| 05/08/08 |
San Diego Demonstrators Call for Overdose Prevention, Not Drug Busts
The Drug Enforcement Administration announced earlier this week that agents have arrested nearly 100 people in a sting operation at San Diego State University in California over the last several months. The drug probe came in response to a student’s overdose in 2007. In response, students, parents and drug policy reformers organized a demonstration Wednesday to call attention to the need for more effective, more sensible responses to overdose.
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| 05/07/08 |
DPA Welcomes Laura Thomas
Laura Thomas has joined DPA as the Deputy State Director, San Francisco, where she oversees DPA's Model City Initiative for San Francisco. She brings to DPA 20 years of experience in HIV and public health policy, along with a strong commitment to community advocacy, thoughtful policy analysis, and coalition building.
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| 05/07/08 |
Legislators Reject Call to Cut Treatment Funding
With the California legislature engaged in a particularly difficult struggle over this year's state budget, a recent committee vote against cutting Proposition 36, California’s landmark treatment-instead-of-incarceration law, sent a strong message of support for the program. Budget committees in both the Senate and the Assembly recently rejected the governor’s calls for a 10% funding cut to the program.
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| 05/07/08 |
Medical Marijuana Bill Clears Key Committee in California
Last week, the California Assembly Committee on Public Safety approved AB 2743, authored by Assembly Member Lori Saldaña (D – San Diego). The bill would make it the policy of state and local law enforcement agencies not to cooperate with the DEA or other federal law enforcement agencies in their attacks on sick and dying medical marijuana patients and their providers.
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| 05/07/08 |
Going to the Voters in California
The Drug Policy Alliance Network (DPA’s lobbying entity) has collected more than 760,000 voter signatures to put the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act (NORA), the most ambitious sentencing and prison reform in U.S. history, on the California ballot in November. We submitted all of those signatures-—nearly double the number necessary-—to the counties’ registrar offices all around the state at the end of April.
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| 04/28/08 |
Bring Medical Marijuana Up for a Vote in Alabama
Alabama residents, tell the House Judiciary Committee to vote on Alabama's medical marijuana bill!
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| 04/28/08 |
Save Money and Lives in Connecticut
A new report in Connecticut shows that diverting people with mental health and substance abuse problems away from prison can save your tax dollars and make the state safer. Tell your elected officials to support diversion efforts!
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| 04/24/08 |
New Jersey Takes First Step Towards Sentencing Reform
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signed a bill this week that increases treatment access for people in the criminal justice system. However, the bill does not address larger sentencing issues in the state.
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| 04/22/08 |
No More Marijuana Arrests
Take action in support of the first federal marijuana decriminalization bill in 25 years!
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| 04/17/08 |
Government-appointed Panel Calls Supervised Injection Site a Success
An expert panel appointed by Canada's national health agency recently concluded that Vancouver's supervised injection site is saving money and lives, increasing access to health care and treatment, and improving public order--all without increasing crime.
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