Trip Reports is an independent publication from journalist Rich Haridy following the world of psychedelic science and medicine.
Rich is a freelance writer and journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. His first book, Trip Reports: Stories from an Australian psychedelic renaissance will be published through NewSouth Publishing in September 2026.
Originally completing a Media and Communications degree in the early 2000s with grand plans to become a filmmaker, Rich quickly discovered he preferred writing about films over making them. Delving into the miasma of film theory, he completed an Honours thesis on the phenomenology of cinematic aesthetics before forgetting all the big academic words he previously learned and moving into the world of journalism.
After working for several years as a freelance film journalist and critic, Rich wholeheartedly embraced the mid-2010s infamous “pivot to video”, curating mixtape mash-up nights and programming content for film festivals. In 2016 he started working with science and technology news site New Atlas, and his writing quickly broadened to investigate the ways 21st century culture is influenced by tech.
Rich also began chronicling the burgeoning “psychedelic renaissance” in science. After spending 15 years playing various roles in the psychedelic underground he watched this previously taboo field come out of the shadows and into mainstream culture.
Now, Rich is working as a freelance science writer. His current interest is chronicling this moment in modern psychedelic history; a moment where Western culture is beginning to shift its perspective on a type of drug use previously labelled as illicit.