This Week in Psychedelics - 10.16.20

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Cannabis

  • New Zealand: Voters to Decide Saturday on Nationwide Marijuana Legalization Referendum (NORML)

  • Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to marijuana’s Schedule I status (Leafly)

  • France to distribute free medical cannabis, launch experiment in 2021 (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Spain becomes cannabis hub as criminals fill tourism void (The Guardian)

  • Virginia Governor Signs Marijuana Reform Bill As State’s First Medical Dispensary Prepares To Open (Marijuana Moment)

  • Judge overrules state over New Mexico medical marijuana reciprocity (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Michigan Governor Signs Marijuana Expungements Bill As Part Of Criminal Justice Package (Marijuana Moment)

  • German patient wins court case to have cannabis covered by insurance (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Montana Voters Poised To Legalize Marijuana, New Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)

  • Study: Subjects Report Reduced Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Following Cannabis Inhalation (NORML)

  • Prenatal cannabis exposure linked to cognitive deficits, altered behavior (ScienceDaily)

  • Montreal biotech company announces first sale of biosynthetic CBD (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • New Jersey and Arizona legalization measures leading in latest polls (Leafly)

  • Colorado marijuana rules will require testing of vapor, not just oil (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Mississippi Governor Signs Bill Allowing FDA-Approved Cannabis Medications As Legalization Vote Looms (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • The 'Acid King' Convicted of Running the Biggest LSD Ring in History (VICE)

Magic Mushrooms

MDMA

  • MDMA Treatments May Be Cheaper Than Other PTSD Treatments (Green Market Report)

  • NYC Psychotherapist Charley Wininger Says MDMA Is The ‘Glue’ Of His Marriage (Forbes)

Salvia Divinorum

  • This Is My Brain on Salvia (WIRED)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • What Is Sassafras? Everything You Need To Know About The Drug MDA (DoubleBlind)

Ketamine

  • Rise of the Ketamine Clinic: A New Era for Mental Wholeness (The Third Wave)

  • Scientists Unlock Neurological Code of Dissociation (Lucid News)

Miscellaneous

  • The case for funding psychedelics to treat mental health (Vox)

  • New Association Brings Psychedelics to the Medical Mainstream (Lucid News)

  • Psychedelic drugs may have played a role in the founding of Christianity (Raw Story)

  • MindMed Announces $25 Million Bought Deal Public Offering (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Psychedelic Media Should Stop Parroting Corporate Press Releases (Psymposia)

  • Psychedelics Improve Depression and Wellbeing Scores in Individuals With Eating Disorders (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Awe-inspiring psychedelic trips reduce narcissism by boosting connectedness and empathy, study suggests (PsyPost)

  • Israel’s Psychedelic Community and Jerusalem’s Protesters Join Forces (Chacruna)

  • Food for Thought: Can Psychedelics Boost Brain Growth Factor Levels? (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • A Spiritual Experience (Johns Hopkins Magazine)

  • Heroic Hearts Project and Field Trip Health Ltd. enter into a strategic relationship to increase legal psychedelic therapy access for military veterans in North America (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • The Role of Psychedelics in the Midst of a Pandemic and the Fight for Black Lives (Chacruna)

  • Are Canadians ready to accept psychedelics in palliative care? (The Globe and Mail)

  • The World of Claudio Naranjo (Psychedelics Today)

  • DEA and the Religious Exemption: A Fox Guarding the Henhouse (Chacruna)

  • A Trip Through the Universe: How Psychedelic Art Overlaps with Space Art (DoubleBlind)

  • Overcoming Anxiety with Psychedelic Integration (The Third Wave)

  • Of Mediums and Mind-Manifestors: Eileen Garrett and Psychedelic Experience (Chacruna)

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