The Portuguese Decriminalization Model in Global Context

The Portuguese Decriminalization Model in the European Context
Avalon Ballroom, 3rd Floor
Portuguese drug policy is widely heralded as an international model. How do we situate the Portuguese experience within a broader international context to examine its significance for global drug policy?  Is Portugal a model that other countries can replicate?  Should we be concerned about the Dutch back-tracking? What’s going on in Greece, where the Prime Minister recently introduced a decriminalization proposal? Is Denmark emerging as a new leader? And what’s the evolving role of the European Union? 

Facilitator: Craig Reinarman, Professor of Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz

• Thanasis Apostolou, Association Diogenis, Netherlands/Greece      
• Caitlin Elizabeth Hughes, Drug Policy Modelling Program, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University New South Wales, Australia        
• Ted Goldberg, Sweden (invited)       
• Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Director, Global Drug Policy Program, Open Society Foundation, Warsaw, Poland            
• Sebastian Saville, Executive Director, Release, United Kingdom (invited)
• Valentin Simionov, Romania (invited)          
• Alex Stevens, Professor in Criminal Justice, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK    
• Georg Wurth, Germany (invited)