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: Attorney General J. Beauregard Sessions III talks drug war, while
journalist Maia Szalavitz talks sense.
Attorney General Memo on Department Charging and Sentencing Policy
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This week on Century Of Lies, we hear from Wiqas Ahmad, a drug policy reform
activist and youth advocate based in Pakistan. Plus, skeletons in Congressman
Tom Marino's closet have popped the White House's trial balloon about Marino
becoming the next Drug Czar, and a leak...
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This week we talk with Jesce Horton from the Minority Cannabis Business
Association and Patricia Sully from VOCAL-Washington and the Public Defender
Association of King County, plus MAPS Executive Director Rick Doblin
testifies before the US Sentencing Commission on synt...
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This week: Professor David Bradford on his research that show billions of
dollars and countless lives are saved in the US because of medical marijuana,
and we look at the Secretary of Homeland Security, Marine General (Ret.) John
Kelly.
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This week we take a look at the likely next Director of the Office of
National Drug Control Policy (the "Drug Czar"), US Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA).
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This week on Century Of Lies, part two of our coverage of the Students for
Sensible Drug Policy conference #SSDP2017, including our full interview with
SSDP Executive Director Betty Aldworth. We also talk about the Law
Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program with K...
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Part one of our coverage of the Students for Sensible Drug Policy conference,
with SSDP Executive Director Betty Aldworth and Deputy Director Stacia
Cosner, plus Nazlee Maghsoudi with the International Center for Science in
Drug Policy.
Students for Sensible Drug Policy...
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This week: The Indiana State Senate holds a hearing on syringe exchange, plus
Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo speaks out against the campaign of
murder and bloodshed being carried out by Philippine president and dictator
Rodrigo Duterte.
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This week begins our coverage of the Sixtieth Annual Session of the UN's
Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Austria. In part one of our coverage,
we hear from delegates representing New Zealand, Uruguay, and the European
Union.
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This week: the New Hampshire legislature is considering a bill to allow
syringe exchanges in the state, plus we listen to current Attorney General
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III talk nonsense about drugs.
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