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Guy Oliver
Guy Oliver is a Cape Town-based photo-journalist. He smokes assorted cigarettes
Nobel Peace Prize’s credibility on the line – again
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.
Aliens, billionaires, swivel-eyed fake news cults and end times
Epicurus, Greek classical philosopher, cosmologist, Karl Marx’s influencer and god sceptic, contemplated intelligent life on distant planets. About 2 300 years later the…
Why do health warnings exclude bottled water and social media?
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
Apartheid’s religious fanaticism still burns cannabis users
There are tens of thousands of South Africans carrying a dagga possession criminal record since the 2018 decriminalisation
Motlanthe: It’s time to legalise all recreational drugs
The move towards decriminalising and legalising recreational drug use and drugs is based on scientific evidence
What’s ‘moral’ about a misguided war on drugs that defies common sense?
It’s high time we listened to former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe’s advice on the legalisation of all recreational drugs
Children are the losers in parental alienation
Parental alienation, where one parent actively severs the bond between a child and the other parent, counts as domestic violence and child abuse
Cannabis can clean toxic mines and industries
Cannabis is dubbed the ‘mop crop’ for its ability to remove or render industrial pollutants harmless
Income grant: Big bang for a few rand
Corporate South Africa is rolling out the big guns to spike momentum towards a universal basic income grant that threatens to expose their sick graveyard economy
The many moods of sweet Mary Jane
The cannabis underground tutors the corporate class in the vagaries of their shared mistress
Homegrown vs Big Pharma: Who stands to benefit from the legal market for medical marijuana?
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…
Prohibition is back in vogue, and it never ends well
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…
The great untethering and the airlines’ flat spin
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
Preserving a gem
On a shoestring budget the Gem Bioscope has drawn thousands of people to its film screenings, art exhibitions, performances and concerts, writes Guy Oliver.