Cannabis
White House staffers asked to resign or work remotely after revealing past marijuana use (CNN)
Wyoming Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill Sponsored By Top GOP Leaders (Marijuana Moment)
Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers File Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana, While Governor Pushes Full Legalization (Marijuana Moment)
Nebraska Gov. Ricketts warns: 'If you legalize marijuana, you're going to kill your kids' (USA Today)
People of Color Made Up 94% of All Pot Arrests in New York in 2020, NYPD Data Reports (MERRY JANE)
Marijuana Banking Bill Reintroduced In Congress With Broad Bipartisan Support From More Than 100 Lawmakers (Marijuana Moment)
Big Alcohol and Big Tobacco Coalition Emerges to Shape Legalization in Their Favor (NORML)
Delaware Lawmakers File Marijuana Legalization Bill Despite Governor’s Ongoing ‘Concerns’ (Marijuana Moment)
New Mexico Marijuana Legalization Bill Heads To Senate Floor Following Contentious Committee Hearing (Marijuana Moment)
Colorado Is Trying to Implement 15% THC Cap on High-Potency Cannabis Concentrates (MERRY JANE)
North Dakota Marijuana Legalization Bill Receives First Senate Committee Hearing Following House Passage (Marijuana Moment)
Congress and USPS Inadvertently Restrict Consumer Access To Vaporizer Cartridges, Batteries, Etc (NORML)
New PTSD study finds cannabis safe, but not as effective as assumed (Leafly)
Pennsylvania: Police Arrested 20,200 Adults for Marijuana Possession During Pandemic (NORML)
New Evidence Shows CBD Can Help Fight Alzheimer's Disease (MERRY JANE)
Medical cannabis can reduce essential tremor: turns on overlooked cells in central nervous system (EurekAlert!)
Cultivating a Single 8th of Weed Creates 41-Pound Carbon Footprint, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)
LSD
The true story of Michel Foucault's LSD trip that changed history (Salon)
Magic Mushrooms
COMPASS Pathways Is Trying to Patent Psilocybin for More Mental Health Conditions Than You Can Name (Psymposia)
Experts chosen to create Oregon’s new system of psilocybin-assisted therapy (OPB)
Can Magic Mushrooms Heal Us? (The New York Times)
Revive Therapeutics Announces Successful Research Results for Psilocybin to Treat Traumatic Brain Injury and Filing of International Patent Application (Psilocybin Alpha)
Can Psilocybin Assisted Psychotherapy Change Attachment Style? (Psychedelic Science Review)
Shrooms Movie: The Best (And Worst) Movies to Watch on Shrooms (DoubleBlind)
MDMA
The Effects of MDMA on Emotional Processing (Truffle Report)
DMT
Pharmadrug Initiates DMT Research Activities via Collaboration with the University of Michigan for Foundational DMT Research Study (Psilocybin Alpha)
5-MeO-DMT
Former porn star Nacho Vidal to stand trial for death by toad venom (Euro Weekly News)
Ketamine
First ketamine-assisted psychotherapy Bristol clinic opens (BBC)
'How ketamine helped me kick my alcohol addiction' (The Telegraph)
Having Sex on Ketamine: Getting Physical on a Dissociative (Reality Sandwich)
On Ketamine and Memories (Truffle Report)
Ketamine: A Legal, yet Overlooked Psychedelic (Sapiensoup Blog)
PCP
Rochester mayor lied to public about Daniel Prude case, report finds (New York Post)
Miscellaneous
D.C. Psychedelics Decriminalization Initiative Officially Takes Effect (Marijuana Moment)
Sounding the Alarm on Compass’s Interference with Oregon’s Psilocybin Therapy Program (Dr. Bronner)
Psychedelic drug users tend to have better overall physical health than non-users, study finds (PsyPost)
Rhode Island Senators File Drug Decriminalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)
Psychedelic Capitalism and Other Myths: Is the Joke On Us? (Psychedelics Today)
Capitalism Goes Rogue with Patent Claims on Psychedelics (Chacruna)
Australian government backs psychedelic drug clinical trials to treat mental illness (The Guardian)
Why Oneness is Not Incompatible with Identity Politics (Chacruna)
The Bread That Made an Entire Island Hallucinate (VICE)
Psychedelic therapy could 'reset' depressed brain (BBC)
Do Psychedelics Alter the Menstrual Cycle? (DoubleBlind)
Psychotic- vs. Psychedelic-Induced Hallucinations: A Closer Look (Psychedelic Science Review)
‘The ketamine blew my mind’: can psychedelics cure addiction and depression? (The Guardian)
Fish and Trips: Psychoactive Denizens of the Deep (Truffle Report)
Why Microdosing is the Lightsaber of Modern-Day Jedis (The Third Wave)
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