We're less than a month away from the SAM Summit and Good Drug Policy Conference on April 20 in Washington, D.C. and we are excited to share two additional speakers with you!

Tom Wolf serves as FDPS' West Coast contingent and has an incredible story: he is a formerly homeless recovering Heroin and Fentanyl addict from San Francisco. Tom is 4 years clean and sober and shares not only about his recovery, but also shares takeaways for policy makers.

Erica Komisar wrote an incredible op-ed in the Wall Street Journal earlier this month entitled "Legal Weed Feeds the Teen Mental-Health Crisis:

The idea that marijuana isn’t addictive is out of date. And adolescents are at greater risk than adults." Erica will share more about the relationship between marijuana and the adolescent mental health crisis.

We are excited to hear from Tom and Erica alongside our roster of other incredible speakers. Register today, this is truly an event you won't want to miss!

JUST CONFIRMED!

Tom Wolf is a formerly homeless recovering Heroin and Fentanyl addict from San Francisco. In 2018, Tom spent 6 months homeless on the streets of the Tenderloin neighborhood struggling with addiction. He was arrested 6 times for holding drugs for street-level drug dealers and other offenses and eventually went to jail for 3 months before going to a 6-month inpatient treatment program where he found recovery. Tom has become a strong voice for a new approach to the homeless and drug crises that blends accountability and public health approaches in San Francisco and beyond. He is 4 years clean and sober and through recovery has reconciled with his wife and 2 children.

Erica Komisar, LCSW is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and parent guidance expert who has been in private practice in New York City for over 30 years. A graduate of Georgetown and Columbia Universities and The New York Freudian Society, Ms. Komisar is a psychological consultant bringing parenting workshops to clinics, schools, corporations, and childcare settings. She is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Daily News. She is also a Contributing Editor to The Institute for Family Studies and appears regularly on Fox and Friends and Fox 5 News. Erica is the author of Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters and Chicken Little the Sky Isn't Falling: Raising Resilient Adolescents in the New Age of Anxiety.

Previously Confirmed Speakers

We are also proud to announce limited availability for sponsorship opportunities.

The 2023 SAM Summit & Good Drug Policy Conference is the premier gathering for drug policy advocates around the country. We will bring together powerful voices in drug policy from across the field, such as prevention, treatment, recovery, as well as law enforcement experts to amplify our collective work to scale up the work of scientists and practitioners.

Title Sponsor: $7,500

• Branded as presenting sponsor of the 2023
• Logo/Organization name on all outgoing communications/ promotions 
• Logo/Organization name and link on conference website
• Logo/Organization name displayed during conference
• Opportunity to distribute promotional materials to attendees
• Opportunity to address conference attendees
• (5) Complimentary registrations to the conference

Gold Sponsor: $5,000

• Logo/Organization name on all outgoing communications/promotions
• Logo/Organization name and link on conference website
• Logo/Organization name displayed during conference
• (3) Complimentary registrations to the conference

Conference Supporter: $1,500

• Logo/Organization name displayed during conference
• (1) Complimentary registration to the conference 

For more information and additional sponsorship opportunities please contact Brendan Fairfield at [email protected] or 609-994-7184

Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) is an alliance of organizations and individuals dedicated to a health-first approach to marijuana policy. We are professionals working in mental health and public health. We are bipartisan. We are medical doctors, lawmakers, treatment providers, preventionists, teachers, law enforcement officers and others who seek a middle road between incarceration and legalization. Our commonsense, third-way approach to marijuana policy is based on reputable science and sound principles of public health and safety.

The Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions is a national drug policy think/action tank whose vision is a world in which children and families thrive, substance use is prevented, and there is rapid access to quality treatment. From prevention and recovery to smart law enforcement and better international cooperation, we are working to change the face of drug policy. Too many people are losing their lives to addiction. It is time for big change.