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First-Ever
Global
Conference
on
How
To
Legalize
Cannabis
9/11/98
Experts from around the world
gathered in London last weekend (9/5 - 9/6) to tackle the question that
they see as the next logical step in the growing movement for cannabis
law reform under the title, "Regulating Cannabis: Options for Control in
the 21st Century".
The conference was hosted
by Release, a UK-based drug information organization, and The Lindesmith
Center (http://www.lindesmith.org),
a NY-based think tank on drug and drug policy issues. The conference
featured scientists, doctors, lawyers and academics from across Europe,
Australia and North America who discussed issues such as taxation, age
restrictions, advertising and marketing limits within a legal but regulated
paradigm.
Mike Goodman, director of
Release, told The Guardian (UK) "Most prominent scientists, medical professionals
and policy experts agree that alternatives to cannabis prohibition need
to be developed to both prevent further harm and protect individual civil
liberties."
Rob Kampia, legislative director
of the US-based Marijuana Policy Project (http://www.mpp.org),
told The Week Online, "Previously I had not spent a whole lot of time looking
into the marijuana policies and reform efforts in other countries, because
the U.S. congress doesn't care what's happening in other countries.
While I still believe that Congress doesn't care, I found the conference
to be useful in that it provided a menu of strategies and tactics that
we can use in the U.S. to bring about the end of marijuana prohibition."
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Issue #58, 9/11/98
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