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This week on Century of Lies: A Look Back At Seattle Hempfest.In August 1991, a group of weed activists and freedom lovers gathered in Volunteer Park in Seattle, Washington for the Washington Hemp Expo. From these modest beginnings grew the largest protestival in the world...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: FDA Rejects MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy.On August Ninth, the Food and Drug Administration formally rejected a New Drug Application submitted by Lykos Therapeutics for its MDMA-Assisted Therapy. While this news came as a shock to some, back in J...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Birth Behind Bars.The Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law held a hearing recently to shine a light on the pervasive abuse of pregnant women in prisons around the country. We hear from Senator Jon Ossoff; Jessica Umberg...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Incarceration and Crime.The Sentencing Project has released a new report entitled “Incarceration & Crime: A Weak Relationship,” which illustrates that less imprisonment often happens alongside improvements to community safety. They held a webi...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Stigma.Since 2015, the Stigma Indicators Monitoring Project at the University of New South Wales has documented the expression and experiences of stigma and discrimination towards people affected by blood borne viruses and sexually transmitte...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Launch of the European Union Drugs Agency.The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction was the European Union’s drugs monitoring agency. Technically the EMCDDA is no more but it hasn’t closed, it’s changed: The EMCDDA is now call...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Decriminalization, Depenalization, Diversion, and Legalization of Drugs.The Oireachtas, which is the Parliament of the Republic of Ireland, established a Joint Committee on Drugs Use in March of this year to consider and respond to the recomm...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: World Drug Report 2024.The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released its 2024 World Drug Report on June 26. We hear an overview from Dr. Angela Me, Chief of the Research and Trend Analysis Branch at UNODC, and reactions from Ambassador...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Progress In Vermont.The state of Vermont has approved legislation to allow municipalities to decide whether to authorize the establishment of overdose prevention centers, also known as supervised consumption facilities or safer consumption sit...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Drug Checking Services and Synthetic Cathinones.We hear about drug checking services at festivals from Mar Cunha, a harm reductionist in Portugal who works with Kosmicare at their drug checking service; and we hear about cathinones from Steph...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: European Drug Report 2024.The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction released its 2024 European Drug Report on Tuesday June Eleventh. On this edition of Century we bring you audio from the news conference held by EMCDDA to mark...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: New Jersey Harm Reduction Conference Part One.On this edition of Century we hear from Dr. Sheila Vakharia, Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance and the author of The Harm Reduction G...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Safe Consumption Sites.Safe consumption sites, supervised consumption facilities, overdose prevention centers, drug consumption rooms – whatever you call them, these vital harm reduction interventions save lives, provide wound care, reduce the...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Rule of Law in the Balance.Since late during the Duterte presidency and continuing under President Ferdinand Marcos Junior, extrajudicial drug war killings in the Philippines have continued at the rate of about one per day. Arrest warrants in ...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: We Fight, We Hide, We Unite.The Eurasian Harm Reduction Association recently hosted a discussion entitled Tenacity in the shrinking civic spaces: challenges and response of the organizations and activists working on drug policy and health in C...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Civilly Disobedient - Part two of a conversation with writer, activist, and regional NORML organizer Chris Goldstein.By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies it's the first part of my conversation with the writer, activist, and regional NORML organizer Chris Goldstein.By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Human Rights and the Drug War.In the Philippines, former Senator Leila de Lima was imprisoned for nearly seven years by the Duterte regime, framed for crimes she didn’t commit because she spoke out against human rights abuses and extrajudicial...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Militarization of the Global Drug War.On this edition of Century we look at states of emergency, the militarization of the global drug war, and measures to address these critical human rights challenges. We hear from Ambika Satkunanathan, a hu...By KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: #CND67 Part Four: The Side Events.On this edition of Century of Lies, Part Four of our coverage of the Sixty-Seventh Session of the UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs. This week we hear highlights from some of the many side events that were hel...By KBOO Community Radio
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Pam West, Butterfly Sessions, and Jerry Whiting, LeBlanc CNE, have relaunched their podcast via Zoom. Coming to you from Vancouver BC and Seattle WA with news & views on hemp, cannabis and life in general.By Jerry Whiting
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Jerry Whiting gave a talk at Oberlin College in OH, Summer 2019. He spoke to students from the Environmental Studies and Sustainability programs about hemp & CBD. It was an impromptu presentation and being in a barn, the sound quality isn't the best but still worth a listen.By Jerry Whiting
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A wonderful interview with Zoe Sigman, program director for Project CBD [ www.ProjectCBD.org ]By Jerry Whiting
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Don Wirtshafter interview at Seattle Hempfest 2019
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An interview with lifelong hemp active Don Wirtshafter, recorded at Seattle Hempfest, August 2019. Don talks about the Cannabis Museum [ https://www.cannabismuseum.com/ ] he's established and more.By Jerry Whiting
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Tommy Chong interviewed by HNEN at the Washington Cannabis Summit
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Throughout his life and career Tommy Chong has been an advocate for legalizing cannabis both medically and recreationally. His movies, live performances and many other appearances all speak to that advocacy in one form or another. Tommy Chong was a pioneer in educating the public about the positive side of cannabis and still pursues this goal passi…
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Anndrea Hermann interviewed by HNEN at the Washington Cannabis Summit
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Anndrea Hermann, M.Sc, B.GS, P.Ag. is the President of Hemp Technologies Global, the President of the National Hemp Industries Association, the Chief Development Science Officer, Hemp Division, of Creative Edge Nutrition, and an Advisor forNutiva Foods. Anndrea is also the instructor of OSU’s course WSE266 Industrial Hemp (ecampus, as she lives in …
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Danica Noble interviewed by HNEN at the Washington Cannabis Summit
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Danica Noble is Coordinator for the NORML Women of Washington and an antitrust attorney. She is chair of the Antitrust, Consumer Protection, and Unfair Business Practices Section of the Washington State Bar Association. Ms. Noble graduated from Georgetown University Law Center and was a judicial law clerk in the US Virgin Islands.…
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Natalie Lyla Ginsberg interviewed by HNEN at the Washington Cannabis Summit
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Natalie is the Research and Advocacy Coordinator at The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, (MAPS). She works to end federal obstruction of medical marijuana research. Recently, she has focused on pressuring the Department of Health and Human Services to end the Public Health Service (PHS) protocol review, an extraneous, redundan…
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Jeremy Kaufman interviewed by HNEN at the Washington Cannabis Summit
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Jeremy Kaufman has been a Cannabis activists for over 15 years. He is one of the founders of The C.P.C. as well as a Co-owner of Absolute Oils. Over 5 years ago The CPC became Washington’s first licensed and recognized Medical Cannabis Research and Development Firm.Jeremy is one of the founding members of the CCSE. He has devoted time to multiple p…
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Vivian McPeak interviewed by HNEN at the Washington Cannabis Summit
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Vivian McPeak is a Seattle based social justice activist and writer. Vivian is the president of Seattle Events, a Non-Profit Organization, and he is executive director of the Seattle Hempfest, the world’s largest annual cannabis policy reform rally. The recipient of the High Times Magazine 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award, Vivian has appeared on num…
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