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.
The World Health Organization had a historic opportunity to ease a strict global ban on the coca leaf—a prohibition, campaigners…
The consumption of the coca leaf in its raw form by millions daily across the Andes carries no significant risks,…
People have always had to fight for the right to test their drugs, to get information about whether they’re likely…
Drug-related law enforcement is more likely to increase violence than reduce it, indicates a report commissioned by the government of…
Saudi Arabia executed at least 122 people for drug-related convictions in 2024, its highest known total. At the end of…
The United Nations must “decolonize” global drug laws and deschedule the coca leaf, which is used daily by millions of…
Calls to eradicate coca fields in the Peruvian Andes began a century ago as part of a mission civilisatrice led…
United States taxpayers continue to fund a destructive and deadly drug war in low- and middle-income countries across the world,…
It’s a scorching July day in British Columbia, at Bass Coast festival, and there is no line outside the drug…
“We understand you want healing, but you can’t lie to us,” said Christopher Young, founder and owner of the Soul…