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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?
* Do you think that current strategies are winning the war against drugs ?
* Do you think that doing more of the same will ever win the war against
drugs?
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.
President George Bush spent $45 billion on the drug war, more than Presidents
Nixon to Reagan combined.
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*
140 v v
120 v v v v
100 v v v v v v
80 v v v v d v d v d
60 v d v d v d v d v d v d
40 v d v d v d v d v d v d
20 v d v d v d v d v d v d
0 v d v d v d v d v d v d
*preliminary data
v Violent Offenses d Drug Offenses
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.
Police and civilians have become drug war cannon fodder.
The Bill of Rights has been eroded.
Despite the massive anti-drug crackdown, cocaine imports are up and so is
hard-core drug use.
It's time for drug peace, not drug war.
--
"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.
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.
Mayors, police, judges, doctors, scholars, business leaders and community
activists actively support the non-profit Drug Policy Foundation.
We depend on the financial support of concerned individuals everywhere to keep
the flame of reason burning.
About the Foundation:
Here's what we do in addition to legal action and public information
campaigns.
Conferences: annual International Conference on Drug Policy Reform (discounts
for Foundation members), legal seminars and medical seminars
Newsletter: The Drug Policy Letter with Drug Policy Action (free for
Foundation members)
Reports: Choose Health, Not War; The Bush Drug War Record; and more Books:
Friedman & Szasz and annual volumes
TV: "America's Drug Forum" talk show
Catalog: 40+ titles and 50 videotapes (catalog discounts for Foundation
members)
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.
----------------- contribution form ----------------------
YES! I support the Drug Policy Foundation's promotion of peaceful alternatives
to the drug war.
Contribution:
o $100 o $50 o $35 Basic Overseas Membership
o $25 Basic U.S. Membership, I will receive Foundation newsletters and
discounts.
Method of Payment:
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Send your tax-deductible contribution to:
THE DRUG POLICY FOUNDATION
4455 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite B-500
Washington, DC 20008-2302
Phone: (202) 537-5005
Fax: (202)537-3007
CompuServe: 76546,215
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
The Drug Policy Foundation
an independent forum for drug policy alternatives