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I’m really enjoying reading the posts by Jesper, Dan, and Tamara. Makes me feel a little bit like I’m there, enjoying the conference. Instead, I’m cruising at 31,000 feet mid-flight on my way to Baltimore for a conference for work (WiFi on Delta is pretty good). I’ll be there tonight and tomorrow night.

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Day 1 Reform Conference Breakout Sessions

Panel: Mandatory Madness: The Zero Tolerance Drug War on Immigrants. Moderator Judy Greene (Justice Strategies) Panelists: Marcela Diaz (Somos Un Pueblo Unido), Michelle Fei (Immigrant Defense Project), Joan Friedland (National Immigration Law Center), Nicole Porter (The Sentencing Project), Grant Smith (DPA) and Elsa Lopez (Somos Un Pueblo Unido).

This panel was great although very depressing […]

Nice people reform drug laws

What an absolutely wonderfuld day I had yesterday. Not only is this my first visit to the US, but the first to a drug policy conference as well.

This is by far the the event I’ve attended where people were the most forthcoming, open and interested bunch I ever met. “Hi there, how’re you?”, is […]

Thoughts from tamara

Hello everyone!

This is my first DPA conference, and I am very happy that I came. There is a sense of great hope here for the future of the drug policy reform movement. I find most people here extremely knowledgeable, intelligent, and passionate, which explains, perhaps, the truth behind the words Ethan Nadelman spoke at […]

Servetus on Senate Majority Leader: “Regarding the long sought question of whether cannabis use leads to psychosis in adolescents, an international study has exonerted cannabis…” May 5, 12:06
Servetus on Senate Majority Leader: “Tissue culture micropropagation has been developed for hemp and marijuana production to produce disease-free plants with enhanced vigor: MAY 4,…” May 4, 12:06
Servetus on Senate Majority Leader: “A new device called a psychLight developed at the University of California, Davis, allows researchers to access the activity of…” May 2, 12:30
Servetus on Senate Majority Leader: “If the U.S. government really wanted to do something to encourage young people not to use drugs, instead of arresting…” May 2, 11:07
fuktosay on Is Joe Biden an old dog?: “An ex-junky on his way to sainthood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPM_TOFMM-8&ab_channel=TheGuardian” Apr 30, 17:29
strayan on Colombia’s Proxy Drug War with Venezuela: “Vanda Felbab-Brown is back couchmates! https://mexicotoday.com/2021/04/23/opinion-will-cannabis-legalization-reduce-crime-in-mexico-has-it-in-the-u-s/” Apr 28, 16:41
Servetus on Senate Majority Leader: “E.W. Jackson says marijuana legalization in Virginia is demonic and that it is the result of Democrats who want to…” Apr 27, 18:18

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