Cannabis

LSD

Security Troops At Wyoming Nuclear Missile Base Used And Distributed LSD – OpEd (Eurasia Review)

Does Microdosing LSD Really Improve Cognition? (71Republic)

Psilocybin/Magic Mushrooms

Fifteen years of crime reporting left me with PTSD. Magic mushrooms helped me begin to recover (The Independent)

Mushrooms Aren't Magic (Reason)

'Magic' mushrooms: The next great legalization debate (The Sacramento Bee)

MDMA/Ecstasy

We went undercover in a Chinese MDMA factory (Mixmag)

Study: Party Drug ‘Molly’ Often Not Really Pure MDMA; Pill-Testing At Concerts Could Curb Use (Study Finds)

Dad who lost two sons to MDMA overdoses on same night calls for drugs to be legalised after Mutiny festival deaths (The Sun)

Tragic young dad and teenage girl may have taken ‘Green Heineken ecstasy pills’ before festival drug deaths (The Sun)

Ayahuasca/DMT

The Muká Diet of the Yawanawá Indigenous People in Acre, Brazil (Chacruna)

Synthetic Cannabinoids/Psychoactive Research Chemicals

The Truth About Research Chemicals (Psychedelic Heaven)

What's in the ‘Bath Salts’? — Chromatography Explores (Chromatography Today)

Dissociatives

A ‘breakthrough’ depression drug inspired by ketamine is attracting more attention from big pharma (Business Insider)

Opiates/Opioids

Mexico detains wife of drug baron blamed for U.S. heroin scourge (Reuters)

Taliban commander orders closure of opium labs in towns and cities (The Guardian)

Naloxone and the High Price of Doing Nothing (The Fix)

Tons of Poppies Destroyed in California’s Biggest Opium Bust (FOX40)

AMA Castigated for Rightly Opposing a National 3-Day Limit on Opioid Prescriptions (Reason)

One-Third of New Heroin Users Become Dependent on It (Live Science)

Kratom

DEA 'waiting for analysis': Kratom may soon be banned (KIRO)

Source of Kratom Contaminated With Salmonella Is Unknown, CDC Warns (Inverse)

Which Brands Linked With Nationwide Kratom Salmonella Outbreak? (Kratom Guides)

Could Kratom Solve the Opioid Epidemic? (San Diego Entertainer Magazine)

Is Kratom Legal In Georgia 2018 (Kratom Guides)

Confusion persists over Kratom law in Tennessee (WSMV)

Khat

Authorities arrest three suspects for smuggling Khat leaves (ANTARA News)

Miscellaneous Psychedelics/Psychoactives/Drug Policy

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