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.
This week: we speak with author and journalist Maia Szalavitz about
addiction, overdose, and her new book Unbroken Brain; plus we talk about
criminal justice with death row DNA exoneree Kirk Bloodsworth.
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This week we speak with California NORML's Dale Gieringer, and Portland
NORML's Scott Gordon, plus we hear from author and marijuana expert Robert C.
Clarke.
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This week we bring you sounds from the first annual cannabis Cultivation
Classic in Portland, Oregon, including interviews with US Representative Earl
Blumenauer, author Robert C. Clarke, and activist Madeline Martinez.
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This week: more from the recent UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs,
the UNGASS. We speak with Adam Eidinger with DC Marijuana Justice; author,
journalist, and hemp advocate Doug Fine; and radical journalist and drug
policy reformer Enrico Fletzer.
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This week on Century Of Lies we speak with Dr. Ciara Torres, a researcher and
postdoctoral research fellow at the Columbia University School of Social
Work; and with Phil Smith, reporter and editor at the Drug War Chronicle and
AlterNet; plus part of an interview with Billy...
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This week on Century Of Lies, host Doug McVay and DTN Executive Producer Dean
Becker are at the Patients Out of Time conference. They talk with Neill
Franklin, Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, about
marijuana, the drug war, the murder of Freddy Gra...
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This week on Century Of Lies we continue to look ahead at the UN General
Assembly Special Session on drugs that will be held April 19-21 at UN
Headquarters in New York, and hear from Donald MacPherson of the Canadian
Drug Policy Coalition and Aram Barra with Mexico United A...
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This week we continue preparing for the UN General Assembly Special Session
on drugs, which will be held April 19 and 20 at UN headquarters in New York,
by hearing from two of reform's leading opponents: Singapore and Russia.
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This week, we continue our look at preparations for the upcoming UN General
Assembly Special Session on drugs, and hear representatives from the European
Union, Canada, and New Zealand speaking at the annual meeting of the UN's
Commission on Narcotic Drugs; plus, a special ...
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This week we feature interviews with Betty Aldworth, Executive Director of
Students for Sensible Drug Policy, and with Vanessa Caldwell, a member of the
New Zealand delegation at the annual meeting of the United Nations'
Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna and co-chair o...
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