This Week in Psychedelics - 3.26.21

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Cannabis

  • Virginia Governor Signals He’ll Push To Legalize Marijuana On July 1, Ahead Of Schedule (Marijuana Moment)

  • Connecticut Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill As Governor Pushes Competing Reform (Marijuana Moment)

  • Illinois Lawmakers Approve Bill To Legalize Any Amount Of Marijuana And Expunge Past Records (Marijuana Moment)

  • New York lawmakers reach historic deal on a marijuana legalization bill (Leafly)

  • North Dakota Senate Rejects House-Passed Marijuana Legalization Bill, Ceding Issue To Activists For Ballot Measure (Marijuana Moment)

  • Scotland's first medical cannabis clinic approved (BBC)

  • Maryland adult-use marijuana legalization effort fails for this year (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Delaware Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill In Committee Vote (Marijuana Moment)

  • Minnesota Marijuana Legalization Bill Clears Fourth House Committee (Marijuana Moment)

  • Texas Cops Just Arrested and Killed a Man for Possessing One Joint Worth of Weed (MERRY JANE)

  • New Mexico Governor Plans Special Session On Marijuana As Legalization Bill Stalls On Final Stretch (Marijuana Moment)

  • New Weed Bill Aims Block Big Alcohol and Tobacco From Dominating Legal Weed Market (MERRY JANE)

  • Senators Reintroduce SAFE Banking Act To Normalize Cannabis Commerce (NORML)

  • More evidence needed to back cannabis as pain treatment, says review (Imperial College London)

  • CBD Could Stop Coronavirus Cells From Replicating in the Lungs, Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

  • Advocacy group for Hispanic marijuana entrepreneurs launches (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • THC Can Remain in Breast Milk for Up to Six Weeks After Use, New Study Suggests (MERRY JANE)

  • Study: “No Evidence” That Medical Cannabis Access Laws Encourage Youth Marijuana Use (NORML)

  • Shitty Government Weed Might Have Just Ruined Major New Study on Veterans and PTSD (MERRY JANE)

LSD

Magic Mushrooms

  • Psychedelic for meth users: Sydney trial aims to conquer addiction (The Sydney Morning Herald)

  • This Toronto man is treating a rare neurological disorder with psilocybin mushrooms (Regina Leader-Post)

  • Denver Psilocybin Panel Talks Expanded Decriminalization (Truffle Report)

  • This New BIPOC-Run Group Is Educating People About Legal Mushroom Therapy in Oregon (MERRY JANE)

5-MeO-DMT

  • A porn star has been charged with reckless homicide after he used toad venom to cure a photographer's cocaine addiction (Insider)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

Ketamine

  • Ketamine bill headed to Colorado House for consideration (KDVR)

  • Ketamine Providers Debate Standards of Care (Lucid News)

PCP

  • Why America Is the Only Place in the World Where People Use PCP (VICE)

Miscellaneous

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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 catalog how psychedelics are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.