US outlet The Hill has published my article based around my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside The Bloody War on Drugs: There’s a dangerous myth in sections of the public that the war on drugs is coming to an end. It’s an idea that as cannabis legalization sweeps across the U.S. and many other…
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London Times positively reviews Pills, Powder and Smoke
My book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, is out in the UK this week. I’ll be in the UK in early February on a book tour (3 February at Queen Mary University of London and 4 February at the famous Frontline Club). The London Times has just published a positive…
How popular cocaine in the West affects West Africa
My book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, is out in the UK on 9 January 2020. British magazine GQ has published an edited extract of the Guinea-Bissau chapter. Here’s the PDF of the story: How South American drug cartels created a narco-state in West Africa | British GQ
How prohibited cocaine is destroying Honduras
Foreign Policy has published an adapted extract on Honduras from my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. I’ve updated and slightly expanded some details about a country that’s suffering more than most from the US-led drug war. Honduras is a key transit country for South American cocaine. PDF here: In…
US morning TV show Rising talking about the global drug war
My book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, is out in the US this week. I was interviewed yesterday by a popular morning US TV show, Rising, part of The Hill media network, about the book, my research and calls to legalise and regulate all drugs:
ABC Adelaide interview on Pills, Powder and Smoke
I was interviewed this week by ABC Adelaide with host Peter Goers about my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. My interview starts at 1:36:54.
The Australian newspaper positively reviews Pills, Powder and Smoke
A review by writer Simon Caterson in the Australian newspaper last weekend of my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs:
Let’s establish a Ministry of Happiness
My story in today’s Canberra Times: Australia is facing an epidemic of loneliness, depression and suicide. These problems aren’t being solved by usual medicines or policies. What if federal, state and territory governments established a Ministry of Happiness to investigate the causes and find rational, achievable and funded solutions that looked beyond the typical remedies…
The Saturday Paper praises Pills, Powder and Smoke
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…
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…