Mattha Busby

    Mattha is a journalist with a focus on health policy, drugs/psychedelics and (sub)culture. His work has appeared in the Guardian, VICE, Rolling Stone, WIRED, TIME and Men’s Health. Based in Lisbon, Portugal, and originally from the UK, he is the author of Should All Drugs Be Legalized? (Thames & Hudson, 2022) and is writing a new pocket book on psychedelics (Hoxton Mini Press). In 2024, he was a Ferris-UC Berkeley fellow in psychedelic journalism.

    “Moral Bankruptcy” as WHO Opts to Maintain Global Coca Prohibition

    The World Health Organization had a historic opportunity to ease a strict global ban ...

    WHO Review: Coca Not Harmful, Prohibition Is

    The consumption of the coca leaf in its raw form by millions daily across ...

    Fight Over Claimed Ownership of Drug-Checking Technology

    People have always had to fight for the right to test their drugs, to ...

    UK Govt. Publishes Report Indicating Drug Policing Boosts Violence

    Drug-related law enforcement is more likely to increase violence than reduce it, indicates a ...

    Saudi Arabia a Key Driver of 2024 Global Surge in Executions for Drugs

    Saudi Arabia executed at least 122 people for drug-related convictions in 2024, its highest ...

    Coca Summit in Peru Focuses Push to End Global Prohibition

    The United Nations must “decolonize” global drug laws and deschedule the coca leaf, which ...

    Rooted in Colonialism, Coca Prohibition Could Be Nearing Its End

    Calls to eradicate coca fields in the Peruvian Andes began a century ago as ...

    US Continues to Spend Billions on Drug War in Lower-Income Countries 

    United States taxpayers continue to fund a destructive and deadly drug war in low- ...

    Festival Drug Checking Services Still Too Often Sidelined

    It’s a scorching July day in British Columbia, at Bass Coast festival, and there ...

    Wrongful Death Verdict Puts Hard Questions to Psychedelic Community

    “We understand you want healing, but you can’t lie to us,” said Christopher Young, ...

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