Cannabis
Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana for Personal Use (NORML)
Finland’s Government Will Consider Decriminalizing Marijuana In Response To Citizen Petition (Marijuana Moment)
Here’s What Researchers Know So Far About How Marijuana Legalization Affects Public Health (Marijuana Moment)
CBD Is Googled More Than Acupuncture or Meditation, New Study Finds (MERRY JANE)
China Has Officially Kicked Off Its Own Reefer Madness Campaign (MERRY JANE)
CBD Linked to Sleep Disturbances in Adolescent Rats (The Scientist)
FDA Warns Pregnant and Breastfeeding Mothers to Avoid THC and CBD (MERRY JANE)
Matt Every Reveals Cannabis Use Was the Reason for 3-Month PGA Tour Suspension (Bleacher Report)
Presidential Candidate Julián Castro Calls For Marijuana Legalization And Expungements In New Plan (Marijuana Moment)
Sleep Deprivation Triggers the Munchies the Same Way Pot Does, Study Shows (MERRY JANE)
Questions Raised Over Whether The Cannabis Industry Is Contributing To Air Pollution (NPR)
LSD
The Man Who Turned On The World: The Life Of Michael Hollingshead (The Quietus)
Magic Mushrooms
Mindfulness meditation enhances positive effects of psilocybin (EurekAlert!)
Ayahuasca
A Homosexual Marriage Experience in Santo Daime (Chacruna)
Can Ayahuasca Save The World? What I Learned at the 2019 Ayahuasca Conference (The Link)
Iboga
Interview about Bwiti initiation and iboga with Nima Grégory Puente (LIMINAL)
Novel Psychoactive Substances
We need to talk about the deadly dangers of designer drugs (MedCity News)
Nitrous Oxide
Laughing gas helpful for labor pain, but epidural still top choice (EurekAlert!)
Edmond emergency room using nitrous oxide to alleviate fear, pain in pediatric patients (KFOR)
Ketamine
One in three pain patients suffer side effects after ketamine infusion therapy (EurekAlert!)
PCP
Police: Man high on PCP breaks into Germantown Walmart, uses hair clippers on $2 pumpkin (WJLA)
Driver admits he was high on PCP when he killed expecting mother in crash (KFGO)
Opioids
Massachusetts Study Confirms That People Rarely Die After Using Opioids Prescribed for Them (Reason)
People who smoke or snort drugs half as likely to carry naloxone: BCCDC (The Tri-City News)
Drug users urged to get naloxone kits after research shows many in B.C. don’t have one (Coast Mountain News)
Cocaine
You Can (Illegally) Order a "Cocaine Taxi" in Germany (MERRY JANE)
The Public Needs to Know Today's Cocaine Contains Fentanyl (The Cleveland Scene)
Methamphetamine
Meth is most common drug in overdose deaths in chunk of US (San Francisco Chronicle)
Iowa Cops Denied Medical Care to Arrested Man Who Died of Meth Intoxication (Filter)
CAFFEINE
WVU researcher studies link between caffeine, sleep and alcohol use in middle-schoolers (The Herald-Dispatch)
More electronic device use tied to more sugar and caffeine in teens (Medical Xpress)
TOBACCO
In a First, FDA Endorses Brand of Tobacco Pouches as a 'Reduced Risk' Alternative to Cigarettes (TIME)
Young people who use flavored tobacco at first are more likely to keep using tobacco later, study says (CNN)
Which Countries Do Best — And Worst — At Keeping Big Tobacco Out Of Politics (NPR)
Tobacco firms accused of using gimmicks to subvert plain packaging (The Guardian)
Alcohol
FBI Rules Out Poisoned Alcohol In Deaths Of American Tourists (HuffPost)
Antibiotics caused man’s gut to turn carbs into alcohol (New York Post)
New Study Says People Who Frequently Drink Alcohol Had Lower Rates Of Obesity, But Doctors Disagree (CBS Philly)
World first clinical trial commenced in alcohol use disorder (PR Newswire)
Nootropics
The ‘smart drugs’ revolution: how pharmaceuticals will leave us ‘accelerating into a 24/7 society’ (Metro)
Kratom
A new kratom report maps one possible future for the drug (Inverse)
Kava
Government aims to establish a Kava research institute (FBC News)
Behind the kava craze: Fiji's world-famous plant putting people to sleep (New Zealand Herald)
Miscellaneous
Chicago Follows Oakland, Introduces Resolution to Decriminalize Psychedelic Plants (Psychedelic Science Review)
There’s Now a Federal Psychedelic Lobby (DoubleBlind)
What the heck happened to Reality Sandwich? (Psymposia)
UK Parliament Committee Endorses Decriminalizing Drugs (Marijuana Moment)
What Drugs Are Most Popular Globally? Scientists Screened Sewage for Years to Find Out (VICE)
B.C. festival-goers' drugs contain only expected substance 2 out of 3 times: study (CTV News)
Vaping Companies Brace for Wave of Lawsuits Over Lung Illness (Courthouse News Service)
Drug laws not fit-for-purpose, world-leading drug experts warn (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Beto O’Rourke Calls For Drug Decriminalization And Safe Injection Sites In New Plan (Marijuana Moment)
Drugs and Me sets up the First Harm Reduction Information Booth in Malta (Talking Drugs)
What’s the Psychedelic Community Talking About? Three Main Takeaways from the 2019 Horizon’s Conference (Psychedelics Today)
For-Profit Psychedelics and Access for All: A Conversation with Ronan Levy of Field Trip Psychedelics (Psychedelic Times)
Should I try microdosing at work? The science behind the Silicon Valley brain hack (Mic)
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