Investigating the War on Drugs: recommendations for the future

Here’s my keynote lecture at the 2021 Australian & New Zealand Addiction Conference on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. I spoke around my 2019 book, “Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs“. The Australian & New Zealand Addiction Conference was hosted by the Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Association, a non-government,…

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…

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