Selected Video from the 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference
Opening Plenary
- Gavin Newsom, California Lieutenant Governor
- Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance
- Alice Huffman, President, California NAACP
- Pete White, Co-Director, Los Angeles Community Action Network
Feature Plenary – Building a Movement
- Richard Branson, Entrepreneur and Advocate for Social Causes; Founder, the Virgin Group
- Javier Sicilia, Poet and Activist
- Aaron Houston, Executive Director, Students for Sensible Drug Policy
- Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director, National Advocates for Pregnant Women
- Neill Franklin, Executive Director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
- Tina Reynolds, Co-Founder and Chair, Women on the Rise Telling HerStory
- Ira Glasser, President, Drug Policy Alliance
Feature Plenary – Drug, Set and Setting - Today
- Julie Holland, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine
- Carl Hart, Associate Professor, Psychology & Psychiatry, Columbia University
- Gabor Mate, Physician and Author
Closing Plenary
- Rick Steves, Travel Writer, Activist
- Rodrigo "Froggy" Vazquez, Community Organizer, Students for Sensible Drug Policy Los Angeles City College
- Sonja Sohn, Actress, Activist
- Nguyen Phuong Lan, Director's Assistant, Center for Supporting Community Development Initiatives, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Marilyn Howell, Author, Honor Thy Daughter
- Dan Rush, Director of State Operations, United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 5
- Daryl Atkinson, Staff Attorney, North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services; Member, North Carolina Second Chance Alliance
- Stephen Gutwillig, California State Director, Drug Policy Alliance
Awards for Achievement in Drug Policy Reform
The Edward M. Brecher Award for Achievement in the Field of Journalism
The Dr. Andrew Weil Award for Achievement in the Field of Drug Education
The Richard J. Dennis Drugpeace Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Drug Policy Reform
The Alfred R. Lindesmith Award for Achievement in the Field of Scholarship
The H.B. Spear Award for Achievement in the Field of Control and Enforcement
The Justice Gerald Le Dain Award for Achievement in the Field of Law
The Robert C. Randall Award for Achievement in the Field of Citizen Action
The Norman E. Zinberg Award for Achievement in the Field of Medicine