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A DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE RELEASE DRUGPOLICY.ORG/UNGASS2016 APRIL 20, 2016

MR. BAN KI-MOON, SECRETARY GENERAL

UNITED NATIONS

Dear Secretary General,

With the United Nations General Assem-

bly Special Session on the World Drug Problem

(UNGASS) fast approaching in New York, we

seek your enlightened leadership in calling for

reform of global drug control policies.

The drug control regime that emerged

during the last century has proven disastrous

for global health, security and human rights. Fo-

cused overwhelmingly on criminalization and

punishment, it created a vast illicit market that

has enriched criminal organizations, corrupted

governments, triggered explosive violence, dis-

torted economic markets and undermined basic

moral values.

Governments devoted disproportionate re-

sources to repression at the expense of efforts

to better the human condition. Tens of millionsof people, mostly poor and racial and ethnic mi-

norities, were incarcerated, mostly for low-level

and non-violent drug law violations, with little if

any benefit to public security. Problematic drug

use and HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and other infec-

tious diseases spread rapidly as prohibitionist

laws, agencies and attitudes impeded harm re-

duction and other effective health policies.Humankind cannot afford a 21st century

drug policy as ineffective and counter-produc-

tive as the last century’s. A new global response

to drugs is needed, grounded in science, com-

passion, health and human rights.

The role of crimi-

nalization and criminal

justice must be limited to

the extent truly required

to protect health and

safety. Leadership must

come from those who

recognize that psycho-

active drug use is first

and foremost a matter

of health. Drug control

efforts must never do more harm than good, or

cause more harm than drug misuse itself.

We are heartened by positive develop-ments around the world since the United

Nations last convened a special session in 1998.

Evidence-based harm reduction programs to

contain the spread of HIV/AIDS and other in-

fectious diseases, treat addiction and reduce

drug-related criminality are now underway in

almost one hundred countries.

A growing number of city, state and nation-

al governments no longer treat drug use and

possession as crimes. Some are beginning to

legally regulate cannabis for medical and even

non-medical purposes. Many more recognize

the need to make essential medicines readilyavailable, especially for pain and palliative care

in lower income countries. But far greater and

more systemic reforms are essential.

We were encouraged last year, Mr. Secre-

tary General, when you urged governments

to use the UNGASS opportunity “to conduct a

wide-ranging and open debate that considers

all options.” This, by and large, has not hap-pened – at least within the confines of the United

Nations. Your leadership is now required to en-

sure that the seeds of reform are nourished, not

discarded, and that the stage is set for real re-

form of global drug control policy.

“ Humankind cannot afford

a 21st century drug policy asineffective and counter-

productive as the last century’s.”

Fernando Henrique Cardoso,

Former President of Brazil

Ernesto Zedillo, Former

President of Mexico

Vicente Fox, Former

President of Mexico

Olusegun Obasanjo, Former

President of Nigeria

César Gaviria Trujillo, Former

President of Colombia

Gordon Bajnai, Former Prime

Minister of Hungary

Ricardo Lagos, Former

President of Chile

Pedro Pires, Former

President of Cape Verde

George Papandreou, Former

Prime Minister of Greece

Ruth Dreifuss, Former

President of Switzerland

Aleksander Kwaśniewski,

Former President of Poland

George Shultz, Former US

Secretary of State; Treasury;

and Labor

Paul Volcker, Former

Chairman of the US Federal

Reserve

George Soros, Philanthropist

Warren Buffett,

Businessman; Philanthropist

Nick Clegg, Former Deputy

Prime Minister of the UK

Sir Richard Branson, Founder

of the Virgin Group

Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator

Elizabeth Warren,

U.S. Senator

Cory Booker, U.S. Senator

Bob Kerrey, Former

U.S. Senator

Bill Richardson, Former

Governor, New Mexico

Peter Shumlin, Governor,

Vermont

Shashi Tharoor, Former

Under-Secretary General,

United Nations

Mo Ibrahim, Businessman

Sting, Musician

Peter Gabriel, Musician

John Legend, Singer

Michael Douglas, Actor

Gael Garcia Bernal, Actor;

Director

Jane Fonda, Actor

Carly Simon, Singer

Tom Brady, Quarterback,

New England Patriots, NFL

Leaders from Around the World Call onUN to End the Drug War

Institutional affiliations and titles are included solely for identification purposes and should not be understood asindicating the respective organization’s agreement with the content of this letter.



2 SIGNATORIES

AFRICA

Abdalla Ahmed, ViceChairman, Kenya HarmReduction Network, Kenya

Richard Amenyah, UNAIDSRegional Office, West

and Central Africa, Dakar,Senegal

Calleb Angira, Chairman,Kenya Harm ReductionNetwork, Kenya

Kwesi Aning, Head ofResearch Department,Kofi Annan InternationalPeacekeeping Centre,Ghana

Paschal B. Atengdem,Faculty Member, Universityof Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Emmanuel Morgan Attuah,Senior Lecturer, Universityof Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Peter Atupare, Lecturer,

University of Ghana, Legon,Ghana

Abdul Baasit, Lecturer,University of Ghana, Legon,Ghana

Taib AbdulrahmanBasheeib, Secretary, KenyaHarm Reduction Network,Kenya

Geoff Budlender, Co-founder, Legal ResourcesCentre; Human RightsLawyer; Board member,Social Justice Initiative,South Africa

Mary Chinery-Hesse,Former Member, AfricanUnion Panel of the Wise,Ghana

Michaela Clayton, Director,AIDS & Rights Alliance forSouthern Africa, Namibia

Daniel Amoako Darko,Research Fellow, Universityof Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Alpha Abdoulaye Diallo,Vice-President, NationalOrganization of GuineanCivil Society; NationalCoordinator, Africa YouthNetwork, Guinea

Godwin Djokoto, AssistantLecturer, University ofGhana, Legon, Ghana

Godwin Dzah, Lecturer,Ghana School ofManagement and PublicAdministration, Ghana

Ama Hammond, Lecturer,University of Ghana, Legon,Ghana

Mo Ibrahim, Businessman,Sudan

Hussein Ibrahim, President,Sudan AIDS Network,Sudan

Christine Kafando,President, Hope ForTomorrow Association;Recipient, Légiond’Honneur, Burkina Faso

William Kissi-Agyebeng,Lecturer, University ofGhana, Legon, Ghana

Kofi Krafona, Lecturer,University of Cape Coast,Ghana

Kofi Kumado, Professor,University of Ghana, Legon,Ghana

Mahmood Mamdani,Professor and Director,Makerere Institute ofSocial Research, MakerereUniversity, Kampala,Uganda; Herbert LehmanProfessor of Government,Columbia University,Uganda / US

Stephen Lewis, Former UNSpecial Envoy for HIV/AIDSin Africa, Canada

Donald Macpherson,Executive Director,Canadian Drug PolicyCoalition,

Gabor Maté, Doctor;Author, Canada

Julio Montaner, Director,British Columbia Centrefor Excellence in HIV/AIDS,Canada

Philip Owen, Former Mayor,Vancouver, Canada

John Polanyi, Nobel Prize inChemistry, 1986, Canada

Gregor Robertson, Mayor,Vancouver, Canada

Joel Solomon, President,Renewal Partners;Chairman, Renewal Funds,Canada

Sam Sullivan, FormerMayor, Vancouver;President, Global CivicPolicy Society, Canada

EUROPE

Andreas Åberg, SeniorConsultant Psychiatrist,Sweden

Patrick Aeberhard, FormerPresident, Doctors ofthe World (Médecins dumonde), France

Claudine Aeschbach,Psychiatrist;Psychotherapist; Boardmember, The Swiss Societyof Addiction Medicine,Switzerland

Þórhildur SunnaÆvarsdóttir, Writer;Journalist; Vice Chair,Executive Board of theIcelandic Pirate Party,Iceland

Martin Ågerup, President,Center for Political Studies,Denmark

Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Writer,Norway

Kai Ambos, Chair ofCriminal Law, ComparativeLaw, and InternationalCriminal Law, George-

August University,Germany

Nils August Andresen,Editor, Minerva, Norway

Thanasis Apostolou,Director, DiogenisAssociation, Drug PolicyDialogue, Greece

Vilhjálmur Árnason,Member of Parliament,Independence Party,Iceland

Halldór Árnason,Economist; Chemist;Translator, “Chasing theScream”, Iceland

Lord Paddy Ashdown,

Former leader, LiberalDemocrats; Former HighRepresentative for Bosniaand Herzegovina; FormerMember of Parliament, UK

Marc Attalah, Director,Museum of Science Fiction(Maison d’Ailleurs),Switzerland

Markus Backmund,President, German Societyof Addiction Medicine,Germany

Gosia Baczyńska, FashionDesigner, Poland

Gordon Bajnai, FormerPrime Minister, Hungary

Sam Manteaw, Lawyer;Lecturer, University ofGhana, Legon, Ghana

Bronwyn Myers, ChiefSpecialist Scientist, AlcoholTobacco and Other DrugResearch Unit, South

African Medical ResearchCouncil, South Africa

Olusegun Obasanjo, FormerPresident, Nigeria, Nigeria

Isidore Obot, Professorand Head, Department ofPsychology, University ofUyo, Nigeria

Adeolu Ogunrombi,Director, Youth RISE-Nigeria, Nigeria

Joseph Osafo, SeniorLecturer, University ofGhana, Legon, Ghana

Eric Osei-Assibey, SeniorLecturer, University ofGhana, Legon, Ghana

Charles Parry, Director,Alcohol, Tobacco and OtherDrug Research Unit, SouthAfrican Medical ResearchCouncil, South Africa

Pedro Pires, FormerPresident, Cape Verde,Cape Verde

Kofi Quashigah, Professor,University of Ghana, Legon,Ghana

Omar Mattar Tajir,CEO, Zanzibar YouthEducation, Environmentand Development SupportAssociation, Tanzania

Bankole Thompson, FormerJudge, Special Court forSierra Leone, Sierra Leone

ASIA

Edo Agustian, NationalCoordinator, IndonesianDrug Users’ Network,Indonesia

Apinun Aramrattana, Head,Department of FamilyMedicine, Chiang RaiUniversity, Thailand

Jambie Austria Del Rosario,Columnist, Philippines

Hkam Awng, Former Headof Department, Central

Committee for Drug AbuseControl, Myanmar

Nonoy Basa, Triathlete; Co-founder, Streamline SportsInstruction, Philippines

Romesh Bhattacharji,Former Commissioner ofNarcotics, India

Alvin Caballes, Professorof Medicine, University ofthe Philippines College ofMedicine, Philippines

June Caridad PagaduanLopez, Professor,Department of Psychiatry,University of the PhilippinesCollege of Medicine; Expert,

United Nations Treaty onPrevention of Torture andOther Cruel, Inhuman orDegrading Treatment orPunishment, Philippines

Carlos P. Celdran, Actor;Documentary FilmProducer, Philippines

Jannie Chan,Businesswoman; Chair,ASEAN Business Forum,Singapore

Son Chhay, Member ofParliament, Cambodia

Norman Baker, FormerDrugs Minister, UnitedKingdom, UK

Baroness Joan Bakewell,Peer, House of Lords, UK

Marek Balicki, Former

Minister of Health, Poland;Former Member, PolishParliament and Senate,Poland

Silvio Ballinari, Pharmacist,Bern, Switzerland

Flemming Balvig, ProfessorEmeritus, Faculty of Law,University of Copenhagen,Denmark

Alexander Bard,Philosopher; Writer,Sweden

Massimo Barra, Founder,Villa Maraini, Rome; FormerPresident, Italian Red Cross,Italy

Elisabeth Baume-Schneider,Director, Higher School forSocial Work, Switzerland

István Bayer, Formerdirector, National Instituteof Pharmacy; Chairman,Commission on NarcoticDrugs (1984), Hungary

Thilo Beck, Head Physician,Association for RiskReduction in Use of Drugs,Zürich; Board member, TheSwiss Society of AddictionMedicine, Switzerland

Klaus Behrendt, HonoraryChairman, Hamburg,German Society ofAddiction Medicine

(Deutsche Gesellschaft fuerSuchtmedizin), Germany

Pavel Bem, Former Mayor,Prague; Member, NationalDrug Commission, CzechRepublic

Daniel Berg, Doctoralstudent of EconomicHistory, StockholmUniversity, Sweden

Rita Bernardini, FormerMember of Parliament;Honorary President, HandsOff Cain, Italy

Jacques Besson, Professorof Psychiatry, University ofLausanne, Switzerland

David R. Bewley-Taylor,Professor of InternationalRelations and Public Policy,Swansea University, UK

Dinesh Bhugra, FormerPresident, Royal College ofPsychiatrists, UK

Valgerður Bjarnadóttir,Member of Parliament,Social Democratic Alliance,Iceland

Ísabella Björnsdóttir, HarmReduction Social Worker,Iceland

Þorsteinn Úlfar Björnsson,Writer; Artist; Activist,Iceland

Andrzej Blikle, Professor ofMathematics; Entrepreneur,Poland

Anja P. Bloch, BrugernesAkademi, User’s Academy,Copenhagen, Denmark

Lorenz Boellinger, ProfessorEmeritus of Criminal Lawand Criminology, Universityof Bremen, Germany

Michal Boni, Member,European Parliament;Former member, PolishParliament; Former Ministerof Administration andDigitization, Poland; Formeradvisor to the Polish Prime

Minister, Poland

Ramon M. de Vera,Member, Board of Trustees,Philippine Science HighSchool System, Philippines

Maria Teresa V. de Vera,Graduate of Masters inBusiness Management,

PhilippinesPatrick M. Deakin,President, Lifeline Rescue,Philippines

James Deakin, TVHost, CNN Philippines,Philippines

Edgar Michael T. Eufemio,Former President, ASEANSociety of Sports Medicine& Arthroscopy; FormerPresident, OrthopedicSociety for SportsMedicine, Philippines

Ma. Inez Feria, Founder andExecutive Director, NoBoxTransitions Foundation,

PhilippinesRap Fernandez, Actor;Documentary FilmProducer, Philippines

Le Minh Giang, ExecutiveDirector, Vietnam-HIVAddiction TechnologyTransfer Cente, Vietnam

Anand Grover, Former UNSpecial Rapporteur on theRight to Health, India

Ricky Gunawan, Director,Community Legal AidInstitute (LBH Masyarakat),Indonesia

Somchai Homlaor,Secretary General, Human

Rights and DevelopmentFoundation; Former LawReform Commissioner,Thailand

Asma Jahangir, FormerUN Special Rapporteuron Arbitrary, Extrajudicialand Summary Executions,Pakistan

Pittaya Jinawat, Adviser,Rights and LibertiesProtection Department,Ministry of Justice; Advisor,Kamlangjai (Inspire),Thailand

Adeeba Kamarulzaman,Dean, Faculty of Medicine;Professor of Medicineand Infectious Diseases,University of Malaya,Malaysia

Jikyeong Kang, Presidentand Dean, Asian Instituteof Management,Philippines

Nang Pann Ei Kham,Coordinator, Drug PolicyAdvocacy Group, Myanmar

Ginan Koesmayadi,Vocalist, Jeruji, Indonesia

Tsuneo Kondo, President,Japan Drug AddictionRehabilitation Center,Japan

Maksut Kulzhanov,Professor; President,Medical Chamber ofKazakhstan; Member,Executive Board, WorldHealth Organization,Kazakhstan

Gloria Lai, Senior PolicyOfficer, InternationalDrug Policy Consortium,Thailand

Sai Lone, Coordinator,Myanmar Opium FarmersForum, Myanmar

Marina Mahathir, UNPerson of the Year (2010)for achievements in gender,women’s empowerment,

and HIV/AIDs; HumanRights Activist, Malaysia

Emma Bonino, FormerMinister of Foreign Affairs,Italy; Former EuropeanCommissioner for Healthand Consumer Protection,Italy

Ben Bowling, Professor,

King’s College London, UKSam Bowman, ExecutiveDirector, Adam SmithInstitute, UK

Tom Brake, Memberof Parliament, LiberalDemocrats, UK

Edgardo Brambilla, FormerAssociate Director, Nestec,Nestlé, Switzerland

Richard Branson,Entrepreneur; Founder,Virgin Group; Co-founder,The Elders, UK

Rudolf Brenneisen,Professor of Pharmacology,Department of ClinicalResearch, University ofBern, Switzerland

Barbara Broers, Professorof Medicine, Univesity ofGeneva; Vice-President,Swiss Commission onDrugs, Switzerland

Christoph Bürki,Psychiatrist;Psychotherapist; FormerMedical Director, Berne,Switzerland

Julia Buxton, Professor andAssociate Dean, Schoolof Public Policy, CentralEuropean University,Budapest, Hungary

Sir Vince Cable, FormerSecretary of State,Business, Innovation andSkills; Former leader,Liberal Democrats; FormerMember of Parliament, UK

Alec Carlberg, Founder,Basta social enterprise,Sweden

Alistair Carmichael,Former Secretary of State,Scotland, UK

Marina Carrobbio, Memberof Parliament, Switzerland

Ursula Cassani, Professorof Penal Law, University ofGeneva, Switzerland

Sandro Cattacin, Professor,Univesity of Geneva,Switzerland

Maria Livanos Cattaui,Former Secretary General,International Chamber ofCommerce, Switzerland

Lars Christensen,International Economist;Owner and CEO, Markets& Money Advisory; SeniorFellow, Adam SmithInstitute, Denmark

Lars Seier Christensen,CEO and Founder, SeierCapital, Denmark

Ivan Christensen,

Manager, MÃ_ndenesHjem, Copenhagen’sHarm Reduction Services,Denmark

Don Luigi Ciotti, Founder,Gruppo Abele and Libera,Italy

Adam Clayton, BassGuitarist, U2, Ireland

Nick Clegg, FormerDeputy Prime Minister, theUnited Kingdom; Memberof Parliament, LiberalDemocrats, UK

Dean Agnes Mejia, Dean,University of the PhilippinesCollege of Medicine,Philippines

Supatra Nacapew,Executive Director,Foundation of AIDS Rights;

Member, National AIDSCommittee - Subcommitteeon Rights Promotion andProtection, Thailand

Kasthuriraani Patto,Member of Parliament,Malaysia

Praphan Phanuphak, Co-Founder, Thai Red CrossAIDS Research Centre,Thailand

Rene A. V. Saguisag,Lawyer; Former Senator;Professor, San BedaCollege, Philippines

Charles Santiago,Chairman, ASEAN

Parliamentarians forHuman Rights, Malaysia

Paul AnantharajahTambyah, Professorof Medicine, NationalUniversity of Singapore,Singapore

Masayoshi Tarui, ViceChair, Japan AIDS & SocietyAssociation, Japan

Theodore O. Te, AssistantCourt Administrator,Supreme Court of thePhilippines, Philippines

Shashi Tharoor, FormerUnder-Secretary General,United Nations; Member of

Parliament, IndiaKyaw Thu, Chairman,National Drug UserNetwork, Myanmar

Jon Ungphakorn, FormerSenator, Thailand

CANADA

Louise Arbour, FormerJustice, Supreme Court ofCanada; Former UN HighCommissioner for HumanRights, Canada

Scott E. Bernstein, Humanrights lawyer, BritishColumbia, Canada

Larry Campbell, Senator;Former Mayor, Vancouver;Former Chief Coroner,British Columbia, Canada

Libby Davies, FormerMember of Parliamentand Deputy Leader, NewDemocratic Party ofCanada, Canada

Michael Evans, ProfessorEmeritus, PhysicsDepartment, University ofAlberta, Canada

Ryan Holmes, CEO,Hootsuite, Canada

Perry Kendall, ProvincialHealth Officer, Province ofBritish Columbia, Canada

Thomas Kerr, Co-Director,Urban Health ResearchInitiative, BC Centre forExcellence in HIV/AIDS;Associate Professor,Department of Medicine,University of BritishColumbia, Canada

David Laidler, Fellow,Royal Society of Canada;Professor Emeritus,University of WesternOntario, Canada

C. Ross Lander, FormerJustice, Supreme Court ofBritish Columbia, Canada

Bernt Johan Collet, FormerMinister of Defence,Denmark; Founder, Centerfor Political Studies,Denmark

Marc Comina,Director, Marc Comina

Communication,Switzerland

Paul Conlon, CEO, Aiséiríaddiction treatment service,Ireland

Caroline Coon, Artist;Writer, UK

Anton Corbijn,Photographer; Filmmaker,Netherlands

Jean-Pierre Couteron,Chairman, FederationAddiction, France

Sir Clive Cowdery,Philanthropist; Founder,Resolution Foundation, UK

Frances Crook, ChiefExecutive, The HowardLeague for Penal Reform,UK

Peter Curman, FormerChairperson, SwedishWriter’s Union, Sweden

Hedy d’Ancona, FormerMinister of Health, theNetherlands, Netherlands

Jean-Bernad Daeppen,Professor of Medicine,University of Lausanne,Switzerland

Jean Pierre Daulouede,Director, Bizia, France

Lord Geoffrey Dear, Peer,

House of Lords, UKThangam Debbonaire,Member of Parliament,Labour Party, UK

Balázs Dénes, ExecutiveDirector, Hungarian CivilLiberties Union, Hungary

Lord Navnit Dholakia, Peer,House of Lords, UK

Andrew Dixon, AngelInvestor, UK

Bojan Dobovsek, Professor,Faculty of Criminal Justiceand Security, University ofMaribor, Slovenia

Katja Dörner, Member ofParliament (Bundestag);Vice Chairman,Alliance 90/The Greens,Germany

Ruth Dreifuss, FormerPresident, Switzerland,Switzerland

Françoise Dubois-Arber,Professor of Public Health,University of Lausanne,Switzerland

Tony Duffin, CEO, AnaLiffey Drug Project, Ireland

James Duffy, FormerPolice Inspector; FormerChair, Strathclyde PoliceFederation, UK

Raimond Dufour, President,Netherlands Drug PolicyFoundation, Netherlands

Niamh Eastwood, ExecutiveDirector, Release, UK

Carl-Michael Edenborg,Author, Sweden

Peter Ege, Former MedicalDirector, Drug TreatmentSystem of Copenhagen;Public Health Officer,Denmark

Peter Eggli, Professor ofAnatomy, Univerity of Bern,Switzerland

Sigge Eklund, Author,Sweden




SIGNATORIES 3

Roger Liggenstorfer,Publisher, NachtschattenVerlag, Solothurn,Switzerland

Peter Lilley, Member ofParliament, ConservativeParty, UK

Sven-Åke Lindgren,Professor Emeritus ofSociology, University ofGothenburg, Sweden

Rick Lines, ExecutiveDirector, Harm ReductionInternational, UK

Baroness Ruth Lister, Peer,House of Lords, UK

Fabienne Lopez, President,Principes Actifs, France

Kari Lossius, ClinicManager; Psychologist,Norway

Caroline Lucas, Memberof Parliament, Green

Party, UKLulu, Singer; Actress; TVPersonality, UK

Ketil Lund, Former SupremeCourt Justice, Norway,Norway

Nigel Lythgoe, FilmDirector and Producer; TVPersonality, UK

Fiona Macaulay, SeniorLecturer, BradfordUniversity, UK

Annie Machon, FormerIntelligence Officer, MI5;European Director, LawEnforcement AgainstProhibition, UK

Lord Bob MacLennan, Peer,House of Lords, UK

Jacques-André Maire,Member of Parliament,Switzerland

Raffaele Malinverni,Professor; Head ofDepartment of Medicine,Hospital of Neuchatel,Switzerland

Melpomeni-MinervaMalliori, Professor ofPsychiatry, NationalUniversity of Athens,Greece

Luigi Manconi, Senator;President, Italian Senate

Commission on HumanRights, Italy

Lord Benjamin Mancroft,Peer, House of Lords, UK

Christiphe Mani, Director,FASe (Federation ofAnimation, Geneva),Switzerland

Michael Mansfield,Barrister, Head ofMansfield Chambers, UK

Ada Mara, Member ofParliament, Switzerland

Lord Jonathan Marks,Barrister; Peer, House ofLords, UK

Jean Martin, Former Headof Health Sector, CantonalDoctor, Vaud, Switzerland

Dick Marty, FormerProsecutor General,Member of Government,Ticino Canton, Switzerland

Larysa Matyukha, Head,the All-Ukrainian FamilyDoctors Association,Ukraine

Liliane Maury Pasquier,Member of Parliament,Switzerland

Federico Mayor Zaragoza,Former Director-Generalof UNESCO; Chairman,Foundation for a Culture ofPeace, Spain

Ted Goldberg, ProfessorEmeritus of Sociology,University of Gävle, Sweden

Diane Goldstein,Former U.S. LieutenantCommander; ExecutiveBoard member, Law

Enforcement AgainstProhibition, UK

Jörg Gölz, HonoraryChairman, Berlin, GermanSociety of AddictionMedicine (DeutscheGesellschaft fuerSuchtmedizin), Germany

Nanna W. Gotfredsen,Executive Director, TheStreet Lawyers, Denmark

João Goulão, Director-General, General-Directorate for Interventionon Addictive Behavioursand Dependencies, Portugal

Oliver Grehl, Psychiatrist;

Psychotherapist; ExecutiveBoard member, BernerGesundheit; Board member,The Swiss Society ofAddiction Medicine,Switzerland

Alberto Grignolo, ChiefOperating Officer, YOOXNet-a-Porter Group, Italy

Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson,Member of Parliament,Icelandic Pirate Party,Iceland

Guðmundur Gunnarsson,Former President, ElectricWorkers Trade Union,Iceland

Helgi Gunnlaugsson,Criminologist; Professor ofSociology, Iceland

Jón Steinar Gunnlaugsson,Former Supreme CourtJudge, Iceland, Iceland

Barbara Gysi, Member ofParliament, Vice-President,Socialist Party, Switzerland

Steinn ThoroddsenHalldórsson, Harm-reduction Worker; MedicalStudent, Iceland

Robert Hämmig, President,Swiss Society of AddictionMedecine, Switzerland

Baroness Sally Hamwee,

Peer, House of Lords, UKLord David Hannay, Peer,House of Lords, UK

Cezary Harasimowicz,Writer; Screenwriter,Poland

Miklos Haraszti, UN SpecialRapporteur on the situationof human rights in Belarus;Adjunct Professor, Schoolof International & PublicAffairs of Columbia LawSchool, Hungary

Atli Harðarson, Philosopher,Iceland

A.P. Hardon, Professor ofAnthropology, University

of Amsterdam; FormerScientific Director,Amsterdam Institute forSocial Science Research,Netherlands

Johann Hari, Author;Journalist, UK

Justus Haucap, Professor,Düsseldorf Institute forCompetition Economics,Germany

Anita Heber, AssociateProfessor of Criminology,Stockholm University,Sweden

Helga Vala Helgadóttir,Attorney, Iceland

Uffe Elbaek, FormerMinister of Culture; Co-Founder and Leader, TheAlternative, Denmark

Bruno Erni, President,Addiction Association(Fachverband Sucht),

SwitzerlandPierre Esseiva, Professor ofCriminology, University ofLausanne, Switzerland

Felipe Estrada, Professorof Criminology, StockholmUniversity, Sweden

Rick Falkvinge, Founder,Pirate Party, Sweden

Tim Farron, Leader,the Liberal Democrats;Member of Parliament,Liberal Democrats, UK

Cédric Fazan, President,GREA (Addiction Studies),Switzerland

Baroness LynneFeatherstone, FormerDrugs Minister; FormerMember of Parliament, UK

Laurence Fehlmann,Member of Parliament,Switzerland

Amanda Feilding, Founder,Beckley Foundation;Scientist, UK

Gabriele Fischer, Professor,Department for Psychiatryand Psychotherapy,Medical University ofVienna, Austria

Aron Flam, Comedian,Sweden

Janne Flyghed, Professorof Criminology, StockholmUniversity, Sweden

Knud Foldschack, Attorney,Denmark

Inger Forsgren,Chairperson, The SwedishAssociation for Help toDrug Users, Sweden

Helga Sif Friðjónsdóttir,Nurse; Harm reductionworker/activist, Iceland

Björn Fries, Former NationalDrug Policy Coordinator,Sweden, Sweden

Peter Gabriel, Musician, UK

Matthieu Gafsou,Photographer, Switzerland

Richard Garside, Director,Centre for Crime andJustice Studies, UK

Peter Gasser, Psychiatrist;Psychotherapist;Practioner; LSD-researcher;President, Swiss MedicalAssociation for PsycholyticTherapy. Solothurn,Switzerland

Tony Geoghegan, CEO,Merchants Quay Ireland,Ireland

Roberto Giachetti,Vice-Chair, Chamber ofDeputies, Democratic

Party, ItalyHedda Giertsen, Professor,Department of Criminologyand Sociology, University ofOslo, Norway

Thor Gislason, IndependentProject Manager, Iceland

Björn Valur Gíslason,Fisherman; Vice Memberof Parliament; Vice-Chair,Left-Green Party, Iceland

Jón Gnarr, Former Mayor,Reykjavik, Iceland

Smári McCarthy, ChiefTechnologist andInformation SecurityExpert, Organized Crimeand Corruption ReportingProject, Iceland

Lou McGrath, Nobel Peace

Prize, 1997; Founder, MinesAction Group, UK

Baroness Molly Meacher,Peer, House of Lords, UK

Fiona Measham, Professor,University of Durham, UK

Daniel Meili, Medical Chief,ARUD (Association for RiskReduction in Use of Drugs),Switzerland

Anne-Catherine Menetey-Savary, Former Member ofParliament, Switzerland

Baroness Susan Miller, Peer,House of Lords, UK

Franz Moggi, Head of the

Psychotherapy Section andthe Clinical PsychologicalService, University Hospitalof Psychiatry, Switzerland

Paul Monaghan, Memberof Parliament, ScottishNational Party, UK

Paul Monaghan, Memberof Parliament, ScottishNational Party, UK

Sir Keith Morris, Former UKAmbassador to Colombia,UK

Bubbi Morthens, Musician;Poet, Iceland

Þorlákur Morthens, Artist,Iceland

Denis Muller, Professorof Theology, Univerity ofLausanne, Switzerland

Andreas Müller, Judge;Author, Germany

Baroness Elaine Murphy,Peer, House of Lords, UK

Peter Muyshondt, Directorof Operations, VoorkempenLocal Police, Belgium,Belgium

Maajid Nawaz, Author;Columnist; FoundingChairman, Quilliam, UK

Svatopluk Nemecek,Minister of Health, CzechRepublic, Czech Republic

Cornelius Nestler,Professor, University ofCologne, Germany

Elivira Nicolaisen, Singer;Songwriter, Norway

Brynjar Níelsson,Member of Parliament,Independence Party,Iceland

Zbigniew Niemczycki,Entrepreneur; Founder,Polish Business Roundtable,Poland

Arie C. NieuwenhuijzenKruseman, FormerPresident, Royal Dutch

Medical Association,Netherlands

Anders Nilsson, Professorof Criminology, StockholmUniversity, Sweden

Johan Norberg, Author;Documentary filmmaker,Sweden

Manfred Nowak, FormerUN Special Rapporteuron Torture; Professor ofInternational Law andHuman Rights, Universityof Vienna; Director, LudwigBoltzmann Institute ofHuman Rights, Austria

Magnus Hörnqvist,Associate Professor ofCriminology, StockholmUniversity, Sweden

Lord Alan Howarth, Peer,House of Lords, UK

Kristinn Hrafnsson,Director, IcelandicCenter for InvestigativeJournalism, Iceland

Paul Hunt, Former UNSpecial Rapporteur on theRight to Health, UK

Julian Huppert, FormerMember of Parliament,Liberal Democrats, UK

Samia Hurst, Professorof Ethics, University ofGeneva, Switzerland

Christian Imboden, Headof Insomnia Consultation,Psychiatric Services,Solothurn, Switzerland

Eva Indriðadóttir, President,Social Democratic Youth,Iceland

Sigríður IngibjörgIngadóttir, Memberof Parliament; Chair,Committee of Health andSocial Services, Iceland

Katrín Jakobsdóttir,Member of Parliamentand Chair, Left-GreenParty; Former Minister ofEducation and Culture,Iceland, Iceland

Jean-Philippe Jeannerat,Former Secretary General,Swiss Social Party,Switzerland

Christian Jessen, Doctor;TV Presenter, UK

Svala Jóhannesdóttir,Harm-reduction Worker,Iceland

Kristoffer Joner, Actor,Norway

Birgitta Jónsdóttir,Poetican; Member ofParliament, Icelandic PirateParty, Iceland

Gunnlaugur Jónsson,Entrepreneur, Iceland

Arnar Jónsson, Actor,Iceland

Lord Frank Judd, Peer,

House of Lords, UKSigríður Rut Júlíusdóttir,Attorney, Iceland

Bjarki Karlsson, Poet,Iceland

Marcus Keane, Head ofPolicy, Ana Liffey DrugProject, Ireland

Yasser Khazaal, Vice-President, Society of SocialPsychiatry, Switzerland

Margaret Kiener Nellen,Member of Parliament,Switzerland

Jørgen Kjær,BrugerForeningen, Danish

Drug User’s Union,Copenhagen, Denmark

Andriy Klepikov, ExecutiveDirector, Alliance for PublicHealth, Ukraine

Arild Knutsen, President,Association for HumaneDrug Policies, Norway

Vasyl Knyazevytch,Former Minister of Health,Ukraine; Head of the Board,All-Ukrainian League ofHospice and PalliativeCare, Ukraine

Tom Koenigs, Memberof Parliament, GermanBundestag, Germany

David Nutt,Director, Neuro-psychopharmacology Unit,Imperial College London;Former Chair, AdvisoryCouncil on the Misuse ofDrugs, UK

Vivienne O’Brien,Coordinator, BrayCommunity AddictionTeam, Ireland

John O’Connor, AddictionCounsellor, AnchorTreatment Centre, Ireland

Pat O’Hare, FoundingDirector, Harm ReductionInternational, UK

Katrín Oddsdóttir, HumanRights Lawyer, Iceland

Fabrice Olivet, Director,ASUD (Self Support ofDrug Users), France

Joachim B. Olsen, Member,Danish Parliament; 2004Olympic silver medalist,Denmark

Pia Olsen Dyhr, Leader,SF Party; Member ofParliament, Denmark

Börje Olsson, ProfessorEmeritus of Sociology,Stockholm University ,Sweden

OnklP, Rapper, Norway

Rita Ora, Singer, UK

Rúnar Örn Olsen,President, LibertarianSociety of Iceland, Iceland

Wiktor Osiatynski,Professor of Law, Central

European University;Professor of Human Rights,University of Connecticut;Board member, OpenSociety Foundations,Poland

Lárus Ýmir Óskarsson, FilmDirector, Iceland

Cem Özdemir, NationalChairman, the GermanGreen Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), Member ofParliament (Bundestag),Germany

Piotr Pacewicz, Journalist;Co-founder, GazetaWyborcza daily, Poland

Lord Brian Paddick,Former DeputyAssistant Commissioner,Metropolitan Police(London), UK

Árni Páll Árnason, FormerMinister of Social Affairs;Former Minister ofBusiness Affairs, Iceland;Member of Parliament,Social Democratic Alliance,Iceland

Kristín I. Pálsdóttir,Spokeswoman, The Root -Association on Women’sIssues Relating to Alcoholand Addiction, Iceland

Francesco Panese,

Professor of Sociology,Univerity of Lausanne,Switzerland

Marco Pannella, FormerMember, EuropeanParliament; President,Nonviolent Radical Party,Italy

George Papandreou,Former Prime Minister,Greece, Greece

William Patey, FormerUK Ambassador toAfghanistan, Sudan, Iraq,and Saudi Arabia, UK

Zdenek Kolar, Head,Institute of Clinical andMolecular Pathology;Dean Emeritus, MedicalFaculty, Palacky University,Olomouc, Czech Republic

Kora, Singer, Poland

Bernard Kouchner, FormerMinister of Foreign Affairs,France, France

Daniela Kreher, Reverend;Church historian; Harm-reduction Specialist,Germany

Arne Kristensen, ExecutiveDirector, Viva – Togetherfor Children, Denmark

KShoo, Spokesperson andco-founder, Federationof CIRCs (Collective forInformation and Researchinto Cannabis), France

Weronika Książkiewicz,Actress, Poland

André Kuhn, Professorof Law, University ofNeuchatel, Switzerland

Danuta Kuroń, Social rightsadvocate; Head, SocialAssistance Foundation,Poland

Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard,Professor of PoliticalTheory and ComparativePolitics, Department ofPolitical Science, Universityof Copenhagen, Denmark

Sandro Kvitashvili, Ministerof Health, Ukraine, Ukraine

Aleksander Kwaśniewski,Former President, Poland,Poland

Georges Lachaze, ProjectManager, ASUD (SelfSupport of Drug Users),France

Norman Lamb, FormerHealth Minister, UnitedKingdom, UK

Ingrid Lander, AssociateProfessor of Criminology,Stockholm University,Sweden

Reverend James Langstaff,Bishop of Rochester; Bishopto Prisons, UK

Paul Larsson, Professor

of Criminology, PoliceUniversity College, Oslo,Norway

Hillevi Larsson, Member ofParliament, Sweden

Richard Layard, ProgrammeDirector, Centre forEconomic Performance,London School ofEconomics, UK

Klaus Legau, CEO, AIDS-Fondet, Denmark

Herbert Leherr, Headof Addiction & ForensicDepartment, PsychiatricServices Thurgau; Boardmember, The Swiss Societyof Addiction Medicine,SwitzerlandAnnie Lennox, Musician,UK

Clive Lewis, Member ofParliament, Labour Party,UK

Yaël Liebkind, Head, LaMain Tendue (The ReachOut Hand), Switzerland

Michael Liebrenz, Headof research, ForensicPsychiatric Service,Institute of LegalMedicine, University Bern,Switzerland

Willy Pedersen, Professorof Sociology, University ofOslo, Norway

Rupert Pennant-Rea,Chairman, The Economist;Former Deputy Governor,Bank of England, UK

Marco Perduca, FormerSenator, Italy; UNRepresentative, NonviolentRadical Party, Italy

Tove Pettersson, Professorof Criminology, StockholmUniversity, Sweden

Peter Piot, Director,London School of Hygiene& Tropical Medicine;Former Executive Director,UNAIDS; Discoverer of theEbola virus, UK

Giuiano Pisapia, Mayor,Milan, Italy

Monika Platek, Founderand President, PolishAssociation for LegalEducation; AssociateProfessor, University ofWarsaw, Poland

John Podmore, FormerGovernor, Brixton andBelmarsh Prisons; Professor,Durham University, UK

Freek Polak, Psychiatrist,Netherlands Drug PolicyFoundation, Netherlands

Jacek Poniedziałek, Actor,Poland

Lidia Popiel, Photographer,Poland

Óttarr Proppé, Member ofParliament and Chairman,Bright Future party, Iceland

Boris Quednow, Professor,Univerity of Zurich,Switzerland

Anna Quigley, Co-ordinator,CityWide Drugs CrisisCampaign, Dublin, Ireland

Alexandre Quintanilha,Scientist; Former Director,Institute of Molecular andCell Biology, University ofPorto, Portugal

Amol Rajan, Editor-at-large,The Independent, UK

Laszlo Rajk, Architect;Political Activist, Hungary

Joanna Rajkowska, Artist,Poland

Lord David Ramsbotham,Peer, House of Lords, UK

RaskePenge, RecordingArtist; Journalist; Author,Denmark

Luc Recordon, FormerMember of Parliament,Switzerland

Jason Reed, ExecutiveDirector, Law EnforcementAgainst Prohibition UK, UK

Kenzi Riboulet Zemouli,Head of Advocacy,Artaud Foundation for anAlternative Approach to

Addiction and SubstanceDependence, Spain

Monika Ridinger, HeadPhysician, Centre forAddiction Psychiatry& Psychotherapy, ThePsychiatric Services Aargau,Switzerland

Jean-Charles Rielle, FormerMember of Parliament,Switzerland

Jeorge MarcRiesen, Psychiatrist;Psychotherapist; Treasurer,The Swiss Society ofAddiction Medicine,Switzerland




4 SIGNATORIES

Alexander RinnooyKan, Businessman;Mathematician; Senator,Democrats 66, Netherlands

Ole Røgeberg, Economist,Frisch Centre, University ofOslo, Norway

Sveinung Rotevatn,Member of Parliament,Liberal Party, Norway

Claudia Roth, VicePresident, GermanParliament (Bundestag),Germany

Ina Roll Spinnangr,Coordinator, Association ofSafer Drug Policies, Norway

David Rowntree, Musician;Drummer, Blur, UK

Sveinn Rúnar Hauksson,Family Physician, Iceland

Hafþór Sævarsson, Chair,Young Pirates, Iceland

Jerzy Sarnecki, ProfessorEmeritus of Criminology,Stockholm University,Sweden

Jean-Félix Savary, SecretaryGeneral, GREA (AddictionStudies), Switzerland

Roberto Saviano, Journalist;Writer; Essayist, Italy

Harmut Schneider, Judge,District Court of Luebeck,Germany, Germany

Jann Schumacher,President, Ticino Addiction,Switzerland

Jean ChristopheSchwaab, Member ofParliament; President, LawCommission, Switzerland

Graham Seaby, FormerDetective Superintendent,New Scotland Yard, UK

Toby Seddon, Professor,University of Manchester,UK

André Seidenberg,Addiction Specialist;Founder, Association forRisk Reduction in Use ofDrugs, Zürich, Switzerland

Suzanne Sharkey, FormerConstable and UndercoverOperative, NorthumbriaConstabulary; Director of

Recovering Justice, UKOgnian Shentov, Chairman,Center for the Study ofDemocracy, Bulgaria

Larry Sherman, Professorand Director, Institute ofCriminology, University ofCambridge, UK

Roger Shrubb, FormerRoyal Navy Officer, FormerMagistrate, UK

Sławomir Sierakowski,Head, Krytyka Politycznathink tank, Poland

Olivier Simon, President,College of AddictionMedicine, Switzerland

Kamil Sipowicz, Journalist;Philosopher; Poet; Sculptor,Poland

Pernille Skipper, Member ofParliament, Denmark

Carel E. Smith, Professor,Leiden University LawSchool, Netherlands

Jeff Smith, Member ofParliament, Labour Party,UK

Stanisław Sojka, Musician,Poland

LATIN AMERICA &

CARIBBEAN

Rodrigo Abel, Sub-Secretary of Special SocialProtection, City of Rio deJaneiro; Member, BrazilianCommission on Drugs and

Democracy, BrazilPedro Abramovay,Regional Director, LatinAmerica & the Caribbean,Open Society Foundations,Brazil

Luiz Alberto Gómez deSouza, Member, BrazilianCommission on Drugs andDemocracy, Brazil

Father Xavier Albó, JesuitFather; Anthropologist; Co-founder, CIPCA; Recipient,Condor of the Andes,Bolivia

Renata AlmeidaMagalhães, Film Producer,

Executive Producer andActress, Brazil

Beatriz Alqueres, Member,Secretariat, GlobalComission on Drug Policy,Brazil

Vinicius Alvarenga,Entrepreneur; Member,Pense Livre network, Brazil

Fabio Amado, Coordinator,Human Rights Centre,Public Defense Office of Riode Janeiro, Brazil

Giselle Amador, Doctorof Medicine, Costa RicanCollege of Physicians,Costa Rica

Giselle Amador Muñoz,Director, IntegralProgram for Doctors withProblematic Drug Use,College of Physicians,Costa Rica

Cel. Ubiratan Angelo,Former Commander,Military Police, State of Riode Janeiro, Brazil

Marco Antonio CarvalhoTeixeira, Professor, GetulioVargas FoundationBussiness AdministrationSchool, Brazil

Roberto Artavia Loría,President, LatinoaméricaPosible Foundation, CostaRicaMarvin Atencio Delgado,Congressman, Civil ActionParty, Costa Rica

Edmar Bacha, Director,Casa das Garças; Member,Brazilian Commission onDrugs and Democracy,Brazil

Rodrigo Baptista Pacheco,2nd General Public Sub-Defender, State of Rio deJaneiro, Brazil

César Barreira, Professor,Federal University of Ceará,Brazil

Osvaldo Bayer, Writer;Journalist; Historian,Argentina

Héctor Berrios, Coordinator,Movimiento UnificadoFrancisco Sanchez-1932(The Francisco SanchezUnited Movement-1932), ElSalvador

Luciana Boiteux, AssociateProfessor of Criminal Law,Federal University of Rio deJaneiro, Brazil

Adrian Bonilla, SecretaryGeneral, The LatinAmerican Social SciencesInstitute, Costa Rica

Javier Solana, FormerEuropean Union HighRepresentative, CommonForeign and Security Policy,Spain, Spain

Viorel Soltan, Director,Center for Health Policies

and Studies, MoldovaCarlo Sommarugga,Member of Parliament,Switzerland

Berne Stålenkrantz,Chairperson and Founder,Swedish Drug Users Union,Sweden

Tomasz Stańko, Musician,Poland

Zygmunt Staszczyk,Musician, Poland

Stefán Karl Stefánsson,Actor, Iceland

Jean-François Steiert,Member of Parliament,

SwitzerlandGuðmundur Steingrímsson,Member of Parliament,Bright Future party, Iceland

Baroness Vivian Stern, Peer,House of Lords, UK

Alex Stevens, DeputyHead, School of SocialPolicy, Sociology and SocialResearch, University ofKent, UK

Sting, Musician, UK

Thorvald Stoltenberg,Former Minister of Defense;Former Minister of ForeignAffairs, Norway; FormerUN High Commissioner for

Refugees, NorwayHarry Sumnall, Professor,Liverpool John MooresUniversity, UK

Sune Sunesson, ProfessorEmeritus of Social Work,Lund University, Sweden

Halldór Auðar Svansson,City Councillor, Reykjavík,Iceland

Bengt Svensson, ProfessorEmeritus of Social Work,Malmö University, Sweden

Lord Dick Taverne, FormerDirector, Institute for FiscalStudies; Former Member ofParliament, UK

Frank Tempel, Member ofParliament (Bundestag),Germany

Harald Terpe, Member ofParliament (Bundestag),Alliance 90/The Greens,Germany

Lord Robin Teverson, Peer,House of Lords, UK

Henrik Tham, ProfessorEmeritus of Criminology,Stockholm University,Sweden

Ninna Thomsen, Mayorof Health and Care,Copenhagen, Denmark

Eva Tiby, Professor ofCriminology, StockholmUniversity, Sweden

Olga Tokarczuk, Writer,Poland

Akos Topolanszky, FormerHungarian National DrugCoordinator; Member,European Economic andSocial Committee, Hungary

Per Ole Träskman, ProfessorEmeritus of Penal Law, LundUniversity, Sweden

Pedro Cahn, FormerPresident, InternationalAIDS Society, Argentina

Alberto Calabrese, Director,Postgraduate Certificate inAddictions, University ofTucuman, Argentina

Julio Calzada, FormerSecretary General,Uruguay’s National DrugsBoard, Uruguay

Lusmarina CamposGarcia, Researcher, FederalUniversity of Rio de JaneiroLaw School; LutheranPriest, Brazil

Roberto Cañas, Academic;Signatory, Peace Accords inEl Salvador, El Salvador

Fernando HenriqueCardoso, Former President,Brazil, Brazil

Fernando Carrera, FormerMinister of Foreign Affairs,

Guatemala, GuatemalaRubem César Fernandes,Executive Director, VivaRio, Brazil

Arnaldo César Ricci Jacob,Journalist; Founder, VivaRio, Brazil

Ernesto César, Director,Costa Rican Association forthe Study and Interventionin Drugs; Anthropolgist,Costa Rica

Sandro Costa, FormerOfficer, Military Police,State of Rio de Janeiro;Former Chief of the CityGuard; Sub-Secretary

of Public Security, SãoGonçalo City, Brazil

Leonardo Costa, FormerDeputy Secretary,Presidency of Uruguay,Uruguay

Rafael Custódio,Coordinator, JusticeProgram, Conectas HumansRight, Brazil

Pablo Cymerman,Intercambios CivilAssociation, Argentina

Jorge Da Silva, AssociateProfessor, State Universityof Rio de Janeiro; FormerChief of General Staff,

Military Police of Rio deJaneiro; Former HumanRights Secretary, Rio deJaneiro, Brazil

Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira,Writer; Member, BrazilianAcademy of Letters, Brazil

José Murilo de Carvalho,Political Scientist, Historian;Member, BrazilianAcademy of Letters, Brazil

Miguel de Faria Júnior, FilmDirector, Brazil

Gustavo de Greiff,Former Attorney General,Colombia; FormerColombian Ambassador toMexico, Colombia

José Viana de OliveiraPaula, Film Director;Founder, Viva Rio, Brazil

Maria Cecília de SouzaMinayo, Researcher,Latin American Centerfor Violence and HealthStudies, Brazil

Reverend Martin IgnacioDiaz Velasquez, SeniorPastor, EvangelicalProtestant Church of ElSalvador, El Salvador

Claudia Dides, ExecutiveDirector, Miles Foundation,Chile

Rory G. Truell, Secretary-General, InternationalFederation of SocialWorkers; HonoraryProfessor, DurhamUniversity, Switzerland

Margrét Tryggvadóttir,

Writer; Former Memberof Parliament, CitizensMovement, Iceland

Kalle Tryggvesson,Associate Professor ofCriminology, StockholmUniversity, Sweden

Lord Leslie Turnberg, Peer,House of Lords, UK

Volodymyr Tymoshenko,Former Head, State Serviceon Drug Control; FormerGeneral, Security Service ofUkraine; Member, HumanDignity Coalition, Ukraine

Ambros Uchtenhagen,Professor, ISGF (Institute

for Addiction and HealthResearch), Switzerland

Heidi Uldahl,Chairman, Chairman,PårørendeNetværketAntiStigma, The Networkof Relatives of People WhoUse Drugs, Denmark

Andries A. van Agt,Former Prime Minister, theNetherlands, Netherlands

Harry F. van den Haak,Former President, DutchAssociation of Judgesand Public Prosecutors,Netherlands

Bregje F. van Eekelen,

Professor, History ofSociety Department,Erasmus University,Netherlands

Mabel van Oranje,Advocate, Netherlands

Lars Vaular, Rapper,Norway

Lord Rumi Verjee,Entrepreneur; Founder,Domino’s Pizza UK, UK

Umberto Veronesi, FormerMinister of Health, Italy,Italy

Jerzy Vetulani, Member,Polish Skills Academy;Corresponding Member,

Polish Academy ofSciences; HonoraryMember, Indian Academyof Neuroscience, Poland

Peter Vickerman, Professorof Infectious DiseaseModelling, Universityof Bristol; Member,Johns Hopkins–LancetCommission on Drug Policyand Health, UK

Jindrich Voboril, NationalDrug Co-ordinator, CzechRepublic, Czech Republic

Fredrik von Kieseritzky,Medicinal Chemist, Sweden

Irma Vytovska, Actor,Ukraine

Helge Waal, Professor ofPsychiatry, University ofOslo, Norway

Baroness Joan Walmsley,Peer, House of Lords, UK

Rollin Wavre, Member,National CentralCommittee, FDP (LiberalParty), Switzerland

Niels Westy, Economist;International commentatorat “Børsen”, Newspaper,Denmark

Carlos Diegues, FilmDirector; Co-Founder, NewCinema movement, Brazil

Amaro Domingues,President, Maré OlympicComplex, Brazil

Andrés Gil Domínguez,Professor of ConstitutionalLaw, University of BuenosAires; PhD in Law,Argentina

Agustín Echeverri,Economist, Argentina

Eduardo Eugênio GouvêaVieira Filho, Board member,Viva Rio, Brazil

Sergio Fajardo, FormerMayor, Medellín; FormerGovernor, Antioquia,Colombia

Joaquim Falcão, Director,Getúlio Vargas FoundationRio de Janeiro Law School;Former Counselor, National

Justice Council, BrazilAtilio Falconi, Director,Laboratory of theNeurobiology of Sleep,University of the Republic,Uruguay

Luis Fernando Tófoli,Psychiatrist; Professor,Campinas University, Brazil

Emílio Figueiredo, Lawyer;Member, Growroom;Member, Judicial Networkfor Drug Policy Reform,Brazil

Renato Filev,Neuroscientist; Member,Pense Livre network, Brazil

Luis Flávio Sapori,Coordinator, Public SecurityResearch Centre, PontificalCatholic University of Riode Janeiro, Brazil

Kadian Francis, Director,SSDP-UWI Mona, Jamaica

Alex Freyre, ExecutiveDirector, Fundación BuenosAires SIDA (BuenosAires AIDS Foundation),Argentina

Paulo Gadelha, President,Brazilian Comission onDrugs and Democracy;President, Oswaldo CruzFoundation (Fiocruz), Brazil

Andrea Gallassi, Professorand Reseacher, Drugs andAssociated VulnerabilitiesCentre, University ofBrasília, Brazil

Carlos Garcia Carnelli,Co-Chair, InterdisciplinaryCenter for CannabisStudies, University of theRepublic, Uruguay

Diego Garcia-Sayan,Former Minister of Justice;Foreign Minister ofAffairs, Peru; Judge, Inter-American Court of HumanRights, Peru

Roberto Gargarella,CONICET researcher; PhDin Law, Argentina

Alejandro Gaviria, Ministerof Health and SocialProtection, Colombia,Colombia

César Gaviria Trujillo,Former President,Colombia, Colombia

Ana María Gazmuri,President, DayaFoundation, Chile

Rodrigo Giringhelli deAzevedo, Coordinator,Postgraduate Program inSocial Science, PontificalCatholic University of RioGrande do Sul, Brazil

Paul Whitehouse, FormerChief Constable, Sussex,UK

Hans-Rudolf Wicker,Professor and FormerDirector, Institute for SocialAnthropology, University of

Bern, SwitzerlandFrancis Wilkinson, FormerChief Constable, Gwent, UK

Hubert Wimber, PoliceChief, Muenster, Germany

Zbigniew Wodecki,Musician, Poland

Grażyna Wolszczak, Actor,Poland

Neil Woods, FormerUndercover DrugsDetective Sergeant;Chairman, LawEnforcement AgainstProhibition UK, UK

Ewa Woydyllo, Doctor

of Psychology; Addictiontherapist; Coordinator,Regional Program forCounteracting Addictions,Stefan Batory Foundation,Poland

Georg Wurth, CEO, GermanCannabis Association,Germany

Volodymyr Yaschenko,Former Deputy Head, StateService on Drug Control;Vice-President, Institute forthe Study of Dependencies,Drug Policy Issues andMonitoring the DrugSituation, Ukraine

Tomas Zabransky,

Commissioner, JohnsHopkins – LancetCommission on Drug Policyand Public Health, CzechRepublic

Jacek Żakowski, Journalist,Poland

Serhiy Zhadan, Artist; Poet;Civil Activist, Ukraine

Frank Zobel, FormerHead of Policy Analysis,European MonitoringCentre for Drugs and DrugAddiction, Switzerland

Serge Zombek, President,Brussels AddictionsFederation (Fédération

Bruxelloise des Institutionspour Toxicomane), Belgium

Grazia Zuffa, Psychologist;Psychotherapist; Member,Italian Committee onBioethics, Italy

Josef Zysiadis, FormerMinister, Canton of Vaud,Switzerland; Member ofParliament, Switzerland

Þórhildur Þorleifsdóttir,Theater Director; FormerMember of Parliament,Women’s Party, Iceland

Willum Þór Þórsson,Member of Parliament,Progressive Party, Iceland

Steinunn ÓlínaÞorsteinsdóttir, Actress;Editor, The Women’s Paper,Iceland

Pétur Þorsteinsson, Chair,Icelandic Civil LibertiesUnion (Snarrótin-ICLU),Iceland

Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson,Literary Critic, Iceland

Mark Golding, FormerMinister of Justice, Jamaica,Jamaica

Claudio Gonçalves Couto,Professor, São PauloBusiness AdministrationSchool; Executive Secretary,

National Association ofSocial Science GraduatePrograms and Research,Brazil

Simone Gonçalves de Assis,Researcher, Latin AmericanCentre for Violence andHealth Studies, Brazil

Dagoberto Gutiérrez, ViceChancellor, SalvadoranLutheran University, ElSalvador

Agustin Grijalva, AcademicMember, Ecuador Board ofHigher Education, Ecuador

Otto Guevara Guth,Congressman, Libertarian

Movement, Costa RicaCarolina Haber, ResearcherDirector on Access toJustice, Public DefenseOffice, State of Rio deJaneiro, Brazil

Thor Halvorssen, Founder,Oslo Freedom Forum;Human rights advocate;Film producer, Venezuela

Vicki J. Hanson,Coordinator, SSDP-UWI(Mona), Jamaica., Jamaica

Juan Carlos Hidalgo,Columnist, La Nación;Policy Analyst, CatoInstitute, Costa Rica

Jorge Hilário Gouvêa Vieira,Former Finance Secretary,State of Rio de Janeiro,Brazil

Anthony Hylton, FormerMinister of Foreign Affairs,Jamaica, Jamaica

Coronel Ibis Silva Pereira,Former Commander,Military Police, State of Riode Janeiro, Brazil

Francisco Inácio Bastos,Researcher, Fiocruz;Coordinator, NationalSurvey on Crack Use, Brazil

Maria Isabel BarrosoSalgado, Board member,

Viva Rio, BrazilRas Iyah V, Chairman,Westmorland Hemp andGanja Farmers Assoc,Jamaica

Giorgio Jackson,Congressman, ChileanHouse of Representatives,Chile

Mario Alberto Juliano,Executive Director,Asociación PensamientoPenal, Argentina

Ricardo Lagos, FormerPresident, Chile, Chile

Ricardo Lagos Weber,President of the Senate,

ChileElena Landau, Economist;Lawyer, Brazil

Rodrigo Lara,Representative, Bogota;National Director, RadicalChange Party, Colombia

Juan Mario Laserna, FormerDeputy Minister of Finance,Colombia; Former Senator,Colombia

Elizabeth Leeds, HonoraryPresident, Brazilian PublicSecurity Forum, Brazil




SIGNATORIES 5

Gerardo Cándano Conesa,Businessman

Amparo Casar, Lawyer

Jorge Castañeda, FormerSecretary of Foreign Affairs,Mexico

Daniel CastillejosCifuentes, Lawyer;Specialist in SocialResponsibility

Eugenio Clariond ReyesRetana, Businessman

Fray Julián Cruzalta,Founder, Catholics for theRight to Decide (Catolicaspor el Derecho a Decidir)

Luis de la BarredaSolórzano, FoundingPresident, Human RightsCommission of the FederalDistrict

Luis de la Calle, Economist

Juan Ramón de la Fuente,

Former Secretary of Health,Mexico

Juan Pablo del Valle,President, Mexichem;Businessman

Ernesto Pazmiño Granizo,Public Defender General,Ecuador

Antonio del VallePerochena, Businessman

Denise Dresser, Politicalscientist; Columnist

Carlos Elizondo MayerSerra, Professor ofPolitical Science, Centerfor Economic Researchand Teaching (Centro deInvestigación y DocenciaEconómicas)

Alejandro Encinas, Senator,Mexico

Vicente Fox, FormerPresident, Mexico

Gael Garcia Bernal, Actor;Director

Alberto GarzaSantos, Businessman;Environmentalist

Roberta Garza-Medina,Columnist

Pablo Girault, Businessman

Bernardo González-Aréchiga, Academic

Eduardo GuerreroGutiérrez, Consultant,Public Safety andGovernment Transparency;Columnist, El Financiero

Héctor Gutiérrez, Reverend,Church of the MetropolitanCommunity (Iglesia de laComunidad Metropolitana)

Arnoldo Kraus, Doctor;Writer; Professor, Facultyof Medicine, NationalAutonomous University ofMexico

Luisa Conesa Labastida,Lawyer

Marta Lamas, Professor ofPolitical Science, NationalAutonomous University ofMexico

Silvia Lemus, Journalist

Diego Luna, Actor; Director

Alejandro Madrazo,Director, The Right toHealth Program, Divisionof Legal Studies, Center forEconomic Research andTeaching

Julio Madrazo, Partner,De la Calle, Madrazo,Mancera, S.C.

Janete Nazareth Guilherme,Director of Women ofSalgueiro, Integration andCommunity Developmentin Action Centre ofSalgueiro, Brazil

Flávia Oliveira, Columnist,

O Globo; BroadcastCommentator, Globo News,Brazil

Salvador Paiz, President,FunSEPA, Guatemala

Jorge Vicente Paladines,Professor of Criminology,Andean University SimónBolívar, Ecuador

Luciane Patrício, AssociateProfessor, Public SecurityDepartment, Law School,Fluminense FederalUniversity, Brazil

Ana Paula Pellegrino,Researcher, IgarapeInstitute; Coordinator,

Pense Livre Network, BrazilMerval Pereira, Writerand Columnist, O Globo;Member, BrazilianAcademy of Letters, Brazil

Andrés Pino, LocalCoordinator, Students forLiberty, El Salvador

Julian Quintero, Director,Acción Técnica Social,Colombia

Edinilsa Ramos de Souza,Researcher, Latin AmericanCentre for Violence andHealth Studies, Brazil

Yesid Reyes, Ministerof Justice, Colombia,

ColombiaClaudio Rezende Barbosa,Psychologist; Member,Pense Livre network, Brazil

Melina Risso, PublicSecurity Specialist;Member, Pense Livrenetwork, Brazil

Maria Rita Kehl, Writer;Psychoanalyst; FormerMember of National TruthComission, Brazil

João Roberto Marinho,Vice-Director, O GloboMedia Group, Brazil

Luiz Roberto Tenório, Boardmember, Viva Rio, Brazil

Maíra Rocha Machado,Professor, Getúlio VargasFoundation Law School,Brazil

César Rodríguez Garavito,Director, Dejusticia,Colombia

Mauricio Rodriguez,Journalist; UniversityProfessor; FormerAmbassador of Colombiato the UK, Colombia

Marta Rodriguez de AssisMachado, Professor,Getúlio Vargas FoundationLaw School, Brazil

Milton Romani, SecretaryGeneral, Uruguay’sNational Drugs Board;Former UruguayanAmbassador to theOrganization of AmericanStates, Uruguay

Denis Russo Burgierman,Editor-in-chief,SuperinteressanteMagazine, Brazil

Roberto Saba, Dean,Faculty of Law, University ofPalermo, Argentina

Sebastián Sabini,Government Representative(Diputado), Uruguay

Julita Lemgruber,Coordinator, Centre ofStudies on Security andCitizenship, CandidoMendes University, Brazil

Roberto Lent, Professor,Federal University of Rio de

Janeiro, BrazilCecilia Lopez M., FormerMinister of Agriculture;Former Minister ofEnvironment, Colombia;Former Senator, Colombia

Daniel Lozoya ConstantLopes, Public Defender,State of Rio de Janeiro,Brazil

José Luiz Ratton, Professor,Federal University ofPernambuco, Brazil

Susana Mallo, FormerDean, Faculty of SocialSciences, University of theRepublic, Uruguay

João Roberto Marinho,Vice-Director, O Globomedia group, Brazil

Cedella Marley, Daughterof Bob Marley; CEO ofTuff Gong International,Jamaica

Rohan Marley, Son of BobMarley; Founder, MarleyCoffee, Jamaica

Rita Marley, Wife of BobMarley; Internationalreggae icon, Jamaica

Alvaro Roman Marquez,Professor, CentralUniversity of Ecuador,Ecuador

Cristiano Maronna,Executive Secretary,Brazilian Platform on DrugPolicy, Brazil

Ivan Marques, ExecutiveDirector, Sou da PazInstitute, Brazil

Elysio Medeiros Pires Filho,Board member, Viva Rio,Brazil

Daniel Mejia Londoño,Economist, University ofthe Andes, Colombia

Fabio Mesquita, HIV/AIDsSpecialist, Brazil

Michel Misse, Coordinator,

Centre of Studies on UrbanViolence, Conflict andCitizenship, Brazil

Fabiano Monteiro,Assistant Professor,Fluminense FederalUniversity, Brazil

Pedro Moreira Salles,Economist and Historian,Yale Universitiy; President,Board of Directors, ItaúUnibanco Bank, Brazil

Constanza Moreira,Senator; Professor, Facultyof Social Sciences; Formercandidate, Presidency ofthe Republic, Uruguay

Nelson Motta, Journalistand Columnist, O Globo,Brazil

Robert Muggah, ResearchDirector, Igarapé Institute,Brazil

Maria Julia Muñoz,Minister of Education andCulture, Uruguay, Uruguay

Andres Cristian Nacht,Owner, Mills, Brazil

Moises Naim, Author;Editor, The Atlantic;Distinguished fellow,International EconomicsProgram, CarnegieEndowment forInternational Peace, Brazil

Héctor A. Mendoza C.,Professor, AutonomousUniversity of NuevoLeon; Member, College ofBioethics

Maria Elena Morera Mitre,Activist

Miguel Angel OrozcoDeza, Director General,International Relations ofGrupo Salinas

Adalberto Palma Gómez,Former Chairman, Boardof Directors, Center forExcellence in CorporateGovernance

Catalina Pérez Correa,Lawyer & Researcher,Center for Research andTeaching in Economics(Centro de Investigación yDocencia Económicas)

Alex Ramirez, President,Mexican Business Council

Alejandro Ramírez Magaña,Director General, Cinépolis

Fernando Ramos Casas,Customs broker

Alejandra Rangel,Philosophy/Collegeprofessor

Carlos Requena, CriminalLawyer

Jesús Reyes Heroles,Economist; FormerAmbassador of Mexico tothe U. S

Yamil Rezc, Musician

Santiago Roel, Director,Semaphore Citizen

(SemÃ¡foro Ciudadano)Ricardo Salinas, Founderand Chairman, GrupoSalinas

Lisa Sanchez, LatinAmerican ProgrammeManager, Transform DrugPolicy Foundation andMexico United AgainstCrime (México UnidoContra la Delincuencia)

Armando Santacruz,Businessman; Co-founder,Mexico United AgainstCrime (México UnidoContra la Delincuencia)

Patricio Santillan-Doherty,

Medical Director, NationalInstitute of RespiratoryDiseases; President, TheCollege of Bioethics

Javier Sicilia, Founder,Movement for Peace withJustice and Dignity inMexico; Poet; Journalist

Said Slim Pasaran,Integración Social, VerterA.C.

Zara Snapp, Author;Member of Secretariat,Global Commission onDrug Policy

Cecilia Soto, FormerFederal Deputy for Sonora,Mexico; Former Labor Partycandidate, Presidency ofMexico

Ricardo Tapia, ResearcherEmeritus, NationalAutonomous University ofMexico

Juan Francisco TorresLanda, Corporate Attorneyand Secretary General,Mexico United AgainstCrime

Rodolfo Vázquez, Professor,Autonomous TechnologicalInstitute of Mexico;Member, College ofBioethics

Sérgio Salomão Shecaira,Professor, University of SãoPaulo Law School, Brazil

Miguel Samper, FormerDeputy Minister of Justice,Colombia, Colombia

Sergio Sanchez, PublicHealth Specialist, ReformFoundation Latin America(Fundación LatinoaméricaReforma), Chile

Gabriel SantosElias, InstitutionalRelations Coordinator,Brazilian Platform on DrugPolicy, Brazil

Renato Sérgio de Lima,Vice-President, ExecutiveCouncil, Brazilian PublicSecurity Forum, Brazil

Paulo Sette Câmara,Former Secretary ofSocial Defense, Stateof Pará; Former Police

Commissioner, FederalPolice, Brazil

Ricardo Soberon, Lawyer,Drugs and Human RightsResearch Center, Peru

Rogério Sottili, SpecialSecretary of Human Rights,Ministry of Women, RacialEquality and Human Rights,Brazil

Margarita Stolbizer,Legislator, Argentina

Pedro Daniel Strozemberg,Executive Secretary,Religion Studies Institute;Council Member, CasaFluminense, Brazil

Ilona Szabó, ExecutiveDirector, Igarapé Institute;Executive Secretary, GlobalComission on Drug Policy,Brazil

Antonio Felix Tavares,Board member, Viva Rio,Brazil

José Vicente Tavares dosSantos, Professor, FederalUniversity of Rio Grande doSul, Brazil

Paulo Teixeira,Congressman, WorkersParty of São Paulo, Brazil

Manuel Thedim, Director,Research Institute of Work

and Society, BrazilTriston N Thompson, GanjaLaw Reform Advocate;Grassroots FarmerOrganizer, Jamaica

Juan Gabriel Tokatlián,Director, Departmentof Political Science andInternational Studies,University Torcuato DiTella, Argentina

Graciela Touzé, President,Intercambios CivilAssociation, Argentina

Jésus Trindade BarretoJunior, Former DeputyPolice Chief, Civil Police,State of Minas Gerais,Brazil

Simón ValdiviesoVintimilla, Professor,Criminal Law, University ofCuenca, Ecuador

Katie Valk, Member,Belize DecriminalizationCommittee, Belize

Joao Pedro ChavesValladares Padua, Lawyer;Professor, FluminenseFederal University, Brazil

Paulo Vannuchi, Member,Inter-American Comissionon Human Rights, Brazil

Teresa Venguer, Cultureof lawfulness coordinator,Mexico United AgainstCrime

Juan Villoro, Writer;Journalist

Giovanna Zacarias, Actor

J. Arturo Zapata,Businessman; UniversityProfessor

Ernesto Zedillo, FormerPresident, Mexico

Julio Frenk, FormerSecretary of Health,Mexico; Former Dean ofFaculty and Professor,Harvard School ofPublic Health; President,University of Miami

MIDDLE EAST & NORTH

AFRICA

Elie Aaraj, Executive

director, Middle Eastand North African HarmReduction Association,Lebanon

Abdellatif Adbib, President,Confederation of theSanhadja Associationsfor Development(Confédération desassociations de Sanhadjapour le développement)Morocco

Ahmed Arehmouch,Coordinator, NationalFederation of BerberAssociations (FédérationNationale des AssociationsAmazigh), Morocco

My Ahmed Douraidi,Coordinator of theCommittee, InternationalForum on Kif and Drugs,Tangier, Morocco

Golda Eid, ExecutiveDirector, Regional/ArabNetwork Against AIDS,Lebanon

Ahmed Elhaij, President,Moroccan Associationfor Human Rights(L’Association Marocainedes Droits Humains),Morocco

Mustapha Elhattab,Board member, Moroccan

Observatory of PublicFreedoms (ObservatoireMarocain des LibertésPubliques), Morocco

Mustapha Elmanouzi,President, MoroccanForum for Truth and Justice(Forum Marocain pourla Vérité et la Justice);President, MoroccanCenter for Democracy andSecurity (Centre Marocainpour la Démocratie et laSécurité), Morocco

Abdallah Hanatleh,Director General, Forearmsof Change Center to EnableCommunity, Jordan

Hakima Himmich,President, Association forthe Fight Against AIDS(Association de LutteContre le Sida), Morocco

Asa Kasher, Philosopher;Professor, Tel AvivUniversity; Linguist, Israel

Kamal Lahbib, Coordinator,Modernity and DemocracyCollective (CollectifModernité et Démocratie),Morocco

Dráuzio Varella, MedicalDoctor, University of SãoPaulo, Brazil

Mario Vargas Llosa, NobelPrize in Literature, 2010,Peru

Osmar Vargas Oliveira,Counselor, Public SecurityCouncil, State of Rio deJaneiro (Consperj), Brazil

Martin Vazquez Acuña,Judge on CriminalMatters, Court of Appeals,Argentina

Mauro Ventura, Journalistand Columnist, O Globo,Brazil

Zuenir Ventura, Journalist,Writer; Member, BrazilianAcademy of Letters, Brazil

Oscar Vilhena Vieira,Professor, Getúlio VargasFoundation Law School,Brazil

Jean Wyllys, Congressman,Socialism and Liberty Partyof Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Luis Yarzabal, ScientificResearcher; FormerDirector, InternationalInstitute of UNESCO forSuperior Education inLatin America and theCaribbean, Uruguay

Raul Eugenio Zafaronni,Judge, Inter AmericanHuman Rights Court;Former member,Argentinean SupremeCourt of Justice, Argentina

Aldo Zaiden,

Psychoanalyst; Member,Pense Livre network, Brazil

Chris Blackwell,Businessman; Founder ofIsland Records, Jamaica/UK

MEXICO

Agustin Acosta, Partner,Araujo, Araujo and Acosta,Legal Consultants

Héctor Aguilar Camín,Writer; Journalist; Historian

Sarah Aguilar Flaschka,Adviser, Mexican Senate

Rubén Aguilar Valenzuela,

Professor; Political AnalystGonzalo Aguilar Zinser,Lawyer, Mexico; Member,Board of Advisors, VMSAssociates, LLC

Andrés Aguinaco, Lawyer

Dolores Aguinaco, Lawyer

Fabian Aguinaco, Lawyer

Mariló Aja, Lawyer

Gaz Alazraki, Writer;Director; Producer

Enrique Álvarez del Rio,Businessman

Asunción Álvarez del Río,Faculty Member, Facultyof Medicine, NationalAutonomous University ofMexico

Pedro Aspe, FormerMinister of Finances,Mexico

Aram Barra, MexicoUnited Against Crime(México Unido Contra laDelincuencia)

Roger Bartra, HonoraryResearch Fellow, BirkbeckCollege, University ofLondon; Sociologist

Ari Brickman, Actor;Musician

Kamal Lahbib, President,Moroccan AlternativesForum (Forum desAlternatives Maroc),Morocco

Boubker Largou, President,The Moroccan Human

Rights Organization(L’Organisation Marocainedes Droits Humain),Morocco

Oren Lebovich, Chairman,Green Leaf Party, Israel

Yaron London, MediaPersonality; Actor;Journalist, Israel

Abdellah Mousseddad,Secretary General,Moroccan PrisonObservatory (ObservatoireMarocaine des Prisons),Morocco

Karine Nassar, Director,Nursing Care &

Community Development(Soins Infirmiers& DéveloppementCommunautaire), Lebanon

Sahar Shamayleh,Coordinator, JordanianNGOs Network AgainstAIDS, Jordan

Jamila Siouri, President,Adala Association,Morocco

Boaz Wachtel, Founder andFormer Chairman, GreenLeaf Party, Israel, Israel

Rewan Youssif, RegionalFocal Point, Middle Eastand North Africa, Global

Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Lebanon

Tamar Zandberg, Memberof the Knesset; Chair,Committee on Drug andAlcohol Abuse, Israel

OCEANIA

Max Abbott, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Dean, andProfessor, Faculty ofHealth and EnvironmentalSciences, AucklandUniversity of Technology,New Zealand

Jacinda Ardern, Memberof Parliament and Justice

Spokesperson, NewZealand Labour Party, NewZealand

Michael Balderstone,President, AustralianHEMP Party; President,Nimbin HEMP Embassy,Australia

Peter Baume, FormerMinister for Education;Former Minister forHealth; Former Ministerfor Indigenous Affairs,Australia; FormerChancellor, AustralianNational University,Australia

Neal Blewett, Former

Minister for Health,Australia, Australia

Phillip Boulten, Barrister;Past President, New SouthWales Bar Association,Australia

Peter M. Brooks,Professorial Fellow,Centre for Health Policy,Melbourne School ofPopulation and GlobalHealth, University ofMelbourne, Australia




6 SIGNATORIES

David Caldicott, EmergencyConsultant, EmergencyDepartment of the CalvaryHospital, Australia

Kate Carnell, Former ChiefMinister, Australian CapitalTerritory, Australia

Nick Crofts, HonoraryProfessorial Fellow,University of Melbourne,Australia

Bob Debus, FormerMinister for Home Affairs,Australia

Richard Di Natale, Senator;Leader, Australian Greens,Australia

David Dixon, Dean, LawSchool, University of NewSouth Wales, Australia

Mehreen Faruqi, Memberof Parliament (Greens),New South Wales,Australia

Peter FitzSimons, Chair,Australian RepublicanMovement, Australia

Tom Flewett, ClinicalLead Addictions, Capitaland Coast District HealthBoard, New Zealand

Geoff Gallop, FormerPremier, Western Australia,Australia

Duncan Garner,Broadcaster; Journalist,New Zealand

Colin Gavaghan, Director,New Zealand LawFoundation Centre for Lawand Policy in EmergingTechnologies, OtagoLaw Faculty; AssociateProfessor, New Zealand

Andrew Geddis, Professor,Faculty of Law, OtagoUniversity, New Zealand

Derek Handley,Entrepreneur, New Zealand

Oliver Hartwich, ExecutiveDirector, The New ZealandInitiative, New Zealand

Natalie Imbruglia, Singer,Australia

Marianne Jauncey, Publichealth physician; MedicalDirector, Sydney Medically

Supervised InjectingCentre, Australia

Stephen Jiggins, Advoatefor Improved Road Safety,Australia

Peter Joseph, Chairman,The Ethics Centre,Sydney; Former Chair,St Vincent’s and MaterHealth, Australia

Paul King, Barrister,Australia

Stephen Leeder, EmeritusProfessor of Public Healthand Community Medicine,Menzies Centre for HealthPolicy and School of PublicHealth, University OfSydney, AustraliaIan Martin, Chairman, TheWayside Chapel, Australia

Iain McGregor, Professorof Psychopharmacology;Research Fellow; Directorof Preclinical Research,Lambert Initiative forCannabinoid Therapeutics,School of Psychology,University of Sydney,Australia

John McMillan, Director,Biothics Centre, Universityof Otago; Professor, NewZealand

Erwin Chemerinsky,Dean and DistinguishedProfessor of Law, RaymondPryke Professor ofFirst Amendment Law,University of CaliforniaIrvine School of Law

Steve Cohen, Member ofCongress, Tennessee

Ben Cohen, Co-founder,Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream

Paulette Cole, CEO andCreative Director, ABCHome

Grant Colfax, M.D.; FormerDirector, White HouseOffice of National AIDSPolicy

Carl Colonius, SocialEntrepreneur, New Mexico

Beth Comery, FormerPolice Officer, Providence;Member, Law EnforcementAgainst Prohibition

John Conyers, Member ofCongress, Michigan

Carol Conzelman,Instructor, AnthropologyDepartment, University ofColorado, Boulder

Reverend Janet Cooper-Nelson, Chaplain, BrownUniversity

Reverend Samuel Cox,Hawaii District UnitedMethodist Church; Director,Hale Kipa Runaway andHomeless Youth Service

Christopher Coyne,Associate Professor ofEconomics, George MasonUniversityJames Crowley, ProfessorEmeritus of Medicine,Warren Alpert Schoolof Medicine, BrownUniversity; FormerPresident, Rhode IslandMedical Society

Jeffrey S. Crowley, ProgramDirector of the NationalHIV/AIDS Initiative, O’NeillInstitute, GeorgetownUniversity Law Centre;Former Director WhiteHouse Office of NationalAIDS Policy

Joanne Csete, Adjunct

Associate Professor,Columbia UniversityMailman School of PublicHealth

Mark Cuban, Businessman;Author; TV Personality:Philanthropist

Robert Curl, Nobel Prize inChemistry, 1996; UniversityProfessor Emeritus, RiceUniversity

Ron Daniels, President,Institute of the Black World21st Century

Angela Yvonne Davis,Distinguished ProfessorEmerita, Historyof ConsciousnessDepartment, University ofSanta Cruz

Patrick Davis, CityCouncilor, Albuquerque

Istvan Deak, ProfessorEmeritus of History,Columbia University;Historian

Howard Dean, FormerGovernor, Vermont

Reverend Dr. Yvonne Delk,Retired, United Church ofChrist

Steve DeToy, Director ofGovernment and PublicAffairs, Rhode Island

Medical Society

Michael Moore, CEO,Public Health Associationof Australia; Vice President,World Federation of PublicHealth Associations,Australia

Hon Deborah Morris-

Travers, Child RightsAdvocate, New Zealand

Tara Moss, Author andhuman rights activist,Australia

Matt Noffs, CEO, NoffsFoundation, Australia

Lance O’Sullivan, GP; NewZealander Of The Year(2014), New Zealand

Mick Palmer, FormerCommissioner, AustralianFederal Police, Australia

Melissa Parke, Member,Australian House ofRepresentatives; FormerMinister for International

Development; FormerInternational Lawyer,United Nations, Australia

David Penington, FormerVice Chancellor, MelbourneUniversity, Australia

David Penington, ProfessorEmeritus, University ofMelbourne, Australia

Tuari Potiki, Chairperson,New Zealand DrugFoundation, New Zealand

Shane Rattenbury, Ministerfor Corrections, AustralianCapital Territory LegislativeAssembly, Australia

Robert Richter, Barrister;Former Chairman, CriminalBar Association; FormerPresident, Victorian Councilfor Civil Liberties; Formerpart-time Law ReformCommissioner, Victoria;Former member, BarCouncil, Australia

Robin Room, Professor;Director, Centre for AlcoholPolicy Research, La TrobeUniversity, Australia

Hal Sperling, Former Judge,Supreme Court of NewSouth Wales, Australia

David Stanley, Treasurer,Australian Drug Law

Reform Foundation; CEO,Convenience Advertising,Australia

Nicholas J. Talley, Professorand Vice-Chancellor,University of Newcastle,Australia

Metiria Turei, Co-leaderand Member of Parliament,Green Party of AotearoaNew Zealand

Alex Wodak, Director,Alcohol and Drug Service,St Vincent’s Hospital,Sydney, Australia

Bruce Wyatt, FormerAssistant Commissioner,Northern Territory Police,Australia

Gino Vumbaca, President,Harm Reduction Australia,Australia

Alex Wodak, President,Australian Drug LawReform Foundation,Australia

John DiIulio, Frederic FoxLeadership Professor ofPolitics, Religion, andCivil Society, University ofPennsylvania

Barry Diller, Businessman;Chairman, Expedia,

Inc.; Chairman, IAC/InterActiveCorp

David N. Dinkins, FormerMayor, New York City

DJ Khaled, Music Producer;DJ

Lloyd Doggett, Member ofCongress, Texas

TJ Donovan, State’sAttorney, Burlington,Vermont

Reverend Dr. John C.Dorhauer, General Ministerand President, UnitedChurch of Christ

Michael Douglas, Actor

Christine Downton,Former Vice Chairman andFounding Partner, ParetoPartners

Troy Duster, Chancellor’sProfessor Emeritus,University of California,Berkeley

Michael Eric Dyson,Professor of Sociology,Georgetown University

Donna F. Edwards, Memberof Congress, Maryland

Susan Talamantes Eggman,Assembly Member, 13thDistrict, California

Brian Egolf, House Minority

Leader, New Mexico Houseof Representatives

Keith Ellison, Member ofCongress, Minnesota

Eve Ensler, Playwright, “TheVagina Monologues”

Tannia Esparza, ExecutiveDirector, Young WomenUnited

Will Espero, Vice President,State Senate, Hawaii

Christian Estevez,President, Latino ActionNetwork of New Jersey

Jodie Evans, Co-founder,CODEPINK

David L. Faigman, ActingChancellor & Deanand John F. DigardiDistinguished Professor ofLaw, University of CaliforniaHastings College of the Law

Sam Farr, Member ofCongress, California

James E. Ferguson II, SeniorPartner, Ferguson, Stein,Chambers Law Offices

Michael Fine, FormerDirector, Rhode IslandDepartment of Health

Reverend Dr. Leah GaskinFitchue, President Emeritus,Payne Theological

Seminary, DaytonTerry Flenniken, FormerSenior District Judge, Texas

Jason Flom, President, LavaRecords

Jane Fonda, Actor

Reverend James A. Forbes,Senior Minister Emeritus,Riverside Church, NY

Christopher Forbes, ViceChairman, Forbes

Reverend Willie D. FrancoisIII, Mount Zion BaptistChurch, Atlantic City

UNITED STATES

Neil Abercrombie, FormerGovernor, Hawaii

Sam Adams, FormerMayor, Portland

Irene Aguilar, State Senator,

ColoradoMichelle Alexander, Author,“The New Jim Crow”; CivilRights Activist

Ibrahim AlHusseini,Managing Partner, FullCycleEnergy LP

Ty Alper, Associate Deanfor Experiential Education,University of CaliforniaBerkeley School of Law

Tom Ammiano, FormerState Representative,California

Toney Anaya, FormerGovernor and FormerAttorney General, New

MexicoRocky Anderson, FormerMayor, Salt Lake City

Peter Andreas, John HayProfessor of InternationalStudies and PoliticalScience, Brown University

Bill Apfelbaum, ChairmanMaxWorldwide, Inc.

Stuart Appelbaum,President, Retail,Wholesale and DepartmentStore Union, New York

Deborah Armstrong, StateRepresentative, NewMexico

Dallas Austin, Grammyaward-winning musicproducer

George Ayala, ExecutiveDirector, Global Forum onMSM & HIV

Bruce M. Bagley,Professor, Departmentof International Studies,University of Miami

David Ball, Co-Chair,Corrections Committee,American Bar Association;Associate Professor, SantaClara University Schoolof Law

Reverend Dr. WilliamBarber II, Pastor, GreenleafChristian Church DOC;President/Senior lectuer,Repairers of the Breach

Bennett Barlyn, Formerstate and countyprosecutor; formerExecutive Director, NewJersey Commission toReview Criminal Sentencing

Randy Barnett, Professor ofLegal Theory and Director,Georgetown Center for theConstitution, GeorgetownUniversity Law Center

Jeremiah Barondess,President Emeritus, NewYork Academy of Medicine

Howard Becker, ProfessorEmeritus, Department ofSociology, University ofCalifornia Santa Barbara;Independent Researcher

Paul Beirne, NationalManaging Director,AllianceBernstein

Mark Bennett, US DistrictCourt Judge, NorthernDistrict of Iowa, USCourthouse

Chris Beyrer, President,International AIDS Society;Desmond Tutu Professor inPublic Health and HumanRights, Johns Hopkins

Barney Frank, FormerMember of Congress,Massachusetts

Caroline Fredrickson,President, AmericanConstitution Society

Marci Freedman, Co-founder of No.14

Tom Freston, Former,Viacom; Businessman

Barry Friedman, Jacob D.Fuchsberg Professor ofLaw, New York UniversitySchool of Law

Reverend Yoshiaki Fujitani,Honpa Honwangji, Hawaii

Jay Galluzzo, CEO,NeueHouse

Jesus G. Garcia,Commissioner, CookCounty

Alicia Garza, Co-Founder,Black Lives Matter

George Gascón, DistrictAttorney, San Francisco

David Geffen,Businessman; Co-Founder,DreamWorks

Paul Gessing, President, RioGrande Foundation

Tyrese Gibson, Singer;Actor

Ira Glasser, FormerExecutive Director,American Civil LibertiesUnion

Kim Foxx, Cook CountyState’s Attorney

Ruben Gallego, Member of

Congress, ArizonaJames Gleick, Author;Historian

Jonathan Glick, Author;Entrepreneur

Jim Gollin, Director,Angelica Foundation

Suzanne Gollin, President,Angelica Foundation

Gregg Gonsalves, ResearchScholar in Law, Yale LawSchool; Co-Director, GlobalHealth Justice Partnership,Yale School of PublicHealth

Antonio González,

President, William C.Velasquez Institute

Ambassador Eric P.Goosby, UN SecretaryGeneral’s Special Envoy onTB; Professor of Medicine,Director, Global HealthDelivery and Diplomacy,Global Health Sciences,University of California SanFrancisco

Robert M. Grant,Investigator, GladstoneInstitutes; Professor ofMedicine, University ofCalifornia San Francisco;Chief Medical Officer, SanFrancisco AIDS Foundation

James P. Gray, FormerSuperior Court Judge,Orange County

Alan Grayson, Member ofCongress, Florida

Traci Green, AssociateProfessor of EmergencyMedicine andEpidemiology, BrownUniversity; Deputy Director,Boston Medical CenterInjury Prevention Center

Francis Greenburger,Founder and President,Greenburger Center forSocial and Criminal Justice;CEO, Time Equities Inc.

Bloomberg School of PublicHealth in Baltimore

Dan Bigg, Director, ChicagoRecovery Alliance

Paul Birch, Entrepreneur

Mary J. Blige, Singer

Lisa Bloom, Civil RightsAttorney

Earl Blumenauer, Memberof Congress, Oregon

Roderic V.O. Boggs,Executive Director,Washington Lawyers’Committee

Suzanne Bonamici, Memberof Congress, Oregon

Cory Booker, U.S. Senator

Jo Ivey Boufford, President,New York Academy ofMedicine

Connor Boyack, President,Libertas Institute; Author

Tom Brady, AmericanFootball Player, NewEngland Patriots, NFL

Larry Brilliant, Chairman,Skoll Global Threats Fund;Former Executive Director,Google.org

Eli Broad, Founder, TheEli and Edythe BroadFoundation; Philanthropist

Brad Brockmann, ExecutiveDirector, Center forPrisoner Health and HumanRights

Chris Brown, Singer

Susie Buell, Entrepreneur;

Co-Founder, EspritWarren Buffett,Businessman;Philanthropist

Stephanie Bush-Baskette,Former New Jersey StateAssemblywoman; Author,“Misguided Justice: TheWar on Drugs and theIncarceration of BlackWomen”

Busta Rhymes, Rapper

Tom Campbell, FormerCongressman; Professorof Law, Professor ofEconomics, ChapmanUniversity

Geoffrey Canada, President,Harlem’s Children Zone

Jacob Candelaria, StateSenator, New Mexico

Daniel Cantor, NationalDirector, Working FamiliesParty

Michael E. Capuano,Member of Congress,Massachusetts

Frank Carlucci, FormerUS Secretary of Defense;Former Deputy Head,Central Intelligence Agency

Charles Carpenter,Professor Emeritus ofMedicine, Brown University

Iva Carruthers, Co-Founderand Director, The SamuelDeWitt Proctor Conference

Juan Cartagena, President& General Counsel,LatinoJustice

Kelly M. Cassidy, StateRepresentative, Illinois

Oscar Chacon, ExecutiveDirector, National Allianceof Latin American &Caribbean Communities/Alianza Americas

Stephanie Chafee,Registered Nurse

Jerry Greenfield, Co-founder, Ben and Jerry’s IceCream

Glenn Greenwald,Journalist; Writer; Lawyer

Adrian Grenier, Actor

Reverend Wendell Griffin,Pastor, New MillenniumChurch, Little Rock; CircuitJudge, Sixth JudicialDistrict, Fifth Division

Barry Grissom, Former U.S.Attorney, District of Kansas

Jerome Groopman, Chair,Medicine, Harvard MedicalSchool; Chief, ExperimentalMedicine, Beth IsraelDeaconess Medical Center;Author

Harlan Grossman, FormerSuperior Court Judge,Contra Costa County

Peter Hakim, President

Emeritus, Inter-AmericanDialogue

John Hamilton, ChiefExecutive Officer, RecoveryNetwork of Programs, Inc.

dream hampton, Filmmaker;Writer

Herbie Hancock, Musician

Ian Haney Lopez, John H.Boalt Professor of Law, UCBerkeley; Director, RacialPolitics Project, HaasInstitute for a Fair andInclusive Society; SeniorFellow, Demos

Jon Hanson, Alfred SmartProfessor of Law and

Director, Project on Lawand Mind Sciences, HarvardLaw School

Woody Harrelson, Actor

Mark Harrington, ExecutiveDirector, Treatment ActionGroup; AIDS Activist

Reverend Dr. Forrest Harris,President, AmericanBaptist College; Professor,Vanderbilt UniversityDivinity School

Carl Hart, Professor ofPsychology and Psychiatry,Columbia University

Phil Harvey, Founderand Chairman, DKT

InternationalAlcee Hastings, Member ofCongress

Reverend Dr. Frederick D.Haynes III, Senior Pastor,Friendship West BaptistChurch, Dallas

Christie Hefner, Formerchairperson and CEO,Playboy Enterprises

Carol Helwig,Communicable DiseaseControl and HIV PreventionCoordinator, BoulderCounty Public Health

Obery M. HendricksJr., Senior Fellow, The

Opportunity AgendaReverend Miguel A.Hernandez, EpiscopalChurch of New Jersey

Kenneth Hertz, SeniorPartner, Hertz Lichtenstein& Young LLP

Peter Holmes, Seattle CityAttorney

Andrew Horwitz, AssistantDean for ExperientialEducation, Roger WilliamsUniversity School of Law




SIGNATORIES 7

Ken Roth, ExecutiveDirector, Human RightsWatch

Steve Safyer, President andCEO, Montefiore HealthSystem, Albert EinsteinCollege of Medicine

Edwin Sanders, SeniorServant, MetropolitanInterdenominationalChurch

Bernie Sanders, U.S.Senator

Linda Sanchez, Member ofCongress, California

Juelz Santana, Rapper;Actor

Natalia Sarai Navas,Academic; Activist;Migration Specialist

Jan Schakowsky, Memberof Congress, Illinois

Kurt Schmoke, Former

Mayor of Baltimore;President, the University ofBaltimore

Bobby Scott, Member ofCongress, Virginia

Umi Selah, Organizer andMission Director, DreamDefenders

Bernard Selz, Founder, SelzCapital

Albert Senella, Presidentand CEO, TarzanaTreatment Centers Inc;President, CaliforniaAssociation of Alcohol andDrug Program Executives

George Shultz, Former US

Secretary of State; FormerUS Secretary of Treasury;Former US Secretary ofLabor

Peter Shumlin, Governor,Vermont

Timothy Silard, President,Rosenberg Foundation

Jason Silva, Filmmaker; TVPersonality

Adele Simmons, President,Global PhilanthropyPartnership; Founder,Responsibility to Protect(R2P) Coalition

Jonathan Simon, Professorof Law and Director, Centerfor the Study of Law andSociety, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley Schoolof Law

Carly Simon, Singer

David Simon, TV Writer/Producer; Journalist

Jonathan Singer, StateRepresentative, Colorado

Michael Skolnik, Editor-in-Chief, Globalgrind.com;Political Director to RussellSimmons

Anne-Marie Slaughter,President and CEO, NewAmerica

Vernon Smith, NobelPrize in Economics,2002; Professor ofEconomics; Founder andPresident, InternationalFoundation for Research inExperimental Economics

Richard T. Smith, President,New Jersey NAACP

Reverend Dr. Susan Smith,Religious Writer

Reverend. Dr. R. DrewSmith, Co-Convener,Transatlantic Roundtableon Religion and Race

Ben Kovler, ChiefInvestment Officer, KovpakII, LLC

Gara LaMarche, President,Democracy Alliance;Former President and CEO,Atlantic Philanthropies

Louis Lang, DeputyMajority Leader, House ofRepresentatives

John Larsen, Member ofCongress, Connecticut

Rachel LaZar, ExecutiveDirector, The Center ofEquality and Rights (ElCentro de Igualdad yDerechos)

Norman Lear, Founder,People for the AmericanWay

Barbara Lee, Member ofCongress, California

John Legend, Singer

Gabriela Lemus, ExecutiveDirector, ProgressiveCongress

Mark Leno, State Senator,California

Lawrence Lessig, Roy L.Furman Professor of Lawand Leadership, HarvardLaw School

Steven H. Levinson, FormerAssociate Justice, HawaiiSupreme Court

Geoff Lewis, Partner,Founders Fund

David Lewis, Founder andFormer Director, Centerfor Alcohol and Addiction

Studies, Brown UniversityPamela Lichty, President,Drug Policy Forum ofHawai’i

Ted Lieu, Member ofCongress, California

Ann Lininger, StateRepresentative, Oregon

Claudio Lomnitz, Professorof Anthropology, ColumbiaUniversity

Hugh Lowe, Attorney atLaw, Austin

Steven Lucero, ExecutiveDirector, New MexicoHispanic Medical

AssociationMichelle Lujan Grisham,Member of Congress, NewMexico

Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Director, GlobalDrug Policy program, OpenSociety Foundations

Jim Manfre, Sheriff, FlaglerCounty

Ed Markey, U.S. Senator

Brandon Marshall,Assistant Professor ofEpidemiology, BrownUniversity

Michael McBride, Pastor;National Director, Lifelinesfor Healing CommunitiesCampaign, PeopleImproving Communitiesthrough Organizing

Bill McCamley, StateRepresentative, NewMexico

Betty McCollum, Memberof Congress, Minnesota

Jim McDermott, Memberof Congress, Washington

Jim McGovern, Member ofCongress, Massachusetts

M. William Howard, FormerPastor, Bethany BaptistChurch, Newark; FormerChair, Rutgers UniversityBoard of Governors; FormerPresident, National Councilof Churches

Philip K Howard, Author,“The Death of CommonSense”

Webb Hubbell, FormerAssociate Attorney Generalof the United States;Former Chief Justice,Arkansas Supreme Court;Former Mayor, Little Rock,Arkansas

Alice Huffman, President,California NAACP

Reverend Dr. BernicePowell Jackson, Pastor, FirstUnited Church of Tampa;Former President, WorldCouncil of Churches

Reverend Jesse L. Jackson,President, Rainbow/PUSHCoalition; Civil RightsActivist

Rabbi Rick Jacobs,President, Union for ReformJudaism

Henry Jarecki, Academic;Psychiatrist; Philanthropist

Eugene Jarecki, Filmmakerof “The House I Live In”

Hakeem Jeffries, Memberof Congress, New York

James Jimenez, FormerSecretary, New MexicoDepartment of Finance andAdministration

Gary Johnson, FormerGovernor, New Mexico

Robert Johnson, ExecutiveDirector, Institute for NewEconomic Thinking; SeniorFellow, Project on GlobalFinance, The RooseveltInstitute

Van Jones, President,Dream Corps

Jonny 5, Singer, Flobots

Jennifer Justice, Presidentof Corporate Development,Superfly

Pete Kadens, Co-Founder,SoCore Energy

Norty Kalishman, Doctor;Former Program Director,McCune CharitableFoundation

Kathie Kane-Willis,Director, IllinoisConsortium on Drug Policy,Roosevelt University

Joshua Kappel, Partner,Vicente Sederberg, LLC

Michael Keegan, President,People for the AmericanWay

Tim Keller, State Auditor,New Mexico; FormerMember, New MexicoSenate

Brendan Kennedy, CEO,Privateer Holdings

Piper Kerman, Writer,“Orange Is the New Black:My Year in a Women’sPrison”

Bob Kerrey, FormerGovernor, Nebraska

Patrisse Khan-Cullors,Co-Founder, Black LivesMatter

Billie Jean King, TennisPlayer

Yandy Smith, TVPersonality; Film Producer

David Soares, DistrictAttorney, Albany, New York

Joseph Solomon Jr.,State Representative,Rhode Island; Member,House Veterans’ AffairsCommittee

George Soros, Chairman,Soros Fund Management

Joseph M. Souki, Speaker,House of Representatives,Hawaii

Peter Staley, Founder,Treatment Action Group;AIDS Activist

Norm Stamper, FormerChief, Seattle PoliceDepartment

Pat Steadman, StateSenator, Colorado

Maggie Hart Stebbins,

County Commissioner,Bernalillo County

Gloria Steinem, Journalist;Political Activist

Christine Stenquist,President, Together forResponsible Use andCannabis Education

Andy Stern, FormerPresident, ServiceEmployees InternationalUnion; Senior Fellow,Columbia UniversityRichman Center

Bryan Stevenson, Founderand Executive Director,Equal Justice Initiative

Rick Steves, Author; TVPersonality

Mimi Stewart, StateSenator, New Mexico

Reverend Dr. Gina M.Stewart, Senior Pastor,Christ Missionary BaptistChurch, Memphis

Bruce D. Stout,Associate Professor andChair, Department ofCriminology, College ofNew Jersey

Steffanie A. Strathdee,Associate Dean, GlobalHealth Sciences; Chief,Division of Global Public

Health; Director, GlobalHealth Institute, Universityof California San DiegoDepartment of Medicine

Scott Sumner, Professorof Economics, BentleyUniversity

Robert Sweet, US Federaljudge, US District Court,Southern District of NewYork

Teresa Tanzi, StateRepresentative, RhodeIsland

Andrew Tobias, Writer;Treasurer, DemocraticNational Committee

Opal Tometi, Co-Founder,Black Lives Matter

Michael Traynor, Attorney,California

Bruce G. Trigg, ClinicalAssociate Professor,Department of Pediatrics,University of New MexicoHealth Sciences Center

Reverend Anthony L.Trufant, Senior Pastor,Emmanuel Baptist Church,Brooklyn

Gerald F. Uelmen, Professorof Law, Santa ClaraUniversity School of Law

Michelle McKenzie,Director, PreventingOverdose and NaloxoneIntervention Program,Miriam Hospital

Cisco McSorley, StateSenator, New Mexico

Jeff Merkley, U.S. SenatorHolly Mitchell, StateSenator, California

Eugene Monroe, AmericanFootball Player, BaltimoreRavens, NFL; Partner, 4thDown Partners

Reverend Peter Morales,President, UnitarianUniversalist Assocation

Marc Morial, President,National Urban League;Former Mayor, NewOrleans

Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder, Good Ventures

Reverend Dr. Otis MossIII, Senior Pastor, TrinityUnited Church of Christ,Chicago

Imam Abdul MalikMujahid, FoundingChairman, Sound VisionFoundation, Chicago

Charles Myers, Member,Executive Committee,Evercore ISI; Member,Evercore ISI’s ManagementCommittee and InvestmentPolicy Committee

Svante Myrick, Mayor,Ithaca

Ethan Nadelmann, Founder

& Executive Director, DrugPolicy Alliance

Alondra Nelson, Dean ofSocial Science, ColumbiaUniversity

Charles Nesson, WilliamF. Weld Professor of Law,Harvard Law School; Writer

Robert Newman, FormerDirector, The BaronEdmond de RothschildChemical DependencyInstitute of Beth IsraelMedical Center; FormerPresident, ContinuumHealth Partners

Patricia Nolan, Former

Director, Rhode IslandDepartment of Health

Michael Noland, StateSenator, Illinois

Eleanor Holmes Norton,Member of Congress

Bill O’Neill, State Senator,New Mexico

Beto O’Rourke, Member ofCongress, Texas

Danielle C Ompad, ClinicalAssociate Professor, NewYork University

Suze Orman, Author; TVPersonality

Gerald Ortiz y Pino, State

Senator, New MexicoDuncan E. Osborne, FormerAdjunct Professor of Law,University of Texas Schoolof Law

Angela Pacheco, FormerDistrict Attorney, 1stJudicial District, NewMexico

Jennifer Padgett, DistrictAttorney, First JudicialDistrict, New Mexico

Joseph Perella,Businessman; Co-Founder,Perella Weinberg Partners

Rabbi Jonah Pesner,Director, Religious Action

Center of Reform Judaism

Henry van Ameringen,Philanthropist; Activist

Chris Van Hollen, Memberof Congress, Maryland

Antonio Vasquez, Mayor,Santa Monica

Brian Vicente, Partner,Vicente Sederberg, LLC

Renee Villarreal, CityCouncilor, City of Santa Fe

Jim Vincent, President,NAACP’s Providencebranch

David Vlahov, Dean &Professor, University ofCalifornia, San FranciscoSchool of Nursing

Paul Volcker, FormerChairman, Federal Reserve

Sarah Wakeman, Author;Physician, MassachusettsGeneral Hospital

Patricia Wald, FormerJudge, InternationalCriminal Tribunal for theFormer Yugoslavia; FormerChief Judge, US Courtof Appeals, District ofColumbia Circuit

Vaughn Walker, FormerDistrict Judge, US DistrictCourt, Northern District ofCalifornia

Alexander Wang, Founderand Designer, AlexanderWang

Dennis Wang, ChiefPrincipal Officer, AlexanderWang

Elizabeth Warren, U.S.

SenatorLaurie Weahkee, ExecutiveDirector, Native AmericanVoters Alliance

Alan Webber, Writer;Former Candidate,Governor of New Mexico

Andrew Weil, Director,Center for IntegrativeMedicine, College ofMedicine, University ofArizona

Gregory Wesner, LanePowell PC; Shareholder andChair, IP Business Practice

Bill Wiese, Director,Public Health Division,Department of Health,New Mexico

Gwen Wilkinson, DistrictAttorney, Ithaca

Joanne Wilson,Entrepreneur; Investor andBlogger, Gotham Gal

Joe Wilson, Former USAmbassador to Gabon andSão Tomé and Príncipe

Daniel Wolfe, Director,International HarmReduction Development,Open Society Foundations

Reverend Dr. JeremiahWright, Pastor Emeritus,

Trinity United Church ofChrist, Chicago

Timothy W. Wright III,Partner, Quintairos, Prieto,Wood & Boyer, P.A.

Peter Yarrow, Singer, Peter,Paul and Mary

Jackie Young, Formermember, Hawaii StateAdvisory Committee, U.S.Commission on Civil Rights

Paul Zofnass, Founder andPresident, EnvironmentalFinancial Consulting Group

Maria Poblet, ExecutiveDirector, Causa Justa :: JustCause

Marc Pocan, Member ofCongress, Wisconsin

Jared Polis, Member ofCongress, Colorado

Ben Pollara, Director,United For Care

Polow da Don, Hip HopProducer; Rapper

Toni Preckwinkle, President,Cook County Board, Illinois

John Quelch, Professor,Harvard Business Schooland Harvard School ofPublic Health

Bill Quirk, AssemblyMember, 20th District,California

Karl Racine, AttorneyGeneral, District ofColumbia

J. Aaron Regunberg, StateRepresentative, RhodeIsland

Robert B. Reich,Chancellor’s Professor ofPublic Policy, Universityof California at Berkeley;Former U.S. Secretary ofLabor

Fred Reid, Founding CEO,Virgin America

Craig Reinarman, ProfessorEmeritus of Sociology andLegal Studies, University ofCalifornia, Santa Cruz

Stewart Resnick,Businessman

Cruz Reynoso, The firstChicano Associate Justice,California Supreme Court;Professor of Law, Universityof California

Josiah D. “Jody” Rich,Professor of Medicine andCommunity Health, WarrenAlpert Medical School,Brown University

Bill Richardson, FormerGovernor of New Mexico;former U.S. Ambassador tothe United Nations; formerU.S. Secretary of Energy

Lauren Hale Rieckhoff,Agent, Creative Artists

AgencyReverend BarbaraRipple, Former DistrictSuperintendent, HawaiiDistrict; United MethodistChurch (Retired)

Samuel K. Roberts,Associate Professorof History and ofSociomedical Sciences,Mailman School ofPublic Health, ColumbiaUniversity

Duke Rodriguez, Founder,Ultra Health LLC; FormerNM Secretary, HumanServices; Former COO,Lovelace Health Systems

Gloria Romero, FormerState Senator, California

Anthony Romero, ExecutiveDirector, American CivilLiberties Union

Lionel Rosenblatt, PresidentEmeritus, RefugeesInternational

Ellen Rosenblum, AttorneyGeneral, Oregon

Bruce Ross, Partner,Holland & Knight LLP

Andrea Roth, AssistantProfessor of Law, Universityof California BerkeleySchool of Law




8 SIGNATORIES Institutional affiliations and titles are included solely for identification purposes and should not be understood asindicating the respective organization’s agreement with the content of this letter.

FORMER PRESIDENTS &

PRIME MINISTERS

Gordon Bajnai (Hungary)

Fernando HenriqueCardoso (Brazil)

Ruth Dreifuss (Switzerland)

Vicente Fox (Mexico)César Gaviria Trujillo(Colombia)

Aleksander Kwasniewski(Poland)

Ricardo Lagos (Chile)

Olusegun Obasanjo(Nigeria)

George Papandreou(Greece)

Pedro Pires (Cape Verde)

Andries A. van Agt(Netherlands)

Ernesto Zedillo (Mexico)

U.S. PUBLIC OFFICIALS

Toney Anaya (FormerGovernor, New Mexico)

Cory Booker (U.S. Senator,New Jersey)

Howard Dean (FormerGovernor, Vermont)

David Dinkins (FormerMayor, New York City)

Gary Johnson (FormerGovernor, New Mexico)

Bob Kerrey (FormerGovernor and Senator,Nebraska)

Ed Markey (U.S. Senator,

Massachusetts)Jeff Merkley (U.S. Senator,Oregon)

Gavin Newsom (LieutenantGovernor, California)

Bill Richardson (FormerGovernor, New Mexico)

Bernie Sanders (U.S.Senator, Vermont)

Kurt Schmoke (FormerMayor, Baltimore)

Peter Shumlin (Governor,Vermont)

Elizabeth Warren (U.S.Senator, Massachusetts)

CURRENT AND FORMER

CABINET MINISTERS

Arni Pall Arnason (FormerMinister of Social Affairs,Iceland)

Pedro Aspe (FormerMinister of Finances,Mexico)

Norman Baker (Minister ofState at the Home Office,U.K.)

Marek Balicki (FormerMinister of Health, Poland)

LAW ENFORCEMENT

Sette Câmara, FormerPolice Commissioner,Federal Police (Brazil)

Gustavo de Greiff,Former Attorney General(Colombia)

TJ Donovan, State’sAttorney, Burlington,Vermont (U.S.)

Kim Foxx, Cook CountyState’s Attorney, Illinois(U.S.)

Peter Holmes (CityAttorney, Seattle)

George Gascón, DistrictAttorney, San Francisco(U.S.)

Jim Manfre, Sheriff, FlaglerCounty, Florida (U.S.)

Mick Palmer, FormerCommissioner AustralianFederal Police (Australia)

Karl Racine, AttorneyGeneral, District ofColumbia (U.S.)

Ellen Rosenblum, AttorneyGeneral, Oregon (U.S.)

Graham Seaby, FormerDetective Superintendent,New Scotland Yard (U.K.)

David Soares, DistrictAttorney, Albany, New York(U.S.)

Hubert Wimber, PoliceChief, Muenster (Germany)

AFRICAN AMERICAN

LEADERS

Michelle Alexander

Senator Cory Booker

Geoffrey Canada

Congressman John Conyers

Ron Daniels

Professor Angela Y. Davis

David Dinkins

Professor Troy Duster

Professor Michael EricDyson

Congresswoman DonnaEdwards

Congressman Keith Ellison

James E. Ferguson II

Alicia Garza

Professor Carl Hart

Congressman AlceeHastings

Alice Huffman

Congressman HakeemJeffries

Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Congresswoman BarbaraLee

Marc Morial

Svante Myrick

Congresswoman EleanorHolmes Norton

Congressman Bobby Scott

Peter Baume (FormerMinister for Health,Australia)

Neal Blewett (FormerMinister for Health,Australia)

Michal Boni (FormerMinister of Administrationand Digitization, Poland)

Emma Bonino (FormerMinister of Foreign Affairs,Italy)

Frank Carlucci (FormerU.S. Secretary of Defense;Former Deputy Director ofthe CIA, U.S.)

Fernando Carrera (FormerMinister of Foreign Affairs,Guatemala)

Nick Clegg (Former UKDeputy Prime Minister)

Bernt Johan Collet (FormerMinister of Defence,

Denmark)Hedy d’Ancona (FormerMinister of Health, theNetherlands)

Bob Debus (FormerMinister for Home Affairs,Australia)

Uffe Elbaek (FormerMinister of Culture,Denmark, Denmark)

Baroness LynneFeatherstone (Minister ofState at the Home, U.K.)

Diego Garcia-Sayan(Former Minister of Justice;Former Foreign AffairsMinister, Peru)

Alejandra Gaviria (Ministerof Health, Colombia)

Mark Golding (FormerMinister of Justice,Jamaica)

Anthony Hylton (FormerMinister of Foreign Affairs,Jamaica)

Vasyl Knyazevytch (FormerMinister of Health,Ukraine)

Bernard Koucher (FormerMinister of Foreign andEuropean Affairs, France)

Sandro Kvitashvili (Ministerof Health, Ukraine)

Norman Lamb (FormerHealth Minister, UnitedKingdom)

Cecilia M. Lopez (FormerMinister of Agriculture,Colombia)

Maria Julia Munoz(Minister of Education andCulture, Uruguay)

Svatopluk Nemecek(Minister of Health, CzechRepublic)

George Papandreou(Former Prime Minister,Greece)

Robert Reich (FormerSecretary of Labor, U.S.)

Yesid Reyes (Minister ofJustice, Colombia)

Kurt Schmoke

Bryan Stevenson

Opal Tometi

U.S. LATINO LEADERS

Toney AnayaJacob Candelaria

Juan Cartagena

Oscar Chacon

Tannia Esparza

Christian Estevez

George Gascón

Congressman RubenGallego

Antonio González

Congresswoman MichelleLujan Grisham

Ian Haney-López

Steven Lucero

Angela PachecoGerald Ortiz y Pino

María Poblet

Cruz Reynoso

Bill Richardson

Duke Rodriguez

Congresswoman Linda T.Sánchez

Sergio Sanchez

Antonio Vasquez

FAITH/RELIGIOUS

LEADERS

Father Xavier Albó

Reverend Dr. WilliamBarber II

Reverend Janet Cooper-Nelson

Reverend Dr. Yvonne Delk

Reverend Martin IgnacioDiaz Velasquez

Reverend Dr. John C.Dorhauer

Reverend Dr. Leah GaskinFitchue

Reverend James A. Forbes

Reverend Wendell Griffin

Reverend Héctor Gutiérrez

Reverend Frederick Haynes

IIIReverend Miguel A.Hernandez

Reverend M. WilliamHoward

Reverend Jesse L. Jackson

Rabbi Rick Jacobs

Reverend Peter Morales

Reverend Dr. Otis Moss III

Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid

Rabbi Jonah Pesner

Reverend Dr. BernicePowell-Jackson

Reverend Barbara Ripple

Reverend Edwin SandersReverend Dr. JeremiahWright

Miguel Samper (FormerDeputy Minister of Justice,Colombia)

George Shultz (Former U.S.Secretary of State; FormerUS Secretary of Labor;Former U.S. Secretary of

the Treasury, U.S.)Thorvald Stoltenberg(Former Minister of ForeignAffairs; Former Minister ofDefence, Norway)

Umberto Veronesi (FormerMinister of Health, Italy)

CELEBRITIES

Dallas Austin

Mary J. Blige

Tom Brady

Michael Douglas

Eve Ensler

Jane Fonda

Peter Gabriel

Adrian Grenier

Herbie Hancock

Woody Harrelson

Natalie Imbruglia

DJ Khaled

Billie Jean King

Norman Lear

John Legend

Annie Lennox

Rita Marley

Rita Ora

Busta Rhymes

Carly SimonGloria Steinem

Sting

Alexander Wang

BUSINESS &PHILANTHROPIC

LEADERS

Paul Beirne (U.S.)

Chris Blackwell (Jamaica)

Richard Branson (U.K.)

Eli Broad (U.S.)

Susie Buell (U.S.)

Warren Buffett (U.S.)

Jannie Chan (Singapore)

Mark Cuban (U.S.)

Barry Diller (U.S.)

Christopher Forbes (U.S.)

Tom Freston (U.S.)

David Geffen (U.S.)

Ryan Holmes (Canada)

Mo Ibrahim (Sudan)

Alexander Rinnooy Kan(Netherlands)

Dustin Moskovitz (U.S.)

Zbigniew Niemczycki(Poland)

HEALTH

Chris Beyrer, President,International AIDS Society;Desmond Tutu Professor inPublic Health and HumanRights, Johns HopkinsBloomberg School of Public

Health in Baltimore (U.S.)Jo Ivey Boufford, President,New York Academy ofMedicine (U.S.)

Pedro Cahn, FormerPresident, InternationalAIDS Society (Argentina)

Grant Colfax, M.D.; FormerDirector, White HouseOffice of National AIDSPolicy (U.S.)

Jeffrey S. Crowley, ProgramDirector of the NationalHIV/AIDS Initiative, O’NeillInstitute, GeorgetownUniversity Law Centre;Former Director White

House Office of NationalAIDS Policy (U.S.)

Eric P. Goosby, UNSecretary General’s SpecialEnvoy on TB; Professorof Medicine; Director,Global Health Delivery andDiplomacy, Global HealthSciences, University ofCalifornia San Francisco(U.S.)

Anand Grover, Former UNSpecial Rapporteur on theRight to Health (India)

Paul Hunt, Former UNSpecial Rapporteur on theRight to Health (U.K.)

Stephen Lewis, Former UNSpecial Envoy for HIV/AIDSin Africa (Canada)

Marina Mahathir, UNPerson of the Year(2010) for Achievementsin Gender, Women’sEmpowerment, and HIV/AIDs; Human RightsActivist (Malaysia)

Julio Montaner, Director,British Columbia Centrefor Excellence in HIV/AIDS(Canada)

David Nutt, Director,NeuropsychopharmacologyUnit, Imperial CollegeLondon; Former Chair,

Advisory Council on theMisuse of Drugs (U.K.)

Peter Piot, Director,London School of Hygiene& Tropical Medicine;Former Executive Director,UNAIDS; Discoverer of theEbola virus (Belgium)

Steve Safyer, President andCEO, Montefiore HealthSystem, Albert EinsteinCollege of Medicine (U.S.)

David Vlahov, Dean &Professor, University ofCalifornia, San FranciscoSchool of Nursing (U.S.)

Salvador Paiz (Guatemala)

Antonio del VallePerochena (Mexico)

Alex Ramirez (Mexico)

Stuart Resnick (U.S.)

Eugenio Clariond ReyesRetana (Mexico)João Roberto Marinho(Brazil)

Ricardo Salinas (Mexico)

George Soros (U.S.)

Lord Rumi Verjee (U.K.)

J. Arturo Zapata (Mexico)

LAW AND JUSTICE

Louise Arbour, FormerJustice, Supreme Court ofCanada; Former UN HighCommissioner for HumanRights (Canada)

Mark Bennett, US District

Court Judge, NorthernDistrict of Iowa (U.S.)

Ernesto Pazmiño Granizo,Public Defender General(Ecuador)

Webb Hubbell, FormerAssociate Attorney Generalof the United States;Former Chief Justice,Arkansas Supreme Court;Former Mayor, Little Rock,Arkansas (U.S.)

Ketil Lund, Former SupremeCourt Justice (Norway)

Lord Jonathan Marks,Barrister; Peer, House ofLords (UK)

Cruz Reynoso, FormerJustice, California SupremeCourt (U.S.)

Hal Sperling, Former Judge,Supreme Court of NewSouth Wales (Australia)

Jón Steinar, Gunnlaugsson,Former Supreme CourtJudge (Iceland)

Robert Sweet, US FederalJudge, UD District Court,Southern District of NY(U.S.)

Patricia Wald, Former ChiefJudge, US Court of Appeals,District of Columbia Circuit;Former Judge, International

Criminal Tribunal for theFormer Yugoslavia (U.S.)

Vaughn Walker, FormerDistrict Judge, US DistrictCourt, Northern District ofCalifornia (U.S.)

Raul Eugenio Zafaronni,Judge, Inter AmericanHuman Rights Court;Former member,Argentinean SupremeCourt of Justice (Argentina)

Andrew Weil, Director,Center for IntegrativeMedicine, College ofMedicine, University ofArizona (U.S.)

OTHER LEADERS

Lord Paddy Ashdown,Former leader, LiberalDemocrats; Former HighRepresentative for Bosniaand Herzegovina; FormerMember of Parliament(U.K.)

Robert Curl, Nobel Prize inChemistry, 1996; UniversityProfessor Emeritus, RiceUniversity (U.S.)

Asma Jahangir, FormerUN Special Rapporteuron Arbitrary, Extrajudicialand Summary Executions(Pakistan)

Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel

Prize in Literature, 2010(Peru)

Lou McGrath, Nobel PeacePrize, 1997; Founder, MinesAction Group (U.K.)

Manfred Nowak, FormerUN Special Rapporteur onTorture (Austria)

John Polanyi, Nobel Prize inChemistry, 1986 (Canada)

Lionel Rosenblatt, PresidentEmeritus, RefugeesInternational (U.S.)

Javier Sicilia, Founder,Movement for Peace withJustice and Dignity inMexico; Poet; Journalist(Mexico)Vernon Smith, NobelPrize in Economics, 2002;Professor of Economics;Founder and President,International Foundation forResearch in ExperimentalEconomics (U.S.)

Shashi Tharoor, FormerUnder-Secretary General,United Nations; Member ofParliament (India)

Mabel van Oranje (TheNetherlands)

Federico Mayor Zaragoza,Former Director-Generalof UNESCO; Chairman,

Foundation for a Culture ofPeace (Spain)

We are the Drug Policy Alliance and we envision a just society in which the

use and regulation of drugs are grounded in science, compassion, health and

human rights, in which people are no longer punished for what they put

into their own bodies but only for crimes committed against others, and in which

the fears, prejudices and punitive prohibitions of today are no more.

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