Selected videos from International Drug Policy Reform Conference

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I pray I see more DU'er at the 2013 Conference in Denver. Here are some videos from November's conference:
http://www.reformconference.org/conference-archive/video-reform-2011
Opening Plenary

Gavin Newsom, California Lieutenant Governor
Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance
Alice Huffman, President, California NAACP
Pete White, Co-Director, Los Angeles Community Action Network

Feature Plenary – Building a Movement

Richard Branson, Entrepreneur and Advocate for Social Causes; Founder, the Virgin Group
Javier Sicilia, Poet and Activist
Aaron Houston, Executive Director, Students for Sensible Drug Policy
Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
Neill Franklin, Executive Director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Tina Reynolds, Co-Founder and Chair, Women on the Rise Telling HerStory
Ira Glasser, President, Drug Policy Alliance

Feature Plenary – Drug, Set and Setting - Today

Julie Holland, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine
Carl Hart, Associate Professor, Psychology & Psychiatry, Columbia University
Gabor Mate, Physician and Author

Closing Plenary

Rick Steves, Travel Writer, Activist
Rodrigo "Froggy" Vazquez, Community Organizer, Students for Sensible Drug Policy Los Angeles City College
Sonja Sohn, Actress, Activist
Nguyen Phuong Lan, Director's Assistant, Center for Supporting Community Development Initiatives, Hanoi, Vietnam
Marilyn Howell, Author, Honor Thy Daughter
Dan Rush, Director of State Operations, United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 5
Daryl Atkinson, Staff Attorney, North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services; Member, North Carolina Second Chance Alliance
Stephen Gutwillig, California State Director, Drug Policy Alliance

Awards for Achievement in Drug Policy Reform
The Edward M. Brecher Award for Achievement in the Field of Journalism
Awarded To: The Huffington Post

The Dr. Andrew Weil Award for Achievement in the Field of Drug Education
Awarded To: Earth & Fire Erowid, Co-Founders, Erowid Center

The Richard J. Dennis Drugpeace Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Drug Policy Reform
Awarded To: John Sperling, Founder and Executive Chairman, Apollo Group

The Alfred R. Lindesmith Award for Achievement in the Field of Scholarship
Awarded To: Thomas Kerr and Evan Wood, Co-Directors, Addiction and Urban Health Research Initiative, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

The H.B. Spear Award for Achievement in the Field of Control and Enforcement
Awarded To: Ron Hampton, Washington, DC Representative, Blacks in Law Enforcement of America and a Law Enforcement Fellow at the University of the District of Columbia’s Institute for Public Safety and Justice

The Justice Gerald Le Dain Award for Achievement in the Field of Law
Awarded To: Nanna Gotfredsen, Founder of The Street Lawyers

The Robert C. Randall Award for Achievement in the Field of Citizen Action
Awarded To: Dale Gieringer, State Director, California NORML & Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director of Legal Services, Prisoners with Children

The Norman E. Zinberg Award for Achievement in the Field of Medicine
Awarded To: Julie Holland, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine

Selected Breakout Sessions

Psychedelic Healing: Can Psychedelics Reinvent Medicine... and Society?
State of the Movement: What’s It Going to Take to Make Marijuana Legal?

2011 Co-Hosts

Harm Reduction Coalition Harm Reduction Coalition LEAP


MPP


OSI
2011 Sponsors


- Richard J. Dennis -


2011 Scholarship Supporters

Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation

MAC Aids Fund

OSI

Public Welfare Fund

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1. Love Rick Steves.

http://www.youtube.com/user/DrugPolicyAlliance#p/u/7/poROUz8Pops