University of Maine at Farmington SSDP

From SSDPedia

Originally the Cannabis Reform Coalition, the UMF chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) was founded in the fall of 2004 by Michael Simpson, in response to the campus' draconian drug measures that had zero tolerance for cannabis, but not for other more dangerous and harmful drugs like alcohol and tobacco. The club seeks to reduce the harms associated with both drug abuse and drug policies. It is one of the largest and most active recognized clubs on the campus. In 2006, 4 members of the UMF SSDP chapter traveled to Washington, D.C. for SSDP's international conference and were awarded the Campus Change Award of 2006. 10 chapter members also traveled to a Canadian SSDP conference in Montreal, Quebec, at McGill University in 2007, and to the Northeast Conference in Providence, Rhode Island at Brown University. The chapter recently returned from their second international conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Currently, Mike Simpson is still the club's President and also President of the Class of 2009. Davin Currie serves as Vice President; David Rocha serves as Treasurer; Sam Clark serves as Secretary; and Marco Chiavon serves as Communications Director.

The club has large support on campus, and puts on events such as Green Beaver Fest, A Drug Policy Forum, and works in conjunction with Marijuana Policy Project's Maine Chapter, Maine Marijuana Policy Initiative towards marijuana reprioritization and medical marijuana dispensaries. The club also played a role in changing campus drug policy from zero tolerance with cannabis offenses, to equalizing it to that of alcohol, which is a three-strike policy.

Their blog website is http://umfssdp.blogspot.com

Another interesting link, in response to the Green Beaver Fest http://www.dailybulldog.com/stories/woody5.html