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AUDIO INTERVIEW: Mother of Cyprus Speaks Out on Using Cannabis to Treat Epilepsy (audio/mpeg 4.0MB) 10:00 minutes...
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2017 11:50pm PDT
Getting Into Trouble with Franklin Lopez of SubMedia (audio/mpeg 63.1MB) SubMedia is releasing a brand new monthly show entitled Trouble. This month's featured struggle is the #NoDAPL fight at Standing Rock....
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2017 1:19pm PDT
New Orleans Drug Policy Update August 2016 (audio/mpeg 26.4MB) 24 min New Orleans and surrounding area drug war news for 2016. Learn about: law enforcement officers and staffers booked or sentenced on conspiracy, drug distribution, malfeasance, and theft charges in Louisiana; official opiate overdose warnings from health departments, coroners, and law enforcement around the state; mixed bag state legislative actions; effects of prohibition on public health; findings on sentencing and jailing on municipal, state, and federal levels....
Posted: Sun, Aug 14, 2016 7:52am PDT
On Drug User Health and Dignity - Interview with Mike Selick from Harm Reduction Coalition (audio/mpeg 21.7MB) On Drug User Health and Dignity - Interview with Mike Selick from the Training & Capacity-Building Institute at the Harm Reduction Coalition....
Posted: Mon, Jul 11, 2016 6:22am PDT
Governments Disagree Over Global Drug Control: UN's drug meeting in Vienna (audio/mpeg 9.8MB) Drugreporter’s video advocacy team filmed key speeches and interviewed some of the participants at the UN's drug meeting in Vienna....
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2016 7:10pm PDT
Readaloud: Dan Baum "Legalize It All: How to win the war on drugs" (audio/mpeg 10.8MB) Gone viral: an excerpt of Dan Baum's piece, "Legalize It All: How to win the war on drugs," recently published in the April 2016 issue of Harper's magazine, has been shared across social media, resulting in videos, quotes, tweets, and more. Here's the full piece, it's a long one, with policy recommendations, data, and more....
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2016 1:20pm PDT
Let’s start with a question... (audio/mpeg 8.1MB) In Part 2 the author defines our drug problem. It isn't simple drug use, as debilitating drug addiction is relatively small. Rather, Baum introduces policies in...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2016 1:20pm PDT
So why doesn’t the United States decriminalize? (audio/mpeg 11.5MB) In Part 2 the author defines our drug problem. It isn't simple drug use, as debilitating drug addiction is relatively small. Rather, Baum introduces policies in...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2016 1:20pm PDT
Colorado has allowed medical marijuana since 2000 (audio/mpeg 11.4MB) In Part 4, the author explores his home state and the state furthest along this path, Colorado. "In 2009, Britain’s Transform Drug Policy Foundation put out a 2...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2016 1:20pm PDT
I voted for marijuana legalization even though I hadn’t smoked pot in years... (audio/mpeg 44.9MB) In Part 5, the author concludes, "Legalizing, and then regulating, drug markets will likely be messy, at least in the short term. Still, in a technocratic, capi...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2016 1:20pm PDT
Proposed city ordinance would reform marijuana prohibition in New Orleans (audio/mpeg 23.4MB) Interview with Kevin Caldwell - Executive Director of CommonsenseNOLA - a marijuana reform advocacy organization. Listeners learn about why a proposed city ordinance that would reform marijuana prohibition in New Orleans is needed. Discussed are issues of racial equity, summonses, citations and the negative economic and humanitarian impacts of high bonds amounts on poor people who have committed low level non-violent offenses....
Posted: Fri, Mar 4, 2016 7:02pm PST
Dr. Carl Hart at Drug Policy Alliance Conference in NOLA (audio/mpeg 19.3MB) A Human Rights based approach to drug policy...
Posted: Wed, May 6, 2015 8:15am PDT
WTUL News & Views Interviews Kevin Caldwell of Common Sense NOLA (audio/mpeg 29.2MB) Interview with Kevin Caldwell leader of Common Sense NOLA, a New Orleans-based advocacy group working toward the establishment of a cannabis marketplace through economic development, education, and legal reform to ensure our community's prosperity and security....
Posted: Mon, Mar 9, 2015 7:27am PDT
Community Response to Mental Health-related overdoses on Tulane Campus with Arielle (audio/mpeg 22.6MB) 19 min Community Response to Mental Health-related overdoses on Tulane Campus with Arielle, a collective member of the New Orleans Harm Reduction Network, New Orleans Harm Reduction Network was founded in 2011 by a small group of syringe access providers, advocates, and drug users. Today they are strengthened by a network of allies who challenge stigma faced by people who use drugs and advocate for change....
Posted: Sun, Feb 22, 2015 11:00pm PST
WTUL News & Views (audio/mpeg 27.6MB) "Race, Patriarchy, and Pleasure" Harm Reduction Coalition Podcast #39 from 2011, 30m09s. With Asha Bandele, Drug Policy Alliance and Joyce Rivera, St. Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction...
Posted: Mon, Dec 15, 2014 7:18am PST
Louisiana Defenders Collective Interview from WTUL News and Views (audio/mpeg 50.6MB) News and Views speaks to members of the Louisiana Defenders Collective, going over the holes in the criminal justice system that make their services necessary and the particular pressures put on juveniles in the privatization of the public school system, especially the ways formerly standard in-school behavioral problems have become criminalized....
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 7:22am PDT
Women's Magazine (audio/x-wav 119.9MB) On today's show, we hear a critique of achievement focused education and why legalizing marijuana may help end the war on drugs....
Posted: Mon, Sep 24, 2012 1:30pm PDT
Cynthia McKinney on legalizing marijuana (audio/x-wav 137.9MB) Eryn Mathewson speaks with former Georgia Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, about the Peace and Freedom party and why she supports marijuana-use legalization....
Posted: Mon, Sep 24, 2012 1:30pm PDT
Breakfast Plenary on work being done to establish & defend civil rights in California toda (audio/mpeg 20.5MB) (audio 59:50)
Breakfast Plenary, including a greeting from Mickey Welsh, Board Chair, ACLU of Northern California; a welcome from Hector Villagra, Executive...
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 9:27am PDT
You Don’t Shed Your Rights At the Schoolhouse Gate (audio/mpeg 28.0MB) (audio 1:21:24)
In 1969 the United States Supreme Court ruled, “It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional right to ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 9:27am PDT