Ep.6 - The Failed Drug War

This week's podcast explores the failed war on drugs with Jasmine Tyler, who is the deputy director of national affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance.

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Ep.6 - The Failed Drug War -- This week's podcast explores the failed war on drugs with Jasmine Tyler, who is the deputy director of national affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance. We also speak with Major Neill Franklin, a 33-year veteran law enforcement official who has done undercover narcotics work and trained and led criminal drug enforcement task forces throughout the state of Maryland. He's now the Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. And we hear from Rick Jones, Executive Director of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. Rick is also NACDL's Parliamentarian and a co-chair of NACDL Problem-Solving Courts Task Force. Learn more about NACDL. Music West Bank (Lezet) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 and Walkabout (Digital Primitives) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.

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