This Week in Psychedelics - 1.26.18

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Cannabis

• Vermont Becomes the Ninth State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana (Reason)
• Medical Cannabis Protections Extended As Part Of Short Term Federal Budget Agreement (NORML)
• What The Government Shutdown Means For Marijuana (NORML)
• Bipartisan Members Of Congress Speak Out Against AG Sessions (NORML)
• Why marijuana retailers can't use banks (The Economist)
• Washington DC's Cannabis Market Is Still Untested, Untaxed, and Underground (Leafly)
• What Is THCV (Tetrahydrocannabivarin) And What Does It Do? (High Times)
• New Jersey: New Governor Calls For 'Patients First' Expansion Of State's Medical Cannabis Access Program (NORML)
• Cannabis Stock Investors Should Pay Attention To The U.S. Federal Policy Change (Forbes)
• Ontario asks for public's opinion on allowing cannabis lounges as legalization looms (Global News)
• How a Cannabis Ban Turned One California County Into 'Ground Zero for Chaos' (Leafly)
• Poll Commissioned by Pot Prohibitionists Shows How Unpopular Pot Prohibition Is (Reason)
• Why No Gadget Can Prove How Stoned You Are (Wired)
• The PAX Era Ushers in a New Generation of Cannabis Cartridge Technology (Leafly)
• Most U.S. Attorneys in States With Legal Pot Don't Seem to Be Planning a Crackdown (Reason)
• Political Commentator Angela Rye on Ending Systematic Racism in the Marijuana Industry (ATTN:)
• Cannabis measures make headway in Indiana Legislature (WISH-TV)
• NORML Activists Take Marijuana Reform Fight to Harrisburg (NORML)
• A 9-Year-Old Accidentally Shared Her Grandpa's Marijuana Gummies With Her Fifth-Grade Class (TIME)
• Looking For Inspiring Work? Consider Cannabis Marketing. Here's Why. (Forbes)
• Re-criminalizing cannabis is worse than 1930s 'reefer madness': Guest opinion (The Oregonian)
• Leafly Readers Share Their Cleverest Hiding Places for a Cannabis Stash (Leafly)
• WeedMD Commences the Sale of Cannabis Oil (GlobeNewswire)
• 'Beyonce Takes THC': The Week in Cannabis Quotes (Leafly)
• Oregon's marijuana industry showcased at cannabis conference (KGW8)
• Getting to Know the Glossy Cannabis Lifestyle Magazines on the Market (Leafly)
• Canadian cannabis firm Aurora in talks to buy both CanniMed and Newstrike: sources (Reuters)
• Introduction to Growing Cannabis with Aquaponics (Leafly)

LSD

• Microdosing LSD helped my company earn $10 million (New York Post)
• How to Microdose Acid and Magic Mushrooms? (Psychedelics Daily)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Psychedelic mushrooms reduce authoritarianism and boost nature relatedness, experimental study suggests (PsyPost)
• Psilocybin (from magic mushrooms) plus meditation and spiritual training leads to lasting changes in positive traits (Research Digest)
• Psychedelic Mushrooms Is the Potential Anti-depressant Treatment of the Future (Health Aim)
• New Psilocybin Research Suggests 'Set and Setting' Are Crucial to Helping Patients Get Better (Reason)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• The psychedelic renaissance: Can Ecstasy really be used to treat mental illness? (International Business Times)
• MDMA For PTSD Therapy Enters Final Round of Trials, Could Be Approved In U.S. and Canada By 2021 (Newsweek)
• From "X" to Rx: Discussing MDMA with Rick Doblin (Psychedelic Frontier)
• Psychedelic-Psychotherapy-QuickFacts (National Post)
• Fake ambulance worker exposed when teenager died from ecstasy at illegal rave (Metro)
• MDMA is Vipassana (Disinfo)
• Grieving mother, 50, whose daughter, 22, died after taking ecstasy in a 'final fling' to celebrate finishing her exams collects her maths degree in moving ceremony just months after her death (Daily Mail)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• No reason to believe the pineal gland alters consciousness by secreting DMT, psychedelic researcher says (PsyPost)
• Acute antidepressant effect of ayahuasca in juvenile non-human primate model of depression. (bioRxiv)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• 'MDMA' warning after 8 Thanet men taken to hospital - with one said to be in a serious condition (The Isle of Thanet News)

Dissociatives

• Can Ketamine Improve 'Electroshock' Therapy? (The Fix)
• Ketamine could prove useful in treatment of severe social anxiety (PsyPost)
• Ketamine 'cures' suicidal woman of bipolar and severe depression (Metro)
• Man faces 5 years for sending PCP to Save the Children (CT Post)

Opiates/Opioids

• Why some US cities are opening safe spaces for injecting heroin (Vox)
• Tom Petty Died of an Accidental Drug Overdose, Coroner Says (TIME)
• Study of Postsurgical Patients Shows Addiction to Pain Pills Is Rare (Reason)
• Scripps researcher developing vaccine to battle heroin addiction (Chron)
• Philadelphia's Government 'Expresses Interest' in Safe Injection Sites (Reason)
• Opium cultivation down by 40%, narcotics chief says (The Nation)
• Chinese Drugmakers Are Getting Opioids Into the U.S. Through the Postal Service (TIME)
• The Feds Are Willing to Let More Medical Workers Treat Opioid Addicts. Now the States Need to Step Up and Allow It. (Reason)

Kratom

• Effective Ways To Deal With Kratom Constipation (Kratom Guides)
• FDA Warns Promoters of Herbal Addiction Treatments (Pain News Network) 
• Kratom: Libertarian Party of Colorado Rips Denver Human Use Ban (Westword)
• The Controversial Painkiller Known As Kratom (TG Daily)
• Kratom: substitute for opioids? (KOLO)

Kava

• 'Acute pain, sore muscles, anxiety, and lethargy': Athletes are embracing kava as an alternative to everything from supplements to opioids (Daily Mail)
• Farmers Keep Potential Buyers At Bay So Yaqona Plants Can Mature Properly (Fiji Sun)
• Kava maker brings popular Polynesian health drink to America (Daily Mail)

Khat

• What Is Khat? (High Times)
• Chewing khat leaves increases risk for chronic liver disease (Healio)
• UK Khat Ban Fails To Stop Contraband Imports (High Times)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Your Sloppy Bitcoin Drug Deals Will Haunt You For Years (Wired)
• A psychedelic trip could tackle depression in a way that antidepressants can't (Business Insider)
• The Experience Elicited by Hallucinogens Presents the Highest Similarity to Dreaming within a Large Database of Psychoactive Substance Reports (Frontiers in Neuroscience)
• Cryptocurrency and Psychedelics: Interview with Brian Normand of Psymposia (Psychedelic Times)
• We Ate the Acid: A Note on Psychedelic Imagery (The Oak Tree Review)
• Trump's 24-year-old drug policy appointee was let go at law firm after he 'just didn't show' (The Washington Post)
• The Office of National Drug Control Policy Is on the Chopping Block Again. Here's Why That's Not a Bad Thing (Reason)
• Herbal Supplements May Be Dangerous When You Take Certain Prescription Drugs (TIME)
• How to Use TripSit's 'Guide to Drug Combinations' Chart (Psychedelic Times)
• Building a Modern Eleusis (Reality Sandwich)
• Bill aims to introduce driver drug testing for MDMA, cannabis and methamphetamine (Stuff.co.nz)
• Group urges safe use of psychedelic substances (The Kingston Whig-Standard)

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 - 1.19.18

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Cannabis

• Vermont: Governor Announces He Will Sign Marijuana Depenalization Measure (NORML)
• New House Legislation To Stop Jeff Sessions (NORML)
• Legal Weed Could Create $50+ Billion in Federal Tax Revenue (Reason)
• Guns or marijuana? Firearm-owning cannabis users facing a choice (The Cannabist)
• Cannabis Could Be The Most Profitable Ingredient In Skincare, If The U.S. Government Allows It (Forbes)
• Bill Introduced to Stop Civil Forfeiture Funding of DEA Marijuana Eradication Program (Reason)
• Will Legal Cannabis Save Canadian Agriculture? (High Times)
• Marijuana Law Reform Efforts Advance in States Despite a Hostile Attorney General (NORML)
• Cannabis Comestibles: Building A Better Edible (Forbes)
• Just Intoduced: The Marijuana Justice Act is in the House (NORML)
• U.S. Attorney Warns Oregon About Recreational Marijuana Boom (Reason)
• Bipartisan REFER Act Targets Sessions' War On Cannabis In High Style (Forbes)
• Pennsylvania Residents And NORML To Rally In Harrisburg For Marijuana Legalization (NORML)
• Will Robots Take Over the Cannabis Industry? (High Times)
• Senator Cory Gardner (CO) Addresses President Trump's Hypocrisy on Legal Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Can Landlords Ban Legal Cannabis? Here's What the Law Says (Leafly)
• Marijuana mixes with sex at first-of-its-kind cannabis club event (FOX31 Denver)
• Crime Rate Drops but Uruguay Struggles with Illicit Sale of Cannabis to Tourists (TeleSUR)
• Gavin Newsom on Jeff Sessions' Reversing Policy to Not Prosecute States with Legal Marijuana (ATTN:)
• Cannabis Oversupply in Washington State Drives Prices to Threatening Lows (The Street)
• Report Supports Help for Minorities in Medical Cannabis Industry (Leafly)
• 'Cellular Agriculture' Could Be the Future of Cannabis (Leafly)
• Will Trump Will Divert Funds From Anti-Terrorism To Close Pot Shops? Cannabis CEO's Hope Not (Forbes)
• Copenhagen Caper Exposes Cannabis Crackdown (High Times)
• Cannabis: Brain alterations may explain feelings of alienation (Medical News Today)

LSD

• Microdosing LSD could be a safer option than taking antidepressants, according to expert (Happy)
• 'The Most Dangerous Man in America' review: When LSD evangelist Timothy Leary led the FBI on an international goose chase (Newsday)
• President Richard Nixon and LSD guru Timothy Leary, crazy in their own ways (The Washington Post)
• 50 years ago - Gov. Shafer says LSD blinding story was a hoax (The Times-Tribune)
• Transcript: Justin Barkley blames liquid LSD, psychosis for deadly shooting at Ithaca Walmart (The Ithaca Voice)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Magic Mushrooms Could Treat Depression Without Going Through 'Emotional Blunting' (Inquisitr)
• Quality of Acute Psychedelic Experience Predicts Therapeutic Efficacy of Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression (Frontiers in Pharmacology)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Bitcoin Could Bankroll MDMA Into the Mainstream as a Therapy Drug (Inverse)
• Student fell nine floors to his death after drinking heavily and taking MDMA on his night out (Mirror)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• What to Know About Ayahuasca, the Hallucinogen That Blows Your Mind and Makes You Puke Your Guts Out (Men's Health)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• The Psychedelic Cactus Giving People a Spiritual High (VICE)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• Ibogaine Clinic by David Dardashti Hopes To Bring More Attention to National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week (PR Web)

Dissociatives

• Research Finds Esketamine Effective in Treating the Worst Cases of Depression (Futurism)
• Painkiller ketamine to be tested as preventative for post-surgical chronic pain (Herald Sun)
• Man likely high on PCP when he stabbed mom to death, prosecutor says (NJ.com)

Opiates/Opioids

• Walmart Plans to Offer a Product to Curb Opioid Abuse (TIME)
• On The Hunt For Poppies In Mexico – America's Biggest Heroin Supplier (NPR)
• Afghanistan: NATO Claims Crackdown On Taliban Hashish (High Times)
• To Help Opioid Users, Pennsylvania Tries Deregulating (Reason)
• Governors Ask Trump and Congress to Do More for Fight Against Opioids (TIME)
• The overdose drug naloxone is available in many states without a prescription (American Pharmacists Association)

Kratom

• Kratom Advocates Claim Substance 'Answer to Opioid Epidemic' (Nisqually Valley News)
• Poison control warns of risks associated with kratom (WSET)

Kava

• 'Sweet Spot' With Mike Sugerman: Kava Is All The Craze In Brooklyn (CBS New York)
• Fiji exporter calls for regional kava growers to re-focus (Radio New Zealand)
• Kava Root- A Blessing as Well as Deadly (Simple Recovery)

Khat

• Miraa exporters to Mogadishu boycott trade over high prices (Suna Times)
• Coventry man smuggled 35kg of khat worth £20,000 into the UK (Coventry Telegraph)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Meet the 24-year-old Trump campaign worker appointed to help lead the government's drug policy office (The Washington Post)
• Everyone You Love Did Drugs (Reason)
• How to Use Shulgin's Rating Scale to Describe Your Psychedelic Experience (Psychedelic Times)
• Can psychedelic drugs 'reconnect' depressed patients with their emotions? (Imperial College London)
• Alcohol arrests trend downward while hallucinogens make a comeback (The Exponent)
• L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy Accused of Selling Drugs, Offering Protection to Dealers (Reason)
• We Do Drugs Because it Feels Good: An Interview with Dr. Ingrid Walker (Reality Sandwich)
• Transcendental Journeys and Psychedelic Spirituality: Interview with Torsten Klimmer (Psychedelic Times)
• Young Australians Want Pill Testing At Music Fests And Would Heed The Results (HuffPost)
• Dalek, Buff Monster Present Spaced Out: A Psychedelic Collaborative Art Gallery In New York (Magnetic Magazine)
• Is there an end in sight for our country's 'War on Drugs'? (Southgate News-Herald)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

This Week in Psychedelics - 1.12.18

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Cannabis

• Vermont State House Passes Marijuana Legalization (NORML)
• More Americans Want to Legalize Marijuana Than Ever Before (TIME)
• New Hampshire House Votes to Legalize Marijuana Possession and Cultivation (NORML)
• Australia to Allow Export of Cannabis-Based Medicines (Voice of America)
• A Top Cannabis Lawyer on What Losing the Cole Memo Means (Leafly)
• 'Sorry Bro.' Coachella Bans Marijuana Even Though California Just Made it Legal (TIME)
• Democrats and Republicans Reject Recent Action by AG Sessions (NORML)
• Kansas Rep. Steve Alford Apologizes for Racist Comments Linking Black People to Marijuana (TIME)
• Fear of Mexicans, Not Blacks, Led Kansas to Ban Marijuana (Reason)
• Will New York Finally Consider Legalizing Cannabis This Week? (Forbes)
• The challenge of showcasing weed tech at CES (Engadget)
• CHP Seizure of Legal Cannabis Outrages California Farmers (Leafly)
• Oklahoma: Voters To Decide In June On Sweeping Medical Marijuana Ballot Initiative (NORML)
• 4 Things Congress Can Do to Stop a Cannabis Crackdown (Reason)
• Here's Why a Marijuana Crackdown Could Spell Disaster for Republicans (TIME)
• This Marijuana Reform T-Shirt Cost Iowa Taxpayers Half a Million Bucks (Reason)
• Cannabis Crunch Monthly – What's In Store For Marijuana In 2018 (Psychedelic Times)
• Unregulated sales of cannabis oil spike in Iowa (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Light-sensitive THC: Intoxicatingly light-sensitive (ScienceDaily)
• NORML Endorses SQ 788: Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Access Initiative (NORML)
• Canopy Growth: Best Way To Play The Cannabis Industry (Seeking Alpha)
• Federalists Can't Support a Cannabis Crackdown (Reason)
• In the Fight Over LA Weekly, Cannabis Companies Are Caught in the Middle (Leafly)
• SF cannabis stores open for city's first day of recreational pot sales (SFGate)
• Cannabis Insiders Share 2018 Industry Wishes (Forbes)
• 'Breeding Is an Art Form': An Interview with Cannabis Cup Champion, Exotic Genetix (Leafly)
• California Cannabis Rush May Not Bring A Fortune For Stock Investors (Seeking Alpha)
• Elderly Christmas Cannabis Couple Arrested Again, Facing New Drug Charges (NPR)

LSD

• Wormwood review – LSD, the CIA and the mysterious death of an army scientist (The Guardian)
• Nixon's Manhunt For The High Priest Of LSD In 'The Most Dangerous Man In America' (NPR)
• Kacey Musgraves Says a Moving LSD Trip Inspired New Song (Wide Open Country)
• California Man's Plot To Dump Tons Of LSD In L.A. Water Supply Thwarted By Police Is Fake News (Business 2 Community)
• Viktor Ivanelo death: Former Croydon student was found hanged in tunnel after taking LSD (Croydon Advertiser)
• Man who was Tasered while on LSD in 2012 loses lawsuit against Harris County (Chron)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Magic mushroom compound might treat depression by reviving emotional responsiveness in the brain (PsyPost)
• A Spore No More: Magic Mushroom Use Reveals Effective Clinical PTSD Treatment (Sputnik International)
• Hunting for Hallucinogenic Mushrooms in Eastern Europe (VICE)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Quarter of 'MDMA' pills tested turn out to be something else (Newshub)
• Secret bitcoin philanthropist backs research of ecstasy as treatment for PTSD (Stripes)
• Dangerously strong batch of ecstasy going around (Newshub)
• Bank clerk, 29, who 'rarely went out drinking' died from an Ecstasy overdose after mixing the drug with alcohol, inquest hears (Daily Mail)
• Tragic teenager died after taking ecstasy at Leeds Festival: Coroner warns taking illicit drugs like playing 'Russian roulette' (Yorkshire Evening Post)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• How Ayahuasca Made This CEO Unplug from the Matrix (High Existence)
• I Took Ayahuasca and It Did Nothing (Tonic)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• The Ibogaine Conversation Pt 11: Is ibogaine the cure for opioid addiction? It's not that simple. (Psymposia)

Salvia Divinorum

• Salvia Leads Chemists on a Psychedelic Existential Journey (Wired)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Drugs tested at festivals found to be 'much more potent' (Radio New Zealand)
• More festival-goers testing drugs as MDMA substitutes plague black market (TVNZ)

Dissociatives

• Ketamine May Represent an Effective Treatment for the Management of Chronic Noncancer Pain (Clinical Pain Advisor)
• Ketamine shots are a 'powerful' treatment for depression, doctor says (Metro)

Opiates/Opioids

• Scientists Just Solved a Major Piece of the Opioid Puzzle (Wired)
• Could Prescription Heroin And Safe Injection Sites Slow The Opioid Crisis? (KAZU)
• Doctor Had Wife Killed to Keep Her Quiet About Opioid Drug Ring, Police Say (TIME)

Kratom

• Using Kratom To Get Off Alcohol And Withdrawal Symptoms (Kratom Guides)
• CBD Kratom's Customers Swear By Its Product. The Feds Want to Make It Illegal (Riverfront Times)
• Kratom And 5-HTP: Best Supplements To Use For Your Positive Mood And Relaxation (Kratom Guides)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Continuing Further Education with Psychedelics (Psychedelic Times)
• Google makes millions from plight of addicts (The Times)
• The Joy of Psychedelic Healing: Interview with Julian Vayne (Psychedelic Times)
• Hamilton's back to use his body as a test subject for the world's craziest drugs (SBS)

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 - 1.5.18

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Cannabis

• Attorney General Jeff Sessions To Crackdown On State-Legal Marijuana (NORML)
• California Turns Over a New Leaf as Legalization of Marijuana Takes Effect (TIME)
• Pot in 2018: What to Expect (Rolling Stone)
• Study: Marijuana Use Not Linked With Reduced Motivation (NORML)
• Australia plans medicinal cannabis exports in bid to capture lucrative market (CNBC)
• As Vets Demand Cannabis for PTSD, Science Races to Unlock Its Secrets (Scientific American)
• The Future of Weed Science Is a Van in Colorado (Wired)
• California Is Taxing the Hell Out of Pot, but Washington Is Even Greedier (Reason)
• Where to get legal cannabis in Santa Cruz County on Jan. 1 (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
• Legalizing Cannabis Benefits the Environment (ATTN:)
• Maine Residents Describe How They Combatted Opioid Addiction With Medical Marijuana (ATTN:)
• The Best Offense: Preventative Medicine Gains an Ally in Cannabis (U.S. News & World Report)
• Grower Stories: How 5 Cultivators Came to Thrive in the Legal Cannabis Market (Leafly)

LSD

• Psychedelic drug LSD set for comeback as workers turn to 'microdosing' to boost brainpower (The Sun)
• That time Indy cops feared 'leftists' could slip LSD to Richard Nixon (IndyStar)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Bright Ideas 2018: Use psilocybin in treating depression (Madison.com)
• Thai Bar Owner Arrested for Mixing Hallucinogenic Mushrooms into New Years Drinks (Chiangrai Times)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• The journey from ecstasy to medicine: Rick Doblin's long, strange MDMA trip (New Atlas)
• What 'Molly' – the Silicon Valley elite's drug of choice at sex parties – does to your body (Business Insider)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Is it true that DMT is really produced in our brains by the Pineal gland? (Psychedelics Daily)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• The Ibogaine Conversation Pt 9: How safe is ibogaine? We asked Clare Wilkins who has facilitated over 700 treatments (Psymposia)
• The Ibogaine Conversation Pt 10: Ibogaine treatment comes with risks. We had a discussion about safety with medical providers. (Psymposia)

Dissociatives

• Ketamine Can Rapidly Reduce Suicidal Thoughts (HospiMedica)
• Ketamine Healing Clinic of Los Angeles Offers at Home Nasal Spray to Treat Depression (Benzinga)

Opiates/Opioids

• New program gives heroin antidote to people leaving jails (Fox2Now)
• Authorities Are Cracking Down on Opioid-Peddling Doctors (TIME)
• Government solutions to the opioid epidemic aren't working (Cape Gazette)
• Inside the Story of America's 19th-Century Opiate Addiction (Smithsonian)
• Heroin: The top story of 2017 in Harford County (The Baltimore Sun)

Kratom

• Lawmakers Ask FDA to Lift Kratom Warning (Pain News Network)
• Reader: If Kratom Is Made Illegal, I Will Be Forced to Live in Pain (Westword)
• Doctors warn of dangers of Kratom (Fosters)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Best psychedelic videos of 2017 (The Daily Psychedelic Video)
• Iranian Religious Authority Considers Psychedelic Medicines Halāl (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 - 12.29.17

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Cannabis

• These States Are Likely To Legalize Marijuana In 2018 (Forbes)
• The Top 10 Cannabis Stories of 2017: Canada & Jeff Sessions Lead the List (Leafly)
• Federal Medical Marijuana Protections Temporarily Extended (NORML)
• Will Legal Cannabis Thrive Or Get Shutdown? 2018 Will Tell (Forbes)
• How were Americans looking for weed (or "marijuana" or "cannabis") in 2017? (The Cannabist)
• Adult Use Retail Sales To Commence In California (NORML)
• Nevada's Recreational Marijuana Market Hits $38M, Soars Past Colorado (Forbes) 
• Warning: Don't Bring Your Legal Marijuana Through Internal Checkpoints in California (Reason)
• People Are Successfully Replacing Vicodin, Xanax and Ambien With Marijuana (ATTN:) 
• New state law to prohibit drivers, passengers from smoking cannabis while driving (KIEM)
• Raring to buy recreational pot in Los Angeles? (Not so fast) (Los Angeles Times)
• Part 1, The Top CBD Cannabis Studies of 2017 (Leafly)
• Marijuana Stops Boy's Seizure in 30 Seconds (ATTN:)
• Dear Prime Minister: 'Tis the Season to Discuss Cannabis Advertising (Leafly)
• Man gets into police car carrying 1,000 cannabis joints because he thought it was a taxi (The Independent)
• Your Regional Guide to Growing Healthy Cannabis Plants Outdoors (Leafly)
• With the groundwork laid, the cannabis business likely to take off in 2018 (Wicked Local Natick)
• Grandmother says cancer has almost gone after taking cannabis oil - now she wants the Government to act (Derby Telegraph)
• Elderly Couple Busted With 60 Pounds of Christmas-Present Cannabis (The Drive)
• Does Religious Freedom Mean You Can Smoke Pot? (World Religion News)
• 'No Rush' to legalise medical cannabis (The Daily Telegraph)

LSD

• 'Wormwood' Is an LSD-Soaked True Crime Masterpiece (Motherboard)
• These Troops Were Ordered To Take LSD (Inverse)
• The Grateful Dead, with a side of LSD-laced venison stew (Salon)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• The Grand Humbling of the Third Eye: A Review of Adam Strauss's One Man Show "The Mushroom Cure" (Reality Sandwich)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Man high on ecstasy ends up stranded in the middle of a lake, cops say (Fox 32 Chicago)
• Boy, 17, dies 'after taking ecstasy tablets' days before Christmas as police launch warning over drugs (Mirror)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• WATCH: Oddball Artist Explains What Painting On DMT Is Like (Trill)
• Ayahuasca: A Skeptic's Notes (Psychedelic Frontier)
• Exotic Hallucinogen Has Everyday Israelis Tripping. But Is It Legal? (Haaretz)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• An End to the Opioid Epidemic? New Study Suggests Ibogaine Treatment Could Be a Game Changer (Psychedelic Times)

Dissociatives

• New Ketamine Findings Give Hope To People Seeking Relief From Suicidal Thoughts (The Fix)
• Would You Try This Party Drug To Relieve Depression And Suicidal Thoughts? (Alternative Daily)

Opiates/Opioids

• Portugal Ended Their Heroin Epidemic Through Treatment and Decriminalization (ATTN:)
• India concerned at record opium production in Afghanistan (United News of India)

Kratom

• Letter: Tell DEA to leave kratom alone (Asheville Citizen-Times)
• MOH to initiate ban on Ketum starting next year (MIMS General News)

Kava

• Warning not to take Kava into Poland (Radio New Zealand)
• Appeals for Vanuatu to seek dialogue with Poland on kava ban (Radio New Zealand)

Khat

• Global Khat (Plant) Sales is Growing at 6% CAGR to 2019 - Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast (Island Post Gazette)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Pineapple Fund Donated 60 Bitcoin to MAPS in Delicate Time for Crypto and Psychedelics (Psychedelic Times)
• Ross Ulbricht Files Appeal to the Supreme Court on His Life Sentence Without Parole (Reason)
• Party drugs such as Molly, Meow Meow more popular but ganja most seized in India (Hindustan 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.