Everything That Happened After
April 2023 profile piece from Kelly Dennett on “Everything that happened after: Former party pill king Matt Bowden on going broke, and his new business idea” Visit Stuff.co.nz
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Detoxing Spikes in Divisive Thinking.
In today’s fragmented world, public communications face a major challenge: inclusivity. Our audience is divided by different beliefs, and traditional information channels are increasingly polluted by corporate marketing, war propaganda and social algorithims. As someone who has experienced diverse cultures and perspectives, from North to South and East to West, I have learned to appreciate…
Starboy Eternity
Starboy Eternity Trilogy (1/3) Zac Blair’s beautiful cinematic creation depicts a steampunk world of sleeping citizens where a lone child searches for help after spotting an impending alien invasion. Eternity began as New Zealand’s most ambitious rock video but soon became interdimensional story telling of a different league.
Fentanyl: High or Die
December 2022, Wilhelmina Shrimpton’s Award winning Today FM piece High & Die: The Fentanyl Problem, picked up Radio New Zealand award for best long form documentary. Fentanyl began appearing in New Zealand Emergency Departments as predicted, so it was time to talk about alteratives to drug war again. You can view the full doco by…
World’s Wierdest Drug Market
28 May 2022, Vice UK checked in with us to report on the important contribution NZ made to global drug policy. Is the World’s Weirdest Drug Market In New Zealand? | The War on Drugs A very positive piece which quickly racked up 3.5 million views stating the global war on drugs was almost…
How NZ Lost Its Head
2021: Josie Adams’ “How NZ lost it’s head in the BZP Party Pill Experiment” form Spinoff and also ran in NZ Herald. I had arrived back in New Zealand and the regulatory safety system we had been setting up had been sabotaged, and 80 young New Zealanders tragically died as a result. This was the…
Should Have Been Rats
2018, This RE:NEWS interview from my exile period in Thailand, after our drug safety testing systems were removed in New Zealand and a dangerous new drug came and had killed 20 people at that point, as I have predicted would happen. “It should have been rats that were killed, not young humans.” Lots of cool…
Voice from Beyond: Stuff 2017
In September 2017 Stuff let me speak out on the animal testing disinformation scam, where animal activists swallowed a lie from corporate lobbyinsts that drug safety tests would be carried out on dogs. The well organised protests staged all across NZ during election season were designed to stop a law that could quickly give us…
VICE!
July 2016: Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia: The Synthetic Marijuana Steampunk Rock Opera Friends told me Shane Smite was talking to Joe Rogan about what we were doing in NZ, Hamilton Morris phoned and said he wanted to come and film our new lab. Next minute 5 of them flrew from New York and showed up on my…
Drug Lord with a Social Mission
March 2015 Maia Svalavitz, American neuroscience journalist who covers drugs, addiction and public policy flew down to NZ and spent some time with us and wrote this beautiful piece for Pacif Standard. https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-drug-lord-with-a-social-mission-also-performs-under-the-alter-ego-starboy