Phil Smith Receives Edward M. Brecher Award for Achievement in the Field of Media
Channel: Drugreporter
Date: 06/11/2013

The Edward M. Brecher Award for Achievement in the Field of Media has been awarded to Phil Smith. This award honors those who have produced the highest quality of journalistic coverage of drug policy and other drug issues. In 2013 the award goes to Phil Smith.

Phil Smith has written more on the war on drugs than anyone else in the United States, if not the world.  He has served as writer and editor of the Drug War Chronicle newsletter since May 2000, where he has turned out 6,500 hundred separate articles and 1,500 feature stories.  He was the first to break the news about California's then-Governor Schwarzenegger signing a marijuana decriminalization bill as well as many other notable drug policy headlines.  He has reported from the opium fields of Afghanistan and the coca fields of Bolivia and Peru, as well as the U.S.-Mexico border and the mean streets of North American cities from Vancouver to Washington, DC. He was awarded at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Denver, CO in October 2013.
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