A look at Trumps Fascist plans to rule the USA. Guests are Judge James P. Gray one time candidate for Vice President, and Washington State Representative Roger Goodman.

Lt. Diane Goldstein, the Executive Director of Law Enforcment Action Partnership is our guest. Topics include political results of the recent election, incremental changes to drug laws, a return to prior, failing tactics, immigration and the international opium trade.

Howard Wooldridge the former cop and famous long rider just returned from Switzerland.  The Swiss have injected more than 20,000,000 doses of pure heroin with zero overdoses.  Howard met with the HAT administrator Dr. Anna Rickli in Bern.  Howard shares this information when returns to the US as a lobbyist for legalization within the halls of the US Congress.

Upon learning about the 177 citizens arrested at Twin Peaks in Waco, Wade became involved.  He defended one of those who were indicted working the case all the way to dismissal.  Wade continues to practice law in Houston and across Texas, defending the rights of citizens accused of crimes. Wade is a member of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.  He is also a member of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association and Fort Bend County Criminal Defense Attorneys Association.  Wade is a member of  Gideon’s Promise and is a shareholder in the Prestigious law firm of Looney, Smith & Conrad, P.C.

Ruth Dreifuss, who in 1999 was the first woman to hold the Swiss presidency, is the founder and president of the Global Commission on Drug Policy. The commission wants “responsible state control, from production to consumption of drugs” but that the opposite is now the case. “It’s an unregulated market in the hands of criminal groups.”

Dean Becker, DTN reporter was invited to Lisbon to speak to the administration of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs & Drug Abuse (E.M.C.D.D.A.) + DTN Editorial."To End The War On Drugs"

DTN 23rd Anniversary Special. Featuring Atty Tony Serra, Alexandra Natapoff, author Charles Bowden, former mayor Kurt Schmoke, Dr Carl Hart, activist Kevin Zeese, Diane Goldstein of LEAP, author Don Winslow and author Michelle Alexander. 

Paul Stanford has been working toward ending marijuana and hemp prohibition since 1984.  He first attended a protest marijuana legalization at the White House a week after his 18th birthday in 1978. In 1984, he was instrumental in a now-famous Oregon political ballot initiative called the Oregon Marijuana Initiative which made the ballot. Paul and DTN host discuss disparity in law, benefits of cannabis, falling price of cannabis and the failure of prohibition.

John Urquhart is a former Sheriff of Seattle, King County, Washington state. He is one of a small handful of Law Enforcement Officers who dared to visit us here on DTN while still wearing a badge.  Topic include massive failure of drug war, advances toward sensible laws and a recognition that full legalization is likely the solution to many of todays problems including overdoses deaths, funding of criminals and much more.

James Polin Gray is an American jurist and writer. He was the presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County, California. Gray was the 2012 Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee, as well as the party's 2004 candidate for the United States Senate in California. His author of Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It.  Judge Gray is the oldest surviving guest on Drug Truth Radio.