Announcement

Beginning with an overview of mental disorders, this workshop will focus specifically on clients with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse. This workshop will emphasize the application of harm reduction principles in identification and intervention along a continuum of risk. The training will also guide service providers in determining effective harm reduction responses that are attentive to the realities of clients' lives, provider skill level, and agency mandate.

This panel seeks to provide an overview of the issues and challenges to the policies of harm reduction, both globally and domestically, with the goal of fostering discussion and reflection as to how we can advance this work in meaningful and effective ways. Although the focus will be on harm reduction policies specific to drug use, the panel will also explore the main tenets of harm reduction as applicable to other areas of public health.

Dr. David Bearman, a Santa Barbara, California physician and surgeon with Wisconsin roots, will be presenting at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Bearman is one of the most clinically knowledgeable physicians in the U.S. in the field of medical marijuana. He has spent 40 years working in substance and drug abuse treatment and prevention programs. Dr. Bearman was a pioneer in the free and community clinic movement. His career includes public health, administrative medicine, primary care, pain management and cannabinology. He is on the Board of Advisors for the group Patients Out of Time [http://www.medicalcannabis.com/] and worked closely with them to present the Fourth National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics in Santa Barbara, CA in April 2006.

You are invited to the Grand Opening of Oaksterdam University. At 8:00 p.m. we will be screening a cannabis docu-comedy that will be released in theatres in major markets next spring. If you liked "Super-Size Me" you will like this, and the Producer /Director Alex Campbell will introduce the movie.

Please join us at our next meeting! Some Agenda Items: - Latest Patient and DPC (Caregivers) related News and Announcements - Current Happenings – within the Program, with the Legislature, with Advocates

This event is sponsored by Drug Policy Alliance. It is presented by the Association for Harm Reduction Therapy in partnership with the Harm Reduction Therapy Center and the Harm Reduction Therapy and Training Associates.

This event is presented by MedicalBoardWatch & Society of Cannabis Clinicians. It is a benefit for O'Shaughnessy's, the journal of record for the clinical use of cannabis, recording both the science, and the news. Come Support O'Shaughnessy's, and honor Dr. Tod who passed away May 20, 2007.

Boulder's 4th Anti-DrugWar Candlelight Vigil will take place on Valentines Day. The event is in honor of the fallen in the War on Some Drugs.

Please join us at this press conference! Just one day after SAFER unveiled a billboard urging Ricky Williams to come play in Denver because marijuana has been made legal here, NFL rushing leader Travis Henry of the Denver Broncos has tested positive for marijuana. Initial reports say he faces up to a one-year suspension. SAFER is demanding the NFL refrain from punishing the star running back.

The George Washington University Law School is holding a forum to plan action to address the injustice in the disparity in federal crack and powder cocaine sentences. The discussion will focus on legislative, legal and grassroots strategies. For more information, contact Leah Kane, GWU Law School '08 at (347) 251-2111.