JOHN VEIT | Botanical Apartheid Book Launch

BOTANICAL APARTHEID | Book launch, Slideshow, and Talk by JOHN VEIT

Saturday, October 24, 2026

Doors Open: 4:00 PM

Readings & Slideshow: 4:30 PM

 

With readings by special guests

SCOT SOTHERN | Looking for Trouble

JERRY STAHL | Gonzo Neurotic: The Best (and Not So Best) of Jerry Stahl

 

What is Botanical Apartheid?

Join journalist John Veit discussing his four decades of reporting on the global drug war—its origins, environmental costs, and consequences for human rights, culture, labor, and social control.

Botanical Apartheid: Impacts of Drug Wars on Politics, Culture and the Environment, featuring articles from the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, Mexico, and Jamaica originally published by High Times, Vice, Thrasher, Revista Cáñamo, Cannabis Now, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Featuring: Jorge Cervantes, Noam Chomsky, Captain Chronic, Myrtle Clarke, Vicente Fox, Jack Herer, Lemmy Kilmister, Kyle Kushman, Todd McCromick, Michka, Dennis Peron, Tony Serra, Jules Stobbs, and John Trudell.