This week on Century of Lies: Respecting the Rights and Dignity of People Who Use Drugs. From 2020 until the arrests in 2023, the Drug User Liberation Front provided a safe supply of drugs to a small number of people who use drugs in that part of northern Abya Yala known colonially as Vancouver, BC. The drugs were sourced via the Dark Web, purity and potency tested with a mass spectrometer.

Dean Becker, DTN reporter was invited to Lisbon to speak to the administration of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs & Drug Abuse (E.M.C.D.D.A.) + DTN Editorial."To End The War On Drugs"

DTN 23rd Anniversary Special. Featuring Atty Tony Serra, Alexandra Natapoff, author Charles Bowden, former mayor Kurt Schmoke, Dr Carl Hart, activist Kevin Zeese, Diane Goldstein of LEAP, author Don Winslow and author Michelle Alexander. 

This week on Century of Lies: Nitazenes in the UK. Nitazenes are a type of synthetic opioid that’s been turning up as a contaminant in the unregulated drug supplies in Australia, New Zealand, the EU, and the UK. Barod, a harm reduction and recovery services provider in Wales, held a webinar recently on nitazenes. On this edition of Century we hear from two of the presenters: Dr.

Paul Stanford has been working toward ending marijuana and hemp prohibition since 1984.  He first attended a protest marijuana legalization at the White House a week after his 18th birthday in 1978. In 1984, he was instrumental in a now-famous Oregon political ballot initiative called the Oregon Marijuana Initiative which made the ballot.

This week on Century of Lies: Oregon Post-Recrim: Deflection and Diversion. Loyal listeners will recall that my home state of Oregon recently took a big step backwards in drug policy by recriminalizing the simple possession of small amounts of some drugs.