Maori health collaboration licence to cultivate mushrooms

A Maori health science collaboration which has just been granted New Zealands's first licence to cultivate an indigenous fungi containing psilocybin. Rangiwaho Marae, based south of Gisborne, is leading the collaboration and the license was granted to Rua Bioscience, a biopharmaceutical business also based in Tairawhiti. The licence is only for cultivation research at this stage but it aims to unlock therapeutic potential of psilocybin found in indigenous varieties of 'magic mushrooms' To find out more Nights is joined joined by project advisor Manu Caddie