Drug Truth Network

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

02/11/25 Beto O'Rourke

Beto O'Rourke the former Congressman from Texas joins us to discuss drug war failure, mayhem and death at the border, abortion rights, LGBGTQ rights and rise of Fascism in the USA

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Beto O'Rourke

Century of Lies

02/11/25 Rebooting the Drug War

This week on Century of Lies: Rebooting the Drug War. Congress appears determined to march farther down the road of drug war folly. On this week’s Century we look at two recent Congressional hearings. The Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing February 4 entitled “The Poisoning of America: Fentanyl, its Analogues, and the Need for Permanent Class Scheduling.” We hear statements by Committee Chair Senator Charles Grassley (D-IA), Ranking Member Richard Durbin, and one of the witnesses, Cecilia Farfán, PhD, an Affiliated Researcher with the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California San Diego.

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Regina LaBell

Moral High Ground

02/11/25 Beto O'Rourke & Howard Wooldridge

Beto O'Rourke the former Congressman from Texas joins us to discuss drug war failure, mayhem and death at the border, abortion rights, LGBGTQ rights and rise of Fascism in the USA. Plus: Howard Wooldridge, founding member of LEAP, international expert on the drug war and an opponent of Trumps insane policies.

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Beto O'Rourke

Becker's Buds

Marshall Fogg retired from the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) as a Chief with 32 years of federal service while obtaining the highest law enforcement awards from the USMS Director, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the Federal Bar Association and others, for service above and beyond the call of duty. He was officially honored with a task force plaque displaying ‘Batman’ for his ‘Gotham City’ and super hero characterization while on 24 hour call supervising joint USMS/DEA/State & Municipal enforcement operations nationwide. During his tenure in the USMS he was a member of the Special Operations Group (SOG) aka, SWAT TEAM which, included extensive training in Major Court Security OPS, Scuba Dive Rescue Specialist, Paratrooper, Special Assault Weapons, HandTo-Hand Combat, Improvised Explosive Devices and Foreign Dignitary Protection for the United Nations, General Assembly.

4:20 Drug War News