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DPA. Welcome. Since it first went online in 1998, Drug War Facts provides reliable information with applicable citations on important public health and criminal justice issues. It is updated continuously by its current Editor, Doug McVay. Most charts, facts and figures are from government sources, government-sponsored sources, peer reviewed journals and occasionally newspapers. In all cases the source is cited so that journalists, scholars and students can verify, check context and obtain additional information. Our mission is to offer useful facts, cited from authoritative sources, to a debate that is often characterized by myths, error, emotion and dissembling. We believe that in time an informed society will correct its errors and generate wiser policies. Drug War Facts is sponsored by Common Sense for Drug Policy.

To the extent of its copyrights, Common Sense for Drug Policy authorizes and encourages the use and republication of some or all portions of this book. Click here for a list of chapters. SAFER - Home. MPP. LEAP. Stand with LEAP by joining as a citizen supporter for free. You can unsubscribe from our occasional news updates and action alerts at any time. Retired British Intelligence Officer, Annie Machon Retired Vancouver, British Columbia police officer Tony Smith's LEAP presentation was advertised in a local newspaper: Neill Franklin, retired Maryland State Police Major and Tim Datig, retired Chief of Police take the LEAP message to the Rotary Rick Van Wickler debates marijuana legalization on New Hampshire Public Television NEW FBI NUMBERS SHOW FAILURE OF "WAR ON DRUGS" WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A group of police and judges who want to legalize drugs pointed to new FBI numbers released today as evidence that the "war on drugs" is a failure that can never be won.

Cronkite Recognized the Drug-War Failure and the Ending Prohibition Solution NEW YORK― Walter Cronkite, America’s trusted broadcaster and father figure to a nation for decades, has died in New York at the age of 92. 1. Sen. DrugSense. This is a web portal for DrugSense - Media Awareness Project (MAP) - Drug Policy Central (DPC) DrugSense is an award winning (501)(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in 1995 to inform citizens and encourage involvement in drug policy reform.

It has developed a number of projects and services that have become a foundation for drug policy reform. The {*style:<a href=' Awareness Project (MAP) Drug News Archive{*style:</a>*} encourages unbiased media coverage, online media activism and a drug policy research tool. {*style:<a href=' Policy Central's Web-based services{*style:</a>*} provides subsidized technical services for drug policy organizations organization to empower their members to organize and share information and resources.

ASA : Advancing Legal Medical Marijuana Therapeutics and Researc. Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition - Cops Say Legalize Drugs. ACLU. Founded in 1998 and formerly known as the Drug Law Reform Project, the Criminal Law Reform Project focuses its work at the “front end” of the criminal justice system, from policing to sentencing, with an emphasis on ending our nation's punitive drug policies, which have failed to achieve public safety and health while putting unprecedented numbers of people behind bars and eroding constitutional rights. Read More About the Criminal Law Reform Project » In order to put an end to the mass an end to excessively harsh crime policies that result in mass incarceration and stand in the way of a just and equal society, we should focus on several areas including: Overincarceration More Americans are under some form of correctional control than ever before, often unnecessarily, at a huge expense to both personal liberty and taxpayer wallets.

Drug Sentencing and Policies There are 2.3 million people behind bars in this country and a quarter of them are locked up for drug offenses. Drug Testing. Organizing for America | Obama Supporters for Marijuana Law Refo. StopThDrugWar. Tax Cannabis 2010. NORML. Never Get Busted Again. SLDP.