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, Century of Lies comes to you live from Seattle Hempfest! We speak
with Betty Aldworth about her new project #JustSayNoToHate, plus words from
Tim Pate, Elvy Musikka, Sharon Whitson, Ben Livingston, Vivian McPeak, and
John Davis.
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The administration wants to waive the medical privacy rights of people who
are prescribed opiates, so the president may be declaring a national
emergency over drugs.
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Seattle Hempfest will be held August 18, 19, and 20 in Washington state along
the Puget Sound, so this week we talk with Hempfest Executive Director Vivian
McPeak.
Hempfest
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The US House Oversight Committee looks at reauthorization of the Office of
National Drug Control Policy, and the Government Accountability Office
examines mismanagement of a federal program that puts military weapons into
the hands of local police.
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Last week the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the US House of
Representatives examined the thousands of murders as well as other human
rights abuses being committed by the Government of the Philippines and its
current president, Rodrigo Duterte. The witnesses testifie...
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This week: The DPA held a news teleconference to announce the release of
their new report on decriminalizing drug use and possession in the US, so we
hear from Neill Franklin, Executive Director of Law Enforcement Action
Partnership, and Andrea Ritchie, a member of the Move...
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This week: the Oregon Legislature has passed a bill to force law enforcement
to begin addressing racial profiling, and which also reduces simple
possession of some drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor; plus the Oregon
Justice Resource Center has released a guide on organizi...
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This week we speak with Sarah Merrigan, who's an organizer and drug policy
reform activist in Nebraska; Energy Secretary Rick Perry compares state
marijuana legalization with state climate control legislation; and the United
Nations issues World Drug Report 2017.
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This week we remember a good friend, the drug policy reformer and marijuana
activist Mickey Martin, and present an interview with him from 2013. Plus,
June 26th is the Global Day of Action for Drug Policy Reform, so we speak
with Fergal Eccles of Students for Sensible Drug ...
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This week: Congressional appropriators question the Department of Justice
about drug policy and medical marijuana, plus members of Congress
re-introduce legislation to protect medical marijuana patients.
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