One of Australia’s major weekend newspapers, The Saturday Paper, reviews my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, in a piece by Louise Swinn: While our government, under the guise of “compassionate conservatism”, announces plans to drug-test welfare recipients, journalist Antony Loewenstein brings us Pills, Powder, and Smoke, the result…
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How serious drug reform happens
During my recent Australian book tour for Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, the Canberra Times consistently featured the work and its themes (likely due to the fact that this progressive Territory is very open to drug reform and just legalised cannabis for personal use). Last weekend the paper published yet another…
Sydney’s 2GB radio interview on ending the drug war
During my recent Australian book tour for Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, I was interviewed by Sydney’s 2GB radio by the host Luke Grant. To have such a friendly conversation on a usually conservative broadcaster shows how far the debate has shifted:
Brisbane Writer’s Festival conversation on the global drug war
I recently appeared at the Brisbane Writer’s Festival talking about my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. One of the events was a conversation about the book and the drug war with Susan Forde, Director of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and Professor of Journalism at…
Sydney book launch for Pills, Powder and Smoke
My book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, recently launched to a packed house in the great Gleebooks bookstore in Sydney with Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi and writer Jeff Sparrow. It was a stimulating evening with deep interest in the human toll of the global drug war:
Murdoch’s Tasmanian newspaper publishes piece on legalising drugs
Tasmania’s Mercury newspaper is the state’s major newspaper and it’s owned by Rupert Murdoch. Today prominent lawyer Greg Barns writes his column in the paper about my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, and why the drug war should end: lowens-16092019104600
Triple R radio interview on the drug war and how to end it
Melbourne’s Triple R radio is one on Australia’s finest independent broadcasters. I was recently interviewed by the station’s Breakfasters show about my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs:
Growing public pressure to enact meaningful drug reform
At the recent Canberra book launch for my just-released title, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, the Canberra Times interviewed the territory’s Justice Minister about his progressive views on drug reform. The article about it appears in today’s paper (and follows last weekend’s extensive coverage in the same newspaper of my book). The…
Canberra book launch for Pills, Powder and Smoke
Last week in Canberra, Australia’s capital city, my book on the global drug war, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, was launched by the territory’s Justice Minister and Greens leader, Shane Rattenbury. Part of the Canberra Drug Policy Series organised by the Australian National University, other speakers included Professor Des Manderson…
Wrestling with Murdoch columnist who embraces the drug war
During the research of my just-released book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, I interviewed one of Australia’s most prominent Murdoch columnists and supporters of the drug war, Miranda Devine. The book features the full version of this exchange but Australian outlet Crikey published an edited extract this week: The Kings…