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Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference
#239017 - 06/13/09 01:20 AM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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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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Re: Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#294931 - 10/10/09 05:07 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Auto-SummaryThe post announces the early bird registration deadline and the list of confirmed speakers for the upcoming conference. Notable speakers include New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, Jorge Castaneda, California Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, Patricia Allard, Asha Bandele, Jeanne Barr, Dana Beal, Alice Bell, Anna Berg, Gretchen Bergman, Ruth Bernstein, John Berry, Jeanne Block, Mary Jane Borden, Holly Bradford, Fred Brason II, Scott Bullock, Holly Catania, Wendy Chapkis, Allan Clear, Luciano Colonna, Anastacia Cosner, Dave Daniels, Nabarun Dasgupta, Patt Denning, Rick Doblin, Margaret Dooley Sammuli, Don Duncan, Jodie Evans, Philip Fiuty, Dale Gieringer, David Glowka, Suzanne Gollin, Roger Goodman, Paul Goodwin, Roland Griffiths, Charles Grob, Ricky Gunawan, Carl Hart, LaResse Harvey, Randy Hencken, Norris Henderson, Alison Holcomb, Aaron Houston, Terri Hurst, Anwar Jeewa, Jeffrey Jones, Lorenzo Jones, Jeffrey Kamlet, Robert Kampia, Kathie Kane-Willis, Matt Kirkpatrick, Daniel Kush
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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Re: Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#294932 - 10/10/09 05:12 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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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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Re: Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#294933 - 10/10/09 05:13 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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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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Re: Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#294941 - 10/10/09 05:24 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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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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Re: Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference [Re: Triptonic]
#303225 - 10/24/09 09:09 PM (17 years, 18 days ago) |
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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.
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Re: Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#314364 - 11/11/09 10:05 PM (17 years, 5 hours ago) |
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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!
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Re: Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#314395 - 11/11/09 10:29 PM (17 years, 5 hours ago) |
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* 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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Re: Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#314400 - 11/11/09 10:32 PM (17 years, 5 hours ago) |
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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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Re: Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#314431 - 11/11/09 11:04 PM (17 years, 4 hours 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
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Re: Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#314746 - 11/12/09 02:42 PM (16 years, 11 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?
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Re: Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference [Re: jwes420]
#354670 - 01/28/10 09:05 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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jwes420 said: 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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Re: Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#354677 - 01/28/10 09:14 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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FurrowedBrow said: 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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