UUDPR is a continental coalition of Unitarian Universalists leading the denomination's efforts to develop and promote more just and compassionate drug policies. In accordance with the denomination's new drug policy Statement of Conscience, the UUDPR advocates that drug use should be a health issue, not a crime.

The Drug Reform Coordination Network was founded in 1993 and has quickly grown into a major national and global network including parents, educators, students, lawyers, health care professionals, academics, and others working for drug policy reform from a variety of perspectives, including harm reduction, reform of sentencing and forfeiture laws, medicalization of currently schedule I drugs, and promotion of an open debate on drug prohibition.

DRCNet opposes the prison-building frenzy and supports rational policies consistent with the principles of peace, justice, freedom, compassion and truth. Each of these has been compromised in the name of the Drug War.

A web resource for medical marijuana news and information

Common Sense for Drug Policy is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to reforming drug policy and expanding harm reduction. CSDP disseminates factual information and comments on existing laws, policies and practices. CSDP provides advice and assistance to individuals and organizations and facilitates coalition building.

The Drug Policy Alliance envisions a just society in which the use and regulation of drugs are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights, in which people are no longer punished for what they put into their own bodies but only for crimes committed against others, and in which the fears, prejudices and punitive prohibitions of today are no more.

This website is home to the extensive report Caught in the Net: The Impact of Drug Policies on Women and Families.

This report is authored by the American Civil Liberties Union, Break the Chains, and the Brennan Center for Justice.

Unacceptable Losses is a project designed to share the stories of everyday Americans who have been affected by drugs and/or drug policy.

From July 2004-July 2005 Arthur Robinson Williams will be touring the country visiting drug reform agencies and community based organizations with the intention of building a case for shifting the nation’s policy emphasis from law enforcement toward public health when dealing with substance abuse.

Proposition 36 was passed by 61% of California voters in November 2000. This initiative allows people convicted of 1st and 2nd time nonviolent, simple drug possession to receive drug treatment instead of incarceration. Though Proposition 36 costs $120 million annually, the large disparity between the costs of treatment and incarceration means the initiative will save California taxpayers $1.5 billion over five years.

Seattle Initiative 75 passed by 58% of Seattle voters in September 2003, created an eleven member panel to monitor the effects of the
initiative. Panel members were appointed by the Council President in 2003 and the first meeting was held Wednesday, February 25, 2004.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization devoted to protecting the basic civil liberties of all Americans, and extending them to groups that have traditionally been denied their basic civil rights. Learn more about the ACLU of Washington's work protecting fundamental rights within the criminal justice system, the drug war, and police practices.