Drug Policy Facts

The White House issues its new drug control strategy so we hear from Michael Botticelli, acting director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and NIDA's Nora Volkow on heroin and prescription drugs.

Political pressure stops research, and the centers for disease control are talking again about prescription drug overdoses.

A House subcommittee looks at federal marijuana policy, and we look ahead to Thursday's Global Day Of Action Against the War on Drugs. It's the Drug Policy Facts podcast for June 24, 2014.

This week: Dean Becker of the drug truth network talks about his new book and a debate challenge, plus it's the 43rd anniversary of methadone maintenance in the US.

The feds tell Georgia they can't urine test recipients of food stamps. The New York state legislature looks at heroin. It's the Drug Policy Facts podcast for June 10, 2014.

The House of Representatives votes to forbid the Justice Department from going after state-legal medical cannabis facilities, and the European Union's drugs monitoring agency reports on rates of drug use in the EU – it

This week on the Drug Policy Facts podcast: the Senate Narcotics Caucus talks about heroin, the Minnesota legislature passes limited medical cannabis law, and a company changes its substance abuse policy for the better.

This week: Hemp seeds are going to Kentucky; the constitutionality of cannabis scheduling is going to federal court; urine testing in the cannabis industry is going nowhere, so far; and the Oregon Medical Marijuana Progr

Urine testing in the cannabis industry? We also hear part of a Senate hearing with DEA Administrator Michelle Leonhart talking heroin and marijuana, and the Patients Out of Time Conference is this weekend.

This week we hear from General John F. Kelly, Commander of SOUTHCOM, and Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr., Commandant of the US Coast Guard, on the success or failure of interdiction and how they think our allies view marijua

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