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Jan 08
I thought Fun Guyz said they’d given up….Windsor (Canada) Police seize $20,000 in drugs, arrest employee at downtown magic mushroom shop

Fun Guyz in the news again   Windsor police seized $20,570 in illegal drugs and charged one individual after a raid at a downtown Windsor psilocybin dispensary on Monday afternoon. Members of the Drugs and Guns Unit executed a search warrant at the ‘FunGuyz’ dispensary on Ouellette Avenue shortly after 4 p.m. The dispensary sells […]

Jan 08
American Journal of Psychiatry Publishes January 2025 “Special Issue On Psychedelics”

Here’s the link https://psychiatryonline.org/toc/ajp/182/1 This is the list of articles / papers Editor’s Note Psychedelics in Psychiatry: Oh, What A Trip! Gregory A. Fonzo, Ph.D., +2 authors Publication date: 01 January 2025 Pages1–5https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20241025 pdf abstract full text SAVE ARTICLE Commentaries Psychedelic Regulation Beyond the Controlled Substances Act: A Three-Dimensional Framework for Characterizing Policy Options Maha N. […]

Jan 08
Press Release: Clearmind Medicine Announces the Publication of European Patent Application for Binge Behavior Psychedelic Combination Treatment

Vancouver, Canada, Jan. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Clearmind Medicine Inc. (Nasdaq: CMND), (FSE: CWY0) (“Clearmind” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotech company focused on discovery and development of novel psychedelic-derived therapeutics to solve major under-treated health problems, today announced the publication of a European patent application with the European Patent office for its innovative […]

Jan 08
Attorneys For Village Farms International and Hemp for Victory Say DEA, “actually opposes the proposed rule it is supposed to defend and has engaged in improper communications with other opponents of the reform.”

Marijuana Moment reports Attorneys for a cannabis company and advocacy group that are set to testify in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) marijuana rescheduling hearing process beginning this month say new evidence has come to light revealing that the agency actually opposes the proposed rule it is supposed to defend and has engaged in improper […]

Jan 08
Predictions: 2025 to Be a Very Big Year in Cannabis

It’s the first week of January, and you all know what that means in the blogging game: It’s time to make wild predictions about the coming year. As always, making predictions is hard, particularly when they’re about the future. But here are a few of our thoughts about what the cannabis world may look like in 2025: […]

Jan 08
Fiji: 3 men arrested for cannabis possession in New Town

3 men are in Police custody after they were found with illicit drugs at Tamole Settlement in New Town, Nasinu. The Fiji Police and Fiji Dog Detector Unit raided the house on Sunday afternoon where a 56-year-old unemployed man and a 23-year-old car wash attendant voluntarily gave up the drugs that were hidden within the […]

Jan 08
Press Release: Chinese Nationals Sentenced to Serve 20 Years Collectively in Federal Prison for Illegally Trafficking Black-Market Marijuana from Oklahoma Grow Operation

OKLAHOMA CITY – JEFF WENG, 47, of China and Brooklyn, New York, has been sentenced to serve 120 months in federal prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester. On June 6, 2023, a federal grand jury charged Weng and co-defendant Tong Lin, 29, with conspiracy to possess marijuana plants […]

Jan 08
Goodwin Lawyers Write For Cannabis Business Times: 6 Cannabis Industry Legal Cases, Policy Reforms and Trends to Watch in 2025

Here’s the introduction Jennifer Fisher is a partner in Goodwin’s Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice, and a co-chair of the firm’s Cannabis practice. Jessica Huang is an associate in Goodwin’s Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice and a member of the firm’s Cannabis practice. Brett Schuman is a partner and the co-chair of Goodwin’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice, and a […]

Jan 08
UK – The Guardian: Home Office may reclassify ketamine as “Class A” in response to record levels of use

The Guardian reports Ketamine, the anaesthetic taken by Elon Musk to control his moods, could be reclassified as a class A drug by the Home Office after illegal use reached record levels. Currently controlled as a class B substance, ministers are seeking “expert advice” on reclassification after an estimated 299,000 people reported use of the drug in […]

Jan 08
8 Week Online Course: Jan 10 – Feb 8 2025: Strategies For City & County Psychedelics Decriminalization

My name is Kevin Matthews and I’ve been working as an advocate, citizen-lobbyist, proponent, consultant, and advisor for psychedelic policy reform efforts at the local and state level for the past 6 years. The Denver Psilocybin Initiative (I-301, May 2019) was my first campaign. We were bootstrapped, inexperienced, and total underdogs. There were many doubts, […]