&nThe 9th National Harm Reduction Conference: "From Public Health to Social Justice"
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You're cordially invited to the 9th National Harm Reduction Conference: "From Public Health to Social Justice" The 9th National Harm Reduction Conference: From Public Health to Social Justice is the only multidisciplinary conference focused on improving the health of drug users. Over a thousand people from around the country will meet to address the many critical issues affecting the drug user community including overdose, HIV, hepatitis, incarceration, stigma. Physicians, medical professionals, policy makers, researchers, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis service agencies, organizations providing services for youth, and the homeless as well as community based and advocacy organizations will be well represented at this much anticipated event. WHEN WHERE
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Mikki Norris and Chris Conrad at Thursday's rally and concert in Macarthur Park (courtesy HCLU)
The 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference Meets in Los Angeles [FEATURE]
The Drug Policy Alliance's 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference was staggering in its breadth and depth. Here's our first report.
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Javier Sicilia addressing conference, with translator Ana Paula Hernandez (photo courtesy HCLU, drogriporter.hu/en)
Mexico's Symbol of Drug War Resistance Says It's Our Fight, Too [FEATURE]
A panel at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference last week called on Americans to take action to help end the drug war in Mexico, even as Human Rights Watch releases as a damning report on government killings, tortures, and disappearances in the drug war.
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The Medical Marijuana Industry Comes to Reality TV
This is going to put a very big exclamation point on Harborside Health Center’s reputation as the biggest and best dispensary in the medical marijuana business.
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This Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
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Tacoma Passes Lowest Priority Marijuana Initiative
Voters in Tacoma, Washington, approved a lowest law enforcement priority marijuana initiative Tuesday.
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Mexico Drug War Update
The ugliness continues unabated in Mexico, and another blogger has joined the ranks of the murdered.
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Kalamazoo Passes Marijuana Lowest Priority Initiative
Kalamazoo has become the first Michigan city to pass an initiative making small time marijuana use or possession by adults the lowest law enforcement priority.