Wellness Wednesday
Anna Carson talked to Matt Bowden about Spike Detox, Steward Ownership of Xtralife Health Science, and building a new health system one cell at a time.
Prolie Pieces or Stories from Media
Anna Carson talked to Matt Bowden about Spike Detox, Steward Ownership of Xtralife Health Science, and building a new health system one cell at a time.
November 2023 I spoke with Natalie Cutler-Welsh on Reality Check Radio about coming out of the Thailand exile, having a strong sense that my work was not done in New Zealand. From 20 years running a pharmaceutical company and the last 5 specifically negotiating with government on toxicology testing I was concerned…
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.” Lawrence Smith’s pictures are awesome! Visit Stuff.co.nz
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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