This week on Century of Lies: The Path To End AIDS. UNAIDS recently launched its 2023 Global AIDS Update. We hear from UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima; Loic Michaud, Head Nurse and an addiction consultant at Checkpoint Geneva; Yana Panfilova with Teenergizer; and Gibstar Makangila with Circle of Hope.

Thomas L. Knapp is director and senior news analyst at the William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism. We discuss US and international progress on ending the drug war PLUS Howard Wooldridge is taking part in a bicycle journey across Iowa with 30,000 others wearing a shirt that says LEGALIZE HEROIN to SAVE LIVES.

This week on Century of Lies: Saving Lives With Safer Supply. The National Safer Supply Community of Practice released a new community report entitled Prescription For Safety: A Study of Safer Opioid Supply Programs in Ontario.

Dana Larsen is one of Canada’s most well-known advocates for cannabis reform and in calling for an end to the global war on drugs.

This week on Century of Lies: Fentanyl and Safer Smoking Kits. Were joined in conversation by Haven Wheelock, Harm Reduction Services Manager at Outside In, to discuss fentanyl, smoking as an alternative to injection, and safer smoking kits.

This week on Century of Lies: Scotland Takes A Stand.

For most of his professional career Roger Goodman has worked in government and politics. Roger serves a a Washington State Representative. Washinton state recently reinstallled new drug laws that are already failing.  Roger has served for many years as Chair of the House Public Safety Committee, with jurisdiction over the state’s criminal justice system.

This week on Century of Lies: Indigenous Rights, Colonialism, and Psychedelic Exploitation. We hear audio from an indigenous rights/anti-colonialism protest that interrupted the closing ceremony of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies’ fourth Psychedelic Science conference last month.

Diane Goldstein is a retired police Lieutenant now serving as the Executive Director of Law Enforcement Action Partnership, formerly known as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.   She runs a global effort to educate and embolden police, prosecutors, legislators, judges and the general public to the horrible truth, the abysmal failure of the war on drugs.