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Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference
    #239017 - 06/12/09 11:20 PM (14 years, 9 months ago)



http://www.reformconference.org/index.php

I will be there.  I can't wait, I am sooo excited!  If anyone else goes hit me up.


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    #294931 - 10/10/09 03:07 PM (14 years, 5 months ago)

Well, early bird registration ended yesterday.  They also added the participate and speaker list, you will recognize some names....

We are excited to announce some of the speakers that will present at this years conference.  Please continue to check this list, as more speakers are added it will be updated.

Opening Plenary Remarks:

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson

Closing Plenary Remarks:

Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson

Confirmed for major sessions:

Former Foreign Minister of Mexico Jorge Castaneda

California Assemblymember Tom Ammiano



Patricia Allard, Deputy Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network

Wyndi Anderson

Apinun Aramrattana, Assistant Professor, Chiang Mai University

Asha Bandele, Director, Advocacy Grants Program, Drug Policy Alliance

Jeanne Barr, Chair, Department of History & Social Studies, Francis W. Parker School

Dana Beal

Alice Bell, Overdose Prevention Project Coordinator, Prevention Point Pittsburgh

Anna Berg, Program Coordinator & Staff Therapist, Harm Reduction Therapy Center

Gretchen Bergman, Executive Director, A New PATH

Ruth Bernstein, Principal, EMC Research

John Berry, Video Production Manager, Marijuana Policy Project

Jeanne Block, Project Coordinator, Drug Policy Alliance - New Mexico

Mary Jane Borden, Business Manager, DrugSense/ MAP

Holly Bradford, Founder/Technical Advisor, Korsang

Fred Brason II, President, Project Lazarus

Scott Bullock, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice

Holly Catania, Project Director International Center for Advancement of Addiction Treatment

Wendy Chapkis, Professor of Sociology University of Southern Maine

Allan Clear, Executive Director, Harm Reduction Coalition

Luciano Colonna, Consultant, Public Health/Policy

Anastacia Cosner, Outreach Director, Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Dave Daniels, Health Educator, New Mexico Department of Health

Nabarun Dasgupta, UNC Public Health/Project Lazarus

Patt Denning, Director of Clinical Services, Harm Reduction Therapy Center

Rick Doblin, Executive Director, MAPS

Margaret Dooley Sammuli, Deputy State Director, Southern California, Drug Policy Alliance

Don Duncan

Jodie Evans

Philip Fiuty

Dale Gieringer, Director, California NORML

David Glowka, Drug Policy Alliance

Suzanne Gollin, Angelica Foundation

Roger Goodman, State Representative, Voluntary Committee of Lawyers

Paul Goodwin, Goodwin Simon Strategic Research

Roland Griffiths, Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Charles Grob, Psychiatrist, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Ricky Gunawan, Programme Director, Community Legal Aid Institute

Carl Hart, Columbia University

LaResse Harvey, Policy Director, A Better Way Foundation

Randy Hencken, MAPS

Norris Henderson, Executive Director, V.O.T.E.

Alison Holcomb, Drug Policy Director, ACLU of Washington

Aaron Houston, MPP

Terri Hurst, Policy Analyst, Colorado Rural Health Center

Anwar Jeewa

Jeff Jones

Lorenzo Jones, Executive Director, A Better Way Foundation

Jeffrey Kamlet, FASAM, DBAM, Jeffrey D. Kamlet, MD, LLC

Robert Kampia, Executive Director, Marijuana Policy Project

Kathie Kane-Willis

Matt Kirkpatrick, Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse, Columbia University

Daniel Kushlick, Head of Policy and Communications, Transform Drug Policy Foundation

Nsombi Lambright, ACLU of Mississippi

Amber Langston, Outreach Director, Midwest & Southern Regions, Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Richard Lee, President, Oaksterdam University

Harry Levine

Ruben Leyva, Program Director, Youth Development, Inc.

Bruce Livingston

Naomi Long, Director, DC Metro Drug Policy Alliance

Ernesto Lopez Portillo, Executive Director, Institute for Security and Democracy (INSYDE)

Frank Lucido, Medical Board Watch

Alejandro Madrazo, Professor, CIDE

Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Program Director, Open Society Institute

David Marsh, Medical Director, Vancouver Coastal Health

William Matthews, Harm Reduction Coalition

Tommy McDonald, Deputy Director of Communications, Drug Policy Alliance

Dennis McKenna, Co-founder, Director of Ethnopharmacology, Heffter Research Institute

Hilary McQuie, Western Director, Harm Reduction Coalition

Anibal Mejia, Clinical Coordinator, Harm Reduction Therapy Center

Daniel Mejia, Center of Studies on Economic Development, Universidad de los Andes

Maureen Meyer, Associate for Mexico and Central America Washington Office on Latin America

Valerie Mojeiko, Deputy Director, MAPS

Onaje Muid, Clinical Associate Director, Reality House Inc.

Mary Murphy, New Mexico Department of Health Bupe Project

Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance

Bob Newman

Lenny Noisette, Director, Criminal Justice Fund Open Society Institute

Baby Nurmaya, Coordinator, STIGMA Foundation

Karen O'Keefe, Director of State Policies Marijuana Policy Project

Robert O'Rourke, Representative, City of El Paso

Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director, National Advocates for Pregnant Women

Anthony Papa, Communications Specialist, Drug Policy Alliance

Jonathan Perri, Outreach Director, Western Region, Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Jennifer Plummer, Therapist, Harm Reduction Therapy Center

Meghan Ralston, Harm Reduction Coordinator, Drug Policy Alliance

Daniel Raymond, Harm Reduction Coalition

Craig Reinarman, Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

Tina Reynolds, WORTH

Roberto Ricci, Manager, Illicit Drug Market

Jorge Javier Romero, Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Collective for an Integrated Drug Policy

Vanessa Romero, Student, University of Texas El Paso Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Robin Room, Professor, Scholl of Population Health, University of MelbourneTurning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre

Leah Rorvig, Medical Student UC Berkeley - UCSF Joint Medical Program

Marsha Rosenbaum, PhD, Director Emerita, Drug Policy Alliance

Stephen Ross, Director, Substance Abuse Division, Bellevue Hospital, NYU School of Medicine

Catherine (Kay) Sanford, Epidemiologist, Project Lazarus

Peter Sarosi, Drug Policy Program Director, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union

Sebastian Saville, Executive Director, Release

Gabriel Sayegh, Director, State Organizing and Policy Project, Drug Policy Alliance

Jimmy Schrock, Men’s Health Project Coordinator, New Mexico AIDS Services

David Schwartz, NV Campaign Manager, Marijuana Policy Project

Steph Sherer, Executive Director, Americans for Safe Access

Jorge Luis Sierra, Editorial Director, Latino Media Projects LLC

Matthew Simon, Executive Director, New Hampshire Coalition for Common Sense Marijuana Policy

F. Aaron Smith, California Policy Director, Marijuana Policy Project

Grant Smith, Drug Policy Alliance

Kathleen Staudt, Professor of Political Science

Eric Sterling, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation

Nkechi Taifa, Senior Policy Analyst Open Society Institute

Anjali Taneja, Physician Cure This.org /National Physicians Alliance

Whitney Taylor, Executive Director, New England Policy Advocates

Laura Thomas, Deputy State Director, Drug Policy Alliance

Jennifer Thompson, Program Director, PB&J Family Services

Clovis Thorn, Managing Director, Development, Drug Policy Alliance

Tamar Todd, Staff Attorney, Drug Policy Alliance

Kirk Tousaw, Beyond Prohibition Foundation

Kenneth Tupper, Ph.D. Candidate, University of British Columbia

Marcela Turati, Journalist, Red de Periodistas a Pie

Mason Tvert, Executive Director, SAFER

Jasmine Tyler, Deputy Director, Office of National Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance

Brian Vicente, Sensible Colorado

Matt Vogel, Educator, UW - La Crosse

Brian Wallace

Sidney Weintraub, Holder of the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic & International Studies

Dan Werb, Researcher, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Bill Zimmerman, Zimmerman & Markman

Dominick Zurlo


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    #294932 - 10/10/09 03:12 PM (14 years, 5 months ago)

Here's the schedule of sessions:

Schedule at a Glance

Please check back frequently as the conference schedule is subject to change.


Wednesday, Nov. 11th
8:00 - 5:00 pm Preconference Workshop:
6:00 - 8:00 pm Meet and Greet



Thursday, Nov. 12th
8:30 - 9:30 am Continental breakfast/registration
9:30 - 10:45 am

Plenary

Special guests: New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, New Mexico Lt. Governor Diane Denish (invited)
10:45 - 11:00 am Break
11:00 - 12:30 pm

SESSIONS

  1. Marijuana Decriminalization and the State Legislative Process
  2. Recovery
  3. Supervised Injection Facilities: In the United States?
  4. Innovative Approaches to Sentencing Reform
  5. HIV/AIDS and Punitive Drug Policies: How Communities are Fighting Back
  6. Practice doing Your Own Television Interviews
  7. Messaging without Borders

12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch on own
2:00 - 3:30 pm

SESSIONS

  1. Imagining Victory: Make Your Own Marijuana Regulation Model
  2. Formerly Incarcerated People, Policy Reform and Movement Building
  3. Drug Courts: Is a Kinder, Gentler Drug War Good Enough?
  4. Rural Harm Reduction: Complex Challenges and Unique Solutions
  5. Ibogaine: Medical Practice, Science and African Heritage
  6. Teaching the DW

3:30 - 4:00 pm Break
4:00 - 5:30 pm

SESSIONS

  1. Medical Marijuana Production and Distribution Systems:  Patients Rights and Access
  2. Economic Analysis of the Global Drug Prohibition Regime
  3. Mandatory Madness: The Zero Tolerance Drug War on Immigrants
  4. The Role of Language in Abstinence, Recovery and Harm Reduction
  5. Moving the Movement Forward: Examining Gender in Dug Policy Reform
  6. Artistic Interventions for Gang Involved Youth

7:00 - 10:00 pm Film Festival



Friday, Nov. 13th


8:00 - 9:00 am Continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 am

SESSIONS

  1. Marijuana Messaging that Works
  2. Fundraising in a Tough Economy
  3. Congress, President Obama, and the Drug Czar
  4. Zoned Out
  5. Hefftener #1 - Research
  6. Opioid Overdose Prevention Workshop

10:30 - 11:00 am Break
11:00 - 12:30 pm

SESSIONS

  1. Medical Marijuana Research and Policy: The Latest Developments
  2. Mexico's Failed War: The Internal Border
  3. Treatment as torture
  4. Collateral Damage: Women, Children and Families in the War on Drugs
  5. Psychadelic Research: Neuroscience and Ethnobotanical Roots
  6. Open Source Advocacy: The Intersection of Collaborative Technology and Drug Policy Reform

12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch on own
2:00 - 3:30 pm Plenary
3:30 - 4:00 pm Break
4:00 - 5:30 pm

SESSIONS

  1. Marijuana's Cultural Movement
  2. Economic Analysis of the Global Drug Prohibition Regime
  3. Latin roundtable
  4. Policing Drug Markets
  5. MDMA as a Prescription Medicine
  6. Drug Users Organizing Against the War on Drugs

7:30 - 10:30 pm Award Dinner.  Tickets $75 in advance/$95 at door



Saturday, Nov. 14th
9:00 – 10:00 am Continental breakfast
10:00 - 11:30 am

SESSIONS

  1. The Amphetamine Story: When Bad Things Happen to Good Medicine
  2. Just4Teens: Dare to put Safety First!
  3. Heroine-Assisted Treatment
  4. Being a Player: The Rules around Lobbying and Advocacy
  5. Veterans: Casualties of the Drug War
  6. Engaging law enforcement

11:30 - 12:00 pm Break
12:00 - 1:30 pm

SESSIONS

  1. Expanding the Definition of Treatment: What Works
  2. Prescription & OD
  3. Education Not Incarceration: SSDP's Campus Change Campaign
  4. Beyond Prohibition: Imagining Alternative Drug Regimes, Present and Future
  5. Queer Community: Strategies for ending the War on Drugs
  6. Making the News: How to Get the Media to Cover Your Issue

1:30 - 2:45 pm Lunch on own
1:30 - 2:45 pm

Special Session

Being A Player: The Rules around Lobbying and Advocacy

($25 materials fee, limited to 40 people)
2:45 - 4:30 pm

SESSIONS

  1. Ending Marijuana Prohibition
  2. Europe Roundtable
  3. Si, Se Puede: New Mexico as a National Harm Reduction Model
  4. Taking the Profit out of the Drug War
  5. Hep C
  6. The Well-Rounded Activist

4:30 - 4:45 pm Break
4:45 - 6:00 pm

Plenary

Special guest:  Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson
7:00 - 10:00 pm Film Festival


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    #294933 - 10/10/09 03:13 PM (14 years, 5 months ago)

It's going to be sooo hard to choose which sessions to attend.  Luckily I think they record them all.  They did at the last one two years ago in NOLA.  I've listened to all of those and I feel so fortunate that i'll be able to attend this event.


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    #294941 - 10/10/09 03:24 PM (14 years, 5 months ago)

Dude the state I live in is trying to legalize Medical Mj but I dont think its gonna work here. Your place has a lot of speakers.

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    #303225 - 10/24/09 07:09 PM (14 years, 5 months ago)

yeah, im hoping i get the chance to speak to some of them as well.  maps is going to have a gather after the conference.  this should be just after the second week of curing for my current plants.  coincidentally.  :lol:


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    #314364 - 11/11/09 08:05 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

Conference begins tomorrow!  I'm sure I will have lots to say when it's all over.  Looks like Montel Williams is getting an award on Friday night too!  :lol:


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    #314395 - 11/11/09 08:29 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

* Ending Marijuana Prohibition
    * Medical Marijuana Research and Policy: The Latest Developments
    * Marijuana Messaging that Works
    * Marijuana's Cultural Moment
    * Imagining Victory: Make Your Own Marijuana Regulation Model
    * Medical Marijuana Production and Distributions Systems: Patients Rights & Access
    * Marijuana Decriminalization and the State Legislative Process

These are all the cannabis centered sessions at the conference.  I will def. hit these up..

    * Medical Marijuana Production and Distributions Systems: Patients Rights & Access
    * Marijuana Decriminalization and the State Legislative Process

this one will be good too i bet...

    * Marijuana's Cultural Moment


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    #314400 - 11/11/09 08:32 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

7:00 – 10:00 pm

FILM FESTIVAL

Screening of selection from "Health and Hope" by Gretchen Hildebrand

“Health and Hope” is the name of two new documentary-style videos produced for the New Mexico Department of Health addressing the twin epidemics of opiate addiction and hepatitis C in the state’s jails and prisons.



Told through the stories of currently and formerly incarcerated people, and shot on location in New Mexico’s correction  and public health systems, these videos explore the challenges of addiction for incarcerated people, give information about treatments such as methadone and suboxone, educate about hepatitis C transmission and treatment, and offer a critical message of hope to those on the inside.

Screening of "10 Rules for Dealing With Police" by Steve Silverman

From the creators of the classic, BUSTED: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters (2003), Flex Your Rights premiers its new achievement, 10 Rules for Dealing with Police. The 40-minute educational drama is the most sophisticated and entertaining film of its kind. Narrated by the legendary trial lawyer and LEAP member William "Billy" Murphy, Jr. (from HBO’s The Wire), 10 Rules depicts innocent people dealing with heavy-handed drug war policing tactics used every day in the United States. The film was made possible with generous funding from the Drug Policy Alliance and the Marijuana Policy.


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    #314431 - 11/11/09 09:04 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

Ending Marijuana Prohibition [panel] (back to top)

We are at a defining moment in the decades-long struggle to end marijuana prohibition, as the shift in public opinion toward making marijuana legal accelerates. Have we reached the tipping point? How will we transform this opportunity into real change? Is this opening different from those of the past? Could an economic recovery undermine our progress? Where will marijuana prohibition fall first?

Moderator: Pamela Lichty, President, Drug Policy Forum of Hawai’I, Honolulu, HI

    * Tom Ammiano, California State Assemblymember, San Francisco, CA 
    * Richard Lee, President, Oaksterdam University, Oakland, CA
    * Rob Kampia, Executive Director, Marijuana Policy Project, Washington, DC
    * Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY
    * Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director, National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, Washington, DC


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    #314746 - 11/12/09 12:42 PM (14 years, 4 months ago)

Wish I could be there! We have a big fish to fry in NY though!
I saw that Ammiano is on the list. he's the one that got prop 215 and 420 through CA isn't it?


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    #354670 - 01/28/10 07:05 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

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Wish I could be there! We have a big fish to fry in NY though!
I saw that Ammiano is on the list. he's the one that got prop 215 and 420 through CA isn't it?




I believe he did work on both of those.  He's done a lot for the reform movement over the years.  They have posted the archive for the conference this past november.  I suggest everyone take a look at the material. 

This is a slideshow of pictures from the conference.  There's some interesting pics on there:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/drugpolicy/sets/72157622643717769/show/


Here's the archive:
http://www.drugpolicy.org/events/archive/conferences/reform2009/


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    #354677 - 01/28/10 07:14 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

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Ending Marijuana Prohibition [panel] (back to top)

We are at a defining moment in the decades-long struggle to end marijuana prohibition, as the shift in public opinion toward making marijuana legal accelerates. Have we reached the tipping point? How will we transform this opportunity into real change? Is this opening different from those of the past? Could an economic recovery undermine our progress? Where will marijuana prohibition fall first?

Moderator: Pamela Lichty, President, Drug Policy Forum of Hawai’I, Honolulu, HI

    * Tom Ammiano, California State Assemblymember, San Francisco, CA 
    * Richard Lee, President, Oaksterdam University, Oakland, CA
    * Rob Kampia, Executive Director, Marijuana Policy Project, Washington, DC
    * Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY
    * Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director, National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, Washington, DC




This was a really great session and was the last one of the conference.  At the end of the Q & A Richard Lee's mom and dad both made some comments about how they were prohibitionists then saw the powerfully positive effect cannabis has had on Richard's life and they switched sides and now help the advocating even tho they are both like 80 or 90 i cant recall.  But that was a great moment for sure.  the Q&A session kinda focused on the policy making process though.  Here's a video of it:

http://www.drugpolicy.org/docUploads/EndMarijuanaProhibition.mov

if u look closely you can see me in a MAPS hoody.


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