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• - Doctors, lawyers, and pharmacists in Seattle, Washington join in calling for an end to the state's war on drugs.
  
• - Weblog features news, analysis, and rants by Pete Guither about current issues in the drug war.
  
• - Resources on drug policy from Reason magazine.
  
• - A few mordant words on drugs, drug abuse, and the disgraceful ties that bind Latin America and the United States.
  
• - Website of Bob Newland, noted journalist, raconteur, iconoclast, political philosopher and exposer of the lies used to propagate the so-called War on Drugs.
  
• - In a photographic essay, the public sees the actual faces of people filling American prisons today and learns the case histories of selected inmates whose sentences illustrate the often harsh and arbitrary policies imposed on first-time, non-violent drug
  
• - Noam Chomsky argues that the U.S. government is scandalously cynical in launching a "War on Drugs" while, at the same time, supporting other dangers.
  
• - A site devoted to drug policies and the strategies against them. Cannabis activist political links and civil liberties anti-prohibition information.
  
• - Newsletter produced by the "New Office of International Drug Control Policy Reform".
  
• - Information regarding federal intrusion into personal responsibility.
  
• - The casualties of America's War on Drugs and what you can do to end the drug war.
  
• - A nonprofit grassroots organization working with Connecticut legislators to change state laws on substance abuse to have a public health and safety solution.
  
• - Non-profit organization involved in sculpting the movement of Drug Courts within the U.S. and internationally for Court Practitioners. Provides training, research, and scholarships.
  
• - Student group dedicated to explore human alternatives to the current policy.
  
• - "The 'War on Drugs' is an expensive, destructive, failed sham.
  
• - Prisons, profiling and propaganda: Salon's coverage of the U.S. government crackdown on illegal-substance abuse and the drug trade.
  
• - The Mission of the Drug Peace Campaign is to bring a peaceful end to the War on Drugs and to the persecutions and human rights abuses that are perpetrated in its name.
  
• - A two-part editorial "Spurious Justification" and "Who Benefits from Prohibition?" Explores aspects of law and drug use.
  
• - Tens of thousands of American teenagers are forced into drug treatment programs each year by schools, parents, or the courts - despite not having any serious drug problem.
  
• - News, statistics and articles on the Drug War, and the Green Party marijuana legalisation and harm reduction policies.
  
• - Let's look closely at the supposed reasons why some drugs are "harmful". Are they really?
  
• - Reports on the drug war from Latin America with breaking news, analysis, investigative journalism, translations of journalism from Mexico and beyond, and media criticism.
  
• - PBS program which investigates how a fundamental shift in the country's anti-drug laws - including federal mandatory minimum sentencing and conspiracy provisions - has bred a culture of snitching that is in many cases rewarding the guiltiest and punishing
  
• - The nature and origin of the 'War on Drugs'. Why this 'war' is so entrenched.
  
• - A summary of drug abuse-related statistics.
  
• - By Judge Jim P. Gray. In addition to the comments from the author of this book, who is a veteran trial judge in Southern California, the views of more than 40 judges and justices nationwide are cited in this documented.
  
• - Complete histories, books, periodicals and historical research documenting the failure of the War on Some Drugs.
  
• - Online accompaniment to the PBS series examining the war on illegal drugs.
  
• - Information and articles by and for drug war prisoners and others interested in drug law reform.
  
• - Enacted in 1973 when Nelson Rockefeller was governor, the Rockefeller Drug Laws require harsh prison terms for the possession or sale of relatively small amounts of drugs.
  
• - Articles and ads starting from the 1930s on the start of the US War on Drugs, especially against marijuana.
  
• - Is the funding of terrorist groups an unintended consequence of drug prohibition? This site explores the inevitable convergence of prohibition, crime, arms dealing, and terrorism.
  
• - Threaded discussions on philosophy, politics and the US drug policy.
  
• - Free online book - a collection of categorized information on various aspects of the drug war, all presented with full source citations and, where possible, links to the original.
  
• - Prisoner of America's War on Drugs tells it like it is in the United States Prison Industrial Complex.
  
• - Dedicated to supporting freedom. Leonard is currently awaiting trial for LSD manufacturing.
  
• - A list of contacts for those against opposing current drug policy.
  
• - This site and its accompanying book offers a look at why the war makes problems worse instead of better, and who gets hurt and who gets helped by these policies.
  
• - Dedicated to expanding discussion on drug policy by raising questions about existing law and educating the public about alternatives to current policies.
  
• - An organization working to end the war on drugs and promote new drug policies based on common sense, science, public health and human rights. Formerly the Lindesmith Center.
  
• - Favors the return of the drug problem to the domain of the medical profession.