“Johann Hari’s book is the perfect antidote to the war on drugs, one of the most under-discussed moral injustices of our time”
Glenn Greenwald
To mark the 100th anniversary of the first drugs ban in the United States, award-winning British journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic journey across the world and into the war on drugs. Meeting the people whose lives have been devastated – in different ways – by drugs, Hari made some astonishing discoveries: drugs are not what we think they are, and the war on drugs has very different motives from the ones we see on TV. The result was Chasing the Scream, a New York Times bestseller and a passionate and timely intervention into one of the most controversial questions of our time. The event is chaired by broadcaster Rick O'Shea