Drug Policy Alliance

Welcome and Opening Plenary

Special guests: New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (invited)

SESSIONS

1. Marijuana Decriminalization and the State Legislative Process
2. Abstinence, Recovery and Harm Reduction
3. Supervised Injection Facilities: In the United States?
4. Mandatory Madness: The Zero Tolerance Drug War on Immigrants
5. HIV/AIDS and Punitive Drug Policies: How Communities are Fighting Back
6. Engaging Law Enforcement
7. Combating Stigma in Harm Reduction Programming and Policy

SESSIONS

1. Imagining Victory: Make Your Own Marijuana Regulation Model
2. Formerly Incarcerated People, Policy Reform and Movement Building
3. Treatment not Torture
4. Rural Harm Reduction: Complex Challenges and Unique Solutions
5. MDMA as a Prescription Medicine
6. Schools, Education and the Drug War
7. After the Ban

SESSIONS

1. Medical Marijuana Production and Distribution Systems: Patients Rights and Access
2. After Vienna: Prospects for UN and International Reform
3. Innovative Approaches to Sentencing Reform
4. Moving the Movement Forward: Examining Gender in Drug Policy Reform
5. Artistic Interventions for Gang-Involved Youth
6. The Message is the Medium: Communication and Outreach without Borders

SESSIONS

1. Marijuana Messaging that Works
2. Fundraising in a Tough Economy
3. Congress, President Obama, and the Drug Czar
4. Zoned Out
5. Psychedelic Research: Neuroscience and Ethnobotanical Roots
6. Opioid Overdose Prevention Workshop
7. Border Perspectives: Alternatives to the 40-Year U.S. War on Drugs Policy

SESSIONS

1. Medical Marijuana Research and Policy: The Latest Developments
2. Mexico's Failed War: The Internal Border
3. Drug Courts: Is a Kinder, Gentler Drug War Good Enough?
4. Collateral Damage: Women, Children and Families in the War on Drugs
5. The Re-emergence of Psychedelics: Implications for Novel Treatment Programs
6. Open Source Advocacy: The Intersection of Collaborative Technology and Drug Policy Reform
7. Hepatitis C: Crossroads of Public Health and Drug Policy

SESSIONS

1. Marijuana's Cultural Movement
2. Economic Analysis of the Global Drug Prohibition Regime
3. Confronting the U.S. War on Drugs in Latin America: Local and Regional Strategies
4. Policing Drug Markets
5. Ayahuasca: Traditional Uses and Modern Adaptations
6. Bridging the Gap: Drug User Organizing

SESSIONS

1. The Amphetamine Story: When Bad Things Happen to Good Medicine
2. Just4Teens: Dare to put Safety First!
3. Heroin-Assisted Treatment
4. "Insider's View": Drug Policy Legislation and State Lawmakers
5. Veterans: Casualties of the Drug War
6. Making the News: How to Get the Media to Cover Your Issue
7. Intoxicants, Addiction and the Future of Drug Control

SESSIONS

1. Reflections on Treatment
2. The Right Medicine: Preventing Harms from Prescription Opioids
3. Education Not Incarceration: SSDP's Campus Change Campaign
4. After Prohibition: Imagining Alternative Drug Regimes, Present and Future
5. Queer Community: Strategies for Ending the War on Drugs
6. The Well-Rounded Activist

Special Session

Being a Player: The Rules around Lobbying and Advocacy

($25 materials fee, limited to 40 people, register online now)

SESSIONS

1. Ending Marijuana Prohibition
2. What's Going on in Europe?
3. Si, Se Puede: New Mexico as a National Harm Reduction Model
4. Taking the Profit out of the Drug War
5. Expanding the Definition of Treatment: What Works
6. Ibogaine: Medical Practice, Science and African Heritage

Closing Plenary

Special guest:  Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson