This Week in Psychedelics - 8.20.21

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Cannabis

  • Gallup Poll Finds Almost Half Of US Adults Have Tried Marijuana (High Times)

  • Meet THC-O, a hemp-derived compound three times stronger than THC (Leafly)

  • Study Shows Cancer Patients Consume Less Cannabis Than General Public (High Times)

  • Ohio Activists Submit Revised Marijuana Legalization Petition For 2022 Ballot After State Rejected Earlier Version (Marijuana Moment)

  • Consumption Lounges on the Horizon for Nevada (High Times)

  • NBA Star Kevin Durant Teams Up With Weedmaps To Destigmatize Marijuana In Sports (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

Magic Mushrooms

  • Diamond Therapeutics Announces Health Canada Approval of Clinical Trial with Low-Dose Psilocybin (Psilocybin Alpha)

DMT

  • Biomind Labs to Advance a Phase II Clinical Trial on DMT for Treatment-Resistant Depression (Business Wire)

Ayahuasca

5-MeO-DMT

  • Psychedelic toad venom could soon be a clinical treatment for depression (Sifted)

Salvia Divinorum

Synthetic Cannabinoids

  • Belfast: Youths Hospitalised After Unknowingly Vaping Spice Instead of CBD (Vaping Post)

Ketamine

  • A New Ketamine Test Kit is Now Available (DanceSafe)

  • What Happens If Ketamine Treatment Doesn’t Work? (Healing Maps)

  • The Pros And Cons Of Ketamine For Anxiety: Here’s What We Know (Healing Maps)

PCP

Miscellaneous

  • Mixing Psychedelics and SSRIs Is Generally Safe, with Significant Exceptions (Lucid News)

  • At-Home Genetic Testing Can’t Tell You If You’re Going to Have a Bad Trip (VICE)

  • California Bill To Legalize Possession Of Psychedelics Clears Another Hurdle But Faces Key Challenge Next Week (Marijuana Moment)

  • Rat poison is just one of the potentially dangerous substances likely to be mixed into illicit drugs (The Conversation)

  • Denver Launches the Nation’s First Psychedelic Harm Reduction Training for First Responders (Lucid News)

  • Ann Arbor City Council Declares Psychedelics Awareness Month For September (Marijuana Moment)

  • Tech Startup Tripp To Use Virtual Reality To Improve Psychedelic Therapy (Forbes)

  • Beckley Psytech completes oversubscribed $80m (£58m) fundraise to develop portfolio of psychedelic medicine breakthroughs (Beckley Psytech)

  • Chacruna Launches Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative (Truffle Report)

  • Psychedelics Can Help Mitigate Symptoms Of Racial Trauma For People Of Color, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Media Company DoubleBlind Is The Master Class Of Psychedelics (Forbes)

  • Israeli team aims to treat neurological disorders with psychedelics (The Jerusalem Post)

  • Washington Governor Unveils New Process To Commute Hundreds Of Drug Possession Sentences (Marijuana Moment)

  • 9 Celebrities on Their Life-Changing Psychedelic Experiences (DoubleBlind)

  • Whole-Body Effects of Psychedelics Part 2 – Blood and Immune System (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • DEA Seizes Life Savings of New Orleans Grandfather Without Charging Him With a Crime (Reason)

  • Can Harm Reduction Reform the Drug Courts? (Filter)

  • Kathleen Harrison: Wisdom, Endurance, and Hope – Reflections from a Psychedelic Woman (Chacruna)

  • Moving Deckchairs On The Titanic: Drug Policy Reform in the UK (TalkingDrugs)

  • Post-Traumatic Growth With Psychedelics (Truffle Report)

  • Psychedelics, Out Of Body Experiences, and Lucid Dreaming (Reality Sandwich)

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