Changing Minds, Laws & Lives Campaign

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CHANGING MINDS

• Keep the media informed of grave injustices and important issues; employ creative strategies for making the point about prohibition such as the just-launched Drug Policy News Writing Demonstration Project and the new weekly Mexico Drug War Update.

• Continue to grow StoptheDrugWar.org traffic... currently reaching nearly two million unique visitors per year.

• Build the next major edition of our web site to turn StoptheDrugWar.org into a true "one stop shop" for all things drug policy.

CHANGING LAWS

• Lobby Congress on current drug policy issues and track your congressman's votes on important bills affecting our issue.

• Take on out-of-control drug war policing and launch new coalitions to change the direction of policy while following through on the work that's not yet done.

• Build the movement by launching new organizations and supporting all our allies in the cause through our newsletter and web site.

CHANGING LIVES

• Reduce the pain and suffering of individuals and their families caused by drug policies that don't work.

• Work towards reducing illegal drug trade violence, mass incarceration of nonviolent offenders, the spread of deadly diseases, denial of needed medicines, dilution of Constitutional protections and disparate use of drug enforcement with respect to race and class.

Together, we can take advantage of this unique opportunity to push for drug policy reform NOW.