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First Conference Glimpses

Submitted by David Borden on (Issue #807)
Politics & Advocacy
Phil's first report from the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Denver last week highlights the picture that is emerging of the next most likely states to legalize marijuana. More conference-inspired reporting will be forthcoming soon, but there are also some initial videos our from the conference too.
 
First, a photo of Phil's award speech:



And Phil, me, Ethan Nadelmann (who emceed) and Tony Newman (who introduced Phil and presented the award):



(These and many more conference photos were posted on Facebook by DrugWarFacts.org editor Doug McVay.)
 
The first video was shot by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union's Drugreporter team, whose work we've featured here before. This time they were the conference's official videographers. The video consists of highlights from the conference's first full day, and was shown during a plenary session the next morning:
 
 
The next one is from Dean Becker and the Drug Truth Network, of a tour for conference-goers of the River Rock dispensary:
 
 
A few more came out early from HCLU: Itefayo Harvey of DPA, Rep. Jared Polis, Nadelmann, and Rev. Edward Sanders:
 
 
 
 
 
Check back at HCLU, DPA and Drug Truth for more to come, and here on StoptheDrugWar.org.
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