Drug Policy Alliance
DPA Network is the nation's leading organization working to end the war on drugs. We envision new drug policies based on science, compassion, health and human rights and a just society in which the fears, prejudices and punitive prohibitions of today are no more.
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Newswire article Wednesday, May 09, 2012 A Tale of Two Cities: Numerous Elected Officials, Community Members March and Rally at 1 Police Plaza Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly are writing a Tale of Two Cities. One New York City is for white people, where marijuana possession was decriminalized in 1977, people are seldom stopped and frisked, and mothers do not fear that their teenagers will be rounded up by the police. Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, May 01, 2012 Mother’s Day: Moms, Cops and Students Unite to End War on Drugs at National Press Club Mothers from around the country will join with law enforcement and students at the National Press Club on May 2nd in honor of Mother’s Day. The press conference will launch a new campaign comprised of national organizations representing mothers, police and students that seek to finally end the disastrous drug war. Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, April 04, 2012 Six National Drug Policy Organizations Call on President Obama to End Unnecessary Assault on Medical Marijuana Providers In the wake of recent attacks on medical marijuana providers and patients by multiple branches of the federal government, including Monday's raids on Oaksterdam University in Oakland, CA, a coalition of six national drug policy reform organizations is appealing to President Obama and his administration to follow its own previously stated policies respecting state medical marijuana laws. Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, December 14, 2011 National Institute on Drug Abuse Releases 2011 Teen Drug Use Survey The federal government's National Institute on Drug Abuse released its annual Monitoring the Future survey today. Cigarette and alcohol use continued their long-term decline, reaching their lowest point since the survey began polling teenagers in 1975. Another notable finding is the inclusion of synthetic marijuana in the survey for the first time. While past-year marijuana use rates held steady at 36.4 percent among 12th graders, 11.4 percent of 12th-graders reported past-year use of synthetic marijuana. Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Government Study Finds Nearly Half of Drug Courts Do Not Reduce Recidivism The Government Accountability Office last week released a report , in which it finds that only 18 of 32 drug courts – or just over 50% – showed statistically significant reductions in recidivism among participants. That is, almost half of drug courts do not reduce re-arrest rates of their participants below the rates of people who went through the normal criminal justice process. Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, June 22, 2011 United States Conference of Mayors Unanimously Passes Resolution Calling the War on Drugs a Failed Policy That is Driving Over-incarceration and Racial Disparities "The war on drugs – declared 40 years ago this weekend – has been the principal driver of mass incarceration in America," said U.S. mayors in a resolution adopted on Monday at the United States Conference of Mayor's annual meeting in Baltimore. The mayors pointed out that the U.S. has by far the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 2.4 million of its residents in prison or jail, including roughly 500,000 Americans behind bars for drug law violations – an increase of 1200 percent since 1980. Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, April 28, 2011 Mother's Day Launch of New National Campaign: Moms United to End War on Drugs Moms from around the country are using Mother's Day to announce the national launch of a new campaign whose mission is to help end the disastrous drug war. Moms United to End the War on Drugs hopes to play a similar role as moms in the 1930's who led the successful fight to end Alcohol Prohibition. Many of the moms leading this campaign have been personally impacted by the war on drugs, including having family who suffer from addiction, have been repeatedly incarcerated, or have died from preventable drug overdoses. Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, November 30, 2010 US Supreme Court Hears California Prison Crowding Case The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in Schwarzenegger v. Plata , a landmark prison rights case in which a federal court found the unconstitutional conditions of California's prisons were caused primarily by overcrowding and ordered California to reduce prison overcrowding from over 200% of design capacity down (by about 40,000 people) to 137.5% of capacity within two years. Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, November 03, 2010 California's Marijuana Legalization Initiative Falls Short California voters decided against the adoption of Proposition 19, which would have legalized possession and cultivation of small amounts of marijuana by adults and allow cities and counties to regulate sales of marijuana within their jurisdictions. A win at the ballot would have been a first of its kind in U.S. history. Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Another World Is Possible: U.S. Social Forum in Detroit Brings Together Over 15,000 Activists, Cultural Workers and Community Changemakers from June 22-26th; Drug Policy Reform Highlighted as Increasingly Urgent Issue for Progressives Thousands of activists, cultural workers and community changemakers from around the country will gather in Detroit this week to participate in the U.S. Social Forum. The Forum will bring together a broad spectrum of people, skills and vision for dealing with major issues facing our country, such as immigration, the environment, and growing socioeconomic disparities. The US Social Forum will feature over 1,000 self-organized workshops, 500 cultural events & performances, People's Movement Assemblies, direct actions and a 15,000 person party! Read more |