Last weekend, Students for Sensible Drug Policy organized it's 13th Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado. Representatives of chapters throughout the world attended, as did numerous drug law reform organizations and experts. To name a few: Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance, Stephen DeAngelo of the Harborside Health Center (and Discovery Channel's Weed Wars), and Adam Smith of Oregon's End Prohibition Again ballot measure to, well... end prohibition again! The Weed Blog has the details, as they also attended and covered the conference in depth.
Oregon SSDP chapters made a strong presence at the conference. Among the attendees were Bradley Steinman of Lewis & Clark Law School, Sam Chapman of University of Oregon, Andrew Gwin of Chemeketa Community College, Daniel Bauer of Oregon State University, Romain Bonilla and Skye Mazur from Portland State University, and Christopher Van Putten of Lewis & Clark College.
Not only was Oregon SSDP well represented at the conference, but our chapter network had the honor to receive the Morgan Lesko Online Activism Award!
We would like to thank SSDP for awarding us the Online Activism award, and we hope the website and blog become useful resources for chapters in and outside Oregon. We are very happy to be bringing this home, and as our chapter network grows larger with the forming chapters at Oregon State University and Chemeketa Community College, we hope to become more proficient at pushing for drug law reform in Oregon and beyond!
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