This Week in Psychedelics - 10.9.20

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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

Iboga

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

Salvia Divinorum

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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Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.