This Week in Psychedelics - 7.24.20

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Cannabis

  • FDA Announces Recall Of Dozens Of Hemp Products For Humans And Pets (Marijuana Moment)

  • New York Senate Approves Bill Protecting Medical Marijuana Patients From Eviction (Marijuana Moment)

  • Montana County Officials Say Marijuana Legalization Measures Will Qualify For State Ballot, Campaign Confirms (Marijuana Moment)

  • NHS planning to manufacture cannabis oil (Yahoo! News)

  • FDA Releases Guidelines On Cannabis Research Following White House Review (Marijuana Moment)

  • California weighs steep new fines to combat illegal cannabis sellers (Los Angeles Times)

  • Congress Approves Measure Allowing CBD Use By Military Service Members (Marijuana Moment)

  • Marijuana Legalization Excluded From Draft 2020 Democratic Party Platform (Marijuana Moment)

  • Researchers Believe Cannabis Should Be Explored as COVID-19 Treatment Immediately (MERRY JANE)

  • Third Party Presidential Candidates Push For Marijuana Legalization And Drug Decriminalization (Marijuana Moment)

  • Shepard Fairey’s 76-acre cannabis crop art will blow your mind (Leafly)

  • High Times Returns to Colorado with People’s Choice Cannabis Cup (High Times)

  • Massachusetts Bill To Use Marijuana Tax Revenue For Police Training Draws Criticism (Marijuana Moment)

  • Canada’s cannabis pardon program is failing. Here’s why (Leafly)

  • Kanye West Says He Smoked Marijuana On Eve Of His First Presidential Campaign Rally (Marijuana Moment)

  • Clint Eastwood sues over false cannabis endorsements (BBC)

  • Poll Shows Arizona Voters Back Legal Marijuana Measure As Officials Verify Signatures (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • LSD packets found attached to doors at four St. Lawrence County police departments (NNY360)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Psilocybin & OCD: Can psychedelics treat obsessive compulsive disorder? (New Atlas)

  • Red Light Holland Places First Order for Psychedelic Truffles Microdosing Packs (Psilocybin Alpha)

MDMA

  • Gwyneth Paltrow advocates ecstasy drug MDMA for use in couples' therapy (Daily Mirror)

DMT

  • Meet Viridia, the ATAI unit exploring ayahuasca-based treatments for mental illness (Fierce Biotech)

Ayahuasca

Morning Glory Seeds

  • What is LSA? The Trippy Story Behind the Morning Glory (DoubleBlind)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Nitrous oxide: MP wants to see tightening of laughing gas laws (BBC)

  • Parliamentary briefing on tackling the misuse of Nitrous Oxide (Drug Science)

  • Why Is the UK Still Obsessed with Laughing Gas? (VICE)

Ketamine

  • Medics In Colorado Dosed 902 People With Ketamine For 'Excited Delirium' In 2.5 Years (KUNC)

Miscellaneous

  • Psychedelics Activists Unveil Measure To Legalize Plant Medicine Healing Ceremonies In Oakland (Marijuana Moment)

  • 60-Plus Psychedelic Clinical Trials Listed on Online Directory (Lucid News)

  • The Second Pandemic: Is Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy the Answer to the Mental Health Crisis Caused by COVID-19? (Psychedelics Today)

  • Profitdelic: A New Psychedelic Conference Trend (Chacruna)

  • Medical Psychedelics Working Group to campaign for drug rescheduling (Health Europa)

  • Minister Open To Examining Drug Decriminalization (CKDR)

  • Selecting Music for Psychedelic Therapy (Psychedelics Today)

  • The Drug War’s “Science-Based” Training on “Dopers and Parasites” (Filter)

  • MagicMed Industries unveils C$1.5 million offering to expand its molecular psychedelic derivatives portfolio (Proactive Investors)

  • Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy and Experiential Efficacy (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • An Entire Police Station Has Been Arrested for Dealing Drugs and Torturing Suspects (VICE)

  • Empower Clinics Served a Cease Trade Order (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • The Psychedelic Explorer’s Mindset (Maps of the Mind)

  • Psychedelic journeys helped Holocaust survivor George Sarlo. Now he’s helping others on their own journeys. (The Forward)

  • How the war on drugs killed Breonna Taylor (Leafly)

  • What Does Science Say About Maryland Rep. Andy Harris’s Opposition to Natural Psychedelics? (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Inside Toronto’s Newest Psychedelics Clinic (Investing News)

  • Psychedelics are making a wild comeback – let’s not eff it up (NOW Magazine)

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