Mattha Busby

Two leaders in the mushroom supplement industry, Paul Stamets and Jeff Chilton, had been friends since the 1970s. Then they got into a feud about a seemingly simple question that is anything but… What constitutes a mushroom? For @latimes latimes.com/lifestyle/stor…

Can psychedelics bring peace to the Middle East? At @PsychedelicSci, delegates discussed MDMA clinics in the West Bank, rabbis drinking ayahuasca, and whether group tripping might heal national trauma. Plus many other questions... For @_dispatch_media dispatch-media.com/tripping-with-…

Nice article on Death by Astonishment by @matthabusby for @doubleblindmag

Issue 24 is here 🛏️ With writing from @EvaWiseman, @John__Phipps, @Emmafmagnus, @matthabusby, @WillBuckley24, @rosielanners, @PaddyGalbraith, @Bron_Maher, @venetiathompson, @ray_philp, @sophwilkinson & more. Cover by @nishantchoksi the-fence.com/shop/

These visitors had planned to see a pristine natural paradise—only to be met with a climate-stricken wasteland upon arrival As global temperatures rise, this sort of tourist disappointment risks becoming the norm Dispatch from Morocco for Atmos atmos.earth/tripadvisor-pr…

As psychedelic companies and therapy apps experiment with AI, people are already taking huge doses of drugs and using chatbots to process their trips. wired.com/story/people-a…

As psychedelic companies and therapy apps experiment with AI, people are already taking huge doses of drugs and using chatbots to process their trips ‘It's almost like your own self that you’re communicating with’ Latest for @WIRED wired.com/story/people-a…

Spacing Out is a long held #Boulder Tradition.. Rest of world tries to catch up @nytimes nytimes.com/2025/07/04/wor…

Waska: the cost of spiritual healing in the Amazon theguardian.com/environment/ng…

Meet the psychedelic scientist @LeorRoseman who tripped with @asvpxrocky and helped craft a global hit single — with LSD 'I’d come to the studio with gifts. He saw me as a scientist doing an experiment and he liked the idea that he was the experiment.' doubleblindmag.com/that-time-aap-…

"Singh goes to Burning Man to check out the healing sessions at the Shamandome and is struck by the shift in focus: the individual rather than the tribe, mental states rather than bodily ailments." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

To join doomsday cult the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light you have to believe that its leader Abdullah Hashem is the messiah. His claims also include a theory that giant rabbits who wear clothes and speak control a faraway planet New for @VICE vice.com/en/article/aro…

Jhaj now faces the prospect of another stint behind bars after the twisted stunt, which was just the latest in a long list of elaborate ploys designed to meet young women. For @VICE vice.com/en/article/jac…

Inside the race to turn 5-MeO-DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelic drugs in the world into a pharmaceutical. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Rabbis on Ayahuasca, calls for MDMA to be sent to the West Bank, and the billionaire behind Extinction Rebellion... @matthabusby saw it all at America's largest psychedelic conference last week.

WIRED attended a biohacking conference filled with unorthodox and often unproven anti-aging treatments. Adherents revealed how the Make America Healthy Again movement has given them a renewed fervor. wired.com/story/biohacke…

RFK working very hard to make sure psychedelics get approved 'within 12 months'. Well, if you're a psychedelic drug developer I suggest you make your application now!

My latest feature is about the D.B. Cooper mystery. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Scientists are sending cannabis seeds to space... but it's not a gimmick, or a quest for an otherworldly high... For @WIRED I speak to the team behind the Martian Grow project to find out why they think cannabis could be a celestial super crop. wired.com/story/scientis…