Salvia, Synthetic Pot, and Emerging Drug Criminalization Trends (2011 Intl Drug Policy Reform Conf)

Even as state policymakers increasingly embrace various drug policy reforms, the knee-jerk criminalization of salvia and other new drugs demonstrates that elected officials still tend to prohibit first, and ask questions later. What specific regulatory options can be used to control access to substances in a way that reduces the harm to individuals, families and society as a whole. How can policymakers be persuaded to consider policy tools other than criminalization to balance the competing interests of criminal justice and public health? And what lessons have we learned from regulating other substances such as alcohol and tobacco?

Facilitator: Jag Davies, Publications Manager, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY




• Corey Davis, Staff Attorney, Public Health Law Network
• Earth and Fire Erowid, Erowid Center, Grass Valley, CA




• Roger Goodman, Washington House of Representatives, Seattle, WA




• Sunny Hashmi, Volunteer, TRIP! Project, Toronto, Canada
• Grant Smith, Federal Policy Coordinator, Drug Policy Alliance, Washington DC
• Jacob Sullum, Senior Editor, Reason, Dallas, TX
• Don E Wirtshafter, Attorney, Guysville, OH

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Salvia
• drugpolicy
• drugpolicyalliance
• reformconference

[KripDrip]

a kid dies not from the bath salts but he just shot himself while high.

how many kids are dieing from drinking too much alcohol? why dont they ban that too?

[MWCstream]

There has never been Synthetic Cannabis, The K2 stuff is a Synthetic Analog Of a related cannabinoid but it not the same cannabinoids that you find in the natural cannabis plant. That is the reason that this stuff is so dangerous because its not made in a professional lab just like illegal drugs, this is the reason there are so many over doses because the users do not know the potency. thumbs up if you agree

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

@k2dart Care to provide me any evidence of that? Come on, I D.A.R.E. you.

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

People who make the laws in this country are on the edge of still believing in the flat earth. Most of them are too stupid to even understand the water cycle, let alone medicine of any kind. Most of them are brain dead religious fundamentalist reactionaries.

[lifesblood]

Color Correction!

[k2dart]

The whole leaf, the natural forms are far more controllable.

[k2dart]

Extracts and synthetics are generally very bad.