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The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is a New York City–based nonprofit organization that seeks to advance policies that "reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies". [1]
Kassandra Frederique was born in 1986 () in Manhattan, New York to Haitian immigrant parents. [1] Frederique worked as the managing director of Policy Advocacy and Campaigns for the Drug Policy Alliance, and in September 2020, she became the executive director, proceeding Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno. [2]
Peele maintains that, depending on the person, abstinence or moderation are valid approaches to treat excessive drinking. In a Psychology Today article which compared the Life Process Program with the disease model, [12] he also argues against the theory proposed decades ago by modern physicians, mental health professionals, research scientists, etc. that addiction is a disease. [13]
Sep. 24—Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday appointed Emily Kaltenbach, who previously served as senior director of state advocacy for the Drug Policy Alliance, as secretary-designate of the ...
In 2001, the New Mexico state-commissioned Drug Policy Advisory Group stated that decriminalizing cannabis "will result in greater availability of resources to respond to more serious crimes without any increased risks to public safety." [112] A few places in California had been advocating cannabis decriminalization.
Nadelmann founded the Lindesmith Center in 1994, a drug policy institute created with the support of George Soros.In Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, Michael T. Kaufman wrote of Nadelmann and Soros's relationship, which formed after Soros read Nadelmann's Spring 1988 piece in Foreign Policy, "U.S. Drug Policy: A Bad Export" as Soros had also published the piece "After ...
Drug Policy Alliance; Green Panthers; Law Enforcement Action Partnership; Marijuana Policy Project; Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of America; Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies; National Cannabis Industry Association; National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition ...
The law's passage is the product of many years of work by legislative champions, patients, their loved ones, and advocacy organizations, including MPP, Compassionate Care NY, and the Drug Policy Alliance. The new law will protect certain seriously ill patients who use marijuana pursuant to their doctors' advice from civil and criminal penalties.