Tamar Todd is an experienced attorney specializing in policy advocacy, legislative drafting, statewide political campaign strategy, regulatory implementation, and non-profit management in the areas of drug law reform, marijuana law, psychedelics law, and public health.
Todd is the former legal director of the Drug Policy Alliance, where she was responsible for developing and overseeing the organization’s legal work as it related to legislative drafting, policy advocacy, litigation, and public education in local, state and federal jurisdictions. She has expertise in marijuana and psychedelics decriminalization, legalization, and regulation, and she has co-authored many state and local ballot initiatives and statutes, including in California, Colorado, Oregon, South Dakota, Montana, and Mississippi. She authored Colorado’s Proposition 122 in 2022, which decriminalized certain psychedelics and created a regulatory framework for their therapeutic use. She has advised governments internationally on their efforts to legalize the production and distribution of marijuana, and she has testified in numerous legislative and government bodies in the United States and abroad on the issue of drug policy and the intersection of state and federal law. She served on the California Cannabis Advisory Committee, which advised the California Bureau of Cannabis Control on the implementation of California’s marijuana legalization law.
Todd received her B.A. from the University of Vermont and her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. After law school, she clerked for the Hon. Emmet Sullivan on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and she spent several years representing people on death row as a staff attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta.
Education
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center (2000)
B.A., University of Vermont
Tamar Lorraine Todd is teaching the following course in Spring 2026:
• 294.63 sec. 001 - Psychedelics Law
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Spring 2025 | 220A sec. 001 | Marijuana Law and Policy | View Teaching Evaluation |
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