Ethan Nadelmann’s Opening Speech in New Mexico – uncut

The opening speech of the DPA director at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference

HCLU’s video advocacy team is filming in Albuquerque, New Mexico this time – we attend the International Drug Policy Reform Conference (November 12-14, 2009). The first footage we would like to share with you is Ethan Nadelmann’s opening speech. Ethan is a great speaker so we didn’t feel the need to edit the text, we give you the full speech here. He said “right now the wind is at our back” – which means the drug policy reform movement has an unprecedented momentum to end the drug war in the United States. We believe that if the war on drugs will end in the US the global drug prohibition regime will lose its driving force and collapse as a domino. That is why we as Europeans always have to keep an eye on what is happening in the American drug policy arena.

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