Weekend Thoughts - 11.28.15

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Happy Saturday y'all! Below, I have rounded up some things for you to think about this weekend:

1. Last October, a Chicago police officer named Jason Van Dyke shot 17 year-old Laquan McDonald (who was walking the streets holding a knife and allegedly under the influence of PCP, although he did not violently engage the cop) 16 times and murdered him. The police department then proceeded to lie about it and deleted surveillance footage from a nearby business, and the murderer was kept on payroll for 400 days after the incident. The footage of the murder was released this week, and can be viewed at the aforelinked website. Naturally, Chicago has not taken too kindly to this show of unnecessary force (on a minor, no less) by one of its police officers. Yet another example of why we need to be documenting and following up on the large number of civilians murdered by police more thoroughly.

2. I consider this to be both staggering and telling: more than 1 out of 4 Americans believes the United States government to be the enemy, according to a recent poll. My personal belief is that we are all in this together, and we need to work "across the aisle", so to speak, with our perceived "enemies", rather than engaging in a war against them. We must all wake up together, or we won't be able to awaken at all.

3. George Orwell, author of many timeless classics such as 1984 and Animal Farm, held some strong opinions regarding improving one's ability to think and write. A post on High Existence explore's Orwell's ways that politicians use language to deceive us, which may forever affect the way you perceive politician's speeches. I greatly enjoyed the following list of Orwell's "Six Rules for Better Writing and Better Thinking":

1. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active voice.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

That's all for this week's edition of Weekend Thoughts. Until next week, keep thinking wilder.

This Week in Psychedelics - 11.27.15

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Cannabis

• Medical Marijuana Supporters File Petition To Get DEA Chief Fired (ATTN:)
• Using Marijuana During Pregnancy Does Not Make A Mother Unfit (Reason)
• How Cannabis Can Take Your Sex Life to the Next Level (Leafly)
• Sarah Palin Says Legal Pot Is 'Absolutely No Big Deal' (Reason)
• Myrcene: There's More To Marijuana Than Cannabinoids (Reset.me)
• Desperate family calls for medicinal cannabis amnesty after police come knocking (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Five Scientific Benefits to Smoking Marijuana on Thanksgiving (ATTN:)
• Is Cannabis Addictive? (Leafly)
• Why Driving While High Laws Are Very Troubling (ATTN:)
• Alaska Regulators Propose Allowing Cannabis Cafés (Reason)
• How California Will Legalize Pot in 2016 (Reason)
• Golden Leaf eyes joint listing as cannabis market grows (Financial Times)
• DHS office says no to cannabis connected food donation (KGW)
• Mexican girl's medical cannabis win raises hope for others (Yahoo! News)
• Cannabis Wedding Expo: Plan a weed wedding at this first-of-its-kind event (The Cannabist)
• Will Denver Okay a Two-Year Moratorium On New Pot Businesses?: Cannabis Events (Westword)
• Do Pot and Pregnancy Mix? (Reason)
• 'Godmother' of cannabis meets her tech-happy children at SF pot summit (CNET)
• Poll shows rising support for Cannabis decriminalization among Israeli college students (The Jerusalem Post)
• Colorado Cannabis Clubs are Coming -- But How Soon? (Leafly)
• Cannabis Coffee Makers Are Hoping to Become Bulletproof 2.0 (Bloomberg)
• Bed heads: Colorado's Airbnb-style website for cannabis lovers (The Guardian)
• Oregrown: A High Class Cannabis Establishment in Bend, Oregon (Marijuana Politics)
• Clinical study at CAMH tests how cannabis affects volunteers' driving skills (The Star)
• Colorado police officers warns of marijunana [sic] dangers (Sioux City Journal)
• Cannabis oil use in Missouri off to slow start (KMBC)
• Cannabis Confiscated at North Iceland Farm (Iceland Review)
• Proof strong cannabis DOES harm your brain: Regularly smoking 'skunk' found to damage area that carries signals - and can lead to mental illness (Daily Mail)

LSD

• How LSD Microdosing Became the Hot New Business Trip (Rolling Stone)
• Switzerland Briefly Legalized LSD Therapy and Then Couldn't Let It Go (VICE's Motherboard)
• Mississippi Man Died After Police Hogtied Him for More Than an Hour (ATTN:)
• Inside the Plot to Get Every American High on Acid (The Daily Beast)
• What Happens When Military Troops Are Given LSD? (First to Know)
• Forget Coffee, Silicon Valley's New Productivity Hack Is 'Microdoses' of LSD (GQ)
• 'The Sunshine Makers': Film Review (The Hollywood Reporter)
• LSD Microdosing Is a Thing (The Interrobang)
• A Brief History of Microdosing (VICE's Motherboard)
• Forget Coffee, Silicon Valley's Young Professionals Turn to LSD (Social News Daily)
• Taking LSD for breakfast 'can cure anxiety and insomnia' (Metro)
• Ex-soldier high on LSD almost killed 3 generations of same family in car crash (Mirror)
• Man drowns after LSD beach trip (New Zealand Herald)
• Silicon Valley professionals are taking LSD at work to increase productivity (The Telegraph)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Microdoses of LSD and mushrooms as an alternative to Adderall (or coffee!) (Boing Boing)
• deGeneration X: Did I Just Eat Mushrooms in Indonesia (Paste Magazine)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• How to Legally Buy a Kilo of Pure MDMA (VICE's Motherboard)
• US Border Protection Just Seized $880,000 in MDMA (VICE's Thump)
• This is what ecstasy looks like under a microscope (The Week)
• This Australian Man's Testimony About The Alleged Long-Terms Effects of Ecstasy Use Is Heartbreaking (VICE's Thump)
• How ecstasy-related deaths in Britain can be traced to illegal logging in Cambodia (The Telegraph)
• Former bikini model walks free over ecstasy supply charges (The Courier Mail)
• Hugging woman exposes bikini model drug dealer (9news.com.au)
• Ecstasy pills seized at SA schoolies (The Australian)
• Drug dealer caught with 34kg of MDMA at M6 hotel fails to get sentence cut (Express & Star)
• College student killed himself while on massive MDMA comedown (Metro)
• Athens man accused of ecstasy trafficking, $180K seized from Whitehall Road home, banks (Online Athens)
• 'It all seems like fun and games and a cheap $25 pill but it's not worth it' (News.com.au)
• Canadian Arrested While Importing Ecstasy (Windsor Square)
• Student who took MDMA died after suffering 'suicide Tuesday' symptoms (The Times)
• Trenton man caught eating MDMA (The Trentonian)
• Businessman raped air stewardess he met on millionaire dating website after spiking drink with ecstasy (Mirror)
• North Devon homeless man tried to sell ecstasy and methadrone in attempt to 'big himself up' (North Devon Journal)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• What Ayahuasca Taught Me About Taking Care of My Health (VICE's Motherboard)
• Exclusive Clip: Experience "Jungle Fever" From The Movie "Aya: Awakenings" (Reset.me)
• DMT Journeys with Devin James Fry (Austin Chronicle)
• Art of the Day: 'Plant Spirit: After Castaneda', by Merrilee Challiss (Nashville Scene)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Meet the Godfather of the Dangerous LSD Substitute NBOMe on Today's 'Daily VICE' (VICE)
• 13 hospitalized in San Diego after overdose of synthetic drug Spice (Los Angeles Times)
• Man stabbed 32 times by friend high on psychedelic drug known as Mr Happy (Mirror)
• SA man charged over 'liquid acid' (Yahoo! News)
• Horrifying new drug made knifeman slaughter pal in desperate battle to escape dream world (Daily Star)

Dissociatives

• Police release 911 call of a suspected PCP overdoes of 500-pound man (The Washington Post)
• Chicago cop charged with murder in killing of black teen (CBS News)
• Ketamine as an antidepressant (Kelowna Capital News)
• Scuba Keeps Offering People Ketamine on Twitter (VICE's Thump)
• Does it tell the whole story? Video recorded inside West Allis jail cell after man's arrest goes viral (Fox6 Now)
• Ketamine and Dance Music: The Drug's Surprising Rise in Popularity (Magnetic Mag)
• Police: Nearly 500 pound man dies after possible PCP overdose (W*USA 9)

Opiates/Opioids

• FDA Approves Nasal Naloxone To Combat Opioid Overdosing (Hospitals & Health Networks)
• Heroin, Survivor of War on Drugs, Returns With New Face (The New York Times)
• America's Heroin Problem Is Helping Mexican Drug Cartels Expand (ATTN:)
• Injection rooms for addicts to open next year in drug law change, says Minister (The Irish Times)
• Americans' growing taste for heroin is killing thousands of people outside America (Quartz)
• Iranian Police Seize 555 Kilograms of Opium (Tasnim News Agency)
• Delaware's heroin babies: Starting life in withdrawal (Delaware Online)
• Iranian Official Demands Europe's Cooperation to Curb Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan (Fars News Agency)
• BRIEF-Indivior says received a complete response letter from FDA on naloxone nasal spray (Reuters)
• Thousands of drug users are rescuing each other with antidote naloxone (The Washington Post)
• Rantz: Seattle wants to essentially legalize heroin (My Northwest)
• Viewpoint: 'Addiction deserves all the same life-saving measures any other disease demands' (Monadnock Ledger-Transcript)
• Activists promote opiate antidote as U.S. overdoses surge (Reuters)
• No FDA Nod for Second Nasal Naloxone in Opioid Overdose (Medscape)

Absinthe

• Eat. Drink. Do. Wigle Whiskey debuts Absint Minded absinthe (Next Pittsburgh)

Kratom

• Drug task force explains reason behind pulling Kratom off Talladega County shelves (ABC 33/40)
• Banning kratom: Wisconsin treats safe herbal supplement like a dangerous drug (Wisconsin Watchdog)
• Will other counties in Alabama outlaw Kratom? (WIAT)
• Bus Bound for Phuket Packed With Kratom, Alcohol and Cigarettes, say Police (Phuket Wan)
• Sam Dunkovich: Why is Wisconsin banning natural pain relievers? (The Cap Times)

Khat

• Man detained after Khat seizure at Dublin Airport (Breaking News)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Never before published photos from Psychedelic Conference II in Santa Barbara, 1983 (Boing Boing)
• Common Sense: The Need To Improve Harm Reduction Services At Music Events (Reset.me)
• DEA Boss Clings On Amid Campaign for His Ouster (U.S. News & World Report)
• Cut Sentences for Low-Level Drug Crimes (The New York Times)
• The origin story of the Timothy Leary archives (Boing Boing)
• The stunning paradox of Iran's war on drugs: How it actually makes America look worse (Salon)
• Psychedelic Parenting Is About More than Just Drugs (VICE's Motherboard)
• Dream Tripping: Getting High in Deep Sleep (Psychedelic Press UK)
• Miley Cyrus Brings Her Dead Petz for a Messy, Psychedelic Performance in Detroit: Live Review (Billboard)
• I Tried Getting 'High' on Drugless Psychedelic Alternatives in the Suburbs (VICE's Motherboard)
• Kalamazoo Institute of Arts explores psychedelic British and American screen prints of '60s and '70s (Michigan Live)
• Prosthetic Penises and Spilled Milk: Miley's Psychedelic Tour Wardrobe (Moviepilot)
• Miley Cyrus review - new psychedelic direction is a bad trip (The Guardian)
• Turn on, tune in, drop - um - in to check out 'Strange Days' (NIU Today)
• The Flaming Lips and Miley Cyrus Share Psychedelic, Colorful "Lighter" Video (Pitchfork)

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 (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

Book Review - The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

This book had been on my bookshelves for several years prior to my picking it up a few days ago. I'm not quite sure how it arrived there, although I think I may have acquired it for free at a book giveaway at my alma mater's library. To be completely transparent, I was simply looking for a quick book to read and noticed that this one was short and appeared relatively interesting, so I grabbed it and flipped through it to find out it was actually a short play, and also found the text to be quite spaced out on the page—two things that encouraged my reading of it.

A bit of brief history: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds had its world premier in the theatre in 1964 and was published in book form in 1970. It was later adapted for the screen in 1972. Its author is Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher from Staten Island, New York.

The plot centers around a dysfunctional family: a widow named Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her two daughters, Matilda ("Tillie") and Ruth. Throughout the play, the introverted-yet-highly-intelligent child Tillie prepares an experiment for her school's science fair involving marigolds raised from seeds exposed to varying degrees of radioactivity. However, her self-centered and abusive mother, Beatrice, continuously attempts to halt Tillie's progress due to her own self-loathing and overall abusive nature toward her children. The other daughter, Ruth, is more extroverted than Tillie but considerably mentally unstable. As the play develops, Tillie wins the science fair through perseverance, Ruth repeatedly attempts to stand up to her mother but experiences several nervous breakdowns, and Beatrice is eventually driven insane and commits several violent acts toward her family and local community. However, despite it all, Tillie continues to believe that everyone is truly valuable.

I greatly enjoyed this play—even though I don't have much experience reading plays. The story is much more character-driven than plot driven, as there isn't a whole lot going on plot-wise, but the characters are fascinating to observe. Watching Beatrice treat her daughters with such vitriol and warden-like control is difficult but it makes for an intriguing book that is difficult to put down. Zindel does an excellent job of keeping the reader in the dark about many of the plot points and character reveals, waiting until the right moment to present new information that will help to understand what is going on in the family's overall dynamic. Even though I don't typically go to the theatre, I would certainly consider seeing this play performed live, and I highly recommend giving it a read if you get a chance, as I was pleasantly surprised.

4/5 stars. 109 pages.

Weekend Thoughts - 11.21.15

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Happy Saturday y'all! Below, I have rounded up some things for you to think about this weekend:

1. As a fairly big science fiction fan, I was intrigued by this article detailing why you probably won't live to see the final Star Wars movie. You see, unlike comic book universes, Star Wars has the ability to expand even further in several directions—time, places, characters, etc. A comic book series is limited in ways that Star Wars is not. I am definitely looking forward to the movie coming out next month (already bought tickets!) and to the future offerings to come, hopefully for the rest of my life and beyond.

2. Apparently the 1000th U.S. citizen murdered by police this year occurred last Sunday, although it is a bit hard to get concrete data around this topic because there is no national database that accurately reports the number of people killed by police. However, organizations such as The Guardian, Killed By Police, and Fatal Encounters have been making a concerted effort to compile data and create a repository for information on this topic. There are discrepancies between the sites, because there isn't any official database being maintained by the government, something that FBI Director James Comey described as "embarrassing". Either way, roughly 1000 civilians-murdered-by-police in 2015 seems like an extremely high number to me, and something that needs dire attention from the government.

3. The act of yawning is often taken to mean that a person is bored or exhausted, but science shows that yawning may indicate that the brain needs to cool down. Other reasons for yawning include being in a mentally-taxing situation and increasing the flow oxygen to the body. Instead of taking offense and insisting that someone who is yawning is not interested in what you have to say, try understanding that it can be a physiological response. Now of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that what you are talking about is worth listening to, but it's worth considering nonetheless.

4. Atlas Obscura explores the fascinating history of flipping the bird, or displaying one's extended middle finger to another person. Turns out it got its start in Ancient Rome, and has been with us since then!

5. An excellent interview regarding with Terence McKenna, featured in the book Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics, was republished on Reality Sandwich this week. As a fan of both topics, I found it an enjoyable read. The following quote blew my mind: "Compassion and awareness. To my mind the real contrast between Buddhism and psychedelic shamanism is between a theory out of which experiences can be teased and an experience out of which theory can be teased." WHOA!

That's all for this week's edition of Weekend Thoughts. Until next week, keep thinking wilder.

This Week in Psychedelics - 11.20.15

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Cannabis

• Justin Trudeau Takes a First Step Toward Marijuana Legalization in Canada (TIME)
• Marijuana Legalizers Who Ran For President (Reason)
• Instagram is Waging a War on Weed (ATTN:)
• Jamaica's Pioneering Journey Towards Cannabis Regulation (The Huffington Post)
• Study: Marijuana Consumers Less Likely To Suffer From Metabolic Syndrome (NORML)
• Bernie Sanders Is Not The First Major-Party Presidential Candidate To Say Marijuana Should Be Legal (Reason)
• How Your DNA Affects Your Marijuana Habits (ATTN:)
• Under The Radar: Medicating In A Prohibition State (Reset.me)
• New marijuana rules get tougher on pesticides in Oregon cannabis industry (The Oregonian)
• American Medical Association Pushes for Pot Pregnancy Warnings (TIME)
• Drug Use Is Not a Crime in This One Country (ATTN:)
• First Legal Cannabis Harvest Happens in New York State (Time Warner Cable News)
• New cannabis testing rules burden small labs (KTVZ)
• Study: Cannabinoids are Safe, Effective for Pain Treatment (NORML)
• Marc Emery: In Canada, cannabis regulation is the new prohibition (Straight.com)
• In Oregon There Are Now More Marijuana Shops than Starbucks or McDonald's (Disinformation)
• 5 Things to Know Before Your Interview With a Cannabis Company (Entrepreneur)
• Veterans fight for the right to use cannabis (KYMA)
• Terminal patients' cannabis proposal becomes battleground for marijuana in Florida (Miami Herald)
• Danish cannabis is stronger than ever (Medical Xpress)
• How to cook a marijuana marinated turkey (Boing Boing)
• Snoop Dogg's Pot Products Look Like Artisanal Chocolate (Wired)
• Cannabis Accessories Have Gone High End: a Few Gift Ideas (ABC News)
• Three Make The Jump From Wall Street To Cannabis Startups And Tell Us What It's Like (Forbes)
• Can Pot Save This Colorado Town? (Reason)
• Dover planners OK permit for cannabis dispensary (New Hampshire Union Leader)
• Illinois State Police warn of new cannabis drug 'shatter' (WLS-TV)

LSD

• The Beckley Foundation calls for regulation of LSD and other psychedelics for recreational use at the International Drug Police Reform Conference. (The Beckley Foundation)
• Man who took LSD died because Mississippi police hog-tied him, autopsy finds (The Times-Picayenne)
• Northern California jury rejects LSD-defense in Halloween murder conviction (San Jose Mercury-News)
• Jersey City man charged with having 2,000 doses of LSD (NJ.com)
• DOC NYC Exclusive: Cook Up LSD With A Clip From 'The Sunshine Makers' (The Playlist)
• Athens man tripping on LSD has head-on collision (Online Athens)
• Police restraints, not LSD, killed Tennessee man (RT)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Magic Mushrooms, High on the Potential for Treating Depression and Anxiety, Get a Scale (Inverse)
• Wisconsin Study Looks At How We Metabolize Psilocybin (Reset.me)
• New Documentary Explores Psilocybin's Role In Embracing Life And Death (Reset.me)
• Groundbreaking Documentary Unravels New Perspectives On Life & Death (PR Newswire)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Here Are Some MDMA Safety Tips That Could Save Your Life (Your EDM)
• Theatre: ecstasy may be the magic pill for PTSD (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Montreal Cop Caught Selling Ecstasy (MTL Blog)
• Give Me Your Love reveals the agonies of ecstasy (The Australian)
• CeeLo on Woman Who Accused Him of Slipping Her Ecstasy: 'It Was Something That Was Blown Out of Proportion' (The Root)
• Police: Twins charged with distributing MDMA (The Eagle)
• Popular student fell 60ft to his death after taking a cocktail of drugs (The Argus)
• Former drag racer jailed for 13 years over ecstasy distribution network (ABC Online)

Ayahuasca/DMT

• Ayahuasca Retreats USA - 1st Public, Legal Ayahuasca USA Church (Ayahuasca Healings)
• Demystifying The Dietary Recommendations Prior To An Ayahuasca Ceremony (Reset.me)
• My Crazy, Scary, Sacred Ayahuasca Story (Reset.me)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Brain-Melting Drugs Wreak Havoc in Isla Vista (Santa Barbara Independent)
• Increased Usage of LSD-like Synthetic Drugs Identified in I.V. (The Daily Nexus)
• Six years' jail for York killer of Liam Miller - the friend who stabbed him 32 times during 'drug-induced psychosis' (York Mix)
• Court documents show teen admits to selling synthetic LSD at OKC high school (MSN)
• Autopsy Results Released in Death of UCSB Student (The Daily Nexus)

Dissociatives

• International Rescheduling of Ketamine (Canadian Veterinary Medical Association)
• Ketamine: Facts, Effects and Hazards (Medical News Today)
• Ketamine: All You Need to Know About Its Use, Misuse, and Health Effects (Food World News)
• Fears over Ketamine's future (Horse & Hound)
• Erratic driver stopped, admits to using PCP: police (Journal Inquirer)
• Veterinarians stress about ketamine's future (VIN News Service)
• Ketamine use rising in Kaohsiung schools: city councilor (Focus Taiwan)

Opiates/Opioids

• FDA Approves Nasal-Spray Version Of Overdose Drug Naloxone (The Huffington Post)
• It's Not Just Heroin: Drug Cocktails Are Fueling The Overdose Crisis (Common Health)
• After six years on the rise, Afghan opium crop cultivation decreases, UN survey (Associated Press of Pakistan)
• We have a clearer picture of who's fueling the US heroin epidemic — and how they're doing it (AOL News)
• Heroin antidote Narcan as a nasal spray gets clearance from US regulators (The Guardian)
• Easier access to drug aids battle against opiates (The Republican American)
• Barack Obama's doomed new war against drugs (Macleans)
• ANF foils attempt to smuggle heroin, opium at Port Qasim (Pakistan Today)
• School nurses equipped to fight heroin, opiate 'epidemic' (Chicago Tribune)
• FDA clears new, easy-to-use version of heroin antidote (NEWS10 ABC)
• Heroin on the Highway: Drug use raises new danger for Tri-State drivers (WCPO)
• History of Vermont's first opium epidemic (Burlington Free Press)
• Poppy crops given go-ahead (The Naracoorte Herald)

Absinthe

• 7 Weird Cocktails That Will Turn You Nutty This Weekend (HungryForever)
• Absinthe and Old Lace: Mason Bates' 'KC Jukebox' premieres (Communities Digital News)

Kratom

• Kratom: a legal drug that is gaining popularity, but could be dangerous (KATC)
• Talladega authorities demand removal of Kratom from stores (WIAT)
• Working for You: Kratom Dangers (ABC 33/40)
• Kratom package seized at Phuket Town Post Office (Phuket Gazette)
• Police arrest 13 in kratom bus-delivery bust (Phuket Gazette)

Kava

• Natural Alternative to Valium (The Gazette Review)
• Kava: an alternative to alcohol (The Daily Tar Heel)
• Kava culture (The Himalayan Times)
• LETTERS: Kava culture in Fiji (The Himalayan Times)
• Vanuatu kava quality issues being addressed (Radio New Zealand)
• Ministry to launch kava quality control campaign (Vanuatu Daily Post)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• The Trip Planners (The New Yorker)
• How to Follow your Heart ... with Shamanism (Eagle Shaman)
• How Obama's War on Drugs Destroys Legal Immigrant Families (Reason)
• 2015 strategy released (Drug WarRant)
• Space Photos of the Week: Pluto Gets A Little Psychedelic (Wired)
• Man jailed after cops mistook soap for cocaine on I-78 files suit (The Morning Call)
• Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery showcases 'Psychedelic Haze' exhibit (The Independent)
• Merrilee Chaliss' psychedelic visions are mind-bendingly cool (Nashville Scene)
• One in 10 People in U.S. Have Abused Drugs (TIME)
• Review: To Fathom Hell or Soar Angelic by Ben Sessa (Psychedelic Press UK)
• Noumenautics: Metaphysics - Meta-ethics, Psychedelics by Peter Sjöstedt-H is out now (Psychedelic Press UK)

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 (and other psychoactives) are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.