| Biography | Arnold S. Trebach has been an advocate of fundamental drug policy change for almost a quarter century. He is currently the President of the International Antiprohibitionist League. Dr. Trebach was a professor in the Department of Justice, Law, and Society at the School of Public Affairs at the American University, Washington D.C., and also the president of the Drug Policy Foundation. He holds a J.D. from the New England School of Law (1951) and a Ph.D. (1958) in politics from Princeton University. He was admitted to practice before the Massachusetts Bar in 1951. From 1986 to 1988, he served on the Working Group on Substance Abuse and Criminality of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1986, together with Kevin Zeese, Dr. Trebach founded the nonprofit Drug Policy Foundation, an independent think tank devoted to promoting more effective drug control policies, including legalization and medicalization approaches. DPF is now the Drug Policy Alliance, and has about 20,000 members in the United States and around the world. Among his previous positions are: Chief, Administration of Justice Section, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1960-63); Administrator, National Defender Project, National Legal Aid and Defender Association (1963-64); Chief Consultant on the Administration of Justice, White House Conference on Civil Rights (1965-66); founder and President, University Research Corporation (1965-69); co-founder and Chairman, National Committee on the Treatment of Intractable Pain (1977-78); and consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Congress, and other national agencies. The American University has twice selected him as its Outstanding Scholar for the Year, in 1978-79 and in 1987-88.
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