2014 Pathway to Reform 9am Livestream

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The 2014 Pathway to Reform will be live streamed on The Daily Blog from 9am-4pm Thursday. The leading drug reformers from around the world will be speaking about drug prohibition and the failure of the war on drugs.

NZs regulation of legal highs is being hailed globally as a new means of negotiating a truce to that war on drugs and Martyn Bradbury will MC the political party section asking Labour, the Greens and MANA for their views on drug policy. National, NZ First, ACT and United Future turned down offers to participate.

Speakers will include…
-Amanda Feilding from The Beckley Foundation
-Dr Ethan Nadelmann from the American Drug Policy Alliance
-Fiona Patten from the Australian Eros Association
-Dr Rick Doblin from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
-Dr Brian Emerson from the Canadian Health Officers Council of Psychoactive Substances Committee

Tweet questions for the panel on drug reform to #pathway2reform

9 COMMENTS

  1. It will be interesting to here news from different countries.

    Glad the tech. side is good. Event space looks good. 9.04am.

    I hope there’ll be some good actionable ideas coming out of this that us activists can feel inspired by.

  2. So I wonder when we’ll get more info anout the pop. social tonic ingredients effects, apart from 2 lines on wiki. AB-FUBINACA?
    CL-2201?
    At current low prices of $5/gram and twice the strength of real pot, the market will remain large, as in Colorado.

  3. I don’t see this as a pathway to reform at all. I see it as a path for mainly white entrepreneurs to make money from drugs while others continue to rot in prison. Maori and Pasifika will continue to be marginalised and searched and bashed at will by the poaka, while white guys with appropriated hair and the gift of the gab are celebrated as pioneers. A true scientific approach would swiftly see that their is no reason besides theories of racial superiority to keep so many in prison, get rid of the stupid laws, and throw open the prison doors.

    We all know that’s not going to happen, but we can be fairly sure that these synthetic creeps will be in line for knighthoods soon enough.

    • Ovicula, while I think your concerns about legal high tycoons have some validity, this conference was not about them. It was about how to shift politicians’ thinking to bring about exactly the outcome you describe at the end of your comment – an end to prohibition (ideally of all recreational drugs). Particularly it demonstrated that the informed experts and the evidence are on the side of reform, and those defending prohibition have nothing to offer but debunked myths and scaremongering.

      I wasn’t able to watch the LiveStream. Is the video of the conference available online anywhere now that the event is over?

  4. Pathway to Reform… very disappointed I couldn’t make it. Listening in I found it Refreshing, Encouraging and, Surprising.
    Big ups to all the winners, esp Geoff Knoller! Good one mate!

    • True, and very tiring for me too. At least at home I Icould lie in bed and watch. I was more disappointed wwhen I didn’t make it to the MMP bash at the playboy mansion, a couple of years ago. Costs were similar.

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