Update: Audio from Today is now available
Today’s Highlights
- Cannabis Law Reform’s Missing Link: Law Enforcement – Norm Stamper
- Keynote Speaker Luncheon Lester Grinspoon, M.D. [via live remote]
- Panels on: Mexican cartels, revenue stream, and athleticism
- Breakout sessions on: Tools for activists, cultivation, and CA law reform
- NORML 2009 Extravaganza Fundraising Party
Schedule |
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| Moderator: Madeline Martinez, NORML Board of Directors | |
| 9:00am | Registration |
| 10:00- 10:30am |
Cannabis Law Reform’s Missing Link: Law Enforcement Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper; LEAP and NORML Advisory Board; Author of Breaking Rank |
| 10:30- 12:00pm |
Putting the Mexican Cartels Out of Business Panel Info and Comments Mexican drug cartels now employ over 100,000 soldiers and are responsible for nearly ten thousand deaths per year. Their largest source of income is marijuana. A panel of experts discuss how legalizing and regulating cannabis in the United States and abroad is the only viable solution for staving this ongoing bloodshed. Moderator: Richard Cowan, former NORML director
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| 12:00- 12:15pm |
Break |
| 12:15- 1:30pm |
Breakout Sessions Panel Info and Comments |
| 1. | Tools For Activists (What Can I Do?) Moderator: Russ Belville, NORML National Outreach Coordinator
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| 2. | High Times Cultivation: More Root, More Fruit: Growing Medical Marijuana in the Era of Plant Limits Moderator: Danny Danko, Cultivation Editor, High Times Veganics: Beyond Organics for Medicinal Quality Cannabis Kyle Kushman, former High Times Cultivation reporter and current medical marijuana consultant |
| 3. | California NORML: Law Reform and Activism In The Golden State (An open discussion of California’s pending marijuana initiatives and other reform efforts.) Moderator: Dale Gieringer, Ph.D, Director, CA NORML |
| 1:30- 2:30pm |
Keynote Speaker Luncheon Lester Grinspoon, M.D. Author and pioneering Harvard Medical School Professor [via remote from Boston] |
| 2:45- 4:15pm |
Marijuana Legalization As a Local, State, Federal Revenue Stream Panel Info and Comments In today’s sagging economy national, state and local leaders are looking for alternative streams of revenue. They should look no further than to America’s #1 cash crop: cannabis. Moderator: Dale Gieringer, Ph.D, Director, CA NORML
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| 4:15- 4:30pm |
Break |
| 4:30- 5:30pm |
Cannabis and Athleticism Panel Info and Comments Some of the nation’s top athletes discuss why today’s pros are turning to cannabis — and away from alcohol and painkillers — off the field, and question why pro sports leagues are continuing to sanction those who do. Moderator: Steve Bloom, Author, Pot Culture; editor, celebstoner.com
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| 5:30- 6:00pm |
Conference Close Rick Steves, TV host/best-selling travel author, NORML Advisory Board |
| 7:00- 1:00am |
NORML 2009 Extravaganza Fundraising Party Kindly sponsored by: Harborside Health Center |