John Jiggens

• Dr John Jiggens is a citizen journalist. He was the founding editor of The Westender and The Cane Toad Times and he currently works in the community newsroom at Bay-FM in Byron Bay. 

  A self-described “minor god of cannabis”, he has published several books on the history of the genus and on the origins of cannabis prohibition, including Sir Joseph Banks and the Question of Hemp, The Killer Cop and the Murder of Donald Mackay, The Joke and, with Jack Herer, the Australian version of The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Along with Matt Mawson, Anne Jones and Damien Ledwich, he edited The Best of The Cane Toad Times. 

  His most popular work, however, remains his PhD, Marijuana Australiana: Cannabis Use, Popular Culture and the Americanisation of Drugs Policy in Australia 1938-1988, which has been full-texted downloaded over 22,000 times.

Articles written by John Jiggens (54)

• 11 July 2025 | Greens founder Drew Hutton expelled in party's identity war
• 14 April 2025 | Tobacco policy hell sets open season for black market
• 7 January 2025 | Tobacco prohibition by stealth
• 9 December 2024 | Reclaiming the radical spirit of the Eureka Rebellion
• 7 December 2024 | The hunt is on for Biden to pardon press freedom's favourite son, Julian Assange
• 6 November 2024 | John Shipton proclaims non-Western nations world's 'centre of gravity'
• 29 October 2024 | Truth about Queensland youth crime won't sell papers or promote LNP
• 5 September 2024 | A champion of justice reform: Vale Mervyn Langford
• 30 August 2024 | Punished for the truth: David McBride's first hundred days in prison
• 9 July 2024 | John Shipton delivers triumphant speech at Julian Assange's birthday
• 2 July 2024 | Mainstream media undermines enormity of Assange freedom campaign
• 23 May 2024 | EXCLUSIVE: Assange's father John Shipton on UK High Court ruling
• 16 May 2024 | U.S. global chess game could lead to World War III
• 7 April 2024 | A monumental betrayal: Four Corners and David McBride
• 1 March 2024 | USUKA: The hidden history of AUKUS
• 21 February 2024 | Andrew Wilkie pushes PM to bring Assange home
• 15 February 2024 | Parliament votes in favour of bringing Assange home
• 23 January 2024 | Shadow of Assange looms over persecutors
• 12 January 2024 | John Pilger fought for the truth and for Assange's freedom
• 28 November 2023 | Australia's treatment of David McBride a national disgrace
• 23 November 2023 | David McBride verdict a sad day for democracy
• 9 October 2023 | David McBride facing life sentence as war criminals go unpunished
• 29 September 2023 | Campaign to free Assange stronger than ever
• 29 May 2023 | Bring Julian home
• 17 May 2023 | Julian Assange unleashed a revolution in journalism
• 14 March 2023 | China scare campaign bad news for Australia
• 27 January 2023 | Hope emerges for the release of Julian Assange
• 15 December 2022 | PM's words offer hope to Assange faithful
• 6 October 2022 | Mexico upholds Assange: Your move next, Australia
• 26 August 2022 | Labor's 'quiet diplomacy' failing to bring Assange home
• 30 June 2022 | Questions remain over Assange's stroke, as he is sent to likely death
• 9 June 2022 | Assange: Albanese must act where the Coalition failed
• 31 March 2022 | Julian Assange's family tirelessly advocate for his freedom
• 4 February 2022 | How Scott Morrison unleashed a COVID wildfire
• 6 January 2022 | AUKUS alliance driving Assange to his death
• 1 October 2021 | The murderous plot against Julian Assange
• 14 July 2021 | Julian Assange celebrates 50th birthday behind bars
• 29 June 2021 | Celebrating Julian Assange's 50th Birthday
• 15 May 2021 | John Shipton marches for his son, Julian Assange
• 14 November 2020 | The day of the troll: Taste-testing Queensland’s democracy sausage
• 30 October 2020 | Queensland Election: South Brisbane and the Murdoch influence
• 27 May 2020 | UK endangers Assange's life by imprisoning him during COVID-19
• 6 May 2020 | Locking people up is expensive and not the answer
• 14 February 2020 | Glenn Greenwald charged with cybercrimes: Another attack on free press
• 7 February 2020 | Ending the torture of Julian Assange
• 12 October 2019 | BOOK REVIEW: The Most Dangerous Detective: The Outrageous Glen Patrick Hallahan
• 14 July 2019 | The slow-motion crucifixion of Julian Assange
• 29 June 2019 | The great Australian methamphetamine flood
• 4 May 2019 | Privatising the ABC: The Liberals' secret agenda
• 8 July 2018 | The Linc stink: Queensland’s biggest environmental disaster
• 15 June 2018 | The long siege of Julian Assange
• 9 March 2018 | Game of Mates: Exposing the corruption club
• 13 February 2018 | Who bombed the Hilton? (Part 2) The operation
• 12 February 2018 | Who bombed the Hilton? (Part 1) The bomb and the bin