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.
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This week we talk medical marijuana with Mike Liszewski, Government Affairs
Director for American for Safe Access, plus we speak with Chip Lazenby and
James Morris about diversity in the cannabis industry.
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This week, at the Cannabis Collaborative Conference in Portland, Oregon, host
Doug McVay interviews former NBA star Clifford "Uncle Spliffy" Robinson;
Aaron Smith and Bethany Moore from the National Cannabis Industry
Association; David Rheins and Morgan from the Marijuana B...
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This week we look at human rights and the drug war with audio from Damon
Barrett, Director and co-founder of the International Centre on Human Rights
and Drug Policy, and The Honorable Mark Golding, Minister of Justice for
Jamaica.
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We look ahead to National Alcohol and Other Drugs Facts Week, which is
January 25-31 this year, and we hear about the UN General Assembly Special
Session on the World Drug Problem coming up in April.
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This week we discuss new data on youth drug use, Vermont Governor Peter
Shumlin's support for marijuana legalization, and Maine Governor Paul
LePage's racist comments about the drug war.
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This week: a conversation with Cyndee Clay, executive director of HIPS-DC
(formerly Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive), a "by-and-for" outreach
and harm reduction organization based in Washington, DC.
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This week: President Obama commutes the sentences of 95 people serving time
for federal drug offenses, and we speak with drug policy researcher and human
rights activist Damon Barrett.
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This week: We hear ONDCP Director Michael Botticelli and the GAO's David
Maurer testify before a House subcommittee on ONDCP reauthorization and about
recent reports from both agencies that show that current US drug control
policies are a failure.
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