Mattha Busby
Journalist at Freelance
📍Vancouver | British journalist ✍️ health, drugs, (sub)culture & environment | Seen in: @guardian @vice @rollingstone @menshealthuk @time @doubleblindmag
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2 weeks ago |
filtermag.org | Mattha Busby
Drug-related law enforcement is more likely to increase violence than reduce it, indicates a report commissioned by the government of the United Kingdom. Whether the government will revise its drug policies accordingly remains to be seen. “The available evidence suggests that drug-related law enforcement activities are of limited effectiveness in reducing violence,” states the report, which was prepared by the research organization RAND Europe and published by the UK Home Office on March 27.
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3 weeks ago |
vice.com | Mattha Busby
This long-read investigation is taken from VICE magazine, v29n1: THE ROCK BOTTOM ISSUE. To subscribe to four print issues each year, click here. Neoshaman (noun): a New Age ceremony leader, typically Western and urban-dwelling, who appropriates the ancient shamanistic practices and psychedelic substances of indigenous communities, popularizing their use for financial gain via cultic rituals and a guru-like persona.
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1 month ago |
vice.com | Mattha Busby
Ironically, for a podcast that seems designed to taunt all that is empirically provable, the numbers are the most impressive thing about the Telepathy Tapes. The series began 2025 at the summit of podcast charts in both the US and UK, and has remained firmly in the top 10 on both Spotify and Apple.
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1 month ago |
filtermag.org | Mattha Busby
Saudi Arabia executed at least 122 people for drug-related convictions in 2024, its highest known total. At the end of the year, the country was chosen to host the 2034 World Cup. Saudi Arabia was a major contributor to a big increase in the world’s recorded executions for drugs. The kingdom has intensified a brutal drug war in response to increased substance use.
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1 month ago |
technologyreview.jp | Mattha Busby
シロシビンやMDMA（メチレンジオキシメタンフェタミン）などの幻覚剤（サイケデリックス）には即効性があり、持続的な抗うつ効果がある可能性が研究で示されている。米国食品医薬局（FDA）は2024年8月、幻覚剤を用いた医療治療（MDMAベースの療法）の初の申請を却下したが、これらの薬物は医学の主流への道を歩み始めているようだ。バイオテクノロジー企業であるコンパス・パスウェイズ（Compass Pathways）が主導するシロシビンに関する研究は、試験が複雑であることもあって遅れているが、すでにデータは、いわゆるマジック・マッシュルームに含まれる幻覚性化合物に有望な兆しを示している。最終的には、FDAがうつ病治療薬として承認するかどうかを決定することになる。もし承認された場合、それは膨大な合法的な医療市場を開くことになるが、そのとき、誰がキノコを栽培するのだろうか？ スコット・マーシャルはすでに栽培している。カナダのブリティッシュコロンビア州にある製薬会社オプティミ・ヘルス（Optimi...
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