Cultural Baggage Cultural Baggage is DTN's longest running broadcast program with 18 years as of October 2019. We are proud to have more than three dozen affiliate stations in the US and Canada broadcasting our 29 minutes of unvarnished truth about the failure and futility of this eternal prohibition of drugs. Produced by former cop Dean Becker at KPFT, Houston, one of the 5 Pacifica "sister" stations.

Dr. Khalid Tinasti, Exec Dir of Global Commission on Drugs participates in video production of Seeking The Moral High Ground.

Dr. Khalid Tinasti, Global Commission on Drug Policy
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Chris Bennett has been researching the historical role of cannabis in the spiritual life of humanity for more than a three decades. Chris is author of the great new book: Cannabis - Lost Sacrament of the Ancientt World.  Its psychoactive properties have also long been known by humanity, and ancient man attributed a supernatural force behind such effects. 

Chris Bennett, Drug Truth Network
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Lucas Wiessing Chief scientist for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, a few words from Dr. Christoph Buerki, the designer of the decades old and very successful Swiss heroin injection program and we hear from Portugal's Drug Czar Dr. Joao Goulao. + Neill Franklin, former Exec Dir of LEAP.

Lucas Wiessing, European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction
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Timothy King is a senior policy fellow with Clergy for a New Drug Policy.  Topics run the gamut from overdoses in the USA to free and legal government supplied cocaine.

Timothy King, Clergy for a New Drug Policy
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Cliff Schaffer established the world's largest online library of research into the drug laws at http://www.druglibrary.org. He has been a teacher, mentor to hundreds of drug reform advocates over the decades.  

Cliff Schaffer, Drug Library
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Stephen Downing  was Deputry Police Chief of Los Angeles.  He is also an American screenwriter, producer, activist, and investigative journalist who began his screenwriting career in the 1960s while still working as a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer.[1] Most of Downing's pre-1980 writing and producing credits appeared under pseudonyms to escape notice of the LAPD. Downing is active in the movement to end the international war on drugs and the militarization of police in America. In 2011, Downing became a board member of Law Enforcement Action Partnership, formerly known as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), after years representing the group as a speaker.[2] He left the board in 2019, but is still an advisory board member who gives speeches and writes op-ed pieces on behalf of the group.[3] He also volunteers his time as an investigative journalist, with a focus on police corruption and reform, for a local print newspaper in Long Beach, California.[4] As a television producer and screenwriter he is best known for the series Walking Tall, RoboCop: The Series, T. J. Hooker and MacGyver

Steve Downing, Law Enforcement Action Partnership
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Tris Tristone is a reporter at KPOV in Bend Oregon.  He works for High Desert Pure making and selling THC and CBD products.

Tris Tristone, KPOV Radio, High Desert Pure Cannabis Products
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President Ruth Dreifuss is our guest.  She was President of Switzerland and a founding member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy.  Dr. Dreifuss is a Swiss politician affiliated with the Social Democratic Party. She was a member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1993 to 2002, representing the Canton of Geneva.

Ruth Dreifuss, Global Commission on Drug Policy
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Det.​ ​Nick​ ​Morrow​ ​(Fmr.)  Los​ ​Angeles​ ​County​ ​Sheriff’s​ ​Department,​ ​California  Seal​ ​Beach,​ ​CA  

Nick Morrow served as a deputy sheriff and detective for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, where he worked custody, patrol, narcotics, and training assignments. He was certified as a Drug Recognition Expert Instructor and provided training to hundreds of law enforcement officers. He provided drug abuse education to police, public defenders, paramedics, teachers, parents, and students. 

Morrow is involved in drug policy and community based approaches to policing solutions at many levels. He assists municipalities in drafting effective and intelligent solutions to dealing with marijuana policy reforms and regulations. He is also involved in drug education, harm reduction, and overdose prevention in Southern California. 

​Nick​ ​Morrow, Law Enforcement Action Partnership
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Public Safety Director Quovella Spruill Franklin Township Police Department. She is an adjunct professor at Rutgers University where she teaches criminal justice courses including contemporary policing, ethical & philosophical issues, race & crime, organized crime, and violent Crimes. She holds a B.S. in engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a M.A. in education, human resources, training, and development from Seton Hall University. She is a certified instructor in Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training and holds certifications with the New Jersey Police Training Commission and National Internal Affairs Institute. 

Quovella Spruill, Law Enforcement Action Partnership
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