Campbell, Greg

Provides information on the history and inner workings of the diamond smuggling industry in Sierra Leone.

Journalist Greg Campbell shares his experiences traveling throughout the former Yugoslavia in the wake of the Dayton, Ohio accords which were supposed to bring peace to the embattled region.

When medical marijuana was legalized in Colorado in 2009 it set off a tsunami activity that was viewed by opposing camps as either Nirvana or the Apocalypse. The author traveled from California's famed Humbolt County to the first-annual Medical Marijuana Education Expo to Oklahoma (where a man was sentenced to 93 years for growing marijuana to treat chronic arthritis), and along the way unearthed ignorance about pot's centuries-old therapeutic value.

Explains how diamond smuggling in Sierra Leone has funded a brutal rebel war that has wrought havoc on the country's people; discusses connections to such groups as al-Quaeda; and measures the international diamond industry's complicity in the situation.

Explains how diamond smuggling in Sierra Leone has funded a brutal rebel war that has wrought havoc on the country's people; discusses connections to such groups as al-Quaeda; and measures the international diamond industry's complicity in the situation.