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LoLP 72: James Carli of the Drug Policy Alliance

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Lions of Liberty

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

4.6672 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, host Marc Clair is joined by James Carli, the Development Coordinator for the Drug Policy Alliance, a great organization that has been diligently working behind the scenes to roll back the War on Drugs both in the United States and abroad. James describes how he first became passionate about drug policy, and how he channeled that passion into a position with the Drug Policy Alliance. Marc and James then discuss how the origin of the War on Drugs is intertwined with racism, and how ultimately the War on Drugs is a war against people. Stay tuned as usual for Marc’s wrap-up rant! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.4

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0:35.4

emphasize that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks.

0:39.3

The key is to devise a system that recognizes this without appearing to, unquote.

0:45.3

Welcome to the Lions of Liberty podcast.

0:59.8

Here is your host, your guide, your shining beacon of liberty,

1:04.6

Mark Clare.

1:07.7

Hey folks, welcome back to the Lions of Liberty podcast episode 72.

1:13.6

Before I get to today's guest, I want to take a second to let you know about health, excellence, select, an amazing alternative to ObamaCare, which utilizes health sharing to cover your medical costs.

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1:28.0

crony insurance company. To learn more, head to Lions of Liberty.com slash health. My guest today is the

1:35.7

development coordinator of the Drug Policy Alliance. James Carly, welcome to the Alliance of Liberty

1:41.4

podcast. Thanks a lot, Mark. It's great to be here.

1:48.9

Well, it's great to have you on, James, and the war on drugs is one of the most important issues,

1:53.6

I think, for me personally and for many libertarians, as it should be. So how did you first become interested in drug policy and the war on drugs? Well, you know, I was in high school,

1:58.6

and I saw my friends who were good people get persecuted and prosecuted for nonviolent drug law offenses and that struck me wrong.

2:09.1

And then fast forward a few years into the future, I was in graduate school for international relations and actually working over at the UN when a lot of the Latin American

2:18.4

countries started coming forward saying they wanted to discuss reforming drug policies and

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