Sanho Tree is one of the leading thinkers about drugs and drug policy, both in the U.S. and globally. Tonight, he's coming to Seattle to talk about the drug war at Town Hall, along with a panel including Alison Holcomb of the ACLU, Sunil Aggarwal (a PhD and MD doing a residency at Virginia Mason), and Dominic Corva of the University of Washington. (I'll be there on the panel discussion, too.)

It starts at 8 pm and it's free.

From Town Hall's website:

In an analysis and critique of America’s “war on drugs,” Institute for Policy Studies Fellow Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project, exposes the human and environmental cost of policies that funnel U.S. tax dollars into militaristic crackdowns by “supplying” countries rather than prevention programs in “demanding” countries. Tree proposes alternatives to the prohibition drug economy, offering solutions that uplift public health and safety as well as human rights. A discussion moderated by Brendan Kiley of The Stranger follows, featuring panelists Sunil Aggarwal, a Preliminary Medicine Resident at Virginia Mason Medical Center; Dominic Corva, who teaches and writes about contemporary drug war political economy in the Americas; and Alison Holcomb, Drug Policy Director at the ACLU of Washington. Presented by Witness for Peace Northwest.

Sanho, Alison, Sunil, and Dominic are all very sharp folks and entertaining conversationalists. Tonight should be fun.