Peter Gorman Archive
a collection of stories from the past 20 years
Award-winning investigative journalist (and dad) Peter Gorman has spent more than 20 years tracking down stories from the streets of Manhattan to the slums of Bombay. Specializing in Drug War issues, he is credited as a primary journalist in the medical marijuana and hemp movements, as well as in property forfeiture reform. His work has appeared in over 100 national and international magazines and newspapers.
Peter Gorman's love affair with the Amazon jungle is well-known to people in the field. Since 1984 Mr. Gorman has spent a minimum of three months annually there generally using Iquitos
Peru as his base. During that time he has studied ayahuasca the visionary healing vine of the jungle with his friend the curandero Julio Jerena. He has collected artifacts for the American Museum of Natural History botanical specimens for Shaman Pharmaceuticals and herpetological specimens for the FIDIA Research Institute of the University of Rome. His description of the indiginous Matses Indians’ use of the secretions of the phyllomedusa bicolor frog has opened an entire field devoted to the use of amphibian peptides as potential medicines in Western medicine.
Thanks for stopping by the archive. This is a collection of articles and interviews that have been written over the past 20-25 years. It's by no means complete, but there should be something here to entertain/frighten anyone who takes a look. I say entertain or frighten because some of these pieces involve the Amazon, or exotic places and hilarious drug tales or simply outlandish things; others deal with the War on Drugs, nasty politics and so forth. There is also a section of interviews I did with some pretty interesting people.
There's no particular order to the stories in a section or even the sections themselves: I just culled them and passed them on to Phoenix, section by section, and he's putting them up. So some of them are much newer than others. Some, particularly in the Drug War and newsy areas, are dated but might still be a good read.
As of now, we're nowhere near finished. We'll be adding material as we can, trying to keep it fresh--at least for an archive.
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That's it. Enjoy
Peter G
Amazon Jungle Stories
CIA COUP IN PERU OPENS DOOR TO PLAN COLOMBIA
BETWEEN THE CANOPY AND THE FOREST FLOOR
CATERING AN AMAZON PARTY:
THE FINE ART OF CULINARY MAGIC IN THE JUNGLE
THE COLD BEER BLUES BAR: A BIRD’S EYE VIEW TO THE FAILURE OF AMERICAN ANTI-COCAINE POLICY IN PERU
DON’T BUY THIS ANIMAL
Eco-Tourists, Locals, and the Marketplace Decimating Peruvian Amazon’s Wildlife
Julio Jerena, My Friend and Teacher, Has Passed
CASTING A VANISHING PEOPLE:
THE SCULPTURE OF FELIPE LETTERSTEN
MAKING MAGIC
A Westerner Glimpses One of the Secrets of a Tribe of Hunter-Gatherers in the Amazon
PLANT MAGIC: THE MEDICINE CABINET IS FULL OF IT
SAPO: An Amphibian Medicinal of the Indigenous Matses of Western Peru
A Primer on Shamanism in northwest Amazonia in 2006
The Floating Slums of Iquitos: Acculturation in the Peruvian Amazon
The Vision Seekers: Matses Indians of Peru
What Gringos Expect from Trips to the Amazon
Tales from India
MAGIC MUSHROOMS IN INDIA’S ANCIENT ALTO RAINFOREST
Three Stones to Mark a Fire: India's Forgotten Artist
Fort Worth Weekly Cover Stories
When David Becomes Goliath Our Disenchantment with Walmart
DAY WORK - Better Than Nothing but Not by Much
DYING AT HOME - The Life and Death of an Ordinary Person
From the Amazon to Pecan Street
Some of the world’s most important botanic research is being run from downtown Fort Worth
Ice Burn - A Cautionary Drug Tale
Welcome to Johnson County, Texas: Come on Vacation, Leave on Probation
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION: LEAP
Plan Columbia - The Pentagon's Shell Game
TASERS: WEAPON OF CHOICE FOR BULLY COPS
The Trans-Texas Corridor: The Road to Salvation or the Highway to Hell
Interviews
HIGH TIMES INTERVIEW: BROWNIE MARY RATHBUN
THE HIGH TIMES INTERVIEW: PETER DUESBERG
THE HIGH TIMES INTERVIEW: CLYDE BELLECOURT, FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT
Hemp Times Interview—Wade Davis
WADE DAVIS: STUDENT OF THE PLANTS
The HIGH TIMES Interview: ALBERT HOFMANN: THE FATHER OF LSD
Mark Stepnoski: This Cowboy’s Smokin’
HOWARD LOTSOF: TAKING AIM AT ADDICTION
Mary Lynn Mathre, RN: Rx for Medical Marijuana
Drug War Stories/Follies
SIXTY YEARS OF REEFER MADNESS
Prohibition Follies from Anslinger to McCaffrey
MARIJUANA AND THE QUESTION OF RELEGALIZATION
Coca Country Updates: Colombia, Peru, Bolivia
Drug War Enforcers: The US DEA
Dr. Tod Mikuriya: Shrink Rapped
TRUE CRIME: THE HUMAN TOLL IN THE WAR ON DRUGS
THE ROGUE’S GALLERY OF DRUG WAR MONSTERS
DUAL PROSECUTIONS: PAYING TWICE FOR THE SAME CRIME
EVO MORALES: Bolivia’s New President Faces Uphill Task
FORFEITURE: THE SEIZING OF AMERICA - Part 1
OPERATION GREEN MERCHANT: AN OVERVIEW
Paraphernalia: Smokin’ Hot Legal Issue Again
THE STRANGE AND TRAGIC CASE OF JIMMY MONTGOMERY
Crushing Butterflies Under Iron Boots
Drug War Follies: Gorman's Column in Skunk Magazine
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