Century Of Lies is a weekly half-hour show focused on drug policy reform and the failed war on drugs. The show explores public health, criminal justice, social justice, and other policies related to drugs in the US and abroad, and includes news reports, commentary, interviews, and other recorded segments. Century of Lies is a production of the Drug Truth Network and is syndicated via the Pacifica Foundation Radio Network.
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We look ahead to National Alcohol and Other Drugs Facts Week, which is
January 25-31 this year, and we hear about the UN General Assembly Special
Session on the World Drug Problem coming up in April.
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This week we discuss new data on youth drug use, Vermont Governor Peter
Shumlin's support for marijuana legalization, and Maine Governor Paul
LePage's racist comments about the drug war.
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This week: a conversation with Cyndee Clay, executive director of HIPS-DC
(formerly Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive), a "by-and-for" outreach
and harm reduction organization based in Washington, DC.
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This week: President Obama commutes the sentences of 95 people serving time
for federal drug offenses, and we speak with drug policy researcher and human
rights activist Damon Barrett.
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This week: We hear ONDCP Director Michael Botticelli and the GAO's David
Maurer testify before a House subcommittee on ONDCP reauthorization and about
recent reports from both agencies that show that current US drug control
policies are a failure.
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Doug McVay reports: This week we continue our coverage of the Drug Policy
Alliance's International Reform Conference, with audio from Deborah Small
from Break The Chains, and interviews with author and activist Kemba Smith,
and with Jonathan Perri of Change.org.
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This week: Part two of our coverage of the Drug Policy Alliance's
International Reform Conference. We hear from Dawn Paley, author of Drug War
Capitalism; Lorenzo Jones from the A Better Way Foundation; and Amanda Reiman
from the Drug Policy Alliance.
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This week in part one of our coverage of the Drug Policy Alliance's
international reform conference, we hear from Deborah Peterson-Small of Break
The Chains, we talk with Martha's mum Anne-Marie Cockburn, and we say goodbye
to a good friend who recently passed away, Thomas ...
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