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.

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.

Clay Conrad, Looney, Smith & Conrad
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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

Phillip Smith, Stop the Drug War
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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

Roger Goodman, Washinton State Representative
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Dana runs the only shop in the world where any adult can come in and buy a variety of psychedelic mushrooms or LSD or DMT or kra or COA Lee for other wonderful and forbidden products like that. SEE Full Hour Transcript below:

Dana Larsen
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Philippe Lucas PhD is a cannabis and psychedelic researcher, a lifelong patient access advocate, and President of SABI Mind, a clinic group providing access to psychedelic-assisted therapy in the treatment of mental health, pain and substance use disorder. Philippe founded the Vancouver Island Compassion Society, one of Canada’s first non-profit medical cannabis dispensaries, and was a founding Board member of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies Canada and co-founder of the Victoria Association of Psychedelic Studies. He is the Primary Investigator of the Canadian Psychedelic Survey (2022) and co-PI of the Global Psychedelic Survey (2023), and previously coordinated a prospective observational study of ayahuasca as a treatment for trauma and addiction in cooperation with a BC indigenous Band. Additionally, Philippe worked as VP, Global Patient Research & Access at Tilray (2014-21), where he was part of the leadership team for the company’s first 7 years of operation and oversaw a comprehensive international clinical and observational cannabis research program. 

Philippe is extremely community involved, serving as a Victoria City Councillor and Board member of the Capital Regional District from 2008-2011. He has been invited to present his research before the Canadian House of Commons and Senate on numerous occasions, and has worked with governments around the globe to develop evidence-based drug policies. Philippe has received a number of accolades for his patient research and advocacy, including the Americans for Safe Access Researcher of the Year Award 2021, the Cannabis Council of Canada Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal."

Philippe Lucas
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Steve Downing was Deputy Police Chief of Los Angeles. Discussion revolves around the decade' long escalation of draconian tactics in the drug war ranging to the attempt on Trumps life and VP Harris now running for President of the US.

Steve Downing, Law Enforcement Action Partnership
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Cliff Schaffer established the world's largest online library of research into the drug laws at http://www.druglibrary.org. The reason I established the site is simply because I had read some of the major research on our drug laws and I just became astounded at their stupidity. There is no other area in which the law is so completely out of touch with the available research.

Cliff Schaffer, Drug Library . Org
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Dr. Richard Watkins, former Texas warden joins prominent Houston attorney Clay Conrad, the author of Jury Nullification to discuss jail overcrowding around the US. PLUS we have an interview with Freeway Rick Ross, the LA entrepreneur the CIA chose to sell a billion dollars worth of cocaine for them, to finance the Iran Contra affair.

Rick Ross
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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.

Veronica Wright, National Coalition for Drug Legalization
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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.

CJ Grisham
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