13 - Andrew McMillen - a podcast by Tom Ballard
from 2015-04-14T14:30
Freelance journalist Andrew McMillen writes about all sorts of fascinating stuff. While I was in Brisbane I sat down with him to briefly discuss dead bodies and Wikipedia, but we spent most of our time focussed on getting high.
Andrew's book Talking Smack: Honest Conversations About Drugs saw him interview big names in Australian music about their relationship with and opinions on illegal drug use. I asked him what he learnt from putting the book together and we talked about the history of drug criminalisation, the relationship between drugs and creativity, the problems with the public debate about the issue, why people take drugs, how to buy them and where he sees the conversation going next.
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Article: Meet The Ultimate Wikignome
Lisa Pryor's A Small Book About Drugs
FriendlyJordies on sniffer dogs
Cause of the Week: Headspace (headspace.org.au)
Further episodes of Like I'm A Six-Year-Old
Further podcasts by Tom Ballard
Website of Tom Ballard