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

01/07/25 Trump Vs World + Sanho Tree

Mr. Sanho Tree, international drug policy expert discusses the building objection to the US drug war developing south of our border.  Sanho's website is www.IPS-DC.org.

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Sanho Tree

Century of Lies

01/07/25

This week on Century of Lies: Drug War in the Amazon Basin. The Amazon basin and the tri-border region of Brazil, Colombia, and Peru have been particularly hard hit and transformed by the drug war. The Global Initiative on Transnational Organized Crime released a new report on the impact of the drug war in this region entitled Illicit Frontiers: Criminal Governance in the Amazon’s Tri-Border Region. We hear from the lead author, Gabriel Funari, PhD, head of GI-TOC’s Observatory of Illicit Economies in the Amazon Basin.

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Gabriel Funari, PhD

Moral High Ground

01/07/25 Will Smith & Sanho Tree

Two parter featuring Will Foster, Oklahoma pot grower previously sentenced to 93 years behind bars for growing a 5X5 sea of green.  Will now runs Oklahomas largest cannabis clone distribution www.herblix.com. Second up Mr. Sanho Tree international drug policy expert to discuss the building objection to the US drug war developing south of our border.  Sanho's website is www.IPS-DC.org.

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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

01/10/25 Panel 7
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