Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy -- press conference re: US drug czar John Walters, Feb. 22, 2007

These are the video clips of a press conference held after the US drug "czar" (the head of the US Office of National Drug Control Policy) John Walters spoke in Ottawa on February 22, 2007. The participants at the press conference spoke about misleading claims made by the US government about Canada's alleged responsibility for drug problems in the United States. The participants also discussed the failures of US drug policies in the United States and the harms caused by those policies to other counties, including Canada.

Speakers (in order)

Eugene Oscapella, Barrister and Solicitor, Co-founder, Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy, lecturer on drug policy, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa
Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director and Founder, Drug Policy Alliance, New York
The Hon. Larry Campbell, Senator, Senate of Canada
Professor Line Beauchesne, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa
Dr. David Marsh, former President, Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine, Vancouver Coastal Health
responses by various speakers to questions from media