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.
05/06/20 Phil Smith
Phillip Smith 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 in 2013.
FDBCB050620.mp3Guest(s): Phil Smith
Link(s): Stop The Drug War
04/29/20 James Gray
James P. Gray announces his intention to run for President under the Libertarian banner + Dr. Suni Aggerwal discusses pandemic, advancing integrative medical care and research in oncology, psychiatry, neurology, rehabilitation, and palliative care
FDBCB042920.mp3Guest(s): James Gray
Organization(s): Libertarian Party
Link(s): Gray and Sharpe
04/22/20 Richard Van Wickler
Richard Van Wickler Cheshire County jail Superintendent & David Duffield of Houston Harm Reduction Alliance + Remembering Dr. Albert Hoffman LSD explorer
FDBCB042220.mp3Guest(s): Richard Van Wickler
Organization(s): Houston Harm Reduction Alliance, Law Enforcement Action Partnership
Link(s): Houston Harm Reduction Alliance, LEAP
04/15/20 Natalia Cornelio
Natalia Cornelio is running for Judge in the 351st District in Harris County/Houston. We discuss bail, jail crowding during pandemic, voting rights & more. Plus song Eternal War & a snippet with Freeway Ricky Ross who talks of his ties with the CIA
FDBCB041520.mp3Guest(s): Natalia Cornelio
Organization(s): 351st District Judge
Link(s): Natalia Cornelio for Judge
04/08/20 Carl Hart
Dr. Carl Hart author of High Price - A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self Discover That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs & Socieity + Terry Nelson of LEAP & DTN Editorial
FDBCB040820.mp3Guest(s): Carl Hart
Organization(s): LEAP
Link(s): LEAP
04/01/20 Nicholas Eyle
Nicholas Eyle a pioneering drug reformer has passed away, tribute segment from 2004 + Sanho Tree a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and Director of its Drug Policy Project since 1998
FDBCB040120.mp3Guest(s): Nicholas Eyle, Sanho Tree
Organization(s): Reconsider
Link(s): Institute for Policy Studies
03/25/20 Cliff Schaffer
ALL STAR RERUN: Cliff Schaffer, founder of DrugLibrary.org and MarijuanaBusinessNews.com discusses how we steer the discussion on how to end the drug war & Terry Nelson of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition + the Abolitionists Moment
FDBCB032520.mp3Guest(s): Cliff Schaffer
Organization(s): Drug Library
Link(s): Drug Library
03/18/20 Katharine Neill Harris
Katharine Neill Harris Alfred C. Glassell, III, Fellow in Drug Policy re "Vaping: Clearing the Air" + Paul Stanford, cannabis activist returns from speaking gig in Mexico
FDBCB031820.mp3Guest(s): Katherine Neill Harris, Paul Stanford
Organization(s): Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy
Link(s): VAPING: CLEARING THE AIR
03/11/20 Ethan Russo
Dr. Ethan Russo, leading cannabis scientist just back from New Zealand discussion of studies including Migraine, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel, and Other Treatment-Resistant Syndromes + Norma Sapp cannabis reform pioneer in Oklahoma.
FDBCB031120.mp3Guest(s): Ethan Russo
Link(s): Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency Reconsidered
03/04/20 David Duffield
David Duffield President Houston Harm Reduction Alliance, Philly safe injection ups and downs, Doug McVay report: Oregon to decrim all drugs? + Bernie Vs Drug War & DTN Editorial
FDBCB030420.mp3Guest(s): David Duffield
Organization(s): Houston Harm Reduction Alliance
Link(s): Houston Harm Reduction Alliance