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:
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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…
Australian TV Channel 10’s Studio 10 program on the futile drug war
I recently appeared on Australia’s Channel 10 popular TV morning program, Studio 10, talking about the drug war and my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs
ABC Australia Radio National’s Late Night Live interview on ending the war on drugs
My interview on ABC Australia Radio National’s Late Night Live on the drug war and my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs:
ABC Australia Sydney interview on the global drug war and its insanities
My interview on ABC Australia Sydney Breakfast program about the drug war and my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs: Antony Loewenstein edit
ABC Australia Radio PM interview on radically rethinking the never-ending war on drugs
My interview on ABC Australia’s leading current affairs program, PM, on the global drug war and my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs: