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Why The Purity of Meth Matters, Part 2
Watch now | A podcast conversation with a Las Vegan emergency room doctor about the effects of the stratospheric meth purity on the people he sees…
 • Sam Quinones
Why The Purity of Methamphetamine Matters
A new report emphasizes once again how pure the meth is coming from Mexico, making it especially devastating in terms of addiction, homelessness, and…
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The DNL Top 10 of 2025
Thank you for supporting my DREAMLAND NEWSLETTER in its maiden year.
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Mrs. Allen and school band as an antidote to what ails us.
Amid a massive music conference, seeds of a preventive solution.
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Goodwill Book Review: Mr. Playboy ... Hugh Hefner as revolutionary
In America, where our revolutionaries are mostly cultural and economic, Hef changed the country -- for better or worse.
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Why The Purity of Methamphetamine Matters
A new report emphasizes once again how pure the meth is coming from Mexico, making it especially devastating in terms of addiction, homelessness, and…
 • Sam Quinones
The DNL Top 10 of 2025
Thank you for supporting my DREAMLAND NEWSLETTER in its maiden year.
 • Sam Quinones
Mrs. Allen and school band as an antidote to what ails us.
Amid a massive music conference, seeds of a preventive solution.
 • Sam Quinones
A Cemetery of Flags on the Border
I was driving up the Rio Grande Valley one day in 2017 and saw all the flags flying in this cemetery. I stopped and made this....
 • Sam Quinones
Tuba player Jim Self and the Liberation of Creativity
A grand tuba influence passes. And why I wrote The Perfect Tuba in the first place.
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Hyperpotent, ultraprocessed everything ... so much of the U.S. economy
Our economy of addiction shows how permitting legal, hyper-potent addictive stuff is doing the job on us better than any foreign enemy could.
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What Happened on tiny Wilton Place
A quiet block of Hollywood was beset by what afflicts L.A. -- fentanyl, meth, mental illness, homeless encampments, and the search for affordable…
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The tuba is about liberation ... & ... a tiny L.A. newspaper has a good week ...
investigating homelessness funding, nonprofit salaries, property deals ... But first some cool stuff about my latest book, THE PERFECT TUBA
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The Punk Rock of Book Promotion
Needed to promote THE PERFECT TUBA, about tuba players and band directors
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Out today, my next book: THE PERFECT TUBA
"A mind cleanse for our time" ... About tuba players, band directors, & finding love for something thru hard work & persistence — a love no drug can…
 • Sam Quinones
One Woman Covers L.A.'s Westside in a Time of Fentanyl, Meth, Homelessness
Hyper-local, investigative reporting has allowed her Westside Current online newspaper to grow as readership at trad news outlets falls.
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The Perfect Tuba arrives home
My fifth book. About tuba players & band directors. About finding purpose & fulfillment from hard work, focus & postponed gratification in a world of…
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