Upcoming Events

Winter 2012

February 16 - Rackham Conference Room - 7 p.m.
Film Screening: TBD

March 8
3rd Annual SSDP Art Auction

Week of March 19-23
Week of action and education regarding the Prison Industrial Complex and its relationship with the drug war

March 24-25 - Denver, CO
13th Annual National SSDP Conference

April 7 - Diag & Monroe St
Hash Bash and the Monroe St. Fair

 

Past Events

Winter 2012

January 19 - Rackham Conference Room - 7 p.m.
Film Screening: The Union: The Business Behind Getting High (2007)

January 20 - Press Conference in Detroit - 2 p.m.
The Committee for a Safer Michigan will be announcing the ballot initiative for 2012 to legalize marijuana.

January 27 - Wayne State University
Former Attorney General Steve Cox will be giving a keynote address at an all-day marijuana policy symposium. Contact Nick if you want to go.

 

Winter 2009

March 20
Cop shoots Copp: Rally Against GVSU Shooting

April 5 (April 3 & 4 optional)
2009 Midwest SSDP Conference
Ann Arbor, MI

Other campaigns, initiatives, and fundraising events TBA

Fall 2007

September 6
FestiFall on the Diag

September 18
BUSTED: Film screening + Q&A with Criminal Defense Attorney Matthew Abel

September 25
ONDCP Random Student Drug Testing Summit

October 10
Lobbying meeting on Higher Education Act (HEA) reform with Democratic Congressman John Dingell's field representative

October 15-19
SSDP HEA Aid Elimination Penalty Week of Student Action

October 26
Democratic Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel

December 6-9
International Drug Policy Reform Conference
New Orleans, LA

 

Winter 2008

January 14
Democratic Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich

January 24
Winterfest

February 13
Grassroots drug law reform and activism in an age of apathy with Mike Whitty

March 17
HOW THE DRUG WAR ENDS: Race, Pot, and Politics with Ethan Nadelmann

April 5
Monroe Street Fair

April 10
Goodness Day '08! on the diag

April 18-20
2008 Midwest SSDP Conference
Normal, IL

 

Fall 2008

August 28
Escapade! in the Michigan Union

August 31
BUSTED: Film screening + Q&A with Criminal Defense Attorney Matthew Abel

September 4
FestiFall on the Diag

September 7
Progressive FestiFall

September 18
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition speaking engagement

October 14
Free film screening of "Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine and the Law"

Octboer 27
Free "YES on Proposal 1" yard signs on the Diag

November 21-23
SSDP's Tenth Annual Conference and Alumni Reunion
University of Maryland, College Park