At the ROAR Alliance monthly meeting on August 31st, Multnomah County
District Attorney Rod Underhill presented plans to bring the LEAD program to
Portland. Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a pre-booking
diversion pilot program developed with the community to ad...
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King County, Seattle, Washington, will soon have two supervised drug
consumption facilities. That recommendation is part of a final report by King
County's Heroin and Prescription Opiate Task Force, which released its final
report on Thursday Sept. 15. King County Executive...
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Seeing as it's now Oktoberfest, this month's edition of Free Culture
Radio is all about beer culture -- which is a task that is at once both
simple and difficult, because in many ways mainstream American culture
is beer culture. It's so ubiquitous that it's hard to see, in ...
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This week we learn about the state of medical marijuana in Washington state
post-502, featuring audio from patient advocate Alison Bigelow, former state
legislator Jeanne Kohl-Welles, and more.
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Host Doug McVay speaks with journalist and editor David Downs about his new
book, "The Medical Marijuana Guidebook—America’s First How-To Guide for
Patients and Caregivers. They discuss medical marijuana and answer key
questions about
the use, legality and varieties of ...
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This week is part three of our Seattle Hempfest Special. Susan Squibb (The
Cannabis Maven), Shango Los (Ganjapreneur.com), David Nott (Reason
Foundation), Dominic Corva (Center for the Study of Cannabis and Social
Policy), and Century host Doug McVay talk about cannabis and...
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Can therapy reach people in extreme states of “psychosis” — without
using medications? Do we need to give a diagnosis to help someone? Why are
counselors afraid to listen to their “mad” clients?
New York psychotherapist and filmmaker Daniel Mackler discusses how be defie...
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Today was the first day of scheduled evictions of houseless people who have
been living along Portland Oregon's Springwater Corridor Trail for more than
a year. After delayed for a month, police and community advocates began
moving along the 21-mile trail moving the indige...
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Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a pre-booking diversion pilot
program. It was originally developed with the community to address low-level
drug and prostitution crimes in the Belltown neighborhood in Seattle and the
Skyway area of unincorporated King County. Th...
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This week on part two of our Seattle Hempfest special: reform beyond
Washington state, with audio from Jodie Emery (Canada), Keith Saunders
(MA/NH), Rachel Kurtz (OR), Danielle Muggli (MT), and Serra Frank (ID).
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