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In order to help engage the San Diego-area community in a dialogue about the medical marijuana laws and the county's ongoing challenge to them, the Marijuana Policy Project is hosting a free screening of the documentary Waiting to Inhale followed by a panel discussion. Waiting to Inhale is an award-winning, feature-length documentary that explores the movement to legalize medical marijuana. Filmmaker Jed Riffe will moderate the panel and the Q&A session which begins at 3:30 p.m. Panelists include local physician Robert Sterner, M.D.; local medical marijuana patient/advocate Rudy Reyes; and F. Aaron Smith, the California policy director for MPP. This event is taking place at a crucial time for San Diego's medical marijuana community. In the coming months, the United States Supreme Court will be deciding whether or not to hear a legal challenge initiated by San Diego and San Bernardino counties seeking to nullify parts of California's medical marijuana law. We hope that you and your friends and family will be able to take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to engage in a local discussion about medical marijuana. Event organizers need of a few trustworthy volunteers to help make sure this event runs smoothly. If you are interested in helping out, please contact F. Aaron Smith at [email protected].

The Cato Institute and the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C. invite you to a Policy Forum: Mexico’s Drug War: The Growing Crisis on Our Southern Border Featuring: Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance Network Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Daniel T. Griswold, Director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute As the new Obama administration surveys possible national security threats confronting the United States, policymakers need to recognize that an especially lethal one is brewing close to home: the increasing drug-related violence in Mexico. Since January 2007 there have been more than 6,800 drug-war related deaths in Mexico, and Mexican drug cartels continue to expand their operations in American cities. Washington’s response has been to expand its prohibitionist efforts with the Mérida Initiative, a U.S.–Mexico anti-drug-trafficking program. Historically, however, prohibitionist policies have had little success in reducing the flow of drugs. Instead, those policies have led to increased turmoil and corruption. Please join us as we explore more effective alternatives for the new administration. This forum is funded by a grant from the Open Society Institute. Luncheon to follow. Cato Policy Forums and luncheons are free of charge. To register, visit www.cato.org, e-mail [email protected], fax (202) 371-0841 or call (202) 789-5229 by 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 18. News media inquiries only (no registrations), please call (202) 789-5200. If you can’t make it to the Cato Institute, watch this Forum live online at www.cato.org.

ENCOD is organizing an afternoon of debate and reflection in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Please join us at this important event. Here is the schedule: 9:00am: Welcome 9:10-9:40am: History & Background of Current U.S. Drug Policy - Dean Susan Pease

Please join us on Valentine's Day (February 14th) to honor the fallen in America's longest war -- the War on Some Drugs. It was on February 15, 2000 that the U.S.

Please join us at this meeting -- here's the agenda: 1) Assign areas of the festival work for Cannabis Revival to interested members.

The United States is infamous for its burgeoning prisons. Are we doing something wrong? What does this mean for our families? Our communities?

The number of women in U.S. prisons has increased 757% in the last 30 years — and the prison system does not have proper services to deal with the population.

Author Wendy Chapkis will be reading from her new book "Dying to Get High: marijuana as medicine" at Bluestockings Bookstore in the East Village.

We will be letter writing to our representatives encouraging medical marijuana legislation to be introduced in the MO House this next session. Come and make an impact!