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Mattha Busby
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Investigating altered states, power, culture & health @guardian @wired @rollingstone @vice @latimes @ukesquire @gq @menshealthmag Rep’d @aevitas_creative
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    Mattha Busby
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    Jul 4, 2020
    'The fact this all happened as I was coming back from an interview about getting stopped: you couldn’t make it up,' says @Ryan_Colaco whose car window was smashed by officers claiming he was hiding drugs hours after he told Channel 4 about police racism
    Police smash car window of man on way home from TV interview about police racism
    From theguardian.com
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    Mattha Busby
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    Jun 6, 2020
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    Chaos outside Downing St as police on horseback advance and protesters are kettled. Officer impaled by traffic light during charge
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    Mattha Busby
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    Mar 20, 2023
    UK government drug advisors recommend decriminalisation. They get ignored. Then I embark on doomed 3-year freedom of information quest. A minister refers to me in parliament as the ‘someone who FOId it’. Finally, this Times exclusive with @andrewellson
    thetimes.com
    Top secret drug report supported decriminalisation
    The Home Office has won a battle to suppress a report from its own expert adviser that recommended decriminalising possession of drugs.A tribunal has concluded
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    Mattha Busby
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    Sep 19, 2023
    In March 2020, I made a Freedom of Information request for a UK government advisory document I was told had recommended drug decriminalisation I took it all the way to the Information Commissioner and a first tier tribunal. No dice Then I got leaked it
    theguardian.com
    UK drug advisers recommended decriminalising possession in 2016, leak reveals
    Exclusive: Guardian has seen copy of 27-page report that Home Office attempted to keep confidential
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    Mattha Busby
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    Oct 3, 2019
    Here's the moment Extinction Rebellion activists sprayed a beetroot liquid at the Treasury and the hose went out of control and drenched me
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    Mattha Busby
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    Jun 3, 2020
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    It's kicking off now. Unclear exactly what started things. Police appeared to attempt to take a man from the crowd and pandemonium ensued
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    Mattha Busby
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    Jun 20, 2020
    Met police facing criticism after separate videos emerge of two black men being subject to force by officers while stopped and searched in London during lockdown - both later released with no further action. Exclusive by me and @VikramDodd
    theguardian.com
    Call for watchdog to investigate Met after video emerges of black man being kneed in face
    New London case follows police referral to IOPC for another arrest where man pepper-sprayed while in cuffs
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    Mattha Busby
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    Jun 6, 2020
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    Had seemed police were preparing to kettle, have now set up perimeter to keep most of the crowds from Downing St entrance. Choruses of 'we are one', 'fuck the feds' and 'Boris Johnson's a racist' as flares and bottles thrown. Unbelievable scenes
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    Mattha Busby
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    Sep 14, 2020
    People took drugs in @PeterKrykant's safer consumption van in Glasgow on Friday for the first time, and police did not intervene
    Inside Glasgow's Safer Drug Consumption Van
    From vice.com
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    Mattha Busby
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    Jun 6, 2020
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    'Every little thing is going to be alright'... It has relatively calmed down now and should say there are plenty of people telling others not to throw bottles and chants for peace
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    Mattha Busby
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    Jun 22, 2018
    This is shameful - the England kit is made in Bangladesh by workers on 21p an hour and then sold for £160 a pop
    England's £160 World Cup kit is made in Bangladesh by workers on 21p an hour
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Mattha Busby
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    Feb 25, 2021
    If the NHS is so concerned about people's diets, why do they sell so much junk food in hospitals? Vending machines in A&Es are stocked full of chocolate, crisps and fizzy drinks
    NHS warns against Gwyneth Paltrow’s 'kombucha and kimchi' Covid advice
    From theguardian.com
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    Mattha Busby
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    Jan 10, 2021
    'All the observational studies show strong vitamin D effects on infectiousness, morbidity and mortality' >>> my potted history on the inescapable link between Covid and vitamin D, featuring unlikely duo @RupaHuq and @DavidDavisMP theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
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    Mattha Busby
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    Jun 20, 2024
    Colombia’s President Admits to Drinking Ayahuasca Gustavo Petro might be the first sitting government official in the world to admit to drinking the Amazonian brew. And surely the first head of state to talk about tripping? via @doubleblindmag
    Colombia's President Admits to Drinking Ayahuasca
    From doubleblindmag.com
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