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 we hear more from a debate on May 31 in the Irish Senate on a bill
to decriminalize simple personal possession of drugs, with speakers including
Senator Mark Daly, Senator Victor Boyhan, Ireland's Drug Czar Catherine
Byrne, and Senator Lynn Ruane.
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This week we hear from a debate in the Irish Senate regarding the Controlled
Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill 2017, featuring Senator Lynn Ruane, Senator
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, and Senator Senator Niall O Donnghaile.
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This week on Century Of Lies, more from the Patients Out of Time National
Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics, with attorney and veteran
Brandon Wyatt and physician Dr. Rachel Knox, plus California Assemblyman Ken
Cooley on regulation of medical and non-medical can...
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This week we come to you live from the Patients Out of Time National Clinical
Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics #Patients2017, with Mary Lynn Mathre,
Laramie Silber, Mara Felsen, Sam Sabzehzar, and Amanda Reiman, plus Fred
Gardner with a Tribute to the Spirit of Propositi...
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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 leaked ...
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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 synthet...
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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 Krys...
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