New York City Bar Association - Committee on Drugs & the Law

05/22/2018

All are welcome to our event tomorrow at 6:00pm at the Association. We have a number of distinguished speakers and look forward to seeing you there!

08/05/2017

How is he doing? Discuss!

CBS News sat down last week with Richard Baum, acting director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy

05/11/2017

I am pleased to announce that the Committee's letter of recommendations to the Trump Administration has been sent to the Administration. The letter is available in full at:http://s3.amazonaws.com/documents.nycbar.org/files/2017136-DrugsTrumpTransition_FINAL_5.10.17.pdf

01/20/2017

Welcome to our page.

06/18/2016

DATL Committee members concluding the 2015-2016 year.

06/18/2016

great end of the year dinner last night.
thank you all for a wonderful and eventful year!

05/27/2016

05/11/2016

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Please register for our event on June 2, 2016. The event marks the official release of our new report "Charting A Wiser Course: Human Rights and the World Drug Problem." We look forward to seeing you there!

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04/27/2016

Heather Haase and Zarah Levin-Fragasso's letter to the editor of "Rethink the Global War on Drugs" is now featured in the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/opinion/international-drug-policy.html?emc=edit_tnt_20160427&nlid=56696698&tntemail0=y&_r=0

The New York City Bar Association writes that “international legal instruments need to be revisited.”

04/25/2016

We are pleased to announce the release of "Charting A Wiser Course: Human Rights and the World Drug Problem."

The report, as well as the official Association press release, is available via the following link: http://www.nycbar.org/media-aamp-publications/press-releases/press-2016/2441-new-york-city-bar-association-releases-report-on-world-drug-problem

Many thanks to our authoring subcommittee, Zarah Levin-Fragasso, Heather Haase, Madelon Gauthier, Luke Schram, Hanna Liebman Dershowitz, Kyle M. Ellis, Adam Horowitz, Afrodite Fountas, Nicolas Eyle, & Joshua Schrimpf, whose tireless efforts ensured that the report was released in time for the 2016 UNGASS.http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/

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