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This is in complete disregard of Ethan Nadelmann's word given to me personally at the 2011 conference that there would be a Coca panel for the 2013 DPA conference.   This further confirms the serious need to expose the bad influence over the DPA (which was the DPF prior to the merger with the Lindesmith Institute in 2000). Hi Douglas-- Thank you for your continued interest in the conference and for always bringing this topic to us.  For 2013, we considered the topic of coca, but felt that it could not carry a whole session.  We expect it to be addressed on sessions where discussion of the Latin American scene will take place, of which there will be at least two. Please do keep doing your important work, and hope to see you in Denver. Stefanie Stefanie Jones | Event Manager Drug Policy Alliance Voice: 212.613.8047 | www.drugpolicy.org

U.S. Attorney General and once Covington & Burling pharmaceutical industry attorney Eric Holder announces a change in U.S. Justice Department prosecutorial procedure to omit the amount of contraband from charging documents, though not from the actual sentencing- admitting that the US spends some $80 billion annually for incarceration. But if he were truly serious, there's so much more that he and the Obama Administration could do. From the comments section at the Facebook page of the Drug Policy Alliance: Barack Obama could end the Federal Drug War right now if he wanted to and he either doesn't want to end it or he doesn't have the courage to end it! I am interested in your comments but please read ALL of this before you try to apologize for him and tell me that it isn't his fault or that he doesn't have the power. Read on . . . As President, Barack Obama has the power of the Bully Pulpit to set the tone for change and refuse to sign new laws that furthe

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