This Week in Psychedelics

"This Week in Psychedelics" is a Reality Sandwich column that follows the multifaceted media appearances of this class of chemicals and their effects in popular culture.

• "Green Lantern" touted as "psychedelic superhero movie." (Comic Book Resources)
• Martin Dockery opens his one-man show "The Bike Trip," a pro-LSD manifesto. (Charleston City Paper)
• "Honor Thy Daughter," a book about the use of MDMA during late stage cancer, published by MAPS, is featured on a television spot. [video] (The Boston Channel)
• The final subject in the first clinical LSD study in over 35 years just completed his last treatment. (Santa Cruz Patch, Huffington Post)
• $4.5 million of DMT (a "rare party drug") has been seized in New Zealand. A 21-year-old faces a maximum life sentence for importing the illegal chemical. (New Zealand Herald)
• Two men in Montana are charged with selling fake drugs: flour instead of ecstasy and normal paper instead of LSD blotter. (The Republic)
• Courtney Love expresses her desire to try ayahuasca, which she says "should be mandatory for everybody," but health workers worry about mental health issues. "Celebrity users" such as Sting, Paul Simon, and Bruce Parry are mentioned. (The Independent)
• LIFE magazine feature on the history of its coverage of LSD (TIME)
  
• 20 Phish fans arrested at concert for possession of "various hallucinogenic and illegal recreational drugs." (Asbury Park Press)
• Man pleads guilty to possessing laced Sour Patch Kids. (Oneida Dispatch)
  
• Article about "underground website" where people anonymously buy LSD and cocaine. (Opposing Views)
  
• 19 people aged 21 to 54 arrested for dealing drugs including LSD after 6-month investigation in Rhode Island. (Boston Globe)
• 29-year-old man jailed for 3 years for LSD possession. (Southland Times)
• Article on the benefit of mushrooms, magic and otherwise. (Montreal Gazette)
• MAPS Graduate Student Association member Florian Scheibein helped organize a 7-article feature on medical cannabis. (Irish Examiner)
  
• Psychedelic visuals light up the Sydney Opera House with 3-D mapping technology. (WIRED)
• Four teenagers are held overnight in a jail in New Zealand "until the effects of the mushrooms wore off". (Northern Advocate)