Cannabis
Republicans Push for Federal Legalization of Marijuana to Ensure 'Individual Liberty' (Newsweek)
Minnesota House Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)
Kansas Senate Running Out Of Time To Pass Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill That Cleared House (Marijuana Moment)
Nebraska Activists Relaunch Medical Marijuana Ballot Campaign After Legislative Filibuster Blocks Bill (Marijuana Moment)
Louisiana: House Lawmakers Advance Marijuana Decriminalization Legislation (NORML)
Cherokee Nation Just Decriminalized Weed Possession in State Where Pot Is Still Illegal (MERRY JANE)
Feds Announce New Standard THC Dose To Be Used In Marijuana Research, Effective Immediately (Marijuana Moment)
Ignorance Still Plagues The Field Of Cannabis Medicine (Forbes)
America’s most conservative states are embracing medical pot (Politico)
Georgia: Governor Signs Legislation into Law Expanding Access to Low-THC Medical Cannabis (NORML)
Medicinal cannabis improves quality of life, finds largest study of UK patients (Cannabis Health News)
Cannabis may slightly reduce RA disease activity based on 'very uncertain' evidence (Healio)
Don’t Bring CBD Pet Shampoo Onto Military Bases, U.S. Air Force Warns (Marijuana Moment)
Understanding the History of Rastafari and the Sacramental Use of Ganja with Jahlani Niaah (Chacruna)
Magic Mushrooms
How Psychedelic Mushrooms Went from Schedule I to Psychotherapy (The Pacific Index)
Who’s in Charge of Psilocybin? (Chacruna)
OHSU doctors study how psilocybin interacts with other meds (KATU)
Havn Life Develops New Method for Rapid Psilocybin Testing (StreetInsider.com)
Cybin Advances Psilocybin as Treatment for Depression and Addiction (Innovation and Tech Today)
Numinus Wellness and Optimi Health Submit All-Natural Psilocybin Extract to Health Canada for Pre-Clinical Trial Application (Psilocybin Alpha)
MDMA
MDMA Shows New Promise for Trauma, but the Drug Alone Is Not a Cure (Scientific American)
DMT
Small Pharma on conducting world’s first clinical trials for psychedelic DMT and listing in Canada (Proactive Investors)
5-MeO-DMT
Hunter Biden’s Admission Of Toad Venom Use Signals A Sea Change For Addiction Treatments (Lucid News)
Peyote
Decriminalize Nature Releases Peyote Conservation Plan (Truffle Report)
Open Letter to the Psychedelic Movement Regarding Peyote in Policy Efforts and How to be an Ally to Indigenous Peoples of North America (Chacruna)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
Potentially Non-Hallucinogenic Psychedelic Could Open Door for Treatment Developments (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Learning Network)
Synthetic Cannabinoids
China issues total ban on synthetic cannabinoids (Seattle Times)
Nitrous Oxide
Municipality of Amsterdam to ban laughing gas (I Am Expat)
Ketamine
Colorado lawmakers move to restrict law enforcement’s use of Ketamine (KKTV)
Delic's Acquisition Target, Ketamine Infusion Centers, Announces Proposal to Acquire 2 Additional Clinic Locations (Yahoo! Finance)
Miscellaneous
The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same. (The New York Times)
Drug Possession Is Officially A Crime Again In Washington, But As A Misdemeanor Instead Of Felony (Marijuana Moment)
Drug Advice Is Better Than Government Approach of 'Just Doing Nothing', Research Finds (VICE)
How this NHL star’s brain trauma led him to found a psychedelics startup (Fast Company)
Aspen City Council not quite sold on decriminalizing psychedelics (Aspen Daily Times)
Some people with color blindness report improved color vision after psychedelic drug use (PsyPost)
How a Psychedelic 12-Step Program Is Saving Lives (Rolling Stone)
Psychedelic Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder? (Psychedelic Science Review)
An Introduction to Psychedelic Phenethylamines (Spirit Pharmacist)
Anaïs Nin and the Vocabulary of the Psychedelic Experience (Chacruna)
Psychedelics Move to The Forefront of Innovative Research as the FDA Approves Large-Scale Testing (PR Newswire)
Psychedelic Intellectual Property (Reality Sandwich)
Routes of Administration in Psychedelic Drug Research (Psychedelic Science Review)
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