Promote debate and discussion by encouraging citizens to communicate their views directly to the media and the public. Provide on-line and technical support for a wide range of reform organizations, large and small, including but not limited to providing free email chat lists, news information feeds, and web site creation and support. See our site map for a list of the organizations we support. Create and maintain a growing, easily searched, database of current news and opinion articles as a research and educational tool. We believe that public policy has nothing to fear from the truth.
Effective policies require a clear understanding of their results.
We believe that prohibition is a system which unleashes powerful forces, most notably the illegal drug markets, that inevitably make the underlying drug problem worse while adding a series of costly unintended side effects, including damage to the very values upon which free nations have been founded. We believe that a public well informed about the death, disease and social blight produced by current US drug policy must inevitably seek to reform it.