Mattha Busby is a journalist with a focus on health policy, drugs, and culture, writing for VICE since 2015. His work has also appeared in The Guardian, TIME, GQ, The London Times and Men’s Health. Based in Vancouver, Canada, 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.
In a world that is more accepting of psychedelics than ever, are the escapades of @Chompers2024 and co. the start of a new trend?
In August, Lauren Levis lost her life at the Soul Centro retreat in Paquera. Hers isn’t the only death linked to a cast of characters toying with iboga—an African root bark offering one of the wildest drug experiences known to man.
VICE investigates the story behind revealing new Trump movie The Apprentice, and how the 1980s forged a divisive future US president.
What kind of person ends up on a BDSM boat in the middle of the sea? Well, me. But who are the rest of these freaks?
Soul Quest claims it is unable to pay $15 million in compensation to the grieving family of 22-year-old Brandon Begley.
