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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

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

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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