Archive for February, 2010

IRELAND’S LEGAL DRUG HAVENS ‘HEADING’ FOR TROUBLE – THE GUARDIAN

Shrouded behind shelves of psychedelic paraphernalia and rails of gothic apparel the strobe lighting illuminates a pick and mix laden assortment of concoctions.

The kaleidoscope of herbal and synthetic legal highs on show is as vibrant as the debate currently taking place in Ireland surrounding the ‘headshops’ that home them.

What Helen can’t say is that the cheap and legal highs her store sells are marketed as bath salts or incense but designed to be smoked, snorted or swallowed. They mimic what…

PACO ADDICTS IN THE SLUMS OF BUENOS AIRES – THE GUARDIAN

The piece I co-authored with The Guardian Journalist Annie Kelly showing some of the rarest footage I have ever filmed of kids smoking paco in one of Argentina’s most renowned slum villa’s.

The piece lead world news on The Guardian and The Observer websites

BUENOS AIRES COUCH SURFING MECCA – AP TELEVISION

My video news report on Buenos Aires’s new status as a global mecca for the alternative tourism trend of couch-surfing. Story is currently being broadcast through the Associated Press Television’s features bulletin and has already gone out on several channels around the world, including this link to its transmission on US’s Ebru News. Will keep you updated over the next few weeks on its continued broadcasts and print publications.