ECAD participated at Almedalen annual politican week in Gotland, Sweden between the 29th of June and 3 of July. Together with our partners RNS, ECAD organized 19 events on various aspects of the drug problem. Presentations were given by experts on the following topics:

• How to improve schools policies to become free from drugs
• Environmental consequenes of drug production 
• The International drug policy debate leading up to UNGASS
• Increasing mortatility related to overdoses from drugs, what is happening? 
• Measuring consumption of drugs through screening of city waste water
• Methadone and Buprenorfin treatment
• Adress youth drinking and get rid of illicit drugs along the way
• Acquittal of Lexbase what are the consequenes for those who want to leave a criminal career behind them. Lexbase is a site that allows the public to search for previous offenders criminal records.
• Cannabis and long term psychiatric disorder 
• Scheduling of new drugs - can the government keep up?
• Legalization of cannabis in Colorado and import of synthetic drugs from China - implicatation for law enforcement in Sweden. 

Apart from these presentations, a debate on legalization of cannabis took place between UNF (youth non drinking association) and CUF (youth association of the Swedish Centre Party). 

Our secretary general held two presentations on causes and societal consequences of drug trafficking especially focusing on violence, armed conflict, corruption and organized crime in relation to the drug trade. He also participated in a panel on a general discussion on cannabis and spice and on experiences of legalization of cannabis in Colorado, US which was organized in cooperation with Uppsala University.