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).

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Cultural Baggage

05/12/26 Seattle Sheriff John Urquhart

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.

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John Urquhart
Seattle Sheriff ret.

Century of Lies

05/05/26 Check Your Drugs

On this edition of Century: Check Your Drugs. One such intervention is drug checking. Drug checking services are not new. The organization DanceSafe for example has been around for decades, and for several years there have been growing efforts to get that information out to the public, sharing alerts about adulterants and new psychoactive substances that are hitting the market. The European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) put together a panel recently to discuss drug checking services.

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Dr. Mireia Ventura
Drug Checking Coordinator at Energy Control in Barcelona, Spain
, Helena Valente
Executive Board Member at Kosmicare in Lisbon, Portugal

The 90 minute premiere of CLAIMING THE MORAL HIGH GROUND - A Global Indictment of the War on Drugs video features 19 government officials and high level experts from around the world, all greatly desirous of being a part of this "indictment'. These experts describe in great detail the misery, the ineptitude, the corruption and the myriad horrors we inflict on ourselves and the whole world by continuing to believe in the policy of drug prohibition. Thankfully they also provide the simple solution, first to decriminalize to prove a point and then ASAP to legalize, regulate and actually control these now ludicrously named "controlled substances".

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Claiming the Moral High Ground