Washington State Drug Policy Coordinating Group  2005 Retreat & Workshop At 'Our House' Colville, WA October 7 - 9, 2005

Welcome to 'Our House' - 282 West Astor, Colville, WA 99114

Afternoon was filled with an intensive open forum
on the various issues of Washington State Drug Policy

Left to right: Monte Levine, WA State Harm Reduction; afri-I, Colville area resident and activist; Nora Callahan, November Coalition; Allison Bigelow, Hemp.net; Lou Wilson, retired Spokane attorney

Left to right: Christie Hedman, Washington Defender Association; Sunil Abraham, King County Defender Association: Racial Disparity Project; Douglas Hiatt, Seattle defense attorney specializing in medical marijuana; Dee Hokom, Colville defense attorney

Left to right: Milt Spidell, Colville Veterans For Peace (and donor of a huge antique cast iron bath tub to Our House); Katana Christen, musician and November Coalition intern; Tommy Walen and Shooting Star, Colville area residents and activists

Standing: Chuck Armsbury and Tom Murlowski, November Coalition staff
Seated: Tree Soul, Colville area resident and Lisa Manzer, Seattle activist

Left to right: Sunil Aggarwal, WA Physicians for Social Responsibility;
Andy Ko, WA State ACLU; Ben Livingston, Hemp.net

Dinner Saturday night was courtesy of Doug Hiatt (left), who whipped up an amazing from-scratch spaghetti sauce

Allison Bigelow and Doug Hiatt in the kitchen

Lou Wilson and Sunil Abraham

Sunil (pronounced SUN-UHL) Abraham, Allison Bigelow
and Sunil (pronounced SUE-NEAL) Aggarwal

Monte Levine (right) with his mentee Andrew

Colville area residents Tom Murlowski, Milt Spidell and afri-I

Evening music on the catwalk

Nora Callahan & Chuck Armsbury (snuggling), Tom Murlowski and Christie Hedman