This week on Century of Lies: Rebooting the Drug War.
Congress appears determined to march farther down the road of drug war folly. On this week’s Century we look at two recent Congressional hearings.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing February 4 entitled “The Poisoning of America: Fentanyl, its Analogues, and the Need for Permanent Class Scheduling.” We hear statements by Committee Chair Senator Charles Grassley (D-IA), Ranking Member Richard Durbin, and one of the witnesses, Cecilia Farfán, PhD, an Affiliated Researcher with the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California San Diego.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Health held a hearing February 6 entitled “Combating Existing and Emerging Illicit Drug Threats.” We hear testimony from one of the witnesses, Professor Regina LaBelle, JD, Director of the Center on Addiction Policy at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law.
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