Mattha Busby
@matthabusby.bsky.social
Reporting on Drugs/Psychedelics/Subculture/Society @vice @wired @rollingstone @guardian @latimes @ukesquire Repped: @aevitas_creative
Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC
There were high hopes for psychedelic policy reform when Trump returned to the White House. Nine months into his second term, with a host of advocates in senior government positions for the first time in history, what happens next is anyone’s guess
For the MAPS Bulletin
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For the MAPS Bulletin
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November 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
There were high hopes for psychedelic policy reform when Trump returned to the White House. Nine months into his second term, with a host of advocates in senior government positions for the first time in history, what happens next is anyone’s guess
For the MAPS Bulletin
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For the MAPS Bulletin
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Mayan eco-chic is the new eco-bleak. For the latest issue of Volume, I draw on my three reporting trips to Tulum to demonstrate the unmitigated disaster of ‘eco-tourism’ in the Mexican town, among other things
June 7, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Mayan eco-chic is the new eco-bleak. For the latest issue of Volume, I draw on my three reporting trips to Tulum to demonstrate the unmitigated disaster of ‘eco-tourism’ in the Mexican town, among other things
For the very unlikely return of the Vice magazine, I spoke to an array of inspirational people who well and truly hit Rock Bottom but emerged on the other side to impart their gory wisdom
www.vice.com/en/article/r...
www.vice.com/en/article/r...
June 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
For the very unlikely return of the Vice magazine, I spoke to an array of inspirational people who well and truly hit Rock Bottom but emerged on the other side to impart their gory wisdom
www.vice.com/en/article/r...
www.vice.com/en/article/r...
Sean Fitzgerald, a 31-year-old ex-soldier from Coventry, was shot dead ‘lawfully’ by police, an inquest has ruled, as he fled a drugs raid. He was unarmed and had his arms in a natural position, but the officer who killed him claims he feared for his life
www.vice.com/en/article/t...
www.vice.com/en/article/t...
May 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Sean Fitzgerald, a 31-year-old ex-soldier from Coventry, was shot dead ‘lawfully’ by police, an inquest has ruled, as he fled a drugs raid. He was unarmed and had his arms in a natural position, but the officer who killed him claims he feared for his life
www.vice.com/en/article/t...
www.vice.com/en/article/t...
Thanks to Kev Kharas for this generous summary of the article www.vice.com/en/article/t...
May 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Thanks to Kev Kharas for this generous summary of the article www.vice.com/en/article/t...
Enjoyed presenting my talk charting my extraordinary journey reporting on the dark side of psychedelics @breakingconvention.bsky.social last week
April 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Enjoyed presenting my talk charting my extraordinary journey reporting on the dark side of psychedelics @breakingconvention.bsky.social last week
NEW: Sir Chris Cohn, the British hedge fund manager named the UK’s 'most generous man' for his philanthropy, is to be announced as one of the new investors into MDMA pharma company Lykos Therapeutics, alongside fellow billionaire Antonio Gracias, who is leading the takeover deal
March 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
NEW: Sir Chris Cohn, the British hedge fund manager named the UK’s 'most generous man' for his philanthropy, is to be announced as one of the new investors into MDMA pharma company Lykos Therapeutics, alongside fellow billionaire Antonio Gracias, who is leading the takeover deal
Psychedelics: A pocket primer. By me! Out next week via the wonderful team @HoxtonMiniPress
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February 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Psychedelics: A pocket primer. By me! Out next week via the wonderful team @HoxtonMiniPress
www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/psy...
www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/psy...
Nib on coca's comeback by me in the latest @newint magazine
February 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Nib on coca's comeback by me in the latest @newint magazine
Last week I attended the Wisdom of the Leaf coca summit organised by the Mckenna Academy outside of Cusco, Peru. The WHO is currently reviewing coca’s illegal global status, and scientists, activists and policymakers, including the Bolivian VP, gathered to help create a movement to legalize coca
February 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Last week I attended the Wisdom of the Leaf coca summit organised by the Mckenna Academy outside of Cusco, Peru. The WHO is currently reviewing coca’s illegal global status, and scientists, activists and policymakers, including the Bolivian VP, gathered to help create a movement to legalize coca