Casey Taylor
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Casey Taylor is a writer living and working in Pittsburgh. He is currently writing a book for St. Martin’s Press about cannabis religions, Haile Selassie I, and the Cold War in the Caribbean. He also writes a free newsletter called Weed Church covering foolish spiritual things that occur to him. His work has appeared in The New Republic, WIRED, New York Magazine, and a sports blog he can’t currently recall the name of. You can email him if you’d like.
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Ethiopia's not hard to get to. It's very hard to sell as a story.