Cannabis
New Mexico Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)
New Hampshire Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill (Marijuana Moment)
Illinois Is Already Getting a Weed Lounge, Just Weeks After Legalizing (MERRY JANE)
Berkeley Council Votes To Allow Cannabis Consumption In Lounges (CBS San Francisco)
First Alaska retail pot shops get approval for on-site consumption (Anchorage Daily News)
Local Australian Marijuana Legalization Law Takes Effect This Week (Marijuana Moment)
Cleveland City Council approves eliminating fines, jail time and criminal records for low level marijuana possession (Cleveland.com)
Key Virginia Senate Committee Approves Marijuana Decriminalization Bill, While Broader Legalization Study Advances (Marijuana Moment)
Cannabis Helps Protect HIV Patients’ Brains From Deteriorating, Study Finds (MERRY JANE)
President Trump: Marijuana Makes You “Lose IQ Points” (NORML)
Abnormal imaging findings key to EVALI diagnosis in vapers (Medical Xpress)
Find That CBG and CGC Can Kill Gastrointestinal Cancer Cells (MERRY JANE)
Missouri Activists Launch Signature Drive To Put Marijuana Legalization On 2020 Ballot (Marijuana Moment)
Cannabis vaping devices reimbursement approval for Canadian veterans (Health Europa)
American Cannabis Stocks Are Working Their Way To Wall Street (Forbes)
Legalization may mean more cannabis and less alcohol in colleges (Medical News Today)
U.S. Military Reiterates That CBD Is Off Limits To Service Members (Marijuana Moment)
Across Utah more students are reporting using marijuana (KUTV)
Weed-Sniffing K-9s in New York Are Getting Hounded into Early Retirement (MERRY JANE)
Pennsylvania: Marijuana possession arrests decline statewide (NORML)
Magic Mushrooms
Andrew Yang Wants To Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms For Military Veterans (Marijuana Moment)
Iboga
'I cannot claim to have prevailed': Miami University professor reinstated after iboga tree suspension (Cincinnati.com)
Special Forces: How Ibogaine is Helping Former Special Operations Soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD (Psychedelic Times)
Synthetic Cannabinoids
Chicago Shop Owner Gets Prison Sentence For Selling K2 Laced With Rat Poison (High Times)
Synthetic cannabinoids on the rise in Toledo, costing taxpayers thousands for EMS (WNWO)
Opioids
Tom Steyer Calls For Marijuana Legalization And Opioid Decriminalization (Marijuana Moment)
Could a Naloxone Implant Have a Major Impact on the Overdose Crisis? (Filter)
Federal Crackdown On Fentanyl Analogues Repeats the Mistakes of the Drug War, Advocates Say (The Appeal)
Caffeine
Everyone is making coffee wrong, study suggests (Fox News)
Nicotine
WHO Report: Tobacco Use is Declining Worldwide (Vaping Post)
International Experts Slam World Health Organization’s Deceptive Vaping Release (Filter)
Wisconsin can’t enforce tobacco age at 21 because of state law, causing confusion at stores (WQOW)
Study: Teens with ADHD Face Increased Risk for Nicotine Addiction (ADDitude)
Kratom
Reasons why kratom is getting more popular in the past decade (Augusta Free Press)
Miscellaneous
Santa Cruz City Council Approves Psychedelics Decriminalization Measure (Marijuana Moment)
Goop on psychedelics isn’t bad, it’s just boring (WIRED)
Psychedelic drugs may reduce depression and anxiety by increasing psychological flexibility (PsyPost)
Heroin and cocaine can be injected safely in UK's first 'mock drugs room' (Sky News)
Oakland Activists Unveil Plan To Legalize Sale Of Psychedelics This Year (Marijuana Moment)
Music festivals responsible for minuscule percentage of drug deaths (The Age)
Are Investors Ready To Change Their Minds About Psychedelic Drugs? (Forbes)
Drug deaths summit to take place in Glasgow (BBC)
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