Cannabis
“Impermissible Levels of Lead” Found in Massachusetts' Legal Weed Vapes (MERRY JANE)
Travelers caught with weed in Chicago airports won’t be busted, police say (Chicago Sun-Times)
Federal CBD Regulations Are Finally Coming (MERRY JANE)
Peoria airport to allow recreational marijuana (CIProud)
Legal Marijuana Shops Refuse Sales To Underage Customers, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
Marijuana On The 2020 Ballot: These States Could Vote (Forbes)
South Dakota: Medical Cannabis Initiative Certified for 2020 Ballot (NORML)
Trump Says He Can Ignore Medical Marijuana Protections Passed By Congress (Forbes)
Alabama Legislature’s Study Commission Recommends Medical Marijuana Be Legalized (Marijuana Moment)
Hemp cleans toxic soil and produces clean CBD flower, study finds (Leafly)
Legalizing Cannabis Has Unexpected Impact on Food and Farming in Humboldt (KQED)
Three-Fourths Of New Mexico Voters Support Marijuana Legalization, State-Funded Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)
LSD
Study reveals what happens to the brain on LSD (Inverse)
Magic Mushrooms
Denver's psilocybin mushroom policy review panel set to launch in January (9News.com)
Activists Take Next Step In Campaign To Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms In California (Marijuana Moment)
Paul Stamets Tells Joe Rogan About the Future of Psilocybin Research (Psychedelic Science Review)
MDMA
More Patients Could Have Access to MDMA Therapy—Before the FDA Approves It (DoubleBlind)
How — and why — to legalize ecstasy (AlterNet)
Ayahuasca
Initial Trial of Ayahuasca for Depression Shows Promising Results (Mad in America)
More Evidence About Ayahuasca ‘Death Cult’ Emerges With Arrest of Lawyer Paul Sulla in Hawaii (Frank Report)
Iboga
For opioid addicts, African psychedelic ibogaine is last-resort detox drug. Research shows it works, but a legal grey area surrounds its use by clinics (South China Morning Post)
Opioids
Risk Factors for Opioid Overdose Similar for Teens and Adults (PsychCentral)
The opioid crisis shows why racism in health care is always harmful, never ‘protective’ (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Methamphetamine
Meth boom adds to Afghanistan's opium and heroin woes (Breitbart)
Nicotine
Federal Legal Age to Buy Tobacco Products Officially Raised to 21 (TIME)
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines May Influence Suicide Risk in Anxiety Disorders Depending on Duration of Use (Psychiatry Advisor)
Benzodiazepines linked to overdose deaths among those treated for opioid dependency (The Pharmaceutical Journal)
More U.S. Teens Are Overdosing on Valium, Xanax (U.S. News and World Report)
Alcohol
THC vs Alcohol Impaired Driving (DrugScience)
Ad stating alcohol is a drug blocked as ‘too political’ (Irish Examiner)
UNC researchers may have discovered why some casual drinkers develop an alcohol use disorder (WRAL Tech Wire)
Nootropics
The 5 Most Science-Backed Nootropics for Energy (Psychology Today)
Miscellaneous
Baba Ram Dass, Proponent of LSD Turned New Age Guru, Dies at 88 (The New York Times)
Say Hello to World’s First Psychedelic Microdosing Study Mobile App (Psychedelic Science Review)
Ireland's first supervised drug injection centre gets approved (The Irish Post)
The future of psychedelic science: What the next decade holds (New Atlas)
A New Way To Quit? Psychedelic Therapy Offers Promise For Smoking Cessation (NPR)
Portland Activists Begin Gathering Signatures For Psychedelics Decriminalization Measure (Marijuana Moment)
What Makes A Good Psychedelic Guide? (Maps of the Mind)
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