This week on Free Culture Radio, we talk about sports, sports medicine, and medicinal cannabis with retired professional hockey player Riley Cote, co-founder of Athletes for Care.

Think globally, act locally: A Congressional human rights commission looks into the murderous so-called “drug war” in the Philippines, plus we learn about a great new guide for promoting criminal justice and drug pol

This week we talk global drug policy reform with Fergal Eccles from Help Not Harm and Students for Sensible Drug Policy Ireland, plus we say farewell to Mickey Martin, a reform activist and marijuana movement leader who

The Irish legislature discusses decriminalizing simple personal possession of drugs, featuring audio from Senator Lynn Ruane and Senator Aodhan O Riordain.

This week: the DrugWarFacts.org website is relaunching with a brand new mobile-friendly design! We have interviews with Nazlee Maghsoudi, Wiqas Ahmad, Krys Nyrop, and Patricia Sully.

We look at the man who will probably be our next Drug Czar, Tom Marino, plus the environmental impact of drug war and drug policies with Jesce Horton and Sanho Tree.

Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, delivers the keynote address at the 2017 Students for Sensible Drug Policy conference #SSDP2017.

This week: My complete interview with harm reduction pioneer and legendary drug policy reform advocate Doctor Alex Wodak, plus a message from Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo about the violent campaign of terror an

Students for Sensible Drug Policy holds its 2017 international conference in Portland, Oregon, March 24-26, so we talk with SSDP regional outreach coordinator Tyler Williams about the conference, the youth movement, camp

The White House finally says something about its marijuana policy, and I have a conversation with Common Sense for Drug Policy President and co-founder Kevin Zeese.

This week a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers held a news conference on Capitol Hill to announce the formation of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus.

Interview with the artist Alex Lilly about his work and his current exhibition, World Conflagration

Teleconference discussing release of Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids from National Academies Press, Jan 12, 2017

President Barack Obama commutes the sentences of 46 federal prisoners who had been serving sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, plus we have an interview with Jamie Bridge from the International Drug Policy Consortium

We're back! This week we look at the release of the UN's World Drug Report for 2015.

This week: We begin our coverage of the annual meeting of the UN's Commission on Narcotic Drugs by speaking with Ross Bell, the director of the New Zealand Drug Foundation.

this week: marijuana becomes legal in the District of Columbia, and the Oregon legislature wrestles with how to regulate its adult-use marijuana program.

This week: We talk about marijuana, decrim, racially biased enforcement, harm reduction, prevention, treatment, and more with the director of the Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy, Kathie Kane-Willis.

This week we listen to portions of a House subcommittee hearing on federal civil asset forfeiture policies and reform.

This week: We look at the states of Washington and Oregon as they move to implement their legal adult recreational marijuana programs.

This week we look at the confirmation hearing of Loretta Lynch to be US Attorney General.

This week: The Justice Department makes minor changes to federal forfeiture policy, and Washington state legislators discuss how to combine their legal medical and adult use marijuana programs.

This week: CDC releases new data on alcohol overdose deaths, and we learn more about the new chair of Senate Judiciary, Charles Grassley.

This week: new CDC data on alcohol poisoning deaths, and we look at the new chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Charles Grassley (R-IA).