(2010/10/21) End Nixon's war on drugs (Drug War)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 22 October 2010
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Edition #420
End Nixon's war on drugs
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Act 1: Cenk’s Take to end the war on Drugs – MSNBC
Song 1: Gangsta’s Paradise – Rhino Hi-Five: Coolio – EP
Act 2: Terror, drugs, poverty redouble efforts – The Onion
Song 2: Cameras – Cameras – Single
Act 3: Update on the drug war – Rachel Maddow
Song 3: I Wanna Be Sedated – Road to Ruin (Expanded & Remastered)
Act 4: Beer industry vs Marijuana legalization – Young Turks
Song 4: Havana – Garageband jingle
Act 5: Gang Busters, John Burrnett – Colbert Report
Song 5: Mexico – James Taylor: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Act 6: Oakland goes pot – Jim Hightower
Song 6: Recycled Air – Give Up
Act 7: Desperate drug addict driven to get a job – The Onion
Song 7: Tragic Kingdom – Tragic Kingdom
Act 8: Why pot should be legal – Young Turks
Song 8: Same song twice – Sublime
Act 9: Prop 19, Joesph Califano and Gary Johnson – Colbert Report
Song 9: A Rush of Blood to the Head – A Rush of Blood to the Head
Act 10: Could regulating/taxing pot save states budgets – Thom Hartmann
Song 10: Dreaming My Dreams – No Need to Argue
Act 11: Model-train hobby becomes model-train habbit – The Onion
Song 11: Peace Train – Footsteps In the Light
Act 12: How the war on drugs started – Young Turks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Police Capture Nation’s Largest Crystal Meth Kingpin – The Onion
Sources:
MSNBC
The Onion
Rachel Maddow
The Young Turks
Colbert Report
Jim Hightower
Thom Hartmann
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| 0:08.8 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Cups Today from the Young Turks, |
| 0:12.5 | the Onion, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Colbert Report, Jim Hightower, and The Tom Hartman |
| 0:16.5 | Show with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app users from the Onion. |
| 0:30.0 | We must wage what I have called total war against public enemy number one in the United States |
| 0:36.5 | the problem of dangerous drugs. |
| 0:38.7 | Another brilliant mix of ideas. |
| 0:40.1 | Since that time the US government has spent well over one trillion dollars fighting it |
| 0:44.7 | and by all accounts losing the war. |
| 0:47.3 | By the way, what was the last nonsense war we won? |
| 0:50.4 | War on terror? |
| 0:51.4 | We're supposed to stop all terror attacks for whatever reason in whatever country, forever? |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah, has that coming along for us? |
| 0:58.9 | How about the war on poverty? |
| 1:00.1 | How about the war on alcohol? |
| 1:01.7 | Remember that war was called prohibition? |
| 1:04.3 | Had that work out for us? |
| 1:06.0 | Other than being an unmitigated disaster and completely undurable, kind of like our war |
| 1:10.8 | on drugs, it also created mobsers like Al Capone and the other Chicago gangs. |
| 1:16.7 | Sound familiar? |
| 1:17.7 | Instead of Chicago gangs, we now have Chicago gangs. |
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