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Medical Cannabis as a Substitute for Opiates

Airs at: Sun, 06/24/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week: Dr. Dustin Sulak and Dr. Staci Gruber speaking about medical cannabis at the Patients Out of Time National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics; plus Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Read more

Human Rights and Drug Policy

Airs at: Wed, 06/20/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
Rick Lines is the executive director of Harm Reduction International. Rick has been working in HIV and harm reduction services, policy, and advocacy since the early 1990s. He is known for his leading work in the areas of HIV and prisons, prison needle slash syringe programs... Read more

Let's All Be Farmers

Airs at: Sun, 06/17/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week: Dr. Malik Burnett speaking about the social determinants of health, stigma, cultural competency, and medical cannabis; plus Tim Pate performs "Let's All Be Farmers". Read more

Compassionate Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 06/18/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Oregon voters approved a medical marijuana initiative in 1998. Fifteen years later, in 2013, the state legislature legalized medical marijuana dispensaries -- between 100 and 200 were operating illegally in the state at the time -- and set up a framework for regulating them... Read more

Saving Lives? Not In Our Backyard

Airs at: Sun, 06/10/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
Reducing Harms and Managing Risks This week, we listen to parts of a debate in the Scottish Parliament on whether, and how, to establish supervised injection facilities and safe consumption spaces. The motion to do so was introduced by the ruling Scottish National Party, a... Read more

Bright Spark #2: Operationalizing Harm Reduction.

Airs at: Wed, 05/16/2018 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Produced for:  Bright Spark
In this episode we interview Erin Haas, a long time volunteer and advocate for harm reduction services and drug users. For the last few years Erin has been the assistant director in the office of Overdose Prevention at the Maryland Department of Health. We asked Erin to tal... Read more

"Freeway" Ricky Ross

Airs at: Thu, 06/07/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Today, we broadcast our one-hour special with Rick Donnell Ross, better known as "Freeway" Ricky Ross, and Cornell "Coach" Ward. Ross and Ward joined us for a special in-studio discussion on their role in the explosion of crack-cocaine that hit U.S. streets in the 1980s,... Read more

Modern Gladiators, Ancient Medicine

Airs at: Wed, 05/16/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
Interview with retired professional hockey player Riley Cote about professional sports, alternative medicine, and medicinal cannabis. Athletes4Care   Read more

Puffragettes, Mary Janes, and the Women of Weed

Airs at: Wed, 04/18/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
On this edition of Free Culture Radio, we speak with filmmaker Windy Borman about her new documentary Mary Janes: The Women of Weed, and we learn the answer to the question: What do you get when you combine gender parity, social justice, environmental sustainability and can... Read more

Harm Reduction and Social Justice

Airs at: Sun, 04/08/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
  This week, host Doug McVay talks to students about harm reduction in a time of drug war, plus we hear from delegates from Czech Republic, Costa Rica, and Australia about decriminalization, human rights, harm reduction, and international drug policy reform.   Read more