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Felony Friday 077 - David Borden Leads the Fight to End Drug Prohibition Worldwide

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Education, Business, Comedy, Self-improvement, News, Politics

4.6672 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Today on Felony Friday David Borden joins host John Odermatt to discuss his long fight to put an end to the global war on drugs. David is founder and executive director of StoptheDrugWar.org. David played the leading role in pioneering the use of the Internet for education and organizing in drug policy reform after founding DRCNet in 1993. Borden earned a degree with honors in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University in 1988, and completed a Master of Music in Jazz Composition from New England Conservatory in 1990. StoptheDrugWar.org works to end to drug prohibition worldwide, and an end to the “drug war” in its current form. The organization believes that much of the harm commonly attributed to “drugs” is really [...] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.9

Welcome to Fility Friday, a presentation of the Lions of Liberty podcast.

1:01.2

Here is your host, John Otermat.

1:05.3

Felons, friends, and freedom lovers, welcome back to another episode of Felony Friday

1:10.7

right here on the Lions of Liberty

1:13.8

podcast. For those you that might be new to Felony Friday, this is the show where each and every

1:20.4

week we focus on exposing injustice in the broken criminal justice system. This is the 77th episode of Felony Friday, so that means you'll be able to find the show

1:32.0

notes, with links and notes to everything that we're going to talk about on today's show

1:37.5

at Lions of Liberty.com slash FF77.

1:42.5

Now, I got a really interesting interview coming up here with David Borden.

1:47.7

If you're not familiar with David's work, David is a fascinating guy. He was one of the first people

1:54.4

on the internet, really, one of the first people to be building websites on the internet. And on top of

2:00.3

that, back in the 90s, when he was doing this, he was building a web presence

2:05.6

to fight against the War on Drugs back in the 1990s.

2:09.7

I know it's hard to believe back when most people, like myself, were just logging on AOL

2:15.4

and checking their mail hearing, you've got've got mail and using AOL instant messenger and go into chat rooms and just being an idiot, waiting five, ten minutes for your modem to start up and then just going on there and just wasting your time.

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