International Drug Policy Reform Conference Program & Agenda

Hosted by the Drug Policy Alliance November 2-5, 2011

Westin Bonaventure Los Angeles, California www.reformconference.org #reformconf

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Welcome

Fellow Reformers:

Welcome to Los Angeles! And welcome to three days that will prepare, transform and invigorate you for the challenges that lie ahead!

There are people here from all around the world who come from across the political spectrum, whose life experiences vary dramatically. But what we share is more important than anything that separates us: a passion for uprooting the fears, ignorance and prejudices that fuel the drug war, and a yearning for a more compassionate, just and effective way of dealing with drugs in our lives and in our communities.

Now is the time to make drug policy reform more personal – creating an even greater sense of moral urgency, connecting the dots with more allies, and building on the common interests of everyone who makes up this movement. We can keep chipping away at the drug war but it won’t really end until a critical mass of

previous conference, and more sessions on youth, organizing, and marijuana law reform. Rather than carving out a special panel or two on issues of racial justice, we’ve integrated them into many sessions.

Make an effort to attend sessions on subjects about which you know the least. That’s how we learn the most. It’s also how we connect the dots among the many elements that make up our movement.

And don’t forget: we’re here not just to build consensus but to argue and debate and rejoice in our diversity. If you don’t get upset by at least one thing someone says or does, this conference will not be everything powerful political movement was ever built without vigorous debate within.

So throw yourself into this conference with an open mind, an open heart, and every drop of passion you can muster. Let’s listen carefully, re-think what we’ve long thought, argue with joy, and depart Los Angeles with the certainty that we participated in a historic moment in the growing movement to end the drug war.

Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director

Drug Policy Alliance | 70 West 36th Street, 212.613.8020 v 16th Floor, New York, oice | 212.613.8022 fax | www NY 10018 .drugpolicy.org

Table of Contents 2 General Information 28 Film Festival 5 Conference Agenda 29 About the Presenters 25 Mobile Workshops 43 Exhibitors 26 Community Meetings 45 Conference Maps General Information

Getting Around Local Host Committee

Westin Bonaventure Gretchen Burns Bergman, A New PATH A map of the Westin Bonaventure is in the back of this (Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing) program book, which shows all of the meeting room locations. Susan Burton, A New Way of Life Re-entry Project A quick reference to the meeting space is below: Manuel Criollo, Labor/Community Strategy Center Conference Registration Becky Dennison, LA Community Action Network Level 2 California Ballroom Foyer Don Duncan, Americans for Safe Access Susan Forrest, HIV Drug and Alcohol Task Force General Session Level 2 Danny Getzoff, Common Ground – California Ballroom The Westside HIV Community Center Dale Gieringer, California NORML Breakouts Level 3 and Lobby Level Antonio Gonzalez, Latino Voters League / San Gabriel, San Jose, Emerald, Avalon, Hollywood, William C. Velasquez Institute Santa Barbara Judge Jim Gray, Orange County Superior Court (retired)

Awards Reception Mike Gray, Common Sense for Drug Policy Level 3 Alice Huffman, California State Conference of Hollywood Ballroom the NAACP

The Westin Bonaventure is a smoke free hotel. Jakada Imani, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Kim McGill, Youth Justice Coalition The hotel does not provide water in all meeting rooms, but in water coolers placed in the hallways. Please use the refillable Rev. Mary Moreno Richardson, water bottle in your conference bag to help you stay hydrated Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative throughout the day. Also, please use the recycle bins for your Julia Negron, A New PATH (Parents for Addiction aluminum and plastic bottles. Treatment & Healing) LA Chapter Dorsey Nunn, All of Us or None / Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Shoshanna Scholar, Clean Needles Now Geri Silva, Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes Rodrigo “Froggy” Vazquez, Students for Sensible Drug Policy – LA City College Pete White, LA Community Action Network Clarissa Woo, ACLU of Southern California

2 At the Conference Name tags Please wear your name tag at all times when entering con- Registration/Information ference sessions. This is proof that you have paid registra- Our registration staff will be on site to answer any questions tion and are eligible to attend the sessions. There is a $3 you may have throughout the conference. The registration charge to reprint lost badges. (However, remember to take desk is located in the California Foyer on Level 2. your badge off when you leave the hotel.)

Registration desk hours are: Room Hosts All of the breakout sessions will have room hosts to assist Wednesday, November 2 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm the speakers, hand out evaluations, etc. Please note that to Thursday, November 3 8:30 am – 5:00 pm comply with fire code, the room hosts have been instructed Friday, November 4 8:30 am – 5:00 pm to close the door once all seats are taken. We request that Saturday, November 5 8:30 am – 5:00 pm you please respect room host requests if you are asked to select another session. Also, if your room is full, please be Messages sure to place your personal items on the floor and not on A message board can be found in the registration area the chair next to you. for you to leave and pick up messages. Official conference announcements will also be posted on this board. Evaluations Please complete the individual workshop evaluations Exhibitors handed out in the breakout sessions (return to room host) Please visitor our exhibitors located in the San Diego and the yellow general conference evaluations (return to Ballroom on Level 2. registration) included in your registration materials. Your valuable feedback will be helpful to the presenters and in Exhibition hours are: our future planning.

Thursday, November 3 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Continuing Education Credits Friday, November 4 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Participants requesting continuing education credits must Saturday, November 5 8:30 am – 5:00 pm submit workshop and general session evaluation forms in order to comply with credentialing board policies.

Receipts If you need a receipt for your registration, you can easily print a receipt for yourself by going to the online registration site, entering your email address and following the directions.

Lost and Found Any items found during the conference will be taken to the registration desk or hotel security.

Cell Phones/Pagers When entering session rooms, please turn your cell phones and pagers off or to the vibrate mode.

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Conference Policies Closest Pharmacies

Smoking Uptown Drug and Gift Shop (.1 miles) Smoking is not permitted in any public space in Westin 444 South Flower Street #100 Bonaventure restaurants, lobby bars and all restrooms. 213.612.4300 California state law also prohibits smoking within a Monday – Friday: 8:30am – 5:30pm “reasonable distance” of doorways. Please refer to posted Delivers to the Bonaventure signs for restrictions. Rite Aid (.4 miles) Substance Use 600 West 7th Street We recognize that everyone at the conference is working 213.896.0083 to change drug-related laws. However, please remember Monday – Friday: 8am – 9pm that drug use is illegal and we must respect the laws of the Saturday: 9am – 6pm community we are in. Sunday:10am – 6pm

Methadone Clinics Health Information Please contact the clinics in advance to determine their dosing hours and requirements/costs for guest doses. Medical Emergencies In case of emergency, dial 911 immediately on any pay Matrix Institute (8.9 miles) phone, or pick up the closest courtesy phone, dial 7788 5220 West Washington Blvd #101 and state your emergency. Los Angeles, CA 90016 323.933.9186 Closest Hospitals www.matrixinstitute.org

Good Samaritan Hospital (.5 miles) Tri City Institute South (10.8 miles) 213.977.1212 11900 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 200 1225 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90061 323.242.0500 St. Vincent Medical Center (1.2 miles) www.tricityinstitute.com 213.484.7111 2131 West 3rd Street

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Wednesday Welcome Reception 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm California Ballroom, 2nd Floor

Thursday

Continental Breakfast & Registration reduction experts, and community educators. What is 8:30 am - 9:30 am the role for drug sellers and what do they see as their role? California Foyer, 2nd Floor What can advocates and health service providers learn from drug sellers about how to better reduce harms from drugs? And what are the challenges to working with drug Welcome & Opening Plenary sellers in communities and harm reduction programs? 9:30 am – 10:45 am California Ballroom, 2nd Floor Facilitator: Bill Piper, Director, National Affairs, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom will Drug Policy Alliance, Washington, DC welcome conference attendees, followed by remarks from NAACP President Alice Huffman, former New t 3BDIFM"OEFSTPO &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, Los Angeles Community Safer Alternatives thru Networking and Education (SANE), Action Co-Director Pete White, and Drug Policy Alliance Sacramento, CA Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann. t 5ZMFS#VUUT 4BUFMMJUF4ZSJOHF&YDIBOHF 4BGFS"MUFSOBUJWFT thru Networking and Education (SANE), Sacramento, CA t )JBXBUIB$PMMJOT #PBSE.FNCFS 70$"- /FX:PSL /: Breakout Sessions t )JMBSZ.D2VJF $BMJGPSOJB%JSFDUPS )BSN3FEVDUJPO 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Coalition, Oakland, CA t /BUIBO.FTTFS #PBSE1SFTJEFOU %BODF4BGF 4FBUUMF 8" Roundtable / Drug Sellers as Harm Reduction Allies t %FCPSBI1FUFSTPO4NBMM &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS #SFBLUIF San Jose, 2nd Floor Chains, Berkeley, CA t .BMBLLBS7PISZ[FL %SVH3FGPSN4USBUFHJTU Drug sellers are often blamed, stigmatized, and sub- San Francisco, CA jected to draconian criminal penalties. But, while some drug sellers take little responsibility for the health of their customers, others are sterile syringe providers, harm

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Panel / Changing the System I – Reducing Drug discuss what it will take to win at the state and national Arrests and Convictions: Strategies to Shift Law level, and share insights from the most extensive mari- Enforcement Funds, Practices and Priorities juana reform public opinion research ever conducted. Avalon Ballroom, 3rd Floor Facilitator: At the federal, state and local level, reformers are Graham Boyd, Advisor, Peter Lewis, Santa Cruz, CA finding innovative ways to prevent drug arrests and convictions. These include diverting federal drug funding from t %BWF'SBUFMMP 1SJODJQBM $PBTU$BNQBJHO(SPVQ enforcement to treatment, reforming policies around the Manhattan Beach, CA use of confidential informants, reducing racial disparities t"OOB(SFFOCFSH 4FOJPS7JDF1SFTJEFOU (SFFOCFSH in arrests, and giving law enforcement officers options 2VJOMBO3PTOFS 8BTIJOHUPO %$ other than arrest for drug use or possession. How are t $FMJOEB-BLF 1SFTJEFOU -BLF3FTFBSDI1BSUOFST they doing this? Washington, DC t &UIBO/BEFMNBOO &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS %SVH1PMJDZ Moderator: Alliance, New York, NY Jasmine L. Tyler, Deputy Director, National Affairs, t "MMFO4U1JFSSF &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS /03.- Drug Policy Alliance, Washington, DC Washington, DC t .BSL4UFJU[ 'PVOEFSBOE4FOJPS1SJODJQBM t .BSL$PPLF 1PMJDZ"EWPDBUF "$-6PG8BTIJOHUPO TSD Communications, Washington, DC (invited) Seattle, WA t /TPNCJ-BNCSJHIU &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS "$-6PG Panel / Psychedelic Science: Mississippi, Jackson, MS Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives t )BSSZ-FWJOF 4PDJPMPHZ1SPGFTTPS 2VFFOT$PMMFHFBOE Santa Barbara A/B, Lobby Level the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY What is the current status of psychedelic research in t ,SJT/ZSPQ 3BDJBM%JTQBSJUZ1SPKFDU 5IF%FGFOEFS the context of the humanities and the social sciences, Association, Seattle, WA and what are the potentials for future research and t "NBOEB1FUUFSVUJ "TTPDJBUF%JSFDUPS +VTUJDF1PMJDZ interdisciplinary collaboration? Does the rejuvenated Institute, Washington, DC excitement and emphasis on “hard science” obscure t "MFY4UFWFOT 1SPGFTTPS $SJNJOBM+VTUJDF 6OJWFSTJUZPG any of the socio-cultural issues at stake? What are the ,FOU $BOUFSCVSZ ,FOU 6, drawbacks and advantages of the medical model? Which forms of discourse are sanctioned by the university Roundtable / State of the Movement: and which are not? What’s it Going to Take to Make Marijuana Legal? Emerald Bay Ballroom, 3rd Floor Moderator: Jag Davies, Publications Manager, Drug Policy Alliance, While support for making marijuana legal is growing New York, NY rapidly and California’s Proposition 19 came close to winning last year, we still haven’t reached the tipping point. t #SBE#VSHF %JSFDUPSPG$PNNVOJDBUJPOT .VMUJEJTDJQMJOBSZ What can we expect to see on the ballot in 2012 and Association for Psychedelic Studies, Santa Cruz, CA beyond? Leading advocates and political consultants will t &BSUIBOE'JSF&SPXJE &SPXJE$FOUFS Grass Valley, CA (invited) t 3BMQI.FU[OFS $P'PVOEFSBOE1SFTJEFOU (SFFO Earth Foundation t /FTF-JTB4FOPM 1I%DBOEJEBUF $PNQBSBUJWF-JUFSBUVSF and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania t ,FOOFUI5VQQFS &EVDBUJPOBM4UVEJFT 6OJWFSTJUZPG#SJUJTI Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

6 Roundtable / The Recovery Movement and Its Role in Ending the Drug War San Gabriel B, Lobby Level

People in recovery are playing an increasingly active role in drug policy reform efforts. This discussion will address the role of people in recovery in drug policy reform work as well as the challenges of bridging abstinence-based work with harm reduction. Where and how can people in recovery work with other drug policy reform advocates? What are the areas of agreement and shared goals? Why do people in recovery and harm reduction advocates often exclude each other from strategic conversations and policy debates? And how can we elevate the voice of the recovery movement in the drug policy reform debate and support people in recovery to become advocates to end the war on drugs?

Roundtable / Youth Drug Education: Facilitator: When D.A.R.E Fails Howard Josepher, Founder, President and CEO, San Gabriel A, Lobby Level Exponents, New York, NY

It’s obvious that the billions spent to deter America’s t "OOFLF$BNQCFMM %PDUPSBM4UVEFOU $BMJGPSOJB*OTUJUVUFPG youth from drug use has been a failure. How can we Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA improve on the current paradigm? What are alternative t ,BUIBSJOF$FMFOUBOP $PMVNCJB6OJWFSTJUZ4UVEFOUTGPS models that deliver honest and realistic drug education? Sensible Drug Policy, New York, NY And what is the relationship between drug education and t "EJ+BGGF %JSFDUPS "MM"CPVU"EEJDUJPO -PT"OHFMFT $" drug policy reform? t -PV.BSUJOF[ 4PDJBM8PSLFS 4VCTUBODF"CVTF$PVOTFMPS and Proposition 36 Graduate, Sacramento, CA Facilitator: t 8JMMJBN$PQF.PZFST &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS )B[FMEFOT Marsha Rosenbaum, Director Emerita, San Francisco, Center for Public Advocacy, Center City, MN Drug Policy Alliance t Liese Recke, Psychologist and Project Officer, The Street Lawyers, Oslo, Norway t +PFM#SPXO &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS $FOUFSGPS&EVDBUJPOBM t &SJD4UFSMJOH 1SFTJEFOU $SJNJOBM+VTUJDF1PMJDZ Research and Development (CERD), Berkeley, CA Foundation, Silver Spring, MD t &EEJF&JOCJOEFS "VUIPS How to Have Fun and Not Die, t 1BU5BZMPS &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS 'BDFT7PJDFTPG New York, NY Recovery, Washington, DC t "MMFO'SJNQPOH $BQBDJUZ#VJMEJOH"TTJTUBODF4QFDJBMJTU Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY t .PSSJT+FOLJOT "TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPS $SJNJOBM+VTUJDF Lunch (on your own) University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm t 5BNBSB,BMOJOT 4VCTUBODF&EVDBUJPO$PPSEJOBUPS Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy t 5IPNBT/JDIPMTPO 1SPGFTTPS 1VCMJD)FBMUI 8FTUFSO ,FOUVDLZ6OJWFSTJUZ #PXMJOH(SFFO ,:

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Breakout Sessions nesses – ranging from marijuana-themed publications 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm to retail stores selling marijuana-related clothing and accessories – what are the pros and cons of starting your Roundtable / Changing the System II – own marijuana-related business? Drug Treatment and the Criminal Justice System: What Should It Look Like? Presenters: San Jose, 2nd Floor t 5SPZ%BZUPO $&0 "SD7JFX(SPVQ 4BO'SBODJTDP $" t ,SJT,SBOF 1SJODJQBMBOE.BOBHJOH1BSUOFS 'SPOU Most of us agree that people should not enter the criminal Advisors, Phoenix, AZ justice system for drug use or possession, nor should they be mandated to treatment when they don’t want or need Roundtable / Marijuana Policing Targets it. But what about people whose crimes have victimized Youth of Color others, who enter the criminal justice system and want Emerald Bay Ballroom, 3rd Floor treatment? What are the best ways for the criminal justice system to provide drug treatment? What is the appropriate Violations of marijuana laws account for about half of all role for drug courts? And when is mandated treatment a drug-related arrests in the U.S. each year. The overwhelm- reasonable alternative to incarceration? ing majority are for possession of very small amounts for personal use. Most of those arrested are young and Facilitator: disproportionately nonwhite. Although few receive long Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, Deputy State Director, sentences, they do cause social marginalization, perma- Southern California, Drug Policy Alliance nent criminal records, and denial of public benefits such as financial aid for college. What’s driving these arrests? t %BOJFM"CSBIBNTPO %JSFDUPSPG-FHBM"GGBJST %SVH1PMJDZ Who’s tracking this phenomenon? And what can be Alliance, Berkeley, CA done about it? t 1BU"MMBSE %FQVUZ%JSFDUPS $BOBEJBO)*7"*%4-FHBM Network, Toronto, Canada Facilitator: t 7JULB&JTFO $&0 8BMEFO)PVTF 4BO'SBODJTDP $" gabriel sayegh, State Director, New York, Drug Policy t )PXBSE+PTFQIFS 'PVOEFS 1SFTJEFOUBOE$&0 Alliance, New York, NY Exponents, New York, NY t -PV.BSUJOF[ 4PDJBM8PSLFS 4VCTUBODF"CVTF$PVOTFMPS t /FJMM'SBOLMJO &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS -BX&OGPSDFNFOU and Proposition 36 Graduate, Sacramento, CA Against Prohibition (LEAP), Washington, DC t /BTUBTTJB8BMTI 3FTFBSDI.BOBHFS +VTUJDF1PMJDZ t .BSJTB(BSDJB %SVH1PMJDZ3FGPSN"EWPDBUF 4BOUB'F Institute, Washington, DC Springs, CA t )BSSZ-FWJOF .BSJKVBOB"SSFTU3FTFBSDI1SPKFDU Training / From Enthusiast to Entrepreneur: New York, NY How to Make Marijuana Your Business t ,ZVOH+J3IFF %JSFDUPS *OTUJUVUFGPS+VWFOJMF+VTUJDF Avalon Ballroom, 3rd Floor Reform & Alternatives, Brooklyn, NY

This training will help marijuana enthusiasts explore the variety of legal options that exist for starting a marijuana-related business, including how to identify potential investors. With so many potential busi-

8 Roundtable / The Impact of the War on Drugs on Immigrant Rights in the U.S. Santa Barbara A/B, Lobby Level

Immigrants arrested on drug charges face not just the criminal justice system, but the immigration system as well. Tens of thousands of legal residents and other non- citizens are deported for drug law violations each year. What efforts are under way to protect immigrants from this? How are drug policy reformers and immigrant rights advocates working together – or not? How can we better understand the intersection of the drug war and immigration? And how can we effectively mitigate the harmful impacts of drug laws on immigrant communities by organizing immigrant communities around drug law reform?

Facilitator: Loren Siegel, Co-Director, Marijuana Arrest Research Project, Brooklyn, NY t %POBME"OUIPOZTPO 0SHBOJ[FS 'BNJMJFTGPS'SFFEPN Roundtable / Where Health Care Reform Meets Drug New York, NY Policy Reform t %BOJFM$BSSJMMP 'JFME0SHBOJ[FS &OMBDF -PT"OHFMFT $" San Gabriel B, Lobby Level t +VNBOB.VTB %FQVUZ%JSFDUPS 3JHIUT8PSLJOH(SPVQ Washington, DC Various advocacy groups are analyzing whether and t )BOT.ZFS 1PMJDZ%JSFDUPS $PMPSBEP$SJNJOBM+VTUJDF how the Federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Coalition, Denver, CO Act will lead to coordinated and comprehensive treatment t 5IFTIJB/BJEPP 4UBGG"UUPSOFZ %SVH1PMJDZ"MMJBODF services for people struggling with drug addiction. Berkeley, CA Does the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act hold promise for those at risk for or in need of treatment? Training / Bad Trips: How to Respond to What, if any, provisions in the legislation align with harm Unwanted or Dangerous Side Effects of Psychedelics, reduction and other drug policy reform goals? Opiates & Stimulants San Gabriel A, Lobby Level Facilitator: &NJMZ,BMUFOCBDI 4UBUF%JSFDUPS /FX.FYJDP This training will teach people who use drugs or work with Drug Policy Alliance, Santa Fe, NM drug users how to respond to undesired or dangerous side effects associated with stimulants, psychedelics t %BWJE$-FXJT 'PVOEJOH%JSFDUPS $FOUFSGPS"MDPIPM and opiates. and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI t 3PO.BOEFSTDIFJE &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS /BUJPOBM Presenters: Association of County Behavioral Health and t -VDJBOP$PMPOOB *OUFSOBUJPOBM$POTVMUBOU Developmental Disability Directors, Washington, DC Public Health/Policy, Salt Lake City, UT t #SVDF5SJHH "EEJDUJPO5SFBUNFOUBOE4JOHMF1BZFS t 3JDL%PCMJO &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS .VMUJEJTDJQMJOBSZ Advocate, Albuquerque, NM Association of Psychedelic Studies, Boston, MA t +VTUJOB5SPUU 4FOJPS'FMMPX 38+'$FOUFSGPS)FBMUI1PMJDZ t +PIO)BSSJTPO 1SJODJQBM*OWFTUJHBUPS *CPHBJOF0VUDPNF at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Study, San Diego, CA t .PIJOJ7FOLBUFTI 4FOJPS%JSFDUPSPG1VCMJD1PMJDZBUUIF t &MJ[B8IFFMFS %SVH0WFSEPTF1SFWFOUJPOBOE&EVDBUJPO National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, (DOPE) Project Manager, Harm Reduction Coalition, Washington, DC San Francisco, CA

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Breakout Sessions migrant communities? Can drug legalization change the 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm dynamic? How can people in the US make drug policy reform efforts an integral part of supporting Mexico’s Roundtable / Changing the System III – Sentencing national peace and justice movement? and Prison Reform Is Real: Lessons and Warnings San Jose, 2nd Floor Facilitator: Ted Lewis, Human Rights and Mexico Program Director, States are reducing their prison populations, Congress Global Exchange, San Francisco, CA has undertaken unprecedented sentencing reform, and the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed California’s prison t .JHVFM"MWBSF[ 1SFTJEFOU Serapaz, Mexico City, Mexico overcrowding to be a violation of inmates’ constitutional t 4VTJF#ZSE $JUZ3FQSFTFOUBUJWF &M1BTP 59 rights. Why and how has the tide turned? What is needed t +PIO(JCMFS +PVSOBMJTUBOE"VUIPS To Die In Mexico, to maintain the momentum? And what are the threats to San Francisco, CA the continuation and expansion of these reforms? t ;VMNB.FOEF[ "TTJTUBOU1SPGFTTPS 6OJWFSTJUZPG5FYBTBU El Paso and Director, Pacto por la Cultura, Juarez, Mexico Facilitator: t %JFHP0TPSOP +PVSOBMJTUBOE"VUIPS El Cartel de gabriel sayegh, State Director, New York, Sinaloa, Mexico Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY t 7JDUPS2VJOUBOB 'PSNFS$POHSFTTNBO Chihuahua, Mexico t 3BDIFM#MPPN "EWPDBDZBOE1PMJDZ4USBUFHJTU $FOUFSGPS t +BWJFS4JDJMJB 1PFU .FYJDP Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY t -B3FTTF)BSWFZ 1PMJDZ%JSFDUPS "#FUUFS8BZ Roundtable / Marijuana Reform Hotspots: Foundation, Hartford, CT Colorado and Washington t %PSTFZ&/VOO &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS -FHBM4FSWJDFTGPS Emerald Bay Ballroom, 3rd Floor Prisoners with Children, San Francisco, CA t +BTNJOF-5ZMFS %FQVUZ%JSFDUPS /BUJPOBM"GGBJST Colorado and Washington are set to host viable legaliza- Drug Policy Alliance, Washington, DC tion ballot initiatives in 2012. How do the initatives differ t "OB:B×F[$PSSFB &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS 5FYBT$SJNJOBM from one another? How will they affect medical marijuana? Justice Coalition, Austin, TX (invited) What political compromises are being made to increase the likelihood of victory? And what headlines can we Roundtable / Mexico’s Crisis and the Bi-national expect over the next year as the campaigns ramp up? Movement Against the Drug War Avalon Ballroom, 3rd Floor Facilitator: Art Way, Drug Policy Manager, Colorado, Drug Policy The war on drugs has inflicted enormous harms on Alliance, Denver, CO Mexico in recent years, generating extreme violence, crime, corruption and human rights abuses. What is be- t 4UFWF'PY %JSFDUPSPG(PWFSONFOU3FMBUJPOT .BSJKVBOB hind this drug war and what are its national and regional Policy Project, Washington, DC implications? What effects has it had on border and t "MJTPO)PMDPNC $BNQBJHO%JSFDUPS /FX"QQSPBDI Washington, Seattle, WA t 1FUFS)PMNFT $JUZ"UUPSOFZ 4FBUUMF 8" t 3PHFS3PGGNBO 1SPGFTTPS&NFSJUVT 6OJWFSTJUZPG Washington, Seattle t .BTPO5WFSU &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS 4"'&3 %FOWFS $0 t 4FBO5.D"MMJTUFS $BOOBCJT-BX$FOUFS %FOWFS $0

10 Training / More Money, Fewer Problems: in the Bronx and San Francisco, a new SIF-on-wheels in Fundraising Tips from the Inside and Outside Denmark, and other strategies that push the envelope in Santa Barbara A/B, Lobby Level harm reduction?

You need more money to sustain and build your Moderator: organization – but the economy is a mess and raising Laura Thomas, Deputy State Director, Drug Policy funds is more competitive than ever. What should you do? Alliance, San Francisco, CA Experienced drug policy reform fundraisers and donors share their secrets for success and answer your questions t -J[&WBOT $P%JSFDUPS 1PSUMBOE)PUFM4PDJFUZ about grants, individual giving, events, direct mail Vancouver, Canada and more. t /BOOB8(PUGSFETFO -BXZFS 5IF4USFFU-BXZFST Gadejuristen, Copenhagen, Denmark Facilitator and Presenter: t 'SFE+PIOTPO 4ZSJOHF&YDIBOHF1SPHSBN$PPSEJOBUPS Clovis Thorn, Managing Director of Development, CitiWide Harm Reduction, Bronx, NY Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY t 5IPNBT,FSS %JSFDUPS 6SCBO)FBMUI3FTFBSDI*OJUJBUJWF British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, and t BTIBCBOEFMF %JSFDUPSPG"EWPDBDZ(SBOUT1SPHSBN Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine, University of Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY British Columbia t +PEJF&WBOT $P'PVOEFS $0%&1*/, -PT"OHFMFT $" t "MFY8PEBL %JSFDUPS "MDPIPMBOE%SVH4FSWJDFTBU t %BWJE(MPXLB .BOBHFSPG'PVOEBUJPO3FMBUJPOT St. Vincent’s Hospital, and President, Australian Drug Law Drug Policy Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Reform Foundation, Sydney, Australia t )JMEB7FHB 4FOJPS1SPHSBN0GGJDFS 5IF-JCSB'PVOEBUJPO Chicago, IL Roundtable / Making Sense of Drug Testing San Gabriel B, Lobby Level Panel / Pushing the Envelope: Supervised Injection Facilities and Other Good Ideas Despite drug testing’s many limitations, it is used San Gabriel A, Lobby Level extensively in the criminal justice system, and its use is expanding into other areas such as driving under the in- A Supervised Injection Facility (SIF) is a place where fluence of drugs checkpoints and welfare eligibility. This people who inject illegal drugs can do so in a safe place panel will examine the scientific limits of drug testing, – off the streets, with access to health services. Evalua- emerging trends in the use of these tests, and strategies tions of these facilities have consistently demonstrated to curtail their use. that they are effective in reducing new HIV infections, overdose deaths, and public nuisance – and that they Facilitator: do not increase drug use or criminal activity. As of 2010, Daniel Abrahamson, Director, Legal Affairs, Drug Policy there were 92 such facilities operating in 61 cities around Alliance, Berkeley, CA the world – and even a few behind prison walls – but none in the United States. What’s the story behind North t 1BVM"SNFOUBOP %FQVUZ%JSFDUPS /03.- America’s only SIF in Vancouver, efforts to establish SIFs Washington, DC t 1BUU%FOOJOH 5IFSBQJTU )BSN3FEVDUJPO5IFSBQZ$FOUFS San Francisco, CA t #FDLZ-P%PMDF 4BO'SBODJTDP1SPCBUJPO%FQBSUNFOU San Francisco, CA t .BSL0#SJFO 1PMJDZ"TTPDJBUF -FHBM"DUJPO$FOUFS New York, NY t -ZOO1BMUSPX &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS /BUJPOBM"EWPDBUFTGPS Pregnant Women, New York, NY t 3PE4LBHFS 1SPGFTTPS&NFSJUVT 6OJWFSTJUZPG$BMJGPSOJB Los Angeles, CA

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Panel / Psychedelics, Religion and of plant-based medicines and what is their relation Cultural Translation to Westerners? Are psychedelics a medicine or a San Gabriel C, Lobby Level sacrament… or something else?

In the 20th century, ayahuasca and other indigenous Moderator: healing medicines spread beyond their native origins Jill Harris, Acting Deputy Director, Drug Policy Alliance, and have been incorporated into syncretistic practices New York, NY that are being adopted by non-indigenous peoples in Western contexts, including scientific research into t /FJM(PMETNJUI $PVOTFMPSBOE5IFSBQJTU /FX:PSL /: possible therapeutic uses of these medicines. This t 3BMQI.FU[OFS $P'PVOEFSBOE1SFTJEFOU growing interest from modern non-indigenous peoples Green Earth Foundation poses significant conceptual challenges regarding t %JNJUSJi.PCFOHPw.VHJBOJT 'PVOEJOH.FNCFSPG drugs and drug policies. What are the indigenous roots VOCAL, New York, NY t .POB1PMBDDB *OUFSOBUJPOBM$PVODJMPG*OEJHFOPVT Grandmothers, Phoenix, AZ t ,FOOFUI5VQQFS &EVDBUJPOBM4UVEJFT 6OJWFSTJUZPG British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Thursday, November 3 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Levitt Pavilion, MacArthur Park

Join national reform leaders, elected officials, victims A Rally and of the drug war, medical marijuana patients, students, and thousands of people who simply believe the war Concert to End the on drugs is doing more harm than good. Featuring local musicians and spoken word artists, this event War on Drugs acknowledges President Nixon’s declaration of the drug war 40 years ago and demands an exit strategy from this unwinnable war. Protest punitive, inefficient, and biased drug policies. Support health-centered alternatives. Buses will be available to shuttle conference attendees to and from the rally.

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Continental Breakfast & Registration persuaded to consider policy tools other than criminaliza- 8:30 am - 9:30 am tion to balance the competing interests of criminal justice California Foyer, 2nd Floor and public health? And what lessons have we learned from regulating other substances such as alcohol and tobacco?

Breakout Sessions Facilitator: 9:15 am – 10:45 am Jag Davies, Publications Manager, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY Roundtable / Changing the System IV – Surveillance vs. Incarceration: t $PSFZ%BWJT 4UBGG"UUPSOFZ 1VCMJD)FBMUI-BX/FUXPSL Reducing the Prison Population Isn’t the End t &BSUIBOE'JSF&SPXJE &SPXJE$FOUFS (SBTT7BMMFZ $" San Jose, 2nd Floor t 3PHFS(PPENBO .FNCFS 8BTIJOHUPO)PVTFPG Representatives, Seattle, WA Prison reformers are gradually reversing the decades-long t 4VOOZ)BTINJ 7PMVOUFFS 53*11SPKFDU 5PSPOUP $BOBEB trend of increasing prison populations. But there’s also a t (SBOU4NJUI 'FEFSBM1PMJDZ$PPSEJOBUPS %SVH1PMJDZ new momentum to expand the use of surveillance for peo- Alliance, Washington, DC ple on probation and parole, as states are now looking t +BDPC4VMMVN 4FOJPS&EJUPS Reason, Dallas, TX for cheaper ways to punish and monitor those suspected or convicted of breaking the law. As prison populations Roundtable / State of the Movement: shrink, is the expanded criminal justice surveillance of more Whither Medical Marijuana? Americans inevitable? What types of surveillance are Emerald Bay Ballroom, 3rd Floor acceptable? And what does this mean for a criminal justice system that is marked by extraordinary, institutionalized What’s the political future of medical marijuana in the racial bias? United States? Why does the Obama administration appear to be obstructing state-sponsored distribution systems? Facilitator: Why does it remain so hard to expand and enhance safe Ira Glasser, President, Board of Directors, Drug Policy access when so many Americans support it? And how has Alliance, New York, NY growing support for marijuana legalization affected support for medical marijuana? t 4IBIJE#VUUBS &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS #JMMPG3JHIUT%FGFOTF Committee, Northampton, MA Facilitator: t .BDL+FOLJOT 1SPCBUJPO$IJFG 4BO%JFHP$PVOUZ $" Caren Woodson, The Green Cross, San Francisco, CA t -ZOO1BMUSPX &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS /BUJPOBM"EWPDBUFTGPS Pregnant Women t 5PN%BVCFSU 'PVOEFS 1BUJFOUT'BNJMJFT6OJUFE t %FCPSBI1FUFSTPO4NBMM &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS #SFBLUIF Helena, MT Chains, Berkeley, CA t "MMFO)PQQFS 1PMJDF1SBDUJDFT%JSFDUPS "$-6PG/PSUIFSO California, San Francisco, CA Roundtable / Salvia, Synthetic Marijuana, Bath Salts t .JDIBFM,FOOFEZ )JHI5JNFT"UUPSOFZ /FX:PSL /: and Emerging Drug Criminalization Trends t 4UFQI4IFSFS &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS "NFSJDBOTGPS4BGF Avalon Ballroom, 3rd Floor Access, Washington, DC t ,BSFO0,FFGF %JSFDUPSPG4UBUF1PMJDJFT .BSJKVBOB1PMJDZ Even as state policymakers increasingly embrace various Project, Washington, DC drug policy reforms, the knee-jerk criminalization of salvia t '"BSPO4NJUI &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS /BUJPOBM$BOOBCJT and other “new” drugs demonstrates that elected officials Industry Association, Phoenix, AZ still tend to prohibit first, and ask questions later. What t 5BNBS5PEE 4UBGG"UUPSOFZ %SVH1PMJDZ"MMJBODF specific regulatory options can be used to control access Berkeley, CA to substances in a way that reduces the harm to individuals, families and society as a whole? How can policymakers be

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Roundtable / Can Hip Hop Help End the Drug War? Roundtable / From School to Prison: Enough Already! Santa Barbara A/B, Lobby Level San Gabriel A, Lobby Level

Throughout history, artists have used their work as vehicles A remarkably high percentage of young people – particu- for social change. How can hip hop artists create opportuni- larly those of color – end up in prison instead of college. ties to mobilize the public around drug policy reform? What’s driving this? What efforts are under way to dismantle it? And what are the opportunities for drug policy reformers Facilitator: to play a pivotal role? Jasmine Tyler, Deputy Director, National Affairs, Washington DC Facilitator: Daniel Robelo, Research Associate, Drug Policy Alliance, t 4IBIJE#VUUBS &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS #JMMPG3JHIUT%FGFOTF Berkeley, CA Committee, Northampton, MA t BOESFEPVHMBTQPOETDVNNJOHT -BX1SPGFTTPS t 4FFNB"INBE 4UBGG"UUPSOFZ "EWBODFNFOU West Virginia College of Law Project, Washington DC t 5PNNZ.D%POBME %FQVUZ%JSFDUPS .FEJB3FMBUJPOT t .BOVFM$SJPMMP %JSFDUPSPG0SHBOJ[JOH -BCPS4USBUFHZ Berkeley, CA Center and Community Rights Campaign, Los Angeles, CA t i'SFFXBZw3JDLZ3PTT $PNNVOJUZ"DUJWJTUBOE'JMN t .PSSJT+FOLJOT "TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPSPG$SJNJOBM+VTUJDF Producer, Los Angeles, CA University of Toledo, Ohio t +BTNJOF5ZMFS %FQVUZ%JSFDUPS /BUJPOBM"GGBJST %SVH1PMJDZ t &EXBSE-JUUMF %FQBSUNFOUPG+VTUJDF"GGBJST 0GGJDFPG Alliance, Washington, DC Reentry, Cleveland, OH t 'SPHHZ7B[RVF[ 44%1 -PT"OHFMFT$PNNVOJUZ$PMMFHF t 5IFTIJB/BJEPP 4UBGG"UUPSOFZ %SVH1PMJDZ t 5BSB:PVOH 'PVOEFSBOE#MPHHFS )JQ)PQ"EWPDBUFPSH Alliance, Berkeley, CA t +PZDF1BSLFS 0SHBOJ[FS 4PVUIFSO&DIP Greenville, MS (invited) t +VEJUI3FOBVE &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS &EVDBUPSTGPS4FOTJCMF Drug Policy, Canada

Training / Throwing a Monkeywrench at the Drug War: How to Use Their Money and Data to Support Your Anti-Drug War Program San Gabriel B, Lobby Level

As states dramatically slash budgets, promising opportunities are emerging to expose – and to even end – drug war waste. Drawing on lessons from Baltimore, California and New York, participants will learn about data- and information-gathering tools and lay out a step-by-step plan for redirecting drug war dollars (i.e., Byrne Grants) away from drug arrest programs at the local and/or state level.

t -PSJ"MCJO %JSFDUPS 'JTDBM1PMJDZ$FOUFS /BUJPOBM+VWFOJMF Justice Network, Washington, DC t .BSHBSFU%PPMFZ4BNNVMJ %FQVUZ4UBUF%JSFDUPS 4PVUIFSO California, Drug Policy Alliance

Mobile Workshops 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Buses for Mobile Workshops leave from the Westin Bonaventure Hotel. More information on page 25.

14 Breakout Sessions Facilitator: 11:15 am – 12:45 am Coletta Youngers, Senior Fellow, Washington Office on Latin America, Washington, DC Panel / Review and Update on Clinical Psychedelic Research t 1FESP7JFJSB"CSBNPWBZ 1SPGFTTPS 'VOEBÎÍP(FUVMJP San Jose, 2nd Floor Vargas Law School, and former Justice Ministry official, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil We are now in the midst of a psychedelic research t &EVBSEP7FSHBSB#PMCBSÈO %JSFDUPS Asuntos del Sur, renaissance, with clinical studies under way at top medical Santiago, Chile schools and research institutes worldwide. To date, the t "MFKBOESP$PSEB 4FDSFUBSZPG+VTUJDFJOUIF'FEFSBM$SJNJOBM results have shown that psychedelic-assisted therapy is Jurisdiction, and Member, Intercambios Asociación Civil, more effective than conventional treatments for easing Buenos Aires, Argentina anxiety in the dying, interrupting the hold of addictive drugs, t $BUBMJOB1ÏSF[$PSSFB 3FTFBSDIFSBOE1SPGFTTPS alleviating post-traumatic stress disorder, and treating other Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), conditions. The idea of psychedelics as powerful psychi- Aguascalientes, Mexico atric medicines is now beginning to be re-accepted by the t %JFHP(SPPTDPST 3FQSFTFOUBUJWF, Alianza por una nueva medical community. What does this mean? And what new política de drogas en Costa Rica 4BO+PTÏ $PTUB3JDB directions will the future hold? t 3PESJHP6QSJNOZ:FQFT %JSFDUPS Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad (DeJuSticia) and former Moderator: NBHJTUSBUFPGUIF$POTUJUVUJPOBM$PVSU #PHPUÈ $PMPNCJB Ralph Metzner, President, Green Earth Foundation Roundtable / The New, Improved Marijuana t 3JDL%PCMJO 'PVOEFSBOE&YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS Reform Coalition Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Emerald Bay Ballroom, 3rd Floor Studies (MAPS), Boston, MA t "NBOEB'FJMEJOH &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS #FDLMFZ'PVOEBUJPO Last year’s groundbreaking Proposition 19 campaign in 0YGPSE 6, California forged a remarkable coalition as long-time marijuana t $IBSMFT(SPC %JSFDUPS %JWJTJPOPG$IJMEBOE"EPMFTDFOU law reformers joined with mainstream civil rights organizations, Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and major trade unions, parent activists and other relatively new Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School allies. Legalization campaigns across the country are breaking of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA new ground and expanding the coalition even further. What will t#PC8PME 'PVOEFSBOE1SFTJEFOU $MVTUFSCVTUFST it take to build greater support from new and existing allies?

Roundtable / What’s Going On In Latin America? Facilitator: Avalon Ballroom, 3rd Floor Stephen Gutwillig, State Director, California, Drug Policy Alliance, Los Angeles, CA The persistent failure of U.S.-driven drug war strategies in Latin America has resulted in increasingly frequent t -BSSZ#FEBSE %FMFHBUF $BMJGPSOJB.FEJDBM"TTPDJBUJPO and diverse calls for reform. The 2009 Latin American Sausalito, CA Commission on Drug Policy and the 2011 Global t -B3FTTF)BSWFZ 1PMJDZ%JSFDUPS "#FUUFS8BZ'PVOEBUJPO Commission have legitimized calls for reform, as national Hartford, CT advocacy efforts in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico t ,BTTBOESB'SFEFSJRVF 1PMJDZ"TTPDJBUF /FX:PSL %SVH and elsewhere gain momentum. What has been the impact Policy Alliance, New York, NY of these Commissions? Why are courts and national t "OUPOJP(PO[BMF[ 1SFTJEFOU 8JMMJBN$7FMBTRVF[*OTUJUVUF legislatures increasingly endorsing reforms? What sorts Los Angeles, CA of coordination exist between national reform movements t "MJDF)VGGNBO 1SFTJEFOU $BMJGPSOJB/""$1 4BDSBNFOUP $" within Latin America? And what opportunities are afforded t ,ZOESB.JMMFS /03.-8PNFOT"MMJBODF 4BO'SBODJTDP $" by the declining influence of the U.S. in the region? t %BO3VTI %JSFDUPS .FEJDBM$BOOBCJTBOE)FNQ%JWJTJPO UFCW International Union, San Francisco, CA

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Roundtable / Innovative Policy Responses to Overdose increase penalties directed at youth. Given that public Santa Barbara A/B, Lobby Level opinion research suggests that drug policy reform initiatives cannot win when youth are afforded the same protections The number of overdose deaths has climbed dramatically as adults, how can young people exert greater influence in the last decade, mostly because of prescription drugs. over drug policy reform advocacy and legislation? Accidental drug overdose is now the second leading cause of accidental death in the United States. Significant federal Facilitator: funding is directed toward preventing HIV/AIDS and Aaron Houston, Executive Director, Students for Sensible homicide, but virtually no federal dollars are designated Drug Policy, Washington, DC for overdose prevention – even though overdose kills more people than murder or HIV/AIDS. What is the significance t 4UBDJB$PTOFS 4UVEFOUTGPS4FOTJCMF%SVH1PMJDZ of the successful passage of 911 Good Samaritan legisla- Washington, DC tion in several states, and the expansion of access to the t .JDIBFM&WFSFUU 5FBN-FBEFS $BQBDJUZ#VJMEJOH4QFDJBMJTU overdose reversal drug naloxone? And what other effective Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY policy responses are available to stem this easily prevent- t .FNCFS3FQSFTFOUBUJWF :PVUI+VTUJDF$PBMJUJPO able epidemic? Los Angeles, CA t .FNCFS3FQSFTFOUBUJWF $FOUFSGPS:PVOH8PNFOT Facilitator: Development, San Francisco, CA Meghan Ralston, Harm Reduction Coordinator, Drug Policy t ,JN.D(JMM 0SHBOJ[FS :PVUI+VTUJDF$PBMJUJPO Alliance, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA t +PSEBO4FBCFSSZ 0SHBOJ[FS %JSFDU"DUJPOGPS3JHIUTBOE t $BMFC#BOUB(SFFO 3FTFBSDI4DJFOUJTU "MDPIPMBOE Equality (DARE), Providence, RI Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA t /PFNJ4PUP $PBMJUJPOGPS3FTQPOTJCMF$PNNVOJUZ t "MJDF#FMM 0WFSEPTF1SFWFOUJPO1SPKFDU$PPSEJOBUPS Development, Los Angeles, CA Prevention Point Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA t .BZB%PF4JNLJOT $POTVMUBOU #PTUPO.FEJDBM Training / What Do You Say To That Question? Center, MA How To Have Conversations About Drug Use and t /HVZFO1IVPOH-BO %JSFDUPST"TTJTUBOU $FOUFSGPS Harm Reduction Supporting Community Development Initiatives, San Gabriel B, Lobby Level Hanoi, Vietnam t &MJ[BCFUI0XFOT -FBEFS 70$"- /FX:PSL /: Harm reduction and drug policy are such broad topics that few of us can really describe it without giving a lecture. Roundtable / No Child Left Behind? This workshop will give you tools to talk to people of all Creating Drug Policies to Include Young People backgrounds about the particulars of harm reduction, San Gabriel A, Lobby Level especially common myths and criticisms.

Young people in the U.S. are disproportionately targeted Presenters: and impacted by prohibitionist policies. Despite this, drug t 1BUU%FOOJOH %JSFDUPSPG$MJOJDBM4FSWJDFTBOE5SBJOJOH policy reformers often end up advocating for new policies Harm Reduction Therapy Center, San Francisco, CA that exclude protection for those under 21, or that even t +FBOOJF-JUUMF &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS )BSN3FEVDUJPO5IFSBQZ Center, San Francisco, CA

Lunch (on your own) 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

16 Feature Plenary Roundtable / Global Drug Policy: 2:00 – 3:30 pm Challenges, Trends and Opportunities California Ballroom, 2nd Floor Avalon Ballroom, 3rd Floor

Speakers will address the theme “Building a Movement.” Who will shape the future of global drug policy reform? What is the impact of the Global Commission? What are cutting t +BWJFS4JDJMJB OPUFE.FYJDBOQPFUBOEBDUJWJTU edge issues and questions at the intersection of drug policy t "BSPO)PVTUPO &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS 4UVEFOUTGPS4FOTJCMF and human rights, HIV/AIDS prevention and public health? Drug Policy, Washington DC How are the UNODC and other global agencies evolving t -ZOO1BMUSPX &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS /BUJPOBM"EWPDBUFTGPS in their perspective on drug policy? How is the U.S. role Pregnant Women, New York, NY evolving? What’s the latest with efforts to revise the UN t /FJMM'SBOLMJO &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS -BX&OGPSDFNFOU anti-drug Conventions or to put forward a new model? Against Prohibition (LEAP), Washington, DC And to what extent is drug policy reform gaining ground in t 5JOB3FZOPMET $P'PVOEFS 8PNFO0O5IF3JTF5FMMJOH Asia and Africa? Herstory (WORTH), New York, NY t *SB(MBTTFS 1SFTJEFOU #PBSEPG%JSFDUPST %SVH1PMJDZ Facilitator: Alliance, New York, NY Allan Clear, Executive Director, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY

Breakout Sessions t +POBUIBO$PIFO %JSFDUPS -BXBOE)FBMUI*OJUJBUJWF 3:45 pm – 5:15 pm Open Society Foundations, New York, NY (invited) t "NBOEB'FJMEJOH %JSFDUPS 5IF#FDLMFZ'PVOEBUJPO Roundtable / Stigma and Exclusion: 0YGPSE 6, How Can We Overcome It? t ,BTJB.BMJOPXTLB4FNQSVDI %JSFDUPS (MPCBM%SVH1PMJDZ San Jose, 2nd Floor Program, Open Society Foundations, Warsaw, Poland t 3FCFDDB4DIMFJGFS "EWPDBDZ%JSFDUPS )FBMUIBOE)VNBO People who use drugs or have a criminal record for a Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY (invited) drug law violation are often stripped of their humanity t Sanho Tree, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, and face extensive hurdles to leading stable and pro- Washington DC ductive lives. These hurdles can exclude people from t "MFY8PEBL %JSFDUPS "MDPIPMBOE%SVH4FSWJDFTBU public assistance for basic needs like food and housing, St. Vincent’s Hospital, and President, Australian Drug Law deny students financial aid for college, and even lead to Reform Foundation, Sydney, Australia loss of child custody. What are some strategies to fight t $PMFUUB:PVOHFST 4FOJPS'FMMPX 8BTIJOHUPO0GGJDFPO back? Speakers will share their stories. Latin America, Washington, DC

Facilitator: Grant Smith, Federal Policy Coordinator, Drug Policy Alliance, Washington, DC t 4VTBO#VSUPO 'PVOEFSBOE&YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS A New Way of Life Reentry Project, and Co-Founder, All of Us or None, Los Angeles, CA t #FDLZ%FOOJTPO $P%JSFDUPS -PT"OHFMFT$PNNVOJUZ Action Network, Los Angeles, CA t +P"OOF1BHF 1SFTJEFOUBOE$IJFG&YFDVUJWF0GGJDFS The Fortune Society, New York, NY t /JDPMF%1PSUFS 4UBUF"EWPDBDZ$PPSEJOBUPS The Sentencing Project, Washington, DC t .JDIFMMF/BUJWJEBE3PESJHVF[ 4UBGG"UUPSOFZ /BUJPOBM Employment Law Project, Oakland, CA t ,BSFO4IBJO 1PMJDZ%JSFDUPS -FHBM4FSWJDFTGPS Prisoners with Children, San Francisco, CA 17 Conference Agenda Friday

Roundtable / How Are We Ever Going to Clarify Medical Roundtable / Connecting Juvenile Justice and Drug Marijuana in California? Policy Reform: Opportunities and Challenges Ahead Emerald Bay Ballroom, 3rd Floor San Gabriel A, Lobby Level

Proposition 215 gave Californians the right to possess and While the drug war is a driving factor for over-criminalization grow marijuana for medical use, but failed to establish a of both youth and adults in the United States today, there legal distribution system. Instead, it encouraged the federal is seemingly little collaboration between the fields of drug and state government to “implement a plan to provide policy reform and juvenile justice. What are some of the for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana to all obstacles to collaboration? And what opportunities have yet patients in medical need.” This mandate has been sorely to be explored? Speakers will tackle thorny issues such neglected, resulting in hundreds of lawsuits, raids and as adolescent drug use and selling, and innovative inter- arrests. What needs to happen next? ventions that aim to avoid pathologizing young people.

Facilitator: Facilitator: Dale Gieringer, State Director, California NORML, Jasmine Tyler, Deputy Director, Drug Policy Alliance, Berkeley, CA Office of National Affairs, Washington, DC t 5PN"NNJBOP $BMJGPSOJB4UBUF"TTFNCMZ t -PSJ"MCJO %JSFDUPS 'JTDBM1PMJDZ$FOUFS /BUJPOBM+VWFOJMF San Francisco, CA Justice Network, Washington, DC t -BOFUUF%BWJFT %JSFDUPS $SVTBEFSTGPS1BUJFOUT3JHIUT t ,ZVOH+J3IFF %JSFDUPS *OTUJUVUFGPS+VWFOJMF+VTUJDF Sacramento, CA Reform and Alternatives, Brooklyn, NY t %PO%VODBO $BMJGPSOJB%JSFDUPS "NFSJDBOTGPS4BGF"D- t .JLF.BMFT 1SJODJQBM*OWFTUJHBUPS :PVUIGBDUTPSH JOWJUFE cess, Oakland, CA t ,JN.D(JMM %JSFDUPS :PVUI+VTUJDF$PBMJUJPO t (FPSHF.VMM $BMJGPSOJB$BOOBCJT"TTPDJBUJPO Los Angeles, CA (invited) Sacramento, CA t $IVDL3JFT %JSFDUPS 6Q'SPOU 4BO%JFHP $" JOWJUFE t $ISJT/PSCZ $BMJGPSOJB4UBUF"TTFNCMZ 0SBOHF $" t $ISJTUPQIFS-4DPUU 1PMJDZ"OBMZTU t $ZOBSB7FMB[RVF[ 1BUJFOU$BSF"TTPDJBUJPO 4BO%JFHP $" Open Society Foundations

Training / How to Engage and Utilize the Panel / Nightlife Harm Reduction: Ever-Changing Media World A New Harm Reduction Frontier? Santa Barbara A/B, Lobby Level San Gabriel B, Lobby Level

The media landscape has changed dramatically over the Nightlife harm reduction has never truly caught on in last 10 years, with different players and rules of engage- the U.S., despite a brief flare of interest around the late 90s ment. From the downsizing of traditional media to the rise of and early 2000s. What has been the impact of the RAVE social networking, the playing field has changed. Hear from Act, eight years in? What can we learn from the strategies media and communications experts on how to engage and PVSOFJHICPSTJO&VSPQFBOEUIF6,IBWFBEPQUFE utilize the worlds of traditional and new media. What might nightlife harm reduction in the U.S. look like?

Facilitator: Moderator: Tommy McDonald, Deputy Director, Media Relations, Stefanie Jones, Event Manager, Drug Policy Alliance, Drug Policy Alliance, Berkeley, CA New York, NY t 5PN"OHFMM .FEJB3FMBUJPOT%JSFDUPS -BX&OGPSDFNFOU t $BSJTTB$PSOXFMM /BUJPOBM0VUSFBDI%JSFDUPS %BODF4BGF Against Prohibition, San Francisco, CA Madison, WI t +BO'SFM 'PSNFS&EJUPS "MUFS/FUPSH -PT"OHFMFT $" t #FOFEJDU-FF $IJFG 3FTFBSDIBOE&QJEFNJPMPHZ t %BOJ.D$MBJO $BNQBJHO.BOBHFS $PMPSPG$IBOHFPSH Los Angeles Department of Public Health, Substance San Francisco, CA Abuse Prevention and Control t 5POZ/FXNBO %JSFDUPS .FEJB3FMBUJPOT %SVH1PMJDZ t %JOB1FSSPOF "TTJTUBOU1SPGFTTPSPG$SJNJOBM+VTUJDF Alliance, New York, NY California State University Long Beach t "OKVMJ7FSNB 1I%$BOEJEBUFJO$SJNJOPMPHZ -BXBOE t -JTB$BNQCFMM4BMB[BS 53*11SPKFDU$PPSEJOBUPS Society, University of California, Irvine Toronto, Canada 18 Conference Agenda Saturday

Continental Breakfast Panel / Medical Marijuana Science: Latest Advances 8:45 am – 9:45 am Avalon Ballroom, 3rd Floor California Foyer This isn’t your father’s medical marijuana. Learn about the latest advancements in medical marijuana science and Breakout Sessions treatment options in this frank roundtable discussion. What 9:45 am – 11:15 am are the findings? And how do we make sense of the past, present and future of this versatile healing herb? Roundtable / Think Global, Act Local: Grassroots Engagement to End the Drug War Moderator: San Jose, 2nd Floor Paul Armentano, Deputy Director, NORML, Vallejo, CA

No movement for social change can succeed without t +VMJF)PMMBOE "TTJTUBOU$MJOJDBM1SPGFTTPSPG1TZDIJBUSZ intensive engagement at the local level. The last few years NYU School of Medicine Medical Monitor, New York, NY have seen an explosion in drug policy reform activity at the t "NBOEB3FJNBO %JSFDUPSPG3FTFBSDI-FDUVSFS local level. What are the particular challenges of advocating UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare, Berkeley, CA at the local level? How does this work connect with national t $SBJH3FJOBSNBO 1SPGFTTPSPG4PDJPMPHZ 6OJWFSTJUZPG priorities? And what can we learn from people who have California, Santa Cruz launched efforts to mobilize communities to end the war t .JDIFMMF4FYUPO /BUVSPQBUIJD%PDUPSBOE$MJOJDBM3FTFBSDI on drugs? Scientist, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Facilitator: Roundtable / Psychedelic Healing: Dan Berger, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Can Psychedelics Reinvent Medicine… and Society? Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Emerald Bay Ballroom, 3rd Floor t (SFUDIFO#VSOT#FSHNBO $P'PVOEFS .PNT6OJUFE Psychedelics can trigger insight, but behavior change takes Executive Director & Co-Founder A New PATH, Rancho time and a changed environment to take root. Through Santa Fe, CA personal stories, participants will explore the concept and t 4VTBO#VSUPO 'PVOEFSBOE&YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS "/FX8BZ process of change in psychedelic therapy. How do psy- PG-JGF4UFFSJOH$PNNJUUFF.FNCFS 'PSNFSMZ*ODBSDFSBUFE chedelics redefine medicine and science, and how can we and Convicted Peoples Movement, Los Angeles, CA effectively reintegrate them into contemporary society? t )JBXBUIB$PMMJOT 70$"- /FX:PSL /: t "KFOH-BSBTBUJ %SVH1PMJDZ3FGPSN1SPHSBN$PPSEJOBUPS Facilitator: Community Legal Aid Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia Neal Goldsmith, Psychotherapist and Counselor, t %BO3VTI %JSFDUPS 4UBUF0QFSBUJPOT 6OJUFE'PPEBOE New York, NY Commercial Workers, Local 5, Los Angeles, CA t 3JDL%PCMJO .VMUJEJTDJQMJOBSZ"TTPDJBUJPOGPS1TZDIFEFMJD Studies, Boston, MA t +JN'BEJNBO $P'PVOEFS *OTUJUVUFGPS5SBOTQFSTPOBM Psychology, Palo Alto, CA t +VMJF)PMMBOE "TTJTUBOU$MJOJDBM1SPGFTTPSPG1TZDIJBUSZ NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY t .BSJMZO)PXFMM "VUIPS Honor Thy Daughter, Boston, MA t "NBOEB'FJMEJOH &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS #FDLMFZ'PVOEBUJPO 0YGPSE 6,

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Roundtable / Crack Pipes, Cow Wormer, and Panel / Too High a Cost: HIV & Drug Policy Reform Controversy: Stimulants and Harm Reduction San Gabriel A, Lobby Level Santa Barbara A/B, Lobby Level This year marks the 40th anniversary of the war on drugs Despite the perception that harm reduction “doesn’t and the 30th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS. The work” with stimulants – crack, methamphetamine, two disasters have grown side by side – and have deeply cocaine, etc. – there are in fact effective harm reduction influenced each other. In some respects, the silver lining of programs around the world working to reduce the harms the black cloud of HIV/AIDS has been the impetus it created of stimulant use. From testing cocaine for adulterants to for drug policy reform, such as the passage of state providing a safe space for crack smoking, people are medical marijuana laws and efforts to expand access to implementing a variety of cutting-edge harm reduction sterile syringes and methadone. Why has HIV/AIDS been programs. What programs have been successful, and such a compelling rationale for drug policy reform? what can we learn from them in developing new ones? And how can we push it further?

Facilitator: Moderator: Bill Piper, Director, National Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance, Laura Thomas, Deputy State Director, San Francisco, Washington, DC Drug Policy Alliance t .JDIBFM%JTDFQPMB %JSFDUPS 4UPOFXBMM1SPKFDU t 5PN"NNJBOP .FNCFS $BMJGPSOJB4UBUF"TTFNCMZ San Francisco AIDS Foundation, San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA t ;PF%PEE 4BGFS$SBDL6TF$PBMJUJPO 4$6$ t +POBUIBO$PIFO %JSFDUPS -BXBOE)FBMUI*OJUJBUJWF Toronto, Canada Open Society Foundations, New York, NY t %PO)BCJCJ 1SPGFTTPSPG1IJMPTPQIZ 6OJWFSTJUZPG/PSUI t .JDIBFM%4JFWFS %JSFDUPSPG#FIBWJPSBM)FBMUI4FSWJDFT Carolina, Wilmington San Francisco AIDS Foundation, San Francisco, CA t $BSM)BSU "TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPS 1TZDIPMPHZ1TZDIJBUSZ t #PCCZ5PMCFSU #PBSE.FNCFS 70$"- /FX:PSL /: Department, Columbia University, New York, NY t *WBO7BSFOUTPW 1SPKFDU.BOBHFS "OESFZ3ZMLPW t 5IPNBT,FSS %JSFDUPS 6SCBO)FBMUI3FTFBSDI Foundation, Moscow, Russia Initiative, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in t &WBO8PPE %JSFDUPS 6SCBO)FBMUI3FTFBSDI*OJUJBUJWF HIV/AIDS & Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, and Associate University of British Columbia Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British t /BUIBO.FTTFS #PBSE1SFTJEFOU %BODF4BGF 4FBUUMF 8" Columbia, Vancouver, Canada t &MJ[B8IFFMFS %01&1SPKFDU.BOBHFS )BSN3FEVDUJPO Coalition, Oakland, CA

Training / Know Your Rights: How to Deal with Law Enforcement and NOT Get Arrested San Gabriel B, Lobby Level

The Bill of Rights provides each of us with certain inalienable rights. Flex Your Rights’ Know Your Rights training incorporates real-life scenarios designed for easy application during police encounters. Learn practical methods for retaining and protecting your rights during car stops, street encounters and when the police knock at your door. t /FJMM'SBOLMJO &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS -BX&OGPSDFNFOU Against Prohibition, Medford, MA t 3POBME)BNQUPO 8BTIJOHUPO%$3FQSFTFOUBUJWF Blacks in Law Enforcement t ,BUF,ZVOH+J3IFF %JSFDUPS *OTUJUVUFGPS+VWFOJMF+VTUJDF Reform & Alternatives 20 Breakout Sessions Prime Minister recently introduced a decriminalization 11:45 am – 1:15 pm proposal? Is Denmark emerging as a new leader? And what’s the evolving role of the European Union? Roundtable / Conservatives, Libertarians and Drug Policy Reform Facilitator: San Jose, 2nd Floor Craig Reinarman, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz The growing momentum for criminal justice and drug policy reform in the United States has been given a t 5IBOBTJT"QPTUPMPV "EWJTPSZ#PBSE.FNCFS "TTPDJBUJPO boost by not just libertarians, but also conservatives and Diogenis, Netherlands/Greece other Republicans. Some of these groups have been t $BJUMJO&MJ[BCFUI)VHIFT %SVH1PMJDZ.PEFMMJOH1SPHSBN instrumental in winning major sentencing reform mea- National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University sures in a number of states. What are the differences New South Wales, Australia between traditional conservatives, fiscal conservatives, t 5FE(PMECFSH 1SPGFTTPS 6OJWFSTJUZPG(ÊWMF 4PMOB 4XFEFO and libertarians? What are the best ways to message t ,BTJB.BMJOPXTLB4FNQSVDI %JSFDUPS (MPCBM%SVH1PMJDZ to each on drug policy reform issues? Will they ever Program, Open Society Foundations, Warsaw, Poland support harm reduction programs, even if they are cost- t 4FCBTUJBO4BWJMMF &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS 3FMFBTF -POEPO 6, neutral? What is the significance of the Right on Crime t 7BMFOUJO4JNJPOPW &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS 3PNBOJBO)BSN initiative? And how do we build stronger, more diverse Reduction Network, Bucharest, Romania coalitions to support drug policy reform? t (FPSH8VSUI $IBJSNBO (FSNBO)FNQ"TTPDJBUJPO Berlin, Germany Facilitator: Jill Harris, Acting Deputy Director, Drug Policy Alliance, Roundtable / How Does Money Shape Marijuana Reform? New York, NY Emerald Bay Ballroom, 3rd Floor t $SBJH%F3PDIF 'PSNFS4QFBLFS .JDIJHBO)PVTFPG It’s time to address an elephant in the room – the role that Representatives, Detroit, MI those with financial interests in medical marijuana distribution t 3JDIBSE'FMENBO 1SFTJEFOU *OEFQFOEFOU'JSFBSN may be playing in determining the direction of marijuana law Owners Association, Rindge, New Hampshire reform in the U.S. Many industry professionals openly advocate t +JN(SBZ GPSNFS4VQFSJPS$PVSU+VEHF for legalization while others would just as soon keep things as Orange County, CA they are. What influence does this burgeoning industry have on t +FSSZ.BEEFO $IBJSNBO 5FYBT)PVTF$PSSFDUJPOT campaigns to make marijuana legal? What’s the appropriate $PNNJUUFF$P$IBJS 1VCMJD4BGFUZ5BTL'PSDF balance between making money and making change? American Legislative Exchange Council, Plano, TX t 4UBDJF3VNFOBQ $PDIBJS 1VCMJD4BGFUZ5BTL'PSDF Facilitator: American Legislative Exchange Council, Tim Cavenaugh, Senior Editor, Reason, Los Angeles, CA Washington, DC t +BDPC4VMMVN 4FOJPS&EJUPS Reason, Dallas, TX t ,BUF$IPMFXB 1PMJDZ$PNNVOJDBUJPOT .POUBOB$BOOBCJT Industry Association, Helena, MT Roundtable / The Portuguese Decriminalization t 4UFWFO%F"OHFMP &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS )BSCPSTJEF)FBMUI Model in the European Context Center, Oakland, CA Avalon Ballroom, 3rd Floor t .JLF&MMJPUU .FEJDBM.BSJKVBOB*OEVTUSZ(SPVQ Denver, CO Portuguese drug policy is widely heralded as an t %FCCZ(PMETCFSSZ 6OJUFE$BOOBCJT$PMMFDUJWF international model. How do we situate the Portuguese San Francisco, CA experience within a broader international context to t 3PC,BNQJB &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS .BSJKVBOB1PMJDZ1SPKFDU examine its significance for European and global drug Washington, DC policy? Is Portugal a model that other countries can t &UIBO/BEFMNBOO &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS %SVH1PMJDZ"MMJBODF replicate? Should we be concerned about the Dutch New York, NY back-tracking? What’s going on in Greece, where the t 5FE5SJNQB 1SFTJEFOU 5SJNQB(SPVQ %FOWFS $0

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Roundtable / Building a Global Movement for for people struggling with addiction. What will it take to Drug Policy Reform: Can Young People Lead the Way? move the acceptance of substitution and maintenance Santa Barbara A/B, Lobby Level therapies forward?

What are the optimal roles for young people in the struggle Moderator: for global drug policy reform? What particular value do they Sharon Stancliff, Medical Director, Harm Reduction bring to the movement? Should young people focus solely Coalition, New York City, NY on issues that disproportionately affect youth, or can they make substantial contributions to upending the global pro- t 5JN$ISJTUJF 3FHJPOBM%JSFDUPSPG&UIJDT4FSWJDFT hibition regime? With social media tools increasingly being Horizon Health Network, New Brunswick, Canada used to promote and organize political transformations and t &VHFOJB0WJFEP+PFLFT 3FTFBSDI4DJFOUJTU $FOUSFGPS uprisings all over the world, are young people positioned to Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, lead a global mass movement against prohibition? Vancouver, Canada t 0MFOB,VDIFSVL $PPSEJOBUPS )BSN3FEVDUJPO1SPHSBN Facilitator: *OUFSOBUJPOBM3FOBJTTBODF'PVOEBUJPO ,JFW 6LSBJOF $IBOUBM,BMMBT /FUXPSL%FWFMPQNFOU$PPSEJOBUPS :PVUI t "NBOEB3FJNBO %JSFDUPSPG3FTFBSDI-FDUVSFS Rise, Lebanon UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare, Berkeley, CA t "MFY8PEBL %JSFDUPS "MDPIPMBOE%SVH4FSWJDFBU t "SBN#BSSB 1SPHSBNNF%JSFDUPS &TQPMFB St. Vincent’s Hospital & President of the Australian Drug Mexico City, Mexico Law Reform Foundation, Sydney, Australia t $BMFC$IFQFTJVL &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS $BOBEJBO4UVEFOUT for Sensible Drug Policy Training / Messaging for Change t +POBUIBO1FSSJ 4FOJPS0SHBOJ[FS $IBOHFPSH San Gabriel B, Lobby Level Washington, DC t &WBO(PMETUFJO 1PMJDZ$PPSEJOBUPS /FX:PSL %SVH1PMJDZ What messages resonate with people who remain Alliance, New York, NY skeptical of drug policy reform? We’ll review the latest t -JTB4BODIF[ %SVH1PMJDZBOE)BSN3FEVDUJPO1SPHSBNNF and best drug policy reform message testing and polling Coordinator, Espolea, Mexico City, Mexico results – and provide opportunities to practice using t .BSDFMB5PWBS $PPSEJOBUPSPG1SPKFDU&WBMVBUJPOBOE those messages. Participants will gain new tools for the *OUFSOBUJPOBM/FUXPSLJOH "DDJØO5ÏDOJDB4PDJBM debate and learn what specific messages work for Colombia, Bogota persuadable audiences.

Panel / Substitution and Maintenance Therapy: Presenters: Confronting Ignorance, Prejudice and Stigma t %F%F%VOFWBOU .BOBHJOH%JSFDUPS $PNNVOJDBUJPOT San Gabriel A, Lobby Level Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY t "BSPO)PVTUPO &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS 4UVEFOUTGPS4FOTJCMF Despite persistent public resistance to substitution and Drug Policy, Washington, DC maintenance therapies, innovative programs are advancing around the world. These programs are easing access to methadone, winning support for heroin-assisted treatment, Lunchtime Plenary and utilizing marijuana as an alternative to prescription pain 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm medications. Although decades of evidence overwhelm- California Ballroom, Second Floor (Lunch not provided) ingly show that substitution and maintenance therapies are cost-effective, humane and beneficial to public health, Speakers will address the theme “Drug, Set and they still are not widely accepted as legitimate treatments Setting – Today.”

t (BCPS.BUF QIZTJDJBOBOEBVUIPS *O5IF3FBMNPG Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, Vancouver, Canada t $BSM)BSU "TTPDJBUF1SPGFTTPS 1TZDIPMPHZ1TZDIJBUSZ Department, Columbia University, New York, NY t +VMJF)PMMBOE "TTJTUBOU$MJOJDBM1SPGFTTPSPG1TZDIJBUSZ NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 22 Breakout Sessions different jurisdictions and providers addressing these 2:45 pm – 4:15 pm issues? And how do state and national leaders perceive this issue? Roundtable / Elected Officials: Hearing from our Representatives on Drug Policy Reform Moderator: San Jose, 2nd Floor Tamar Todd, Staff Attorney, Drug Policy Alliance, Berkeley, CA Elected officials are pivotal to drug policy reform, yet they are often the last ones on board. What are the t 3JFMMF$BQMFS $PGPVOEFS $BOBEJBO"TTPDJBUJPOPG.FEJDBM best arguments to use to persuade elected officials that Cannabis Dispensaries, Vancouver, Canada drug use should be treated as a health issue rather than t 5IPNBT)FEEMFTUPO 1I%$BOEJEBUF 6OJWFSTJUZPG a criminal justice issue? How can we build bipartisan California, Santa Cruz coalitions for drug policy reform? How can we best t 7JODFOU1BMB[[PUUP .FEJDBM.BSJKVBOB"TTJTUBODF1SPHSBN support our elected allies as they fight for drug policy of America, Denver, CO reform? And what are the lessons of recent legislative t +BDRVFMJOF1BUUFSTPO "EWPDBUF 1BUJFOUT0VUPG5JNF victories and defeats? 4FOTJCMF.JTTPVSJ ,BOTBT$JUZ .0 t "NBOEB3FJNBO %JSFDUPSPG3FTFBSDI-FDUVSFS Facilitator: UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare, Berkeley, CA Jill Harris, Acting Deputy Director, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY Roundtable / Sex, Drugs and Movement-Building Emerald Bay Ballroom, 3rd Floor t5PN"NNJBOP .FNCFS $BMJGPSOJB4UBUF"TTFNCMZ San Francisco, CA Sex workers and drug users are both criminalized for what t 3PHFS(PPENBO .FNCFS 8BTIJOHUPO)PVTFPG we do with our bodies, yet we don’t always work together. Representatives, Seattle, WA What are the connections between the sex worker advocacy t "SUIFOJB+PZOFS 'MPSJEB4UBUF4FOBUF movement and the drug policy reform movement? How have t .BSJF-PQF[,JSLMFZ#FZ %FQVUZ4QFBLFS $POOFDUJDVU the laws criminalizing drug use and drug users been adapted House of Representatives (invited) and used against sex workers? What can we learn from the t "OUPOJPi.PFw.BFTUBG .FNCFS /FX.FYJDP)PVTFPG recent victory in Louisiana against an egregious form of stig- Representatives matizing and criminalizing sex workers? And how can we t +FSSZ.BEEFO $IBJSNBO 5FYBT)PVTF$PSSFDUJPOT build stronger connections across these two movements to $PNNJUUFF$P$IBJS 1VCMJD4BGFUZ5BTL'PSDF reach even larger victories? American Legislative Exchange Council, Plano, TX t ,BSFO1BMMJBO .FNCFS *OEJBOB4UBUF4FOBUF JOWJUFE Facilitator: Meghan Ralston, Harm Reduction Coordinator, Panel / Innovative Approaches to Medical Marijuana Drug Policy Alliance, Los Angeles, CA Distribution and Services Avalon Ballroom, 3rd Floor t $ZOEFF$MBZ &YFDVUJWF%JSFDUPS )FMQJOH*OEJWJEVBM Prostitutes Survive (HIPS), Washington, DC Patients need improved access to high-quality medical t /BOOB8(PUGSFETFO -BXZFS 5IF4USFFU-BXZFST marijuana, support services, and increased civil and Gadejuristen, Copenhagen, Denmark legal protections. What are the obstacles? How are t ,JFTIB.D$VSUJT 1SPKFDU$PPSEJOBUPS %FTJSFF"MMJBODF Los Angeles, CA t -BVSB.D5JHIF .FNCFS #PBSEPG%JSFDUPST 8PNFOXJUI a Vision, New Orleans, LA t ,BUSJOB1BDFZ -JUJHBUJPO%JSFDUPS 1JWPU-FHBM4PDJFUZ Vancouver, Canada t "OESFB3JUDIJF $P$PPSEJOBUPS 4USFFUXJTFBOE4BGF 4"4 New York, NY

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Panel / Ban the Box: Ending Attacks on Civil Rights in What can we learn from efforts to reduce the harms of legal Employment and Beyond drugs like alcohol and tobacco? And what roles can harm Santa Barbara A/B, Lobby Level reduction practitioners and public health advocates play in dismantling the war on drugs? People who have been convicted of a drug law violation face enormous obstacles. The drug war leads to the Moderator: criminalization and incarceration of hundreds of thousands ,BTJB.BMJOPXTLB4FNQSVDI %JSFDUPS (MPCBM%SVH1PMJDZ of people in the U.S. every year, often preventing their full Program, Open Society Foundations, Warsaw, Poland participation in community and civic life. For instance, gaining employment can often be nearly impossible t )PMMZ#SBEGPSE 'PVOEFS5FDIOJDBM"EWJTPS when employers won’t hire people with criminal records. ,PSTBOH $BNCPEJB This panel will provide conference participants with t $IF(PTTFUU 2VFFS"DUJWJTUBOE1SJTPO"CPMJUJPOJTU tools to fight discrimination against people with arrest or Philadelphia, PA conviction records. Speakers will highlight numerous t 5IPNBT,FSS %JSFDUPS 6SCBO)FBMUI3FTFBSDI successful campaigns led by formerly incarcerated people Initiative, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, that have removed barriers to employment, housing and Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine, University of other basic rights. British Columbia t (BCPS.BUÏ 1IZTJDJBOBOE"VUIPS In The Realm of Hungry Moderator: Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, Vancouver, Canada 4BÞM4BSBCJB %JSFDUPS $SJUJDBM3BDF4UVEJFT1SPHSBN Lecturer in Law, UCLA Law School Closing Plenary t %BSZM"ULJOTPO 4UBGG"UUPSOFZ /PSUI$BSPMJOB0GGJDFPG 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm *OEJHFOU%FGFOTF4FSWJDFT.FNCFS /PSUI$BSPMJOB4FDPOE California Ballroom Chance Alliance t -JOEB&WBOT 0SHBOJ[FS "MMPG6TPS/POFBOE-FHBM t 3JDL4UFWFT 5SBWFM8SJUFS "DUJWJTU Services for Prisoners with Children, San Francisco, CA t 3PESJHPi'SPHHZw7B[RVF[ $PNNVOJUZ0SHBOJ[FS 4UVEFOUTGPS t -B3FTTF)BSWFZ 1PMJDZ%JSFDUPS "#FUUFS8BZ'PVOEBUJPO Sensible Drug Policy Los Angeles City College Hartford, CT t 4POKB4PIO "DUSFTT "DUJWJTU t #SVDF3FJMMZ 0SHBOJ[FS %JSFDU"DUJPOGPS3JHIUTBOE t /HVZFO1IVPOH-BO %JSFDUPST"TTJTUBOU $FOUFSGPS Equality, Providence, RI Supporting Community Development Initiatives, Hanoi, Vietnam t .BSJMZO)PXFMM "VUIPS )POPS5IZ%BVHIUFS Panel / Drugs, Criminalization and Public Health: t %BO3VTI %JSFDUPSPG4UBUF0QFSBUJPOT 6OJUFE'PPEBOE Social Justice as Harm Reduction Commercial Workers, Local 5 San Gabriel B, Lobby Level t %BSZM"ULJOTPO 4UBGG"UUPSOFZ /PSUI$BSPMJOB0GGJDFPG *OEJHFOU%FGFOTF4FSWJDFT.FNCFS /PSUI$BSPMJOB4FDPOE Harm reduction is often defined in terms of practical Chance Alliance strategies to reduce the negative consequences of drug t 4UFQIFO(VUXJMMJH $BMJGPSOJB4UBUF%JSFDUPS use, especially overdose and disease transmission. Yet Drug Policy Alliance many of the harms drug users experience result directly from the criminalization of drug use. Public health researchers and advocates are increasingly turning their focus to Awards Reception understanding the health and social consequences of 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm criminalization and incarceration. What are the links Hollywood Ballroom between drug user health and the criminal justice system? Join us in honoring your contemporaries who have made exceptional contributions in eight award categories, including science, medicine, law, education and more. What better way to celebrate excellence than over delectable desserts and TQBSLMJOHXJOFAwards Reception tickets are $25 and will be available for purchase on-site at the Registration Area.

24 Mobile Workshops

Mobile Workshops will be conducted on Friday, November 4 from 11 am – 2 pm. Buses will leave from the Westin Bonaventure Hotel. More information available at the registration desk. treatment works. Mobile Workshop #1 – School to Prison Pipeline possible. This tour will give an overview of the frontline struggles recovery is in Los Angeles County to address the criminalization of young people and understand its origins in drug war policies such as drug testing and zero tolerance. Participants will also hear from individuals and organizations providing alternatives for youth and restorative justice practices. Local participants include hazelden.org Coalition for Responsible Community Development, Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles Community Action Network, Manual Arts Senior High 800-257-7810 School students and teachers, National Center for Dispute Resolution in Special Education, Southern California Library, and Youth Justice Coalition.

Mobile Workshop #2 – Skid Row

Participants will get a history of LA’s downtown Skid Row neighborhood, notorious for its high rate of homelessness. They will tour some of the places © 2011 Hazelden Foundation working to provide services to Skid Row residents and discuss how “broken windows” policing impacts people who use drugs in this area. Homeless Health Care Los Angeles will demonstrate its on-site harm reduction services such as syringe exchange and overdose prevention training, including a brief presentation about naloxone. Skid Row residents will lead the group to permanent supportive housing facilities and other housing and services.

Mobile Workshop #3 – Medical Marijuana in California

Learn about California’s historic Proposition 215, the frontline battles over the last 15 years to provide safe access to people in need, the forefront of research, and the future for cannabis medicine. Visit several medical marijuana dispensaries to meet patients and providers, see various types of cannabis medicine and medication modalities, and learn about personal cultivation and the science of cannabis. Participants include Americans for Safe Access, Cornerstone Collective, LA Wonderland Caregivers and Pure Life Alternative Wellness Center.

25 Community Meetings

Community Meetings are a space for Friday, November 4 conference attendees to organize a Strategy Meeting: Drug Policy and the Immigrant group of people to action or provide Justice Movement concrete training on a specific issue. 7:00 am – 9:00 am Organized by Families for Freedom Hear about each organization’s goals in their own words and join them for In this meeting, participants will try to develop strategies to foster greater collaboration between immigrant justice these meetings. and drug reform organizations. We hope to gain clarity and knowledge from existing models of collaborative efforts around the country, as well as to discuss best Thursday, November 3 practices moving forward on how we can continue to create unity and alliance among groups on campaigns and All of Us or None Reception Room advocacy efforts. Open 9:00 am – 5:00 pm all 3 days Organized by All of Us or None Moms United to End the War on Drugs National Convening Ongoing conversations among formerly-incarcerated people, 9:15 am – 10:45 am our families, and allies. Look for trainings on our national Organized by Moms United to End the War on Drugs campaigns, and time to share our own best solutions for the problems that face our communities. This national parent advocacy group convenes to introduce the national steering committee, share our mission and his- Detention, Deportation and Drug Laws tory, and discuss the power that mothers and others can 7:00 am – 9:00 am have in creating needed change in drug policy. We will also Organized by Families for Freedom, Detention Watch strategize about goals and timelines for Moms United in Network, and the Immigrant Defense Project 2012. This is a great opportunity to connect and build.

This meeting will train advocates, activists and community SSDP Africa Meeting: members about the rights of immigrants when facing drug Web 2.0 Toolkit for Drug Policy Advocacy charges in criminal courts and the effects of drug crimes on 11:15 am – 12:45 pm someone’s immigration status. We will take a closer look at Organized by Students for Sensible Drug Policy, how the war on drugs has influenced policy on deportation and Africa Chapter compromised the rights of immigrants in the U.S. Participants will learn about the deportation process and how to effectively At this meeting, we will discuss how organizations can mitigate the harmful impacts of drug laws on immigrant effectively use social media as a toolkit of advocacy and communities, as well as learn about strategies for organizing campaign for their projects. We will also cover how they can formerly incarcerated immigrants and their families. create a platform of communication with youth from Africa and other places. Canadian Meeting 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm Drug User Mobilization at the International Organized by Canadian Drug Policy Coalition AIDS Conference 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm The Canadian Drug Policy Coalition is pleased to invite all Organized by Health GAP Canadian delegates and allies to a Canadian meeting to network, strategize and exchange information about drug Our workshop is focused on mobilizing communities policy reform in Canada. Come get the latest information traditionally and explicitly excluded from the International about the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, meet colleagues AIDS Conference. There is still a ban on travel for individu- interested and involved in drug policy reform, and participate als convicted of a drug-related crime to enter the United in a Canadian movement for drug policy reform. Lunch will States. That means that this important conference will be be provided. lacking the voices of one of the communities most affected

26 by the AIDS pandemic. Health GAP, VOCAL-NY and other Saturday, November 5 groups are proposing to organize drug users to have a strong presence at this conference and to be in the leader- California Marijuana Initiatives in 2012 ship of one of the most important mass mobilizations on 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm AIDS in the past 10 years. Organized by The Drug Policy Alliance

Three Strikes Reform Initiative of 2012 In the wake of Proposition 19, several marijuana reform 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm voter initiatives are already circulating in preparation for the Organized by Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes 2012 ballot. Proponents of several of these initiatives will explain their approach, share their plans for victory and take California’s Three Strikes Law has been a disaster, leading your questions. Help determine what may be the next step to prison overcrowding and excessive sentencing for petty for marijuana in the Golden State. offenses including drug possession. On the November 2012 ballot, California voters will have an opportunity to reform AKA Angels Gathering Three Strikes. Join the initiative proponents at this gathering 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm to learn more about the 2012 reform initiative and how 0SHBOJ[FECZ",""OHFMT you/your organization can support it. 5IF",""OHFMTJTBGPSNFSMZJODBSDFSBUFEXPNFOT CFJAN Meet & Greet civic group located throughout California. Our mission 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm is to create a network of support to break the cycle of Organized by Criminal Justice recidivism, support our hidden community members, Funders & Advocates Network and reunify families.

The emerging CJFAN seeks to strengthen relationships, foster collaboration, harness energy, ideas and innovation to maximize resources for the greatest possible impact. Join us for a relaxed gathering of coffee and snacks with people across the criminal justice spectrum.

Diversifying the Movement: SSDP Presents a Manual for Success 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Organized by SSDP Diversity Committee

SSDP would like to invite anyone interested in growing the movement, or who believes the drug policy movement could do more to reach a more diverse audience, to an open discussion on how to move from talk to results. We have designed an outreach manual to help drug policy activists reach out to various demographics in their community, and we welcome feedback and support from anyone interested.

27 Film Festival

Each year the Reform Conference Friday, November 4 selects films – in-progress or already After EDC released – that show how people have By Le Sheng Liu been profoundly affected by the drug After EDC is a feature documentary on the controversy war. Introductions to the films will be behind Electric Daisy Carnival, the largest and one of the provided and question & answer ses- longest running annual raves in North America. The film captures the innovative public health campaign initiated sions will be held following each film. by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health following the ecstasy-related fatality of a 15-year-old girl who attended EDC 2010 at the LA Coliseum. This is a work- in-progress, with never-before-seen rough cuts from key Thursday, November 3 scenes in the story.

Play Safe 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm Introduction to film By Eddie Einbinder Stefanie Jones, Event Manager, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY Everything in Play Safe is completely real. Always educational and sometimes shocking, Play Safe documents casual 6:45 pm – 7:15 pm Screening users taking the necessary precautions while doing each of the following drugs in order to convey safest practice QNoQN2"XJUI-F4IFOH-JV and effects: Adderall, alcohol, cigarettes & cigars, cocaine, DMT, heroin, ketamine, marijuana, MDMA (Ecstasy), methamphetamine, mushrooms, nitrous, oxycontin and salvia. Raw Opium By Peter D. Findlay 12:30 pm – 12:45 pm Introduction to film Yolande Cadore, Director of Raw OpiumJTBEPDVNFOUBSZCZ,FOTJOHUPO57BCPVU Strategic Partnerships, the opium poppy – the raw material for heroin that had Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY tremendous power, both to ease pain and destroy lives. The film explores the vast criminal trade around the world 12:45 pm – 1:30 pm Screening and through time, where conflicting forces battle over the narcotic sap of the opium poppy. Through a series of inter- QNoQN 2"XJUI&EEJF&JOCJOEFS views and stories, we can see how this flower has played, and continues to play a pivotal role – not just in the lives of people who grow, manufacture, and use it – but also in the political instability of an increasingly interconnected and turbulent world.

7:30 pm – 7:45 pm Introduction to film Robert Lang, producer/writer of Raw Opium

7:45 pm – 9:15 pm Screening

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28 About the Presenters

Pedro Vieira Abramovay is a professor Tom Ammiano is a long-time asha bandele is a journalist and the at the Federal University of Rio de San Francisco Democratic leader award-winning author of The Prisoner’s Janeiro, Brazil. In early 2011 he served who has served nearly three decades Wife and four other books, most briefly as director of the Secretaria as a teacher, civil rights leader, recently Something Like Beautiful: One Nacional Antidrogas, Brazil’s national educator, Supervisor and now State Single Mother‘s Story (HarperCollins, drug agency. Prior to that he served Assemblymember. He introduced Good 2009). A Columbia University Revson from 2004 until 2011 as Secretary Samaritan legislation that provides Fellow (2004-2005), asha’s articles for Legislative Affairs and as Special limited immunity at the scene of an have appeared in The New York Advisor to the Minister at the Ministry overdose and a landmark marijuana Times, Essence, The Nation, Vibe and of Justice in Brazil. From 2003 to 2004, regulation bill. The latter was approved numerous other publications. Since he was Legal Advisor for the Senate by the Assembly Public Safety 2005, asha has proudly managed the Majority Whip. He was the Brazilian Committee, the first formal consideration Advocacy Grants Program at the Drug Delegate to the Working Group for of marijuana legalization in American Policy Alliance. She lives in Brooklyn, NY the Review of Hemispheric Anti-Drug history and the first to be passed by a with her daughter. Strategy, and also has vast experience legislative policy committee. as a panelist at national and Aram Barra is a 25 year old activist international events. Tom Angell is media relations director from Mexico working on drug policy for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, reform and harm reduction, gender Lori Albin, Director of NJJN’s Fiscal where he helps pro-legalization law equality and HIV. Policy Center, has been working in enforcers get their voices heard the juvenile and criminal justice fields about the failure of the war on drugs. Dan Berger is the George Gerbner for more than fifteen years. Albin has Previously, he handled media relations Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of a strong background in both fiscal and lobbying for Students for Sensible Pennsylvania, where he studies race, analysis and juvenile justice advocacy Drug Policy and co-founded the Rhode media, and American social movements. and policy. Albin began her career as a Island Patient Advocacy Coalition, which He is the author or editor of Letters From financial analyst for Dun & Bradstreet, successfully pushed to enact a medical Young Activists, Outlaws of America, attained a CPA and was Chief Financial marijuana law despite the governor’s and The Hidden 1970s. Currently, he Officer of several highly successful veto. He also served as media relations is writing a book about black prisoner private entities prior to attaining her director for the Proposition 19 marijuana organizing in the 1960s and 1970s. law degree. legalization campaign in California. He is also a member of Decarcerate PA, a grassroots campaign against prison Patricia Allard, Deputy Director of Donald Anthonyson is an organizer for expansion in Pennsylvania. Research and Policy at Canadian Families For Freedom (FFF), a New York- HIV/AIDS Legal Network, has long based multi-ethnic defense network by Rachel Bloom is the Advocacy and advocated for criminal justice and drug and for immigrants facing and fighting Policy Strategist for the American policy reform – with an emphasis on deportation. At FFF, Donald, a former Civil Liberties Union’s Center for women. As a Soros Justice Fellow, her FFF Board member, led the efforts of the Justice, where her work focuses on child welfare reform efforts helped over International Deportee Justice Campaign state-based criminal justice reform. one million children whose parents are and co-facilitated the hosting of two Bloom works with ACLU affiliates incarcerated. She holds a Bachelor of Consular Roundtables (2005, 2006) in throughout the country, as well as Arts from St. Lawrence University, New York. He also produces and co- with national partners, to advance BO--#GSPN2VFFOT6OJWFSTJUZ BOE hosts FFF’s monthly radio show, the War progressive reform and defeat an MA from the Centre of Criminology at On Immigrants Report and has been regressive legislation. Bloom is the the University of Toronto. involved in various social issues ranging co-author of the national reports Smart from police brutality and anti-racial Reform is Possible and De Facto Miguel Alvarez is presently helping responses to immigration. Disenfranchisement. Bloom is a proud to organize the national peace and alumnae of Barnard College and anti-corruption movement of drug war Paul Armentano is the Deputy Director received her Masters degree in Social victims, led by the poet Javier Sicilia. He of the National Organization for the Policy and Planning from the London is a veteran human rights defender and Reform of Marijuana Laws. He also School of Economics. respected national progressive activist. serves on the faculty of Oaksterdam University in Oakland, where he lectures on the science surrounding the safety and efficacy of medical cannabis. He is the author of the book Emerging Clinical Applications for Cannabis (NORML Foundation, 2007, updated 2011) and the co-author of Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? (2009, Chelsea Green), which has been licensed and translated internationally.

29 About the Presenters

Eduardo Vergara Bobarán is founding first comprehensive Harm Reduction Anneke Campbell has had a number Director of Asuntos del Sur, a Latin 4FSWJDF1SPHSBNJOUIF,JOHEPNPG of careers – midwife, college teacher, American think tank based in Chile Cambodia. There, she advocates for and writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, dedicated to public policy analysis and drug user human rights, and trains journalism and documentaries. She to influencing politics regionally. His Cambodian-Americans deported from is a long time activist in the causes of work on drug policy has mainly focused UIF64BOE,INFSESVHVTFSTJOIBSN environment and social justice, both on Chile where he started the Drug SFEVDUJPOTFSWJDFEFMJWFSZ,PSTBOHJT as a writer and video maker. As a Policy Project at Fundación Progresa. recognized as one of the most innovative grateful member of Alanon as well as While he was the Executive Director, harm reduction projects worldwide. a critic of 12 step theocracy, she is he created and conducted the first She is currently writing a book about the conducting doctoral studies in the area national survey on perceptions of drug ,PSTBOHFYQFSJFODF of recovery at the California Institute for use and drug policy among college Integral Studies. students. Vergara has conducted Brad Burge is the Director of research on human security in countries Communications for the Multidisciplinary Rielle Capler is a researcher and such as Bosnia & Herzegovina, India, Association for Psychedelic Studies policy advisor. She helped pioneer Costa Rica, China and Uganda. He (MAPS). He earned his BA in Canada’s first compassion club and is a has extensive experience on data Communication and Psychology from co-founder of the Canadian Association and statistical analysis, polling and Stanford and his MA in Communication of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries, surveying. He has also directed different from the University of California, San which was established this year. Rielle political campaigns. He received the Diego, where he studied the political, is a co-founder of Canadians for Safe Eiffel Scholarship and was recognized scientific and cultural changes Access, and sits on the scientific as part of the New Generation of involved in making illicit drugs into advisory board of ASA, the advisory Leaders for the Americas by the COA legitimate medicines. He believes in board of CSSDP, and the drug policy in NY, 2009. He co-hosts a live political the importance of communication for committee of the BCCLA. Her chapter, talk show every week in Santiago. helping people develop responsible “Canadian Compassion Clubs,” was relationships with themselves, each recently published in The Pot Book. Yami Bolaños is a patient whose other, and their pharmacological tools. commitment to medical cannabis Daniel Carrillo works as a Field began after she became a two-time Susan Burton is the Founder and Organizer for Enlace, a bi-national cancer survivor and a liver transplant Executive Director for A New Way of Life network of low wage worker patient. She is also the first female Reentry Project. Burton is a cofounder of organizations. Daniel began organizing Hispanic to open a medical cannabis All of Us or None, a civil rights movement in his community against Proposition 187 facility in the City of Los Angeles. Her formed by formerly incarcerated people. and attacks on immigrant communities collective, Purelife Alternative Wellness In 2011, Susan was nominated as a in the 1990’s. Since then he has worked Center, is considered a model facility CNN hero in the category of “community on immigration, education, health care, and has been featured in numerous crusader.” She’s been a Soros Justice gender & sexuality, worker rights, prison news reports and documentaries on Fellow, a Women’s Policy Institute abolition, and environmental racism. medical marijuana. Fellow, and a Community Fellow under His work and accomplishments are the Violence Prevention Initiative of dedicated to the memory of his cousins, Graham Boyd advises Peter Lewis on The California Wellness Foundation. Rogelio Jr. and Pierre Barrera. marijuana law reform. He is the founder In 2007 Susan was appointed to and former Director of the ACLU Drug Governor Schwarzenegger‘s Little Katharine Celentano’s experience Law Reform Project. He has litigated Hoover Sentencing Reform Commission as a client of a residential psychiatric before the U.S. Supreme Court and and Gender Responsive Strategies treatment facility motivates her work federal courts across the nation, building Commission. towards a world where illness is not a record of court victories and resulting treated with handcuffs. A neuroscience policy changes. He has played a leading Shahid Buttar is executive director of and economics student, Celentano is role in criminal justice reforms, including the Bill of Rights Defense Committee also president of Columbia University changes in sentencing, racial profiling, and its work defending civil liberties and Students for Sensible Drug Policy. medical marijuana, police practices and constitutional rights. He received his Recipient of the 2011 SSDP Outstanding alternatives to incarceration. JD from Stanford Law School in 2003, Student Activist Award, she is engaged where he served as executive editor of in changing policy and promoting Holly Bradford has over twenty years of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal understanding locally and nationally. dedicated experience in harm reduction. and teaching assistant for Constitutional Previously, she worked as College 4IFJTUIFGPVOEFSPG,PSTBOH XIFSF Law. In addition to his work as a civil Coordinator at Law Enforcement she is developing and coordinating the rights lawyer, community organizer, and Against Prohibition. independent columnist, Buttar is also an independent columnist and hip-hop and electronica MC.

30 Timothy Christie is the Regional Aires, Encarelamientos por delitos Tom Daubert has been a political Director of Ethics Services for Horizon relacionados con estupifacientes en and communications strategist in Health Network in New Brunswick Argentina (Incarceration for Drug- Montana for the last 36 years. He and Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie Related Crimes in Argentina). helped manage the 2004 initiative University. He served as the ethics campaign to legalize medical marijuana, consultant for the Supervised Injection Carissa Cornwell is a board member oversaw a successful lowest-priority Site and Heroin Prescription Trials and National Outreach Director of law enforcement campaign in Missoula in Canada. He is a philosopher and DanceSafe, the United States’ only harm County, and founded Patients & Families epidemiologist specializing in medical reduction group providing services to United in 2006. Having been involved in ethics. Dr. Christie’s research interests the electronic dance music community. a legal production/dispensing operation include Ethics in Public Policy and In 1999 she started a DanceSafe that was raided last March by federal Evidence Based Medicine. He has chapter in Madison, Wisconsin, which agencies, he has been told he will soon recently published in the International expanded into Midwest DanceSafe, be indicted on charges that carry a Journal of Drug Policy. the organization’s most active maximum penalty of life in prison. chapter. In her current role, Cornwell Luciano Colonna has been working is responsible for overseeing all Jag Davies is the publications manager in public health and policy for DanceSafe’s volunteers and chapters, for the Drug Policy Alliance, where he 17 years. A major focus of his work and develops training curriculum and directs the content and production of the is in the area of amphetamine type outreach strategies. organization’s reports, printed materials, stimulants. He is currently working on and organizational literature. Davies projects in Cambodia, Poland, Ukraine Catalina Pérez Correa received previously served as policy researcher BOEUIF6,$PMPOOBPSHBOJ[FE her Law Degree from the Instituto for the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project. and implemented the 2005 and 5FDPOPMØHJDP"VUØOPNPEF.ÏYJDP He also previously served as director of 2007 U.S. National Conferences on (ITAM), her master’s degree (JSM) from communications for MAPS, a nonprofit Methamphetamine, HIV and Hepatitis the Stanford Programme in International pharmaceutical company conducting and the 2008 Global Conference on Legal Studies (SPILS) at the Stanford FDA clinical trials aimed at developing Methamphetamine in Prague, Czech University Law School in California psychedelics and marijuana into Republic. He is currently organizing and her doctorate (JSD) also from the prescription medicines. Davies the 2012 Global Conference on Stanford University Law School. During grew up in Miami and is a graduate of Amphetamine Type Stimulants. her doctorate she studied Mexican New College of Florida. criminal procedure from an empirical Mark Cooke is a Policy Advocate with and interdisciplinary perspective, Lanette Davies is the director of the ACLU of Washington. He has a law focusing primarily on the study of Crusaders for Patients Rights and degree and a master’s in social work criminal prosecution and investigation corporate director of Canna Care Inc., from Washington University in St. Louis. practices. She currently works at the a nonprofit collective in Sacramento. He previously worked at the Missouri Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas She provides court support, community Institute of Mental Health researching at UNAM, in Mexico City. Her research relations, state and local lobbying, and methamphetamine laws and needle focuses on the study of legal procedures public meetings at Crusaders Hall to exchange programs. Cooke has also and practices from sociological educate the public and professionals. practiced family law in Seattle, WA, and anthropological perspectives, Crusaders for Patients is active at the worked in the foster care system in San specializing in the functioning of the State Capitol representing patients and Diego, CA, and was a Court Appointed criminal justice system. the medical industry, helping create Special Advocate in Atlanta, GA. new bills and openly supporting or andré douglas pond cummings is a opposing bills that affect patients. Raúl Alejandro Corda received a law Professor of Law at the West Virginia degree from the University of Buenos University College of Law, where he Corey Davis is Staff Attorney at the Aires (UBA) in 1998. He is now a teacher teaches Business Organizations, Public Health Law Network. He formerly and researcher at the UBA. Since 1993, Securities Regulation, Civil Procedure, ran a harm reduction legal clinic in he has worked in the national judiciary, Sports Law, and Entertainment Law. Philadelphia but now spends his days and has been the Secretary of Justice cummings has written extensively on suing bad guys and trying to bring in the Federal Criminal Jurisdiction issues regarding investor protection, evidence-based public health strategies since 2001. Corda is a member of racial justice, and affirmative action. to the legal and criminal justice worlds. Intercambios Asociación Civil, an NGO cummings recently released the that works on drug policy issues. He book, Reversing Field: Examining participates in a research team with Commercialization, Labor, Gender, and WOLA, TNI and other NGOs on drug Race in 21st Century Sports Law (with laws and rights in Latin America and Anne Marie Lofaso). cummings has most recently published a report for been recognized as Professor of the Intercambios and the Social Sciences Year on three occasions since 2005, Faculty of the University of Buenos including the University Distinguished Professor Award by the West Virginia University Foundation.

31 About the Presenters

Troy Dayton is CEO of the ArcView the House in Michigan in 2004 at age 34, DeDe Dunevant is managing director Group, which specializes in business making him the youngest House speaker of communications for the Drug Policy development for ancillary businesses in Michigan’s history. DeRoche left office Alliance, based in New York. Her in the medical cannabis industry. He in 2008 because of term limits. He communications career spans more than also co-founded SSDP in 1998 and speaks publicly about his own recovery fifteen years and includes experience later created the first sales programs from alcohol addiction and volunteers in the fields of education, international for Renewable Choice Energy (recently with several organizations that help volunteerism and global public health. named the #1 green power provider by others deal with their addictions. Previously Dunevant served as the EPA). At the Interfaith Drug Policy marketing director for the Peace Corps Initiative Troy made national headlines Rick Doblin founded the and was a program manager by organizing Nevada religious leaders Multidisciplinary Association for for Population Services International to support a legalization initiative. He Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in 1986 and where she oversaw social marketing and was the promotional director for the Flex has directed it since then. He received harm reduction programs in West and Your Rights film, BUSTED, now seen his PhD in Public Policy from Harvard’s Central Africa. by millions. ,FOOFEZ4DIPPMPG(PWFSONFOU XIFSF his dissertation covered “The Regulation Eddie Einbinder was born and raised in Steve DeAngelo has spent almost four of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and NYC. He began researching safer drug decades as a cannabis activist and Marijuana.” His professional goals are to use while studying psychology at Lehigh entrepreneur. For the past five years, develop legal contexts for the beneficial University, and he grew more formally he has served as Executive Director of uses of psychedelics and marijuana, involved in drug policy after his first Harborside Health Center, the world’s primarily as prescription medicines but book, How To Have Fun And Not Die, largest legal retailer of cannabis. His also for personal growth for otherwise won a few awards in 2008. Since then he creation of a model medical cannabis “healthy” people, and to become a has lived among and observed students dispensary and lifelong cannabis legally licensed psychedelic therapist. throughout North America while writing, activism coupled with his extensive rapping, giving over 70 lectures on knowledge in this arena has made him Margaret Dooley-Sammuli is deputy overdose prevention tactics, and filming one of the most respected speakers in state director in Southern California for his drug education documentary, Play the cannabis and hemp industries. the Drug Policy Alliance. Since 2005, Safe Vol. 1. Dooley-Sammuli has coordinated the Dr. Patt Denning, Director of Clinical organization’s work around Proposition Jodie Evans has been a peace, Services and Training at the Harm 36, California’s landmark treatment- environmental, women’s rights and Reduction Therapy Center in San instead-of-incarceration law, and social justice activist and fundraiser for Francisco, has been a therapist for over promoted the economic benefits of 40 years. She has traveled extensively 35 years. She is a Diplomate-Fellow in prevention and treatment. In 2008, to war zones, including Afghanistan, psychopharmacology and a certified Dooley-Sammuli was Deputy Campaign Gaza and Iraq, promoting and learning addiction specialist. She has written Manager for Yes on Proposition 5, about peaceful resolution to conflict. several articles, as well as a book for the a ballot initiative that would have She served in the first administration general public (Over the Influence: The significantly expanded access to of Governor Jerry Brown and ran his Harm Reduction Guide for Managing treatment in the community and behind presidential campaigns. She has Drugs and Alcohol). bars, and safely reduced state prison published two books, Stop the Next spending by $1 billion per year. In War Now and Twilight of Empire, and Becky Dennison is the Co-Director 2009, Dooley-Sammuli spearheaded the has produced several documentary of the Los Angeles Community Action successful effort to direct $100 million films, including the Oscar- and Emmy- Network, a grassroots organization in federal stimulus funds to community- nominated The Most Dangerous Man in working to ensure that human rights based drug treatment, probation and America and Howard Zinn’s The People are protected and strengthened in Los re-entry courts – an investment that Speak+PEJFDPGPVOEFE$0%&1*/, Angeles, particularly the interconnected will reduce state costs by hundreds of Women for Peace, is the board chair rights to housing, health and security. millions of taxpayer dollars. of Women’s Media Center and sits on For the past 15 years, she has been many other boards, including working alongside low-income and Don Duncan has served on the Board of the Drug Policy Alliance, the Hereditary homeless leaders to promote social Directors of Americans for Safe Access Disease Foundation, Rainforest Action justice through community organizing, (ASA) since he co-founded it in 2002. Network, Institute for Policy Studies, civic participation, and public policy As California Director, he is coordinating and Sisterhood is Global Institute. She development. the grassroots campaign to fully is in the leadership of two funding implement the state’s medical cannabis communities, Threshold Foundation Craig DeRoche is a resident of Novi, laws and build a broader and more and Women Moving Millions. She is the Michigan. He is married and has three powerful coalition for medical cannabis mother of three. daughters ages 10, 8 and 4. He served in California. He is a leading consultant on the Novi city council and in the state in the field of medical cannabis legislature. He was elected speaker of and helps new collective operators understand the legal nature of their organizations and lay out strategies for compliance. 32 James Fadiman has been researching Major Neill Franklin, a 34-year law Policy Alliance. Garcia continues to do and reporting on psychedelic enforcement veteran, retired from the advocacy work and currently sits on experience and transpersonal Maryland State Police in 1999 where he the Board of Directors of the Flex Your psychology for more than four decades. rose through the ranks from undercover Rights Foundation. He has taught at San Francisco State, narcotics agent to commander of Brandeis, Stanford, and was the co- the Bureau of Drug and Criminal John Gibler is a journalist and the founder of the Institute for Transpersonal Enforcement. Major Franklin also held author of To Die in Mexico. John has Psychology, where he still teaches. His command positions with the Baltimore worked extensively covering human latest book is The Psychedelic Explorer’s Police Department and the Maryland rights and the drug war in Mexico. He Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Transit Police Force. On July 13, 2010, presents in his new book a damning Journeys. He is currently researching he resigned from the law enforcement portrayal of the effects of that country’s the extent, variety, and value of current profession to become the executive corrupt and misconstrued drug policy. widespread, unregulated, and still director for Law Enforcement Against He tells the stories of the people who are increasing psychedelic use. Prohibition (LEAP). living and dying in the streets of Mexico as a result of the world’s most violent Richard Feldman is a graduate of Dave Fratello is a political strategist drug war. Vermont Law School (1982) and a former who is a veteran of two dozen ballot Reagan White House appointee. In measure campaigns across the Dale Gieringer has been the state 1984 he was named the NRA’s regional country. Many campaigns were for drug director of California NORML since political/legislative director. In 1991 the reform issues, starting with California’s 1987. He was one of the original co- firearm industry trade association hired medical marijuana law, Proposition authors of Proposition 215, California’s him as their Executive Director, where he 215 in 1996, and several multistate medical marijuana initiative, the negotiated the child safety lock deal with campaigns for medical marijuana, drug proponent of Oakland’s Measure Z President Bill Clinton. His recent book, treatment/not jail and asset forfeiture cannabis initiative, a sponsor of AB 390, Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist details reform in 1998 and 2000. After founding California’s path-breaking legalization the broad based cultural warfare the gun Coast Campaign Group, Dave has bill, and a consultant on numerous other lobby engaged in to become the “third remained active in progressive politics cannabis reform campaigns. He has rail of American politics” that it is today. and drug policy reform to this day. published research on the economic Currently Feldman advises candidates, benefits of legalization, medical associations and businesses leaders Kassandra Frederique is policy marijuana usage, potency testing, on handling publicity to maximize their associate, New York for the Drug Policy driving safety, and drug urinalysis. message and advance their agenda. Alliance. Prior to joining DPA, Frederique Gieringer is the author of The Marijuana completed a year-long internship with Medical Handbook. Gwendolyn Fields is the executive DPA’s State Organizing and Policy director of the Criminal Justice Reform Project, served as a social worker in Ira Glasser is president of the DPA Advocacy Council, former chief of staff New York City schools and organized Board and former executive director for Oklahoma State Senator Constance workers in Chicago and New Orleans. of the American Civil Liberties Union Johnson, and is currently continuing her Frederique earned her master’s degree (ACLU). In 1967 he joined the New York advocacy on legislation that eliminates in Social Work at Columbia University. Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and was Life Without Parole as a punishment for Her passion for challenging social appointed NYCLU Executive Director in ESVHPGGFOTFTQSPIJCJUTVTFPGUISFF oppression and inequalities led her to 1970, a post he held until 1978, when strikes type enhancers in nonviolent and work on ending the drug war. he was selected as national Executive ESVHPGGFOTFTBOESFNFEJFTEJTQBSJUZ Director of the NYCLU’s parent group, in sentencing. Her passion for reform Jan Frel is a former editor for AlterNet, the American Civil Liberties Union. He was ignited 15 years ago after being based in San Francisco, CA. Working served in that capacity for 23 years until sentenced to 69 years in prison for a with dozens of freelance authors and his retirement in mid-2001. property crime. experts from across the U.S. he has covered drug reform and incarceration David Glowka is the manager of Steve Fox is the director of government issues for over five years, on issues foundation relations at the Drug Policy relations at the Marijuana Policy Project, ranging from psychedelic research to Alliance, where he has helped raise where he coordinates the organization’s mandatory minimums to the explosion millions of dollars in grant funding for ballot initiative work and its federal of medical marijuana. drug policy reform since 2003. He has lobbying. He also serves as the more than 10 years of experience in director of public affairs for the National Marisa Garcia began working in securing grants from local and national Cannabis Industry Association. Fox co- drug policy reform in 2000, shortly foundations, corporations, and state and founded Safer Alternative for Enjoyable after being denied financial aid for federal government agencies for a range Recreation (SAFER) in 2004 and is the college due to a minor marijuana of advocacy and service programs. co-author of Marijuana is Safer: So why offense. In the time since then, she are we driving people to drink? He is a has collaborated with numerous drug graduate of Boston College Law School. policy reform organizations, including Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the Marijuana Policy Project and the Drug

33 About the Presenters

Debby Goldsberry is a 25-year pioneer Charles S. Grob is Director of the Chino Hardin was born and raised of the cannabis industry. She currently Division of Child and Adolescent in East Flatbush, Brooklyn and has directs the United Cannabis Collective, Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical worked in the field of youth leadership a California dispensary dedicated to Center, and Professor of Psychiatry development and gang prevention/ ending cannabis prohibition. Goldsberry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School intervention for seven years. Chino is also co-founded the Berkeley Patients of Medicine He conducted the first committed to developing and elevating Group collective and several other non- government approved psychobiological leadership and civic engagement in profit organizations, including Americans research study of MDMA, and was the youth and communities that are hardest for Safe Access, Medical Cannabis principal investigator of an international hit by crime, violence and incarceration. Safety Council, and Cannabis Action research project in the Brazilian Amazon Chino has appeared in numerous Network. Goldsberry was awarded studying ayahuasca. He recently renowned publications and media NORML’s Paula Sabine Award for completed an investigation on the safety outlets, such as the Village Voice, City Woman in Leadership, and is the and efficacy of psilocybin treatment in Limits, The Ave Magazine, BET, and HIGH TIMES Freedom Fighter of the advanced-cancer patients with anxiety. the Caribbean Life. Year for 2011. Diego Grooscors is currently a law Jill Harris is acting deputy director Neal M. Goldsmith is a psychotherapist student at the La Salle University in for the Drug Policy Alliance. In that with a doctorate in public affairs 4BO+PTÏ $PTUB3JDBBOEBGVMMUJNF capacity she helps oversee the day-to- psychology from Claremont Graduate activist working on social and ecological day operations of DPA, and manages University, in the “action science” issues. He has participated in a variety external relationships with national and USBEJUJPOPG,VSU-FXJO5SBJOFEJO of important social movements in Costa state-based allies. Previously she served humanistic, transpersonal, and eastern Rica, including the university movement as Managing Director of Public Policy traditions, Dr. Goldsmith maintains which in 2000 opposed the Combo del at DPA, overseeing the efforts of DPA’s a (non-psychedelic) psychotherapy ICE – a legal reform of the country’s program offices around the country. practice in New York and Sag Harbor, electricity and telecommunications Before joining DPA, Harris worked as NY and may be reached via his website: industry that spurred the largest social a political campaign manager and www.nealgoldsmith.com/psychedelics. protests in fifty years. A native of was the early vote director for Barack Venezuela, Grooscors is a member of Obama’s campaign in Ohio. She also Evan Goldstein is policy coordinator, the Latin American Cannabis Coalition spent 13 years as a public defender New York for the Drug Policy Alliance. and co-founder of the Alianza por una with the Legal Aid Society in New York He focuses on campaigns to expand nueva política de drogas en Costa City, including two years as the attorney a health and public safety approach Rica, a civic organization promoting in charge of the Manhattan Criminal to drug policy in New York State drug policy reform in Costa Rica, as Defense Division, the country’s largest by collaborating with grassroots well as co-founder of the Asociación public defender office. Harris is originally organizations, advocates, researchers, Cultura Cannabica Costarricense, or from Eugene, Oregon, and graduated and other community stakeholders. the Association for Cannabis Culture in from Harvard University and the New Evan graduated magna cum laude Costa Rica. York University School of Law. from New York University with a BA in urban studies. He has also worked Stephen Gutwillig is California state John Harrison has had life experiences for the Legal Aid Society in New York director of the Drug Policy Alliance. – as a mountaineer, massage therapist where he aided lawyers in indigent He oversees DPA’s statewide legislative at Esalen Institute, federal fugitive criminal defense. agenda, “model city” initiative in San (followed by a stint as a guest of Francisco, and other projects across our Bureau of Prisons), methadone Antonio Gonzalez is President of California. Based in Los Angeles, counselor, political advocate for a fair the William C. Velasquez Institute, a Gutwillig primarily focuses on marijuana and just drug policy, psychologist, and leading national Latino public policy reform, including advocacy on addiction treatment researcher (primarily and research organization. Gonzalez is behalf of Proposition 19 last year. He evaluating ibogaine), among many other an expert on Latino voter mobilization. supervised the production of several incarnations. John is also a connoisseur As such, he assumed the presidency reports documenting racially disparate of breathtaking sunsets. of the Southwest Voter Registration enforcement of marijuana possession Education Project, a non-partisan laws throughout the state. Carl Hart is currently an Associate voter mobilization entity, also in 1994. Professor of Psychology in both the Through Gonzalez’s leadership, WCVI Don Habibi is Professor of Philosophy Departments of Psychology and has become the industry leader in Latino at the University of North Carolina- Psychiatry at Columbia University. He voting tendencies and characteristics Wilmington, where he specializes in also serves as a Research Scientist at through its national phone and exit- ethics, social philosophy, and legal the New York State Psychiatric Institute. polling program. theory. He earned his bachelor’s degree His NIDA-supported research uses from UCLA and his doctorate from Cornell human laboratory models to better University. His research publications understand the complex interactions focus on liberalism, utilitarianism, human between drugs of abuse and the rights and international law. He is the neurobiology and environmental factors recipient of three teaching awards that mediate human responses. One at UNCW. 34 specific focus of his research is to use Seattle on everything from labor and CEO of A.C. Public Affairs, a consulting laboratory models of human drug use employment issues to utility regulations firm specializing in initiative campaigns, in order to develop medications to and environmental law. Holmes supports strategic public policy issues and grass treat cocaine, methamphetamine, and legalizing, regulating and taxing roots organizing. marijuana dependence. Hart also serves marijuana—essentially, treating it like on the board of directors of the Drug we now treat alcohol—because it will Caitlin Hughes is a criminologist Policy Alliance. improve public safety and respect for and research fellow at the Australian law enforcement. National Drug and Alcohol Research LaResse Harvey is a formerly Centre, where since 2007 she has incarcerated single mother who is Allen Hopper, Police Practices worked as part of the multi-disciplinary the Policy Director of A Better Way Policy Director of the ACLU of Northern Drug Policy Modeling Program (DPMP) Foundation, a Connecticut-based California, works to reduce over- on issues confronting Australian and nonprofit organization that works to incarceration and over-reliance upon the JOUFSOBUJPOBMESVHQPMJDZ,FZSFTFBSDI establish reentry policies, substance criminal justice system to address public areas have included: the impacts of the abuse treatment, and an overall public health issues, such as problems arising Portuguese decriminalization of illicit health model towards ending the war from illegal drug use. Specific areas drug use, determining legal thresholds on drugs. As the Executive Director of of focus include drug law enforcement for drug trafficking offenses, and Civic Trust Public Lobbying Company and sentencing, medical marijuana identifying optimal policing responses in Connecticut, she works to support implementation issues and broader for responding to MDMA (ecstasy). community legislative priorities by marijuana law reform, and evidence- providing lobbying services for anyone. based alternatives to incarceration. Adi Jaffe, the founder of the website Harvey is the Criminal Justice Committee Previously, Hopper was the Litigation All About Addiction, has experience chair of New Britain NAACP chapter. Director for the National ACLU’s Drug on both sides of addiction. Following Law Reform Project. his own involvement with drug abuse Tom Heddleston is earning his PhD. and a life of crime, Dr. Jaffe returned in sociology at the University of Aaron Houston, Executive Director, to graduate school at UCLA to study California, Santa Cruz. Currently, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, leads the neuroscience and psychology of he’s researching and writing about a movement of student activists with a substance abuse and addiction. Dr. the medical cannabis movement in presence on more than 200 campuses Jaffe has established himself as a California for his dissertation. He studies around the world. Named a “Rising Star leading addiction expert with numerous drug policy, social movements and drug of Politics” by Campaigns & Elections academic publications, presentations, subcultures. Tom recently co-authored Magazine in 2008, Aaron is a nationally and recent interviews on national an article about medical cannabis recognized expert on drug policy and news shows. patients that appeared in the Journal of marijuana law. Aaron has appeared Psychoactive Drugs. He has worked with on NBC’s Today show, The Colbert Mack Jenkins has worked in the organizations in Florida and California to Report, FOX News, CNN, and NPR, and criminal justice field for more than challenge drug prohibition since 2002. his efforts on Capitol Hill were chronicled 32 years and is currently the Chief in a Showtime original documentary, In Probation Officer in San Diego County. Alison Holcomb, ACLU of Washington Pot We Trust. During his career, Chief Jenkins worked Drug Policy Director, is currently on as a criminal justice consultant and loan to the New Approach Washington Marilyn Howell was trained as a has worked extensively in the area of initiative campaign to legalize, tax, and biologist and earned a doctorate in drug courts and collaborative justice regulate marijuana in 2012. ACLU-WA education from Harvard University. She programs. He holds a bachelors degree staff have played central roles in the taught for three decades at Brookline in criminal justice from the University passage and implementation of Seattle’s High School where she created and of California at Irvine and a Masters in lowest law enforcement priority initiative, developed the first mind body course in criminal justice from California State Washington’s 911 Good Samaritan public education. Her book Honor Thy University at Long Beach. overdose prevention law, and medical Daughter, the intimate story of a family’s marijuana legislation in 2007, 2008, 2010 search for hope and healing in the Stefanie Jones is event manager at the and 2011. Before joining the ACLU, face of terminal cancer, highlights the Drug Policy Alliance. She received her Alison litigated in state and federal profound difference psychedelic therapy master’s degree from the Gallatin courts for more than a decade. made at the end of her daughter’s life. School at New York University, where she wrote her thesis on participant Pete Holmes was elected Seattle City Alice A. Huffman began her tenure attitudes toward dance and drug use Attorney in 2009, ousting a two-term as President of the California NAACP in New York City’s megaclubs. Before incumbent with nearly 64percent of the in January 2000. She believes that the moving to New York City she was a vote. As City Attorney, Holmes heads NAACP is the constant voice for low promoter for a weekly dance music club an office of more than 90 lawyers, income African Americans and students night in Los Angeles and earned her prosecuting misdemeanors and trapped in low performing schools or the undergraduate degree in screenwriting advising and representing the City of criminal justice system. She is a member from the School of Cinematic Arts at the of the National Board of Directors of the University of Southern California. NAACP. Huffman is also President and

35 About the Presenters

Howard Josepher is the founder Rob Kampia co-founded MPP in 1995 candidates such as Jon Tester, Tim Walz, and president of Exponents, a minority- and serves as its executive director. and Govenor Bob Wise defeat incumbent led, community-based organization ,BNQJBDPBVUIPSFENBOZPGUIF Republicans. She has focused on women in New York City helping people with 16 state medical marijuana laws, with candidates and women’s concerns, having drug problems, HIV/AIDS and reentry MPP taking a leading role in passing worked for Speaker Pelosi, Governor Janet to the community after incarceration. the laws in Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Napolitano, and Senator Debbie Stabenow. Josepher has extensive experience Maine, Michigan, Montana, Rhode Lake was a key player in campaigns developing and implementing peer Island, and Vermont. Rob also oversaw launched by progressive groups such driven, therapeutic health and wellness the campaign that decriminalized as the AFL-CIO, Sierra Club, Planned programs utilizing harm reduction marijuana possession in Massachusetts. Parenthood, HRC and EMILY’S List. practices. His programs have been Rob was high school valedictorian, noted for their ability to draw participants served three months in jail for marijuana, Nsombi Ayanna Lambright has been the through attraction rather than coercion and was elected student-body president Executive Director of the American Civil and have helped bring thousands at Penn State. Liberties Union (ACLU) of Mississippi for into recovery. seven years. The Mississippi ACLU is the Michael Kennedy has his own law firm state’s leading civil liberties organization Chantale Kallas is from Lebanon, where he specializes in criminal and working on public education, legislative where she is the Network Development civil litigation and complex negotiations. activity, and litigation. The ACLU’s criminal Coordinator for Youth RISE. She has ,FOOFEZTTQFDJBMUZJTKVSZUSJBMXPSLXJUI justice reform project seeks to reduce the a Masters in Public Health with a emphasis on constitutional defenses, over incarceration of people of color by concentration in Health Behavior and including human and civil rights, in the challenging racial profiling, harsh sentences Education. Chantale has been involved First and Fourth Amendment areas. He and the lack of effective re-entry services. in working with youth since her early is considered one of the nation’s leading adolescent years working with at-risk authorities on search and seizure law Benedict Lee has been employed by youth. For the last four years, she has and the emerging area of privacy rights. the Los Angeles County Department been working for a Lebanese non- He has served as General Counsel of Public Health for over 10 years, governmental organization that focuses for High Times magazine and related and currently serves as the Chief of on drug prevention and rehabilitation. companies since it began in 1974. the Research and Epidemiology Division at Substance Abuse Prevention and Control Tamara Kalnins has been working Kris Krane serves as a Principal and (SAPC). Recently, Dr. Lee was a key with Canadian Students for Sensible Managing Partner at 4Front Advisors, member of the Los Angeles County “Rave” Drug Policy since 2008, questioning the the nation’s premier medical marijuana Task Force. Dr. Lee obtained his doctorate war on drugs and its effects on young dispensary consulting firm. Prior from Florida State University in Educational people. She coordinated the creation of UPGPSNJOH'SPOU ,SBOFTFSWFEBT Psychology, specializing in Sport & a drug education website, made by and Director of Client Services for CannBe, Exercise Psychology. for youth who want full access to honest where he helped develop many of drug information on their own terms. She the best practices that have become Harry Levine, sociology professor at believes young people are an integral the backbone of 4Front Advisors’ 2VFFOT$PMMFHFBOE$JUZ6OJWFSTJUZPG/FX force in ending the criminalization of operations. He served as associate York, has studied the history and sociology substance use and shaping a future director of NORML from 2000-2005 of drug use, abuse, and policy for more beyond prohibition. and executive director of Students for than 25 years. He is co-author of Crack in Sensible Drug Policy from 2006-2009. America: Demon Drugs and Societal Justice Emily Kaltenbach is the state and Marijuana Arrest Crusade: Racial director for the Drug Policy Alliance’s Olena Kucheruk is the Harm Reduction Bias and Police Policy in New York City. New Mexico office. She joined the Program Manager at the Soros His current work focuses on misdemeanor organization following 15 years working Foundation in Ukraine and contributed policing and the racism of marijuana arrests in New Mexico implementing rural to launching the first harm reduction in New York and other U.S. cities. community-based health centers, services in Ukraine. Since 2004, she has helping reform the long-term care been actively engaged in such areas as David C. Lewis is a Professor Emeritus system, and most recently, setting the community mobilization, protection of of Community Health and Medicine and stage to implement federal health care human rights, drug policy and work with the Donald G. Millar Distinguished reform in the state. Prior to joining DPA, law enforcement. Her current interests Professor Emeritus of Alcohol and Addiction she served as the director of Policy and are focused on decriminalization of Studies at Brown University. Dr. Lewis Planning at the New Mexico Aging and drug possession in Ukraine and opioid is a graduate of Brown University and Long-Term Services Department and substitution therapy in pre-trial detention Harvard Medical School. Dr. Lewis is the served as the acting director for New and prisons. author of over 400 publications, and has Mexico’s Office of Health Care Reform. an international reputation for his work Celinda Lake, President of Lake on substance abuse treatment, medical Research Partners, is a prominent education and public policy. He is a pollster and political strategist for longtime DPA board member. Democrats and progressives. Lake’s polling and strategic advice helped

36 Ted Lewis, Director of the Mexico which sought to divert individuals Addiction. 'PSUXFMWFZFBST.BUÏXPSLFE and Human Rights Programs of from prison through mental health and in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Global Exchange, works with Mexican substance abuse treatment programs, with patients challenged by hardcore civil organizations at the forefront of provide more opportunities in prison drug addiction, mental illness and HIV, Mexico’s movement against the war for rehabilitation, and properly utilize including at Insite, North America’s brought on by the deadly mixture of probation and parole mechanisms only Supervised Injection Site. His drug prohibition and bad government. to avoid greater costs if new prisons other interests encompass childhood Lewis has organized in partnership with were built. developmental issues, mind/body health, Mexico’s human rights, democracy, and parenting. and peace movements since the early Robert Manderscheid is the Executive 1990s. During this time he has led or Director of the National Association Zulma Mendez is the director of Pacto participated in dozens of elections of County Behavioral Health and Por la Cultura. Mendez is a respected observation, human rights, and peace Developmental Disability Directors. teacher and NGO leader from El Paso/ missions throughout Mexico, Colombia, Dr. Manderscheid served in positions Juarez, who speaks eloquently about Nicaragua, Iraq, Palestine, the USA at the National Institute of Mental Health the poor communities of Juarez that are and elsewhere. and the Substance Abuse and Mental being ravaged by the drug war. Health Services Administration. He is Jeannie Little is the Executive Director known nationally and internationally Hans Meyer has a private law practice of the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. for his research on serious mental specializing in immigration law, criminal She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker illness, and his work on health reform, defense, and advisements regarding and Certified Group Psychotherapist. particularly for the Whole Health the immigration consequences of She specializes in dual diagnosis and Campaign, which represents the mental criminal convictions. He also serves in individual and group treatment of health and substance use care and as the Public Policy Director for the substance use problems. She trains prevention communities. Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition and in these areas, and provides ongoing is an active member of the American consultation to staff groups in outpatient Jahan Marcu is currently investigating Immigration Lawyers Association, clinics, outreach and drop-in centers, the pharmacology of cannabinoid the National Immigration Project, the case management programs, and receptors at Temple University School of National Lawyers Guild, the ACLU of housing facilities for multi-diagnosed Medicine. Before joining a PhD program, Colorado, and the Colorado Criminal clients. She has written several articles he worked at the California Pacific Defense Bar. and co-authored two books with Medical Center Research Institute Patt Denning. studying the anti-cancer properties Sean McAllister is an attorney in of compounds from the cannabis Denver, Colorado. He is the co-founder Tim Lynch is the director of the Cato plant. The findings were published and Chair of the Board of Directors of Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice. in the Journal of Molecular Cancer Sensible Colorado. McAllister serves He is the editor of In the Name of Therapeutics. He currently co-chairs the on his state’s Sentencing Commission Justice: Leading Experts Reexamine ASA Multidisciplinary Scientific Advisory on the Drug Policy Task Force. He was the Classic Article “The Aims of the Board. He has lectured on the subject co-chair of the DUID-marijuana working Criminal Law” and After Prohibition: An of cannabinoids at Universities, medical group that recently rejected proposals Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the cannabis cooperatives, and libraries. for per se THC limits. McAllister helped 21st Century. He has published articles draft Colorado’s 2012 legalization in the New York Times, the Washington Lou Martinez has been involved initiative. His practice is focused on Post, and the Wall Street Journal. His with California’s treatment-instead-of- criminal defense, DUI, and all aspects research interests include drug policy, incarceration law (Proposition 36) for of medical marijuana dispensary overcriminalization, and civil liberties. seven years as an alumni, advocate and representation. Lynch is a member of the Wisconsin, direct service provider. He graduated District of Columbia, and Supreme from Proposition 36 in 2004, and then Dani McClain manages campaigns Court bars. worked as a Proposition 36 counselor at ColorOfChange.org, the nation’s for five years. He has served on local largest African-American online political Jerry Madden was elected to the and state policy groups supporting organization. As a strategist for this Texas Legislature in 1992. Now in his treatment-instead-of-incarceration and community of 750,000 people, McClain tenth term, Madden is Chairman of the funding for co-occurring disorders leads email- and social media-driven House Committee on Corrections, which treatment. He has a Masters Degree in campaigns that aim to strengthen black he chaired from 2005-2009, as well Social Work and is a Certified Substance America’s political voice. She played a as a member of the Select Committee Abuse Counselor. key role in ColorOfChange.org’s efforts on Election Contest, the Redistricting to eliminate the sentencing disparity Committee, and the Judiciary and Civil Gabor Maté is a Canadian physician, between crack and powder cocaine Jurisprudence Committee. He has been public speaker and author, published offenses. McClain has reported for commended for the highly successful internationally in twenty languages. the Miami Herald and covered education 2007 criminal justice system reforms His most recent book is the award- while on staff at the Milwaukee winning bestseller, In the Realm of Journal Sentinel. Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with

37 About the Presenters

Tommy McDonald is deputy director for 24 years with an emphasis on federal and commercial litigation matters. She of media relations for the Drug Policy constitutional litigation. He began his left private practice to join the struggle Alliance. After an eight-year journalism legal career at the firm of Gibson, Dunn to make drug laws and drug policies career, as a sports writer at the Nashville & Crutcher, and was Associate General more just, more compassionate and Banner, a community news reporter Counsel and Director of Public Affairs for more effective at reducing drug use and at the Sacramento Bee and a local the Tejon Ranch Company. He has been improving the health, safety and well- sports editor for ANG Newspapers, involved in drug policy issues for over being of individuals, their families and McDonald’s PR career began in 1998 at 15 years. communities. Communication Works, which merged with Fenton Communications, the Jumana Musa, a human rights attorney Tony Newman is director of media nation’s largest public interest PR firm. and activist, is currently Deputy relations for the Drug Policy Alliance, Director for the Rights Working Group. a position he has held since 2000. Ralph Metzner collaborated with Formerly, she served as the Advocacy Newman has more than 20 years of Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert in Director for Domestic Human Rights public relations experience. Before studies of psychedelics at Harvard in and International Justice at Amnesty joining the organization, he was the the 1960s, and co-authored The International USA. Musa was one of the media director for the human rights Psychedelic Experience. He is a first human rights attorneys allowed to organization Global Exchange and psychotherapist and Professor travel to the naval base at Guantanamo co-founded the public relations firm Emeritus at the California Institute of Bay, Cuba, and served as Amnesty Communication Works. Newman Integral Studies. His books include International’s legal observer at military received his BA from the University of The Expansion of Consciousness, commission proceedings on the base. California, Santa Cruz. Mind Space and Time Stream and Birth of a Psychedelic Culture (with Ram Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and Thomas Nicholson is currently a Dass). He is the founder of the Green executive director of the Drug Policy Professor of Public Health at Western Earth Foundation. Alliance. Nadelmann was born in New ,FOUVDLZ6OJWFSTJUZ)FSFDFJWFEB1I% York City and received his BA, JD, in Community Health Education from Kyndra S. Miller is part of the Pier 5 and PhD from Harvard, and a master’s Southern Illinois University, an MPH from group of lawyers in San Francisco, degree in international relations from the University of Texas, and a MA Ed. providing business, corporate and civil the London School of Economics. He JO$PVOTFMJOHGSPN8,6)FIBT litigation services to medical marijuana then taught politics and public affairs at published over 50 professional journal patients in CA. She is dedicating her Princeton University from 1987 to 1994, articles and presented over time, energy and spiritual resources where his speaking and writings on drug 115 research presentations at scientific to educating the public about the policy attracted international attention. meetings. His research interests include dangers of prohibition and the benefits In 1994, Nadelmann founded the mental health, drug use and misuse, of marijuana and industrial hemp. Miller Lindesmith Center. In 2000, the growing and drug policy. He was formerly on is the West Coast coordinator of the Center merged with the Drug Policy the Board of Directors of the National NORML Women’s Alliance. Foundation to form the Drug Policy Association for Public Health Policy and Alliance. Described by Rolling Stone as Chair of their Council on Illicit Drugs. William C. Moyers, Hazelden’s “the point man” for drug policy reform He coordinated the DRUGNET Study, Vice President for Public Affairs and efforts, Nadelmann is widely regarded an on-line survey of adult drug users, Community, leads the organization’s as the most prominent proponent of drug which is the most extensive descriptive policy and advocacy activities. Moyers policy reform. study of nonabusive users to date. brings a wealth of professional expertise and an intimate personal understanding Theshia Naidoo is a staff attorney with Chris Norby represents the about addiction, treatment and recovery. the Drug Policy Alliance’s Office of 72nd District in the California State He uses his own experiences to highlight Legal Affairs. She works on litigation, Assembly. Prior to his election to the the power of addiction and the power legislative drafting and public education legislature, he served on the Orange of recovery. He is the author of Broken: efforts concerning drug policy reform, County Board of Supervisors for seven My Story of Addiction and Redemption, including California’s Proposition years, representing Fullerton, La Habra, a bestselling memoir that is now in its 36, the Substance Abuse and Crime Placentia, Buena Park and Anaheim. fourth printing. Prevention Act of 2000. She provides Norby served on the Fullerton City legal advice, counsel and training Council from 1984-2002, including three George Mull is president of the on drug policy, including securing years as Mayor. A long-time supporter California Cannabis Association, a access to medical marijuana and of safe access to medical marijuana, trade group dedicated to advancing promoting drug treatment instead of he also introduced legislation in 2011 to reasonable and comprehensive incarceration. Naidoo received her JD reform California’s asset forfeiture laws. statewide regulation of medical from the University of California, Los cannabis. Mull has been an attorney Angeles School of Law. Prior to joining the organization, she worked in private legal practice for nearly four years representing clients in employment law

38 Dorsey E. Nunn, Executive Director clinical trial testing treatment assisted for Sensible Drug Policy from 2008 until of Legal Services for Prisoners with with heroin-like medically prescribed August of 2011 and has also worked Children, co-founded All of Us or injectable opioids for severe, long-term with the Marijuana Policy Project and None. He also co-founded Free at opioid dependency. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. He Last, a community based recovery and earned his BA in Psychology from Franklin rehabilitation center. Nunn, a formerly JoAnne Page has over 30 years Pierce University and is based in San incarcerated person who has won experience in criminal justice, including Francisco, CA. numerous awards and is a key advisor 21 years as President /CEO of the on criminal justice issues in Califronia Fortune Society, one of the nation’s Dina Perrone’s areas of specialization and around the country, has spoken foremost advocacy and service are drug use, drug policy, deviance, extensively on prisoners, their children organizations offering programs and ethnographic or other qualitative and family members at numerous including substance abuse treatment, research methods. Her new book, The conferences, workshops, demonstrations counseling, family services, HIV/AIDS High Life: Club Kids, Harm, and Drug and in the media. health services, employment services, Policy from Lynne-Rienner Publishers, and housing for formerly incarcerated dissects the drug user stereotype Kris Nyrop is Program Director for persons. Under Page’s leadership, through understanding patterns of the Racial Disparity Project at The the Fortune Academy opened in 2002, use, drug experiences and mitigating Defender Association. Formerly the housing 62 formerly homeless men factors of harm. Currently, Dr. Perrone Executive Director of Street Outreach and women. In 2009, Fortune broke is completing a project addressing the Services in Seattle from 1997-2007, ground on a green, mixed affordable patterns of use and harms of salvia he has also worked as an outreach and supportive housing development divinorum. She is also a co-principal worker, researcher, and trainer in the with 114 units and service space. A Yale investigator on another project assessing area of HIV/AIDS prevention, hepatitis Law School graduate, Page is a frequent the effects of Massachusetts’ marijuana C prevention, syringe exchange, harm speaker at conferences and on such decriminalization policy. Ultimately, she reduction and drug policy reform since national television programs as Court TV, is interested in investigating drug use to 1988. He has consulted with projects The News Hour, and The O’Reilly Factor. illuminate the nature of drug use patterns throughout the U.S. as well as in and harms, and to inform drug policies. Canada, Russia and the Republic Vincent P. Palazzotto is the founder She has also written various articles of Georgia. and Executive Director of the Medical within the criminal justice field – on topics Marijuana Assistance Program of including the privatization of prisons and Karen O’Keefe is MPP’s director of America (MMAPA) and the founding self-control theory. state policies. She manages MPP’s state partner of Mobile Doctors of America legislative lobbying efforts and revises (MDARX). He previously served as a Amanda Petteruti is the associate its model legislation. She played a key U.S. Army Communications Officer and director of the Justice Policy Institute. role in the successful medical marijuana holds a BA in Psychology from Rutgers She is a researcher and policy analyst. initiative in Montana and the legislative University and a MA in Management and Prior to joining JPI, she organized campaigns that resulted in medical Leadership studies from the University of a writing program for youth at the marijuana or dispensary laws in Rhode Denver. Palazzotto has contributed and National Campaign to Stop Violence Island, Maryland (affirmative defense been featured on ABC, CNN, CNBC, and researched urban education only), Vermont, and Delaware. Gov. The Huffington Post, Forbes, and at the Council of the Great City .BSUJO0.BMMFZBQQPJOUFE0,FFGFUP National Geographic. Schools. Petteruti earned a Master of Arts Maryland’s medical marijuana working in education policy and leadership from group as the attorney with expertise in Jacqueline Patterson is a drug war University of Maryland College Park and state medical marijuana laws. refugee who fled Missouri for the safe a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Bates harbor of coastal California. Never one College. Diego Osorno is a journalist, author, to back down from a good fight, she and winner of the 2011 Journalism on remains an active patient advocate in Mona Polacca, a Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa Drugs Award. Diego is the author of the Midwest, particularly in Iowa and elder, has a Master of Social Work degree. El Cártel de Sinaloa: Una Historia del Missouri, where she has spent nearly She is a member of the International Narcotráfico en México. a decade cultivating relationships with Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers likeminded legislators who are frustrated (www.grandmotherscouncil.org). She Dr. Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes is an by the culture of criminality would-be serves on several United Nations Assistant Professor at the School of patients face in the absence of access committees on indigenous people’s issues Population and Public Health, University to legitimate medical cannabis. and is a featured author, speaker, and of British Columbia. Her research areas educator on indigenous people’s human are in Public Health and Addictions, Jonathan Perri is the Senior Organizer rights, aging, mental health, addiction and focusing on testing alternative for Criminal Justice at Change.org, the violence. She is also the President/CEO approaches to treatments for vulnerable world’s largest online activism platform and faculty of the Turtle Island Project, populations. She is a co-investigator for social change. Jon previously served a non-profit program that promotes a of North America’s first heroin-assisted as the Associate Director at Students vision of wellness by providing trans- treatment trial (NAOMI) and the Principal cultural training to individuals, families and Investigator of SALOME, a randomized healthcare professionals.

39 About the Presenters

Nicole D. Porter coordinates state- Contact Subcommittee of the NYS and drug use during pregnancy. level communications and legislative Division of Criminal Justice Services, Rosenbaum regularly speaks to PTAs, campaigns for The Sentencing Project. the Advisory Board of the NYC Division other parent groups, schools, drug Porter works closely with advocates of Youth and Family Justice, and the treatment and prevention professionals at the state and local level in planning Steering Committee of the NYC Task and the media about teenagers and their media and advocacy strategies to Force on Racial Disparity in the Juvenile drugs, Ecstasy, and drug policy issues. advance criminal justice reforms. Porter Justice System. is the former director of the ACLU’s Stacie Rumenap is director of corporate Prison & Jail Accountability Project. Andrea Ritchie is a police misconduct relations at the Mercatus Center. She is Porter graduated from the University attorney and organizer who has also the president of Stop Child Predators, of Texas at Austin with a Master’s engaged in extensive research, writing, a Washington, DC-based non-profit Degree in Public Affairs. Her master’s litigation, organizing and advocacy on organization that combats the sexual thesis addressed self-employment as profiling, policing, and physical and exploitation of children. Prior to joining an economic strategy among formerly sexual violence by law enforcement Stop Child Predators, Rumenap served incarcerated African Americans. agents against women, girls and LGBT as the Deputy Director for the American people of color. She co-coordinates Conservative Union, the nation’s oldest Victor Quintana is a former Streetwise & Safe (SAS), a leadership and largest conservative grassroots Congressman from Chihuahua, Mexico. development initiative sharing “know your issue-advocacy organization, where 2VJOUBOBJTPOFPGUIFNPTUMVDJEBOE rights” information, strategies for safety, she directed the annual Conservative respected political voices in the Mexican and visions for change among LGBT Political Action Conference and served border states. He advocates for a youth of color who experience gender, as one of the group’s principle lobbyists change in Mexican drug policies and is race, sexuality and poverty-based and corporate fundraisers. Rumenap organizing a coordinated response from criminalization. also served as the Executive Director for the region’s NGOs and civil society. U.S. Term Limits and the National Center Armando Rodriguez has been a deputy for Growth, and worked on Capitol Hill. Amanda Reiman is the Director of public defender in Los Angeles County She also participated in the Republican Research for Berkeley Patients Group, since 1994 and currently is the deputy- National Committee’s 2006 and 2004 a community-based medical cannabis in-charge at the Central Arraignment deployment programs working to elect dispensary, a lecturer in the School Court. He is the president of the Latino Bob Corker (TN) and Jim DeMint (SC) of Social Welfare at the University of Public Defenders Association and has respectively to the United States Senate, California, Berkeley, and an Affiliate been appointed as a member of the and assisted in the first national election Scientist at the Alcohol Research Commission on Judicial Nomination held in Somaliland, Africa, in 2001. Group. Dr. Reiman has published Evaluation for the 2012 term. numerous articles on medical cannabis Dan Rush is the Director of the dispensaries, patients and the use of Michelle Natividad Rodriguez is a Staff United Food and Commercial Workers cannabis as a substitute for alcohol, Attorney at the National Employment International Hemp and Cannabis and serves on the Multidisciplinary Law Project (NELP) and co-author of 65 Division. Rush was previously the Special Scientific Advisory Board for Americans Million “Need Not Apply”: The Case for Operations Director for UFCW Local 5 for for Safe Access. Reforming Criminal Background Checks statewide ballot initiatives, and is also the for Employment (published in March Executive Secretary Treasurer of Instituto Craig Reinarman is Professor of 2011 and available at www.nelp.org). Laboral de la Raza, a workers resource Sociology and Legal Studies at the She currently works on eliminating unfair center for unorganized, mono-lingual, University of California, Santa Cruz. barriers to employment for people with immigrant working families in Oakland, He has been a Visiting Scholar at the criminal records with NELP’s Second San Francisco and San Jose. Rush has Center for Drug Research, University Chance Labor Project based in Oakland, committed himself to bringing about a of Amsterdam, and a consultant to the California. Before joining NELP, she unionized, legal, and dignified medical World Health Organization’s Programme was a Senior Staff Attorney at Public cannabis industry. on Substance Abuse. He is co-author Advocates, a non-profit, statewide legal of Cocaine Changes (Temple University advocacy organization. Lisa Campbell Salazar coordinates the Press) and Crack in America: Demon 53*11SPKFDUJO5PSPOUP $BOBEBBOE Drugs and Social Justice (University of Marsha Rosenbaum is director is the North America Representative California Press). emerita of the San Francisco office of for Youth RISE. She has been a peer the Drug Policy Alliance, where she educator for over 10 years, working Kyung Ji Kate Rhee is director of the spearheaded DPA’s work on youth with young people who use drugs Institute for Juvenile Justice Reform and and drugs and created the Safety First from Toronto’s diverse dance music Alternatives, a division of the Center for booklet. She received her doctorate in DPNNVOJUJFT"TUIF53*1$PPSEJOBUPS NuLeadership on Urban Solutions. A medical sociology from the University she participates in several municipal nationally recognized expert in juvenile of California, San Francisco in 1979. panels working toward implementing justice advocacy, policy development From 1977 to 1995, Rosenbaum was the evidence-based drug policy, including and youth development training, she principal investigator on National Institute the Toronto Drug Strategy, Safer Nightlife serves on the Disproportionate Minority on Drug Abuse-funded studies of heroin Committee, and Research Group on addiction, methadone maintenance Drug Use. treatment, MDMA (Ecstasy), cocaine, 40 Lisa Sánchez graduated in International impact of punitive drug policies on poor drug reform groups. His expert analyses Relations from Sorbonne University in communities of color. Break the Chains are regularly published and widely France, and currently works as project was founded in the belief that community presented and broadcast. coordinator for the Harm Reduction and activism and advocacy is essential to Drug Policy Programme at Espolea A.C. progressive policy reform, and therefore Alex Stevens is Professor in Criminal She also serves as project leader for engages families and community +VTUJDFBUUIF6OJWFSTJUZPG,FOU XIFSFIF the Federal Government in Mexico and leaders in promoting alternatives to the teaches on comparative criminology, drug as an external consultant for the Mexico failed war on drugs by adopting public policy and drug-related crime. He has City Institute on Addictions. health approaches to substance abuse worked on issues of illicit drugs and drug and drug-related crimes. treatment in the criminal justice system gabriel sayegh directs the New York since 1991. He is also a board member of state policy office of the Drug Policy Aaron Smith is co-founder and the International Society for the Study of Alliance. The office brings together executive director for the National Drug Policy. community organizing groups, human Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA), service agencies, and researchers the only national trade association Jacob Sullum, a senior editor at Reason to advance drug policies which are for cannabis business professionals. magazine, is the author of Saying Yes: In guided by science, compassion, health Working on issues ranging from Defense of Drug Use (Tarcher/Penguin) and human rights. Prior to joining banking access to tax policy reform, and For Your Own Good: The Anti- DPA, sayegh was session staff in the NCIA advances and defends the Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Washington State Senate and worked unique interests of the medical cannabis Public Health (Free Press). His weekly as a researcher focused on global trade industry in Washington, DC. Prior to column, distributed by Creators Syndicate, agreements, domestic welfare reform launching NCIA, Smith distinguished is carried by newspapers across the and the U.S. prison system. himself as a passionate and effective U.S., including the New York Post and marijuana policy reform advocate the Chicago Sun-Times. His work also has Karen Shain has from 2007 to the in California. He now resides in appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The present served as a mentor in the Tempe, Arizona. New York Times, Cigar Aficionado, National Criminal Justice Section of the Women’s Review, and many other publications. Policy Institute. She is the author of Neşe Lisa Şenol is a doctoral “Incarcerated Mothers: Mothers First and graduate student in the Program in Patricia Taylor is the Executive Director Foremost” which can be found in The Comparative Literature and Literary of Faces & Voices of Recovery. She 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Theory at the University of Pennsylvania leads a nationwide campaign to mobilize Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need and a contributing editor for Reality the recovery community to implement to Change the World and How to do It Sandwich and Evolver.net. Specializing public policies that support recovery from edited by Andrea Reilly. In 2006 Shain in visionary art, psychedelic culture, addiction to alcohol and other drugs, and worked with California Assemblywoman futures studies, media studies, and to change public attitudes by Sally Lieber on legislation to abolish performative aesthetics, she is teaching demonstrating that recovery is happening shackling of pregnant women in state an undergraduate course at the for over 20 million Americans and their prisons, county jails and juvenile University of Pennsylvania called families in communities across America. detention centers during labor and “Poetic Vision and the Psychedelic She has over 35 years of experience recovery from birth. She is also the co- Experience” during the Fall 2011 and organizing advocacy campaigns on editor of “Pregnant Women in California Spring 2012 semesters. issues including healthcare, community Prisons and Jails: A Guide for Prisoners development and philanthropy. and Legal Advocates”. Allen St. Pierre has been NORML’s director since 2005, where he lectures, Dr. Donald F. Tibbs is an associate Steph Sherer is the founder and writes and edits extensively on all professor of law at the Drexel University Executive Director of Americans for Safe matters regarding cannabis and/or Earle Mack School of Law, where he Access, where she has become the cannabis policy. He appears hundreds teaches Criminal Law, Criminal, Procedure, foremost international leader and expert of times annually in the mainstream Critical Race Theory, and Law and on medical cannabis patient advocacy. media representing the interests of Popular Culture. His scholarship is an Her vision for keeping patients’ needs cannabis consumers. interdisciplinary blend of history, critical at the forefront of the medical marijuana theory, and popular culture critiquing law, debate has brought safe and legal Eric E. Sterling is president of the punishment, and the political and symbolic access to millions of Americans. Sherer Criminal Justice Policy Foundation. He economy of policing. He is published in is a medical cannabis patient with over testified for marijuana decriminalization numerous law reviews, specialty journals, fourteen years of experience servicing in 1976. In the 1980s, he was Assistant and is the author of a forthcoming book and managing non-profit businesses Counsel for the U.S. House Crime From Black Power to Prison Power: and community organizations. Subcommittee, responsible for drugs, The Making of Jones v. North Carolina gun control, money laundering, and Prisoners’ Labor Union (Palgrave Deborah Peterson Small is the pornography. He has been a DPA Macmillan 2012). He is currently writing a Executive Director of Break the Chains, member since 1987 and is active in bar second book, Reading Hip Hop, Reading an advocacy organization committed associations, public commissions, and Law: Between Black Power and the to addressing the disproportionate American Constitution.

41 About the Presenters

Tamar Todd is a staff attorney in the Kenneth Tupper recently finished a Hilda Vega is a Senior Advisor with Office of Legal Affairs for the Drug Policy PhD in the Department of Educational Strategic Philanthropy and represents Alliance, where she engages in litigation, Studies at the University of British The Libra Foundation as its Senior legislative drafting and public education Columbia. Tupper’s graduate studies Program Officer. She is responsible work in support of drug policy reform, focused on the public policy implications for developing strategy, aligning The including medical marijuana, marijuana of ayahuasca drinking outside the Foundation’s mission and priority areas decriminalization, and legalization Amazon, and the refinement of a with its grantmaking practices, and initiatives and implementation across theory of entheogenic education. His managing grantee relationships. She the country. She often serves as a guest other academic interests include drug previously worked with The AVINA speaker on criminal justice and drug education (public, professional and Foundation and the National Council of policy at law schools, universities and school-based), drug policy reform, and La Raza. Vega has a BA in International other institutions. Todd received her BA public health policy. More information Relations from Brown University and from the University of Vermont and her BCPVU,FOOFUIBOEIJTXPSLJTBWBJMBCMF an MA in International Studies from the JD from the Georgetown University at: www.kentupper.com University of Miami. Law Center. Mason Tvert is executive director of Cynara Velazquez is the political Bruce Trigg, a retired public health SAFER, a member of the Colorado adviser to the Patient Care Association, physician, helped start a jail-based Alliance for Marijuana Reform Executive composed of 60+ medical marijuana public health and methadone Committee, and a proponent of the collectives in San Diego. The PCA maintenance program and 2012 Colorado legalization initiative. organized the first successful buprenorphine induction program He coordinated successful legalization referendum against a local dispensary in New Mexico. He currently serves and lowest law enforcement priority ban. They’re now working to enact as medical director for methadone initiatives in Denver in 2005 and 2007, fair regulation and self-regulation. She maintenance programs in Albuquerque, and a statewide legalization initiative in is also the director for the Cannabis including one located in the county jail. 2006. He is a member of the Denver Education Project, an outreach program He is a long-time single-payer/Medicare- Marijuana Policy Review Panel and to communities of color about medical For-All activist and is the Chair of NM’s coauthor of Marijuana is Safer: So why marijuana. Previously, she coordinated Network of Health Professionals for are we driving people to drink? local, state and federal campaigns for a National Health Program, the state the San Diego County Democratic Party. affiliate of Physicians for a National Jasmine L. Tyler, deputy director Health Program. of national affairs for the Drug Policy Mohini Venkatesh is the Senior Director Alliance, advocates for policies that of Public Policy at the National Council Ted Trimpa is the Principal and reduce incarceration and treat people for Community Behavioral Healthcare President of Trimpa Group, LLC, a who use drugs with dignity. Her and serves as the liaison to its network of progressive consulting, philanthropic work recently led to historic federal state associations, conducts legislative and political investment advising, and crack cocaine sentencing reform in analysis, and manages several quality government relations firm specializing 2010. The former research director improvement initiatives. Previously, she in public policy advocacy and political of the Justice Policy Institute and a worked on an inpatient psychiatric unit strategy at the state and federal levels. sentencing advocate in public defender in a general hospital and has worked He has been recognized in national offices in Virginia and Washington, at several social service organizations. publications, including The Atlantic DC, Tyler earned a BS from James She sits on the board of a community Monthly, National Review, The Advocate, Madison University and MA from Brown behavioral health organization and and The Weekly Standard for his central University, both in sociology. received an MPH from Yale University. role in designing cutting-edge public policy strategies. Froggy Vazquez was raised in a place Anjuli Verma worked as a commun- where funerals replaced birthday cakes, ications, advocacy and program Justina Trott is Director of Policy, police part of political disease, that strategist for the American Civil Liberties Research and Education at Women’s harass and kill little kids, real history is a Union from 2003-2011. She is currently Health Services, a senior fellow at mystery specially with the war on drugs, pursuing a PhD in Criminology, Law the RWJF Center for Health Policy at dehumanize demonize criminalize us so and Society at the University of the University of New Mexico, clinical they call us thugs, teach organizing and California, Irvine. Professor of Medicine at the University of about political strategy because reality is New Mexico, and fellow of the American families see tragedies with most parents College of Physicians. She was a Robert in prison or missing, commercial hip hop Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in is controlled from the tip top, people 2008-9, and is currently president- elect don’t know how mass media is in control, of the New Mexico Chapter Council of to keep people blind in the black hole, the American College of Physicians. can’t talk about the real and expect to get a record deal, now how that make you feel.

42 Exhibitors

Art Way is drug policy manager, the past decade. Before joining ACLU (National and California) Colorado, for the Drug Policy Alliance. The Green Cross, a licensed medical American Academy of Prior to joining DPA, Way directed the cannabis dispensary and delivery Cannabinoid Medicine Racial Justice Program at the Colorado service in San Francisco, Woodson Americans for Safe Access Progressive Coalition where the primary worked in Washington, DC, as the Berkeley Patients Group (Sponsor) focus was on criminal justice reform. He chief lobbyist for Americans for Safe California Live successfully spearheaded a legislative Access (ASA), and as a Policy Analyst CATO Institute campaign amending state law regarding for the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA). Columbia Communications, Inc. police duties during searches. As a Criminal Justice Policy Foundation result, Colorado has the only consent- Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes is a DanceSafe to-search legislation in the nation Colombian lawyer who holds a Drug Policy Alliance that protects pedestrians as well as Doctorate of Political Economy from Green Earth Foundation motorists. the Amiens Picardie University, Harm Reduction Coalition a Masters in Sociology from the Harm Reduction Therapy Eliza Wheeler is project manager for University of Paris II, and a Masters in High Times Magazine the Harm Reduction Coalition’s Drug Socioeconomic Development from the Law Enforcement Against Overdose Prevention and Education University of Paris I. He is currently the Prohibition (LEAP) (DOPE), the OD prevention/naloxone director of the Center for the Study of MAPS distribution program in San Francisco. Law, Justice, and Society (DeJuSticia), Marijuana Policy Project Wheeler moved to the Bay Area and a professor of constitutional law, Moms United to End the War on Drugs two years ago from Massachusetts human rights, and theory of the state National Asian Pacific American where she ran the Cambridge Needle BUUIF/BUJPOBM6OJWFSTJUZPG#PHPUÈ Families Against Substance Abuse Exchange and overdose prevention He was an auxiliary magistrate of the NORML/Calif NORML program from 2001-2009. Working Constitutional Court. He has written Open Society Foundations to prevent overdose deaths was the many articles on human rights, Practical Recovery reason that Wheeler first starting doing constitutional law, drug trafficking, Reason Foundation harm reduction work, and it is her main and drug policy. Release passion to this day. Sex Workers Outreach Project Coletta A. Youngers, a Senior Students for Sensible Drug Policy Dr. Alex Wodak is the Director of the Fellow at the Washington Office Tarzana Treatment Centers Alcohol and Drug Service at St. Vincent’s on Latin America (WOLA) and Hospital in Sydney, Australia. Dr. Wodak Associate with the International Drug is President of the Australian Drug Policy Consortium, is an analyst of Law Reform Foundation and was the international drug policy, human Foundation President of the International rights and political developments in Harm Reduction Association (1996- the Andean Region of South America 2004). He helped establish the first and of U.S. foreign policy toward the needle syringe program and the first Andes. She is co-editor of Drugs and medically supervised injecting center in Democracy in Latin America: The Australia when both were pre-legal. He Impact of U.S. Policy (Lynne Rienner often works in developing countries on Publishers, 2005). She presently works HIV control among injecting drug users. on a project to promote drug policy reform in Latin America. Youngers was Caren Woodson holds a Masters the Director of WOLA’s Drug Policy of Public Policy from The American Project from 2001 to 2004 and was a University and has advised decision- Senior Associate at WOLA from 1987 makers at all levels of government about to 2003. Prior to joining WOLA in 1987, medical cannabis law and policy over Youngers was a project manager at Catholic Relief Services and on the editorial staff of Latinamerica Press/ Noticias Aliadas, both in Lima, Peru. She holds a Masters in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

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