Veronica Wright is the founder of the National Coalition for Drug Legalization, a nonprofit that supports drug legalization through research and community outreach. She is a community leader and a strong advocate for the legalization of all drugs.
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. |
Carolina in Ft Worth was brutally atacked by a Ft Worth cop for holding a camera, asking a question. Her Attorney CJ Grisham joins DTN host Becker along with Joe Jaworski former mayor of Galveston and candidate for Texas Attorney General. Carolina has now left the hospital, then charged with four infractions and taken to jail after the cops dislocated both her shoulder and elbow, gave her two black eyes, knocked her smooth out slamming the 110 pound 60 year old woman into a parking lot.
Major Neill Franklin is a 34-year law enforcement veteran of the Maryland State Police and Baltimore Police Department. During his time on the force, he held the position of commander for the Education and Training Division and the Bureau of Drug and Criminal Enforcement. Topics of discussion include forthcoming prohibition of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, qualified immunity, much more.
Clark Neily is senior vice president for legal studies at the Cato Institute. His areas of interest include constitutional law, overcriminalization, coercive plea bargaining, police accountability, and gun rights.
Randall Kallinen is a Gulf Coast attorney dedicated to protecting and advancing civil rights and liberties for all. For today's show we discuss police misconduct & attitudes. Examination of perspectives, common reactions of law enforcement. Police indifference to hand cuffed womans face in ant bed by same cops. 300 bites. plus
Kim Ogg is the District Attorney of Houston/Harris County Texas. Topics include police corruption, judicial disparity, millions of traffic stops, prohibition of drugs, of words, porno, books, abortion & birth control and those who love to prohibit. MUCH MORE!
We are joined by two guests, DTN reporter Doug McVay and Sanho Tree of the Institute for Policy Studies in DC. Topics range from graduation season, drug education, the hypocrisy of drug war advocates, international drug war scrapes in Mexico, Colombia, Afghanistan, around the world.
We have two guests today. First is Paul Armentano the Deputy DIrector of the National Organizagtion for the Reform of Marijuaja Laws. Second guest is will Foster, bust back when in Oklahoma sentence to 93 years in prison and is now the largest provider of cannabis clones in the state.
In Jury Nullification, author Clay Conrad examines the history, the law, and the practical and political implications of jury independence. Topics include roadside stops, The dissolution of law in the US and much more.
(29:00) Guest: Phil Smith has served as writer and editor of the Drug War Chronicle newsletter since May 2000. He has reported from the opium fields of Afghanistan and the coca fields of Bolivia and Peru, as well as the US-Mexico border and the mean streets of North American cities from Vancouver to Washington, DC. Topics this show include exposing the world wide members of the drug cartel PLUS Drug Policy Alliance www.drugpolicy.org new Deep Dive Into Drug War Profiteering.
CARTEL: a coalition or cooperative arrangement between political parties intended to promote a mutual interest.
Millions of cartel members lie for a living to include the DEA, most elected officials, 99.9% of cops, prosecutors, judges, urine testers, treatment providers, money launderers and banks, most media, preachers and especially physicians who know better but choose to go along to get along and thus choose to first do harm. Cowards, liars, all criminal cartel members who will never defend their madness.