This Week in Psychedelics - 6.18.21

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Cannabis

  • Louisiana Governor Signs Marijuana Decriminalization Bill Into Law (Marijuana Moment)

  • Texas: Governor Signs Medical Cannabis Expansion Legislation into Law (NORML)

  • Connecticut Marijuana Legalization Bill Heads To Governor’s Desk (Marijuana Moment)

  • Poll: 92 Percent of Americans Say Marijuana Should Be Legal Under Certain Circumstances (NORML)

  • Florida Supreme Court Kills Another Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure For 2022 (Marijuana Moment)

  • Stoned Driving Is Far Safer Than Operating a Vehicle on Prescription Drugs, Study Says (MERRY JANE)

  • Rhode Island Marijuana Legalization Bill Approved In Senate Committee (Marijuana Moment)

  • Montana: Opponents Drop Lawsuit Challenging Voter-Approved Legalization Initiative (NORML)

  • Two cannabis legalisation bills to be considered in Portugal (CanEx)

  • Nebraska Marijuana Activists Plan ‘Mass Scale’ Medical Cannabis Campaign For 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Local Marijuana Decriminalization Efforts Launch In Ohio, South Carolina And West Virginia (Marijuana Moment)

  • Wyoming Activists File 2022 Marijuana Decriminalization And Medical Cannabis Ballot Measures (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • Could LSD Really Be a Better Smart Drug Than Modafinil? (Sam Woolfe)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Oregon’s psilocybin program starts to take shape (OPB)

  • Filament Announces First GMP Batch of Pharmaceutical Grade Natural Psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Psyence Group Announces Collaboration with the Scientific Research Council (SRC) of Jamaica for Psilocybin Product Development (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

  • How Ayahuasca Can Help Gay Men Create Better Dance Parties (Chacruna)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • Cybin Selects Anxiety Disorder Indications for Proprietary Psychedelic Molecule CYB004 (Psilocybin Alpha)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Laughing gas could help people with hard-to-treat depression (Popular Science)

Miscellaneous

  • Federal Drug Decriminalization Measure Introduced in the House (DoubleBlind)

  • Introducing the Mormon Psychedelic Summit (DoubleBlind)

  • The problem at the heart of modern psychedelic clinical research (New Atlas)

  • This Summer Might Be a Psychedelic Dumpster Fire. Are You Ready? (Lucid News)

  • West Coast Psychedelic Update (Dr. Bronner's)

  • Toronto board of health to ask Ottawa to decriminalize drug possession in the city (Toronto Star)

  • Clinics Seek to Widen Access to Psychedelic Therapy for BIPOC Communities (Lucid News)

  • Can Psychedelics Help Make Dying Easier? (Rolling Stone)

  • Hippie Girls in Yorkville: Canada’s Haight-Ashbury (Chacruna)

  • Whole-Body Effects of Psychedelics – Part 1 (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • The Brain’s Psychedelic System (Reality Sandwich)

  • As the Pandemic Wanes and the Party Kicks Off, Drug Testing and Safety Are More Important Than Ever (Lucid News)

  • Consent is Psychedelic. Here’s Why. (DoubleBlind)

  • Psychedelics and Surfing (Reality Sandwich)

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