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This Week in Psychedelics - 7.9.21

Cannabis

  • First Full-Service Marijuana Delivery App Launches On Apple Store Following Policy Change (Marijuana Moment)

  • Delta-8-THC craze concerns chemists (Chemical and Engineering News)

  • Federal Marijuana Trafficking Convictions Have Fallen Dramatically Following Enactment of Statewide Legalization Laws (NORML)

  • Study: Cannabis farms not as thirsty as previously thought (Eureka Times-Standard)

  • FBI Loosens Marijuana Employment Policy For Would-Be Agents (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis Use Associated With Increased Decision Making Skills (Green Entrepreneur)

  • Sioux Tribe Is Opening South Dakota's First and Only Medical Cannabis Dispensary (MERRY JANE)

  • Brazil Gains Ground on Medical Marijuana, in Defiance of Bolsonaro (Filter)

  • Temple research finds that tweaking CBD may help it curb pain and opioid use in mice (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

  • South Dakota Marijuana Activists Unveil Four Legalization Initiatives For 2022 Ballot, Pending Supreme Court Decision (Marijuana Moment)

  • Study: Cannabis use may be associated with suicidality in young adults (The Highland County Times)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Just One Dose of Magic Mushroom Compound Regrows Lost Brain Connections in Mice (ScienceAlert)

  • Is This Peter Thiel–Backed Startup Trying to Monopolize the Astral Plane? (Mother Jones)

MDMA

  • Director James Cameron was high on MDMA when he came up with key Terminator 2 character (Metro)

  • One-third of MDMA tested at festivals actually 'dangerous' drug eutylone - KnowYourStuff (Newshub)

  • My summer of love: ‘Under the spell of ecstasy, strangers went straight to limitless intimacy’ (The Guardian)

DMT

  • Tripping On Your Lunch Break: Inside the Rise of Casual DMT Use (VICE)

  • Microdosing DMT… Wait, That’s a Thing? (EntheoNation)

Ayahuasca

Mescaline

  • Mescaline Could Help Fight Addiction, Depression, PTSD, and Anxiety, Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

  • Mescaline is Resurgent (Yet Again) As a Potential Medicine (Lucid News)

  • Is Mescaline A Key Component In The Future Of Medicine? XPhyto Aims To Find Out (Forbes)

Peyote

  • Inside a Peyote Pilgrimage (The New York Times)

  • Two Projects Seek to Change the Legal Status of Peyote and Mushrooms in Mexico (Chacruna)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • Twenty Two Plus One: Sunrise αMT at Huangshan (Maps of the Mind)

  • NSW Health issues urgent alert over 'potent hallucinogen' found in MDMA (Sky News)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

Ketamine

  • Colorado ketamine bill signed into law, limits police influence on sedative’s use (KDVR)

  • Portrayed As Date Rape Drug, Ketamine Is Removed from California Decrim Bill (Lucid News)

Miscellaneous

  • Rhode Island Governor Signs Historic Bill Legalizing Safe Consumption Sites For Illicit Drugs (Marijuana Moment)

  • Study suggests psychedelic users reframe “bad trips” into positive experiences through detailed narratives (PsyPost)

  • Michael Pollan is Back with Mind-Bending Thoughts on Drugs, Ego Death, and the Healing Power of Plants (GQ)

  • Third California City Seeks To Decriminalize Psychedelics (Marijuana Moment)

  • Psychedelic Drugs Are Moving From The Fringes Of Medicine To The Mainstream (Forbes)

  • Best Practices for Serious Psychonauts (Maps of the Mind)

  • Psychedelic Motherhood: The Altered States of Birth (Chacruna)

  • Tryptamine Patents: Explaining Deuterated Drug Analogs (Truffle Report)

  • The Ritual: A Framework for Psychedelic Journeys (Maps of the Mind)

  • Real-World Research in Psychedelic Science (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Keeping a Drug Journal (Maps of the Mind)

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