The Drug Truth Network (DTN) is a media production organization dedicated to exposing the fraud, misdirection, and wastefulness of the “war on drugs.” We invite you to share DTN’s “unvarnished truth about the drug war,” through our innovative radio programming, including Century of Lies, Cultural Baggage and 4:20 Drug War News.  Dean Becker & Doug McVay produce nine radio programs per week for the Drug Truth Network (DTN).

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Cultural Baggage

06/14/26 Sordid History of Law Enforcement

Howard "Cowboy" Wooldridge, a former detective, lobbies on behalf of universal drug legalization via his organization Citizens Opposing Prohibition. He tours the US Congress on a regular basis and is a big name at Grover Norquists DC confabs.  Major Neill Franklin, the former head of LEAP has than 33 years of law enforcement experience. He honed his expertise in police training, policy, use of force, and criminal and narcotics investigations. Neill still trains police forces around the nation.

TOPICS: History of Law Enforcement. From Salem witch trials, to slave catcher, to the Earp brothers, to Jim Crow, to the Drug War, to 9-11, covid restrictions and Trumps war on reality. ICE, Venezuela 205 dead, fake training hours, smell of marijuana, more..

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Neill Franklin
Major
, Howard "Cowboy" Wooldridge
Detective

Century of Lies

06/09/26 Drugs in Europe

On this edition of Century: Drugs in Europe. The European Union Drugs Agency, EUDA for short, released its European Drug Report 2026 at a news conference on June 9. We’ll hear an overview of the report plus questions from the media to the panelists at the event: Dr. Lorraine Nolan, EUDA Executive Director; Magnus Brunner, European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration; and Dr. Franz Pietsch, Chair of the EUDA Management Board. Plus, the state of New York is moving to prohibit the sale of 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) products.

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Dr. Lorraine Nolan, EUDA Executive Director
EUDA Executive Director
, Christopher Ryan
New York State Senator

4:20 Drug War News

The 90 minute premiere of CLAIMING THE MORAL HIGH GROUND - A Global Indictment of the War on Drugs video features 19 government officials and high level experts from around the world, all greatly desirous of being a part of this "indictment'. These experts describe in great detail the misery, the ineptitude, the corruption and the myriad horrors we inflict on ourselves and the whole world by continuing to believe in the policy of drug prohibition. Thankfully they also provide the simple solution, first to decriminalize to prove a point and then ASAP to legalize, regulate and actually control these now ludicrously named "controlled substances".

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Claiming the Moral High Ground