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 on Century of Lies, a discussion about harm reduction for people
who use stimulants featuring Mike Discepola, San Francisco Aids Foundation;
Liz Evans, New York Harm Reduction Educators; Issac Jackson, Urban
Survivor’s Union; Shilo Hassan Jama, The People’s Harm R...
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This week on Century of Lies we hear portions of hearing and roundtable
discussion held by the New York State Senate Joint Senate Task Force on
Opioids, Addiction and Overdose Prevention on August 9 in The Bronx. Speakers
include Jasmine Budnella, Drug Policy Coordinator wi...
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This week on Century of Lies, part two of our conversation with Sanho Tree,
Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, plus
a report on the Colombian peace process.
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This week on Century of Lies, part one of our conversation with Sanho Tree,
Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
Sanho talks with Doug about the presidential race, the rise of the
authoritarian right, the drug war in the Philippines, and ...
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This week we speak with Jennifer Hess, a Kansas medical cannabis patient,
wife and mother whose husband died in police custody. Plus, Jessyln McCurdy
from the ACLU, Patrice Onwuka from the Independent Women's Forum, and Aleks
Kajstura from the Prison Policy Initiative speak...
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This week on Century of Lies we get a briefing on the Colombia Peace Process
from Mariela Kohon, Senior International Officer with the Trades Union
Congress, and Kevin Callinan, Senior General Secretary of the labor union
Forsa.
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The Scottish Affairs Committee of the UK House of Commons held a hearing on
drug policy recently and heard from high-ranking active-duty police officers
about the need for harm reduction, including supervised consumption
facilities, and decriminalization of simple possessio...
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This week on Century: Heather Haase with the New York NGO Committee, Jamie
Bridge with the Vienna NGO Committee, Benjamin Phillips with the Harm
Reduction Coalition, and representatives from UN AIDS, InterPol, and UNODC
discuss the global drug situation and UNODC's newly-re...
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On this edition of Century of Lies we speak with Vivian McPeak, Executive
Director of Seattle Hempfest, about partial success in an ongoing battle with
Washington state over free speech issues; plus we speak with Michael Krawitz
from Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access abo...
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The Commission on Narcotic Drugs met in Vienna on Monday June 24 to hear a
report by the World Health Organization's Expert Committee on Drug Dependence
recommending that cannabis be rescheduled and removed from the list of banned
substances.
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