This Week in Psychedelics - 3.26.21

Cannabis

• Virginia Governor Signals He’ll Push To Legalize Marijuana On July 1, Ahead Of Schedule (Marijuana Moment)

• Connecticut Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill As Governor Pushes Competing Reform (Marijuana Moment)

• Illinois Lawmakers Approve Bill To Legalize Any Amount Of Marijuana And Expunge Past Records (Marijuana Moment)

• New York lawmakers reach historic deal on a marijuana legalization bill (Leafly)

• North Dakota Senate Rejects House-Passed Marijuana Legalization Bill, Ceding Issue To Activists For Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• Scotland's first medical cannabis clinic approved (BBC)

• Maryland adult-use marijuana legalization effort fails for this year (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Delaware Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee Vote (Marijuana Moment)

• Minnesota Marijuana Legalization Bill Clears Fourth House Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• Texas Cops Just Arrested and Killed a Man for Possessing One Joint Worth of Weed (MERRY JANE)

• New Mexico Governor Plans Special Session On Marijuana As Legalization Bill Stalls On Final Stretch (Marijuana Moment)

• New Weed Bill Aims Block Big Alcohol and Tobacco From Dominating Legal Weed Market (MERRY JANE)

• Senators Reintroduce SAFE Banking Act To Normalize Cannabis Commerce (NORML)

• More evidence needed to back cannabis as pain treatment, says review (Imperial College London)

• CBD Could Stop Coronavirus Cells From Replicating in the Lungs, Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

• Advocacy group for Hispanic marijuana entrepreneurs launches (Marijuana Business Daily)

• THC Can Remain in Breast Milk for Up to Six Weeks After Use, New Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

• Study: “No Evidence” That Medical Cannabis Access Laws Encourage Youth Marijuana Use (NORML)

• Shitty Government Weed Might Have Just Ruined Major New Study on Veterans and PTSD (MERRY JANE)

LSD

• Ergot: A Look at LSD’s Precursor (Truffle Report)

Magic Mushrooms

• Psychedelic for meth users: Sydney trial aims to conquer addiction (The Sydney Morning Herald)

• This Toronto man is treating a rare neurological disorder with psilocybin mushrooms (Regina Leader-Post)

• Denver Psilocybin Panel Talks Expanded Decriminalization (Truffle Report)

• This New BIPOC-Run Group Is Educating People About Legal Mushroom Therapy in Oregon (MERRY JANE)

5-MeO-DMT

• A porn star has been charged with reckless homicide after he used toad venom to cure a photographer's cocaine addiction (Insider)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• DiPT: Producing Auditory Hallucinations (Truffle Report)

Ketamine

• Ketamine bill headed to Colorado House for consideration (KDVR)

• Ketamine Providers Debate Standards of Care (Lucid News)

PCP

• Why America Is the Only Place in the World Where People Use PCP (VICE)

Miscellaneous

• The Canadian Psychedelic Association is Fighting Stigma Attached to Plant Medicines (Truffle Report)

• Predicting who may do best with psychedelic-assisted therapy (Ohio State University News)

• What are the effects of promoting unsupported claims about psychedelics? A call for better media reporting (AOD Media Watch)

• Mark Haden’s “Clarifying Misinformation” Letter is Full of Misinformation and Lies (Psymposia)

• Psychedelic drugs: how the brains of informed users are different (The Conversation)

• Psychedelic vs. Hallucinogen-What’s in a Name? (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Funding for psychedelic trials best directed at independent research (The Canberra Times)

• ‘These people are broken’: Why the UK’s war on drugs has failed (Al Jazeera)

• Psychedelics for medical purposes: time to change your mind? (The BMJ)

• Psychedelic Synesthesia: Smell That Tune (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Women More Likely To Use Psychedelics Than Men (Green Market Report)

• Platforms of Psychedelic Experience (Maps of the Mind)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 2.26.21

Cannabis

• Murphy signs N.J. legal weed bills, ending 3-year saga (NJ.com)

• North Dakota House votes to legalize recreational marijuana (KXNet.com)

• Alabama Senate passes medical marijuana legislation (WTVM)

• South Dakota: House Members Approve Legislation to Delay Implementation of Voter-Approved Medical Cannabis Law (NORML)

• Virginia OKs smokable flower in move that could spur medical marijuana sales (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Marijuana legalization passes in Minnesota House Committee vote (KIMT)

• Cannabis legalization bill headed to House floor (Albuquerque Journal)

• FDA to include cannabis on essential drugs list (Bangkok Post)

• Virginia Conference Committee Faces Saturday Deadline To Finalize Marijuana Legalization Proposal (Marijuana Moment)

• Pa. lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill to legalize recreational marijuana (WHTM)

• Marijuana legalization proposed in Maryland Legislature (The Washington Post)

• Kansas Governor’s Medical Marijuana Bill Introduced As Lawmakers Take Up Separate Legalization Proposal (Marijuana Moment)

• Colorado families ask for statewide school cannabis access (The Colorado Sun)

• Study: Enactment of Marijuana Legalization Laws Associated with Reductions in Opioid Prescribing Patterns (NORML)

• Legal Marijuana States See Reduced Workers’ Compensation Claims, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Missouri pushes back deadline for medical cannabis businesses to open (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Study: Cannabis Mitigates Symptoms in Patients with Treatment-Resistant Fibromyalgia (NORML)

• South Carolina Voters Support Legalizing Medical Marijuana By A Five-To-One Ratio, New Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

Magic Mushrooms

• Aion Therapeutic Opening the First International Treatment Center for Psychedelic Psychiatry in Jamaica; Hires Leading Psychiatrist as Medical Director (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Penis Envy Mushrooms: Murder & Conspiracy Behind the World’s Trippiest Shroom (DoubleBlind)

• Red Light Holland, the First Public Candian Psychedelics Company, Is Ready To Sell You Magic Truffles (Lucid News)

MDMA

• MDMA proves a promising alcoholism treatment in world-first trial (New Atlas)

• The Effects of Antidepressant Discontinuation on MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Root Beer and MDMA: Degrees of Separation (Truffle Report)

DMT

• PharmaDrug Files For FDA Orphan Drug Designation For DMT In Kidney Transplantation and Expands on Its Psychedelics Strategy (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The Ultimate Guide to DMT Pricing (Reality Sandwich)

Iboga

• Ibogaine Addiction Therapy: Then and Now (Truffle Report)

Morning Glory Seeds

• Microdosing LSA: People are Microdosing Acid’s Less Known, Legal Cousin (DoubleBlind)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Synthetic cannabis: an unknown gamble with potentially fatal consequences (Stuff.co.nz)

Ketamine

• Elijah McClain's mother relieved he 'is no longer labeled a suspect' after investigation into officers' actions (CNN)

• Aurora, Colorado, to hire independent police monitor after investigation into Elijah McClain's death (KDRV)

• What To Look For When Searching For A Ketamine Clinic (Healing Maps)

PCP

• Rochester police officers involved in suffocation death of Daniel Prude will not face charges (KTLA)

Miscellaneous

• Norway seeks to decriminalise recreational drug use (RTÉ)

• Vermont Introduces Bill to Decriminalize Entheogenic Plants (Truffle Report)

• NYU Langone Health Establishes Center for Psychedelic Medicine (NYU Langone Health)

• Missouri Bill Would Add MDMA, Psilocybin Mushrooms And LSD To Right-To-Try Law (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelic Therapy Needs to Confront the Mystical (VICE)

• After a Year of Controversy, MAPS Canada Executive Director Mark Haden Announces Resignation (Psymposia)

• Washington Supreme Court Strikes Down Criminalization Of Drug Possession (Marijuana Moment)

• Casey William Hardison: A Clandestine Chemist’s View on Cognitive Liberty (Filter)

• Why the US Has Embraced Drug Law Reform, But the UK Won't (VICE)

• The Guardian view on illegal drugs: the laws don’t work (The Guardian)

• An Urgent Plea to Users of Psychedelics: Let’s Consider a More Ethical Menu of Plants and Compounds (Tim Ferriss Blog)

• What If We Pay People to Stop Using Drugs? (The New Republic)

• Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin: A Retrospective (Truffle Report)

• The Farmer and The Cowman Should Be Friends: Why the Pharmaceutical Industry and Grassroots Reformists Should Join Forces (Psychedelics Today)

• Microneedle patches for microdosing psychedelic pharmaceuticals (EurekAlert!)

• Meet the Psychedelic Rapper Running for New York City Mayor (DoubleBlind)

• The Case For Psychedelic Couples Counseling (GQ)

• Love and Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Bridging the Divide (Chacruna)

• How Psychedelics Impact Startle Response (Truffle Report)

• The Problem and Paradox of Bad Trips, Part 2 (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Joe Rogan: Dedemonizing Psychedelics (Reality Sandwich)

• Psychedelics, Capitalism, and the Commodification of the Sacred (The Third Wave)

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