This Week in Psychedelics - 10.26.18

Cannabis

• Canada Nearly Runs Out of Weed After Legalization (Fortune)

• Mexican Government Officials Visit Canada To Learn About Marijuana Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• New Gallup Poll Finds 66 Percent Of Americans Want Marijuana Legal (NORML)

• Facebook Opens Its Doors To Cannabis Entrepreneurs (Forbes)

• Cannabis oil improves Crohn's disease symptoms: study (CTV News)

• Liverwort could prove to be more medically effective than cannabis, research suggests (Science Daily)

• People With Marijuana Convictions Should Know About National Expungement Week (Marijuana Moment)

• How Cannabis Prohibition Has Made Marijuana More Dangerous (Forbes)

• When Will Marijuana Finally Be Legalized Nationwide? Researchers Have A Forecast (Marijuana Moment)

• NEW POLL: Majority of North Dakotans Ready to Say YES to Legalization (NORML)

• Police warning: Korean weed smokers in Canada to face criminal charge (The Korea Times)

• Utah State Senator Tries Marijuana on Camera to Show Why State Should Support Legalization (TIME)

• New York Bill Would Require Medical Marijuana Be Covered By Public Health Insurance (Marijuana Moment)

• Is the Word ‘Marijuana’ Racist? (Reason)

• Three New Studies Reveal How Legal Marijuana Can Help Curb Opioids (Marijuana Moment)

• No Labels: Cannabis Branding Is No-Go In Canada (Forbes)

• Anti-Marijuana Group Wants ‘Mandatory Assessment’ For Consumers (Marijuana Moment)

• Chris Christie Finally Recognizes Marijuana Legalization As States’ Rights Issue (Marijuana Moment)

• Alabama Wasted $21,000 to Jail a Man for 15 Months Over $10 of Cannabis (Civilized)

• New York Liquor Stores Want To Sell Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

• 'Weed the People’ Explores Medical Marijuana for Kids With Cancer (TIME)

• Marijuana Questions Will Drive Wisconsin Voters To The Polls In November, Survey Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• One of the largest cannabis companies is going public on the New York Stock Exchange (Business Insider)

• John Boehner Is Now Selling Marijuana Stock Tips (Marijuana Moment)

• Washington Still Doesn’t Know What Good Marijuana Is (Or How To Test For It) (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• Bradenton man had bad reaction to LSD, fatally stabs victim, deputies say (Fox 13 News)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• COMPASS Pathways Receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Psilocybin Therapy for Treatment-resistant Depression (PR Newswire)

• Statement on MycoMeditations (Psychedelics Today)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• The teenagers killed after taking MDMA ecstasy drugs in Devon and Cornwall (Cornwall Live)

Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT

• A Film About Ayahuasca and PTSD Makes History in the US (PR Newswire)

• Susan G. Komen President Achieves Total Breast Cancer Awareness During 3-Day Ayahuasca Retreat (The Onion)

Dissociatives

• Form of ketamine could soon be licensed for treatment-resistant depression (Pulse)

Opiates/Opioids

• FDA Meeting Aims to Increase Availability of Naloxone for Reducing Opioid Overdose Deaths (Pharmacy Times)

• First ever state-funded heroin injection centre will cater for 60 addicts a day (Irish Examiner)

• Chicago Hospitals Send Opioid Patients Home with Naloxone (Bloomberg Law)

Kratom

• Can You Smoke Kratom Powder? What Are The Possible Effects? (Kratom Guides)

Kava

• Harry and Meghan: Duke sips kava drink as royals land in Fiji (BBC)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Are Legal Psychedelic Therapies Next for Canada? (High Times)

• 'War On Drugs' Has Been a 'Spectacular' Failure, Leading to Thousands of Murders and Human Rights Abuses, Report Says (Newsweek)

• Free Water and Drug Education at Music Festivals Now Sanctioned by Department of Justice (Psychedelic Times)

• Finally, there’s a group giving grants to students researching psychedelics (Psymposia)

• It’s time to debunk prohibitionist narratives and calls for monopolies within psychedelic science (Psymposia)

• Drug Overdose Deaths Have Fallen Over the Last Year, Data Shows (TIME)

• Candidates Oppose Safe Injection Sites to Get an Edge Over the Other (Reason)

• A brief history of American drug panics (The Spectator)

• Why India's narco cops are finding it hard to crackdown on the new-age drug dealer (The News Minute)

• Interview with French Psychedelic Society Founder Vincent Verroust (Psychedelic Times)

• Kacey Musgraves Reveals Which Song She Wrote Under the Influence of Psychedelics (Pop Culture)

• Psych Congress Opens With Deep Dive Into Psychedelics (Psych Congress Network)

• Op-Ed: Microdosing psychedelics — Cure for hacks, hype, or what? (Digital Journal)

• The woman who says psychedelic 'medicine' cured her PTSD (Radio New Zealand)

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.

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This Week in Psychedelics 10.26.18 Will Be Delayed

This week’s TWIP column will be a bit delayed, as I’m going to be taking a short break from blogging for a few days. In fact, I am hitting the road tomorrow and heading to northern Florida for this year’s Hulaween music festival. This will be my third consecutive year attending the festival, and I’m super stoked to kick back, relax, and enjoy some awesome music and mindbending light shows for a few days.

If you happen to be also going to Hulaween, contact me and we can meet up!

I’ll be back early next week and should have the 10.26.18 TWIP out by Halloween. Thanks for your patience. 👻🎃👽

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This Week in Psychedelics - 10.19.18

Cannabis

• Canada becomes second country to legalise recreational marijuana (BBC)

• Congressman Issues ‘Blueprint To Legalize Marijuana’ For Democratic House In 2019 (Forbes)

• Democrats And Republicans Clash Over Which Party Will Lead On Marijuana In 2019 (Marijuana Moment)

• Still More Evidence That All Weed Is the Same (Motherboard)

• Marijuana Research Is Exploding In The Age Of Legalization, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• As Canada Legalizes Marijuana, It Moves to Pardon Pot Possession (TIME)

• Cannabis May Be Worse for Teen Brains Than Alcohol (Healthline)

• Thousands Respond To FDA’s Marijuana Rescheduling Comment Request (Marijuana Moment)

• Canada Has Legalized Marijuana. Here's What That Means For American Travelers (TIME)

• Marijuana and the midterms (The Hill)

• Cannabis Legalization in Canada Is a Giant, Imperfect Leap Forward (Filter)

• High-end marijuana retailer MedMen just spent $682 million on the largest US cannabis acquisition in history (Business Insider)

• DECRIM, an Inference from a Year of Data in Atlanta – Most Cops Don’t Care (NORML)

• CEO Predicts Cannabis Industry Can Bank Legally By Christmas (Forbes)

• Cannabis health products are everywhere – but do they live up to the hype? (The Guardian)

• Doctors Who Use Weed Off-Duty Are Getting Their Licenses Suspended (Tonic)

• Why Big Tobacco Entering The Cannabis Space Makes Sense (Forbes)

• Trump Administration Has Calm Response To Canadian Marijuana Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Review: Thousands Of Peer-Reviewed Studies Specific To Medical Cannabis Have Been Published Over Past Decade (NORML)

• Legalizing cannabis is the best way to protect kids from its harmful effects (CNN)

• Is the Midwest Ready for Recreational Marijuana? (Governing)

• Michigan Officials: Legal Marijuana Will Create Even More Revenue Than Activists Predicted (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis could disrupt a $500 billion market, says CEO of top marijuana maker after deal with DEA (CNBC)

• Marijuana And Tobacco Appear In Almost Half Of Popular Music Videos, Study Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• Canada cannabis legalisation: ‘We know the world is watching’ (BBC)

• Marijuana Ingredient Reduces Anxiety During Public Speaking, Study Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• MS sufferer avoids jail for importing cannabis-based drug (BBC)

• Zzz Natural: The Cannabis Brand Aiming To Solve America's $400 Billion Sleeping Problem (Forbes)

• SXSW Goes Big On Marijuana Panels For 2019 (Marijuana Moment)

• Banking Lobby Surveys Members On Problems Serving Marijuana Businesses (Forbes)

• GOP Congressman Visits Marijuana Dispensary With Bus Full Of Senior Citizens (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis edibles will soon be a $4 billion business (Yahoo! Finance)

• Marijuana Legalization in Canada Has Companies Chasing a Green Rush (The New York Times)

• Man Sends Marijuana Samples To Feds… To Make A Legal Point (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis and coffee: the hippie speedball has been perfected (Rooster Magazine)

• North Dakota’s Marijuana Legalization Supporters Outraised By Opponents, Filings Show (Marijuana Moment)

• Voters in One Wisconsin Town Face 7 Marijuana Ballot Questions (Reason)

• Watch: 80-Year Old Michigan Marijuana Patient Recounts Possession Arrest In New Documentary (Marijuana Moment)

• Melissa Etheridge Talks Art, Culture and Marijuana Advocacy In The Legalization Era (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• How LSD influenced Western culture (BBC)

• LSD turns 75 as scientists again consider medical benefits (Sky News)

• Russian Faces 10 Years in Prison for LSD Mail Order From Britain (The Moscow Times)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Different cognitive effects of dextromethorphan and psilocybin observed in new study (PsyPost)

• Beyond Psilocybin: Mushrooms Have Lots of Cool Compounds Scientists Should Study (Discover Magazine)

• Magic Mushroom Drug Evolved to Mess with Insect Brains (Scientific American)

• Far-Out Facts About Psychedelic Mushrooms (Maxim)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• We’re Too Excited About MDMA’s Potential for Treating PTSD (Slate)

• Sheffield student's MDMA death: Dealers are jailed (BBC)

• Chilling moment laughing men spike drink with MDMA before forcing woman to down it and sexually assaulting her (The Sun)

• 'Like a hug from everyone who loves you' — how MDMA could help patients with trauma (The Pharmaceutical Journal)

• Octopuses on MDMA (University Observer)

• Ecstacy warning issued by judge as man admits to offering the drug to people in Stealth (Nottinghamshire Live)

Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT

• No charges after death investigation at ayahuasca church (WFTV)

• Rythmia Review: My Week At a Legal Luxury Plant Medicine Retreat Center in Costa Rica (High Existence)

• Multiple (and Subtle) Bodies: Entheogenic Incorporation in the Santo Daime Tradition (Part 2) (Reality Sandwich)

• Ayahuasca ceremonies: Meet the Irish people who've tried the 'key to the universe' (Independent.ie)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• The Peyote People: Interview with Mario Gómez Mayorga on Huichol Plant Medicine Traditions (Psychedelic Times)

Dissociatives

• Ketamine could be legal as an NHS depression treatment in 18 months (Metro)

• Can ketamine for pain replace opioids in emergency care? (Medical News Bulletin)

• Springfield man, arrested after firing a gun on Maple Street, found to be in possession of PCP and cocaine, police say (MassLive)

Opiates/Opioids

• Injection site client's fatal OD raises concerns of new naloxone-resistant drugs (Ottawa Citizen)

• Miami police say they’ll offer opioid addicts rehab instead of arresting them (Miami Herald)

• Southeast Asia swapping opium with coffee (Geographical)

• Congress Needs an Opioid Intervention (Reason)

Absinthe

• Lawrenceville Distilling looks to lift spirits by producing absinthe drink (TribLIVE)

• Drinking Absinthe With Rupert Everett (And Talking About Oscar Wilde) (Forbes)

Kratom

• Ohio Plans to Ban Kratom—And the DEA May Be Close Behind (Filter)

• PurKratom Vendor Reviews: Strains, Pricing, Coupons (Kratom Guides)

Kava

• Fiji Kava to become the first kava listing on any global stock exchange (Pacific Islands News Association)

• This Ancient Kava Tea Ceremony May Reduce Your Modern Anxiety (Organic Authority)

Khat

• Depression, anxiety, and stress and their association with khat use: a cross-sectional study among Jazan University students, Saudi Arabia (Dove Medical Press)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• How meditation and psychedelic drugs could fix tribalism (Vox)

• Historian Explains How Women Have been Excluded from the Field of Psychedelic Science (Chacruna)

• Here Comes the Legal Case for Medicinal Psychedelics (VICE)

• FDA Calls Out Vaping Company for Putting Erectile Dysfunction Drugs in Its Products (TIME)

• High court orders thousands more drug cases dismissed (Cape Cod Times)

• On Treading Lightly Through the Lion’s Den: The Path to Psychedelic Legitimacy (Chacruna)

• The Hidden Victims of Britain's Ecstasy Deaths (VICE)

• Psychedelic moral enhancement (ResearchGate)

• Recreational drug use in Australia is now ‘mainstream’ and how it’s dealt is changing rapidly (news.com.au)

• Trump Slams ‘Very Unfair’ Drug Sentences (Reason)

• The bid to ban 'poppers': public health necessity or an act of discrimination? (The Sydney Morning Herald)

• The UK should emulate Canada and legalise cannabis – it makes sense from an economic and moral perspective (The Independent)

• Ohio Will Vote on a Sentencing Reform Bill in November (Reason)

• An enlightened approach to “illegal” drugs will revolutionise medicine and science (ScienceNordic)

• California Makes a Fool of VP Mike Pence (Drug WarRant)

• How MDMA, magic mushrooms and LSD help cancer patients cope, and cure addictions (South China Morning Post)

• Having a ‘Good Trip’ with comedian Shane Mauss (City Pulse)

• Acid test – Are hallucinogenics finally shaking off their taboo? (Irish Medical 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.

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This Week in Psychedelics - 10.12.18

Cannabis

• U.K. to Allow Prescriptions for Medicinal Cannabis (The New York Times)

• Pew Poll: 62 Percent Of Americans Want Marijuana Legal (NORML)

• Pennsylvania Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Decriminalization Bill In Committee Vote (Marijuana Moment)

• Support For Marijuana Legalization Grew Again In 2018, Pew Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• 'Women have been saying it works for 10,000 years': 400 women will use marijuana-infused inserts in a groundbreaking study from a Harvard Medical School professor (Business Insider)

• U.S. Government Loosens Border Policy For Canadian Marijuana Industry Workers (Marijuana Moment)

• Trump Plans To Back Legal Medical Marijuana After Midterms, GOP Congressman Says (Marijuana Moment)

• High Schoolers Are Growing More Tolerant Of Peers Who Use Marijuana, Study Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• Survey: Cannabis Use Becoming Common Among Older Adults (NORML)

• Study Reveals How Older People Use And Obtain Marijuana In Colorado (Marijuana Moment)

• New California Law Bans Bars, Liquor Stores from Selling Marijuana-Infused Drinks (Reason)

• Fight To Legalize Medical Marijuana In Missouri Intensifies As Groups Battle Over Tax Rates (Marijuana Moment)

• Walmart Canada Explores Selling Cannabis-Infused Products (Forbes)

• Shopify 'confident' on pot e-commerce because 'cannabis isn't Kylie Cosmetics' (CBC)

• Trump Administration Seeks Public Comments On Marijuana Reclassification (Forbes)

• Toke Up, Eh? Canada Readies for Marijuana to Become Legal Nationwide (TIME)

• Canada’s Liquor Stores Will Heavily Outnumber Marijuana Stores On Legalization’s Launch (Marijuana Moment)

• Marijuana Stores Will Be Hard To Find For Most Canadians On Day One Of Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• The jury is in on cannabis legalization in North America: it’s been a success. (LSE USAPP)

• WestJet bans staff in 'safety-sensitive' jobs from off-duty cannabis use (CBC)

• THC amounts identical in most cannabis strains, study finds (Phys.org)

• Celebrity Endorsements and Cannabis (The Stranger)

• Cannabis In Space Is Just Around The Corner (Forbes)

• I'm Just a Middle-Aged House Dad Addicted to Pot (The New York Times)

• This Is Where Arizona’s US Senate Candidates Stand On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

• The Marijuana Midterms are Heating Up in Nevada (NORML)

• Corporate America is investing in pot because people want to eat and drink it (CNN)

• Why retail is so important to the burgeoning cannabis beauty and wellness market (Glossy)

• Marijuana Licensing Bill Has ‘Negligible’ Fiscal Impacts, Congressional Budget Office Says (Marijuana Moment)

• Coral Cove Cannabis Retreat Is Jamaica's Best Kept Secret (Forbes)

• The Quest to Make California’s Weed the Champagne of Cannabis (WIRED)

LSD

• A Team of European Researchers Is Crowdsourcing the World’s First ‘Self-Blinded’ LSD Microdosing Study (Psychedelic Times)

• ‘The CIA introduced LSD into American society. They weaponised it’ (The Irish Times)

• Nick Kroll Saw The Pattern Of The Universe During An LSD Trip At Burning Man (Marijuana Moment)

• A Playwright's LSD Trip Becomes a Psychedelic Journey (The New York Times)

• That time a legendary Batman editor was dared to put LSD in Stan Lee’s coffee (Polygon)

• From ‘problem child’ to ‘prodigy’? LSD turns 75 (Arab News)

• People Are Microdosing LSD To 'Make Them More Productive' (LADbible)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Psilocybin Initiative Moves to Signature-Gathering Stage for May 2019 (Westword)

• Mushroom legalization effort polling at 39 percent (Rooster Magazine)

• A team of Johns Hopkins researchers is calling for magic mushrooms to be made legally available as medicine (Business Insider)

• “Magic Mushrooms” May Be an FDA-Approved Drug for Anxiety and Depression in the Near Future (Vogue)

• Iceland’s Richest Man Invests in Magic Mushrooms (Guide to Iceland Now)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• $57 million worth of MDMA discovered in sausage-making machines (Mixmag)

• Superstar DJ David Morales 'arrested at Japanese airport over MDMA smuggling claim' (Mirror)

• Use of higher purity ecstasy on the rise among young Australians (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT

• Breaking News: The first two ayahuasca convictions in the United States (Chacruna)

• Sexual Seduction in Ayahuasca Shaman and Participants Interactions (Chacruna)

• What ayahuasca — Silicon Valley's latest drug of choice — does to your brain and body (The Hour)

• The DMT drug is not a drug, its much stranger (Kahpi)

• In the mighty jungles (Deccan Herald)

• Multiple (and Subtle) Bodies: Entheogenic Incorporation in the Santo Daime Tradition (Part 1) (Reality Sandwich)

• Nathalie Huerta on Founding The Queer Gym and What Ayahuasca Taught Her (Bon Appetit)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• American Indians gather near El Reno to celebrate peyote traditions (Tulsa World)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• Ibogaine Clinics and their Role in Addiction Treatment (The Urban Twist)

• The dangerous hallucinogen opioid addicts use to get clean (Big Think)

Dissociatives

• As ketamine clinics spread, so do start-your-own-business courses, sparking concern (STAT)

• Ketamine infusion for depression requires opioid receptors to be effective (Medical News Bulletin)

• Hope for Victims of Resistant Clinical Depression Now Comes in Pill Form (Breaking Israel News)

• My ketamine infusion for chronic pain (The Fix)

• Police: Naked man possibly on PCP arrested after throwing chairs off Dumfries balcony (WJLA)

• Expert: Teen 'whacked out' of his mind from PCP night of police shooting (Chicago City Wire)

Opiates/Opioids

• Addiction Treatment Gap Is Driving A Black Market For Suboxone (NPR)

• Surgeon General Talks About Need To 'Normalize' Naloxone At N.H. Opioids Forum (NHPR)

• Funeral Homes Stock Overdose Antidote Drug Naloxone Amid Opioid Epidemic (The Inquisitr)

• Mexico defense chief says legalizing opium 'way out' of violence (The Gazette)

• Opioid Bill Shows Congress Can Still Work Together (TIME)

• Prisons Crack Down On An Opioid Treatment Drug, Endangering Lives (The Appeal)

• Medicaid Expansion and the Opioid Epidemic (Penn LDI)

Absinthe

• A Czech Distiller Is Resurrecting Pre-Ban Absinthe, Returning the Green Fairy to Rightful Glory (VinePair)

Kambô

• Get holes burned into your body as sacred tree frog ceremony comes to Cornwall (Cornwall Live)

Kratom

• Ohio Pushes Kratom Ban With Disputed Claims About Deaths, Use Trends (HuffPost)

• Do Drug Addicts Really Shoot Kratom? (Pain News Network)

Kava

• Potential for increased kava exports (The Fiji Times)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• A Big Win – DOJ Affirms Free Water and Drug Education Not a Violation of the RAVE Act! (Amend the RAVE Act!)

• Fingerprint drug screen test works on the living and deceased (ScienceDaily)

• Hospital Data Shows How Britain's Drug Problem Is Getting Worse (VICE)

• Decriminalise drugs, Plaid Cymru says (BBC)

• Philadelphia Pushing Forward with Safe Injection Site Plans (Reason)

• 'Just say no' to drug legalisation: WHO chief (Yahoo!)

• The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival Announces Inaugural Award Winners (Broadway World)

• Can US overdose deaths be stopped? (Drug WarRant)

• Introducing Chacruna’s Psychedelic Therapy Music Forum (Chacruna)

• Reality Is Just a Bunch of Hallucinations We Collectively Agree On (Motherboard)

• Successful Constitutional Case Against Death Penalty Works For War on Drugs, Too (Marijuana Moment)

• Magic Medicine: A Trip Through the Intoxicating History and Modern-Day Use of Psychedelic Plants and Substances by Cody Johnson (Psychedelic Press UK)

• Treating mental disorders with psychedelic psychotherapy (Particle)

• The Business Of Addiction Treatment (INSCMagazine)

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.

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This Week in Psychedelics - 10.5.18

Cannabis

• California: Governor Signs Legislation Expunging Past Marijuana Convictions (NORML)

• Some cannabis companies turning to temporary foreign worker program ahead of legalization (Financial Post)

• FDA Says Marijuana Ingredient CBD Doesn’t Meet Criteria For Federal Control (Marijuana Moment)

• Courts Are Beginning to Rule Against Employers Who Discriminate Against Medical Marijuana Users (TIME)

• Legalization Doesn’t Increase Problematic Marijuana Use, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• A Complete History of Marijuana, According To Scientists (Marijuana Moment)

• Canopy Withdraws ‘Chronic by Dre’ Marijuana Trademark Filed By Mistake (Marijuana Moment)

• Legalization: Is it Working? (NORML)

• PepsiCo just became the latest beverage company to say it's looking at the fast-growing cannabis market (CNBC)

• A Cannabis Lawyer in Portland Has an Ambitious Plan to Fund More Women in the Industry (Psychedelic Times)

• Where Missouri’s US Senate Candidates Stand On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

• Illinois sees sharp rise in medical cannabis applications as cancer patient requests 'explode' (Chicago Tribune)

• Uruguay Lawmakers Won’t Apply Strict Tobacco Packaging Rules On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

• Voters In Seven States Will See These Marijuana Questions On Election Day (Forbes)

• Win Or Lose At The Polls, Medical Marijuana Is Coming To Utah Under New Deal (Marijuana Moment)

• Boston inches forward with recreational marijuana permits (The Boston Globe)

• Marijuana Legalization and Workplace Safety: A Short-Lived Hysteria (NORML)

• Pot group: Michigan set to net $130M a year in new tax revenue (The Detroit News)

• Two pounds of weed for $20: this is Oregon's medical marijuana program (Rooster Magazine)

• This Lab Raised $10 Million To Expand Cannabis And Hemp Cloning Production (Forbes)

• Marketers Are Putting a New Face on Weed as They Navigate Regulations and Battle Stoner Stigma (Adweek)

• How to Combat Cold Symptoms With Cannabis (Reset.me)

• Nancy Pelosi Says Marijuana Reform Depends On Trump (Marijuana Moment)

• Teens aren’t just smoking cannabis, study says — they’re eating and vaping it, too (Fox 13)

• Cities Across Ohio Will Vote On Marijuana Decriminalization In November (Marijuana Moment)

• This New Cannabis Craze Has Made Early Investors Rich (The Motley Fool)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• The Health Benefits of Magic Mushrooms May Push Them to Legalization (Inverse)

• Why Doctors Want to Reclassify Psilocybin, the Drug That Puts the 'Magic' in Mushrooms (Fortune)

• Psilocybin Healed Me From Crippling Depression And Anxiety (Reset.me)

• The Not-So-Trippy Reason Mushrooms Are Psychedelic (Inside Science)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Weird Science: Octopuses Rolling on MDMA Become More Social (Psychedelic Times)

• University criticised for publishing advice on how to prepare MDMA (PinkNews)

• Coroner’s chilling warning after girl, 14, dies of MDMA poisoning from ‘The Punisher’ super-strength ecstasy pill (The Sun)

• Dad shares final picture of son who died after taking ecstasy for the first time (Metro)

Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT

• Probation ordered for Tampa man who brought South American spiritual ‘tea’ to airport (Tampa Bay Times)

Dissociatives

• The anti-anxiety effects of ketamine are linked to changes in theta brainwaves (PsyPost)

• Ketamine may be used to ease uncontrollable movements in Parkinson’s patients (WCTV)

• Ketamine drug trial to treat alcoholism at Exeter University is recruiting (Devon Live)

• Ketamine for Acute Pain: Highlights from the New Guidelines (Anesthesiology News)

Opiates/Opioids

• Cost of lifesaving heroin withdrawal drug soars by 700% (The Guardian)

• Punjab CM Amarinder backs Sidhu for legalising opium cultivation (The Economic Times)

• Ancient Mediterranean 'Juglet' Contained Traces of Opium (Live Science)

• The $1 Tool That Might Curb the Overdose Epidemic (The Atlantic)

• How the US Stopped a Possible Solution to the Heroin Epidemic (VICE)

Kratom

• Ohio Banning Sales of Kratom and CBD (Pain News Network)

• NLA 'likely' to pass pot and kratom bill (Bangkok Post)

• What is Kratom High and How to Come Down from High Effects? (Kratom Guides)

Khat

• DNC appeals to govt to ban khat (Dhaka Tribune)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Activists Accuse Bangladesh Government of Killing the Innocent in its Drug War (VICE News)

• Organizer of nude psychedelic parades defends nude psychedelic parades (Rooster Magazine)

• Gov. Brown Vetoes Bill To Open Safe Injection Sites In San Francisco (CBS San Francisco)

• Why is Islamic Art and Architecture So Psychedelic? (Sam Woolfe)

• High Kingdom: Why Animals Take Psychedelic Substances (Kahpi)

• Black Americans Are Being Left Out of Psychedelics Research (Tonic)

• Philippines President Duterte Playfully 'Jokes' About All His Drug War Murders (Reason)

• Exploring Consciousness with Psychedelics (Technology Networks)

• Awe: a putative mechanism underlying the effects of classic psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (Taylor & Francis Online)

• Opening up the future of psychedelic science (The Conversation)

• Ordinary Doses (Real Life)

• Was John Lennon a Better Musician After Taking Psychedelics? (Ultimate Guitar)

• ASU's psychedelic explorers: the Ecstasis Club (The State Press)

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.

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