The granting of a licence to cultivate indigenous fungi containing psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, is the first of its kind in New Zealand and a major milestone in a Māori health science collaboration led by Rangiwaho Marae, just south of Gisborne.
The licence was granted by the Ministry of Health to Rua Bioscience, a biopharmaceutical business based in Tairāwhiti that...
