Century of Lies
05/21/17 Mary Lynn Mathre
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 Proposition 215, Dennis Peron, and the late Dr. Tod Mikuriya.
Guest(s): Mary Lynn Mathre
Organization(s): Patients out of Time
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05/14/17 Beauregard Sessions
This week: Attorney General J. Beauregard Sessions III talks drug war while journalist Maia Szalavitz talks sense.
Guest(s): Beauregard Sessions
Organization(s): Attorney General
Link(s): Drug War Facts
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05/07/17 Wiqas Ahmad
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 White House memo reveals that the Czar's office may be for the chop.
Guest(s): Wiqas Ahmad
Organization(s): Activist
Link(s): Drug War Facts
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04/30/17 Jesce Horton
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 synthetic drugs.
Guest(s): Jesce Horton
Organization(s): Acitivist
Link(s): Drug War Facts
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04/23/17 David Bradford
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.
Guest(s): David Bradford
Organization(s): Professor
Link(s): Drug War Facts
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04/16/17 Doug McVay
This week: we take a look at the likely next Drug Czar, US Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA).
Guest(s): Doug McVay
Organization(s): Drug War Facts
Link(s): Drug War Facts
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04/09/17 Betty Aldworth
This week on Century Of Lies, our interview with SSDP Executive Director Betty Aldworth; Krys Nyrop from Seattle-King County, Washington, talks about the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program; and we talk about marijuana and athletics with Deuvall Dorsey, the Vegas 420 Runner.
Guest(s): Betty Aldworth
Organization(s): Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP)
Link(s): Drug War Facts, Students for Sensible Drug Policy
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04/02/17 Betty Aldworth
Part one of our coverage of the Students for Sensible Drug Policy conference, with SSDP's Betty Aldworth and Stacia Cosner, plus Nazlee Maghsoudi with the International Center for Science in Drug Policy.
Guest(s): Betty Aldworth
Organization(s): Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP)
Link(s): Drug War Facts, Students for Sensible Drug Policy
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03/26/17 Doug McVay
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.
Guest(s): Doug McVay
Organization(s): Drug War Facts
Link(s): Drug War Facts
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03/19/17 Doug McVay
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.
Guest(s): Doug McVay
Organization(s): Drug War Facts
Link(s): Drug War Facts
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