Ethan Nadelmann studied at Harvard University and London School of Economics and was a lecturer at Princeton University. While at Princeton, Nadelmann’s work focused on drug policy, attracting considerable attention with his articles in Science, Foreign Affairs, National Review and many others. He also formed the Princeton Working Group on the Future of Drug Use and Alternatives to Drug Prohibition. 

In mid-90s Nadelmann founded the Lindesmith Center, a drug policy institute that six years later became the Drug Policy Alliance, a group for drug policies "grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights.” As the Executive Director of the organisation, Nadelmann advocates for the application of harm reduction principles to minimize the public health effects of the War on Drugs. 

In 2021 he launched Psychoactive, a podcast on drug policy, drug use, and drugs research featuring Nadelmann interviewing leading figures in current debates on drugs such as head of the US National Institute of Drug Abuse Nora Volkow, authors Michael Pollan and Andrew Weil. 

What’s the future of drug policies? Will tobacco become the next substance politicians will go to war against? Be sure to tune in to find out! 

McGill University

Cannabis

Hash

Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin)

Cops Across Borders 

DEA

Andrew Weil 

Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin 

Lester Grinspoon 

Harry Levine 

Jeffrey Fagan 

Tobacco (Nicotine) 

Kenneth Warner 

Sylvia Law  

Arnold Trebach 

National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws 

Kevin Zeese 

War on Drugs 

George Soros 

Foreign Policy magazine 

Open Society Foundations 

Lindesmith center 

Alfred Lindesmith 

Drug Policy Alliance 

International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD)
 

Ballot initiative 

Brompton cocktail 

The Heroin Solution by Arnold S. Trebach 

Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 

Marjorie “Mo” Mowlam 

Keith Hellawell 

Heroin-assisted treatment 

Partnership for a Drug-Free America 

Jesse Jackson 

Charles Rangel 

Chuck Schumer 

The Beckley Foundation 

Fentanyl 

Tobacco Harm Reduction 

Smoking Cessation and Psilocybin