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Ongoing discussions on whether psychedelics can help treat mental health conditions and improve quality of life have compelled officials and researchers to seek public opinion. All psychedelics are listed as Schedule I substances though the FDA classified psychedelic-assisted...

This week, an annual drug use survey Monitoring the Future (MTF), conducted by scientists at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor revealed that cannabis and hallucinogen use by young adults (19-30) in the past year reached a historic...

As David Hodes first noted in The Green Market Report, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s growing interest in psychedelic studies is remarkable.  The agency annually invests about $41.7 billion in medical research as a whole, while more than 80 percent of the funding is...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) announced recently that it was searching for new partners to supply cannabis for research purposes. To be eligible to take part in the "acquisition and/or production of cannabis and related materials," partnering facilities need...

A new study, recently published in the Journal of Cannabis Research reported that the number of cannabis publications continued to increase during the last two decades despite cannabis prohibition. According to the new study, between 1829 and 2021 almost 30,000 cannabis-related studies...

Cannabis' possible effects on young people will continue to be of the utmost concern as the legal marketplace takes shape. Throughout 2021, several studies helped further comprehension of an area that still suffers from a significant education gap. While nothing became definitive...

Marijuana use continued to rise among college students and same-aged peers who are not in college in 2020, according to survey results from the 2020 Monitoring the Future (MTF) panel study, reported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).  This represents the highest levels...

Welcome to Psyched, a bi-monthly column covering the most important developments in the industry of medicinal psychedelics. We hope you follow us periodically as we report on the growth of this exciting new industry. CaaMTech Launches Research Collaboration With National Institutes of Health...

For years, the Drug Enforcement Administration has delayed applications for growing and researching marijuana without explanation.  No more. A new lawsuit has pushed the enforcement agency into publishing an internal memo that explains why it has yet to hand out...

On Wednesday, members of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing titled “Cannabis Policies for the New Decade." In the committee’s first ever hearing on marijuana reform, members of the House listened to the testimony of three witnesses: Matthew J....

The National Institute for Drug Abuse has issued a notice of special interest encouraging grant applications on the "effects of changing cannabis laws and policies in the U.S. and globally on public health." The federal institute is a science-centered research organization...