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This Week in Psychoactives - 12.6.19

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Cannabis

  • Michigan celebrates first legal cannabis purchases (Leafly)

  • DEA Finalizes Plan To Grow 3.2 Million Grams Of Marijuana In 2020 (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis Stocks Are Scrambling to Conserve Cash (Nasdaq)

  • Illinois City Will Use Weed Taxes to Pay Reparations for Black Residents (MERRY JANE)

  • Field test kits will help police distinguish between marijuana and hemp (Richmond-Times Dispatch)

  • CBD could help doctors use lower doses of chemotherapy (Israel21c)

  • Brazil approves medical marijuana rules, blocks cannabis cultivation (Reuters)

  • Shoppers Drug Mart expands online medical cannabis retail into Saskatchewan (Saskatoon Star Phoenix)

  • Minnesota OKs medical cannabis for chronic pain, eye disease (Minnesota Public Radio News)

  • New Zealand Government Unveils Marijuana Legalization Bill Ahead Of 2020 Referendum (Marijuana Moment)

  • Harborside got around a regulatory ban to open SoCal’s first drive-thru cannabis shop in Desert Hot Springs (Palm Springs Desert Sun)

  • Clinical Trial: Transdermal Application of CBD Effective in Patients with Myofascial Pain (NORML)

  • Willie Nelson Quit Smoking Weed, But He’s Still Eating It (MERRY JANE)

  • Cannabis on the Tickets in the Coming UK Elections (New Frontier Data)

  • North Dakota Activists Submit Measure To Legalize Marijuana In 2020 (Marijuana Moment)

  • L.A.’s Cannabis Cafe Is Rebranding and Parting Ways with Lowell Herb Co. (LA Magazine)

  • Men who regularly smoke cannabis have increased risk of developing testicular cancer, study claims (Yahoo! News)

  • Michael Bloomberg Backs Decriminalization As Marijuana Views Evolve Amid Presidential Run (Marijuana Moment)

  • Lil Wayne Just Launched His Own Cannabis Brand (Forbes)

LSD

  • NASA prepped for alien communication with 'LSD dolphin sex' experiment (Daily Star)

Magic Mushrooms

  • World’s first magic mushroom nasal spray for PTSD and depression (Health Europa)

  • Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Magic Mushrooms Turn Blue (MERRY JANE)

  • A Glimpse of Life After Magic Mushroom Legalization (Forbes)

  • The Keys To Understanding Psilocybin's Medical Value, Market Potential (Benzinga)

MDMA

  • How to Legalize MDMA, With the Help of Pharmacies and Nightlife Spaces (Filter)

Ketamine

  • 'Bad' ketamine and ecstasy warning after Liverpool clubbers hospitalised (BBC)

Opioids

  • Drugs Used to Replace Opioids Linked With Increase in Suicide Attempts Across U.S. (Newsweek)

  • 7 Heroin Users Die From Flesh-Eating Bacteria in San Diego (The New York Times)

  • MLB Wants Rehab Rather Than Suspension for Players Who Use Opioids (MERRY JANE)

  • Congressman calls on airlines to carry naloxone, NARCAN to help fight opioid epidemic (NBC Montana)

  • Iowa Organization Offers Free Access to Opioid Overdose Reversal Drug (WHO TV)

Cocaine

  • Cocaine deaths in Wales 'quadruple in five years' (BBC)

  • Europe becomes cocaine exporter as countries overflow with drug (The Telegraph)

Methamphetamine

Caffeine

Nicotine

  • E-cigarettes do NOT increase pneumonia risks: Study suggests vapor does not weaken the immune system in the same way as cigarette smoke (Daily Mail)

  • More than 6 million US middle and high schoolers used tobacco products in 2019, report says (CNN)

  • Minnesota Is the Latest State to Sue E-Cigarette Maker Juul Over Youth Vaping (TIME)

  • Marijuana and Nicotine Are Trading Places as Prohibitionists’ Target (Filter)

  • Tobacco Companies Win Temporary Reprieve on Low-Nicotine Cigarettes (The Motley Fool)

Alcohol

  • Prescription Alcohol Can Help Problem Drinkers (Elemental)

  • A nimbler way to track alcohol use—by mining Twitter and Google searches (Medical Xpress)

  • Alcohol death rates dropping in Scotland (BBC)

  • Alcohol tolerance may have saved our ancestors from extinction (Phys.org)

Kratom

Miscellaneous

  • Scientist Talks Benefits Of Psychedelics At Federal Health Agency Event (Marijuana Moment)

  • Renewed push for pill-testing in more Australian states following latest festival death (The Music Network)

  • Study outlines concerns around natural psychoactive substances (Medical News Today)

  • Orthogonal Thinker Launches First Psychedelics Lifestyle Brand PsillyLife to Promote Psychedelic Culture and Proprietary Research (Yahoo! Finance)

  • Andrew Yang Calls For Investments In Safe Injection Sites For Illegal Drugs (Marijuana Moment)

  • Julián Castro Open To Decriminalizing Drugs And Endorses Safe Consumption Sites (Marijuana Moment)

  • The Ethical Quagmire of Conducting Drug Trials With Incarcerated People (Filter)

  • Successful Alcohol And Drug Recovery Still Hindered By Stigma (Forbes)

  • At Penn, people in recovery are helping more patients with addiction enter treatment (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

  • The nautical beginnings of America’s war on drugs (NavyTimes)

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World’s First Magic Mushroom Nasal Spray

Health Europa:

A ‘magic mushroom’ nasal spray has been designed to make microdosing easier for people trying to treat their PTSD or depression.

Silo Wellness, an Oregon company with a team with roots in cannabis delivery modalities, has developed a magic mushroom nasal spray in Jamaica – where psilocybin is legal – for controlled, metered-dosing known as ‘microdosing’.

Neat—a nasal spray for psilocybin. It supposedly works a bit differently than oral dosing, too:

The psilocybin nasal spray passes the gut, going directly to the bloodstream through the nasal mucus membranes and eventually the liver for metabolising. This saves the patient from feeling nauseous, as commonly experienced when taking psilocybin.

The company hopes to bring this spray to Oregon first, but that’s assuming the state’s psilocybin initiative will be successful, which isn’t exactly a guarantee at this point. And there’s no telling exactly what is in the spray, although according to the Silo Wellness website it is “full spectrum,” which in theory would preserve the fungi’s “entourage effect.”

Microdosing has been increasing in popularity over the past several years, and this nasal spray is an innovative route of administration, potentially having benefits above and beyond eating raw material or taking capsules.

This Week in Psychoactives - 11.29.19

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CANNABIS

  • Study: Daily Cannabis Use Among Pain Patients Associated with Less Non-Prescription Opioid Use (NORML)

  • License revoked for California cannabis vape maker Kushy Punch after state seizes $21M worth of products (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Scientists Just Figured Out Why Some People Hallucinate on Weed (MERRY JANE)

  • Another Study Links Vitamin E Additive to Lung Illness (NORML)

  • California Is Raising Taxes On Cannabis Again (Forbes)

  • Study Finds “Little Support” for Cannabis Impacting Cognitive Abilities (NORML)

  • Cannabis reduces headache and migraine pain by nearly half (ScienceDaily)

  • Marijuana vaping disease strikes Thai patient (Coconuts Bangkok)

  • Additives result in higher toxins for vape users, Portland State study finds (EurekAlert!)

  • Michigan halts sale of marijuana vapes unless re-tested (MSN)

  • Alcohol-Related Car Crashes Declined In Idaho After Washington Legalized Marijuana Next Door (Marijuana Moment)

  • Feds Will Stop Funding State Addiction Programs That Use Cannabis (MERRY JANE)

  • Trinidad And Tobago Government Introduces Marijuana Reform Bills (Marijuana Moment)

  • For many, even 'automatic' clearing of marijuana records could be complicated (Crain's Chicago Business)

  • Is Weed Safe When You're Breastfeeding? (VICE)

  • US Air Force Bans Service Members From Using CBD, Despite its Legal Status (MERRY JANE)

  • Joe Biden Walks Back Marijuana ‘Gateway Drug’ Comment After Week Of Criticism (Marijuana Moment)

  • Inside the Contentious World of Cannabis Churches (InsideHook)

  • Pete Buttigieg Says Marijuana Arrests Signify “Systemic Racism.” His South Bend Police Fit the Bill. (The Intercept)

  • Where Presidential Candidate Michael Bloomberg Stands On Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

  • Congressional Candidate Smokes Marijuana And Talks Legalization In Campaign Video (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis legalisation: Does it lead to harder drug use? (BBC)

LSD

  • New Zealand-based LSD microdosing trial gets go-ahead (Newshub)

  • Inside the Archive of an LSD Researcher With Ties to the CIA’s MKUltra Mind Control Project (The Intercept)

  • Thai medical authorities issue warning on recreational 'Magic Paper' hallucinogen (AsiaOne)

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

  • FDA Grants Psilocybin Second Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Resistant Depression (Medscape)

  • Scientists Discover New Compounds in Magic Mushrooms (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Depression sufferers should not self-medicate with magic mushrooms, health experts warn (The Telegraph)

  • Late frost means magic mushrooms will bloom in the UK on New Year‘s Day (Stock Daily Dish)

MDMA

  • Parents of teens, here’s what you really need to know about MDMA (The Conversation)

AYAHUASCA

  • Lindsay Lohan's ex-boyfriend Harry Morton was 'hooked on ayahuasca', a psychedelic drug that distorts brain waves to create a vivid 'waking-dream' state — and was once used by the actress who said it 'changed her life' (Daily Mail)

  • Don’t Forget Us Native People Behind the Ayahuasca (Kahpi)

  • Personal Healing with Ayahuasca Helped Me Be a Better Psychologist (Chacruna)

NITROUS OXIDE

  • Doctors warn of the dangers of ingesting nitrous oxide in light of OU student death (WHIO)

KETAMINE

  • A Single Dose Of Ketamine Might Help Heavy Drinkers, Study Finds (NPR)

PCP

  • Naked man reportedly high on PCP jumps off roof of Kansas City home ‘like Peter Pan’ (FOX 4 Kansas City)

OPIOIDS

  • Pioneering Glasgow clinic offers addicts pharmaceutical grade heroin (The Guardian)

  • Drugmakers and Distributors Are Under Federal Opioid Probe, Report Says (TIME)

  • Heroin Pipes: How the “Hammer” Was Built for Harm Reduction (Filter)

  • My friend and I both took heroin. He overdosed. Why was I charged with his death? (The Washington Post)

COCAINE

CAFFEINE

  • Some coffee drinkers claim it causes anxiety. Here's what the science says (Salon)

  • Caffeine, Cough Medicines: What's in the Average Blood Transfusion (U.S. News & World Report)

  • Calls for probe into 'energy gum' that has more caffeine than Red Bull (Scottish Daily Record)

Nicotine

  • Massachusetts Becomes the First State to Ban Flavored Tobacco and Vaping Products (TIME)

  • Pennsylvania Officially Raises Age Of Tobacco Purchase To 21 (CBS Pittsburgh)

  • New York City Lawmakers Vote to Ban All Flavored E-Cigarettes (TIME)

  • CPSC Will Go After Vape Shops That Violate Bottle Rules (Vaping360)

  • How the British Approach to Vaping Puts the US to Shame (Filter)

  • More People In US Now See E-cigarettes More Harmful Than Tobacco (Medical Daily)

  • "Small Vape" Stood Up for Itself at the White House (Vaping360)

  • What the E-Cigarette Bans Get Wrong (Slate)

  • Vape debate: Are e-cigarettes wiping out teen smoking? (AP News)

ALCOHOL

NOOTROPICS

  • Some Nootropics Contain a Substance Unapproved by the FDA (VICE)

KRATOM

  • Which Liver Enzymes Metabolize Mitragynine (Net Newsledger)

  • Retail sale of kratom supplement banned in Monument (Colorado Springs Gazette)

  • Poison Control Centers Saw 5,000% Increase In Calls About Kratom Exposure (WOSU)

KAVA

  • Fijian kava arrives in New Zealand pharmacies (NZ Herald)

  • The viability of kava in healthcare — sensations of euphoria and relaxation (The Market Herald)

MISCELLANEOUS

  • How Drugs Won the War on Drugs (Mixmag)

  • Leaked Documents Say Roughly 2,000 NY Prisoners Affected By Erroneous Drug Tests (Gothamist)

  • Are over-the-counter psychedelics in our future? (Big Think)

  • Federal Health Agency Hosts Talk On Psychedelics Research (Marijuana Moment)

  • Psychedelic studies on depression recruiting subjects in the Netherlands (Stitching OPEN)

  • Nearly 100 Cities Are Considering Decriminalizing Psychedelics, Map Shows (Marijuana Moment)

  • Is this the way the drug war ends - not with a bang, but a whimper? (Politics.co.uk)

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This Week in Psychoactives - 11.22.19

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Cannabis

  • Marijuana Legalization Bill Approved By Congressional Committee In Historic Vote (Marijuana Moment)

  • Biden Says Marijuana Might Be A Gateway Drug (Forbes)

  • Britons who legally smoke cannabis in the US 'risk being deported' (The Guardian)

  • Pure CBD Does Not Trigger Positive Drug Tests for Weed, New Study Shows (MERRY JANE)

  • Thailand Will Soon Allow Its Citizens To Grow Cannabis At Home To Sell To The Government. (Forbes)

  • Colorado Supreme Court Rules Convicts Can Use Medical Weed While on Probation (MERRY JANE)

  • Hemp-Derived CBD Helps Chronic Pain Patients Reduce Opioid Use, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Why Medical Cannabis Isn't Working in the UK (VICE)

  • Access to Legal Cannabis Leads to a Decline in Sleep Aid Sales (MERRY JANE)

  • NJ Lawmakers Plan to Put Legalization on 2020 Ballot (NORML)

  • Virginia Marijuana Decriminalization Bill Filed For 2020 After Democrats Reclaim Legislature (Marijuana Moment)

  • Why Are Doctors Still So Reluctant To Prescribe Medical Cannabis? (HuffPost)

LSD

  • Silicon Valley's extreme new productivity hack: LSD (GQ)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Are Magic Mushrooms The Next Frontier For The Cannabis Industry? (The Fresh Toast)

MDMA

  • Dad pushes for drugs to be legalised after sons on MDMA die side-by-side (Mirror)

DMT

  • Scientists Discover Psychedelic DMT Creates Waking Dream State in Brain (Newsweek)

Ayahuasca

  • Can the psychedelic drug ayahuasca help fight suicide? (PsyPost)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • Designer Drugs: My Addiction to Research Chemicals (The Fix)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Under the Radar: Synthetic Cannabinoids and Vaping-Related Lung Injuries (Project CBD)

Ketamine

  • Ketamine’s potential to fight alcohol abuse has a major problem (Inverse)

  • Side effects mild, brief with single antidepressant dose of intravenous ketamine (ScienceDaily)

Opioids

  • Doctors Are Cutting Patients Off Opioid Medications Too Fast, Study Says (MERRY JANE)

  • Surgeon General To Purdue Students: Carry Naloxone, Get Screened For Addiction Risk (WJCT)

Methamphetamine

  • ‘Meth. We’re on It’: South Dakota’s Anti-Meth Campaign Raises Eyebrows (The New York Times)

Tobacco

  • President Trump Backing Off Banning Vaping Flavors Popular With Teens (TIME)

  • Bill Passed by Massachusetts House Would Allow Police to Seize Cars from Vapers who Possess DIY or Black Market E-Liquids (Tobacco Analysis)

  • Juul Sued by Two States for Allegedly Marketing E-Cigs to Kids (MERRY JANE)

  • American Medical Association Calls for Immediate Ban on All E-Cigarettes and Vaping Products (TIME)

  • Philippines' Duterte Says He Will Ban E-Cigarettes, Threatens To Arrest Vapers (NPR)

  • Apple to remove vaping apps from store (Axios)

  • Influential U.S. doctors group calls for ban on vaping products (Reuters)

  • How Wily Teens Outwit Bathroom Vape Detectors (WIRED)

  • Smokers who switch to vaping rapidly boost heart health in trial (Yahoo! News)

Kratom

Khat

Miscellaneous

  • Where US Psychedelic Decriminalization Efforts Stand Right Now (Filter)

  • Take Part in the World's Biggest Anonymous Drugs Survey (VICE)

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Vote to Federally Legalize Marijuana Planned in Congress

Tom Angell, writing for Forbes:

A key congressional committee plans to hold a historic vote on a bill to end the federal prohibition of marijuana next week, two sources with knowledge of the soon-to-be-announced action said.

The legislation, sponsored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), would remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and set aside funding to begin repairing the damage of the war on drugs, which has been disproportionately waged against communities of color. […]

The proposal, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, would also provide for resentencing and expungement of records for people previously convicted of cannabis offenses and would shield immigrants from being denied citizenship status over marijuana.

One step closer to legalizing cannabis once and for all. And this bill doesn’t look half bad either.