Recordings are available for two major events that took place last October. Audiotapes of the Ninth International Conference on Drug Policy Reform are available for $8 per tape, or $120 for the full set of 26 tapes. Highlights of the conference included former US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders' speech and press conference, panels on Drugs and Communities of Color, the Swiss Heroin Experiment, the government's "War on Lawyers" and more. A complete listing has been included in DPF's Spring '96 newsletter. The tapes are available from She Who Remembers Productions, 6228 N. Burton Ave., San Gabriel, CA 91774, (818) 287-8254; make checks payable to Genie Erstad.
Recordings of the New York City Bar Association's hearings on drug prohibition are available from the Partnership for Responsible Drug Information (PRDI), 14 W. 68th St., New York, NY 10023; (212) 362-1964. The October hearings featured a wide range of speakers, including William F. Buckley, Jr.; Mary Cleveland, PRDI; David Condliffe and Arnold Trebach, Drug Policy Foundation; Mathea Falco, Drug Strategies; Ethan Nadelmann, The Lindesmith Center; Herbert Kleber, Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse; US District Court Judge Robert Sweet and many others. The hearings followed publication by the Bar's Committee on Drugs and the Law of "A Wiser Course, Ending Drug Prohibition," a 90-page report. Copies are available for $6.50 from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 42 W. 44th St., New York, NY 10036; (212) 382-6658.
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