This Week in Psychedelics - 3.2.18

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Cannabis

• Maine: Lawmakers Push To Rewrite 2016 Voter-Approved Marijuana Law (NORML)
• UK Parliament Members Blame Own Party for Blocking Medical Cannabis Vote (Leafly)
• Acclaimed Illustrator Reveals the Secrets of Great Cannabis Packaging (Leafly)
• Marijuana man makes $1 million a year running a 'bud and breakfast' hotel (The Sun)
• Tech behind cryptocurrency unites with cannabis (New York Post)
• This UK Cafe Is Selling Cannabis-Infused Treats (High Times)
• In Hollywood, Cannabis Is Part of the Creative Process (Leafly)
• Why It's So Hard to Dose Weed (Wired)
• Colorado Is Finally Getting Its First Cannabis Club (Forbes)
• Missouri: Medical Marijuana Initiative Effort Reaches Signature Milestone (NORML)
• Ex-FBI official hoping to blaze a path to Congress as 'cannabis candidate' (CNN)
• Racial Disparities Persist Among NYC Marijuana Possession Arrestees (NORML)
• Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Marijuana's Schedule I Prohibited Status (NORML)
• Most UK cannabis 'super strength skunk' (BBC)
• Cannabis Access Consistently Linked With Lower Opioid Use: Studies (NORML)
• Will Hawaiians Who Use Medical Pot Lose Their Right to Own a Gun? (Reason)
• Anti-Pot Group Releases Scathing Report Card on Commercial Cannabis (Westword)
• Tribes Cut out of California Cannabis Market Might Grow Their Own (Leafly)
• Legal Cannabis Industry Poised For Big Growth, In North America And Around The World (Forbes)
• Cannabis 101: The science behind your high (The Weekender)
• Ebony Costain Is Changing The Way You Buy Cannabis (Forbes)
• What We Can Learn from the Man Who Ate Cannabis and Had a Meltdown High Above the Pacific Ocean (The Stranger)
• Better Marijuana Stock: Aurora Cannabis vs. Cronos Group (The Motley Fool)
• Molson Coors 13F: Legalized Marijuana May Hurt Our Beer Sales (Investopedia)

LSD

• LSD Study Reveals Unprecedented 'Harmonic' Reorganization of Brain (Inverse)
• The Beckley Foundation Intends To Study Links Between Microdosing LSD And Creativity (Forbes)
• Prof. David Nutt: 'It's irrational to deny people access to LSD' (Radio New Zealand)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Study: Mushrooms became hallucinogenic to keep away insects (UPI)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Using MDMA to Treat Eating Disorders (Psychedelic Times)
• Ecstasy, party drug of '90s, makes a roaring comeback (Clarion Ledger)
• Assumed dodgy ecstasy batch reason thirteen people hospitalised in Christchurch (Newshub)
• MDMA warning after six children taken to hospital in Scotland (The Independent)
• Model died after 'overdosing on MDMA and ketamine' at music festival (Metro)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Federal lawsuit forces Oklahoma City airport security to modify their handling of Native American objects (NewsOK)
• A Peyote Tipi Ceremony with Puyallup Tribal Leader Ramona Bennett (The Stranger)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• How the Shamanic Medicine Iboga can Resolve and Heal Childhood Trauma (Reality Sandwich)
• Maryland Lawmakers Consider Using Ibogaine To Treat Addiction (CBS Baltimore)

Dissociatives

• Additional Review of Ketamine as Fast Acting Antidepressant is Promising (PsychCentral)
• Ketamine Now Being Used in Los Angeles clinic to treat Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) and Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD) (PRWeb)
• Hartford Police: Man Set Fire To House After Family Confronted Him About PCP Use (Hartford Courant)

Opiates/Opioids

• Inside the secret lives of functioning heroin addicts (CNN)
• How America Can Win the Drug War in Afghanistan (The National Interest)

Kratom

• FDA oversees destruction and recall of kratom products (The National Law Review)
• Kratom, Marijuana Can Help People Kick Opiates, Addiction Expert Says (Westword)
• Kratom Likely Source For Multi-State Salmonella Outbreak, CDC Says (The Fix)
• Why Kratom Shouldn't Be Swept Up in the Opioid Crackdown (The Crime Report)
• FDA raises death count from kratom, a natural opioid (CBS News)

Kava

• Kava Kava: An Ancient Herb For Stress And Anxiety (Reports Healthcare)
• Alternative to alcohol: Michigan's first Kava Bar in Grand Rapids (The Rapidian)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• President Trump Suggests Executing Drug Dealers (TIME)
• Getting High with the Most High: Drugs in the Bible (Ancient Origins)
• Bitcoin Mega-Philanthropist 'Pineapple' Talks About Psychedelic Research (Forbes)
• Neuroendocrine Associations Underlying the Persistent Therapeutic Effects of Classic Serotonergic Psychedelics (Frontiers)
• The Untapped Potential of Psychedelics in Mental Health Treatment (Conatus News)
• A Single Psychedelic Drug Trip Can Change Your Personality for Years (Live Science)
• Are psychedelic drugs about to become the new prozac? (Well+Good)
• Long-Term Effects Of Psychotropic Drugs Are 'Cloaked In Mystery' (NPR)
• Cocaine, LSD and Ketamine: They Reveal Drug Network in the US Navy (Maritime Herald)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 2.23.18

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Cannabis

• Meta-Analysis: Studies Refute Claims That Medical Cannabis Access Encourages Teen Use (NORML)
• Philadelphia: District Attorney To Cease Prosecuting Marijuana Possession Offenders (NORML)
• California Sends 'Several Hundred' Warning Letters to Unlicensed Cannabis Businesses (Leafly)
• Should employers keep testing workers for pot? (CBS News)
• 'I'm a pot evangelist': meet America's dope queens (The Guardian)
• Green Rush: How Cannabis Legalization Will Impact California (Visual Capitalist)
• Government refuses medical cannabis to six-year-old epileptic boy who had 3,000 seizures in a year (The Independent)
• Keeping medical cannabis from children is callous, and foolish (The Guardian)
• California: Alameda County District Attorney To Vacate Thousands Of Past Marijuana Convictions (NORML)
• Admitting You Smoked Pot Can Get You Bounced From White House Job (Reason)
• Doctors warn against rush to prescribe medicinal cannabis (The Guardian)
• How Can Cannabis Retailers Implement Sustainable Practices? (Leafly)
• Less than 1% of California's cannabis growers have state licenses because regulations are too expensive, prohibitive (San Francisco Business Times)
• Can You Treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Cannabis? (High Times)
• 9 Things We Learned From Al Harrington's 'The Concepts of Cannabis' Documentary (Leafly)
• I shouldn't be criminalised for using cannabis to ease my constant pain (The Guardian)
• 7 Cannabis Edibles that Changed the Game (Leafly)
• Cannabis Winners And Losers In Manitoba And Quebec (Seeking Alpha)
• What Are Feminized Cannabis Seeds? (Leafly)
• No cannabis events or sales at O.C. fairgrounds, Fair Board decides (Los Angeles Times)
• Dear Abby Tells It Like It Is: The Week in Cannabis Quotes (Leafly)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Clinical Interpretations of Patient Experience in a Trial of Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy for Alcohol Use Disorder (Frontiers)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• How ecstasy and magic mushrooms can be used in medicine (Pharmacy News)
• Teenage clubber Michael Trueman died after taking ecstasy at Rainbow Venues (Birmingham Live)
• Norwegian man dies following an MDMA overdose while on trip to Essex (Echo)
• MDMA madness: Two more teenagers hospitalised (The Copenhagen Post)
• Ecstasy or candy? Wendover Police warning parents (FOX13)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• The brutal mirror: What an ayahuasca retreat showed me about my life. (Vox)
• The Psychedelic Tale of Terence McKenna's Forgotten Music About DMT (Noisey)
• Interview: 'The Shaman and The Scientists' Director Sarah Hutt on Her New Documentary (Outer Places)

Dissociatives

• How ketamine relieves depression by suppressing the brain's "anti-reward" center (New Atlas)
• Patients angry ketamine treatment trial to end (Otago Daily Times)
• 'Ketamine saved my life': Users claim depression relief from the controversial drug (Dancing Astronaut)

Opiates/Opioids

• The Opioid Diaries (TIME)
• Inside the Mexican towns that produce America's heroin (The Washington Post)
• Police officers take on a bigger role in the fight against opioid deaths (The Sacramento Bee)
• Fentanyl found in majority of heroin, opioid-related overdoses in 2017 (The Baltimore Sun)
• Mexican cartels pushing more heroin after U.S. states relax marijuana laws (USA Today)
• In Asia, the unintended consequence of consequences of fentanyl (The Globe and Mail)
• Toronto police to issue naloxone to front-line downtown officers (The Globe and Mail)

Absinthe

• Absinthe Market, Expected to Grow Parallel to Alcoholic Beverages Market (Digital Journal)

Kratom

• Kratom Is Linked to a Salmonella Outbreak Across 20 States, CDC Says (TIME)
• FDA Warns That the Popular Herbal Supplement Kratom Has Been Associated With 44 Deaths (Allure)
• FDA oversees destruction and recall of kratom products (American Pharmacists Association)
• Vancouver researchers take issue with U.S. FDA's alarmist memo on kratom (The Georgia Straight)
• Reader: Kratom Is Just Another Way for Addicts to Get High (Westword)
• Best Kratom Strains For Pain Relief (Reports Healthcare)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Trump Megadonor Donates $1 Million to MAPS Research (Good Times)
• Study reveals the similarity between psychedelic states and dreaming (PsyPost)
• Alcohol more likely to lead to post-sex regret than marijuana or ecstasy (PsyPost)
• New Research Suggests Psychedelic Drugs Can Improve Mental Health, But There's a Catch (Hornet)
• Selecting an Appropriate Dosage Level for a New Drug (Psychedelic Times)
• The Psychedelic Debriefing in Alcohol Dependence Treatment: Illustrating Key Change Phenomena through Qualitative Content Analysis of Clinical Sessions (Frontiers)
• Rev. Barber: How We Can Address Racial Inequalities in Handling Drug Addiction (TIME)
• How you speak predicts if psychedelic therapy will help you (New Scientist)
• Australia lagging behind in psychedelic science renaissance (News-Medical)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 2.16.18

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Cannabis

• New Federal Legislation To Protect Legal Marijuana States And Businesses (NORML)
• Federal Medical Marijuana Protections Temporarily Extended, Again (NORML)
• Marijuana sales overtake alcohol in US city for first time (The Independent)
• Girl Scout sells 300 cookie boxes in six hours after setting up outside cannabis shop (The Telegraph)
• Cannabis Cleans Up Nuclear Radiation And Toxic Soil (Disinfo)
• Fox News: Support for Cannabis Legalization at Record High (Leafly)
• To Placate Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Blocks Medical Marijuana Exports (Reason)
• DAs Making it Easier to Clear California Cannabis Convictions (Leafly)
• Lawsuit Argues That Feds' Cannabis Ban Violates Our Constitutional Rights (Forbes)
• For the legal cannabis trade, some new wrinkles: Older users (Los Angeles Times)
• Can Olympic Athletes Use Cannabis? Officially No, But... (Leafly)
• Dream catchers, succulents and joints: a visit to an LA cannabis shop (The Guardian)
• Prosecutors ask pot regulators to hold off on cannabis cafes (Concord Monitor)
• Warner Robins athlete C.J. Harris controls seizures with cannabis oil (WMAZ)
• Federal Judge To Hear Arguments Wednesday In Legal Fight Challenging The Constitutionality Of Marijuana's Illicit Status (NORML)
• White House Official Resigns Over Cannabis Use 5 Years Ago (Leafly)
• Berkeley declares itself a sanctuary city for recreational pot (CNN)
• Cannabis and Romance: It's Complicated (The Portland Mercury)
• How to Invest in Canada's Coming Legal Cannabis Boom (Leafly)
• Travel Writer and Television Host Rick Steves Briefed Congress On Marijuana Policy (NORML)
• Members-only cannabis club opens for business (KOAT)
• Shopify + Cannabis = Upside (Seeking Alpha)
• Growing Cannabis Use by Patients Needs to be Matched by Counseling and Awareness of Risks, Report Says (Fibromyalgia News Today)
• New cannabis products highly potent, pose mental health risks (Science Daily)
• Growing a book of business in the cannabis market (Employee Benefit Advisor)

LSD

• Neuroimaging study helps explain why LSD makes the familiar seem more surprising (PsyPost)
• Silicon Valley Is On LSD, And The Government Is Holding Them Back (71 Republic)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Scientists studying psychoactive drugs accidentally proved the self is an illusion (Quartz)
• Running Away or Righting The Way: Is Psilocybin a Viable Psychiatric Treatment? (MD Magazine)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• MDMA-assisted psychotherapy being used to treat eating disorders (The Independent)
• REPORT: Hip-Hop Lyrics Glorifying "Molly" Have Heavily Influenced MDMA Use (Your EDM)
• Why ecstasy in the U.S. is getting more dangerous by the day (Big Think)
• After Dropping Bannon, The Mercers Are Looking Into Dropping Ecstasy (Fast Company)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• 9 thoughts i had while taking ayahuasca (MTV)

Dissociatives

• Doctors using ketamine for treatment of depression (FOX 5 DC)
• Anesthesia drug ketamine may fight depression by muzzling 'bursting' brain cells (Science Magazine)
• Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles is the Leading Clinic Specializing Exclusively in IV Ketamine Infusion Therapy for Depression and Other Mood Disorders (Digital Journal)

Opiates/Opioids

• OxyContin Maker Will Stop Promoting Opioids to Doctors (TIME)
• Plans for heroin to be prescribed to addicts in West Midlands (The Guardian)
• Controversial program gives 'prescription' heroin to users to shoot up (KING5)
• Naloxone, the medicine helping fight the opioid crisis, explained (Vox)
• Afghanistan's First Female Coders Designed a Videogame to Protest Opium Production (Paste)
• Can cannabis save us from the opioid crisis? (KPCC)
• Heroin vaccine blocks lethal overdose (Science Daily)

Kratom

• FDA Informed Consumer Of The Kratom About Its Adverse Effects On Health (Talk Herald)
• Should We Care That Kratom is Classified as an Opioid? (Healthline)
• FDA's war on kratom could worsen opioid crisis (Nation of Change)
• Denver Slapped for Trying to Destroy Kratom From Store Targeted Under Ban (Westword)
• Understanding The Kratom Potential Benefits, Risks, And Current Scientific Studies (Kratom Guides)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Inside the Mind of Amanda Feilding, Countess of Psychedelic Science (Wired)
• The Long, Strange History of Psychotropic Drugs in America (VICE)
• 3 Reasons Why Governments Ignore Scientific Advice on Drug Use (Science Alert)
• Stossel: Silk Road Founder Jailed, Drug Sales Go Up (Reason)
• A trip to hell to cure depression? Psychedelics as psychiatry with Adam Laidler (The Mancunion)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 2.9.18

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Cannabis

• Seattle To Vacate Criminal Convictions For Former Marijuana Offenders (NORML)
• German police association calls for complete legalization of cannabis (The Local)
• The Dirty Secret of California's Cannabis: It's Dirty (Wired)
• Girl, 6, Becomes First Recipient of Medical Marijuana in Texas (TIME)
• How A Cannabis Tech Platform Is About To Make Life A Lot Easier For Marijuana Dispensaries (Forbes)
• The tea costs $60, but the weed is free: Cannabis capitalists exploit loopholes by 'gifting' the drug (Chicago Tribune)
• Portland's First Cannabis Bodega Mixes Weed and Grocery (Willamette Week)
• Despite Tough Talk, Oregon's U.S. Attorney Doesn't Plan to Shut Down the Pot Industry (Reason)
• California's former convicts could get help entering the legal cannabis industry – and get marijuana crimes wiped off their record (Business Insider)
• How Is Oregon Handling Its Cannabis Surplus? (High Times)
• Medical cannabis dispensaries are opening in Texas, but the newly legal oils still aren't easy to procure (The Texas Tribune)
• Cannabis Beer Soon To Be Available  -- In Canada (Forbes)
• Girl Scout Who Sold Cookies Outside Marijuana Dispensary Could Get in Trouble (TIME)
• Study: Cannabis Is Safe And Effective For Elderly Patients (NORML)
• Dow's Big One-Day Drop Doesn't Hurt Cannabis Stocks (Leafly)
• Canadian Cannabis Companies Correct After Capital Raising Crescendo (Forbes)
• Nepal Cannabis Crackdown Targets Temple Hashish (High Times)
• Virginia NORML Considered Instrumental in Passage of Medical Marijuana Expansion Legislation (NORML)
• California's Race to the Top on Cannabis (CityLab)
• House Judiciary Democrats Call For Marijuana Hearing (NORML)
• Cannabis Crunch — Despite Trump Administration, Legalization Still Plows Forward... & All The Other Weed Craziness In January (Psychedelic Times)
• What Are Cannabis Flavonoids and What Do They Do? (Leafly)
• Mendocino Cannabis Company In Showdown With Authorities (High Times)
• Status Report: The Impact Of Adult Use Regulatory Schemes (NORML)
• Renewed War on Marijuana Spurs Congress to Defend Federalism (Reason)
• O Cannabis: How to use marijuana at home without smoking it (Valley Advocate)
• Trust the people and the states on cannabis (The Hill)
• On Building A Consumer Friendly Market In Nevada (NORML)
• ABcann Global Is A Potentially Strong Play In Cannabis (Seeking Alpha)
• Cannabis and Risk for Opiate Misuse (Psychology Today)

LSD

• Tech workers use LSD to help expand creativity (KIRO)
• Naked man high on LSD, covered in cooking oil arrested after getting Tasered twice (New York Daily News)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• How to Prepare a Psilocybin Mushroom Microdose (Psychedelics Daily)
• Do Shrooms Show Up On Drug a Test? (Psychedelics Daily)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Selling MDMA for My Dad Made Us Close, Then Tore Us Apart (VICE)
• Drugs in Berlin: Half of partiers periodically take amphetamines and MDMA (Deutsche Welle)
• MDMA Psychotherapy Trials Showing Promise (7th Space Interactive)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Entrepreneurs Seeking Business Guidance Through Ayahuasca Are Receiving Spiritual Insights Instead (Entrepreneur)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• Native church's lawsuit spurs training for airport screeners (Bluefield Daily Telegraph)

Morning Glory Seeds

• Can Common Household Plant Seeds Be Used As a Party Drug? (Snopes)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• What Is 4-AcO-DMT? (Psychedelics Daily)
• How To Microdose 4-AcO-DMT? How to Take 4-AcO-DMT Microdose? (Psychedelics Daily)
• MDMA buyers at festivals getting 'seedy', more potent alternative (Newshub)

Dissociatives

• Could ketamine help treat alcohol dependence? (The Guardian)
• Ketamine could help veterans with PTSD, but clinics may be jumping the gun (San Antonio Express-News)
• A-hole in a K-hole: Katie Hopkins' ketamine adventures (The Guardian)
• Ketamine to Treat Suicidal Ideation in Major Depressive Disorder (Psychiatry Advisor)
• Ketamine gaining popularity as a treatment for the severely depressed (CBS News)

Opiates/Opioids

• San Francisco to Open Safe Drug Injection Sites by Summer (Reason)
• Opioid Overdoses and Naloxone: What Everyone Needs to Know (Psychiatric Times)
• Legal Limits on Opioid Prescriptions May Increase the Number of Pills Dispensed (Reason)
• Poppies replacing pot in Mexico's drug fields (Mexico News Daily)
• Homeless. Addicted to Heroin. About to Give Birth. (Mother Jones)
• Jeff Sessions Says Opioid Addiction Starts With Marijuana. Here Are 6 Studies That Say Otherwise (Reason)

Kratom

• Is Herbal Supplement Kratom an Opioid? The FDA Says Yes (TIME)
• Does the Herbal Supplement Kratom Really Contain Opioids? (Live Science)
• Understanding Kratom Strains (Reports Healthcare)
• The Dangers of Taking Kratom (Consumer Reports)

Kava

• Kava, the drink soothing the stress of New York millennials (The New Paper)
• Samoa aims to revive kava exports (Radio New Zealand)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Festival Psychedelic Use and the Archaic Revival: A Conversation with Julian Vayne (Psychedelic Times)
• Showtime Documentary Highlights Drug War's Futility (Reason)
• The hidden side of psychedelics (Felix)
• Recent News and Updates from TripSit (TripSit)
• Silk Road's Founder Is in Jail for Life, but the Dark Web Only Grows (Reason)
• Why Clinicians & Researchers Should Be Interested in The Psychedelic Science Renaissance (Particle)
• A Woman Shaman Defies the Odds, and Starts her Own Healing Center (Reality Sandwich)
• Trump Wants Us 'To Get Really, Really Tough, Really Mean with the Drug Pushers' (Reason)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 2.2.18

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Cannabis

• San Francisco to Clear Thousands of Marijuana Convictions Dating Back to 1975 (TIME)
• How to Legally Buy Weed in D.C. Without Actually Buying Any Weed at All (Reason)
• Study: Marijuana Smoke Exposure Not Linked To Poor Lung Health (NORML)
• Idaho bill would allow use of cannabis-derived CBD oil (East Idaho News)
• Marijuana: is it time to stop using a word with racist roots? (The Guardian)
• California's New Cannabis Laws Squeeze Out Compassionate Care Programs (Forbes)
• Mondo Cannabis Powder Is Weed Made for Taking at Work (Bon Appetit)
• California mulls state-owned bank for cannabis industry (Financial Times)
• Which city in the world has the cheapest cannabis - and the most expensive? (The Guardian)
• Canadian Cannabis Companies Set Their Sights On South America (Forbes)
• A startup that makes cannabis oil for vaping wants to be America's first $1 billion 'marijuana unicorn' (Business Insider)
• Cannabis 'Gifting' Economy Springs up in Massachusetts (Leafly)
• Oakland selects winners of cannabis dispensary permits (SFGate)
• Maine: Marijuana Moratorium Measure Expires (NORML)
• Cannabis Stocks Begin To Reflect The Real Industry (Forbes)
• Arizona May Finally Begin Lab Testing Medical Cannabis for Contaminants (Leafly)
• Stronger cannabis linked to rise in demand for drug treatment programmes (The Guardian)
• What Are CO2 Cannabis Extracts and How Are They Made? (Leafly)
• The beginner's guide to cannabis (Well+Good)
• This Texas Cop Is Risking His Career for Cannabis Reform (Leafly)
• 'You Can't Roll a Joint on the Cover of a Digital Download': Cannabis Quotes of the Week (Leafly)
• Can pot trigger hallucinations? Report of officers who allegedly ate edibles fuels debate (Luxora Leader)

LSD

• Advice on Taking LSD from Seasoned Acid Afficionados (VICE)
• When the LSD King Timothy Leary Hid in Africa with the Black Panthers (Daily Beast)
• Michael Pollan Talks Farm-to-Table Food—and LSD (Austin Monthly)
• Wormwood's Bad Trip Peddles CIA Conspiracies (Reason)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Study hints magic mushrooms can alter how you feel about nature (and politics) (Medical Xpress)
• How Magic Mushrooms Could Treat Depression From An Entirely New Angle (Forbes)
• Startup plans to give mushrooms to depressed patients (New York Post)
• Can Magic Mushrooms Help Us Come To Terms With Death? (VICE)
• Do Psilocybin Mushrooms Show Up on Drug Tests? (Psychedelics Daily)
• Clinical interpretations of patient experience in a trial of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for alcohol use disorder (Frontiers)
• Three Things To Know About Psychedelic Mushrooms (Psychedelics Daily)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Analyse This: MDMA May Soon Be Used in Psychotherapy (University Observer)
• Ecstasy: Original designer drug still damaging lives (STV News)
• Mum's warning after son, 19, died taking ecstasy for the first time (Gloucestershire Live)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• The US is forgoing a powerful weapon in the war on opiates (The Boston Globe)

Salvia Divinorum

• Salvia Divinorum: The Globalization of a Sacred Psychoactive Plant (Reality Sandwich)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Man arrested on suspicion of poisoning and supplying a controlled drug after 'MDMA' hospital cases (The Isle of Thanet News)

Dissociatives

• 'The fog is gone': How ketamine could help lift hard-to-treat depression (CTV News)
• Israel Says Prison Time Possible for Possessing Unprescribed Ketamine, Fentanyl (Haaretz)
• Man who allegedly murdered mom while he was high on PCP indicted (NJ.com)

Opiates/Opioids

• FDA Cracks Down on Imodium and Other Anti-Diarrhea Medicine Because of the Opioid Epidemic (TIME)
• Controversial Portland program uses marijuana and kratom to treat opioid addiction (Press Herald)
• Why Colorado Tokers Love Opium (Westword)
• History repeats itself with opioid epidemic (Shreveport Times)
• The US is forgoing a powerful weapon in the war on opiates (The Boston Globe)
• Don't Blame Pain Pills for the Opioid Crisis (Reason)
• To combat opioid deaths, it's time to give away Naloxone for free (Jackson Clarion Ledger)

Kratom

• Impressive Health Benefits Of Kratom (Reports Healthcare)
• Kratom Concerns: FDA Warning, Deadly Risks Outweigh Potential (Fibromyalgia News Today)
• Kratom Raid: Myxed Up Protests Order to Destroy Product Under Denver Ban (Westword)

Kava

• I Tried Kava And It Was Nothing Like Xanax (Paper)
• Kava, the drink soothing the stress of NY millennials (Daily Mail)
• Kava thefts increase (The Fiji Times)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• If You Bought Drugs on the Silk Road Using Bitcoin, the Feds Might Know Who You Are (Reason)
• Cryptocurrency and The War on Drugs: Interview with Brian Normand of Psymposia (Psychedelic Times)
• Psychedelic Documentaries You Should Definitely Watch (Psychedelic Times)
• Award-Winning Script On Psychedelic Research In The '60s Gets L.A. Staged Reading (Broadway World)
• Pill Testing is proven. I Am Hardstyle shows how much we need it (The Guardian)
• Hamilton Morris on high (quality) filmmaking (The Justice)
• Vancouver forges new paths in revival of psychedelic research (The Georgia Straight)

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.