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.

Chris Conrad is a well known author, consultant, public speaker, cannabis expert witness, museum curator and internationally respected authority on cannabis, industrial hemp, medical marijuana, cultivation, garden yields, processing, dosages, commercial intent, personal use and cannabis culture. He is professor emeritus at Oaksterdam University, taught at the International Pharmacological Academy and has given numerous presentations for continuing legal education (CLE) and continuing medical education (CME) programs. Conrad is a board member of the California Cannabis Historical Society.

Director of Drug Use Initiatives at Vital Strategies

Dr. Daliah Heller’s research interests include urban health policy, criminal justice, community-oriented healthcare, and drug use epidemiology and interventions. She is actively involved in policy analysis and research to promote criminal justice reform via healthcare innovation, and law enforcement diversion models for people who use drugs.

Dr. Heller has served as Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention, Care, and Treatment, at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and earlier, as the Director of Harm Reduction in the Department’s Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control. Before joining government, she built and led one of the country’s leading harm reduction service organizations, based in the South Bronx.

Dr. Heller’s implementation science experience focuses on drug policy alignment and coordination across municipal government agencies, substance use services integration into general health care, and practice improvement for criminal justice responses to drug use. She is currently the Director of Drug Use Initiatives at Vital Strategies.

Clay Conrad author Jury Nullification,  Juries have been delivering independent verdicts in the interest of justice for over 800 years, serving as the final check on government's power to pass unjust, immoral, or oppressive laws that leave citizens at the mercy of sometimes jaded or corrupt courts and legislatures. This was what the Founding Fathers feared, and this is the reason why they guaranteed trial by jury three times in the Constitution – more than any other right.

Phillip Smith is a senior writing fellow and the editor and chief correspondent of Drug Reporter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He has been a drug policy journalist for the past two decades. He is the longtime author of the Drug War Chronicle, the online publication of the non-profit StopTheDrugWar.org, and has been the editor of AlterNet’s Drug Reporter since 2015. He was awarded the Drug Policy Alliance’s Edwin M. Brecher Award for Excellence in Media

Roger Goodman has worked in government and politics. Before his election to the Legislature in 2006, Roger had already served as senior staff in the United States Congress in Washington, D.C., and here in Washington State he had served as a state agency director. As the youngest son of a college political science professor, Roger’s rigorous undergraduate and graduate education in law and public policy prepared him for a life of public service.

At the State Capitol, Roger has served for many years as Chair of the House Public Safety Committee, with jurisdiction over the state’s criminal justice system. When he first arrived in the Legislature back in 2007 he had already hit the ground running, appointed as Vice-Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, a position he held for six years.

Roger is ranked as one of the most effective legislators in the United States, as half of the bills he has introduced have been enacted into law