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Guy Oliver is a Cape Town-based photo-journalist. He smokes assorted cigarettes
Should the peace prize committee embrace integrity, it would have few options to either confer the 2025 award on Yemen’s Houthi or admit defeat and cancel it.
Epicurus, Greek classical philosopher, cosmologist, Karl Marx’s influencer and god sceptic, contemplated intelligent life on distant planets. About 2 300 years later the…
Since Homo sapiens became a thing about 300 000 years ago, we have never breathed more carbon dioxide, absorbed more industrial toxins or processed more privatised propaganda
There are tens of thousands of South Africans carrying a dagga possession criminal record since the 2018 decriminalisation
The move towards decriminalising and legalising recreational drug use and drugs is based on scientific evidence
It’s high time we listened to former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe’s advice on the legalisation of all recreational drugs
Parental alienation, where one parent actively severs the bond between a child and the other parent, counts as domestic violence and child abuse
Cannabis is dubbed the ‘mop crop’ for its ability to remove or render industrial pollutants harmless
The cannabis underground tutors the corporate class in the vagaries of their shared mistress
Cannabis is scheduled for its South African parole on September 18. Kelly McQue’s handy medical marijuana producers’ guide is an opening salvo against corporate medicine’s demand…
The global drug war is reaching for parity with Europe’s medieval Hundred Years’ War. As for other accolades, the combination of the apocalypse religions’ poor stabs at…
If record vinyls and iTunes can co-exist in the Technological Age, Wi-Fi will allow ocean liners a slice of the airlines’ global travel monopoly
On a shoestring budget the Gem Bioscope has drawn thousands of people to its film screenings, art exhibitions, performances and concerts, writes Guy Oliver.
