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As A Big UN Drug Policy Summit Draws Near, Will Marijuana Activists Become Global Drug Reformers?

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 03/29/2016 - 08:55

Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and one of the most recognized speakers in drug-policy circles, doesn’t mince words when he gets up to talk at marijuana industry events. “Frankly,” he often says, “I am not interested in meeting most you.” The only people he wants to talk to, he tells his audiences, are those who are going to make a lot of money in the new marijuana industry in an ethical way and are interested in certain social issues that could make them ideal foot soldiers in the wider struggle against the global war on drugs.

That’s because Nadelmann and DPA aren’t just interested in marijuana legalization -- they’re interested in wider drug policy reform in the United States and beyond.

Ethan NadelmannEthan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, speaking in Brazil in 2014.PHOTO: DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE

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