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 Kirk Tousaw, an attorney and civil rights advocate in
British Columbia, about the recent Canadian general election and prospects
for drug policy reform under the new Trudeau government.
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This week we hear from Paul Stanford, founder and director of Portland
Hempstalk, plus we talk about the upcoming UN General Assembly Special
Session on Drugs.
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The drug czar's office failed to release its annual drug control strategy for
fiscal year 2015. On this week's Century Of Lies we talk about that, plus the
upcoming 2016 election, with Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project
at the Institute for Policy Studies.
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This week: we hear from Mark Galeotti about drug use and drug policies in
Russia, and we talk with Michael Mullins from Stoney Girl Gardens on the
first day of legal retail marijuana sales in Oregon.
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This week we hear from John Walsh of the Washington Office on Latin America
and Professor Mark Kleiman from UCLA as they address a meeting of the UN
University on preparations for the 2016 UNGASS.
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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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