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Dot and Dash Awards
DOT: $1,200 to the charity of any police captain, sheriff, district attorney, judge, any agent of the DEA, CIA or Justice Dept. willing to speak on the need for eternal drug war. (04/21/05)
DASH: $100 each month to the best 12 words (or less) citizen essay, read over the airways on why the drug war is a "positive" for our society. (11/22/05)
Launched in early 2001, Cultural Baggage, hosted by Dean Becker, is the only nationally distributed radio program focused on discussing the war on drugs.
The weekly, half-hour program features interviews with prominent experts, such as U.S. Representatives John Conyers (D-MI) and Ron Paul (R-TX); Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman; and Superior Court Judge James Gray.
Cultural Baggage features timely and candid interviews with elected officials, judges, scientists, doctors, authors, entertainers, police officers, wardens, prisoners, and patients about current drug war issues, such as medical marijuana, sentencing reform, racial profiling, and police corruption.
Ed Rosenthal, the Guru of Ganja discusses his new book: Marijuna Growers Handbook + Mikki Norris, editor of West Coast Leaf & Steve Fox of Marijuana Policy Project
Jodie Emery, wife of Canadian Marc discusses his incarceration in US prison for selling cannabis seeds + Former servicemen Michael Krawitz and Josh Fenton discuss PTSD, medical cannabis and the Veterans Administration
Paul Wright, editor Prison Legal News, Mike Meno of Marijuana Policy Project, Sandy Moriarty, cannabis chef at Oaksterdam University, NPR starts to understand cannabis
A.R. Torsone, author "Herb Trader - A Tale of Treachery and Espionage in the Global Marijuana Trade" + Jamaican and money laundering clips from "Need to Know" on PBS
William Martin, a Senior Fellow in Religion and Public Policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy welcomes Drug Truth Network to their Archives program + Diana Washington Valdez a reporter for El Paso Times & Drug War Facts from Mary Jane Borden
Richard Lee, founder Oaksterdam Univ on Ca tax & regulate measure, Matt Elrod of Drug Sense re Canadian drug laws + Irven Rosenfeld, author of "My Medicine" who gets 300 joints thru the DEA every 28 days
Report from Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century, from San Jose California, featuring Dr. Rick Doblin, Robert Jesse, Dr. Charles Grob, Dr. Alicia Danforth + Earth & Fire Erowid
Scott Bullock of Justice Institute on "Policing for Profit", Allison Holcom of ACLU, ABC interview of drug czar Gil, BBC report on heroin injection in Vancouver
Harris County (Houston) Constable Victor Trevino discusses need to examine drug laws, save money, prevent jail crowding, etc. + Neill Franklin, a working Baltimore cop & new head of LEAP discusses cannabis law
Nurse Mary Lynn Mathre & Al Byrne of Patients out of Time on medical marijuana news & forthcoming Cannabis Conference + "Life, Liberty & Happiness" from Oaksterdam University: COOKING WITH CANNABIS, with professor Sandy Moriarty & Tom Daubert on medical cannabis news in Montana
Richard Lee, founder Oaksterdam Univ, marijuana "death" in Ohio, Dr. Robert Melameade, Bill Piper of DPA, Tim Meehan on Canada's "progress" & DTN tries K2
El Paso City Councilman Beto O'Rourke on the ultra violence in their sister city of Ciudad Juarez & Michael Blunk, board member of Students for Sensible Drug Policy
Cynthia Henley, past Pres of Hou Criminal Lawyer Assoc, DTN Editorial/Msg to Houston Council, report from WTKR TV, Roanoake VA, Phil Smith with Corrupt Cop Stories.
Superior Court Judge David Nichols (ret) for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition + Phil Smith of Drug War Chronicle re legal marijuana approval in Calif legislature hearing
Best of 2009: Fred Burton of Stratfor, Police Chief Harold Hurdt, Amanda Fielding Dir of Beckley Foundation, Glenn Greenwald, David Rosenbloom of Casa & Moses Naim editor of Foreign Policy magazine
Leigh Maddox, former Maryland state police officer and now a speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition + Tony Newman of Drug Policy Alliance with Top Ten drug reform stories of 2009
