Drug Policy Facts

Featuring audio from the faith leaders panel at Drug Policy Alliance international conference in Denver 2013.

This week: Our 420 Activism Special, featuring audio from organizers and activists including Vivian McPeak, Kari Boiter, Ed "New Jersey Weedman" Forchion, and Ngaio Bealum.

This week: US Attorney General Holder said he'd be glad to work with Congress to reschedule marijuana. Or did he? Always looking behind the headlines, it's the drug policy facts podcast.

This week: Congressional drug warriors have a love-fest on Capitol Hill with acting drug czar Michael Botticelli; research indicates that medical marijuana legalization may have a positive impact on lowering crime rates;

This week: Part 2 of our coverage of the UN's Commission on Narcotic Drugs annual meeting in Vienna, including the voices of Eliot Albers from INPUD, author Doug Fine, and actor/comedian Russell Brand.

This week: Part 1 of our coverage of the 57th Session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting in Vienna, Austria. We hear from Mike Trace of the International Drug Policy Consortium; UN Deputy Secretar

This week: The UN's Commission on Narcotic Drugs holds its annual high-level meeting in Vienna, and we have audio from one of the opening sessions; there's a new report on what Americans spend on illegal drugs; the drug

The UN's International Narcotics Control Board releases its annual assessment of the international drug war; the US State Department releases its annual assessment of the international drug war; and members of Congress g

This week: Russian drug policies drive record high rates of HIV and Hepatitis C related to injection drug use; a police chief proves the value of accurate factual information; and we get to kick Dick Nixon around a littl

This week: Oregon moves closer to putting marijuana on the 2014 ballot; the monitoring the future survey looks at drug use among today's high school students; and members of Congress leading the efforts to end prohibitio