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.
The Scottish Affairs Committee of the UK House of Commons held a hearing on
drug policy recently and heard from high-ranking active-duty police officers
about the need for harm reduction, including supervised consumption
facilities, and decriminalization of simple possessio...
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This week on Century: Heather Haase with the New York NGO Committee, Jamie
Bridge with the Vienna NGO Committee, Benjamin Phillips with the Harm
Reduction Coalition, and representatives from UN AIDS, InterPol, and UNODC
discuss the global drug situation and UNODC's newly-re...
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On this edition of Century of Lies we speak with Vivian McPeak, Executive
Director of Seattle Hempfest, about partial success in an ongoing battle with
Washington state over free speech issues; plus we speak with Michael Krawitz
from Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access abo...
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The Commission on Narcotic Drugs met in Vienna on Monday June 24 to hear a
report by the World Health Organization's Expert Committee on Drug Dependence
recommending that cannabis be rescheduled and removed from the list of banned
substances.
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This week on Century, historian and author Hari Jones speaks about
Juneteenth, and the California State Assembly approves a measure to allow San
Francisco to set up a supervised consumption facility.
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This week we talk with Seattle Hempfest Executive Director Vivian McPeak
about a lawsuit they've filed against the state over onerous restrictions on
cannabis businesses, and we talk with Julie Bobitt, PhD, from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign about her resea...
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This week on Century of Lies, we continue our conversation with Keith Brown,
MPH, Director of Health and Harm Reduction at the Katal Center for Health,
Equity, and Justice; plus, we hear from Matt Simon, New England Political
Director for the Marijuana Policy Project, about...
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This week on Century of Lies, part one of our conversation with Keith Brown,
MPH, Director of Health and Harm Reduction at the Katal Center for Health,
Equity, and Justice.
https://www.katalcenter.org/
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This week on Century of Lies, the UK House of Commons discusses medical
cannabis prescribing, and the Philadelphia City Council and Philly DA Larry
Krassner talk about harm reduction and supervised consumption sites.
Note: new recordings of Century of Lies are now being rel...
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This week on Century of Lies, host Doug McVay is joined by best-selling
author Michael Pollan to discuss psychedelic medicine, decriminalization, and
his book How To Change Your Mind. Plus the House Committee on Oversight and
Reform looks at federal drug control policy.
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