Cultural Baggage Cultural Baggage is DTN's longest running broadcast program with 18 years as of October 2019. We are proud to have more than three dozen affiliate stations in the US and Canada broadcasting our 29 minutes of unvarnished truth about the failure and futility of this eternal prohibition of drugs. Produced by former cop Dean Becker at KPFT, Houston, one of the 5 Pacifica "sister" stations.

Howard "Cowboy" Wooldridge, a former detective, lobbies on behalf of universal drug legalization via his organization Citizens Opposing Prohibition. He tours the US Congress on a regular basis and is a big name at Grover Norquists DC confabs.  Major Neill Franklin, the former head of LEAP has than 33 years of law enforcement experience. He honed his expertise in police training, policy, use of force, and criminal and narcotics investigations. Neill still trains police forces around the nation.

TOPICS: History of Law Enforcement. From Salem witch trials, to slave catcher, to the Earp brothers, to Jim Crow, to the Drug War, to 9-11, covid restrictions and Trumps war on reality. ICE, Venezuela 205 dead, fake training hours, smell of marijuana, more..

Major Neill Franklin, Detective Howard "Cowboy" Wooldridge
Neill Franklin
Major
, Howard "Cowboy" Wooldridge
Detective
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Will Foster, Doug McVay & Matt Elrod. Will Foster was busted in Oklahoma and sentenced to 93 years in prison for a small grow, he now runs a massive marijuana sales organization in Oklahoma. Doug McVay reports drug war news via DTN's Century of Lies program and Dougs own network of distribution. Matt Elrod is a Canadian activist, computer guru and heads up the DrugSense online.

Topics: Movie Nuremberg: “The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.”

World condemnation Trump regime, forming new alliances, F*** Trump

UFC on WH lawn, golden arch, golden ballroom ,Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom, reflection pool, SLUSH fund, face on passport maybe 250 bill, Peace board billions, 200+ murdered Venezuelans & where oil $, Trump wants NDA for Fed employees, Snooze master Trump, William Pulte to be temp Dir of National intelligence, no experience

Todd Blanch to be perm AG, lies to congress, refuses oath, wrote Slush. Pam Bondi points to Blanch re Epstein files

Will Foster, Doug McVay, Matt Elrod
Matt Elrod
Activist Extraordinaire
, Doug McVay
Reporter & Activist
, Will Foster
Activist & Supreme Pot Grower
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HEMP Futures. Atty. Patrick Goggin is an expert in Hemp and Cannabis regulations and business, environment law and litigation.  Phil Smith is a reporter with more than three decades of experience. Phil currently reports for the Independent Media Institute via the American Hemp Monitor.

Phil Smith, Phillip Goggin
Phil Smith
Reporter
, Patrick Goggin
Attorney
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Roger Goodman & Eric Sterling. Washington state representative Roger Goodman chair of Community Safety Committee with Jurisdiction of Criminal Justice System plus Eric Sterling, former Counsel to the US House Criminal Justice Committee. Topics include Trumps war on reality, the billion-dollar slush fund, war in Iran stock market rip offs and much more. 

Roger Goodman, Eric Sterling
Roger Goodman
chair of Community Safety Committee with Jurisdiction of Criminal Justice System
, Eric Sterling, former Counsel to the US House Criminal Justice Committee
, former Counsel to the US House Criminal Justice Committee
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Vivian McPeak, Debby Goldsberry & Chris Bennett Powerful, tragic and funny as hell.  Please share.

Becker's Questions:  The tactics and procedures of the drug war are now used in every police encounter, all growing from the racism of drug war. What we have before us is a war on reality, utilizing racism as the alternate fact to legitimize the abomination the MAGA team retches forth. Maybe folks don't think they are racists, but if they don't mind voting for racists, then they are racist. The Confederacy is indeed rising again.

Donald Trump has a criminal brain, a defective brain. He's an Orange faced Kool Aid salesman. Much like the Frankenstein monster. Trump cares not for the American people, a fact he stated out loud a few days ago. Trump is mass murdering ghoul who cares only for the gold he can hoard away for him and his family along with his inept cabinet of ball suckers and corporate whores. 

A couple weeks back, 2 CIA officers were killed in Mexico. Seems they were working with Mexican authorities to eradicate drug gangs.  Did everyone forget about Iran Contra? 

What did our sleepy seventh grade president bring back from China? He was baffled in China, led around like a prize pig while the Chinese press made fun of him before, during and after his visit .  he simply frittered away decades of American pride and managed to bring back only CHE's promise of rose seeds 

A LIST: 50 Posts per night, 1.78 Billion Slush fund for “weaponization”, the Ballroom, The Arch, the reflection pool., gas prices, grocery prices, rape of Palestinian men and women, No video or oath for hearings before Oversight Committee. The Chevron decision: Judge decides Justice. WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES?

Vivian McPeak , Debby Goldsberry, Chris Bennett
Vivian McPeak, Debby Goldsberry & Chris Bennett
Kicking names
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Seattle Sheriff John Urquhart ret, Sheriff Urquhart served as the county's chief law enforcement official and oversaw the more than 1000 employees of the King County Sheriff's Office. Topics include: ICE tactics and failures, modern law enforcement, comparison to slavery, Jim Crow and drug war tactics. Homeless situation around the US.

Seattle Sheriff John Urquhart, Law Enforcement Action Partnership
John Urquhart
Seattle Sheriff ret.
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Judge James P. Gray & Judge John Delaney. Topics: Supreme ruling, tariffs, ICE, Epstein files, Kimmel & more. Judge James P. Gray, former JAG officer, author of many books to include why our drug laws have failed and what we can do about it, a judicial indictment of the war on drugs. Judge John Delaney: US Navy vet who served in Viet Nam. Served as trial judge for 30 years over 570 jury trials and thousands of bench trials.

Judge James P Gray , Judge John Delaney
Judge James P. Gray
Superior Court Judge
,  Judge John Delaney
Judge
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Clay Conrad & Paul Armentano. Mr. Conrad is widely recognized for his exceptional legal research and appellate litigation experience. He has litigated over 50 appeals across numerous federal and state jurisdictions. He is author of Jury Nullification The Evolution of a Doctrine.  Paul Armentano is Deputy Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.  Topics to include moving medical cannabis to Schedule III, drug war and Trumps war on reality. 

Clay Conrad Atty, Paul Armentano
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Dana Larsen & Chris Bennett.  Dana Larsen is a Canadian author, businessman, philanthropist and activist for cannabis and drug policy reform. Larsen currently operates businesses and non-profit societies in Vancouver including The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary, The Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary, The Coca Leaf Cafe, Pothead Books, and the Get Your Drugs Tested centre. Chris Bennett is a prominent Canadian cannabis activist, researcher, and author based in Nova Scotia, known for his extensive work on the historical and spiritual roles of cannabis. Topics: Stupid Wars.

Dana Larsen, Chris Bennett
Dana Larsen
Rights Pioneer
, Chris Bennett
Activist/Author
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Eric Sterling & Major Neill Franklin. Topics include the memory of the Shining City on the Hill, Israels attack on Lebanon, Fascism in the drug war and much more.   Eric Sterling was Counsel to the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. 

 

Eric Sterling , Major Neill Franklin
Eric Sterling
Fmr. Counsel to the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee
, Major Neill Franklin
Fmr. Director of LEAP
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