Graham Boyd joins our podcast to discuss his strategy to gain FDA approval for prescribing currently illegal drugs for psychiatric disorders.

Graham Boyd is an attorney specializing in political efforts to reform drug laws and end mass incarceration.

As the founding director of New Approach PAC, Graham has led the opinion research, legal drafting, and campaign design for cannabis reform measures throughout the United States, compiling a 13-0 record of statewide ballot measure victories. Since 2010, he has led an ongoing opinion research project on voter views about cannabis reform, creating a data set that has guided political strategy and messaging on these issues. He also advises the leading group of philanthropists who support cannabis reform nationally.

Previously, Graham was the founding director of the national ACLU’s Drug Law Reform Project, a national litigation project addressing civil rights and civil liberties consequences of punitive drug policies. Among the many cases he argued in the Supreme Court and federal appellate courts, he advanced a strategy that restored judicial discretion in sentencing for drug crimes, the first step toward legislation and Executive Orders that dramatically reduced drug sentences.

Graham has helped guide national efforts to convince President Obama to grant clemency to drug war prisoners, an effort to implement police strategies to replace arrest with social assistance for drug offenders.