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.
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This week: President Obama commutes the sentences of 95 people serving time
for federal drug offenses, and we speak with drug policy researcher and human
rights activist Damon Barrett.
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This week: We hear ONDCP Director Michael Botticelli and the GAO's David
Maurer testify before a House subcommittee on ONDCP reauthorization and about
recent reports from both agencies that show that current US drug control
policies are a failure.
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Doug McVay reports: This week we continue our coverage of the Drug Policy
Alliance's International Reform Conference, with audio from Deborah Small
from Break The Chains, and interviews with author and activist Kemba Smith,
and with Jonathan Perri of Change.org.
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This week: Part two of our coverage of the Drug Policy Alliance's
International Reform Conference. We hear from Dawn Paley, author of Drug War
Capitalism; Lorenzo Jones from the A Better Way Foundation; and Amanda Reiman
from the Drug Policy Alliance.
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This week in part one of our coverage of the Drug Policy Alliance's
international reform conference, we hear from Deborah Peterson-Small of Break
The Chains, we talk with Martha's mum Anne-Marie Cockburn, and we say goodbye
to a good friend who recently passed away, Thomas ...
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This week: Bernie Sanders talks about criminal justice reform and marijuana
legalization on the floor of the US Senate, and we talk with Rick Doblin of
MAPS about MDMA and medical cannabis research.
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This week we talk with Kirk Tousaw, an attorney and civil rights advocate in
British Columbia, about the recent Canadian general election and prospects
for drug policy reform under the new Trudeau government.
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This week we hear from Paul Stanford, founder and director of Portland
Hempstalk, plus we talk about the upcoming UN General Assembly Special
Session on Drugs.
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The drug czar's office failed to release its annual drug control strategy for
fiscal year 2015. On this week's Century Of Lies we talk about that, plus the
upcoming 2016 election, with Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project
at the Institute for Policy Studies.
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This week: we hear from Mark Galeotti about drug use and drug policies in
Russia, and we talk with Michael Mullins from Stoney Girl Gardens on the
first day of legal retail marijuana sales in Oregon.
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