Cannabis

LSD

Coroner: Oregon teen killed by semi had LSD in his system (SaukValley.com)

Two teenagers hospitalized after buying LSD from dealer on Snapchat, police say (MassLive)

MDMA/Ecstasy

Donald Trump shaped ecstasy pills flood Britain as US President ready to meet The Queen (The Sun)

Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT

19-year-old Spaniard rescued from drug-fuelled doomsday sect in Peru jungle (The Local)

Ayahuasca: Ritual psychedelic turns modern-day anti-depressant (PLoS Blogs)

Remembering Wholeness: Ayahuasca and the Structural Violence of Modern Life (Kahpi)

Can Ayahuasca Help Those With Severe Depression? (The Fix)

He called it a hair tonic, feds called it illegal, but the name is ‘ayahuasca’ (Tampa Bay Times)

Dissociatives

Thai cave boys given ketamine during miraculous rescue to keep them calm as new footage shows the team waving and smiling in hospital (The Sun)

Business of using ketamine to treat depression, PTSD, other ailments is growing (Northern Nevada Business View)

Hennepin Healthcare Suspends Trial Of Paramedics Administering Ketamine (WCCO)

Man accused of killing his own mother: "If it wasn't for PCP, she'd be here" (KTRK-TV)

Opiates/Opioids

More People Are Inhaling Heroin, and It's Destroying Brain Tissue (Gizmodo)

Nevada to become first state to execute inmate with fentanyl (The Guardian)

Addicted people often end up in jail. That can be deadly for them (The Boston Globe)

US Surgeon General Urges More Americans to Carry Naloxone (Clinical Advisor)

Demonized in absentia: What The Nation got wrong about child welfare and opioids (NCCPR Child Welfare Blog)

Patients can get—and pharmacists can provide—naloxone at the pharmacy. Why don’t they? (American Pharmacists Association)

Kratom

Kava

Kavasutra Kava Bar serves its libations with a side of sexism and transphobia, followers have complained (Sun Sentinel)

Taking Pacific kava quality to new heights (Scoop.co.nz)

Khat

Village in Mandera County bans miraa chewing men from marrying their girls (Daily Nation)

Health Ministry bans the use of khat (Khmer Times)

Tarime ambulance seized for allegedly transporting khat (The Citizen)

Djibouti's khat, an expensive habit (France 24)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

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