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A Step Forward: Creating a Just Drug Policy for the United States
ASSESSING THE LANDSCAPE OF DRUG POLICY
Michele Alexandre, University of Missippi School of Law
Jane Bambauer, University of Arizona College of Law
Abigail Hall, Mercatus Fellow, George Mason University
Chris Gibson, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA)
Fred Foldvary, Economics, San Jose State University
Ernest Drucker, Columbia University School of Public Health
Moderator:
Dan Tichenor, Political Science, University of Oregon
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The Oregon Law Review is proud to present a day-long symposium, A Step Forward: Creating a Just Drug Policy for the United States, forty years after Oregon became the first state in the nation to decriminalize marijuana.
The substantial social and economic costs of the drug war, which include more than a trillion dollars spent over the last forty years, have led many to question–and voters in Washington and Colorado in 2012 to answer–whether alternative regimes to criminalization are a worthy policy goal. Our symposium brings together experts from a range of disciplines to explore the issue of drug policy, including the benefits and drawbacks of our nation’s drug laws, potential alternative approaches such as regulated distribution and medicalization, judicial innovations in drug treatment, and the unresolved legal and policy questions surrounding the recent state marijuana initiatives.
Our participants include Earl Blumenauer, Member of the United States House of Representatives; Suzanne Bonamici, Member of the United States House of Representatives; Bruce Turcott, Assistant Attorney General for the State of Washington; David Blake, Deputy Attorney General for the State of Colorado; Ann Aiken, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Oregon, and many others.
