The 2005 International Drug Policy Reform Conference

Building a Movement for Reason, Compassion and Justice

Location: Long Beach, California
Event Date: November 9, 2005 - November 12, 2005

Sponsored by the Drug Policy Alliance (formerly an OSI program known as the Lindesmith Center), this conference aimed to provide a leading forum for those who believe the "war on drugs" is doing more harm than good. The conference offered a crash course in cutting-edge topics in drug policy reform, including:

  • Building a Movement
  • Cannabis
  • Civil Liberties
  • Collateral Consequences
  • Criminal Justice
  • Drug Courts
  • Drug Treatment
  • Family Values/Valuing Families
  • Federal and State-Based Reform
  • GLBT People and the Drug War
  • Harm Reduction
  • Hepatitis C
  • HIV/AIDS
  • International Issues
  • Legal Drugs
  • Methadone, Buprenorphine and Heroin
  • Methamphetamine
  • Physicians and Prescribing
  • Politics of Science
  • Proposition 36
  • Psychedelics
  • Racial Injustice
  • Surveillance and Privacy
  • Teens and Drugs

For more information, please visit the Drug Policy Alliance at http://www.drugpolicy.org/events/dpa2005/.

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