Meghan McCarron
Freelance Journalist
2024 Ferriss-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellow specializing in psilocybin breeding and legalization complexity.
Biography
Meghan McCarron is a 2024 Ferriss-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellow. She specializes in psilocybin breeding and the complexities of legalization. Her work addresses the agricultural and genetic dimensions of the psilocybin industry — a critically underreported angle in mainstream psychedelic coverage.
Why They Matter to the LearnShrooms Community
Psilocybin breeding (strain isolation, potency selection, genetic stability) is one of the most consequential and least-covered dimensions of the legal industry. McCarron is one of very few journalists treating it seriously.


