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 DC-based drug policy reform activist Adam Eidinger
from DCMJ about plans to hand out 4,200 joints at #Trump420 Inauguration Day.
Plus, we take a look at Attorney General nominee Jefferson Beauregard
Sessions III, and discuss why many progressives a...
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This week: Mason Tvert with MPP on adult social use marijuana legalization,
Yuri Fedotov with UNODC on Afghanistan opium, plus new research from the
Bureau of Justice Statistics, and a few words from travel guru and NORML
board member Rick Steves.
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The legal marijuana industry has grown dramatically over the past few years.
If legalization is allowed to continue rolling out under the next president,
then that growth will continue. It could be massive. Marijuana prohibition,
all drug prohibition really, is rooted in ra...
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On Friday, December 16, police in Montreal, Canada raided two Cannabis
Culture shops, which had recently opened as marijuana dispensaries, and
arrested several staffers along with Marc and Jodie Emery, the self-styled
Prince and Princess of Pot. To learn more about this sto...
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This week on Century Of Lies we talk with Sanho Tree from the Institute for
Policy Studies about the President-Elect Trump, his AG pick Jefferson
Beauregard Sessions, soon-to-be White House Chief of Staff Reinhold Priebus,
fracking the swamp, and the future of drug policy r...
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This week The President talks about marijuana legalization, President-Elect
Trump talks drug war with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, and the head
of an agency to prevent underage drinking says legalization is scary because
she thinks marijuana is a gateway drug.
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This week we speak with the scholar, researcher, and writer Chris Bennett
about spirituality, mysticism, and the roles played by cannabis and other
entheogens in human development.
Chris Bennett
Drug War Facts: Entheogens
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This week we talk with Steve Rolles of the Transform Drug Policy Foundation
(UK) about marijuana law reform, the 2016 US general election, and
international drug control policy reform.
Transform Drug Policy Foundation
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This week we look at the present and future of marijuana policy in the US
with our special guest drug policy reform activist and marijuana policy
expert Sam Chapman with New Economy Consulting.
Sam is a founding member of New Economy Consulting LLC, a firm based in
Portlan...
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This week we listen as the New Mexico State Legislature considers heroin
treatment as a policy alternative, plus the US government stops the sale of
thousands of rifles to the Philippine National Police #BoycottThePhilippines.
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