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Getting High For a Living: Hamilton Morris on the Importance of Drugs

Going Mental with Eileen Kelly

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How Did You Get Into Writing for Vice?

I want to talk about your show. So can you give me a brief rundown of the show for people who aren't familiar with it? I have seen the show. Okay good. Glad to hear it. Yeah so I mean without getting too self-righteous or more realistic I did have this feeling growing up that drugs are very important. Like they're kind of talked about in a dismissive way even in the way that people talk about my show. It's often a little bit dismissive like how do I get that job? This guy gets high for a living you know and I get it. The war on drugs just say no the way that journalists historically have been complicit in the war on drugs

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