During my recent Australian tour for my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, the biggest event, organised by Drug Policy Australia, was held at the Melbourne Town Hall in front of 700 people. Alongside star panelists Fiona Patten, Mick Palmer, Laura Turner, Greg Barns and Tania de Jong, and host…
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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…
Kirkus Review gives Pills, Powder and Smoke strong send-off
My new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, is released in the US this November. It recently received a strong review in the large Publisher’s Weekly and now another US reviewing bible, Kirkus Review, has written (mostly) positively about the title: A critique of the war on drugs, which, by…
Sydney’s Eastside FM radio on the bloody drug war
During my recent Australian book tour, I was interviewed by Sydney’s Eastside FM Radio host Conor Burke on his show, Thirty Minutes With…, about my new title, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs: Part 1 and Part 2
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: