Rally to Legalize Psychedelic Medicine and Nude Love Parade

Gypsy Taub, writing for My Naked Truth TV:

Dear friends,

we are going to have another rally to legalize psychedelic medicine followed by a nude love parade.

The rally will start at the San Francisco City Hall and the parade will march through Haight to Stanyan and back to the City Hall. […]

Body freedom activist and founder of a psychedelic clinic and rehab for street kids in Mexico (Jerry Garcia Family Healing Clinic) Gypsy Taub organized the first legalization rally on August 19, 2018. It took place at Jane Warner Plaza in San Francisco and was followed by the 3rd annual Nude Summer of Love Parade.

The second rally will take place in front of the San Francisco City Hall on Saturday, September 29th and will be followed by a Nude Love Parade through Haight Street.

If you support the movement to legalize psychedelics and like naked people—or if you’re a naked person yourself—you may want to check out this event on Saturday. The group held its first event last month and it was a success. Even dearer to my heart is the fact that they dedicated it to Jerry Garcia. He would’ve loved it.

The group wants to have a bigger and better event this go-around, so feel free to spread the news and share this post with anyone who might be interested.

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This Week in Psychedelics - 9.21.18

Cannabis

• South Africa Decriminalises Personal Cannabis Use and Cultivation (Talking Drugs)

• Governor Signs Marijuana Legalization Bill, Making History In US Territory (Forbes)

• Louisiana Congressman Wants To Drug-Test All of Congress (Reason)

• The first country to legalize pot is taking it slow (CNN)

• Coca-Cola Is Eyeing the Cannabis Market (Bloomberg)

• What Is CBD Oil and Why Do People Take It? (Discover Magazine)

• Can Canadian Online Cannabis Retailer Namaste Technologies Become The Amazon Of Cannabis? (Forbes)

• Massachusetts Credit Union to Provide Banking Services for Cannabis Companies (High Times)

• Feds Would Compile Tips For Growing Marijuana Under Proposal Advancing In Congress (Marijuana Moment)

• Cody Johnson Interview: Cannabis as a Unique Psychedelic and more (Ganjly)

• Marijuana References In Popular Music Are On the Rise, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• This Oil Infusion Appliance Is The KitchenAid Of Cannabis (Forbes)

• Canadian Marijuana Users, Workers, Investors Will Face Lifetime Bans from Entering the U.S. (Reason)

• Democratic lawmaker calls on DHS to clarify border rules for Canadian marijuana users and workers (Politico)

• Louisiana regulators remove patient cap on marijuana doctors (Associated Press News)

• Congressman Wants Feds To ‘Buy American’ Marijuana Instead Of Importing From Canada (Marijuana Moment)

• Election 2018: A Complete Guide to Cannabis on the Ballot (Leafly)

• Beto O’Rourke Slams Drug War And Police Killing Of Botham Jean At Dallas Event (Marijuana Moment)

• Dagga smoking an entry point to more serious drugs – Cele (Daily Maverick)

• Association of Cannabinoid Administration With Experimental Pain in Healthy Adults (The JAMA Network)

• Police Are Using Pot to 'Smear' a Dead Man, Say Botham Jean Family Attorneys (Reason)

• Jeff Sessions Breaks Cannabis Silence To Spread Fake News About A Marijuana ‘Myth’ (Marijuana Moment)

• California Police Chief Claims Legal Weed Delivery Could Lead to ‘Assaults and Homicides’ (Reason)

• Congressional Black And Hispanic Caucuses Focus On Marijuana Reform At Events (Marijuana Moment)

• ‘My son is proof medicinal cannabis works’: Alfie Dingley is now seizure-free and learning to ride a bike (inews.co.uk)

• Marijuana Legalization Debated By Ohio And New Mexico Gubernatorial Candidates (Marijuana Moment)

• U.S. should follow Canada's lead, allow military to smoke marijuana (Rooster Magazine)

• California Gov. Jerry Brown Keeps Saying Mean Things About Marijuana Consumers (Marijuana Moment)

• Kristen Bell Reveals She Smokes Marijuana Once a Week and Might Host an Ecstasy Party (Us Weekly)

• Trump FDA Chief More Worried About Teens Using Marijuana Than Nicotine (Marijuana Moment)

• Marijuana Museum Opens in Las Vegas to Celebrate All Things Cannabis (TIME)

• Shorting cannabis stocks is getting costly (CNBC)

• PETA Says Getting Lobsters High On Marijuana Doesn’t Make Eating Them More Humane (Marijuana Moment)

• Hollywood's Red Carpet Was Sprinkled With Hints Of Cannabis Green For Television's Biggest Night (Forbes)

• Top Cop Caught On Tape Making Racist Comments About Marijuana Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• This Canadian Pot Company Had An Unbelievably Wild Day on the Stock Market (TIME)

• Marijuana Opponent Compares Legalization To Deadly Hurricane Florence (Marijuana Moment)

• Let Us Congratulate These Florida Cops for Keeping 11 Pounds of Weed Off the Streets (Reason)

• New York Lawmakers Schedule Marijuana Legalization Hearing (Marijuana Moment)

• The medicinal cannabis panel is already failing children like my daughter (The Guardian)

• Cannabis Plant-Raised Pork Is Now a Thing (and It’s Delicious) (Leafly)

• How high can the world's most-valuable cannabis company go? (Quartz)

• Cannabis Stocks Will Make More People Rich Before Diving (Forbes)

• Authorities Smoke Out Cannabis Products at Church Properties (NBC Southern California)

• Lawmaker Presses Trump Official On Banning Canadians From US For Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

• Retail investors in Canadian cannabis are 'buying air,' analyst says (CNBC)

• Job training for cannabis retail staff coming soon to Alberta (Grow)

LSD

• First Ever Trial to Study the Effects of Microdosing LSD Began This Month (High Times)

• What do blind people see when they take LSD? (Health24)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Legalizing Psilocybin Could Be The Next Frontier In Drug Policy Reform After Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

• Like 4/20, mushrooms have their day: 9/20. 'It'll catch on.' (Rooster Magazine)

• Prof David Nutt reveals how those people with depression who took magic mushrooms are doing now (The Canary)

• Mushroom legalization in Colorado gains both political and legal support (Rooster Magazine)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• Octopuses Rolling on MDMA Reveal Unexpected Link to Humans (Inverse)

• Elementary School Boy Accidentally Shares Father’s Ecstasy with Friends Thinking It was Candy (Nextshark)

• Clint Eastwood’s daughter Francesca has a drug-fuelled threesome in new movie MDMA (The Sun)

• Student, 22, died after taking £7 MDMA to celebrate the end of her university exams (The Sun)

• A guide to taking MDMA for the first time (The Tab)

• MDMA, the main ingredient in ecstasy, could be key in helping veterans with PTSD (CBS News)

• What is MDMA? Effects of ecstasy drug and how dangerous it really is (Mirror)

Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT

• Ayahuasca stirs up debate over its effects (Kahpi)

• DMT trip 'feels like dying' - and scientists now agree (BBC)

• Welcome Home: My 5-MeO-DMT Experience (Maps Of The Mind)

• Mother-of-one musician, 32, who went to mountain retreat for hallucinogenic treatment in bid to beat her epilepsy died after seizure on Middle East trip (Daily Mail)

• Ayahuasca Research Boosts Brazilian 'Psychedelic' Science (Folha de S.Paulo)

• Was the Prophet Muhammad Tripping on DMT? (SF Weekly)

• The Marbella retreat run by a British accountant where guests pay £500 to get high on mind-bending drug blamed for student's death (Daily Mail)

Peyote/San Pedro/Mescaline

• “Healing Powers” Heads to Spain to Feel the Psychedelic Sensations of San Pedro (MERRY JANE)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• Positive outcomes after ibogaine detoxification linked to persisting changes in mood and life perspective (PsyPost)

Salvia Divinorum

• The Strange Realm of Salvia Research (Psychedelic Times)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• Spice Users are Becoming a Cruel Online Joke (VICE)

• Huge rise in ambulance callouts to deal with spice users (The Guardian)

Dissociatives

• Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine Appear to Require Opioid System Activation (Psychiatry Advisor)

• Police: Woman who caused disturbance was on PCP (Rutland Herald)

Opiates/Opioids

• The Federal Agency That Fuels the Opioid Crisis (The New York Times)

• New Heroin User Numbers Are Dropping Amid A Fatal Overdose Epidemic (BuzzFeed News)

• The Health 202: Obscure provision in House opioids' bill could restart war on drugs (The Washington Post)

• As opioid death toll worsens, California doctors will soon be required to perform database checks (Los Angeles Times)

• To avoid overdoses, some test their heroin before taking it (ABC News)

Kratom

• Everything I Learned About Using Kratom for Pain (Pain News Network)

• Man electrocuted in Satun allegedly trying to steal kratom leaves (The Nation)

Kava

• Captivate Your Senses With Kava (ProHealth)

Khat

• Khat (Plant) Market Segmented by Type, Application, Offering and Geography to 2023 (TheBusinessTactics.com)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• The Dire Need for Systemic Critique Within Psychedelic Communities (Chacruna)

• Justice Department Inspector General to Investigate DEA Program Linked to Massacres in Mexico (ProPublica)

• Are Music Festivals to Blame for Overdose Deaths? (The New York Times)

• Defqon.1 deaths: sniffer dogs don't deter revellers from drug use, researchers find (The Guardian)

• 'Absolutely tragic': Premier vows to shut festival down after two overdose deaths (The Sydney Morning Herald)

• Lab Testing Anomalous Street Drug Samples in Kensington Philadelphia (Medium)

• A different kind of house call: Teams bring addiction care to patients, wherever they are (STAT)

• Trump Administration Plans U.N. Meeting to Ramp Up the International Drug War (The Intercept)

• Psychedelic Sea Sponges to the Colorado River Toad: Magic Medicine is a Rabbit Hole of Hallucinatory Wisdom (High Times)

• Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Are Killing So Many Young Americans That the Country’s Average Lifespan Is Falling (TIME)

• Pop-Up Museum Psychedelic Robot Coming to The Crescent (Dallas Innovates)

• Colombia cocaine production acreage at 'record level' (BBC)

• Britain's drug testing charity is ready to roll out in Australia (The Sydney Morning Herald)

• Psychedelic drugs could mimic near-death experience: study (CTV News)

• Opening the Mind with Psychedelics (GR|MAG)

• The Origin Story of Con Ciencia Indígena: Interview with Mario Gómez Mayorga (Psychedelic Times)

• Over four decades, an 'inexorable' epidemic of drug overdoses reveals its inner secrets (Los Angeles Times)

• People my age shouldn't be dying at music festivals. Pill-testing saves lives (The Guardian)

• Why Canada Should Legalize Psychedelics Next (VICE)

• The psychedelic drug debate: why Buddhist ethics matters (Patheos)

• ‘Psychedelic Indiana Jones’ drug expert claims LSD, mushrooms and MDMA ‘to be made legal’ (Daily Star)

• Cure for cocaine addiction in reach, say scientists (The Guardian)

• Psychedelic Drugs to Treat Depression, PTSD? (WebMD)

• LSD, Magic Mushrooms, and “Tripping All the Time” (SFGate)

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.

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

This Week in Psychedelics - 9.14.18

Cannabis

• Canadian Military Reveals New Rules Regarding Cannabis Use (High Times)

• Marijuana Use Is on the Rise Among Baby Boomers According to a New Study (TIME)

• Legal Canadian Marijuana Workers, Investors Will Be Treated Like Illegal Traffickers, Official Confirms (Newsweek)

• Did Barack Obama Smoke Marijuana At Disneyland? (Marijuana Moment)

• NYC Prosecutors Drop 3,000 Weed Cases (Reason)

• New York: Brooklyn DA Intends To Vacate Thousands Of Past Marijuana Convictions (NORML)

• Tesla Shares Fall After CEO Elon Musk Smokes Cannabis on Joe Rogan's Live Web Show (News18)

• The Response To Elon Musk's Cannabis Use Shows That We Have A Giant Double Standard To Overcome (Forbes)

• Scientists Explore How Cannabis May Fight Psychosis (VOA)

• Congressional Leadership Strips Provisions Facilitating Medical Marijuana Access For Veterans (NORML)

• Marijuana Bill Approved By Congressional Committee, Despite Drug Conviction Restriction Dispute (Forbes)

• Legal Marijuana Access Disrupts The Illicit Market, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• European Parliament Working to Make Medical Marijuana Available on the Continent (Marijuana.com)

• Miami-Dade Police Give Most Pot Citations to White People, While Black People Are Jailed (Miami New Times)

• Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Worker Rejected For Medical Marijuana Use (Marijuana Moment)

• Republican Members of Congress Just Sent Jeff Sessions Yet Another Letter Asking Him To Stop Holding Up Marijuana Research (Reason)

• Cannabis for Chronic Nerve Pain: Mechanism Revealed? (Medscape)

• Neil deGrasse Tyson Warns People Not To Smoke Marijuana In Space (Marijuana Moment)

• Scottish ministers to hear arguments for medicinal use of cannabis (The National)

• Most Doctors, Nurses And Pharmacists Support Legalizing Marijuana, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Treat teenage cannabis dealers as potential victims, says thinktank (The Guardian)

• Marijuana In Texas: Where Ted Cruz And Beto O’Rourke Stand On Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Concerns raised over lack of guidelines for medics regarding use of substances like cannabis oil (Irish Examiner)

• Top Trump Health Official Signals Support For Marijuana Decriminalization (Marijuana Moment)

• Marijuana Censorship: A Byproduct of Prohibition (NORML)

• Colorado Ballot Measure Would Change Industrial Hemp Definition (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis and Crypto: Equal Beneficiaries in the Fight to Hit the Mainstream (Cointelegraph)

• New Book: Obama Considered Decriminalizing Marijuana, But Then Trump Won (Marijuana Moment)

• 5 Ways Creatives Are Fixing Cannabis’s Image Problem (Artsy)

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

• Mat Zo Discusses Marijuana Dependence on Twitter (EDMTunes)

• Brett Kavanaugh Accepts Cory Booker’s Recommendation To Read Drug War Book (Marijuana Moment)

• Why The Adult Cannabis Market Could Kill Its Medical Counterpart (Forbes)

• Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard Talks Marijuana And Psychedelics With Joe Rogan (Marijuana Moment)

• Workers In These Industries Are Most Likely To Consume Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

• Pot Prohibition Makes Self-Defense Illegal (Reason)

• Google Execs Told Marijuana Jokes To Lighten The Mood After Trump’s Election, Leaked Video Shows (Marijuana Moment)

• Sen. Dianne Feinstein Signs Onto Marijuana Bill After Decades Of Drug War Advocacy (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis stocks are on fire after a $220 million M&A deal (Quartz)

• Criminal Justice Reformers Slam Marijuana Bill’s Drug Conviction Ban (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• After 26 years in prison for LSD, and clemency from Obama, Timothy Tyler is a free man (Psymposia)

• "I've seen my own DNA": Paul McCartney on his LSD experience with the Beatles in the 1960s (Meaww)

• ‘Acid’: A hallucinatory novel that overturns traditional ideas of family and motherhood (Scroll.in)

• When Aldous Huxley, Dying of Cancer, Left This World Tripping on LSD, Experiencing “the Most Serene, the Most Beautiful Death” (1963) (Open Culture)

• Salina woman pleads in LSD-fueled knife attack on a stranger (WIBW)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Psychedelic Mushroom Advocates Push Initiatives for May 2019 Citywide Ballot (Westword)

• “FDA approve ‘magic mushroom’ treatment” (Talon Marks)

• Police say York man took psychedelic mushrooms before killing cat (Press Herald)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• “Reduction in social anxiety after MDMA-assisted psychotherapy with autistic adults: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study” (ResearchGate)

• UW to test using MDMA to treat PTSD (School of Medicine and Public Health at University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• 'MDMA' Is The Drug-Fueled Thriller Showing You Another Side Of Asian America (NYLON)

• Pregnant teen ‘took ecstasy to try and kill her unborn son’ (Metro)

• Reminisce Festival: Overdoses lead to MDMA warning (BBC)

• Student Patrick Coakley died after taking MDMA 'bombs' at Canterbury’s Club Chemistry (Kent Online)

Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT

• Should Ayahuasca Tourism in Peru Be Regulated? (Chacruna)

• Romancing the Toad (Reality Sandwich)

• Inside the Ayahuasca Experience (Psychotherapy Networker)

• Ayahuasca and the Global Marketplace (Reality Sandwich)

• A DMT trip 'feels like dying' - and scientists now agree (BBC)

• Ayahuasca: Tribal tradition or dangerous hallucinogenic brew? (The City Paper Bogota)

• Police discover DMT drug lab after neighbors report a burglary in Cottonwood Heights (KUTV)

Iboga/Ibogaine

• Ibogaine Therapy Can Offer Addiction Relief During Opioid Withdrawal (Ladybud)

• Ibogaine: One Man's Journey To Mexico For Psychedelic Addiction Treatment (WBUR)

Salvia Divinorum

• Nightmare drug Salvia could help end the hellish opioid crisis (Rooster Magazine)

Dissociatives

• Rapid Depression Remission and the “Therapeutic Bends” with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (Psychedelics Today)

• Ketamine Works as a Fast-Acting Antidepressant, But the Full Effects Are Still Unknown (Smithsonian)

• Ketamine: Mechanisms of Action, Uses in Pain Medicine, and Side Effects (Clinical Pain Advisor)

• Local ketamine clinic sees high success rate in ketamine treatment (KTRE)

• Grade-A student, 22, gave birth in prison after ‘going off the rails’ and attacking two women while experimenting with Ketamine (The Sun)

Opiates/Opioids

• Opioid billionaire granted patent for addiction treatment (Financial Times)

• Naloxone nasal spray works best to stop opioid OD: Study (UPI)

• Overdose is a policy issue, not an individual one. (Sheila Vakharia)

• FDA Approves New Dosage Strength of Buprenorphine and Naloxone Sublingual Film for Opioid Dependence Treatment (Pharmacy Times)

• Experts Call Bullshit On Backstreet Boy AJ McLean’s Opioid Detox Kits (VICE)

• I’m So Sick of Opioid Disaster Porn (Slate)

• Minnesota health officials offer free Naloxone training to public (Chron)

• Naloxone can reverse opioid overdoses, but does the drug belong in elementary schools? (USA Today)

• Opium production breaks records again (Daily Times)

• Police save little girl from hot car after mother overdoses on heroin (Fox 8)

Kratom

• Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on new warning letters FDA is issuing to companies marketing kratom with unproven medical claims; and the agency’s ongoing concerns about kratom (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

• Could the Opioid Crisis Be Solved With Kratom? “A Leaf of Faith” Says Yes (MERRY JANE)

• Shoplifters snagging liquid kratom from Martin County stores (TCPalm)

Khat

• New 'legal high' creeping into Bangladesh (Dhaka Tribune)

• Over 4,800 packs of khat seized in Oman (Times of Oman)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Study Explores Religious and Spiritual Roots of Psychedelically-Induced Mystical Experience (Psychedelic Times)

• Treating Addiction With Psychedelics – Part 1: Overview (The Third Wave)

• Treating Addiction With Psychedelics – Part 2: Preparation (The Third Wave)

• Treating Addiction With Psychedelics – Part 3: The Experience (The Third Wave)

• Treating Addiction With Psychedelics – Part 4: Integration (The Third Wave)

• Psychedelic Justice: Disrupting the Cultural Default Mode Network (Chacruna)

• Renaissance or Dead End? The New Debate on Psychedelic Drug Use by North American Buddhists (Buddhistdoor Global)

• The Psychological Violence of Mexico’s War on Drugs (The Crime Report)

• Accurately Weigh Your Dose: A Guide on How To Properly and Safely Measure Substances (Psychedelic Times)

• A Psychedelic Film and Music Festival is set to mellow out NYC (Metro US)

• Gender and Critical Drug Studies: Reproducing Female Vulnerability in Gendered Drug Discourse (Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society)

• Camden council OKs return of needle exchange; mayor hopes it's only short-term solution (Courier-Post)

• Children say cannabis easier to get than alcohol: 'The war on drugs has failed' (The Independent)

• Gendered violence & overdose prevention sites: A rapid ethnographic study during an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada (Wiley Online Library)

• Drugs and Creativity: Fact or Fiction? (Neurology Times)

• Why Did Dallas Police Search a Man's Home for 'Narcotics' After One of Their Own Killed Him? (Reason)

• New Study Challenges Hallucinogenic Stereotypes (Washington Square News)

• 'Microdosing' growing in popularity among tech workers, but is it safe? (WRAL)

• Drug danger chart shows which drugs you should never mix, and which you totally should (Rooster Magazine)

• The forgotten history of psychedelics and their use in addiction therapy (NOTED)

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.

Image by Dahtamnay, courtesy of Creative Commons licensing.

Book Review - The Portable Frank

A few days after reading Jim Woodring's Weathercraft, I moved onto another strange tale in the Frank universe—this time it was The Portable Frank. Unlike the first Frank comic I read, which is a full-length graphic novel with a cohesive plot through and through, The Portable Frank is a more typical book in the Frank universe because it contains various vignettes that are only tangentially related to one another.

This book's description reads:

[A] unique, visionary comic, exquisitely drawn and so fully realized that adults and children alike find themselves drawn deeply into Woodring's hallucinatory landscape. The stories, almost entirely wordless, unravel like a good puzzle, rewarding re-reading, providing an experience as immersive as that first love affair, that first samadhi, or that first breath. Simply put, the world of Frank must be experienced to be understood.

I couldn't put it better myself. The Portable Frank is a special book, capable of launching readers on a journey into outer (and inner) space without the use of any psychoactive substances. The main character, who goes by the name of Frank, is a fun-loving anthropomorph that looks like a cross between Mickey Mouse and Goofy. Frank lives in a peculiar landscape called the Unifactor, where he wanders around on surreal adventures with his housedog-like pet Pupshaw. On their way, they encounter Manhog, the main character from Weathercraft, as well a variety of several other creatures ranging from adorable to downright terrifying.

I really enjoyed this book and I imagine if I read it a few more times I'd probably love it even more. If you're into weird art of the mind-bending variety, then you should get your hands on a copy of The Portable Frank.

4/5 stars. 200 pages.

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If you enjoyed this post, you might also enjoy my reviews of Weathercraft and Fran.

This Week in Psychedelics - 9.7.18

Cannabis

• Psychosis: Cannabis extract normalizes brain function (Medical News Today)

• A silent movement for the legalisation of cannabis is spreading across India (Scroll.in)

• Using Cannabis to Treat the Effects of Trauma (Chacruna)

• Senate Bill Would Legalize Medical Marijuana For Military Veterans (Forbes)

• Elon Musk Smokes Marijuana in His First Appearance Since Tweet About Taking Tesla Public (TIME)

• How dark market cannabis plugs are being taken advantage of. Again. (Rooster Magazine)

• Senators Press Trump Cabinet Members To Expand Marijuana Research (Marijuana Moment)

• Utah Medical Marijuana Campaign Exposes Opponents’ Misleading Push Poll (Marijuana Moment)

• Stockton Offering Minor In Cannabis Studies (CBS Philly)

• Supreme Court Nominee Kavanaugh On Marijuana Enforcement And Presidential Pardon Power (Marijuana Moment)

• The Argument For Smoking Cannabis Flower (Forbes)

• Major Pro-Legalization California Union Sides With Cops Against Marijuana Deliveries (Marijuana Moment)

• Nerve Pain in the Legs? Medical Marijuana May Alter Brain Connections, Bring Relief (American Academy of Neurology)

• Top Lawmakers Talk Hemp Legalization At First Bicameral Congressional Conference Committee Meeting (Marijuana Moment)

• Individual and combined effects of acute delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol on psychotomimetic symptoms and memory function (Nature)

• How Many Americans Can Hold A Joint Of Marijuana Without Fear Of Going To Jail? (Marijuana Moment)

• Support for Prop. 2 dips following LDS Church opposition, but most Utahns still support medical cannabis ballot initiative (Utah Policy)

• New Jersey Mayors Demand Social Equity In Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Death Sentence for Malaysia Man Who Gave Patients Free Cannabis Oil (Talking Drugs)

• Marijuana Consumption Booming Among Baby Boomers, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Pro-Legalization Trump Backers Cry ‘Fake News’ Over Report On Anti-Marijuana Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• Tobacco Giant Altria Is ‘Exploring Options’ On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

• Anti-Legalization Rep. Pete Sessions ‘Very Receptive’ To Medical Cannabis Group (Marijuana Moment)

• Canadian Cannabis Corp Makes Historic Investment in Jamaica (Forbes)

• A Top House Republican Questions Jeff Sessions’s Anti-Marijuana Moves (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis on the Menu at Your Next Hotel Restaurant or Spa? (The New York Times)

• XRAY's “This Is Cannabis” Discusses the Science of Weed In Terms Everyone Can Understand (Willamette Week)

LSD

• First ever trials on the effects of microdosing LSD set to begin (The Guardian)

• Does Microdosing LSD Stimulate Creativity And Productivity? (Science Trends)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

• Parents hope mushrooms work magic on depression (The Times)

• FDA Approved A Psilocybin Drug Trial For Depression (NowThis News)

• Series to investigate lore of ‘magic mushrooms’ (Stillwater News Press)

• Gardai uncover first ever 'magic mushroom lab' in Ireland following raid (Irish Independent)

MDMA/Ecstasy

• The Differences Between British and American MDMA Users (VICE)

Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT

• Paul McCartney 'saw God' after taking drugs during Beatles heyday (The Guardian)

• This Incredible VR Film Takes You on an Ayahuasca Journey to the Amazon (VICE)

• What Ayahuasca Is, and What You Should Know About It (Teen Vogue)

• What Happens When You Die? Scientists Have Recreated a Near Death Experience to Find Out What It Feels Like (Newsweek)

• Ayahuasca rituals can be profoundly beneficial – if they’re done properly (The Guardian)

• Ayahuasca and the Global Marketplace (Psymposia)

• I spent two days taking the spiritual psychoactive ‘Ayahuasca’ on a reclusive island (The Tab)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

• DEA puts "Fake MDMA" in Schedule I (Orlando Sentinel)

• Meet Dr. Zee, the Chemist Trying to Solve Life’s Problems With One Pill (MERRY JANE)

Dissociatives

• First-Ever IV Ketamine Infusion Consensus Guidelines For Chronic Pain Released (Pain Medicine News)

• Study: Ketamine acts like an opioid when used to help treat depression (Boston Herald)

• Man high on PCP gets shot trying to carjack man in Cleveland pizzeria parking lot (Cleveland.com)

• Officers, K9 exposed to drug while checking vehicle outside military site: police (PennLive.com)

• Woman arrested on murder complaint tells police man found dead in motel smoked PCP and killed himself (Tulsa World)

Opiates/Opioids

• Purdue Pharma L.P. to Fund Harm Reduction Therapeutics, Inc.’s Work to Develop Inexpensive, Over-the-Counter, Life-Saving Naloxone in the United States (Business Wire)

• New Research Sheds Light on How Opium Poppies Evolved Their Powerful Painkillers (Gizmodo)

• Sick River: Can These California Tribes Beat Heroin and History? (The New York Times)

• I Would Have Started Heroin Recovery Earlier—and Healthier—If I Had Access to a Safe Injection Site (Tonic)

• Officers in Sterling treated for opioid exposure after responding to overdose (The Boston Globe)

• Supervised Injection Facilities Save Lives (Reason)

• Man Who Kicked Heroin Addiction Now On Mission To Give Back To Local Kids (CBS Philly)

• Naloxone: ‘It’s harm reduction’ (LaSalle News Tribune)

Kratom

• Lawsuit says kratom tea caused teen’s brain damage (Tampa Bay Times)

• Kratom Users Reveal Psychological Symptoms of Withdrawal From the Drug (Inverse)

• Kratom: Clinical Implications for Nurse Practitioners (AdvanceWeb)

Kava

• Vanuatu welcomes Polish move to re-legalise kava (Radio New Zealand)

• Man arrested for stabbing employees at Te Mana Kava Bar in West Palm Beach (WPTV)

• No Harm in Kava (Eugene Weekly)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

• Misreporting and Confirmation Bias in Psychedelic Research (Scientific American)

• Addiction Doesn’t Always Last a Lifetime (The New York Times)

• An Introduction to Eroto-Psychedelic Art (The Oak Tree Review)

• Psychedelics, Meditation, and Self-Consciousness (Frontiers in Psychology)

• This Man Took 140 Drugs and Wrote a Harm Reduction Bible (VICE)

• Abolishing the DEA Would be Good for Your Health (71Republic)

• Do psychotropic drugs enhance, or diminish, human agency? (Aeon)

• Sound-based liquid printing could lead to new designer drugs (Engadget)

• People Say Microdosing Can Increase Cognitive Ability And Regulate Emotions. Here's What We Know About It (BuzzFeed News)

• What is a Drug? (Medium)

• The Psychedelic Film And Music Festival Embarks On Inaugural Event This October In NYC (Broadway World)

• How to Prevent Overdose Deaths—and How Not To (Reason)

• Thousands of people use drug-testing facilities at UK music festivals (BBC)

• The Internet Is Acid, and America Is Having a Bad Trip (Medium)

• Unlocking the Shamanic Perspective for a Profoundly Magical Existence (High Existence)

• Psychedelics Improve Physical Performance (Andrew Joseph)

• 4 Plant-Based Alternative Medicines That Show Promise in Treating Addiction (ZME Science)

• How psychedelic drugs are tackling mental illness (news.com.au)

• The Prohibition of Psychedelics Burdens the Most Fundamental Right in the Grossest Way Possible (Andrew Joseph)

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