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.
A federal judge has rejected the Justice Department's attempt to stop
Philadelphia nonprofit Safehouse from setting up a supervised consumption
facility. On this week's Century we hear from Liz Evans, one of the founders
of North America's first supervised consumption si...
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This week on Century we look at reforming police practices and efforts to get
a handle on police brutality. The US House Judiciary Committee recently held
an oversight hearing on police practices. We'll hear audio from Committee
Chair Rep. Jerrold Naddler, Gwen Carr, Ron...
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This week on Century: a House subcommittee looks at e-cigarettes and the
outbreak of lung disease that may be related to vaping, and the UN's
Commission on Narcotic Drugs looks at rescheduling cannabis and cannabis
products.
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This week on Century of Lies we look at vaping and ask the most important
question of all: what's really in that stuff you're putting in your lungs?
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This week on Century, a conversation with journalist and cannabis connoisseur
Jimi Devine, senior staff writer for Cannabis Now and a contributing writer
for the LA Weekly.
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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 Har...
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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...
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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, a...
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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 sp...
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