This past weekend, our students at the Lewis and Clark Law School and University of Southern California made SSDP history while hosting back to back marijuana legalization initiative forums in California and Oregon. With four initiatives currently circulating Oregon, and five in California, our students organized public forums to address the initiatives themselves, and unite cannabis reformers around one campaign in order to ensure that cannabis legalization makes the 2012 ballot in California and Oregon. Oregon SSDP hosted the 2012 Cannabis Law Reform Conference at Lewis and Clark Law School on Saturday. Sam Chapman, Oregon SSDP State Coordinator, said “Through the 2012 Cannabis Law Reform Conference, we hope to inspire unity of purpose and coordination among the various competing marijuana legalization initiatives in Oregon.” The conference worked to not only unite reformers behind a single campaign, but also held a series of panels to address various concerns from within the reform community. The conference ended with Oregon SSDP officially announcing a full endorsement of the Citizens for Sensible Law Enforcement campaign. Check out this conference summary, and see more in this video.