Weekly Psychedelic Links - April 2022

4.1.22

Cannabis

• New Hampshire House Approves State-Run Marijuana Legalization Bill And Rejects Psilocybin Decriminalization Measure (Marijuana Moment)

• Hopes fade in Kentucky for legalizing medical marijuana this year (Marijuana Business Daily)

• New Jersey Regulators Delay Launch of Recreational Pot Sales (High Times)

• Louisiana Lawmakers Approve Bill To Increase Marijuana Penalties For Children—But Not Adults (Marijuana Moment)

• South Dakota: Governor Noem Vetoes Marijuana Expungement Legislation (NORML)

• Alabama Senate Committee Approves Bill To Force Women Who Want Medical Marijuana To Show Negative Pregnancy Tests (Marijuana Moment)

• Medical marijuana bill in Tennessee falters (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Dutch Coffeeshops Doubt Quality and Success of Pending National Cannabis Trial (High Times)

• The Struggle for Cannabis Legalization in Bermuda (High Times)

• Missouri Lawmakers Approve GOP-Led Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• Pennsylvania Lawmakers Advance Their Own Cannabis Banking Bill (High Times)

• How Legal Cannabis Could Revive Southern Economies (Rolling Stone)

• Weed Sprouts Across New Zealand Parliament Grounds Weeks After Occupation (High Times)

• CBD May Help Boost Cognitive Performance in Gamers (High Times)

• Study Finds Hemp Feed Can Reduce Stress in Cattle (High Times)

LSD

• Psychedelic drug LSD may be effective as anxiety treatment (Medical News Today)

Magic Mushrooms

• The Next Big Addiction Treatment (The New York Times)

• Psyched Wellness and the National Research Council of Canada Announce Preliminary Data from Studies of Neuroprotective Properties of AME-1 (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Can magic mushrooms be used to treat racial trauma? (The Guardian)

• Colorado Still Hammering Out Details for Decriminalizing Psilocybin (Green Market Report)

• 2 people who used 'magic' mushrooms then developed rare 'wood-lovers paralysis' describe losing control of their bodies: 'I couldn't even chew' (Business Insider)

MDMA

• Footage of therapists spooning and pinning down patient in B.C. trial for MDMA therapy prompts review (CBC)

Ayahuasca

• Machine Gun Kelly Recounts Life-Changing Ayahuasca Trip on ‘Kimmel’ (Rolling Stone)

Iboga

• Ibogaine blocks some of the rewarding effects of alcohol in rodent model of addictive behavior (PsyPost)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Myriad New Drugs Complicate Legalization, as Well as Harm Reduction (Filter)

Ketamine

• Ketamine Eases Levodopa-induced Dyskinesia in Phase 2 Study (Parkinson's News Today)

Miscellaneous

• Georgia Lawmakers Approve Bill To Create Psychedelic Study Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• Michigan Activists Begin Signature Gathering For Psychedelics Legalization Ballot Initiative Following State Certification (Marijuana Moment)

• Positive Drug Tests for US Workers Reportedly Hit 20-Year High (Filter)

• New study explores relationship between psychedelics and consciousness (ScienceDaily)

• How to Microdose Drugs Based on What You’re Using (VICE)

4.8.22

Cannabis

• House Approves Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill For Second Time In History (Marijuana Moment)

• House of Representatives Passes Bill to Expand Cannabis Research (High Times)

• Adult-Use Cannabis Sales Launch In New Mexico (High Times)

• D.C. Lawmakers Reject Bill To Effectively Legalize Marijuana Sales For Adults And Crack Down On ‘Gifting’ Market (Marijuana Moment)

• Maryland will vote on legal cannabis in November (Leafly)

• Regulate cannabis like corn? US Farm Bill proposal raises eyebrows, hopes (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Thailand dreams of high-end cannabis tourism after marijuana is legalised (The Guardian)

• Medical marijuana patients targeted by sneaky new federal drug testing rule (Leafly)

• Judge Rules in Favor of Mother for Cannabis Use While Pregnant (High Times)

• Delaware Marijuana Legalization Effort Revived With Two-Track Approach Following House Defeat (Marijuana Moment)

• Canadian Airport Could Get Cannabis Dispensary (High Times)

• Marijuana Legalization Tied To Significant Decrease In Foster Care Placements, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Georgia Medical Cannabis Bill Dies in State Senate (High Times)

• South Carolina Medical Marijuana Bill Approved In House Committee And Heads To Floor (Marijuana Moment)

• 5,000 British adults could take part in cannabis trial (The Times)

• Europe’s First Cannabis Wellness Spa Opens in Switzerland (High Times)

• Oklahoma Supreme Court Upholds Marijuana Legalization Ballot Initiative Following Legal Challenge By Competing Campaign (Marijuana Moment)

• Feeding Cows Hemp Helps Them Chill Out, Federally Funded Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Hemp Paper Could Be the Future of Printing (High Times)

Magic Mushrooms

• These Natural Psilocybin Droplets Come in Exact Dosages and Don’t Upset Your Stomach (Lucid News)

• Oregon Psilocybin Rules ‘May Have a Negative Impact on Lower Income Individuals’ (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• People who used 'magic mushrooms' less likely to develop opioid use disorder, study finds (USA Today)

• New research sheds light on how psilocybin influences sleeping patterns (PsyPost)

• Oregon's proposed Psilocybin rules await public comments (KDRV)

• New species of psychedelic mushroom believed to live in Kakadu National Park (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• Melmac Mushroom Strain: Effects, Potency & More (DoubleBlind)

• Terminally Ill Patients Fight for Access to Psilocybin Under Federal “Right to Try” Act (Lucid News)

• Mushrooms Have Their Own Language, New Study Suggests (Psychedelic Spotlight)

MDMA

• Colorado Lawmakers Approve MDMA Bill While Rejecting Broader Psychedelics Measure As Ballot Initiatives Loom (Marijuana Moment)

Ayahuasca

• Children Sacrificed by Incas Found With Cocaine, Ayahuasca in Their Bodies (Newsweek)

• Building peace with psychedelics: Here’s what happened when Palestinians and Israelis took ayahuasca together (Big Think)

• A Medicine Heritage of 160 Indigenous Peoples: The Origins of Ayahuasca Before Globalization (Chacruna)

5-MeO-DMT

• Beckley Psytech Announces Dosing of First Healthy Volunteers in Phase 1 Clinical Trial Assessing Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Second Innovative Formulation of 5-MeO-DMT (Psilocybin Alpha)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Field Trip Health Ltd. Granted US Patent Covering Novel Psychedelic Molecule FT-104 (Psilocybin Alpha)

• PharmaDrug Advances DMT-Analogue Program for Glaucoma with Production of Medical Device Designed to Provide Sustained Control of Elevated Intraocular Pressure (Yahoo!)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• UK woman dies after eating a synthetic cannabis gummy (Newshub)

Ketamine

• Ketamine prescribed in P.E.I. for major depression inaccessible because of costs, patient says (SaltWire)

Miscellaneous

• Canada’s SAP Expansion Signals a Step Forward for Psychedelics (Psychedelics Today)

• Michigan Has Real Shot at First-in-the Nation Psychedelic Decrim Victory (Filter)

• LSD Capitalism Promises a Bad Trip for Us All (Jacobin)

• Trials starting soon at the University of Texas Center for Psychedelic Research and Therapy (KVUE)

• Funders at Johns Hopkins Shape The Future of Psychedelic Research (Lucid News)

• Just How Far Can Psychedelics Push The Boundaries of How We Assign Consciousness? (ScienceAlert)

• 6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies (TechCrunch)

4.15.22

Cannabis

• Maryland Governor Lets Bill To Implement Marijuana Legalization Take Effect Without His Signature (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia: Gov. Youngkin Moves to Re-criminalize Personal Possession of Marijuana (NORML)

• The Feds Will Return More Than $1 Million in Marijuana Money That California Cops Stole From Armored Cars (Reason)

• Psychologists have developed a new psychometric assessment of cannabis intoxication (PsyPost)

• Poll: Majority of Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana, Expunging Past Convictions, and Allowing Banks to Work with Cannabis Businesses (NORML)

• Majority Of Europeans Support Marijuana Legalization, New International Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Mayor of Amsterdam Threatens To Ban Tourists From Coffeeshops (High Times)

• Spanish police take down 'Europe's biggest' cannabis farm (Reuters)

• NYC Mayor Wants To ‘Explore’ Putting Marijuana Greenhouses On Rooftops Of Public Housing Buildings (Marijuana Moment)

• Virginia: Governor Youngkin Signs Legislation to Improve Medical Cannabis Program (NORML)

• Illinois Bill To Close Marijuana Expungement ‘Loophole’ Heads To Governor, While Workplace Protection Measure Stalls (Marijuana Moment)

• Several GOP Senators Oppose Legalizing Pot Following MORE Act Vote (High Times)

• North Dakota Activists File New Marijuana Legalization Initiative For 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• The first New Jersey recreational dispensaries will open April 21 (Leafly)

• South Dakota Marijuana Activists Issue ‘Yellow Alert’ For Signature Drive To Put Legalization On Ballot As Deadline Nears (Marijuana Moment)

• How are Cannabis Cultural and Harm Reduction Practices Created? (TalkingDrugs)

• Seven In Ten North Carolina Voters Back Medical Marijuana Legalization As Senate Reform Bill Remains Stalled (Marijuana Moment)

• Six In Ten Louisiana Voters Support Marijuana Legalization, New Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

• Freedom to Operate Releases Study to Protect the Development of LSD-based Therapies from Unfounded Patent Claims (PR Newswire)

• Why Investors Should Care About MindMed’s LSD Trial for Anxiety (Psychedelic Spotlight)

Magic Mushrooms

• Psilocybin Spurs Brain Activity in Patients With Depression, Small Study Shows (The New York Times)

• How credible is psilocybin-assisted therapy? Study suggests people are cautious about psychedelic treatment for depression (PsyPost)

• Oklahoma Senators Approve Psilocybin Research Bill But Delete Decriminalization Provision Passed By House (Marijuana Moment)

• Protestors Target the DEA in Support of Psilocybin for Terminally Ill Patients (Lucid News)

• On Entheogenic Practitioner Duties and Privileges under Oregon’s 109 Program (Dr. Bronner's)

• Oregon’s psilocybin program stands on thousands of years of indigenous experience (Herald and News)

• Mommies Who Mushroom (Harper's Bazaar)

MDMA

• Health Canada announces review of all MDMA trials, as complaint alleges major flaws and safety issues (CBC)

Ayahuasca

• ‘We expect to win.’ Ayahuasca churches vow to remain as court case largely dismissed. (Religion News Service)

• This golfer drank urine, did hallucinogens and ate 800 grapes a day to fight disease (New York Post)

5-MeO-DMT

• Could the Sonoran Desert Toad Cure Narcissism? (Psychedelics Today)

• I’m a 1-percenter who found purpose in life tripping on toad venom: What it’s like (New York Post)

Iboga

• Why Ibogaine Is a Promising Treatment for Addiction (Lucid News)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Researchers May Have Created LSD-Analogs that Treat Depression Without the Trip (Lucid News)

• Cybin Announces Positive CYB004 Data Demonstrating Significant Advantages Over Intravenous and Inhaled DMT (Psilocybin Alpha)

• 9 years after an acid trip, I still have anxiety-inducing visual distortions that only stop when I sleep (Insider)

Ketamine

• Ketamine and the Treatment of Mental Health Conditions (Psychology Today)

Miscellaneous

• Psychedelic Stocks Are Having A Really Bad Trip (The Washington Post)

• Numinus Acquiring Novamind in First Major Psychedelics Merger (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Survey Suggests Psychedelics are Linked to Neo-Shamanistic Beliefs (Lucid News)

• Do Psychedelics Need Psychiatrists? (NEO.LIFE)

• Can the Clever Use of Old Legal Strategies Thwart Psychedelic Monopolies? (VICE)

• Study maps psychedelic-induced changes in consciousness to specific regions of the brain (PsyPost)

• Maryland Bill To Fund Psychedelics Research And Access For Veterans Goes To Governor’s Desk (Marijuana Moment)

• Decriminalize Nature Feels Growing Pains as Local Groups Clash with Board (Lucid News)

• Missouri Bill Would Allow Therapeutic Psychedelic Use (High Times)

• What it’s like tripping on mad honey, the hallucinogen that (maybe) is an aphrodisiac (Salon)

• When Will The Media Take Drug Deaths Seriously? (Volteface)

• Why Psychedelics Could Soon Replace Antidepressants (PR Newswire)

4.22.22

Cannabis

• Switzerland aims for summer start of recreational cannabis trial program (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Marijuana Legalization Tied To ‘Significant Reductions’ In Prescription Drug Use, Researchers Find (Marijuana Moment)

• Belize Close to Legalization, Evangelicals Want Anti-Reform Referendum (High Times)

• Early Lines and Free Doughnuts: Legal Marijuana Sales Begin in New Jersey (The New York Times)

• DEA Says Illegal Marijuana Trafficking From Mexico Is Declining Amid State Legalization Movement (Marijuana Moment)

• Another U.S. Senate Candidate Tokes in Campaign Ad in Indiana (High Times)

• Cannabis: How It Affects Our Cognition And Psychology – New Research (IFLScience)

• Florida bride and caterer charged with lacing wedding food with cannabis (CNN)

• What Impact Will the French Elections Have on Cannabis Reform? (High Times)

• Recreational marijuana consumption lounge opens in New Mexico (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Delaware Lawmakers Revive Pot Legalization Effort (High Times)

• Ohio Lawmakers File New Marijuana Legalization Bill On 4/20 That Mirrors Ballot Initiative Activists Are Pursuing (Marijuana Moment)

• US lawmakers are warming up to the cannabis industry (CNN)

• How 4/20 Became the Biggest Day in the Stoner Calendar (VICE)

• New Hampshire Senate Committee Rejects Cannabis Legalization Bill (High Times)

• Florida Official Sues Biden Administration Over Gun Rights For Medical Marijuana Patients On 4/20 (Marijuana Moment)

• Survey Shows Cannabis Use on the Upswing (High Times)

LSD

• MindMed Collaborator Dr. Matthias Liechti to Present Topline Clinical Trial Results for LSD in Anxiety Disorders at PSYCH Symposium (Psilocybin Alpha)

Magic Mushrooms

• Maine Senate Approves Medical Psilocybin Bill, But House Refusal Kills Measure For The Year (Marijuana Moment)

• Psilocybin Could be a Therapeutic Breakthrough For Addiction (TIME)

• How psychedelic mushrooms helped pro surfer Koa Smith overcome depression and trauma: ‘I never slipped back’ (The Independent)

• Treating depression with psychedelics: red flags and FAQ (Eiko Fried)

• Filament Health Is Issued Patent By United States Patent And Trademark Office (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Colorado House Passes Bill To Legalize MDMA After Federal Approval, Sending It To The Senate (Marijuana Moment)

• Understanding the Effects of MDMA on Bipolar Disorder (Healthline)

Iboga

• How Safe is Ibogaine? (Lucid News)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Cybin Announces Publication of International PCT Patent Application for Inhalation Delivery of Multiple Psychedelic Molecules (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Mindset Pharma Strengthens IP Portfolio with Another New Provisional Patent Application Covering its Next-Generation DMT and 5-MeO-DMT Drug Candidate Compounds (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ketamine

• Psychedelic companies are betting big on ketamine as the next Prozac (Fast Company)

Miscellaneous

• A psychedelic therapist allegedly took millions from a Holocaust survivor, highlighting worries about elders taking hallucinogens (STAT News)

• Study suggests belief-changing psychedelic experiences tend to increase the attribution of consciousness to other beings (PsyPost)

• Drug War Industries Face Obsolescence (Drug WarRant)

• Exclusive Data Shows Canadian Cops Target More Black and Indigenous Folks for Drug Arrests (VICE)

• Massachusetts Psychedelics Activists Plan To Put Decriminalization On Local Ballot And Force Lawmakers To File State Bills (Marijuana Moment)

• What’s the Best Psychedelic Therapy Protocol? It’s Debatable. (Lucid News)

• Honduras Shows How Drug Policy is Also Climate Policy (TalkingDrugs)

• GoDaddy Billionaire Bob Parsons Believes Psychedelics Can Heal Trauma—And He’s Putting His Money (And Brain) On The Line (Forbes)

• Pioneering Clergy of Diverse Religions Embrace Psychedelics (Lucid News)

• The Emergent Field of Psychedelic Chaplaincy (Chacruna)

• Kevin O’Leary Predicts These 3 Psychedelic Companies Will Merge, But Should They? (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Are psychedelics the answer to solving the mental health crisis? (Euronews)

4.29.22

Cannabis

• Biden Finally Grants Relief To People With Federal Marijuana And Drug Convictions After More Than A Year In Office (Marijuana Moment)

• In Mexico, this city ordered its cops to let everyone smoke weed—and not just on 4/20 (Leafly)

• Maine: Various Marijuana Bills Become Law Absent Gov. Mills’ Signature (NORML)

• Florida bride, caterer charged after wedding guests drugged with cannabis at reception (Global News)

• Medical Cannabis Bill in Wisconsin Likely Already Dead (High Times)

• Virginia: Senate Kills Governor’s Recriminalization Amendment, Bill Addressing Synthetically Derived Marijuana Products (NORML)

• Mayhem Erupts at Melbourne Cannabis Rally as Police Haul Off Patients (High Times)

• New Hampshire Senate Defeats House-Passed Marijuana Home Grow Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Study Shows Drivers in Legal States Less Likely to Drive While High (High Times)

• Austin, Texas Voters Can Officially Start Voting On Local Marijuana Decriminalization Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

• Positive Drug Tests for Pot Hit All-Time High (High Times)

• Seven In Ten Americans Back Marijuana Legalization, With Majorities Embracing Pro-Reform Politicians, Two New Polls Find (Marijuana Moment)

• Is Cannabis Legalization Moving Forward in Taiwan? (High Times)

• Texas Activists Say They Have Enough Signatures To Put Marijuana Decriminalization On Another Local Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Kentucky Governor Approves Cannabis Research Facility (High Times)

• Could Elon Musk’s Twitter end the cannabis social media ban? (Leafly)

• Washington Lawmakers Delete the Word ‘Marijuana’ from State Statutes (High Times)

• North Dakota Officials Approve Marijuana Legalization Ballot Language, Clearing Campaign For Signature Gathering (Marijuana Moment)

• President’s Son Suggests Cannabis Legalization in Nicaragua (High Times)

• Weed could be grown in space – and it might be the best cannabis yet (New York Post)

• Kentucky Governor Announces Medical Cannabis Plan (High Times)

• NY weighs giving pizza joints, other eateries OK to sell cannabis-infused food (New York Post)

• Italian City of Bologna Supports Recreational Cannabis Reform (High Times)

• Now that cannabis is legal, do I have to hire potheads? (New York Post)

• The Battle for Cannabis Legalization Is On in Honduras (High Times)

• Australia Poll Finds 50% in Favor of Recreational Pot Reform (High Times)

LSD

• MindMed Collaborator Dr. Matthias Liechti to Present Topline Clinical Trial Results for LSD in Anxiety Disorders at PSYCH Symposium (Psychedelic Alpha)

• The dark side of the acid counterculture movement (Far Out)

Magic Mushrooms

• This Ottawa store is selling magic mushrooms to protest 'unjust' laws (CBC)

• The Mission to Make Psilocybin Available to UK Cancer Patients (Filter)

• People who hear about psilocybin-assisted therapy think it’s important to have a guide who has used psilocybin (PsyPost)

• Hyphae Labs Expands Harm Reduction to Consider Psilocybin (Lucid News)

• Do magic mushrooms have ‘strains’ like cannabis? (Leafly)

• One Psychedelic Ride: Brooklynites Bike for the Decriminalization of Magic Mushrooms (BK Reader)

• Can a Religious Exemption Boost Legal Psilocybin Access in Oregon? (Filter)

• Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Has Potential for Treatment of Binge Eating Disorder (Pharmacy Times)

MDMA

• Colorado Bill To Legalize MDMA Prescriptions Heads To Governor Following Senate Passage (Marijuana Moment)

• MAPS Navigates Multiple Scandals: Why Health Canada Is Reviewing MDMA Trials (Psychedelic Spotlight)

DMT

• How One Man Tried to Build a DMT-Based Cult on Reddit and Lost Everything (VICE)

Ayahuasca

• The surprising reason Inca children were drugged before human sacrifice (Big Think)

Peyote

• Decrim Movement Split Over Peyote, Possession Limits, and Tactics (Lucid News)

Iboga

• Could Ibogaine Help Address the Opioid Crisis? (Lucid News)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Mindset Pharma Strengthens IP Portfolio with Another New Provisional Patent Application Covering its Next-Generation DMT and 5-MeO-DMT Drug Candidate Compounds (Psychedelic Alpha)

Ketamine

• Psychedelic spirituality: Ketamine and the future of mental health (KCRW)

• 'They were going to cut my throat': Sharon Osbourne slams cancel culture and admits she underwent ketamine therapy after fiery on-air debate led to TV suspension and death threats (Daily Mail)

Miscellaneous

• A New Database Seeks to Prevent “Bad” Psychedelic Patents (Lucid News)

• Push To Decriminalize Drugs In Washington State Survives Early Challenge (Marijuana Moment)

• Biden’s Drug Strategy Mixes Harm Reduction With Harm Production (Filter)

• The Advantages of Psychedelic Prohibition (DoubleBlind)

• Drug Decriminalization Inches Closer in Saskatoon, Canada (Filter)

• Urban Outfitters Is “Mainstreaming Psychedelics” Because They’re Selling Psychedelic Water That’s Not Actually Psychedelic (DoubleBlind)

• First Annual California Psychedelic Conference Highlights Influential People (High Times)

• Are ‘Pseudodelics’ The Future For Mental Health? (Volteface)

• How To Open Your Wallet: The Hyped and Distorted Claims of Online Psychedelic Marketing (Psymposia)

• Avoiding the Power Trip (Medium)

• Understanding 3 Risks of Investing in Psychedelic Stocks (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas: A Respectful Path Forward for the Psychedelic Movement (Chacruna)

• The Trials and Tribulations of Psychedelic Research (Microdose)

• Psychedelic Navigation across the Seas (Tam Integration)

• Psychedelics Meets the Theory of Everything (Lucid News)

• Is Nanotechnology The New Path For Psychedelics? (Green Market Report)

• Why psychedelics like psilocybin from magic mushrooms and LSD are seeing a surge in medical interest, in treatments for depression, addiction and more (South China Morning Post)

• Are psychedelics undergoing a spiritual and therapeutic awakening? (KCRW)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 2.18.22

Cannabis

• Virginia Senate Votes To Start Recreational Marijuana Sales This September Through Current Medical Dispensaries (Marijuana Moment)

• Sha’Carri Richardson, Suspended Over Marijuana, Suggests Racist Double Standard After Olympics Lets Russian Skater Compete Amid Doping Scandal (Marijuana Moment)

• Israel Announces New Cannabis Decriminalization Plans (High Times)

• Apple Secretly Joined Amazon In Advancing Commercial Cannabis Reform (Forbes)

• New York Lawmakers Send Marijuana Licensing And Equity Bill To Governor’s Desk (Marijuana Moment)

• South African Government to Fast Track Cannabis Reform Regulations (High Times)

• D.C. Mayor Signs Bill To Let Older Patients Get Medical Marijuana Without Doctors And Create 4/20 Cannabis Tax Holiday (Marijuana Moment)

• Marijuana for trauma: Report shows positive effects of medical cannabis (The Jerusalem Post)

• Hawaii Senate Committee Approves Bill To Legalize Marijuana For Senior Citizens 65 And Older (Marijuana Moment)

• Bill To Create State-Run Marijuana Shops In New Hampshire Approved By House (Marijuana Moment)

• Alabama Senators Approve Marijuana Decriminalization And Expungements Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• South Dakota Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization And Taxation Bills In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• WA researchers look at potential to use medicinal cannabis for weight loss (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• GOP Missouri Lawmaker Unveils Wide-Ranging Marijuana Legalization Bill As Others Pursue 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

• Kentucky Democrats File Bills To Legalize Marijuana (Marijuana Moment)

• Lawmakers, Cops Consider Adult-Use Cannabis Legalization in Pennsylvania (NORML)

• Wyoming Legislators Introduce Cannabis Decriminalization Bill (High Times)

• Maryland Lawmakers Take First Step To Putting Marijuana Legalization On 2022 Ballot With Hearing On Two Bills (Marijuana Moment)

• New York Senate OKs bill to allow hemp farmers to grow adult-use marijuana (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Majority Of Arkansas Voters Back Cannabis Legalization (High Times)

• IRS Official Clarifies That Medical Marijuana Is Not Tax-Deductible Under Federal Law After Misstatement (Marijuana Moment)

• Proposed Bill Could Protect Employees in Colorado who Use Cannabis (High Times)

• Hemp-Reinforced Bobsled and Luge Tracks Debut at Winter Olympics in Beijing (High Times)

LSD

• Another trial finds no evidence LSD microdosing does anything (New Atlas)

• LSD, afterglow and hangover: Increased episodic memory and verbal fluency, decreased cognitive flexibility (Beckley Foundation)

• New study addresses the question; ‘Can LSD boost creativity?’ (leafie)

Magic Mushrooms

• Psilocybin Treatment for Major Depression Effective for Up to a Year for Most Patients, Study Shows (Johns Hopkins)

• Top Italian Court Blocks Marijuana And Psilocybin Referendum From Going Before Voters (Marijuana Moment)

• Psilocybin use associated with lowered odds of having been arrested, study finds (PsyPost)

• Oklahoma Lawmakers Approve Psilocybin Decriminalization And Research Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

• Mushroom rabbi grows ceremonial psilocybin for Denver congregation — but is that legal? (The Denver Post)

• Hawaii Senators Approve Psilocybin Task Force Bill In Committee, With Decriminalization Measures Still Pending (Marijuana Moment)

• Oregon proposes only using one type of mushroom for new psilocybin system, and no pills (OPB)

• Nova Mentis Study Confirms Oral Microdose Psilocybin Treatment of Autism (Psilocybin Alpha)

• These Four Companies Want to Take You on a Psychedelic Voyage in Oregon (Willamette Week)

• No Need for Magic Mushrooms? Producing Synthetic Psilocybin from Bacteria and Yeast (Truffle Report)

• Psyched Wellness Announces Key Findings from the 90-Day Oral Toxicity Study on AME-1 (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• Bar-Goers Were Poisoned by Ecstasy-Laced Champagne, German Police Say (Gizmodo)

DMT

• The Latest in DMT Research: Leading Companies and Key Studies (Truffle Report)

• What is DMT therapy? (Drug Science)

Ayahuasca

• Deontay Wilder contemplates using ayahuasca to help decide his boxing future (leafie)

• When Is Drinking Ayahuasca a Religious Experience? (Reason)

5-MeO-DMT

• More Companies Embrace 5-MeO-DMT to Create Therapies (Lucid News)

Peyote

• Calling on Federal, State, and Local Governments to Protect and Respect Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) and its Byproducts (Chacruna)

• How peyote — used as a ceremonial, legal medicine — helped heal one family’s grief (Rocky Mountain PBS)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Mydecine Announces MYCO-005 Family of Improved Safety Microdose Novel Molecules (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Awakn Files Patent For A New Class Of Entactogen-Like Molecules (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Report finds too many New Zealanders are dying from preventable drug overdoses (Newshub)

Nitrous Oxide

• Doctors warn of emerging public health issue from recreational use of laughing gas (Irish Examiner)

Ketamine

• Ketamine No Better Than Placebo for Reducing Suicidal Ideation in Depression (Mad in America)

• Ehave, Inc. Launches KetaDASH, Its In-Home Ketamine Therapy In The San Francisco And Sacramento Market (GlobeNewswire)

• FDA: Safety Concerns With Compounded Ketamine Nasal Spray (MPR)

• PharmaTher Announces Grant of U.S. Patent on Ketamine Formulation (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Judge Grants Hearing for Opposition to DEA Proposal to Criminalize 5 More Psychedelics (Psychedelic Spotlight)

• MAPS Accepts $500,000 Donation From Atai Life Sciences’ Philanthropy Arm (Forbes)

• Maryland Senators Propose Free Psychedelics for Veterans with PTSD (Truffle Report)

• Psychedelics Open Opportunity to Study Synesthesia (Lucid News)

• Trauma and Vulnerability to Suggestion: Redefining How We Understand Consent (Psychedelics Today)

• The Psychonaut’s Guide to Kabbalah and Spiritual Journeying (DoubleBlind)

• What Are the Prospects for Canada’s Federal Drug Decriminalization Bill? (Filter)

• Maryland Lawmakers Work To Decriminalize Drug Paraphernalia (Marijuana Moment)

• The 5 Craziest Places On Earth to Do Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• The Religious Uses of Licit and Illicit Psychoactive Substances in a Branch of the Santo Daime Religion (Chacruna)

• “Largest-Ever” Harm Reduction Ad Campaign Demands Services, Honors the Dead (Filter)

• Naming and shaming drug users is focus group fodder – Labour must do better (LabourList)

• Co-Creating a Psychedelic Commons: A Commoner’s Guide (Chacruna)

• Meet the 16 Most Influential Women Shaping the Future of Psychedelics (Business Insider)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 2.4.22

Cannabis

• Mississippi governor signs law allowing medical marijuana (Leafly)

• The NFL is throwing $1 million into cannabinoid research (Leafly)

• House Officially Approves Marijuana Banking Amendment To Large-Scale Bill Set For Final Passage Friday (Marijuana Moment)

• Delta-8 Debate: The 2018 Farm Bill gave rise to an unlikely intoxicant (Marijuana Business Daily)

• House Advances SAFE Banking Act as Part of the America COMPETES Act (NORML)

• Driving Performance and Cannabis Users’ Perception of Safety - Review (Drug Science)

• Minnesota: Patients’ Access to Herbal Cannabis Products Begins March 1 (NORML)

• Claim of Fentanyl-Laced Cannabis Overdoses in Connecticut was False (High Times)

• Cannabis being used to treat symptoms of Long Covid in new landmark trial (Mirror)

• ‘The science about the benefits of cannabis is limited’: Does legalizing marijuana lead to an increase in tobacco use? (MarketWatch)

• Utah Lawmakers Pass Bill To Protect Medical Cannabis Patients (High Times)

• A Cannabis Monopoly Asteroid is Coming (Marijuana Moment)

• Petition Forces Ohio Lawmakers into Action on Cannabis Legalization (High Times)

• Marijuana legalization push increasingly unites unlikely political bedfellows (Marijuana Business Daily)

• 2021: A Year In Review For The Cannabis Industry (Forbes)

• Top Maryland Lawmaker Files Marijuana Legalization Bill In Anticipation Of Ballot Referendum Passing (Marijuana Moment)

• Pennsylvania Issues Mandatory Recall for Hundreds of Cannabis Products (New Cannabis Ventures)

• Wisconsin Governor Vetoes GOP Bill To Increase Marijuana Extraction Penalties (Marijuana Moment)

• Republican Lawmakers in Virginia Have Drafted New Cannabis Legislation (High Times)

• Marijuana Banking Reform Cleared For House Floor (Again) Following Committee Action On Large-Scale Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Can Cannabinoids Unlock a Better Understanding of Our Bodies and Brains? (Discover Magazine)

• Nearly One In Ten New Missouri Jobs Came From Medical Marijuana Industry In 2021, Trade Group Report Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Jackson seeks cannabis exemption as part of shock comeback at age 40 (The Sydney Morning Herald)

LSD

• Fish on acid? Microdosing zebrafish with LSD shows its potential benefits for humans (The Conversation)

• What to know about microdosing LSD (Medical News Today)

Magic Mushrooms

• Virginia Psilocybin Decriminalization Bill Defeated In Senate Committee After Top GOP Lawmaker Flips Support (Marijuana Moment)

• Religious Practice Under Oregon Measure 109 (Psychedelics Today)

• Maine Lawmakers Hear Testimonies For and Against Psilocybin Bill (Truffle Report)

• Seattle Doctor Files DEA Petition To Reschedule Psilocybin For Medical Use (Marijuana Moment)

• America’s only psychedelic mushroom store is a church in Oakland. We observed the sacrament (Leafly)

• Federal Appeals Court Dismisses Cancer Patients’ Case To Use Psilocybin Under Right-To-Try Laws (Marijuana Moment)

• Psyched Wellness Announces Additional Positive Results from the 14-day Oral Toxicity Study of AME-1 (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Health Canada Grants Private Company Approval for Healthcare Professionals to Take Psilocybin, Prove Safety (Truffle Report)

MDMA

• Couple Takes MDMA Right Before Grandfather Dies, Trips in Front of Family (Newsweek)

DMT

• Entheon Biomedical Announces the Approval of DMT Clinical Trial (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

• Yaminawa Women and Ayahuasca: Shamanism, Gender, and History in the Peruvian Amazon (Chacruna)

• Women Who Heal: Musicians in the Urban Ayahuasca Scene (Chacruna)

• Madrinha Rita: Brazilian matriarch of ayahuasca (Chacruna)

5-MeO-DMT

• Inside a 5-MeO-DMT Retreat: Who Should and Shouldn’t Embark on This ‘Hero’s Journey’ (Psychedelic Spotlight)

Peyote

• Mining is Threatening the Peyote Tradition in Mexico (Truffle Report)

Ketamine

• Testimony: Minneapolis police trained to ignore city's civil rights report on ketamine and excited delirium (StarTribune)

• Can Ketamine and A.I. Improve Wellness? (Inc)

• PharmaTher Granted FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Ketamine to Treat Status Epilepticus (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

• Who Will Control the Future of Psychedelics in Colorado? (Westword)

• Utah Lawmakers Vote To Study Benefits Of Psychedelics In Treating Mental Health Disorders (Marijuana Moment)

• Psychedelics Decriminalization Ballot Proposal Filed in Michigan (Truffle Report)

• I Read Every Neuroscience Study On Psychedelics Published Since 2017. Here’s What I Learned (Healing Maps)

• Researchers use linguistic analysis to uncover differences between psychedelic drug experiences (PsyPost)

• Psychedelic therapy effective in reducing suicidality, more trials needed (Healio)

• Psychedelic or Not: Of Mice, 5-HT2A Agonists, and Head Shakes (Psychedelic Science Review)

• One Year on, Oregon Drug Decriminalization Is Boosting Harm Reduction and Housing (Filter)

• Looking Ahead to a Psychedelic 2022 (Psilocybin Alpha)

• The Tortured Double Think of the New Drug Strategy (Transform)

• What Happens When Psychedelic Treatment for PTSD Turns Into a Bad Trip (Slate)

• Are Double-Blind Studies Holding Back Psychedelic Research? (The Dales Report)

• What Research Doesn’t Tell Us About Older Psychedelic Users (Lucid News)

• Jeering Psychedelics: A Critique of Jacques Mabit’s Criticism of Queering Psychedelics (Chacruna)

• Are psychedelics dangerous? - What the research says (Drug Science)

• Psychedelics Without the Trip Could Be 'Healing Magic' for Mental Health (Singularity Hub)

• Clinical study of psychedelic drugs for cancer patients could be a ‘game changer’ (The Salt Lake Tribune)

• Sensible policy on psychedelic drugs is growing more common (The Economist)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 1.28.22

Cannabis

• Thailand Becomes First Country in Asia to Decriminalize Marijuana (TIME)

• New York medical cannabis approved for ‘any’ condition a doctor recommends (Leafly)

• Mississippi: Lawmakers Advance Medical Cannabis Access Bill to Governor’s Desk (NORML)

• Amazon Endorses Federal Cannabis Legalization (High Times)

• Europeans choosing cannabis over ecstasy (The Portugal News)

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

• Arkansas voters could see 3 recreational marijuana initiatives on ballot (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Cannabis Events Come Out of Hiding in New York City (The New York Times)

• North Dakota recreational marijuana measure fails to qualify for ballot (Marijuana Business Daily)

• Wisconsin Republicans Announce Limited Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

• Legal Cannabis Opens a Pandora’s Box of Equity Issues (Capital and Main)

• Ohio Lawmakers Will Be Forced To Consider Marijuana Legalization As State Validates Activist Signatures (Marijuana Moment)

• Active Ingredient in Cannabis Protects Aging Brain Cells (Neuroscience News)

• Majority Of Americans Say They’d Vote For A Politician Who Smokes Marijuana, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• What Happens When You Quit Cannabis? (IFLScience)

• Missouri Marijuana Legalization Measures Take Differing Approaches to Expungement (Marijuana Moment)

• Minnesota Groups Bind Together to Oppose Legal Cannabis (High Times)

• Don’t Feed Marijuana Buds To Donkeys, New Study Warns (Marijuana Moment)

• South Dakota: House Lawmakers Move to Repeal Citizen-Initiated Home Cultivation Rights (NORML)

LSD

• FDA clears phase 2b study of LSD treatment for generalized anxiety (Healio)

Magic Mushrooms

• No difference between psilocybin microdosing and placebo, trial finds (New Atlas)

• Colorado Activists File Revised Ballot Initiatives To Legalize Psilocybin And Establish ‘Healing Centers’ (Marijuana Moment)

• Oregon Lawmakers File Psilocybin Equity Bill As State Implements Legal Use Program (Marijuana Moment)

• Oklahoma Republicans File Bills To Decriminalize Psilocybin And Encourage Research On Medical Benefits (Marijuana Moment)

• Numinus Identified as a Licensed Psilocybin Supplier by Health Canada (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Psilocybin: Following in the Footsteps of Cannabis Along the Path to Legality (JD Supra)

• Psyched Wellness Provides Update on Anti-Inflammatory Study with the National Research Council of Canada (Psilocybin Alpha)

• How is Oregon Preparing for the Facilitated Use of Psilocybin? (Lucid News)

• Red Light Holland’s Partner CCrest Laboratories Approved By Health Canada to Supply Psilocybin to the Special Access Program (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Diamond Therapeutics Looks At Low-Dose Psilocybin (The Dales Report)

• Mydecine Partners with Combat Stress to Treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans (Psilocybin Alpha)

DMT

• Algernon Pharmaceuticals Discloses Novel Salt Patent Strategy as Part of its Psychedelic Drug DMT Intellectual Property (Psilocybin Alpha)

5-MeO-DMT

• A Psychedelic Craze Has Taken Hold Among The Rich, Toad Venom (Baller Alert)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• The Future of Psychedelic Medicine Will Be Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of (VICE)

• Awakn Life Sciences Files Patent Application for a New Class of Entactogen-Like Molecules to Treat a Broad Range of Addictions (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ketamine

• New study indicates ketamine is less effective than electroconvulsive therapy for severe depression (PsyPost)

• Ketamine Intravenous Therapy Shown to Improve Depression, Reduce Suicidal Ideation (Psych Central)

• Have We Eliminated Stigma Surrounding Ketamine-Assisted Treatment? (Volteface)

Miscellaneous

• Missouri Legislators Introduce Bill to Give Terminally Ill Patients Access to Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• Virginia House Committee Pushes Back Psychedelics Decriminalization Bill Until 2023, But Senate Proposal Still Pending (Marijuana Moment)

• Lawmakers Propose Study of Natural Psychedelics for Mental Health Use (Westword)

• Introducing Vital: Immersive, Inclusive, and Personal Psychedelic Training for Professionals (Psychedelics Today)

• Psychedelic Perceptions in 2021: Popular Culture & Controversy (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Family Tripping: How Multigenerational Psychedelic Drug Experiences Can Provide Connection (Everything Zoomer)

• Psychedelic Capital: Public vs. Private Markets (Truffle Report)

• Sensible policy on psychedelic drugs is growing more common (The Economist)

• Inside the Growing Wellness Trend of Psilocybin Mushroom Microdosing (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Hallucinogen chemistry guides antidepressant drug discovery (Chemical and Engineering News)

• Decriminalize Nature and Students For Sensible Drug Policy Create a Community Healing Alliance (High Times)

• Have You Taken Psychedelics? Participate In The Canadian Psychedelics Survey Sponsored By MAPS PBC (The Dales Report)

• Laganja Estranja’s Psychedelic Life (DoubleBlind)

• Psychedelics and Parkinson’s Disease: Improving Patient Quality of Life (Truffle Report)

• Psychedelic and Plant Medicines: A Portal to Transformative Realms of Possibility (Nonprofit Quarterly)

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This Week in Psychedelics - 12.17.21

Cannabis

• Malta becomes first EU country to legalise cannabis for personal use (Euronews)

• St. Louis Mayor Signs Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana Possession And Cultivation (Marijuana Moment)

• No Fentanyl Found in Cannabis After All, Vermont Police Say (High Times)

• Viral story shared across social media about two teens overdosing on fentanyl-laced marijuana in Springfield was untrue (MassLive)

• Ministry pushes full cannabis legalisation (Bangkok Post)

• Government-Funded Study Shows Unprecedented Decline in Marijuana Use By Young People (NORML)

• Pfizer to Acquire Pharmaceutical Company Testing Cannabinoid Treatment (High Times)

• Heavy metals in cannabis plants could affect human health, study finds (New Atlas)

• Rhode Island Legalization Bill Set for Early 2022 Introduction (High Times)

• Baltimore: City Officials Move to Abolish Pre-Employment Drug Screens for Many Public Employees (NORML)

• Smoking CBD-Rich Marijuana Has ‘No Significant Impact’ On Driving Ability, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

• Cannabis use could cause harmful drug interactions (ScienceDaily)

LSD

• Cary Grant Is High on LSD in ‘Flying Over Sunset.’ Everyone Else Has a Bad Trip. (The Daily Beast)

• PharmaTher Announces Positive Research Results for LSD Microneedle Patch (BioSpace)

• MindMed Initiates Phase 2a LSD Trial for the Treatment of Adult ADHD (Psilocybin Alpha)

Magic Mushrooms

• New Filing Challenges Compass Pathways’ Infamous Patent on Synthetic Psilocybin (VICE)

• Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy reduces loss of meaning and suicidal ideation among cancer patients (PsyPost)

• With health care workers hurting, a doctor wants to see if a psychedelic can help (NBC News)

• COMPASS Pathways announces positive outcome of 25mg COMP360 psilocybin therapy as adjunct to SSRI antidepressants in open-label treatment-resistant depression study (Psilocybin Alpha)

• More patients granted psilocybin exemption by federal government (CBC)

• Warning: Oregon Legalized Supported Adult Use of Psilocybin, Not Psychedelic Therapy (Chacruna)

• New York Lawmaker Files Bill To Legalize Medical Psilocybin Treatments, With Focus On First Responders And Veterans (Marijuana Moment)

• This Trippy New Book Takes You Through Modern Mushroom History—With Cartoons (DoubleBlind)

• Psyched Wellness Announces Path to Market for AME-1-derived Products in the USA (Psilocybin Alpha)

• Silo Wellness announces series of psilocybin retreats in Jamaica (Globetrender)

• HAVN Life Successfully Exports Psilocybin from Jamaica Facility into the U.S. for Research Purposes (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

• The Big Return – and Decline in Quality – of MDMA (VICE)

• Latest trials confirm the benefits of MDMA – the drug in ecstasy – for treating PTSD (The Conversation)

• MDMA could soon be used to treat PTSD according to physicians (Mixmag)

Ayahuasca

• Study links the ceremonial use of ayahuasca to robust reductions in neuroticism (PsyPost)

• Educating Gringos in Shipibo Ways (Chacruna)

• Esther Jean Langdon: Half a Century of Research About Shamanism and Ayahuasca (Chacruna)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

• Cybin Awarded Notice of Allowance from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for CYB004 (Deuterated Psychedelic Tryptamine) for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders (Psilocybin Alpha)

• atai Life Sciences Announces Successful Outcome of Phase 2a Biomarker Trial of RL-007 in Cognitive Impairment Associated with Schizophrenia (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

• Tainted synthetic marijuana linked to severe bleeding cases in Florida (Live Science)

Miscellaneous

• Psychedelics Rejected for Therapeutic Use in Australia (VICE)

• Can a Values-Centered Psychedelic Ecosystem Effectively Compete? (Lucid News)

• Mind Medicine Australia’s Response to the Announcement of the TGA NOT to Reschedule the Medical Use of MDMA for Treatment Resistant PTSD and the Medical Use of Psilocybin for Treatment Resistant Depression as Part of Therapy. (Mind Medicine Australia)

• How Do Psychedelics Change Your Personality? These Researchers Tried To Find Out (IFLScience)

• ‘This isn’t the 60s again’: psychedelics business takes off amid culture clash (The Guardian)

• 2022 Global Drug Survey: Help make it bigger than ever for its 10 year anniversary (TalkingDrugs)

• Most Addiction Specialists Support Legalized Therapeutic Psychedelics (Medscape)

• Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy on the Rise in VA Hospitals (Lucid News)

• Psychedelics and Substance Use Disorder: 4000 BCE to Present Day (Psychedelic Science Review)

• Many Indians Are Experimenting With Psychedelics, Other Drugs to Deal With Mental Health Issues (The Swaddle)

• Editor’s Choice Award 2021-Best Study on Psychedelics and Neuroplasticity (Psychedelic Science Review)

• atai Impact Establishes the atai Fellowship Fund in Psychedelic Neuroscience with Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics (Psilocybin Alpha)

• How to Start Microdosing Psychedelics (DoubleBlind)

• Understanding HPPD to Prioritize Harm Reduction of a Very Real Psychedelic Risk (Psychedelic Spotlight)

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