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 on Century of Lies, part one of our conversation with the
journalist, hemp activist and farmer Doug Fine. We talk about hemp, renewable
agriculture, farming, CBD, and Doug's new book American Hemp Farmer. Plus we
hear from Louis L. Reed, national organizer for #Cu...
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This week on Century of Lies: Penal Reform International’s Director of
Policy and International Advocacy Olivia Rope with an overview of PRI’s new
report Global Prison Trends 2020, and ACLU National Prison Project Senior
Staff Attorney Eunice Cho discusses COVID-19 threats ...
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This week on Century of Lies, a discussion about COVID-19 and jails,
specifically Rikers Island in New York, featuring Marcus Brown, an individual
recently released from Rikers; New York State Assemblyman Walter T. Mosley;
Tahanee Dunn, Prisoner Rights Attorney with the Bro...
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This week on Century: Doctor Mitch Earleywine on alcohol addiction,
treatment, and recovery, plus a conversation with the comedian, journalist,
and activist Ngaio Bealum.
Professor Earleywine's lectures for the Spring 2020 semester
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This week on Century of Lies: Prisons, jails, and pandemic. In this time of
pandemic, correctional institutions are like Petri dishes in which the novel
coronavirus COVID-19 grows and spreads. Public health experts and criminal
justice advocates around the nation are demand...
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This week, we bring you an archive edition from August 30, 2015. It’s one
our of Hempfest specials. Seattle Hempfest is a brilliant event, bringing
together a couple hundred thousand beautiful freedom loving marijuana
legalizing drug policy reforming people to a few mile st...
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Issues with sound quality, which were the fault of the producer, have made it
necessary to replace this week's show. We apologize for any inconvenience.
This week on Century of Lies: Harm reduction for stimulant users, featuring
Mike Discepola with the San Francisco AIDS...
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This week on Century of Lies: the Philadelphia City Council is considering a
bill that could prevent a local nonprofit from setting up a supervised
consumption facility. We hear from Philly Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas
Farley and harm reduction advocates Brooke Feldman, D...
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This week on Century of Lies: An effort is underway in Oregon to
decriminalize simple possession of drugs, we hear audio from the launch
event and interviews with harm reduction activists Haven Wheelock, Bobby
Byrd, and Dr. Andy Seaman. Plus, the International Narcotics Con...
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