Mr. John Walsh
Director for Drug Policy and the Andes
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
John’s drug policy research and advocacy are focused on the limits and harms of prohibition and supply control policies, and the urgent need to reform drug policy to support human rights, equity, health, safety and sustainability. He concentrates on the opportunities and challenges of the shifts underway in some countries toward legal regulation of cannabis and the coca leaf. With partner organizations, he explores strategies to ensure that cannabis and coca regulation can advance in accord with international law, in ways that modernize the prohibitionist global drug treaty regime and that begin to repair historical harms.