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 with Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing
Project, and Jason Ziedenberg, director of research and policy for the
Justice Policy Institute, about mass incarceration and a new report on
prisons in the US.
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This week we hear more of that interview with Johann Hari, author of Chasing
The Scream, and also from Molly Gill, Government Affairs Counsel for Families
Against Mandatory Minimums.
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This week on Century Of Lies I talk with Michael Krawitz about international
drug policy reform as well as efforts to secure medical marijuana access for
our nation's veterans.
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This week in part two of our coverage of Seattle Hempfest, we talk with Bill
Panzer, a criminal defense attorney from Oakland, CA; Kari Boiter, a criminal
justice reform activist from Washington state; and John Conroy, an attorney
from British Columbia, Canada.
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This week: Part one of our coverage of Seattle Hempfest, with audio from
attorney Doug Hiatt, New Jersey Weedman Ed Forchion, comedian Ngaio Bealum,
and Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
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This week we talk with Cyd Maurer, the journalist who was recently fired from
her job as a TV news anchor in Eugene, Oregon, for testing positive for
marijuana; and with Kathleen Kane-Willis of the Illinois Consortium on Drug
Policy at Roosevelt University about their new r...
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This week we talk with Vivian McPeak, director of Seattle Hempfest, about
marijuana, Washington state medical and adult use marijuana laws, and about
Seattle Hempfest, which is August 14-16 this year.
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This week: coverage of the Cannabis Creative Conference held July 28-29 in
Portland, Oregon. Host Doug McVay interviews Morgan and Twice Baked In
Washington from the Marijuana Business Association and MJBA Women's Alliance,
and Aaron Smith, Executive Director of the Nationa...
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This week: the Justice Department's inspector general issues a report
criticizing the DEA's handling of its confidential informant program, and the
Senate narcotics caucus hears about barriers to CBD research.
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This week host Doug McVay speaks with Seattle attorney and NORML board member
Jeff Steinborn about Washington's marijuana laws, plus President Obama speaks
about sentencing reform at El Reno federal prison in Oklahoma.
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