Mexican Senate Passes Bill to Legalize Marijuana Nationwide

Tom Angell, writing for Marijuana Moment:

Mexico’s Senate approved a bill to legalize marijuana nationally on Thursday.

Before it can become law it must also be passed by the other body of the country’s Congress, the Chamber of Deputies.

The legislation, which was circulated in draft form earlier this month, would establish a regulated cannabis market in Mexico, allowing adults 18 and older to purchase and possess up to 28 grams of marijuana and cultivate up to six plants for personal use.

Well this is fucking huge news! Pretty soon the U.S. will be surrounded on both sides by countries that have legalized cannabis. Will we follow suit anytime soon?

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This Week in Psychedelics - 11.13.20

Cannabis

• House will vote on cannabis legalization bill in December (Politico)

• Mexican Senators Will Vote On Revised Marijuana Legalization Bill This Week (Marijuana Moment)

• Can Marijuana Help Biden Heal a Divided Nation? (Bloomberg)

• Marijuana Reform Omitted From Biden Transition Plan On Racial Equity Despite Campaign Pledges (Marijuana Moment)

• Gallup: Record Percentage of Americans Say “Marijuana Should Be Made Legal” (NORML)

• New Jersey Committees Cancel Marijuana Sales Bill Votes Amid Disputes Over Provisions (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia: Legislation Barring Police from Using Marijuana Odor to Stop or Search Takes Effect Early 2021 (NORML)

• Texas Lawmakers Pre-File Marijuana Bills For 2021 Session (Marijuana Moment)

• People around the country keep voting for marijuana. Here's why that's unlikely in NC. (The News & Observer)

• Montana Marijuana Opponents File New Lawsuit To Overturn Legalization Vote (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis May Have Negative Effects On Sperm, Review Finds (Benzinga)

• Marijuana Regulators From 19 States Form Group To Coordinate Legalization Implementation (Marijuana Moment)

• After heart attack, pot smoking raises post-op dangers (Medical Xpress)

LSD

• Free Love and LSD: Photos of Life in a 70s Commune (VICE)

Magic Mushrooms

• Bill to decriminalize marijuana in N.J. passes in committee — and is amended to include hallucinogenic mushrooms (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

• Revive Therapeutics Provides Update on Oral Thin Film Product with Psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Niños Santos, Psilocybin Mushrooms and the Psychedelic Renaissance (Chacruna)

• NeonMind Obtains Health Canada Approval to Advance Psilocybin Research (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• MDMA does not increase trust or cause a hangover, study says (New York Post)

DMT

• Meet the Man Who Brought DMT to the Masses (VICE)

Ayahuasca

• The Ayahuasca Afterglow Phenomenon: Exploring Its Significance and Limitations (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Jordi Riba and the Challenges of Studying Ayahuasca (Psychedelic Science Review)

Ketamine

• New Program Brings Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy to Canadian Vets (Lucid News)

• Silo Wellness Announces the First-of-Its-Kind U.S.-Legal Psychedelic Wellness Nature Retreat in Oregon (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Microscopes, Telescopes, and Ketamine (The Third Wave)

Miscellaneous

• California Could Decriminalize Psychedelics Under New State And Local Proposals (Marijuana Moment)

• What happens when psychedelics make you see God (Popular Science)

• Psychedelics Won the Election—Except the Psychedelic that is Donald Trump (DoubleBlind)

• Can Microdosing Make You a Better Athlete? (Playboy)

• DEA Pursues Vast Expansion of Patient Surveillance (Filter)

• The Cost of Exclusion in Psychedelic Research (Bill of Health)

• Here’s why Black people in the UK are turning to psychedelics (gal-dem)

• Psychedelic Scientists Should Honor Indigenous Plants and Traditions (Chacruna)

• Europe's Teenage Drug Use Hotspots Revealed By New Study (VICE)

• A Handful of Start-Ups Is Developing Psychedelic Drugs for Mental Illnesses. It Could Be a Bad Trip for Investors. (Barron's)

• Banned Lecture of Getting Higher (Psychedelic Press UK)

• The Cost of Omission: Dr. Valentina Wasson and Getting Our Stories Right (Chacruna)

• Cybin Goes Public on the NEO Exchange Under Symbol CYBN (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Silo Pharma, Inc. Launches Scientific Advisory Board with Appointment of Dr. Matthew Johnson of John Hopkins University (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Can Psychedelics Treat Eating Disorders? (DoubleBlind)

• Growing Up with Sacred Plants (Chacruna)

• Entheon Biomedical Corp. Commences Trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange (Psilocybin Alpha)

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An Amendment to Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms in New Jersey Gets Snuck Into a Cannabis Decrim Bill

Sam Wood, writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer:

A key committee in the New Jersey Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a bill to remove criminal penalties for possession of up to six ounces of marijuana.

In a surprise move, an unidentified senator added an amendment to the bill to downgrade penalties for possessing up to an ounce of psilocybin, better known as hallucinogenic “magic mushrooms."

The vote marked the first time any marijuana decriminalization bill had been considered, let alone passed, in the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee.

The bill, S 2535, with its mushroom amendment, was approved without debate or discussion.

Now this is the kind of sneaky politics I can get behind. More of this, please!

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California Could Decriminalize Psychedelics Soon

Ben Adlin, writing for Marijuana Moment:

Just one week after voters in Oregon and Washington, D.C. passed ballot measures to scale back outright prohibitions on psychedelics by wide margins, a California lawmaker says he’ll introduce a bill to decriminalize the substances in his state.

Activists in San Francisco, meanwhile, are separately pushing local officials to make laws against psychedelic plants and fungi the jurisdiction’s lowest law enforcement priority.

Sen. Scott Wiener (D) said Tuesday that he plans to introduce the statewide decriminalization bill in Sacramento once the legislature returns in early January. Language of the proposal has yet to be released, but Wiener described the reform in a Twitter thread as an “important step toward a more rational, science-based, and public-health-focused approach to drugs.” […]

Wiener indicated that California’s forthcoming decriminalization bill would apply only to psychedelics, including psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca and ibogaine.

Amazing. Psychedelics are being decriminalized across the country, one state and municipality at a time.

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House Will Vote on Cannabis Legalization Bill in December

Natalie Fertig, writing for Politico:

A bill to remove federal penalties on marijuana and scrap some cannabis-related records will receive a vote on the House floor in December, according to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.

In a letter to colleagues Monday, Hoyer outlined the legislative schedule for the lame-duck session in November and December. […]

Hoyer's letter did not specify which week the vote will come up, but the House is scheduled to be in session Dec. 1-4 and Dec. 7-10.

2020 has already been a huge year for drug policy reform and it looks like things aren’t slowing down anytime soon: the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on federally legalizing cannabis before it’s all over.

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