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The Lovejoy Hour

Ep. 154 – JASON REED/DRUG REFORM - A Conversation With… – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6767 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to Executive Director of LEAP UK, Jason Reed. Tim and Jason discuss how his illness led him to be involved in LEAP UK and drug reform, the history if drug prohibition and why the people involved go higher up than you think. Tim and Jason also talk about the next steps towards drug reform.
Jason’s Stop and Search podcast is available here - https://apple.co/32qCJLH
Jason;’s film Culture High is can be found here -
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-culture-high-full-length-documentary/
Turn on the tap with Quooker here - www.quooker.co.uk/enuk
If you would like to contact us then our email address is [email protected] or you can tweet Tim @timlovejoy

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast, sponsored by cooker, spelt quicker, pronounced cooker,

0:05.6

100 degree boiling hot water straight from your kitchen tap.

0:09.4

It's another special today.

0:11.9

Today we're having a conversation with Jason Reed, who's executive director of Leap, UK,

0:18.8

which is the organisation which wants to reform drugs in the country this

0:23.9

is an important podcast for me and one that I thoroughly enjoyed doing a little

0:29.8

while ago I had my mind changed dramatically I think Mark did as well via this

0:35.3

podcast on drugs being illegal in this country and the

0:41.2

fact that we need reform we speak about how I came to that conclusion in the podcast but

0:46.3

literally changed my mind about a year ago was it we were just on three years it was because

0:50.6

it was the last it was it was Christmas last year.

0:54.3

Peter, Peter Flexley came on.

0:56.2

We had a little too much to drink.

1:00.4

Oh, that's right.

1:01.6

We started getting drinking with him, didn't we?

1:05.3

And then he said legalised drugs and I thought you're nuts.

1:07.9

You're mad if you've had too much to drink.

1:09.6

Do you know what?

1:10.0

I was actually thinking about this very quickly before we start the podcast.

1:12.4

I'm dreading.

1:13.2

I might go and listen back to what you said to me afterwards.

1:15.7

You said, so, Mark, do you agree with Peter?

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