The Drug Truth Network (DTN) is a media production organization dedicated to exposing the fraud, misdirection, and wastefulness of the “war on drugs.” We invite you to share DTN’s “unvarnished truth about the drug war,” through our innovative radio programming, including Century of Lies, Cultural Baggage and 4:20 Drug War News. Dean Becker & Doug McVay produce nine radio programs per week for the Drug Truth Network (DTN).
| 10/22/24 Ruth Dreifuss 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.” Audio file
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| 10/22/24 Dana Larsen is a political activist This week on Century of Lies: Civilly Disobedient. Dana Larsen is a political activist, business owner, and drug policy reform movement leader located in Vancouver, BC. On Thursday October, 17, Dana’s Mushroom Dispensary and Microdose Cafe in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside was raided by Vancouver Police. No charges have been laid from this raid, nor from raids on his businesses that took place in November 2023. On this edition of Century, Dana Larsen joins host Doug McVay to discuss the raids, civil disobedience, and the end of prohibition. Audio file
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| 10/15/24 DTN 23rd Anniversary DTN takes a look back thru time: 2019 with Australian Dr. Alex Wodak, 2020 with Major Neill Franklin of LEAP & 2021 with DTN host Beckers speech at the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Abuse in Lisbon Portugal. Audio file
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Marshall Fogg retired from the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) as a Chief with 32 years of federal service while obtaining the highest law enforcement awards from the USMS Director, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the Federal Bar Association and others, for service above and beyond the call of duty. He was officially honored with a task force plaque displaying ‘Batman’ for his ‘Gotham City’ and super hero characterization while on 24 hour call supervising joint USMS/DEA/State & Municipal enforcement operations nationwide. During his tenure in the USMS he was a member of the Special Operations Group (SOG) aka, SWAT TEAM which, included extensive training in Major Court Security OPS, Scuba Dive Rescue Specialist, Paratrooper, Special Assault Weapons, HandTo-Hand Combat, Improvised Explosive Devices and Foreign Dignitary Protection for the United Nations, General Assembly.
| 10/25/24 Dean Becker | Audio file
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