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Drugs and Stuff: A Podcast from the Drug Policy Alliance

Welcome to Drugs & Stuff. We're a podcast about drugs, harm reduction, mass criminalization, the drug war, and other stuff from the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) – the nation's leading organization w... Read more

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Episode 15: Building a World Where Legal Psychedelics Make Sense

Episode 15: Building a World Where Legal Psychedelics Make Sense

The time has come for people who care about psychedelics to step out of the shadows and bring our voices to the table. I... Read more

19 Apr 2018

52mins

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Episode 28: Joe Rubin Taught Safety First in His Health Classes: Here’s What He Thought

Episode 28: Joe Rubin Taught Safety First in His Health Classes: Here’s What He Thought

Joe Rubin is a public school teacher in San Francisco, and health is his favorite subject. In his 36 years of experience... Read more

12 Dec 2019

42mins

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Episode 24: Sheila Vakharia Connects the Dots between Harm Reduction and Social Work

Episode 24: Sheila Vakharia Connects the Dots between Harm Reduction and Social Work

In the latest episode of Drugs & Stuff, we are joined by DPA’s Sheila Vakharia, Ph.D., a researcher in the office of... Read more

8 May 2019

38mins

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Episode 25: Ben Westhoff's Journey into Fentanyl Production and Harm Reduction

Episode 25: Ben Westhoff's Journey into Fentanyl Production and Harm Reduction

Over the last few years, we’ve seen huge increases in opioid overdose deaths, and many of them can be traced to powerful... Read more

31 Oct 2019

35mins

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Episode 03: Marvin Washington Connects The Dots - Marijuana, Athletes, Activism, NFL Protests & Drug War Policing

Episode 03: Marvin Washington Connects The Dots - Marijuana, Athletes, Activism, NFL Protests & Drug War Policing

We're back with a timely new episode. This week we sat down with Marvin Washington, former NFL player and Super Bowl cha... Read more

28 Sep 2017

41mins

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Episode 20: The Results Are In - "Safety First" Is The Future Of Drug Education

Episode 20: The Results Are In - "Safety First" Is The Future Of Drug Education

DPA’s revolutionary high school drug education curriculum “Safety First” was piloted at Bard High School Early College M... Read more

27 Jun 2018

24mins

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Episode 34: Six Months Later, Safety First Drug Education Continues to Evolve

Episode 34: Six Months Later, Safety First Drug Education Continues to Evolve

When the Drug Policy Alliance publicly released our harm reduction-based drug education curriculum Safety First in Octob... Read more

20 May 2020

22mins

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Episode 30: Why Decarceration Matters Now, and Why it Always Has

Episode 30: Why Decarceration Matters Now, and Why it Always Has

Of the first seven people who died of COVID-19 in federal prison, five of them were there for drug offenses. In this mom... Read more

22 Apr 2020

46mins

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Episode 05: Marsha Rosenbaum Talks About What Drug Education Should Look Like For Young People

Episode 05: Marsha Rosenbaum Talks About What Drug Education Should Look Like For Young People

We pulled aside a handful of experts to talk with us during the Drug Policy Alliance's 2017 International Drug Policy Re... Read more

25 Oct 2017

28mins

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Episode 13: The Opposite of D.A.R.E – DPA Launches New High School Drug Education Curriculum in a NYC School

Episode 13: The Opposite of D.A.R.E – DPA Launches New High School Drug Education Curriculum in a NYC School

Remember last year when we sat down with DPA’s Marsha Rosenbaum to talk about what drug education should look like for y... Read more

3 Apr 2018

26mins

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Episode 19: Bernard Noble Shares His Story, Getting Sentenced to 13 Years for Two Joints

Episode 19: Bernard Noble Shares His Story, Getting Sentenced to 13 Years for Two Joints

We were lucky to talk with Bernard Noble, who recently came home after serving more than 7 years in a Louisiana prison. ... Read more

12 Jun 2018

29mins

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Episode 08: California’s Proposition 64 - Marijuana Legalization One Year Later

Episode 08: California’s Proposition 64 - Marijuana Legalization One Year Later

On November 8, 2016, California voters approved Proposition 64, which legalized possession and consumption of marijuana ... Read more

8 Nov 2017

36mins

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Episode 11: The State Of Marijuana Reform In The Sessions Justice Department Era

Episode 11: The State Of Marijuana Reform In The Sessions Justice Department Era

In early January, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Mr. “good people don’t smoke marijuana”) began the year by firing... Read more

1 Feb 2018

23mins

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Episode 33: “Puff or Pass”: Can The Simpsons Really School Us on Cannabis?

Episode 33: “Puff or Pass”: Can The Simpsons Really School Us on Cannabis?

We’ve all been there: you’re watching TV or a movie, playing a video game or listening to some music, when drugs enter t... Read more

13 May 2020

18mins

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Episode 31: What Does DPA Do During a Pandemic?

Episode 31: What Does DPA Do During a Pandemic?

On previous episodes, we’ve talked about the impact of COVID-19 in the context of public health and incarceration. But, ... Read more

29 Apr 2020

19mins

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Episode 06: Dr. Malik Burnett On Marijuana Legalization As A Racial Justice Issue And Physicians For Legalization

Episode 06: Dr. Malik Burnett On Marijuana Legalization As A Racial Justice Issue And Physicians For Legalization

Dr. Malik Burnett is a general surgeon and former DPA staff member who successfully led our campaign to pass Initiative ... Read more

30 Oct 2017

14mins

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Episode 04: Meet DPA’s New Executive Director, Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno

Episode 04: Meet DPA’s New Executive Director, Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno

We sat down with DPA’s new executive director to find out more about her history and look ahead to next week’s gathering... Read more

3 Oct 2017

27mins

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Episode 12: DPA Media Veteran Tony Newman Explains How We Are All Drug Users, And Offers A New Approach

Episode 12: DPA Media Veteran Tony Newman Explains How We Are All Drug Users, And Offers A New Approach

Long-time Drug Policy Alliance media relations director, Tony Newman, joined the latest episode of Drugs & Stuff to ... Read more

26 Feb 2018

35mins

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Episode 10: Planning to Get F*cked Up This New Year’s Eve? Here Are Five Ways to Be Safe and Have Fun

Episode 10: Planning to Get F*cked Up This New Year’s Eve? Here Are Five Ways to Be Safe and Have Fun

It’s the end of the year, people are getting excited about the holidays, and millions of people are making plans for par... Read more

20 Dec 2017

34mins

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Episode 09: AlterNet Editor-At-Large Jan Frel Explains That "We're All Drug Users"

Episode 09: AlterNet Editor-At-Large Jan Frel Explains That "We're All Drug Users"

AlterNet editor-at-large and associate publisher Jan Frel sits down with us to expound on non-problematic drug use and h... Read more

4 Dec 2017

15mins

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