This Week in Psychedelics - 3.11.22

Cannabis

  • Costa Rica Moves Forward with Medical Cannabis Reform (High Times)

  • New York Regulators Unanimously Advance Rule To Let People With Marijuana Convictions Open Shop Before Big Businesses Can Enter Market (Marijuana Moment)

  • Morocco Moves into Medical Cannabis Cultivation (High Times)

  • DC’s recreational marijuana ambitions blocked in federal bill (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • NCAA Relaxes Drug Testing Policies for Cannabis (NORML)

  • Kentucky Lawmakers Approve Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee (Marijuana Moment)

  • Delaware: House Members Fail to Advance Legalization Legislation (NORML)

  • Key GOP Kansas Lawmaker Files Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill In Senate (Marijuana Moment)

  • No, The World’s Biggest Cannabis Company Is Not Russian-Owned (Forbes)

LSD

  • Blackhawk's unit invests NZ$2.3M to advance microdosing LSD in phase 2 trials (Seeking Alpha)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Head of Oregon’s Psilocybin Advisory Board resigns (OPB)

  • Oklahoma House Passes Psilocybin Decriminalization And Research Bill, Sending It To Senate (Marijuana Moment)

  • Hawaii Senate Unanimously Approves Psilocybin Task Force Bill, With Decriminalization Measures Still Pending (Marijuana Moment)

  • Z Strain Mushrooms: Effects, Cultivation, and More (DoubleBlind)

  • Washington State Ballot Initiative Would Legalize ‘Facilitated’ Psilocybin Sessions (Marijuana Moment)

  • Demand grows for UK ministers to reclassify psilocybin for medical research (The Guardian)

Ayahuasca

  • Ayahuasca and Childbirth in the Santo Daime Tradition: Solidarity Among Women and Psychedelic Cultural Resistance (Chacruna)

San Pedro

  • Numinus Adds Ayahuasca & San Pedro to Federal License for Psychedelic Research (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • New Machine Learning-Based Test Could Improve Detection of Synthetic Cannabinoids (PR Newswire)

Miscellaneous

  • Fireside Project’s New Equity Initiative Expands Psychedelic Support Services (Lucid News)

  • Maryland House And Senate Committees Consider Drug Decriminalization Bills (Marijuana Moment)

  • Rhode Island Lawmakers File Psilocybin And Broader Drug Decriminalization Bills While Legal Marijuana Momentum Increases (Marijuana Moment)

  • GOP Missouri Lawmaker Files Psychedelics Therapy And Decriminalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • Will Psychedelics Become Commercialized Like Weed? (Westword)

  • Georgia Bill Would Create Psychedelic Study Committee To Recommend Reform Policies (Marijuana Moment)

  • HPPD and Flashbacks: Everything You Need To Know – And What We Don’t Know, Too (Psychedelics Today)

  • Drug companies are investing big in psychedelics, but can they engineer out the trip? (Chemical and Engineering News)

  • Psychedelics, the War on Drugs, and Violence in Latin America (Chacruna)

  • New Age of Psychedelics (Pharmaceutical Executive)

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