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Drug
Policy Reform
Drug
Law Reform Organizations - International
Drug
Law Reform Organizations - National
Drug
Law Reform Organizations - State and Local
Expert
Commentary, Speakers & Testimony
Faith
Community
Harm
Reduction Issues, Training & Support
Internet
Libraries
Medical
Marijuana
News
& Media Archives, Outlets
Political
Action & Analysis
Prison
Issues
Research
Sentencing
Issues
Special
Interest Organizations
Substance
Abuse Treatment & Prevention
Drug
Law Reform Organizations - International
Canadian Foundation for
Drug Policy - acts as a forum and vehicle for discussing
drug policy issues with government, the public, other
organizations and the media, and where necessary, recommends
effective and humane alternatives to Canada's drug policies.
European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies - a coalition of more than 200 NGOs that works to adopt more just and effective drug policies.
Family and Friends
for Drug Law Reform (Australia) - committed to preventing
tragedy that arises from illicit drug use.
Institute
for Policy Studies (IPS) - a progressive think-tank
with a project on U.S. drug policy and U.S. involvment
in Colombia.
Latin America Working
Group (LAWG) - works to bring democracy, human rights
and sustainable development to foreign policy on Latin
America.
New Zealand Drug
Foundation - a harm reduction centre promoting co-ordination,
consultation and co-operation among non-governmental
organisations, providing a contact point for the New
Zealand Government and non-governmental organisations
working in the area, and valid and reliable information
for organizations and individuals.
Washington Office on
Latin America (WOLA) - a social and economic justice
organization dedicated to democracy and human rights
in Latin America.
Drug
Law Reform Organizations - National
Americans For
Safe Access (ASA) - an aggressive grassroots campaign
working to push the Bush administration off its anti-medical
marijuana crusade and allow states the right to choose
and govern medical marijuana laws.
Common Sense for Drug
Policy (CSDP) - a non-profit organization dedicated
to expanding discussion on drug policy by resonating
the voices of those raising questions about existing
law and educating the public about alternatives to current
policies.
Criminal Justice Policy
Foundation (CJPF) - a non-profit foundation working
on innovative solutions to problems facing the criminal
justice system.
Drug Policy Alliance
(DPA) - the nation's leading organization working
to end the war on drugs.
Drug Reform Coordination
Network (DRCNet) - opposes the prison-building frenzy
and supports rational policies consistent with the principles
of peace, justice, freedom, compassion and truth.
Human Rights and the
Drug War - a multi-media project that combines the
stories and photos of Drug War POWs with facts and figures
about the US Drug War, to confront the conscience of
the American people and encourage individuals to take
action for social justice.
Institute
for Policy Studies (IPS) - a progressive think-tank
with a project on U.S. drug policy and U.S. involvment
in Colombia.
Interfaith Drug Policy
Initiative (IDPI) - organizes people of faith to
promote drug policy reform; i.e., moving from prohibition
laws toward reasonable and compassionate drug regulation,
education and treatment.
Judges Against the Drug War -
provides an "extensive online database of judicial opinions critical of the government’s War on Drugs." The database represents "judicial dissent against drug prohibition" in state and federal jurisdictions from 1970 to the present date.
Law Enforcement Against
Prohibition (LEAP) - current and former members
of law enforcement who support drug regulation rather
than prohibition.
Marijuana Policy Project
(MPP) - works to minimize the harm associated with
marijuana -- both the consumption of marijuana, and
the laws that are intended to prohibit such use.
Multidisciplinary Association
for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) - non-profit research
and educational organization that assists scientific
study of the risks and benefits of MDMA, psychedelic
drugs and marijuana.
National Drug Strategies
Network (NDSN) - coalition of organizations that
offer information about drug control strategies.
National Organization
for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) - a nonprofit
public-interest advocacy group that represents the interests
of the tens of millions of Americans who smoke marijuana
responsibly.
Parents Ending Prohibition - Parents Ending Prohibition is a grassroots, non-profit organization, designed to bring together parents and other concerned citizens to protect our children from the devastating harms created by our nation's "war on marijuana."
Students for Sensible
Drug Policy (SSDP) - committed to providing education
on harms caused by the War on Drugs, working to involve
youth in the political process, and promoting an open,
honest, and rational discussion of alternative solutions
to our nation's drug problems.
Unitarian Universalists
for Drug Policy Reform (UUDPR) - a continental coalition
of Unitarian Universalists leading the denomination's
efforts to develop and promote more just and compassionate
drug policies.
Drug
Law Reform Organizations - State and Local
A Better Way Foundation
- a Connecticut-based non-profit working to shift drug
policy away from incarceration and towards substance
abuse treatment and public health.
Drug Policy
Forum of California - a resource for drug policy
reformers in California, and members of the public interested
in CA state legislators' drug policy voting records.
Drug Policy
Forum of Florida - promotes scientific and truthful
evaluation of current and proposed policies aimed at
controlling traffic in all types of drugs.
Drug Policy Forum
of Hawai'i - serves the public by encouraging the
widest possible discussion of alternatives to current
drug policies and facilitates the development of effective
laws that minimize economic, human and social costs.
Drug Policy Forum of
Massachusetts - envisions a Commonwealth where drug
laws and funding priorities are based on science, human
rights, and tangible reductions in the harm caused both
by drug use and drug laws, instead of our current policy
emphasizing criminal punishment.
Drug Policy Forum of
Texas - believes that drug related problems threaten
our children's future and weaken our entire nation and
urges reconsidering laws that were based on fear and
misinformation.
Drug Policy
Forum of Wisconsin - a virtual organization consisting
of a diverse group of activists from all over Wisconsin
who understand that the so-called "war on drugs" is
a failure and that it is time to adopt a more humane
approach to drug policies.
Efficacy
- a Connecticut based drug policy reform group that
provides speakers on a wide range of drug policy topics.
King County
Bar Association (KCBA) - partnership of lawyers,
doctors, pharmacists and other professionals in Washington
State looking for effective ways to reduce the harm
and costs of drug abuse, and of the “War on Drugs” itself.
ReconsiDer Forum
on Drug Policy - a grassroots not-for-profit membership
organization that was incorporated in New York State
by concerned citizens to provide a forum for discussing
alternatives to one of America’s greatest public policy
failures—the war on drugs.
Virginians
Against Drug Violence (VADV) - a grassroots association
of persons who participate in activities directed at
ending the drug war in our state.
Expert
Commentary, Speakers & Testimony
Common Sense
for Drug Policy (CSDP) - a non-profit organization
that hosts a database of experts in the field of drug
policy and control strategies.
Criminal Justice Policy
Foundation (CJPF) - a non-profit foundation working
on innovative solutions to problems facing the criminal
justice system.
Drug Policy Alliance
(DPA) - the nation's leading organization working
to end the war on drugs.
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- Faces & Voices of Recovery - a national campaign of individuals and organizations joining together with a united voice to advocate for public action to deliver the power, possibility and proof of recovery.
King County
Bar Association (KCBA) - partnership of lawyers,
doctors, pharmacists and other professionals in Washington
State looking for effective ways to reduce the harm
and costs of drug abuse, and of the “War on Drugs” itself.
Law Enforcement Against
Prohibition (LEAP) - current and former members
of law enforcement who support drug regulation rather
than prohibition.
Marijuana Policy Project
(MPP) - works to minimize the harm associated with
marijuana -- both the consumption of marijuana, and
the laws that are intended to prohibit such use.
Faith
Community
Interfaith Drug Policy
Initiative (IDPI) - organizes people of faith to
promote drug policy reform; i.e., moving from prohibition
laws toward reasonable and compassionate drug regulation,
education and treatment.
Religious
Leaders for a More Just and Compassionate Drug Policy
- a group of both clergy and religious academics who
have felt called to speak out on an unpopular and controversial
issue: the "War on drugs" with its unjust and discriminatory
laws against drug abusers.
Unitarian Universalists
for Drug Policy Reform (UUDPR) - a continental coalition
of Unitarian Universalists leading the denomination's
efforts to develop and promote more just and compassionate
drug policies.
Harm
Reduction Issues, Training & Support
Harm Reduction
Coalition (HRC) - committed to reducing drug-related
harm among individuals and communities by initiating
and promoting local, regional, and national harm reduction
education, interventions, and community organizing.
Faces & Voices of Recovery - a national campaign of individuals and organizations joining together with a united voice to advocate for public action to deliver the power, possibility and proof of recovery.
New Zealand Drug
Foundation - a harm reduction centre promoting co-ordination,
consultation and co-operation among non-governmental
organisations, and providing valid and reliable information.
Internet
Libraries
Canadian Foundation for
Drug Policy - acts as a forum and vehicle for discussing
drug policy issues with government, the public, other
organizations and the media, and where necessary, recommends
effective and humane alternatives to Canada's drug policies.
Drug Action Network
(DAN) - this organization educates the public regarding
the great harm being done to our society caused by the
government's support of the illegal drug trade.
Drug Policy Alliance
(DPA) - the nation's leading organization working
to end the war on drugs.
Drug Reform Coordination
Network (DRCNet) - opposes the prison-building frenzy
and supports rational policies consistent with the principles
of peace, justice, freedom, compassion and truth.
DrugSense -
provides accurate information relevant to drug policy
in order to heighten awareness of the extreme damage
being caused to our nation and the world by our current
flawed and failed "War on Drugs."
Erowid - provides
access to new and archived research on psychoactive
plants and chemicals and related issues.
Law Enforcement Against
Prohibition (LEAP) - current and former members
of law enforcement who support drug regulation rather
than prohibition.
Mothers Against Misuse
and Abuse (MAMA) - promotes informed decision-making
and personal responsibility in relation to substance
use.
National Drug Strategy
Network (NDSN) - working for effective approaches
to address the world's many drug problems by sharing
accurate information about drug control strategies.
Medical
Marijuana
Americans For
Safe Access (ASA) - an aggressive grassroots campaign
working to push the Bush administration off its anti-medical
marijuana crusade and allow states the right to choose
and govern medical marijuana laws.
Angel
Wings Patient OutReach - a California group that
works towards "clarifying and vindicating the civil
rights, human rights, and disability rights of medical
cannabis patients, their caregivers, and their physicians"
and most recently involved in the Supreme Court case
Ashcroft v. Raich.
Dr. Lester Grinspoon's
Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine - explores the
use of marijuana as medicine and recreation, as well
as for its enhancing, therapeutic, exploratory, and
expansive possibilities.
Drug Policy Alliance
(DPA) -the nation's leading organization working
to end the war on drugs.
Green Cross
Patient Cooperative of Seattle - provides resources,
advice and services to bona fide medicinal cannabis
patients.
Human Rights and the
Drug War - a multi-media project that combines the
stories and photos of Drug War POWs with facts and figures
about the US Drug War, to confront the conscience of
the American people and encourage individuals to take
action for social justice.
Marijuana Policy Project
(MPP) -works to minimize the harm associated with
marijuana -- both the consumption of marijuana, and
the laws that are intended to prohibit such use.
Parents Ending Prohibition - Parents Ending Prohibition is a grassroots, non-profit organization, designed to bring together parents and other concerned citizens to protect our children from the devastating harms created by our nation's "war on marijuana."
News
& Media Archives, Outlets
Alternet
Drug Reporter - online news source and commentary
on drug policy issues.
Common Sense for Drug
Policy (CSDP) - a non-profit organization dedicated
to expanding discussion on drug policy by resonating
the voices of those raising questions about existing
law and educating the public about alternatives to current
policies.
Cultural
Baggage - an excellent weekly radio program of interviews
with leading figures in drug policy reform from around
the world on the current issues in drug policy. Part
of the Pacifica network. All programs are archived and
available on-line.
Drug Reform Coordination
Network (DRCNet) - opposes the prison-building frenzy
and supports rational policies consistent with the principles
of peace, justice, freedom, compassion and truth.
Drug Testing
News - provides the most comprehensive source for
up-to-date news and information on the drug and alcohol
testing industry including legislation, legal issues,
business, and technology.
Drug Truth Network
(DTN) - a media production organization dedicated
to "exposing the fraud, misdirection, and wastefulness
of the 'war on drugs'.”
DrugSense -
provides accurate information relevant to drug policy
in order to heighten awareness of the extreme damage
being caused to our nation and the world by our current
flawed and failed "War on Drugs."
Media Awareness Project
(MAPInc) - a growing, easily searched, database
of current news and opinion articles about the drug
war as a research and educational tool.
The Progressive Review
- "Washington's Most Unofficial Source," is one of the
nation's most important sources for news and commentary
that escapes from the chains of conventional wisdom
and corporate domination. Strongly supports drug policy
reform. Unfailingly provocative and inspiring.
Watching
Justice - keeps a vigilant and long-term eye on
Americans' fundamental rights and liberties by providing
a forum for analysis, praise, and criticism of the Justice
department's actions.
Political
Action & Analysis
Americans For
Safe Access (ASA) - an aggressive grassroots campaign
working to push the Bush administration off its anti-medical
marijuana crusade and allow states the right to choose
and govern medical marijuana laws.
Drug Policy Alliance
(DPA) - the nation's leading organization working
to end the war on drugs.
Marijuana Policy Project
(MPP) - works to minimize the harm associated with
marijuana -- both the consumption of marijuana, and
the laws that are intended to prohibit such use.
Prison
Issues
Human Rights and the
Drug War - a multi-media project that combines the
stories and photos of Drug War POWs with facts and figures
about the US Drug War, to confront the conscience of
the American people and encourage individuals to take
action for social justice.
November Coalition
- a non-profit organization of grassroots volunteers
educating the public about the destructive increase
in prison population in the United States due to our
current drug laws.
Research
The
Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme - aims
to promote objective debate on the effectiveness, direction
and content of drug policies at national and international
level.
The Dogwood
Center - an independent, nonprofit research organization
concerned with social justice issues related to drugs
and AIDS.
Dr. Lester Grinspoon's
Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine - explores the
use of marijuana as medicine and recreation, as well
as for its enhancing, therapeutic, exploratory, and
expansive possibilities.
Drug Policy Alliance
(DPA) - the nation's leading organization working
to end the war on drugs.
Drug Strategies
- promotes more effective approaches to the nation's
drug problems and supports private and public efforts
to reduce the demand for drugs through prevention, education,
treatment, law enforcement and community initiatives.
Multidisciplinary Association
for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) - non-profit research
and educational organization that assists scientific
study of the risks and benefits of MDMA, psychedelic
drugs and marijuana.
Sentencing
Issues
Justice Policy
Institute (JPI) - a non-profit research and a public
policy organization dedicated to ending society's reliance
on incarceration and promoting effective and just solutions
to social problems.
Families Against Mandatory
Minimums (FAMM) - challenges the excessive sentences
required by mandatory sentencing laws.
The Sentencing
Project - promotes reduced reliance on incarceration
and increased use of more effective and humane alternatives
to deal with crime.
Special
Interest Organizations
Educators for Sensible Drug
Policy (EFSDP) - coalition of educators who wish
to provide children with accurate and useful drug education.
Faces & Voices of Recovery - a national campaign of individuals and organizations joining together with a united voice to advocate for public action to deliver the power, possibility and proof of recovery.
Judges
Against the Drug War - an extensive online database
of judicial opinions critical of the government’s War
on Drugs, intended to serve as a resource for the media,
judges, attorneys, law students, drug policy reformers
and the public.
King County
Bar Association (KCBA) - partnership of lawyers,
doctors, pharmacists and other professionals in Washington
State looking for effective ways to reduce the harm
and costs of drug abuse, and of the “War on Drugs” itself.
Law Enforcement Against
Prohibition (LEAP) - current and former members
of law enforcement who support drug regulation rather
than prohibition.
Mothers Against Misuse
and Abuse (MAMA) - promotes informed decision-making
and personal responsibility in relation to substance
use.
National
Work Rights Institute - founded in January 2000
by the former staff of the American Civil Liberties
Union's National Taskforce on Civil Liberties in the
Workplace, this institute's goal is to improve the legal
protection of human rights in the workplace.
Pain Relief
Network (PRN) - a network of pain patients, family
members of people in pain, physicians, attorneys, and
activists who are working toward a day when people in
pain will be afforded the simple dignity and compassion
due all ill Americans.
Physicians and Lawyers
for National Drug Policy (PLNDP) -union of leaders
from both the medical and legal professions brings together
our nation's leading physicians and attorneys to promote
a public health approach to the country's substance
abuse policies at both the federal and state levels.
Students for Sensible
Drug Policy (SSDP) - committed to providing education
on harms caused by the War on Drugs, working to involve
youth in the political process, and promoting an open,
honest, and rational discussion of alternative solutions
to our nation's drug problems.
Veterans for
More Effective Drug Strategies - military veterans
from a variety of backgrounds who join together in recognition
that the anticipated escalation of US military involvement
in the four decade old Colombian civil war will do more
harm than good.
Voluntary Committee of
Lawyers (VCL) - an association of lawyers and judges
whose members share strong misgivings about the wisdom
and consequences of America's perpetual drug war.
Women's Organization
for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR) - revived
organization from the years of alcohol prohibition,
again working to end prohibition and the corruption
and violence that it breeds.
Substance
Abuse Treatment & Prevention
Join Together
- a pioneer in using the Internet to support people
working on substance abuse and gun violence issues.
Mothers Against Misuse
and Abuse (MAMA) - formed in 1982 to address the
multifaceted issues of substance use, misuse and abuse.
MAMA's approach is based on personal responsibility
and informed decision making, with respect for human
dignity.
Addict
in the Family Online - a valuable resource document
for health professionals, care givers and families,
Addict in the Family provides a practical, no
nonsense guide to those grappling with drug use by a
person whom they love.
Alcoholics
Anonymous (Alcohol Only) - a fellowship of men and
women who share their experience, strength and hope
with each other that they may solve their common problem
and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only
requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.
Family
Justice - a New York-based organization that works
with families and neighborhoods to "break cycles of
involvement with the criminal justice system."
Legal
Action Center - a legal advice center for recovering
drug addicts that lobbies on their behalf.
Moderation
Management (Alcohol Only) - a behavioral change
program and national support group network for people
concerned about their drinking and who desire to make
positive lifestyle changes. MM empowers individuals
to accept personal responsibility for choosing and maintaining
their own path, whether moderation or abstinence.
Narcotics
Anonymous (NA) - a nonprofit fellowship or society
of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem.
We meet regularly to help each other stay clean. We
are not interested in what or how much you used, only
in what you want to do about your problem and how we
can help.
SMART
Recovery - offers free face-to-face and online mutual
help groups. SMART (Self-Management and Recovery Training)
helps people recover from all types of addictive behaviors,
including: alcoholism, drug abuse, substance abuse,
drug addiction, alcohol abuse, gambling addiction, cocaine
addiction, and addiction to other substances and activities.
SMART is an alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous and
Narcotics Anonymous.
Health.org - U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services and SAMHSA's
National Clearinghouse for Drug and Alcohol Information.
NotMyKid.org
- a resource dedicated to raising awareness about the
most prevalent youth and adolescent mental and behavioral
health issues.
PreventionWorks!
- this harm reduction program works to provide needle
exchange services in the District of Columbia.
Phoenix
House - a nation-wide, non-profit organization that
provides drug and alcohol treatment and prevention programs.
It has been deemed a "model program" by the
Department of Justice.
The Association of Addiction
Professionals - the largest membership organization
serving addiction counselors, educators and other addiction-focused
health care professionals, who specialize in addiction
prevention, treatment and education.
Treatment
Trends, Inc. - a non-profit organization that oversees
numerous drug treatment programs. It also provides a
newsletter three times a year.
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