This Week in Psychedelics - 9.3.21

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Cannabis

  • Appeals court rejects lawsuit seeking to force DEA to reschedule marijuana (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Anti-Pot Author Alex Berenson Gets Permanent Twitter Ban (High Times)

  • How Much Legal Cannabis Is In California? It’s A State Secret. (Forbes)

  • Allowing Public Marijuana Smoking Leads To Bigger NYC Arrest Decline Than In Other Legalized Places (Marijuana Moment)

  • Fakkuappu: Japan Struggles with Cannabis Reform (High Times)

  • Senators Flooded With Input On Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)

  • Big Pharma Seizes Brazilian Market While Medical Cannabis Bill is Stalled (TalkingDrugs)

  • Alabama medical cannabis program might roll out slower than expected (Marijuana Business Daily)

  • Swiss Doctors to Prescribe Cannabis Without “Exceptional Authorization” (High Times)

  • Legalization Nation: The Dispensary Divide (The Nib)

  • New Group Files Another Missouri Marijuana Legalization Initiative For 2022 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Ohio Marijuana Activists Cleared To Collect Signatures For 2022 Legalization Ballot Initiative (Marijuana Moment)

LSD

  • How Dock Ellis Made Baseball History on LSD (DoubleBlind)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Denver Psychedelics Activists Push To Expand Psilocybin Decriminalization To Allow Gifting And Communal Use (Marijuana Moment)

  • Yale researchers discover healing effects of psychedelic drug (Yale Daily News)

  • Heroic Hearts Project announces new study with Imperial College London into the physiological and psychological effects of psilocybin on veterans. (Volteface)

  • 'Psychedelic renaissance' sees first legal collection of Australia's medicinal magic mushrooms (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  • The Tragic Story Of Magic Truffles: The Elusive Wild Psilocybe (DoubleBlind)

  • Red Light Holland Successfully Completes Canada’s Largest Legal Sale and Import of Psilocybe Truffles into Canada Under a Health Canada Approved Psilocybin Import Permit (Psilocybin Alpha)

DMT

  • Microdose Psychedelic Insights Presents the Upcoming DMT Conference, a Deep Dive Into the Dynamic Field of DMT Therapeutics (Benzinga)

Ayahuasca

  • A single dose of ayahuasca improves self-perception of speech performance in socially anxious people, study finds (PsyPost)

  • Wilma Mahua Campos, Shipibo Ayahuasquera (Chacruna)

  • The Importance of Traditional Ayahuasca Techniques with Carlos Tanner (EntheoNation)

5-MeO-DMT

  • Psychedelic Toads Emerge In Arizona During Monsoon Season (iHeartRadio)

San Pedro

Novel Psychoactive Substances

  • Mindset Pharma Announces its Next Generation Novel 5-MeO-DMT Psychedelic Analogs Demonstrate a Significantly Improved Safety Profile in Preclinical Results (Psilocybin Alpha)

Nitrous Oxide

  • Nitrous oxide: Patel orders Laughing gas review to decide on potential new law (BBC)

Ketamine

  • Cops and Paramedics Involved in Elijah McClain’s Death Charged With Homicide (VICE)

Miscellaneous

  • Drug Users Are Suing the Canadian Government Over the War on Drugs (VICE)

  • DEA Proposes Massive Increase In Marijuana And Psilocybin Production For Research To Develop FDA-Approved Medicines (Marijuana Moment)

  • 'QAnon Shaman' to plead guilty in US Capitol riot case (CNN)

  • What Is the ‘Collective Unconscious’ and How Can It Help Us Understand Psychedelic Experiences? (Psychedelics Today)

  • Can Psychedelics Promote Social Justice and Change the World? (Chacruna)

  • Seattle Should Decriminalize All Drugs, City Task Force On Overdose Crisis Recommends (Marijuana Moment)

  • Jon Hopkins Announces New Album Music for Psychedelic Therapy, Shares New Song: Listen (Pitchfork)

  • Meet the women who regularly microdose psychedelics (Cosmopolitan)

  • Glow Time: PsychLight Brings a Powerful Tool to Psychedelic Research (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • New Psychedelic Therapy Clinic Opens in Charleston (Johnson City Press)

  • Psychedelics Co. Synthesis Institute Closes $7.25M Series A Funding Through Non-Traditional VC Path (Benzinga)

  • Psychedelics—The New Psychiatric Craze (Mad in America)

  • Field Trip Health Ltd. Announces Launch Of “Kap Co-Operative” Program, Enabling Independent Psychedelic Therapists To Practice At Its Field Trip Health Centers; Also Launches Training Programs To Educate A New Generation Of Psychedelic Clinicians (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Psychedelics in Recovery: 12-Step Peer Support Program (Truffle Report)

  • Legal Psychedelic Retreats – What They Are & Where to Find Them (EntheoNation)

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