This Week in Psychedelics - 12.11.20

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Cannabis

  • Mexican Supreme Court Extends Deadline To Legalize Marijuana As Lawmakers Continue To Advance Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • House Approves Marijuana Research Bill Days After Voting To Federally Legalize Cannabis (Marijuana Moment)

  • What To Expect From The House Of Representatives’ Passing Of Federal Cannabis Reform (Forbes)

  • Feds’ Post-Election Warning: Marijuana Still Banned For Federal Workers Despite State Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

  • NBA Will Reportedly Not Test Players for Marijuana Next Season (Complex)

  • New Jersey lawmakers agree on recreational marijuana legalization bill (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Nebraska Senators Will Work To Put Recreational Marijuana On The Ballot In 2022 (Marijuana Moment)

  • 70% in U.S. Support Expunging Marijuana Convictions After Vote to Decriminalize Weed: Poll (Newsweek)

  • Embracing Marijuana Legalization Could Have Offset Democratic Election Losses, Poll Indicates (Marijuana Moment)

  • Dumping CBD Oil On Strawberries Extends Their Shelf Life And Stops Mold Growth, New Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Why Europe's big cannabis route is so hard to shut (BBC)

  • Majority Of Republican Voters Support House-Passed Marijuana Legalization Bill, Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Jay-Z’s Cannabis Brand, Monogram, Launches With $50 Hand-Rolled Joints (Forbes)

LSD

  • Mumbai: ‘Paper weight can’t be counted while quantifying LSD’ (Times of India)

Magic Mushrooms

  • N.J. bill to lessen jail time for ‘magic’ mushrooms moves forward (NJ.com)

  • Canada Will Let Health Care Professionals Legally Use Psychedelic Mushrooms, Health Minister Says (Marijuana Moment)

  • Mydecine Innovations Group to Make First Commercial Export of Legal Psilocybin Mushrooms (Globe Newswire)

  • Magic Mushrooms Are Expanding Minds and Advancing an Emerging Field of Science (Discover Magazine)

  • Can the active ingredient in magic mushrooms help treat anxiety? Researchers want to know (The Age)

MDMA

  • MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in landmark pilot trial (New Atlas)

DMT

  • Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled in UK to treat depression (The Guardian)

  • Why Does the Brain Make Its Own DMT? (DoubleBlind)

  • How to Integrate a Difficult-to-Remember DMT Experience (Maps of the Mind)

Ayahuasca

  • Miley Cyrus Says Ayahuasca Changed Her Life (Lucid News)

  • Preserving Entangled Ayahuasca (Chacruna)

5-MeO-DMT

  • Usona Institute Publishes Synthesis and Characterization of cGMP 5-MeO-DMT (Psilocybin Alpha)

Peyote

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • New Compound Related to Psychedelic Ibogaine Could Treat Addiction, Depression (UC Davis)

Ketamine

  • PharmaTher Files FDA Pre-IND Meeting Request for Ketamine in Parkinson’s Disease (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Mind Cure Moves into Psychedelic Assisted Therapy with British Columbia Location Offering Ketamine and Psilocybin Therapy (Psilocybin Alpha)

Miscellaneous

  • Psychedelics Weren't As Common in Ancient Cultures As We Think (VICE)

  • The Top 10 Psychedelic Research Papers of 2020 (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • This Is How Psychedelics Hack the Brain, According to Scientists (VICE)

  • The Case for Macrodosing (Rolling Stone)

  • Psychedelic Guide Abuse: High-Control Group Dynamics and Complicity in the Perpetuation of Harm (Psychedelics Today)

  • UK government set for psychedelics investment windfall (Financial Times)

  • It Takes Guts: Psychedelic Treatment Approaches to Autoimmune Disorders (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Humans Have Used Drugs With Sex For Millennia – The Reasons Are Much Broader Than You Think (TalkingDrugs)

  • How To Provide Psychedelic Support (Lucid News)

  • Psychedelics, Therapy, and the Law (Psychedelic Frontier)

  • Christopher Valore (AKA The Architect) talks “Conductor,” His Virtual-Reality, Psychedelic-Visual Sandbox Platform (Psymposia)

  • Psychedelics, Shadows, and Spiritual Bypassing (The Third Wave)

  • How Music Therapists Helped Build Psychedelic Therapy (Chacruna)

  • How to Change Your Ability to Change (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Combining Movement and Microdosing: Athletics, Exercise, and Flow (The Third Wave)

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