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- The Drug Policy Foundation
- an independent forum for drug policy alternatives
-
- * Do you think we've won the war against drugs?
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- * Do you think that current strategies are winning the war against drugs ?
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- * Do you think that doing more of the same will ever win the war against
- drugs?
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- If you can't answer "Yes" to at least one of these three questions, then you
- must consider peaceful alternatives to the war on drugs.
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- President George Bush spent $45 billion on the drug war, more than Presidents
- Nixon to Reagan combined.
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- Thanks to the drug war, the United States now incarcerates more of its own
- people at a higher rate (455 prisoners per 100,000 population) than any other
- country in the free world. Each prisoner costs the American taxpayer $20,000
- to $40,000 per year. Minor drug offenders serve mandatory 10-year sentences.
- As the chart below shows, the cost is not just in dollars.
-
- Average Sentences for Violent Offenders Compared with Drug Offenders
-
- 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990*
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- 140 v v
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- 120 v v v v
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- 100 v v v v v v
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- 80 v v v v d v d v d
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- 60 v d v d v d v d v d v d
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- 40 v d v d v d v d v d v d
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- 20 v d v d v d v d v d v d
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- 0 v d v d v d v d v d v d
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- *preliminary data
- v Violent Offenses d Drug Offenses
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- Despite a nationwide wave of violent crime, the drug war has led to decreased
- sentences for violent offenders and longer sentences for petty drug offenders.
- Source: US Bureau of Justice Statistics, Sourcebook of Criminal Justice
- Statistics: 1991, p 506.
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- Police and civilians have become drug war cannon fodder.
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- The Bill of Rights has been eroded.
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- Despite the massive anti-drug crackdown, cocaine imports are up and so is
- hard-core drug use.
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- It's time for drug peace, not drug war.
-
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- "A beacon of reason in a sea of hysteria. "
-
- That's how syndicated columnist David Morris described the Drug Policy
- Foundation.
-
- Established in 1986, the Drug Policy Foundation is the leading independent
- forum for alternatives to the failed drug war, including legalization,
- medicalization and harm reduction. The basic premise of the Foundation's work
- is that a war is not a domestic policy.
-
- The Drug Policy Foundation protects some of the saddest victims of the drug
- war. We're suing the federal government to legalize medical manjuana for
- desperately ill patients. We've helped defend pregnant women who couldn't get
- treatment against charges of drug trafficking via the umbilical cord.
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- The Foundation counters drug-war spawned misinformation and hysteria through
- accurate research and a widespread educational campaign. Because of our work,
- the media and the public increasingly recognize the destruction and futility
- of the drug war.
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- Mayors, police, judges, doctors, scholars, business leaders and community
- activists actively support the non-profit Drug Policy Foundation.
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- We depend on the financial support of concerned individuals everywhere to keep
- the flame of reason burning.
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- About the Foundation:
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- Here's what we do in addition to legal action and public information
- campaigns.
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- Conferences: annual International Conference on Drug Policy Reform (discounts
- for Foundation members), legal seminars and medical seminars
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- Newsletter: The Drug Policy Letter with Drug Policy Action (free for
- Foundation members)
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- Reports: Choose Health, Not War; The Bush Drug War Record; and more Books:
- Friedman & Szasz and annual volumes
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- TV: "America's Drug Forum" talk show
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- Catalog: 40+ titles and 50 videotapes (catalog discounts for Foundation
- members)
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- Join the Drug Policy Foundation today. Annual membership is just $25 ($35
- outside of the United States) and includes a one-year subscription to The Drug
- Policy Letter plus discounts on books, reports and videos ordered through the
- Foundation.
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- Drug Policy Foundation Board of Directors: President Arnold S. Trebach, J.D.,
- Ph.D.; Vice President Kevin B. Zeese, Esq. Secretary-Treasurer Marjorie A.
- Rosner; Geraldine Barrett
- Washington;lraGlasser,A.C.L.U.,NewYork;PatrickV.Murphy, N.Y.
- PoliceDepartmentCommissioner(ret.), Washington, D.C.; Wesley C. Pomeroy,
- Independent Review Panel, Dade County, Fla.; Joanne Sgro, Esq., Washington;
- Ronald Sinoway, Esq., Phillipsville, Calif. Board of Advisors: Chairman
- Richard J. Dennis; Barry Beyerstein, Ph.D., Simon Fraser Univ., Canada; David
- D. Boaz, Cato Inst., Washington; Anthony Burton, Esq., Drug Policy Fdn. U.K.;
- Richard C. Cowan, N.O.R.M.L., Wash- ington, Luigi Del Gatto, M.D., Intl.
- Anti-Prohibitionist League, Italy; Patricia Erickson, Ph.D., Addiction
- Research Fdn., Canada; Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Harvard Medical School; Jane
- Hendtlass, Ph.D., Rodie Research, Australia; Rufus King, Esq., Washington;
- Frederick H. Meyers, M.D., Univ. of Calif., San Francisco; John P. Morgan,
- M.D., City Univ. of N.Y. Medical School; Ethan Nadelmann, J.D., Ph.D.,
- Princeton Univ.; Craig Reinarman, Ph.D., Univ. of Calif., Santa Cruz; Marsha
- Rosenbaum, Ph.D., Inst. forScientificAnalysis, San Francisco; Frits ROter,
- Prof. Dr., Univ. of Amsterdam; Carl Sagan, Ph.D., Cornell Univ., Ralph
- Salerno, N.Y. Police Dept. (ret.), Lake Ariel, Pa.; The Hon. Kurt L. Schmoke,
- Mayor, Baltimore, Md.; Alan Silber, Esq., New York; Michael Stepanian, Esq.,
- Haight- Ashbury Free Clinic San Francisco; Thomas Szasz, M.D., State Univ. of
- N.Y., Syracuse; Carole Tongue, European Parlia- ment, U.K.; Grant Wardlaw,
- Ph.D., Australian Inst. of Criminol- ogy, Andrew Weil, M.D., Univ. of Arizona;
- Steven Wisotsky, Esq, Nova Univ. Law Center, Fla.; Alex Wodak, M.D., St.
- Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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- The Drug Policy Foundation
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