After a decade of damning studies, even D.A.R.E. leadership had to concede early this year that it wasn't working. Current research, treatment, and policy is either inappropriate or completely neglected when it comes to queer drug users. These panelists address the intersection of GLBT issues and drug policy, harm reduction at circuit parties, drug use and identity, and issues specific to lesbian health. The U.S.-backed drug war dramatically escalates in Colombia. The Andean region, still suffering the consequences of earlier crop eradication campaigns, braces for the spillover of refugees and violence.
Drug prohibition continues to create enormous obstacles to democracy and peace in Mexico.
Three North American reform advocates discuss their strategies for public education, lobbying and grassroots activism in the US and Latin America. Listen to past TLC seminars.