State of the Movement: What’s it Going to Take to Make Marijuana Legal?

State of the Movement: What’s it going to take to make marijuana legal?
Emerald Bay Ballroom, 3rd Floor
While support for making marijuana legal is growing rapidly and California’s Prop. 19 came close to winning last year, we still haven’t reached the tipping point. What can we expect to see on the ballot in 2012 and beyond? Leading advocates and political consultants will discuss what it will take to win at the state and national level, and share insights from the most extensive marijuana reform public opinion research ever conducted.

Facilitator: Graham Boyd, Esq., Advisor, Peter Lewis, Santa Cruz, CA

• Dave Fratello, Principal, Coast Campaign Group, Manhattan Beach, CA
• Anna Greenberg, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, Washington. D.C.
• Celinda Lake, President, Lake Research Partners, Washington, D.C.
• Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY
• Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director, NORML, Washington, D.C.
• Mark Steitz, Founder and Senior Principal, TSD Communications, Washington. D.C.