1. Ethan A Nadelmann was born on March 13,1957 and is the founder of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the War on Drugs.
15 Facts About Ethan Nadelmann
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Ethan Nadelmann is a supporter of the legalization of marijuana in America.
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Ethan Nadelmann began to see the flaws in American drug policy as a college student.
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Ethan Nadelmann appeared on TV shows including Nightline, where he and Schmoke debated Charles Rangel on drugs, and Larry King Live.
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Ethan Nadelmann then "authored similar articles Science, The Public Interest, and New Republic," which were often quoted in op-ed articles about drug policy.
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Ethan Nadelmann formed the Princeton Working Group on the Future of Drug Use and Alternatives to Drug Prohibition.
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On September 28,2012, Ethan Nadelmann spoke at the Human Rights Foundation's San Francisco Freedom Forum.
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Ethan Nadelmann discussed the United States' incarceration rates, which are at 743 people per 100,000 inhabitants, and how America's drug policies are affecting that number.
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Ethan Nadelmann founded the Lindesmith Center in 1994, a drug policy institute created with the support of George Soros.
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Ethan Nadelmann has been criticized for his libertarian position on drugs.
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Ethan Nadelmann later referenced "a carefully camouflaged, exorbitantly funded, well-heeled elitist group whose ultimate goal is to legalize drug use in the United States," likely referring to the efforts of Nadelmann and Soros.
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Ethan Nadelmann influenced public figures to rethink their views on drug policy.
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In 2021, Ethan Nadelmann launched Psychoactive, a podcast on drug policy, drug use, and drugs research.
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Ethan Nadelmann has been a strong advocate of less restrictive cannabis laws in the United States including legalizing the use of cannabis for medical purposes, regulating recreational usage, and imposing civil rather than criminal penalties for those who are caught using or possessing small amounts of cannabis.
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In 2013, Ethan Nadelmann joined Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group; George Papandreou, former prime minister of Greece; David Marlon, Las Vegas-based addiction recovery advocate, to discuss the War on Drugs within the US borders, and cannabis' involvement in policy, incarceration, and addiction prevention.