Can magic mushrooms be medicine? We ask Tara Austin

Mental health, politics, psilocybin research, and the wellness industry

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Can magic mushrooms be medicine? We ask Tara Austin
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For this latest MediaCat Magazine podcast our Editor Mike Piggott chatted to Tara Austin. Tara is a behavioural and brand strategist, but also, more importantly, a psychedelic evangelist, and campaign director for PAR.Global. PAR.Global is working to get psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, rescheduled so that the scientific community can study them, with the aim to use their properties for countless medicinal purpose, not least to hugely help with mental health.

Mike and Tara discuss the UK wellness industry and touch on political regulation, and political will, and how Gen Z and millennials are looking to shape the world as they want to be.

Mike Piggott, opinions editor at MediaCat UK

Mike specialises in creating content in the media space, specifically in cinema, TV, gaming, streaming, podcast/audio, and outdoor. He previously spent three years (2021-2024) as MediaCat's executive editor, growing the publication's readership and following, largely from scratch; during which time he launched their podcast and monthly newsletter. Prior to that he was editor at The Marketing Society (2013-2021), where he launched a bi-monthly publication which ran for 14 issues, as well as a successful podcast. Mike is also a street photographer and film and TV blogger, and once came second in a Creative Review competition to rewrite Trainspotting's 'choose life' speech. He's proud of that one.

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