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Weekend Thoughts - 7.23.16

Image by Eddie Yu, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Image by Eddie Yu, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Happy (belated) Saturday y'all! (Last week's posts are coming out late due to some issues on my end. My apologies!) Below, I have rounded up some things for you to think about this weekend:

1. I thought this video depicting how tennis balls are made was pretty interesting, and you might too. It's a typical assembly line factory job, and it looks pretty terrible for the people working there, but the actual process of making the balls is visually compelling.

2. A 3.7 magnitude "earthquake" that was reported 168 miles off of Daytona Beach, Florida, turns out to not have been a natural event at all. In fact, it was a military test. The U.S. Navy performed a "shock trial" for a new combat ship, the USS Jackson, which was interpreted as an earthquake. Interestingly, seismographs as far away as Minnesota, Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, and North Carolina registered the event.

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

This Week in Psychedelics - 7.22.16

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • DEA Opens the Door to Cannabis Research with Clinical PTSD Trials (Psychedelic Times)
  • Big Pharma's Concerned About These Marijuana Stats (ATTN:)
  • Colorado town finds THC in water, warns residents not to drink or bathe in it (The Denver Post)
  • Montana: Medical Cannabis Restoration Initiative Qualifies For November Ballot (NORML)
  • Poll: Two-Thirds Of Americans Say 'Efforts To Enforce Marijuana Laws Cost More Than They Are Worth' (NORML)
  • Pennsylvania Legalizes Industrial Hemp (Reason)
  • This Former Prison Was Purchased by a Marijuana Company (ATTN:)
  • Cannabis: Bronze Age Yamna culture may have introduced cannabis to Europe and Asia 5,000 years ago (International Business Times)
  • Dabado Helps Cannabis Concentrate Users Put Down The Blow Torch (Forbes)
  • Cannabis industry bolstering retail, manufacturing job growth in Colorado (The Denver Post)
  • People Using This Health Remedy Are Often Denied Organ Transplants (ATTN:)
  • HelloMD looks to its 'Quora for cannabis' as a source of growth (TechCrunch)
  • Why Does Cannabis Get You "High" and Make You Feel Good? (Leafly)
  • Government could make $150 million annually from taxing cannabis (Stuff.co.nz)
  • First medical cannabis dispensary in Florida receives Authorization to Dispense (WPTV)
  • A Strange Blend: Why Are Europeans Mixing Cannabis and Tobacco? (Leafly)
  • Fund-raising in Cannabis, Initially Slow, Is Going Higher and Higher (Yahoo! Finance)
  • "Why do Republicans Respect Marijuana Prohibition Like it Came From Moses?" (Reason)

LSD

  • Doors of Perception: How Aldous Huxley Brought LSD Therapy to His Readers (Psychedelic Times)
  • How LSD Went From Research to Religion (JSTOR Daily)
  • Watch: Kristen Wiig is sorry for that time she slipped Seth Myers LSD (Vox)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Studying ecstasy or MDMA's effects may lead to autism or PTSD drug development (International Business Times)
  • A New Documentary Explores Whether or Not MDMA Use Can Solve Your Relationship Problems (Thump)
  • This Ecstasy Review Site Is a Hotbed of Perfect Pill-Related Prose (Thump)
  • Scientists say MDMA needs to be studied, not demonised (ScienceAlert)
  • Drug dealers selling Pokemon ecstasy pills to target youngsters and cash in on computer game craze (Mirror)

Ayahuasca/DMT

Iboga/Ibogaine

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • What Is Fake LSD And How Can You Avoid It (High Times)

Dissociatives

  • New Trials Are Using Ketamine to Treat Alcohol Addiction (Motherboard)
  • Woman High on PCP Steals Car from North Haven Gas Station: Police (Patch)
  • Police rescue woman who climbed crane after taking PCP (Bristol Herald Courier)

Opiates/Opioids

  • Congress Is Doing Something About the Opioid Epidemic (ATTN:)
  • Our Opioid Crisis Reveals Deep Racial Bias In Addiction Treatment (TIME)
  • This Judge Wants Drug Dealers to Pay for Naloxone (ATTN:)
  • As Prescription Painkiller Addiction Soars, Drug Companies Raise Overdose Treatment Price By 1000% (Mintpress News)
  • To End the Opioid Epidemic, We Need Way More Than OD Treatments (Wired)
  • US War In Afghanistan Is Fueling Global Heroin Epidemic & Enabling The Drug Trade (Mintpress News)

Absinthe

Kratom

Kava

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

  • Why People Are Drinking Tobacco in the Amazon (Munchies)
  • How to Become an Addiction Recovery Coach Who Incorporates Psychedelic Integration (Psychedelic Times)
  • Drugs, Dissociatives and Displacement: The Festival Drug Report - Part 1 (VolteFace)
  • The Reason Saliva Drug Testing Hasn't Caught On (ATTN:)
  • What if all drugs were totally legal? (Boing Boing)
  • Mississippi's prison town are in danger of collapse, thanks to tiny reforms in the War on Drugs (Boing Boing)
  • The True Cost of This $2 Drug Test (ATTN:)
  • Emulating Nixon, Trump Sounds Softer Than Dukakis on Drugs (Reason)

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

Weekend Thoughts - 7.16.16

Image by David, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Image by David, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

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

1. Ah, physics. Prepare to be mesmerized: here is a video of 32 out-of-sync metronomes that become in-sync due to the transfer of force.

2. New research shows that half of all food produce in the United States is thrown away. In fact, discarded food is the largest component of landfills and incinerators in the country, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This is a terrible tragedy—there are plenty of people that could be eating that food, and we could be giving back to the Earth by composting food waste rather than throwing it in the garbage.

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

This Week in Psychedelics - 7.15.16

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Cannabis

  • The Democratic Party Made a Big Move on Marijuana (ATTN:)
  • Facebook And Google Cannabis Policy Enforcement Makes No Sense (BuzzFeed)
  • "420" Dating: An Interview with Molly Peckler, Cannabis Dating Website Founder (Leafly)
  • This Fancy Weed Chocolate Helps You Not Get Too Stoned (Wired)
  • Study: Medical Marijuana Laws Linked To Less Prescription Drug Use, Medicare Spending (NORML)
  • Oregon Launches New Cannabis Worker Permit (Leafly)
  • Baby Boomer Parents, Have You Come Out of the Cannabis Closet to Your Adult Kids? (Leafly)
  • Allen St. Pierre Tenders His Resignation (NORML)
  • New Research Sheds Light on Cannabis' Bronze Age Roots (Leafly)
  • The Altered State Exhibit at Oakland Museum of California (Reality Sandwich)
  • North Dakota medical cannabis petition deadline approaching (Valley News Live)
  • Two Texas Lawyers Make Viral Song About Weed (ATTN:)
  • Medicinal cannabis the right oil for Ellie the Staffy, her owner believes (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  • Should L.A. County Tax Medical Cannabis to Fight Homelessness? (Leafly)
  • Colorado Pot Regulation Amendment Pulled By Its Own Supporters (Reason)
  • A Cannabis Company Co-Founder Says the CEO Groped and Smelled Her (Willamette Week)
  • Sen. Feinstein Will Not Be Giving Up the Drug War Anytime Soon (Reason)
  • Cannabis users who put tobacco in joints 'more likely to be addicted' (The Guardian)

LSD

  • Toddler may have ingested LSD near Oregon Country Fair, officials say (The Oregonian)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

  • Understanding Different Magic Mushrooms: A Guide to 4 Common Psilocybin Mushrooms (Psychedelic Times)

MDMA/Ecstasy

  • Scientists Really Want to Be Allowed to Study MDMA (Inverse)
  • Ecstasy: The Unplanned Addiction (Doctor Tipster)
  • Could ECSTASY treat autism? Scientists call for tests on the illegal rave drug as they claim it could have 'therapeutic effects for disorders' (Daily Mail)
  • New drugs warning after TITP ecstasy find (The Courier)
  • Boy, 13, in critical condition after 'taking MDMA' (Metro)

Ayahuasca/DMT

  • Psychedelics being used to cure alcoholism (KOAT)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

  • Whatever's in Synthetic Marijuana, It's the Opposite of Chill (Wired)
  • New York Like Scene From 'The Walking Dead' After Large-Scale Marijuana Overdose (TIME)
  • 33 people collapse on busy street after smoking 'synthetic cannabis' (The Telegraph)
  • 'N bomb' drug gave teenager fatal heart attack (Irish Independent)

Dissociatives

  • Ketamine Could Be Used To Treat Alcoholics And Alcoholism (Yahoo! News)
  • Club Drug Ketamine ('Special K') Could Treat Depression (AOL UK)
  • What are the effects of ketamine? (The Guardian)
  • Sergeant: North Tulsa PCP bust second largest I've ever seen (KOKI)
  • Resident On PCP Calls Police To Describe Hallucinations: Cops (Patch)
  • Prosecutor: woman drinking, had PCP in system before deadly crash (Chicago Sun-Times)

Opiates/Opioids

  • The scourge of heroin and opioid deaths still doesn't match AIDS at its worst (PolitiFact)
  • Naloxone nasal spray gets temporary Health Canada approval (CBC News)
  • Chaka Khan Enters Rehab for the Same Drug That Killed Prince (ATTN:)
  • Congress Finally Passes Bipartisan Legislation To Address Opioid Epidemic (The Huffington Post)
  • Obama to sign bill to battle heroin addiction (CNBC)

Kratom

Kava

  • Farmers say police involved in kava theft in Fiji (Radio New Zealand)
  • THESE 3 NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS ARE GUARANTEED TO IMPROVE YOUR SEX LIFE (Maxim)

Khat

  • Ingredients for date rape drug, khat, firearms seized by border agents in Manitoba (CBC News)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

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.

Weekend Thoughts - 7.9.16

Image by Andrea Kirkby, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Image by Andrea Kirkby, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

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

1. This the best video on why the war on drugs has been a huge failure in the past ten years. It's fairly dense, so you may want to watch it more than once.

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