Mattha Busby is a journalist, author and speaker specialising in health policy, drugs/psychedelics and (sub)culture.

His work has appeared in The Guardian, VICE, Rolling Stone, WIRED, TIME, The Daily Beast, GQ, and Men’s Health. 

In 2024, he was a Ferris-UC Berkeley fellow in psychedelic journalism, and in 2018 he won the London Press Club 'Hugh Cudlipp' Award.

His first book Should All Drugs Be Legalized? was published in 2022 by Thames & Hudson. His new pocketbook on psychedelic will be published by Hoxton Mini Press in March 2025.

Mattha has an MA in Journalism from Goldsmiths, University of London (2017) and a BA in History and International Relations with an International Year from Royal Holloway, University of London. During his year at Concordia University, Canada, he was an editor at the student newspaper The Link.