Pubdate: Wed, 22 Oct 2014
Source: Gainesville Sun, The (FL)
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UF LAW SCHOOL STUDENT PUBLICATION HOLDING PANEL DISCUSSION ON 
LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA

The University of Florida Levin College of Law student law review is
holding a panel discussion Friday on marijuana legalization.

The discussion, "Legalize Marijuana? A Conversation with the Experts,"
begins at 10 a.m. in the Phillips Center for Performing Arts. The
event is free and open to the public.

Panelists include:

David Blake, the deputy attorney general for legal policy and 
government affairs of Colorado. He recently co-wrote an article, 
"Marijuana Legalization in Colorado: Learned Lessons," in the Harvard 
Law & Policy Review, which detailed how the state set up the 
regulatory framework for legal marijuana.

Carl Hart, an associate professor of Psychology in the Departments of
Psychiatry and Psychology at Columbia University. Hart is co-author of
the textbook "Drugs, Society and Human Behavior."

Beau Kilmer, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and 
co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. He is co-author 
of "Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know."

Bertha Madras, professor of psychobiology in the department of
psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is a former deputy director
of demand reduction for the White House Office of National Drug
Control Policy.

Robert Mikos, Vanderbilt University Law School professor specializing
in federalism, constitutional law, marijuana law and policy, federal
criminal law, and drug law and policy.

Dr. Scott Teitelbaum, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the
University of Florida College of Medicine. He is the director of the
Florida Recovery Center, a treatment program for recovery from drugs
and alcohol.

The panel discussion is part of the Florida Law Review's Allen L.
Poucher Legal Education Series. For more information or to submit a
question to the panelists, visit the Florida Law Review's website at
www.floridalawreview.org, or contact the office at 273-0670
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