Drug Truth Network "Best of 2011": Froma Harrop, Robert Platshorn, Pamela Constable, DTN editorial, Steven DeAngelo, Sandy Moriarty, Cliff Shaffer, Charles Minn, Dr. Tom O'Connel.
Joy Strickland, director of Mothers Against Teen Violence, on the Jan. 11-13 drug conference in Texas; Project Imagin*tion; Neal Peirce op-ed and appeal to U.S. Rep. Ted Poe.
Russell Jones, LEAP speaker, author of "Honorable Intentions"; ABC report on dispensary Christmas toy drive; CNN report on DEA laundering money for Mexican cartels.
Jeffrey Dhywood, author of "World War D: The Case Against Prohibitionism," presents a roadmap to controlled relegalization; The New York Times reports that the DEA laundered Mexican cartel drug money.
Reform Conference in Los Angeles opening session with Gavin Newsome, lieutenant governor of California; Pete White, founder and co-director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network; and Alice Huffman, president of NAACP of California.
Adam Assenberg, a medical marijuana patient in Washington state; Phil Smith discusses corrupt police stories; Mary Jane Borden of Drug War Facts; Cato's take on the drug war; Drug Truth Network editorial.
Tony Newman of the Drug Policy Alliance on the forthcoming reform conference in Los Angeles, Nov. 3-5, 2011; former President of Mexico Vicente Fox interviewed on BBC.
Retired Superior Court Judge James P. Gray, author of "Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs."
10 years of the Drug Truth Network: David Bratzer, a working constable in Victoria, B.C., Canada, who seeks an end to the drug war and a job on the school board; Philip Guffy; Glenn Greenway; Mary Jane Borden; and "Class Warfare" PSA.
George W. Grayson, senior associate at the Center for Stategic and International Studies, author of "Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State?"; and Terry Nelson of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition on how the drug war creates atrocities.
Diana Washinton Valdez; El Paso Times reports on increasing drug war corruption on U.S. side of the border; Phil Smith of Drug War Chronicle; Steve Fox of National Cannabis Industry Association; Dr. Steven Davies and Mary Jane Borden on increasing opiate use.
Remembering Tom Croslin and Rollie Rohm, gunned down at Rainbow Farm, with reporter Steve Wishnia, Rev. Steven B. Thompson, attorney Matt Abel and Melody Karr; Mary Jane Borden discusses whether the drug war is linked to the war on terror, and DTN editorial "What is the Benefit of the Drug War?"
Oaksterdam Cannabis Street Fair report with Richard Lee, Debbie Goldsberry, Steven DeAngelo, Dr. Michael Aldrich, Michelle Aldrich, Steve Bloom, Marsha Rosenbaum Mary Jane Borden.
John Delany, a Texas judge, speaks for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition; Dale Jones of Oaksterdam University on the forthcoming marijuana street fair; Tim Beck on the Supreme Court ruling and busts in Michigan.
Nurse Mary Lynn Mathre of Patients Out of Time; Steven Colbert on drug reformers; Terry Nelson of LEAP; Drew Bairnsfather of Christians Against Prohibition.
Matt Elrod of DrugSense on Canada's "progress" toward U.S.-style drug laws; Terry Nelson of LEAP and Mario Canseco of Angus-Reid polling organization on the 55 percent of Americans in favor of legal weed.
Eapen Thampy, director of Americans for Forfeiture Reform; artist Lindy, author of "No Knock Raid"; Terry Nelson of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
Peter Moskos, former Baltimore police officer, author of "In Defense of Flogging"; Mary Jane Borden with Drug War Facts; Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."
Richard Lee, president of Oaksterdam Marijuana University, on the forthcoming effort to legalize marijuana in California; Adam Assenberg, a medical marijuana patient; DTN editorial "Face the Inquisition."
Dr. Robert Melamede, president of Cannabis Science, on the homeostasis of the marijuana plant on the human condition; Fox report on CPS drugging 3-year-old of parents who tested positive for drugs.
Joy Strickland, director of Mothers Against Teen Violence, at the DPA partners conference in Denver; Ethan Nadelmann, director of Drug Policy Alliance.
Susan C. Boyd, author of "Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada and the United States"; Moises Naim, international columnist, says it is "time to expedite drug war options."
Sanho Tree of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.; Adam Assenberg reports on the DEA theft of Social Security funds for running a compassion club in Washington state.
Matt Elrod of DrugSense on the failure of mandatory minimum sentences to gain traction in Canada; Matt McCauley's speech to Washington state legislature; Fox TV report on Colorado marijuana laws.
Irvin Rosenfeld, author of "My Medicine," receives 300 marijuana cigarettes from the U.S. government every 25 days; James Gilheany, medical marijuana patient; Sandy Moriarty, head chef at Oaksterdam University.
Terry Nelson, after another year in Iraq, rejoins the Drug Truth Network; Kathy Bates from Harry's Law, the new NBC show; DTN editorial: "Outrage? Not a strong enough word!"
Robert Platshorn, author of "Black Tuna Diaries: The True Story of America's Most Notorious Marijuana Smuggler"; Bradley Weitzel, whose father was just sent to prison for 10 years for growing marijuana.
Top 10 domestic drug stories of 2010, courtesy Phil Smith of Stop The Drug War; Houston sheriff Adrian Garcia on the need to change the methodology of the drug war.
