Subject: Fwd: REMINDER: Ethan Nadelmann, March 25, 6:00PM at Columbia University
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 13:34:19 -0500
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From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
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Subject: REMINDER: Ethan Nadelmann, March 25, 6:00PM at Columbia=
 University

>=A0ROUND TABLE ON DRUGS POLICY
>
>=A0WHEN: =A0Tuesday, March 25th, 6.00pm - 8.00 pm
>=A0WHERE: Columbia University, International Affairs Building,
>=A0=A0=A0=A015th Floor, Room 1501, 420 West 118th Street
>=A0INFO: =A0http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alliance/webpages-2/Docs%
>=A0=A0=A0=A020archives/Drugs%20Policy%20Roundtable.htm
>=A0=A0=A0=A0(Cut and paste entire URL into Web browser)
>
>=A0Four specialists from Colombia, France and the United States
>=A0are discussing Drugs Policy from a comparative perspective:
>=A0The Future of Drugs Policies: Re-thinking the Supply Side
>
>=A0* Professor Jeffrey Fagan, the Mailman School of Public Health
>=A0=A0and Law School, Columbia University
>=A0=A0http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/sph/cvrp/staff_JF.htm
>
>=A0* Professor Pierre Kopp, Professor of Law, University Paris I
>=A0=A0Panth=E9on-Sorbonne http://matisse.univ-paris1.fr/kopp/
>
>=A0* Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance,=
 New York
>=A0=A0http://www.drugpolicy.org/about/keystaff/ethannadelma/
>
>=A0* Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, Colombia. Visiting
>=A0=A0Scholar at New York University
>
>=A0Thematic:
>
>=A0Consensus on public policies is rare enough to be celebrated in=
 the
>=A0global arena. It is the case to a certain extent with the
>=A0international community basic approach to the "world drug=
 problem".
>=A0The European Union, the United States and the broader=
 international
>=A0community share the same basic policy framework when it comes=
 to
>=A0combating drugs, as reflected in the United Nations Drugs=
 Convention.
>=A0This is especially true regarding the supply side of the=
 equation,
>=A0where the seal of illegality and the tools of repression are=
 put
>=A0forward as the main policy tools.
>
>=A0Growing critics however suggest that although such strategy may=
 work
>=A0in some countries, the only tangible result of the policy=
 consists in
>=A0a geographical rearrangement of the map of drug production and
>=A0trafficking. At the same time, this policy seems to impose=
 impressive
>=A0human, social, economic, and often ecological costs in both=
 the
>=A0countries of production and consumption.
>
>=A0As the United States position continues to harden, elements of
>=A0alternative policy are on the rise in Europe, reaching the=
 legal
>=A0limits within the framework of the current UN Drug Conventions.=
 As
>=A0the UN drugs strategy is up to mid-term review in April 2003,=
 this
>=A0roundtable aims at opening the debate on alternative global=
 public
>=A0policies to tackle the "drugs problem".
>
>
>=A0Please visit
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>=A0For problems, please contact Jeanette Irwin at=
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>
>=A0Please consider joining the Drug Policy Alliance:
>=A0http://www.drugpolicy.org/join

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