{"id":485287,"date":"2026-02-17T07:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485287\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:47:12","slug":"high-time-how-australia-changed-its-mind-about-illegal-drugs-desmond-manderson-la-trobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485287\/","title":{"rendered":"High Time: How Australia Changed Its Mind About Illegal Drugs (Desmond Manderson, La Trobe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tTuesday, 17 February 2026 \u00a0\u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tDesmond Manderson\u2019s High Time charts the history of attitudes towards drugs in Australia, from anti-Chinese attacks on opium in the early 20th century to present-day concerns about vaping and pill testing. The book expands on Manderson\u2019s earlier work, From Mr Sin to Mr Big, updating his research in light of&#8230; \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Books+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=review\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 17 February 2026 \u00a0\u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Desmond Manderson\u2019s High Time charts the history of attitudes towards drugs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[77,64,63,11192,11195,11189,3952,11194,3331,11191,1736,44,11193,11190],"class_list":["post-485287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-asia-pacific","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-author-interviews","tag-book-awards","tag-book-news","tag-book-reviews","tag-bookseller-jobs","tag-ebooks","tag-library-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-publishing-jobs","tag-publishing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}