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420 Drug War News 03/23/09

by David Guard, March 23, 2009, 11:11am
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Today Marks 36,560 Days of DRUG WAR! 4:20 Drug War NEWS from 90.1 FM in Houston 60+ radio affiliates in the US, Canada and Australia & at www.kpft.org. 4:20 DWN 03/23/09 to 03/29/09 now online (3:00 ea:) Select online at www.drugtruth.net Sun - Peru's shining path now a drug cartel 2/2 Sat - Martin Jelsma, director of the Transnational Institute is interviewed at the UN Drug Conference in Vienna by Michael Krawitz Fri - Fredrick Polak's perspective on the UN Drug Convention in Vienna Thu - Lady Neidpath regarding study of content of CBD and THC in cannabis Wed - Peru's shining path reinvents itself as a drug cartel 1/2, courtesy NY Times Tue - Terry Nelson of LEAP reports on Union Pacific's failure to stop drugs at the border Mon - Lady Neidpath, Amanda Fielding, director of the Beckley Foundation in the UK, interviewed at the UN conference on drugs by Michael Krawitz regarding the Beckley report on cannabis Next - Cutural Baggage on Wednesday, Century of Lies on Sunday: - Cultural Baggage 12:30 PM ET, 11:30 AM CT, 10:30 AM MT & 9:30 AM PT: TBD - Century of Lies 8 PM ET, 7 PM CT, 6 PM MT, 5 PM PT: TBD Hundreds of our programs are available online at www.drugtruth.net, and www.audioport.org Check out our latest videos via www.youtube.com/fdbecker Please become part of the solution, visit our website: www.endprohibition.org for links to the best of reform. "Prohibition is evil." - Reverend Dean Becker, Drug Truth Network Producer Dean Becker 713-849-6869 www.drugtruth.net

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