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.
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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:
US book bible Publisher’s Weekly positively reviews Pills, Powder and Smoke
My book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, is released in the US this November. The first review, via the international publishing bible, Publisher’s Weekly, has just been released and it’s pretty good! In this vivid, partisan piece of reportage, Australian journalist Loewenstein (Disaster Capitalism) depicts the catastrophic human consequences of…
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…