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This is Your Country on Drugs

Flawed Drug Policy and What to do About It

  • In-Person
  • New America
    740 15th St NW #900
    Washington, D.C. 20005
  • 12PM – 1:30PM EDT

The summer saw new spikes in drug related violence in North America.  The
governmental responses ranged from President Obama’s meeting with Canadian and
Mexican leaders to pledge new vigilence to members of the California legislature
proposing to close California’s budget crisis by legalizing and taxing
drugs.

America has been engaging in a war on drugs for a generation now.

What have been the results?
What is working and what isn’t working?
What should America be doing and where should it go from here?

Come join the New America Foundation for a conversation with Ryan Grim of
the Huffington Post and Peter Reuter of the School of Public Policy and
Department of Criminology at the University of Maryland.

Participants
Featured
Speakers

Ryan
Grim

Senior
Correspondent, Huffington Post
Author, This is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of
Getting High in America

Peter
Reuter

Professor, School of Public Policy and Department of
Criminology
University of Maryland
Co-Author, "The World Heroin Market:
Can Supply be Cut?"
 
Moderator
David Gray
Director,
Workforce and Family Program
New America
Foundation