This Week in Psychedelics - 12.11.20

Cannabis

• Mexican Supreme Court Extends Deadline To Legalize Marijuana As Lawmakers Continue To Advance Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• House Approves Marijuana Research Bill Days After Voting To Federally Legalize Cannabis (Marijuana Moment)

• What To Expect From The House Of Representatives’ Passing Of Federal Cannabis Reform (Forbes)

• Feds’ Post-Election Warning: Marijuana Still Banned For Federal Workers Despite State Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

• NBA Will Reportedly Not Test Players for Marijuana Next Season (Complex)

• New Jersey lawmakers agree on recreational marijuana legalization bill (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Nebraska Senators Will Work To Put Recreational Marijuana On The Ballot In 2022 (Marijuana Moment)

• 70% in U.S. Support Expunging Marijuana Convictions After Vote to Decriminalize Weed: Poll (Newsweek)

• Embracing Marijuana Legalization Could Have Offset Democratic Election Losses, Poll Indicates (Marijuana Moment)

• Dumping CBD Oil On Strawberries Extends Their Shelf Life And Stops Mold Growth, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Why Europe's big cannabis route is so hard to shut (BBC)

• Majority Of Republican Voters Support House-Passed Marijuana Legalization Bill, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Jay-Z’s Cannabis Brand, Monogram, Launches With $50 Hand-Rolled Joints (Forbes)

LSD

• Mumbai: ‘Paper weight can’t be counted while quantifying LSD’ (Times of India)

Magic Mushrooms

• N.J. bill to lessen jail time for ‘magic’ mushrooms moves forward (NJ.com)

• Canada Will Let Health Care Professionals Legally Use Psychedelic Mushrooms, Health Minister Says (Marijuana Moment)

• Mydecine Innovations Group to Make First Commercial Export of Legal Psilocybin Mushrooms (Globe Newswire)

• Magic Mushrooms Are Expanding Minds and Advancing an Emerging Field of Science (Discover Magazine)

• Can the active ingredient in magic mushrooms help treat anxiety? Researchers want to know (The Age)

MDMA

• MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in landmark pilot trial (New Atlas)

DMT

• Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled in UK to treat depression (The Guardian)

• Why Does the Brain Make Its Own DMT? (DoubleBlind)

• How to Integrate a Difficult-to-Remember DMT Experience (Maps of the Mind)

Ayahuasca

• Miley Cyrus Says Ayahuasca Changed Her Life (Lucid News)

• Preserving Entangled Ayahuasca (Chacruna)

5-MeO-DMT

• Usona Institute Publishes Synthesis and Characterization of cGMP 5-MeO-DMT (Psilocybin Alpha)

Peyote

• Directing to the Divine Among Native American Peyotists (Spirit Pharmacist)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• New Compound Related to Psychedelic Ibogaine Could Treat Addiction, Depression (UC Davis)

Ketamine

• PharmaTher Files FDA Pre-IND Meeting Request for Ketamine in Parkinson’s Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Mind Cure Moves into Psychedelic Assisted Therapy with British Columbia Location Offering Ketamine and Psilocybin Therapy (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Psychedelics Weren't As Common in Ancient Cultures As We Think (VICE)

• The Top 10 Psychedelic Research Papers of 2020 (Psychedelic Science Review)

• This Is How Psychedelics Hack the Brain, According to Scientists (VICE)

• The Case for Macrodosing (Rolling Stone)

• Psychedelic Guide Abuse: High-Control Group Dynamics and Complicity in the Perpetuation of Harm (Psychedelics Today)

• UK government set for psychedelics investment windfall (Financial Times)

• It Takes Guts: Psychedelic Treatment Approaches to Autoimmune Disorders (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Humans Have Used Drugs With Sex For Millennia – The Reasons Are Much Broader Than You Think (TalkingDrugs)

• How To Provide Psychedelic Support (Lucid News)

• Psychedelics, Therapy, and the Law (Psychedelic Frontier)

• Christopher Valore (AKA The Architect) talks “Conductor,” His Virtual-Reality, Psychedelic-Visual Sandbox Platform (Psymposia)

• Psychedelics, Shadows, and Spiritual Bypassing (The Third Wave)

• How Music Therapists Helped Build Psychedelic Therapy (Chacruna)

• How to Change Your Ability to Change (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Combining Movement and Microdosing: Athletics, Exercise, and Flow (The Third Wave)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 10.9.20

Cannabis

• Vermont legalizes marijuana sales (Vox)

• Kamala Harris Promises To Decriminalize Marijuana and Expunge Records (Reason)

• Maine: Adult Use Marijuana Sales to Begin on Friday (NORML)

• THC May Help Treat Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome In Mice, Researchers Say (Forbes)

• D.C. Expands Medical Marijuana Deliveries Amid Coronavirus And Shifts Regulatory Control To Alcohol Agency (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia: Legislation Bars Police from Using Marijuana Odor as a Pretext for a Search (NORML)

• Pennsylvania Judge Just Ruled That Weed Odor No Longer Justifies Police Searches (MERRY JANE)

• City Council Majority Backs Allowing Public Marijuana Use In Wisconsin State Capital (Marijuana Moment)

• The latest cannabis beverage has a familiar name: Pabst Blue Ribbon (CNN)

• People Who Use Cannabis Are Healthier and Less Likely to Get Cancer, Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

• Study Finds Older Adults Using Cannabis to Treat Common Health Conditions (UC San Diego Health)

• Majority of Arizona Voters Are in Favor of Legalizing Adult-Use Weed, Poll Shows (MERRY JANE)

• THC and the 5-HT2A Receptor: What’s Going On? (Psychedelic Science Review)

LSD

• LSD Microdosing to Boost Attention: Too Soon to Tell? (Medscape)

• Acid and Orgasms: Why LSD Failed to Sexually Liberate Women (Chacruna)

Magic Mushrooms

• New TV Ads Urges Oregon Voters To Legalize Psilocybin Therapy (Marijuana Moment)

• Mydecine Innovations Group Announces Filing of Provisional Patent for the Treatment of PTSD with Psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

• 17 Healthcare Professionals Wait Over 100 Days for Access to Psilocybin; Patients Who Urgently Need Psilocybin Therapy Without Qualified Help (Therapsil)

• University of Toronto and Sansero Life Sciences join forces to study psychedelic medications (The GrowthOp)

Ayahuasca

• Researchers claim that ayahuasca tea helps the formation of new neurons (Entrepreneur)

• Remembering an Ayahuasca Hero: Domingos Bernardo (1941-2020) (Chacruna)

Peyote

• Why Jews will be thinking of peyote during this year’s Supreme Court session (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Iboga

• Why People Are Microdosing Iboga — and What You Need To Know About It (High Times)

Salvia Divinorum

• Is Salvia Legal? (DoubleBlind)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Synthetically-Produced Cannabinoids Could Soon Become a New Normal (DOPE Magazine)

Nitrous Oxide

• Humphry Davy had a way with nitrous oxide (Cosmos)

Miscellaneous

• Field Trip Health Is The Latest Psychedelics Company To Go Public (Green Market Report)

• Psychedelics in Group Therapy for HIV Survivors Shows Promising Results (Psych Congress Network)

• Mark Zuckerberg Supports Drug Decriminalization With Half-Million Dollar Oregon Campaign Donation (Marijuana Moment)

• Turn On, Tune In, Get Well (The New Yorker)

• Set and Setting for Society’s 21st Century Trip (Lucid News)

• Field Trip Adds Acclaimed Physician, Dr. Andrew Weil, to Medical Advisory Board (Psilocybin Alpha)

• DC Democratic Party Endorses Psychedelics Decriminalization Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

• Mind Cure Welcomes Award-Winning Journalist and Science Researcher Hamilton Morris to Advisory Board (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Dave Chappelle’s Marijuana And Psychedelics Parties Don’t Concern Local Sheriff (Marijuana Moment)

• Therapeutic Approaches for Lasting Change in Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelics Today)

• Trazodone and Psychedelics (Spirit Pharmacist)

• How a Canadian Decriminalization Model Can Improve on Portugal (Filter)

• MindMed Partners with NYU Langone Medical Center to Launch Groundbreaking Training Program for Psychedelic Therapies and Medicines (PR Newswire)

• Horizons Conference Shifts to Year-Round Films, Forums and Classes (Lucid News)

• Cannabis and Psychedelics: Vote and Change the Laws! (Chacruna)

• HPPD: Visual Flashbacks are Still Possible After a Trip is Over—But It’s Unlikely (DoubleBlind)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 9.25.20

Cannabis

• Vermont Bills To Legalize Marijuana Sales And Expunge Convictions Head To Governor’s Desk (Marijuana Moment)

• Barbados Is Inches Away From Decriminalizing Cannabis Possession (MERRY JANE)

• Delta-8-THC Promises to Get You High Without the Paranoia or Anxiety (Discover Magazine)

• New Marijuana Coalition Unveils Plan To Legalize Interstate Cannabis Commerce (Marijuana Moment)

• ‘Failure’ to embrace medical cannabis has caused “preventable deaths” – report (Cannabis Health News)

• Using weed during pregnancy linked to psychotic-like behaviors in children, study finds (CNN)

• Texas Ban On Smokable Hemp Lifted Until 2021, Judge Rules (Marijuana Moment)

• Playboy Gets Serious About Cannabis Law Reform Advocacy With New Partnership, Grants (Forbes)

• Study: Use of Cannabis Long-Term Not Associated with Cognitive Differences in Older Adults (NORML)

• FDA Explains Effects Of CBD And Marijuana Compounds Based On Sex And Gender Differences (Marijuana Moment)

• Survey: Nearly One in Three Migraine Sufferers Have Used Cannabis for Symptom Management, Most Report It to Be Effective (NORML)

• South Dakota Voters Support Medical And Recreational Marijuana Initiatives, New Opposition Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

Magic Mushrooms

• Oregon Democratic Party Endorses Legal Psilocybin Therapy And Drug Decriminalization Ballot Measures (Marijuana Moment)

• MindMed and Liechti Lab Announce R&D Collaboration On Psilocybin (PR Newswire)

• Inside 9/20, the Holiday for Psychedelic Mushrooms (Rolling Stone)

MDMA

• Ecstasy use down during pandemic; Psychedelics draw more interest (NL Times)

Ayahuasca

• Tribute to Dr. Domingos Bernardo, the Legal Expert who Fought for the Liberation of Ayahuasca in Brazil (1941-2020) (Chacruna)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Mindset Pharma Reports Positive Results of Synthetic Psilocybin-Inspired Compounds (Lucid News)

Ketamine

• This Wearable Ketamine Device Could Be The Future Of Pain Management (Forbes)

Miscellaneous

• Ann Arbor Decriminalizes Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• COMPASS Pathways Closes $147 million IPO (Psilocybin Alpha)

• President Behind Mexico’s War on Drugs Admitted It Was ‘Unwinnable’ (VICE)

• The Legal Response to Breonna Taylor's Death Shows How Drug Prohibition Transforms Murder Into Self-Defense (Reason)

• Who Will Benefit From Psychedelic Medicine? (The Washington Post)

• Mind Cure Becomes Latest Publicly-Traded Psychedelic Company (Psilocybin Alpha)

• 60 Percent of DC Voters Support Plant Medicine Decriminalization (Lucid News)

• MindMed Applies to List on Nasdaq (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Can Psychedelics Rekindle Ancient Animism in Modern Society? (DoubleBlind)

• Meet the ‘psychedelic concierge’ to the stars (Page Six)

• Why Psychedelic Therapy is Effective at Combating Addiction (Sam Woolfe)

• Mindleap Health Announces The Launch of The World’s First Telehealth Platform For Psychedelic Integration (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Dr. Michael Mithoefer & Ann Mithoefer from MAPS Join AWAKN's Scientific Board (Stockhouse)

• The Psychedelic Election is an Internet Addiction (Lucid News)

• An Interview with Mariavittoria Mangini (Chacruna)

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