This Week in Psychedelics - 8.13.21

Cannabis

  • Native American tribe in North Carolina legalizes medical cannabis (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Marijuana Sales Increased In Multiple States During COVID, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Study suggests cannabis can induce a psychedelic-like “oceanic” experience (PsyPost)

  • Weedmaps adds in-app cannabis purchasing for iPhone users (TechCrunch)

  • Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace Leafly to go public (The Seattle Times)

  • Senate Votes To Let Researchers Study Marijuana From Dispensaries (Marijuana Moment)

  • Here’s where New York’s next governor stands on marijuana legalization (Leafly)

  • California High Court: Recreational Cannabis Law Doesn’t Apply To Inmates In Prison (CBS SF BayArea)

  • These States Possess the Highest Number of Cannabis Consumers Per Capita (NORML)

  • Illinois Announces Cannabis Dispensary License Lottery Winners (Forbes)

  • Wisconsin Lawmakers Unveil New Marijuana Legalization Bill—At A Cannabis Shop In Illinois (Marijuana Moment)

  • Scientists Think Cannabinoids in Sativex Can Actually Beat Brain Cancer (MERRY JANE)

  • Wyoming Officials Clear 2022 Marijuana Ballot Initiatives For Signature Gathering (Marijuana Moment)

  • Oklahoma Activists Prepare 2022 Ballot Measures to Legalize Marijuana And Overhaul State’s Medical Cannabis System (Marijuana Moment)

  • Nebraska Medical Marijuana Advocates Reveal Updated 2022 Ballot Strategy Featuring Two Separate Initiatives (Marijuana Moment)

Magic Mushrooms

  • A 13th Century Fresco Might Feature a Psychedelic Mushroom (InsideHook)

  • In Canada, End-of-Life Therapy May Be the Path to Legal Psilocybin (Filter)

  • Canadian Groups Push For Legal Psilocybin: Survey Shows Support (Truffle Report)

  • Myth Busting: Magic Mushroom Spores Have Little to do with Potency (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • How magic mushroom ingredient psilocybin helps patients with depression or PTSD change how they feel, by rewiring the brain with more connections (South China Morning Post)

  • Tryp Therapeutics Partners with Calvert Labs to Conduct Exploratory Studies for Proprietary Psilocybin Formulations (Psilocybin Alpha)

Ayahuasca

5-MeO-DMT

  • Why Are Celebrities Smoking Toad Venom? (Yahoo!)

Salvia Divinorum

  • atai Launches Revixia Life Sciences to Develop Salvinorin A for a Variety of Mental Health Conditions (Psilocybin Alpha)

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • Psilera Initiates Landmark Preclinical Studies with New Psychedelic Derivatives aimed at Reducing Alcohol Consumption (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Bexson Biomedical Launches New Project, Applying Subcutaneous Delivery Technology To Multiple Psychedelic Compounds For Therapeutic Use (Psilocybin Alpha)

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Where Cannabis Synthetic Spice Came From and Is It Related To HHC? (CBD Testers)

Ketamine

  • Could Ketamine Restore Child-like Brain Plasticity and Learning? (Lucid News)

  • Will Ketamine Help Sleep? We Explain Any Benefits (Healing Maps)

  • We Just Got Closer to Understanding Why Ketamine Is Such a Powerful Antidepressant (ScienceAlert)

  • Study finds cognitive safety of ketamine and esketamine for patients with treatment-resistant depression (News-Medical.net)

  • How Much Does A Ketamine Infusion Cost? (Healing Maps)

PCP

Miscellaneous

  • These States Could Have Marijuana And Psychedelics Legalization On The Ballot In 2022 (Marijuana Moment)

  • Fireside Project Expands Psychedelic Support Service with App Launch (Lucid News)

  • Biden Exploring Clemency For People With Federal Drug Convictions, White House Says (Marijuana Moment)

  • Wearable Psychedelics Could Soon Give Users Maximum Control Over Their Trip (VICE)

  • Why Aren’t Psychedelic Drugs Prohibited in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics? (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • Psychedelics May Inspire Healthier Habits, Survey Finds (Lucid News)

  • Tripping Together (NEO.LIFE)

  • Campaign will target middle-class drug users (The Times)

  • Psychedelics As Medicine: Right To Try Case Versus DEA (JD Supra)

  • Prisoners Sue After Drug Testing of Their Legal Mail Gave False Positives (Filter)

  • Psychedelic Research Has a Racist Past (Mad in America)

  • The Wonderful and Absurd Life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary: Fashion Icon, Fugitive, and Psychedelic Pioneer (Part Two: Freedom and Unfreedom) (Chacruna)

  • Safely Exploring High Doses of Psychedelics (Maps of the Mind)

  • The Cosmic Giggle: Laughter and Psychedelics (Reality Sandwich)

  • Psychedelic Decriminalisation Only Scratches the Surface (VolteFace)

  • In Awe: Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy and the Mystical Experience (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • What Do I Need To Know About Tripping Alone In Nature? (Lucid News)

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