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CHASING THE SCREAM AUTHOR JOHANN HARI ON WBAI MORNING

Friday, February 13, 2015   12:00 AM - 11:30 PM

It is now 100 years since drugs were first banned in the United States. As we commemorate this centenary, journalist Johann Hari completed his epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people all over the world are beginning to recognize three startling truths: Drugs are not what we think they are. Addiction is not what we think it is. And the drug war has very different motives to the ones we have seen on our TV screens for so long.

Hari joined Mario Murillo on the Friday Morning Show to discuss his book Chasing the Scream, where he discussed some of the stories of people across the world whose lives have been transformed by this war, and are documented in his groundbreaking book.

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