Featuring content from daily briefings generated July 24, 2026 through July 27, 2026.

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📰 News Media (Click for more)

• 🌿 [National, VT] Double the limit: Vermont bets bigger cannabis buys will beat the black market - vnews.com
• 🌿 [National] Frequent cannabis users wake with higher cortisol levels, study finds - medicalxpress.com
• 🌿 [National, Massachusetts] Massachusetts voters reassess recreational marijuana use this fall - wpri.com
• 🌿 [Royalton, Vermont] Voters to decide if Royalton allows cannabis sales - vnews.com
• 📝 [Indianapolis, Indiana] Grand jury investigating 'unlawful' cannabis lobbying at Indiana Statehouse - indystar.com

🗣️ Social Pulse (Click for more)

Lived/Living Experience

• 🛟 as a former public entertainer and addict in recovery, performing live, even just at open mics, poses its own risks. abstaining from the booze is easy, but resisting my addiction to people and attention is not and... - @thetincanandroid on Bluesky

Innovation

• 💊 Check out the latest from CDUHR investigators Noa Krawczyk, David Frank, and Ashly Jordan- Mobile but still tied down: Challenges to scaling mobile methadone through a regulatory thicket (link) - @CDUHR_NYC on X
• 🧪 We(@Vanguard_Lab )have targeted lcmsms screens using 3 mrm transitions to identify 90+ illicit substances, method is validated for peptides, supplements and drinking water, and uses certified referance standards. We... - @Dustin_Newman on X

Opposition Views

• 🚫 Thank you for saying this. “Harm reduction” is just enabling addiction with better branding. It’s a nationwide failure. We need real treatment beds and recovery programs — not free needles and Narcan that keep... - @TheYBovinoQueen on X

🏙 City Updates

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📚 Academic Research (Click for more)

• 🧭 Experiences of Rural Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals Who Use Substances: Risk Factors of Substance Use and Barriers to Harm Reduction Services - Substance Use & Misuse - 2026-07-21 - doi.org
• 🩺 Experiences of non-prescribed opioid use during opioid agonist therapy: an interpretative phenomenological analysis - Addiction Science & Clinical Practice - 2026-07-22 - doi.org
• 🏥 Ten-year longitudinal study of incarceration among a community-based cohort of people who inject drugs - Health & Justice - 2026-07-23 - doi.org

⚖️ Law & Policy

State Laws

• 💊 [Illinois] CLINIC PSYC-NO PRESCRIP OPIOID - openstates.org
• 📜 [Michigan] Controlled substances: schedules; scheduling of certain controlled substances; modify. Amends sec. 7204 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.7204). - openstates.org

💸 Funding (Click to expand)

Current

• 🚑 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Emergency Department Alternatives to Opioids Program - Deadline: Jul 27, 2026
• 🚑 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - First Responders-Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act - Deadline: Jul 27, 2026
• 💊 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Medication-Assisted Treatment - Prescription Drug and Opioid Addiction - Deadline: Jul 27, 2026
• 💊 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis - Preventing Drug Overdoses: Community Prevention and Response - Deadline: Jul 27, 2026

📣 Activism (Click for more)

• 📣 National Alliance to End Homelessness - Contact Congress to protect homelessness funding and HUD renewals
• 📣 Shatterproof - Contact North Carolina House Representative to support SB 59

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