This Week in Psychedelics - 9.4.20

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Cannabis

  • Drone Drops Hundreds Of Free Bags Of Marijuana In Israel (Marijuana Moment)

  • Virginia Senate Approves Two Marijuana Bills As Lawmakers Pursue Broader Legalization (Marijuana Moment)

  • Sheriff Files Lawsuit To Keep Medical Marijuana Off Nebraska’s Ballot (Marijuana Moment)

  • Malta is officially out of weed (The GrowthOp)

  • Vermont Marijuana Sales Legalization Bill Inches Closer To Final Form After Conference Meeting (Marijuana Moment)

  • Are rosin vape carts going to take over the market? You better hope so. (Leafly)

  • Mississippi Medical Marijuana Initiative Has ‘Strong Chance Of Passage,’ Poll Shows (Marijuana Moment)

  • USC researchers think THC in marijuana could treat deadly COVID complication (Bakersfield.com)

  • How Legal Weed Destroyed a Counterculture Icon (Politico)

  • USDA Approves Hemp Plans For Maine, Missouri And Another Indian Tribe (Marijuana Moment)

  • Study: Over Three in Four Cannabis Consumers Prefer Flower Over Concentrates (NORML)

  • California Must Turn Over Marijuana Documents To DEA, Federal Court Rules (Marijuana Moment)

  • Cannabis extract may protect honey bees from pesticides (StratCann)

  • State Of California Officially Promotes Marijuana Industry With New Campaign (Marijuana Moment)

  • Marijuana Use Growing in Popularity Among Seniors (NORML)

  • Marijuana Legalization Group Helps Craft New Impaired Driving Prevention Bill In Congress (Marijuana Moment)

  • Medical cannabis failing Delaware patients (Cape Gazette)

Magic Mushrooms

  • Revive Therapeutics Enters into Clinical Trial Agreement to Evaluate Psilocybin for the Treatment of Methamphetamine Use Disorder (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Mindset Pharma Announces Promising Test Results of its Novel and Proprietary Psilocybin-Inspired Compounds (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Red Light Holland Announces Arrangement to Launch Sale of Psychedelic Truffle Microdosing Packs in the Netherlands (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Cancer patients say psilocybin can be both therapy and “a beautiful experience” (Inverse)

MDMA

  • Regulator weighs push to legalise MDMA for mental health treatment (Brisbane Times)

DMT

  • How to Integrate a Difficult-to-Remember DMT Experience (Maps of the Mind)

  • Machine Elves and a Journey Into The DMT Spirit World (DoubleBlind)

Ayahuasca

  • 'A Hail Mary': Psychedelic Therapy Draws Veterans to Jungle Retreats (The New York Times)

  • Miley Cyrus went vegan after ‘puking up seals’ while on hallucinogenic drug (Metro)

Peyote

  • Peyote Decriminalization Opposed by Groups Seeking to Protect the Plant from Poaching (Lucid News)

Iboga

  • Healing the Soul with Spray Paint and Iboga with Chor Boogie (Chacruna)

Ketamine

PCP

DXM

  • Dextromethorphan (DXM) Guide: Effects, Uses, Legality, and Safety (Reality Sandwich)

Miscellaneous

  • Compass Pathways Files for U.S. IPO, to list on Nasdaq (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Scientists induce psychedelic-like experiences from a placebo alone (PsyPost)

  • Three-In-Five DC Voters Support Psychedelics Decriminalization Initiative, New Poll Finds (Marijuana Moment)

  • Numinus Announces Filing of Final Short Form Prospectus for Offering of up to $4,000,000 (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Why one in five young people have microdosed through lockdown (Dazed)

  • New Wave Holdings Corp Appoints Dr. Wade Davis to Psychedelic Research Advisory Board (PR Newswire)

  • Dr. Matthew Johnson Joins AWAKN Life Sciences (Psilocybin Alpha)

  • Oregon Could become the First State to Decriminalize Drugs in November (The Appeal)

  • Focus on the family: How the War on Drugs destroyed America’s foster care system (Leafly)

  • Lamotrigine and Psychedelics (Spirit Pharmacist)

  • The Mechanisms of Change in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy (Psychedelic Science Review)

  • The Neuroscience of Psychedelic Visuals (Reality Sandwich)

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