Cannabis
- Oklahoma voters approve medical marijuana measure (CNN)
- FDA Approves First Marijuana-Based Prescription Drug (TIME)
- U.S. Senate Votes To Legalize Hemp After Decades-Long Ban Under Marijuana Prohibition (Forbes)
- Schumer introduces bill to federally decriminalize marijuana (CNN)
- Cannabis oil: what is it and does it really work as medicine? (New Scientist)
- Legalising cannabis 'would raise £1bn in tax for the UK' (BBC)
- Get Too High? 'Undoo' Inventor Wants to Take Cannabis Consumers Down (Phoenix New Times)
- Mexico opium poppy growers see price drop, turn to marijuana (Tampa Bay Times)
- Durham police chief calls for legalisation of cannabis in UK (The Guardian)
- Meet Colorado’s New Single-Issue Voters: The Cannabis Community (The New York Times)
- For Medical Marijuana, Is it the Whole Plant That Matters? (Undark Magazine)
- Rite Aid poised to sell its first cannabis-derived drug (CNN)
- Medical-Cannabis Extracts Like Vape Pen Oil Are Illegal, Arizona Appeals Court Rules (Phoenix New Times)
- My 10-Year-Old Daughter Takes the First FDA-Approved Marijuana Drug. It's Changed Our Lives (TIME)
- Cannabis growth is killing one of the cutest (and fiercest) creatures in the US (The Guardian)
- Cannabis Businesses Hope To Shed Stoner Stereotype By 'Professionalizing Industry' (WBUR)
- Oklahoma's hypocrites legalize cannabis after suing Colorado for the same (Rooster)
- #PermitPatty Episode Blows Up on California Cannabis Company (Leafly)
- What Recreational Cannabis In Mass. Means For Medical Marijuana (WBUR)
- Cheap cannabis products available before new California rules kick in (San Francisco Chronicle)
- I Want My Weed Coffeehouses (Seattle Weekly)
LSD
- Microdosing with LSD vs. Psilocybin Mushrooms (The Third Wave)
- Johnny Depp Wanted To Take Out Osama Bin Laden By Spraying LSD Over His Compound (Esquire)
- LSD And 'Magic Mushrooms' Can 'Help People Deal With Serious Problems,' According to UC Berkeley Prof (Civilized)
- Rampant LSD Use Sweeps US Colleges (Liberty Nation)
Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms
- Psychedelic therapy for smoking cessation: Qualitative analysis of participant accounts (SAGE Journals)
MDMA/Ecstasy
- ‘Storm Chasers’ Star Joel Taylor Died from MDMA, Ketamine Poisoning (The Blast)
- MDMA strengths surge to 'potentially fatal' levels (BBC)
Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals
- New N-bomb hallucinogenic drug that can bring on ‘extreme paranoia’ sparks cop probe after death links (The Scottish Sun)
Dissociatives
- Rat Study Shows How Ketamine Combats Depression (Psych Central)
- Revisiting the Hallucinogenic Potential of Ketamine (Psychiatric Times)
- Minneapolis Police Order EMS Workers To Sedate Suspected Criminals With Ketamine (Herb)
- Man kills himself in Williamsport apartment after smoking PCP: police (PennLive)
Opiates/Opioids
- Why SITSA Act Will Actually Move the Needle Backward on the Opioid Crisis (Inverse)
- Needle exchanges have been proved to work against opioid addiction. They’re banned in 15 states. (Vox)
- A Gallery Owner Was Arrested After Leaving a 10-Foot Heroin Spoon Sculpture Outside OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma (TIME)
- Ontario Promotes Free Use of Opioid Antidote (The Wall Street Journal)
- Mexican heroin cannot escape the law of supply and demand (New York Post)
- Tech Companies Deflect Blame for Opioid Crisis Ahead of FDA Summit (WIRED)
- Legal uncertainty surrounds overdose-fighting drug (The Gazette)
- What we know about the crack-fentanyl outbreak in Philly (Philadelphia Weekly)
- When an Iowa Family Doctor Takes On the Opioid Epidemic (The New York Times)
Absinthe
- Booze 101: Absinthe (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Kratom
- More Kratom Products Recalled Owing to Salmonella Risk (Medscape)
- Kratom Users In States That Ban It Discuss How Prohibition Has Made Life Worse (HuffPo)
- This Bill Could Give Jeff Sessions the Power to Ban Kratom (Tonic)
- FDA Seeks to Curb Kratom Sales (Blue Virginia)
- How To Get Kratom Out Of Your System Fast? (Kratom Guides)
- Meet The “Kratom Warriors” Who Say This Plant Will End The Opioid Epidemic (BuzzFeed News)
- Which Kratom Strains For Sleep You Can Try in 2018? (Kratom Guides)
- What you need to know about Green Thai Kratom before Use (The Bona Venture)
- Can You Buy Kratom On Local GNC, Walmart, Walgreens, And CVS? (Kratom Guides)
Kava
- What Is Kava And Is It Good For You? (Women's Health)
Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy
- A Microguide to Microdosing Psychedelic Drugs (WIRED)
- The Dangers and Risks of Microdosing (The Third Wave)
- It may take hallucinogens to get us through the Trump years (Raw Story)
- If America wants to stop the migrant crisis, it should decriminalize drugs (The Week)
- Psychedelics Are Going Mainstream, Because the Mainstream Needs Them (VICE)
- Can Psychedelics Induce Flow States? (The Third Wave)
- Groovy, baby! The renaissance in psychedelic science is here (The Globe and Mail)
- Treating PTSD with a Psychedelic (ThirdAge)
- Information Update - Drug Use During Festival Season (Markets Insider)
- Paul Stamets’ Psilocybin Stories on Joe Rogan Podcast Will Blow Your Mind (Psychedelic Times)
- Taking Psychedelic Drugs to Ease Anxiety Over a Terminal Diagnosis: It’s a Real Option (ThirdAge)
- Study: Can taking a hallucinogen curb cocaine use? (UAB News)
- Different Ways Of Using Drugs (Psychedelic Heaven)
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