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 talk with Steve Rolles with the UK's Transform Drug Policy
Foundation about Brexit and the future of drug policy in the UK and the EU;
plus the UN's recent General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS featured
discussions about injection drug use and HIV/AIDS, ...
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This week: We hear from Jesce Horton, Charlo Greene, and Leland Berger at the
Minority Cannabis Business Association; plus the US Senate Homeland Security
Committee hears about harm reduction, supervised injection facilities, and
heroin maintenance treatment.
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The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction releases its
annual European Drug Report; we listen in on the Oregon Liquor Control
Commission as it decides on rules for legal adult social use marijuana; and
we talk about Booze Culture.
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This week we speak with Shaleen Title, a business owner and activist who's on
the board of directors of the Minority Cannabis Business Association, and
with Ngaio Bealum, who's a journalist, comedian, activist, and also a member
of the board of directors for the Minority Ca...
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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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