Daliah Heller works in public policy and practice at the intersection of public health and criminal justice, with particular expertise on drugs and drug use. Over more than two decades, she has served in leadership and advisory positions in both the government and nonprofit sectors. As assistant commissioner at the New York City health department, she established the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention, Care, and Treatment. Heller holds a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from CUNY Graduate Center, MPH from Columbia University, and BA from McGill University.
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Cultural Baggage is DTN's longest running broadcast program with 18 years as of October 2019. We are proud to have more than three dozen affiliate stations in the US and Canada broadcasting our 29 minutes of unvarnished truth about the failure and futility of this eternal prohibition of drugs. Produced by former cop Dean Becker at KPFT, Houston, one of the 5 Pacifica "sister" stations. |
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Anti Fascist focus on Trump Admin with Host Rev Becker along with guests Howard Wooldridge and new guest Josh Brittain.
Three guests: Doug McVay, David Borden & Chris Bennett. Three drug reformers with 100 years combined experience. Discussion revolves around the war on migrants and the eternal war on drugs.
Eric Sterling served as Counsel to the US House Judiciary Committee. Discussion revolves around the Fascist and unconstitutional tactics and lies of the Trump administration.
Ms. Debbie Goldsberry, a longtime reformer, author, cannabis dispensary owner now going back to college. And we also have Mr. Vivian McPeak, who, for decades headed up the Seattle Hemp Fest.
Judge James P Gray and Washington State Rep Roger Goodman combine forces to examine and denounce Trumps attempt at destroying the USA and at controlling the world. Anti-Fascist program
Howard Wooldridge one of the founding members of LEAP Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is touring Europel Howard is now Admin for another group Citizens Opposing Prohibition.
Omar Figueroa has more than twenty six years of experience at the vanguard of California cannabis law and is widely respected as an industry expert. Omar is a Director of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and the Sonoma County Bar Association. Omar’s interests are not limited to cannabis, and he has a profound, long-term interest in entheogen law and policy. Omar also volunteered his time as a Board Member with the Sonoma County Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, and along with other members of its the Law Enforcement Surveillance Technology (LEST) team spearheaded Sonoma County’s first Surveillance Technology Ordinance. Omar has a long record of pro bono service, including decades of successfully defending protesters and activists. Some notable pro bono cases defended by Omar include, but are not limited to: dismissal of the first federal prosecution brought under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act; dismissal of state charges against OG computer hacker Kevin Mitnick in Los Angeles County; no jail time against journalist Will Parrish in Mendocino County; dismissal against septuagenarian forest defender in Humboldt County; hung jury trial in the Southern District of California (San Diego federal court) with no jail time against legendary activist Rod Coronado; no jail time and no felony conviction against a member of the so-called Paypal 14 in the Northern District of California. Omar was trained as a litigator by his mentor, legendary San Francisco trial lawyer J. Tony Serra, sometimes called the Hippie Atticus Finch.
Major Neill Franklin is a retired 34-year law enforcement veteran of the Maryland State Police and Baltimore Police Department. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP). LEAP is a non-profit organization that uses expertise to advance drug policy and criminal justice solutions.
Ethan Russo, MD, is a board-certified neurologist, psychopharmacology researcher, and author. He is the Founder and CEO of credo-science.com and the creator of the course Foundations of Cannabis Therapeutics with Ethan Russo, MD: An Evidence-Based Medical Cannabis Education Course. Previously, he was Director of Research and Development of the International Cannabis and Cannabinoids Institute (ICCI) based in Prague, Czech Republic. Medical Director of PHYTECS (2015-2017), a biotechnology company researching and developing innovative approaches targeting the human endocannabinoid system, and from 2003-2014, he served as Senior Medical Advisor, medical monitor and study physician to GW Pharmaceuticals, United Kingdom for numerous Phase I-III clinical trials of Sativex® for alleviation of cancer pain unresponsive to optimized opioid treatment and initial studies of Epidiolex® for intractable epilepsy.