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Podcast for Saturday, August 15, 2009 [ 4:04:45 | 112.04 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (364)

‘This is Hell! Goes To Pot: The Best of Our War on Drugs Coverage.’ Interviews included:

• from January 31, 2009, Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML and the NORML Foundation. He is also the co-author of the forthcoming book “Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People To Drink?,” which will be published later this year by Chelsea Green.
  Paul had just written the story, “Marijuana Reform Is Part of the Progressive Agenda, So Why Are Obama’s Drug Cops Already Making Pot Raids?“
• from March 21, 2009, and live from Mexico City, Laura Carlsen is a program director at the Center for International Policy‘s Americas Policy Program in Mexico City. The prior weekend, Laura wrote, “Drug War Doublespeak: Sorting Reality From Hype.”
• from April 11, 2009, Manuel Perez Rocha directs “The NAFTA Plus and the SPP Advocacy Project,” part of the Global Economy Project. Manuel is a Mexican national who has led tri-national efforts to promote just and sustainable alternative approaches to North American economic integration for more than a decade. Manuel had recently written the article, “The Failed War on Drugs in Mexico.”
• from July 18, 2009, Jeff Faux is founder and former president of the Economic Policy Institute where he is currently a distinguished fellow. Jeff’s most recent article was a piece in The Nation entitled, “So Far From God, So Close to Wall St.” He is the author of “The Global Class War: How America’s Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future – and What It Will Take to Win It Back” (Wiley).
• from July 26, 2009, author, journalist, and essayist Charles Bowden is a former writer for the Tucson Citizen and often writes about the American Southwest. Chuck is currently a contributing editor of GQ and Mother Jones magazines. His most recent writing includes, “We Bring Fear: A reporter flees the biggest cartel of all – the Mexican Army.” His most recent book is “Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future” (Houghton Mifflin) which came out earlier this year.
• from December 2, 2006, Margaret Dooley is the outreach coordinator for the Drug Policy Alliance and she wrote the piece, “Meth: The Overstated Addiction” that appeared in AlterNet.
• from February 26, 2005, Dr. David Healy, director of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, who has made claims that Prozac and other drugs like it – known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors – can be addictive and cause suicidal tendencies in some people. Dr. Healy recently testified in the deaths of two grandparents murdered by their twelve year-old son in which Dr. Healy believes Zoloft may have been the cause.
• from June 13, 2009, Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs. Ethan is the author of 1993′s “Cops Across Borders,” which was the first scholarly study of the internationalization of US criminal law enforcement, and co-authored the 2006 book, “Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations.” (Oxford University Press). He has been described by Rolling Stone as “the point man” on drug policy reform efforts.