostly by men, but it's a global business because of women (Quartz)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • What If Psychedelic Therapy Was Required to Enter Public Service? (Psychedelic Times)
  • What Psychedelics Really Do to Your Brain (Rolling Stone)
  • Psychedelic Science 2017: Interview with MAPS Communications Director Brad Burge (Psychedelic Times)
  • Why Jeff Sessions Is Worrying Drug Policy Experts (ATTN:)
  • Integrating a Psychedelic Experience: Two Meditations to Ease Anxiety and Prevent Panic Attacks (Psychedelic Times)
  • Horrors of Duterte's Drug War Exposed in New National Geographic Film (TIME)
  • Tobacco or No Tobacco? Choosing the Right Rapé Snuff Blend for Your Ceremony (Psychedelic Times)
  • 7 myths about psychedelic drugs like LSD that are doing more harm than good (Business Insider)
  • From College Dropout To Shaman Apprentice: A Story of Becoming A Leader Of The Secoya And Protecting The Vanishing Amazon (High Existence)
  • In a Traumatised World, is Psychedelic Therapy our Best Hope? (Mad in America)
  • Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spirituality (Vox)
  • Bolivia Doubles Area Allowed for the Legal Planting of Coca (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 are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 3.3.17

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Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • Federal Legislation Introduced To Exclude Cannabis From The Controlled Substances Act (NORML)
  • Jeff Sessions Explains Why He Opposes Legal Marijuana (ATTN:)
  • Can Cannabis Prevent Dyskinesia in Long-Term Treatment of Parkinson's Disease (Psychedelic Times)
  • Paging Dr. Spicer: Cannabis Could Help Fight Opioid Abuse And Save Us Billions, Actually (Forbes)
  • Senators Urge Sessions to Keep Trump's Promise of Marijuana Federalism (Reason)
  • Consume Cannabis To Lose Weight (The Huffington Post)
  • Trump Says He Wants to Stop Drugs Flowing Over the Border. Marijuana Legalization Would Do That (Reason)
  • California explores energy impacts of cannabis cultivation (SFGate)
  • Nevada U.S. Attorney Sets His Sights on the Las Vegas Cannabis Cup (Reason)
  • What Will Australian Import Changes Mean for Local Cannabis Growers? (Leafly)
  • How Do We Measure the Statistical Significance of Legal Cannabis (Entrepreneur)
  • Growing cannabis outdoors in Alaska is challenging, but not impossible (Alaska Dispatch News)
  • Regulate cannabis potency to reduce psychosis risk, experts say (FOX News)
  • Medical cannabis company ready to expand in Maryland (WBAL)
  • The World's First 'Cannabis Gym' Is Opening in San Francisco (People)
  • Major effort needed to make cannabis use less harmful, say scientists (The Guardian)
  • Avoid These 5 Common Cannabis Growing Mistakes (Leafly)
  • Huge cannabis farm 'was staffed by trafficked Vietnamese teenagers' (The Guardian)
  • Alternative Fact: Marijuana Causes Violence (NORML)

LSD

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • Magic mushrooms 'do in 30 seconds what antidepressants take four weeks to do' (Metro)
  • How psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD actually change the way people see the world (Yahoo! Finance)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Family release shocking picture of boy, 14, after his drink was spiked with MDMA (Metro)
  • Lawyers didn't tell judge girl, 15, had died from dodgy ecstasy pill during dealer's trial (Metro)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • Ayahuasca: The lawyer fighting for those who take the hallucinogenic drug for religious reasons (The Independent)
  • Ayahuasca: the global drug phenomenon that has spread from jungles to our cities (iNews)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

  • 'My whole jaw had turned to rubber': Martin Kemp on all-night drug bender at height of pop fame (Mirror)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

Dissociatives

  • The Dangers of Using the Club Drug Ketamine for Depression (TIME)
  • Ketamine as a First-Line Agent for Sedation of Agitated Patients? (NEJM Journal Watch)
  • Nude man high on PCP jumps from 2nd floor window, cops say (Lehigh Valley Live)
  • Walkersville man charged with PCP possession after Frederick officers respond to fight (Frederick News Post)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Psychedelics Could Play A Role In Tackling The Opioid Epidemic (The Huffington Post)
  • Deadly U.S. Heroin Overdoses Quadrupled in 5 Years (Scientific American)
  • Naloxone Won't Rescue Us From The Opioid Epidemic, But It's A Start (The Huffington Post)
  • President Trump Vowed to Solve the Opioid Crisis. He Needs to Fix This Problem First (TIME)
  • Lawmakers weigh option of co-prescribing naloxone with opiates (Deseret News)
  • Why James Comey's heroin strategy could just make the problem worse (The Washington Post)
  • Keeping Fentanyl Out of the US Will Take More Than a Wall (WIRED)
  • What does heroin do to the body? We ask an expert (Oberlin News Tribune)

Absinthe

Kambô

  • Breaking Down the Complex Relationship Between Migraines and Kambo (Psychedelic Times)
  • Kambo and the Natural Healing Arts: Interview with Kambo Practitioner Sebastian Hansen (Psychedelic Times)

Kratom

  • Here's Why Banning Kratom Is Bad For Scientific Research (TG Daily)
  • More Than 26000 Petition President Trump To Stop DEA's War On Coffee-Like Herb Kratom (PR Newswire)
  • Winchester Police Department warns public of kratom (WHAG)

Kava

  • Benefits and Dangers of Taking Kava (Test Country)
  • Supply of kava expected to run out as price & demand increases (Fiji One)
  • Trendy revival of a traditional drink (Bend Bulletin)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Ridiculous History: Ancient Armies Waged War With Hallucinogenic Honey (HowStuffWorks)
  • Tainted Drug Tests Sent Thousands to Jail – and They're Still There (ATTN:)
  • The Drunk at the Crossroad: The Spiritual Journey and Psychedelic Plant Medicine (Psychedelic Times)
  • The Accidental Shaman (Reality Sandwich)
  • The Great God Pan is Not Dead: Alfred North Whitehead and the Psychedelic Mode of Perception (Psychedelic Press UK)
  • Psychosis for Mental Health? (Mad In America)

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.