Cannabis

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

Third Time’s A Charm? Denver Keeps Trying To Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms (The Fresh Toast)

Brain scientists meet to share data on magic mushrooms and other matters (GeekWire)

MDMA/Ecstasy

A Psychedelic Study In Connecticut Aims to Bridge the Racial Gap in MDMA Psychotherapy (Psychedelic Times)

Ecstasy For PTSD: ‘It Gave Me My Life Back’ (CBS Denver)

Young people 'plan to take drugs' at vigil for Shakira Pellow who died after taking MDMA (Cornwall Live)

Ayahuasca/DMT/5-MeO-DMT

Australian Grass Got Kangaroos So High on DMT They Couldn't Walk Straight (Inverse)

Statement on Ayahuasca (Chacruna)

Man receives 10 years for DMT possession (Daily Chronicle)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

Festival goers on molly tested, turns out most of them took bath salts (Rooster)

Dissociatives

UA Clinical Trial to Repurpose Ketamine for Parkinson’s Patients (The University of Arizona Health Sciences)

Low-dose ketamine may be an effective alternative to opioids (EurekAlert!)

Man sues police over ketamine injection (KARE11)

Keep up ketamine trial, mother pleads (Otago Daily Times)

Boy, 13, collapsed after masked yobs 'forced him to drink ketamine' (Birmingham Live)

Opiates/Opioids

Dutch cut overdose deaths by dispensing pure heroin (Cleveland.com)

'Potential game-changer:' Town of Cary will screen human waste to measure opioid use (WRAL)

'For Me, It's Personal.' CDC Chief Reveals Fentanyl Almost Killed His Son (TIME)

How Naloxone Could Be Sold Over-The-Counter (Forbes)

Evolving opioid epidemic poses challenge for public health officials (Politico)

Kratom

Kratom Effects At Low Doses And High Doses (Kratom Guides)

FDA cracks down on 'opioid-like' substance kratom (WBMF)

Kava

Quality standards being developed for Pacific kava (Radio New Zealand)

Khat

Ambulance driver arrested for transporting khat (Jamaica Observer)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

Can a Comedown Kill You? (VICE)

Caves all the way down: Is psychedelics research closer to theology than to science? (Aeon)

Senators Honor The DEA On Its 45th Birthday (Even Though They Lost The Drug War) (Marijuana Moment)

Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics? (Scientific American)

For Babies, Life May Be a Trip (The Wall Street Journal)

There’s No Rational Way to Justify America’s Drug Laws (VICE)

White House Opposes Legalization Of All Drugs, Press Secretary Says (Marijuana Moment)

British YouTubers on drugs film themselves taking heroin, LSD and ecstasy for "trip reports" kids as young as 12 watch (Mirror)

One in three drug tests at HMP Nottingham positive (BBC)

A Conversation about Intersectionality in the Psychedelic Community (Psymposia)

Pill testing at festivals has hidden benefits that could reduce drug taking (ABC.net.au)

The 5 drugs that feel the best, according to scientists (Rooster)

Why Are Psychedelics Illegal (Medium)

Sessions' Escalating Drug War Causing Cold Feet Over Safe Injection Centers (Reason)

MADE Festival to provide drug testing in attempt to prevent deaths in Perry Barr (Birmingham Live)

Judges Can Require Drug Users On Probation To Remain Drug-Free, Court Rules (WBUR)

Disclaimer: "This Week in Psychedelics" does not censor or analyze the news links presented here. The purpose of this column is solely to catalogue how psychedelics are presented by the mass media, which includes everything from the latest scientific research to misinformation.

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