Century Of Lies is a weekly half-hour show focused on drug policy reform and the failed war on drugs. The show explores public health, criminal justice, social justice, and other policies related to drugs in the US and abroad, and includes news reports, commentary, interviews, and other recorded segments. Century of Lies is a production of the Drug Truth Network and is syndicated via the Pacifica Foundation Radio Network.
The UK's House of Commons discusses medical cannabis, plus we hear from the
Reverend Larry W. Foy with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity and
Rafi Toruella with Intercambios Puerto Rico.
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This week on Century: The FDA has announced that it plans to hold a public
hearing on cannabis and cannabis derivatives; FDA Commissioner Scott
Gottlieb, MD, is questioned by a Senate subcommittee about CBD; plus we hear
interviews with Gretchen Burns Bergman from A New PAT...
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This week on Century we talk about about overdose, harm reduction, pain
policies, and opioids with Abraham Gutman, opinion writer at the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
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This week on Century of Lies, international drug policy reform. We hear
portions of the 62nd Annual Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, live
from Vienna, including interventions by the delegation from Switzerland, the
World Health Organization, the Canadian HIV Leg...
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This week on Century of Lies: a Congressional committee takes a critical look
at White House drug policy. We'll hear from Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD),
chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, as well as Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Plus, there was a debat...
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This week on Century of Lies, medical cannabis in the US and the UK. We talk
with the president and co-founder of Patients Out of Time, Mary Lynn Mathre,
RN, MSN, CARN, about their national clinical conference coming up April 11-13
in Tampa, Florida; and we hear a UK govern...
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This week we continue our look at the upcoming annual meeting of the UN's
Commission on Narcotic Drugs and hear from representatives of civil society
organizations discussing the global war on drugs and the need for reform. On
today's program we hear from Zara Snapp with Ac...
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This week on Century of Lies, the US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions Committee looks at pain management, opioid policies, and the search
for alternatives like cannabis.
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This week we talk with guest Sanho Tree, longtime drug policy reformer and
Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, about White House drug policy,
harm reduction, Kamala Harris, and Joe Biden.
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This week, we hear portions of a public workshop on opioid substitution
treatment that was held by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,
and Medicine, featuring presentations by Professor Helena Hansen, MD, PhD;
Professor Josiah Rich, MD, MPH; and Professor Eugen...
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