DPA Annual Report 2011

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Raising the

Stakes2011 Annual

Report


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Table of Contents

2 From Punishment to Public Health: Reducing the

Role of Criminalization in Drug Policy

6 Sensible Marijuana Regulation

10 Moving Toward a Health-Based Approach

12 Building a Movement: Recruiting New Allies,

Transforming Public Discourse

18 Foundation Support, Grants and Donors

22 Board and Staff

24 Financial Statements

The work described herein

includes that of the Drug

Policy Alliance, a 501(c)(3)

organization, and Drug Policy

Action, a 501(c)(4) organization.


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Never beore have we elt so optimistic about prospects orending the spectacularly costly and counterproductive waron drugs.

Political leaders are calling or radical change. Millions ovictims o the drug war are saying enough is enough. Civilrights advocates are embracing drug policy reorm. Youngpeople are speaking out in record numbers. Fiscal conserva-tives are tiring o the enormous costs. Parents are realizingthat their children and the uture o our society are better

served by policies that rely dramatically less on criminalsanctions and harsh punishments. And more and moreelected ocials are deciding its time to step out.

Last summer, the Global Commission on Drug Policyand DPAs campaign commemorating the 40th anniver-sary o the war on drugs demonstrated the unprecedentedmomentum or legalizing marijuana and reorming otherprohibitionist policies(see page 13). We generated morethan 4,000 news stories around the world a signicantleap orward in expanding and legitimizing global debateabout drug policy, prohibition and legalization.

We elt mildly optimistic about Obamas drug policies until recently. He made good on his campaign commit-ments by promoting three evidence-based policies:reorming the racially unjust crack sentencing laws,eliminating the ban on states using ederal unding orsyringe access programs to reduce the spread o HIV/AIDSand hepatitis, and ending years o ederal intererencein the implementation o state medical marijuana laws.He even acknowledged that drug legalization is an entirelylegitimate topic or debate.

But it became increasingly dicult over the last year todistinguish Obamas drug policies rom those o Reagan,Clinton and the Bushes.

Whats dierent rom previous decades is that we arepushing back like never beore. Were preparing marijuanalegalization and other drug policy reorm initiatives or theballot in 2012, working closely with both Democrats andRepublicans in Congress to cut ederal drug war spending,and mobilizing unprecedented numbers o citizens onlineand in the streets to push orward with crucial drugpolicy reorms in cities and states around the country.

Te ever more insistent cries to put all options on thetable bode well or an intellectual, political and moralbreakthrough in drug control policy. People are question-ing drug prohibition like never beore certainly withrespect to marijuana, but even with respect to other drugsas taxpayers rebel against spending billions to incarceratehundreds o thousands o people or nothing more thanpossession o a prohibited substance.

DPAs approach is grounded in three principles: reedom,

responsibility and compassion. We believe that peopleshould not be punished solely or what they put into theirbodies but only or crimes that hurt others. We insist thatboth individuals and governments be held responsible orthe harmul consequences o their actions. And we knowthat when people struggle with drug misuse, compassionis typically more eective than punishment.

As we move into a new phase o our work that builds onmany o our ederal, state and local victories, you can takepride in the act that, thanks to your support, DPA isstronger and more eective than ever beore.

But we have a long way to go beore we can claim victoryin the struggle or drug policies grounded in science,compassion, health and human rights. Were counting onyour continued support to make that victory possible.

Raising the Stakes

Ira GlasserPresident

Ethan NadelmannExecutive Director

Letter from the President and

Executive Director


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More than half a million people

whose only crime was to use,

possess or sell an illegal drug are

in prisons and jails right now in the

United States. These individuals areoverwhelmingly black and Hispanic

even though those groups use

and sell drugs at similar rates as

other Americans. Taxpayers spend

tens of billions of dollars annually,

in direct and indirect costs, to

incarcerate them. DPA has led the

way in rolling back harsh sentences

and promoting alternatives to

incarceration for drug possession

and other drug law violations.

From Punishment to Public Health:

Reducing the Role of Criminalizationin Drug Policy

DPAs eforts are putting drug policy reorm on the agendain the U.S. and around the world. Troughout this reportyoull see headlines rom just a handul o the thousands omedia stories that DPA generated this year.

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George P. Shultz and Paul A. Volcker on Why the War on

Drugs Has Failed And What to Do Next


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Change is clearly aoot. Te Fair Sentencing Act showed thattraditional civil rights leaders are nally beginning to prioritizecriminal justice reorm. Black support or the late-80s drug

war helped legitimize the policies that led to the incarcerationo millions o young Arican-Americans. Te dawning realiza-tion o what they had wrought led the Rev. Jesse Jackson,Rep. Charlie Rangel and others to start calling or reorm othe crack/powder disparity. Te Congressional Black Caucusand black state legislators are now oten at the oreront osentencing and other drug policy reorm eorts.

Perhaps most surprising was the apparent ease with whichthe crack/powder reorm gained bipartisan support. DickDurbin provided the key leadership in the Senate, where thebill passed by unanimous consent, but the reorm would havedied without help rom Republicans like Je Sessions, Orrin

Hatch and Lindsey Graham. Likewise in the House, wheresupport rom the libertarian Ron Paul and his Republicancolleagues James Sensenbrenner and Dan Lungren, bothlongtime proponents o the drug war, trumped the oppositiono Lamar Smith, the ranking Republican on the

Judiciary Committee.Many amilies will benet rom this reorm, but it doesnt goar enough. With your continued support, this will be the rsto many long-overdue sentencing reorms.

Drug Courts Are Not the Answer: DPA Report Calls for

a Real, Health-Based Approach to Drug Use

Drug courts emerged in the late 1980s as one o the onlypolitically easible alternatives to the harsh prison sentencesenacted by legislators during the drug war hysteria othose days.

But an alternative that looked good when the hysteria o thedrug war was still resh demands critical re-assessment espe-cially now as budget decits and public opinion increasinglydemand more eective and less expensive solutions.

Tats why DPA released a groundbreaking new report,Drug Courts are Not the Answer: oward a Health-Centered

Approach to Drug Use (www.drugpolicy.org/drugcourts). Attwo Capitol Hill briengs in Washington, D.C., DPA was

DPA Succeeds in Reducing Crack/Powder

Sentencing Disparity

For those o us who ought long and hard to reorm the no-torious 100-to-one crack/powder cocaine disparity in ederallaw, the Fair Sentencing Act, signed by President Obama in

August 2010, is at once an historic victory and a major disap-pointment. Its both too little, too late and a big step orward.

Te ederal Anti-Drug Abuse Act o 1986, which punishedthe sale o ve grams o crack cocaine the same as 500 gramso powder cocaine, refected the bipartisan drug war hysteriao the day and was approved with virtually no considerationo scientic evidence or the scal and human consequences.Te argument or reorm has always been twoold: sendingsomeone to ederal prison or ve years or selling the equiva-

lent o a ew sugar packets o cocaine is unreasonably harsh,and it disproportionately aects minorities (almost 80 percento those sentenced are Arican-Americans, even though mostusers and sellers o crack are not black).

Te new law increases the amount o crack cocaine thatcan result in a ve-year sentence to twenty-eight grams(an ounce), thereby reducing the crack/powder ratio toeighteen to one. It also eliminates the ve-year mandatoryminimum sentence or simple possession o crack cocaine,marking the rst time since 1970 that Congress has repealeda mandatory minimum sentence.

When Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act, however,they ailed to make the new law retroactive, meaning that it

would only apply to people sentenced in the uture, but notpeople already serving unjust sentences.

Tanks to DPAs ollow-up work with a powerul coalitiono criminal justice advocates, though, in June 2011 theU.S. Sentencing Commission voted to retroactively apply theFair Sentencing Act. Te Commission received more than43,000 pieces o mail urging them to apply the new lawretroactively. Tis means that more than 12,000 people willbe eligible or early release. axpayers will save $240 million and, more importantly, people serving excessively harshsentences will be reunited with their amilies and lovedones sooner.

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Time to End Drug War Congress Narrows Gap in Cocaine Sentences


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joined by the Justice Policy Institute and the NationalAssociation o Criminal Deense Lawyers, who also recentlyreleased reports critical o drug courts.

Our eorts are stirring up debates in state capitols and crimi-nal justice circles around the country. Within 24 hours othe reports release, the National Association o Drug CourtProessionals a group dedicated to promoting and undrais-ing or drug courts responded harshly, with attacks thatignored the substance o the report and instead attacked themessenger. Te NADCP held their own Capitol Hill briengtwo weeks ater ours, where they few in spokespeople romaround the country including, o all people, Martin Sheen,ather o Charlie to tout the benets o drug courts.

Te truth is that drug courts oten ail to reduce time spent

behind bars, save money, or improve public saety. Many drugcourts cherry-pick participants expected to do well, includ-ing those with only petty drug law violations (like marijuanapossession) who are not acing substantial time behind barsand who dont really need drug treatment. Meanwhile, peoplestruggling with signicant drug-related problems may end up

worse o in drug court than i they had received servicesoutside the criminal justice system, been let alone, or evenbeen conventionally sentenced. Drug courts ultimatelyconuse punishment with treatment and perpetuate a criminal

justice response to what is undamentally an issue o health.

Te act that roughly 1.4 million Americans are arrested every

year or drug possession is a problem that will not be solved bydrug courts. More than twenty years ater the creation o thenations rst drug court, much better policy options are nowbeing implemented to address addiction and drug use andto x the problems o mass drug arrests and incarceration.

DPA Report Makes Another Dent in the

Tough-on-Crime Myth

When asked to rate the seriousness o 108 oenses ound inNew Jerseys criminal code, respondents deemed that almost90 percent o the oenses deserve less serious punishmentthan mandated by the states sentencing laws.

For instance, the penalty under New Jersey law or growing15 marijuana plants can bring a maximum sentence o20 years, but New Jersey residents rated the oense at a levelo seriousness mandating no more than one and a hal years.

Tese were the ndings o a report released by DPA in April2011 that is getting attention around the state and across thecountry. Te report, Crime and Punishment in New Jersey:

Te Criminal Code and Public Opinion on Sentencing,was produced by the University o Pennsylvanias Paul H.Robinson one o the worlds leading criminal law scholars,a ormer ederal prosecutor, and ormer counsel or the U.S.Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures.

Te report is adding orce to an emerging national debate.For years, evidence has shown that the public strongly sup-ports alternatives to incarceration and increased judicialdiscretion in sentencing. But a growing body o evidenceindicates public support or a more comprehensive rethinkingo criminal penalties.

Polling in early 2011 by DPA in Caliornia showed similarresults. Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) o those surveyedavored reducing the penalties or simple drug possession.Tis included strong majorities o Democrats (79 percent),independents (72 percent), and Republicans (66 percent).

Both Republican and Democratic legislators in states suchas Caliornia, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina and exasare grappling with huge budget shortalls and are being orcedto recognize that the prison spending sprees o the past are nolonger sustainable. In these states and many others, policy-makers are greeting DPAs ndings with enthusiasm.

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Democrats Look to Cultivate Pot Vote in 2012 Portugals Drug Policy Pays Off; U.S. Eyes Lessons


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Standing Our Ground in New Mexico

In the past decade, New Mexico has made more strides than

any other state in addressing overdose and addiction througha health-oriented ramework. But, with Governor SusanaMartinez now in oce, we need your support more than everso the state continues to be a model or drug policy reorm.

DPA has worked hard or almost a decade to pass legislationin New Mexico requiring treatment instead o incarcerationor people arrested or drug possession. In public opinionpolls, more than two-thirds o New Mexicans support theseeorts. In 2007 alone, New Mexico spent $22 million toincarcerate nonviolent drug possession oenders and thatdoesnt even include other drug law violations such as drugdealing, manuacturing or tracking.

In 2011, the legislation passed the Assembly and Senate orthe rst time, with bipartisan support. Tousands o NewMexicans called and emailed Governor Martinez, telling theirstories and asking her to treat addiction as a health issue, nota criminal one.

But its the nature o the legislative process that no amount obipartisan support, public opinion, or common sense guaran-tees that a governor will sign a bill into law. With the strokeo a pen, Governor Susana Martinez vetoed the legislation,painting a bleak uture or many o New Mexicos amilies.

I know what it means to have an incarcerated parent. I knowhow it eels to have a parent that is sick and only gets time in

jail instead o treatment, stated Avicra Luckey, a amily mem-ber aected by substance use. Governor Martinez could have,and should have signed this bill to help amilies like mine.

DPA and its allies will not be deterred and we will workto pass legislation supporting alternatives to incarcerationin 2012.

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The War on Drugs has Failed After 40 Years, Is War on Drugs Worth Fighting?


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Marijuana prohibition has resulted in more than

20 million arrests since 1970 and has deprived responsible

people of their jobs, educational opportunities, propertyand freedom. It is unique among American criminal laws

no other law is both enforced so widely and harshly

yet deemed unnecessary by such a substantial portion of

the population. DPAs efforts focus on making marijuana

legally available for medical purposes, reducing criminal

penalties and arrests for possession, and ultimately

ending marijuana prohibition.

Sensible Marijuana Regulation

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Jesse Jackson: Its Time to End Dismally Failed

War on Drugs

History Is on Prop. 19s Side


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Moving Forward on Ending Marijuana Prohibition

Marijuana isnt going to legalize itsel, but momentum is

building like never beore among Americans across thepolitical spectrum who think its time to take marijuanaout o the closet and out o the criminal justice system.

Public support or making marijuana legal has shiteddramatically in the last two decades, particularly in the lastew years. For the rst time, a recent Gallup poll has oundthat 50 percent o Americans support making marijuanalegal, with only 46 percent opposed. Forty years ago sup-port registered at just 12 percent. It rose to 28 percent bythe late 70s, dipped slightly during the 1980s, and thenrose gradually to 36 percent in 2005. Te past six years,however, have witnessed a dramatic jump in support, with

important implications or state and national marijuanapolicy. Majorities o men, 18-29 year-olds, 30-49 year-olds,liberals, moderates, Independents, Democrats, and votersin Western, Midwestern and Eastern states now supportlegalizing marijuana.

Californias Proposition 19 Sparks Unprecedented

Progress Toward Ending Marijuana Prohibition

DPA Plays Major Role in Funding, Publicizing andOrganizing Campaign

Caliornias 2010 ballot initiative to make marijuana legal,Proposition 19, didnt win a majority o votes but itrepresents an extraordinary victory or the broader move-ment to end marijuana prohibition.

Te debate is shiting rom whether marijuana should belegalized to how. Prop. 19 both elevated and legitimizedpublic discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy.More people knew about Prop. 19 than any othermeasure on the ballot in 2010 not just in Caliornia,

but nationwide.

Prop. 19 also orged a new coalition in support o makingmarijuana legal, receiving endorsements by labor unions,including SEIU Caliornia, and civil rights organizations,including the Caliornia chapter o the NAACP, theNational Black Police Association, and the National LatinoOcers Association.

Meanwhile, Prop. 19 can claim one concrete victory: then-Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill to reducethe penalty or marijuana possession rom a misdemeanorto a non-arrestable inraction, like a trac ticket. Tats

no small matter in a state where arrests or marijuana pos-session totaled 61,000 in 2009 roughly triple the numberin 1990. Its widely assumed that the principal reason thegovernor signed the bill was to undermine one o the keyarguments in avor o Prop. 19.

Demographics, economics and principle all avor the ulti-mate demise o marijuana prohibition. A large majority oCaliornia voters under the age o ty voted or Prop. 19.Te youngest voters are most in avor while the most elderlyvoters are the most opposed. Meanwhile, the economicarguments or legalizing marijuana including both thesavings rom reduced spending on law enorcement andthe revenues rom taxing legal marijuana will only growmore persuasive.

Support for Making Use of Marijuana Legal Increases

Do you think the use of marijuana

should be made legal or not?

Source: Gallup

% No, illegal

% Yes, legal

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Sooner or Later, Marijuana Will Be Legal Californias Prop. 19 Could End Mexicos Drug War


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Last summer, a bipartisan group o legislators introduced therst bill ever to end ederal marijuana prohibition.

Tis legislation allows states to set their own marijuanapolicies without ederal intererence, ocuses ederal lawenorcement on violent criminals and organized crime insteado marijuana oenders, and saves taxpayer money. Te End-ing Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act would end marijuanaprohibition in the same way alcohol Prohibition was ended sostates can control, regulate and tax marijuana like alcohol.

Just a ew years ago, Ron Paul and Barney Frank wouldprobably have been the only members o Congress willingto sign on to this sort o bill. Whats amazing is that20 Representatives have co-sponsored the bill includingpeople like Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, and

Democratic Rep. John Conyers, who recently chaired theHouse Judiciary Committee. Te most surprising co-sponsorso ar is Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel, who chaired theHouse Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Controlin the 1980s and ranked among the leading drug warriors inCongress. DPA has played a key role in persuading membersto sign on and is continuing to do so.

More than hal o all drug arrests are or marijuana, andmost o those arrests are or nothing more than possessingmarijuana or personal use. More than 850,000 Americans

were arrested or marijuana in 2010 alone and 88 percento those arrests were or mere possession. Even though

Arican-Americans are no more likely to use or sell marijuanathan other Americans, theyre ar more likely to be searched,arrested and incarcerated.

While the ederal bill is not going to be enacted into law oreven passed through a Congressional committee anytimesoon, it has proven enormously valuable both in providing avehicle or members o Congress to step out on the issue andin generating media coverage and public discussion.

In Colorado and Washington state DPA is deeply involved withlocal allies in drating and unding initiatives that will appearon those states ballots in 2012. As these campaigns progress, we

are playing a major role in shaping campaign strategy, orgingnew coalitions, and educating the public about whats at stake.

Fighting to Save Medical Marijuana in New Mexico

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez ran or oce on acampaign platorm that included dismantling the states popularand eective medical marijuana program, which is one o themost tightly regulated in the country and the rst state-licensedproduction and distribution system.

DPAs 501 (c)(4) aliate, Drug Policy Action, launched theDont ake Away My Medicine campaign to discourage

Martinez rom pursuing her threats. Drug Policy Action ran atelevision ad in New Mexico during Oprah and the World Series,

which you can watch at www.donttakeawaymymedicine.org. Tead served its purpose well ater taking oce, Martinez backedo her threat to dismantle the program.

Martinezs stance, though, emboldened a reshman legislatorto introduce a bill to repeal the states medical marijuanaprogram a move that would have deprived thousands o seri-ously ill patients o their medicine. DPAs New Mexico ocemobilized to block this heartless legislation, alerting medicalmarijuana supporters to the threat and urging them to contactthe legislature. Ater a huge response rom New Mexico

residents, the legislator withdrew the repeal bill.

DPA worked incredibly hard rom 2001 to 2007 to legalizemedical marijuana in New Mexico and were not about tolet the states program get dismantled.

DPA Campaign Leads to Major Victory in

Reducing NYC Marijuana Arrests

It is beyond hypocritical or New York City Mayor MichaelBloomberg who once said he smoked marijuana and enjoyedit to waste so much money and to harm so many peoples lives.

Sensible Marijuana Regulation

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Te arrest statistics say it all. Just 34,000 people were arrestedin New York City or marijuana possession rom 1981 to1995 but in the last 15 years 540,000 people were arrested

or marijuana possession. More than 50,000 people werearrested or marijuana possession in 2010 alone, ar exceedingthe total arrests rom 1981-1995.

Te New York Police Department has provided no evidencethat these massive numbers o arrests have done anything toreduce crime or to improve public saety and quality o lie.Tere is also no evidence whatsoever that more people aresmoking marijuana today than in the 1980s.

A new DPA report released in March 2011 among therst o its kind to quantiy the costs o low-level marijuanapossession arrests nds that arrests or marijuana posses-

sion cost New York City taxpayers approximately $75 millioneach year. A single arrest or marijuana possession, includingall police and court expenses, costs rom $1,000 to $2,000 ormore, conservatively estimated.

DPA released the report at a City Hall press conerencewith three City Council members, allied organizations, andNew Yorkers who have been arrested or marijuana possession.In a statement released with the report, more than 30 New

York City-based organizations identied how they think theBloomberg administration should spend $75 million.

In September 2011, we reached a major breakthrough when

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly issued an internal ordercommanding ocers to ollow existing New York State law byending arrests or possession o small amounts o marijuana as long as the marijuana was never in public view. Te orderdoes not change the law itsel but simply instructs ocers tocomport with the law. Tis could result in tens o thousandso ewer marijuana arrests annually in New York City. But,the devil remains in the details as to whether and how theNYPD implements this new directive.

DPA Reports Shine Light on

Racial Disparities in Marijuana Arrests

Legalizing marijuana isnt just a question o smart criminaljustice reorm or our civil liberties its also a racial justiceissue. People o color, and especially black people, are arrested,prosecuted and incarcerated or drug oenses at extraordinari-ly disproportionate rates. Te best available national evidenceindicates that roughly the same proportion o blacks and

whites use marijuana but that black people are roughly threetimes more likely to be arrested or possessing marijuana.

In late 2010, DPA released three reports by Queens Collegeproessor Harry Levine that document widespread race-baseddisparities in the enorcement o low-level marijuanapossession laws in Caliornia (available at www.drugpolicy.

org/library). In the last 20 years, Caliornia made 850,000arrests or possession o small amounts o marijuana, and hala million arrests in the last 10 years. Te people arrested weredisproportionately Arican Americans and Latinos, over-

whelmingly young people, especially young men.

Most o those arrested arent immediately handed alengthy sentence. But they are handcued, taken to jail,put into databases o criminal oenders and oten end upspending days, weeks, months, and in some cases years behindbars. Tese arrests produce permanent criminal recordsthat can disqualiy people or jobs, housing, schooling andstudent loans.

Tis evidence helped persuade the Caliornia NAACP, theNational Black Police Association, the William C. VelasquezInstitute and other prominent civil rights organizations toendorse Proposition 19. Te act that they stepped out onthis issue is stirring up a much-needed national debate among

Arican Americans and Latinos.

Te media amplied the impact o our reports, as racialjustice became a key part o the national discussion aboutProp. 19 and marijuana reorm. Mainstream columnists inboth Caliornia and across the country, including CharlesBlow and Nicholas Kristo at the New York imes, wrotepowerul articles citing DPAs reports and highlighting theconnections between race, marijuana prohibition, massincarceration and criminal justice reorm.

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War on Drugs Declared Lost Un Rapport Pointe Lchec de la Guerre Contre

la Drogue


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We advocate for new drug

policies that focus on reducing

the cumulative death, disease,

crime and suffering associated

with both drug use and drugprohibition. We promote voluntary

counseling and treatment,

including substitution therapies

such as methadone, buprenor-

phine and heroin maintenance

programs for people struggling

with addiction. And, as overdose

deaths have more than doubled

in the past decade, DPA has taken

the lead in promoting effective

strategies for reducing fatalities.

Moving Toward a

Health-Based Approach

War on Drugs A Failure, International Panel

Declares

High-Level Panel: War on Drugs Has Failed

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Building Support for the First

Supervised Injection Facility in the U.S.

Supervised injection acilities (SIFs) are places where people whoinject drugs can connect to health care services rom primarycare to treat disease and inection, to addiction counseling andtreatment. As o 2010 there were 92 acilities operating in61 cities around the world but none in the U.S. Tere isoverwhelming evidence that SIFs are eective in reducing newHIV inections, overdose deaths and public nuisance and thatthey do not increase drug use or criminal activity.

DPA continues to be an active part o the campaign to buildsupport or a SIF in San Francisco. As part o the local coalition

Alliance or Saving Lives, DPA co-sponsored a symposium onsupervised injection acilities in 2007 that brought researchers

and advocates rom Vancouver to talk about the success o Insite,North Americas rst and only SIF.

DPA is currently working with advocates, service providers, andcommunity members in San Francisco to create the political

will to support a SIF. In 2010, the MAC AIDS Fund gave DPAa groundbreaking grant to advocate or a SIF in San Francisco.DPA is conducting research on perceptions o the public saetyimplications o a SIF, and is planning to lead a visit to Insitein Vancouver or key San Franciscans including policymakers.

A broad array o supporters researchers, doctors, people whouse drugs, advocates, police ocers, and even political candidates have spoken out in avor o a SIF in San Francisco.

Tanks to DPAs leadership, every single member o the SanFrancisco Board o Supervisors has endorsed the establishment oa SIF. In the coming year, DPA is organizing mayoral and otherorums about SIFs, bringing this bold drug policy proposal intothe most high prole orums in the city.

Drawing Attention to the Overdose Epidemic in Texas

At the National Harm Reduction Conerence in Austin, exas,DPA released a report examining the overdose epidemics impactin exas. Te report ound that accidental overdose atalities inexas skyrocketed between 1999 and 2007 by more than twoand a hal times. Te report garnered extensive coverage in the

Associated Press, exas ribune, Houston Chronicle, and in theAustin Chronicle.

DPA Spearheads Passage of

Syringe Exchange Legislation in New York

DPAs work to increase access to sterile syringes or peoplewho inject drugs is one o the cornerstones o the lie-savingharm reduction programs we promote. More than a third oall AIDS cases in the U.S. are directly or indirectly attribut-able to injection drug use. Virtually all scientic studies haveound that improving access to sterile syringes through bothpharmacies and syringe exchange programs reduces thespread o HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and other inectious diseases

without increasing drug use.

DPA played a pivotal role in passing legislation to expandsyringe access in three o the states with the highest rateso drug-related disease transmission: Caliornia (2004 and

2011), New Jersey (2006) and New York (2010). In eachcase, we spent years overcoming kneejerk opposition romprosecutors and disheartening vetoes by various governors.In each case, we came back year ater year ater year, until

we nally won.

In New York, outgoing Governor David Paterson signedlegislation spearheaded by DPA and our local partner,VOCAL that reduces HIV and hepatitis C by improvingaccess to sterile syringes. Te new law claries that people canpossess sterile syringes and cannot be arrested or charged withdrug possession or residue in used syringes. It also makesclear that police should stop arresting people in possession

o used syringes. Te measure will reduce disease, increaseaccess to lie-saving programs, and ensure proper disposal oused syringes.

Tis new law gives people who use drugs the tools thatthey need to protect their health and that o their partners,children, and communities, as well as protecting taxpayersrom the cost o HIV and hepatitis C inections. Making sureour public health and criminal justice policies are in synchmeans more people will participate in programs that are agateway to better community health.

Four Decades Later, Its Time to Scrap

the Dead-End Drug War

The Failed War on Drugs Is Whats Packing

Californias Prisons

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DPA is at the forefront of the burgeoning drug policyreform movement. While much of our day-to-day work

involves organizing and leading political coalitions

to advance specific policy objectives, we also

connect the dots among the many issues related

to drug policy reform. We have taken an issue that

hovered at the fringes of American politics just

15 years ago and brought it into the mainstream

without sacrificing our passion, our vision or ourcore principles.

Building a Movement:Recruiting New Allies, TransformingPublic Discourse

Report: The War on Drugs Has Failed Major Panel: Drug War Failed, Legalize Marijuana


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Just two weeks ater the Global Commission launched itsreport, on June 17 we celebrated the 40th anniversary oPresident Nixons speech in which he declared drug abuse

public enemy number one and committed to waginga new, all-out oensive. Tis moment is widely regarded asthe unocial launch o Americas spectacularly unsuccessuland costly global war on drugs.

DPA organized allies to stage a day o action with morethan 50 events throughout the country, in cities includingChicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York and SanFrancisco. Te series o events was highlighted by large-scaleevents in Washington, D.C., where we were joined by electedocials, civil rights leaders, and celebrities.

In all, DPAs eorts around the Global Commission and the

drug wars 40th anniversary generated more than 4,000 newsstories around the world and almost all o them wereavorable and on-message.

So, whats next? Were working closely with the GlobalCommission and other allies to extend and elevate its messagethroughout the U.S. and around the world. Were also makingeorts to get more VIPs to step out on the issue. We werethrilled when President Jimmy Carter and Reverend Jesse

Jackson each published an op-ed on the 40th anniversarycalling on U.S. leaders to adopt the recommendations o theGlobal Commission but there are a lot more people whoshare their convictions whove yet to join us. Were planning

events in 2012 at the International AIDS Conerence toprovide more opportunities or leaders to step out on drugpolicy reorm.

Tanks to your support, we are making it increasingly di-cult or policymakers to ignore the credibility o the GlobalCommission and the seriousness o its recommendations.

Your Message Reaches Mil lions

Te Global Commission and 40th Anniversary o

Drug War Strike a Chord

Last June, the Global Commission on Drug Policy andthe events commemorating the 40th anniversary o the waron drugs showed the world that there is unprecedentedmomentum or legalizing marijuana and ending prohibition.Tese events were major steps toward attaining the criticalmass at which the momentum or reorm exceeds the power-ul inertia that has sustained punitive prohibitionist policiesor ar too long.

Te Global Commission is comprised o ormer U.N.Secretary General Ko Annan; Richard Branson, ounder o

the Virgin Group; our ormer presidents, including the com-missions chairman, Fernando Henrique Cardoso o Brazil;George P. Shultz, ormer Secretary o State; Paul Volcker,ormer Chairman o the Federal Reserve; and several otherdistinguished world leaders.

Never beore has such a prominent group called or suchar-reaching changes in the global drug prohibition regime including not just alternatives to incarceration and greateremphasis on public health approaches to drug use but alsodecriminalization and experiments in legal regulation.

DPA has played a pivotal behind-the-scenes role with the

Commission since its inception. We helped shape theCommissions ormation and recommendations identiyingand assembling the Commissions membership, developingthe content o their report, spearheading the Commissionsmedia outreach, and managing their reports nalizationand production.

Te Global Commission was a natural evolution rom one oDPAs earliest successes, when we drated and published in theNew York imesan open letter to U.N. Secretary General Ko

Annan as world leaders gathered at the 1998 U.N. GeneralAssembly Special Session on Drugs. Te letter and its critiquedominated global media coverage o the U.N. event, demon-strating or the rst time the breadth and legitimacy o drugpolicy reorm sentiment around the world.

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1. Break the taboo. Pursue an open debate and promote

policies that effectively reduce consumption, and that

prevent and reduce harms related to drug use and

drug control policies. Increase investment in research

and analysis into the impact of different policies

and programs.

2. Replace the criminalization and punishment of people

who use drugs with the offer of health and treatment

services to those who need them.

3. Encourage experimentation by governments with

models of legal regulation of drugs (with cannabis, for

example) that are designed to undermine the power of

organized crime and safeguard the health and security

of their citizens.

4. Establish better metrics, indicators and goals to

measure progress.

5. Challenge, rather than reinforce, common

misconceptions about drug markets, drug use and

drug dependence.

6. Countries that continue to invest mostly in a law

enforcement approach (despite the evidence) should

focus their repressive actions on violent organized

crime and drug traffickers, in order to reduce the

harms associated with the illicit drug market.

7. Promote alternative sentences for small-scale and

first-time drug dealers.

8. Invest more resources in evidence-based prevention,

with a special focus on youth.

9. Offer a wide and easily accessible range of options

for treatment and care for drug dependence, including

substitution and heroin-assisted treatment, with special

attention to those most at risk, including those in

prisons and other custodial settings.

The Global Commission on

Drug Policys Recommendations

10. The United Nations system must provide leader-

ship in the reform of global drug policy. This means

promoting an effective approach based on evidence,

supporting countries to develop drug policies

that suit their context and meet their needs, and

ensuring coherence among various U.N. agencies,

policies and conventions.

11. Act urgently: the war on drugs has failed, and

policies need to change now.

Former Swiss President Ruth Dreifuss, who is a member of the

Global Commission and DPAs International Honorary Board,

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Provoking Debate

DPA has emerged as the go-to organization or drug

policy reorm eorts. We pitch stories every day to reportersand columnists, send out press releases, drat op-eds or pub-lication by sta and other prominent public gures, debateon talk radio, appear on television, and speak to audiencesacross the country and around the world. We react tobreaking news, and we make our own news, always withan eye toward inorming and shaping public opinion.

DPA is unusual among advocacy organizations in that morethan hal o our sta regularly engage the media. More thantwo dozen DPA sta are interviewed or mentioned in morethan 1,000 radio, V and print stories every year.

Our eorts are putting drug policy reorm on the agendaso thought leaders and organizations around the world.DPAs executive director, Ethan Nadelmann, is requentlypresented with invitations rom infuential organizations andmedia outlets. He regularly addresses leading orums on theright and the let rom the Conservative Political ActionConerence, Milken Institute and Young PresidentsOrganization to the NAACP, Democracy Alliance andCampaign or Americas Future. And he reached millionso people with appearances on HBO, Fox News, Al Jazeera,BBC and more than a dozen other news outlets in the lastyear alone.

In addition to our breakthrough work with the GlobalCommission, DPA played a leading role in media engage-ment around Caliornias Proposition 19 campaign generating unprecedented media coverage about makingmarijuana legal. DPA released and publicized a series oreports that drew attention to the racial disparities in mari-

juana arrests, organized parents to serve as spokespeopleor the campaign, and landed stories in major papers on adaily basis.

DPA has also stirred up debate and generated mediacoverage o less-discussed issues such as how to deal withthe epidemic o overdose atalities, promoting the successo Portugals decade-long drug decriminalization policy,challenging the uncritical embrace o drug courts, and high-lighting racial disparities in drug enorcement, prosecutionand sentencing.

New Directions Conferences Bring Together Elected

Officials, Drug Policy Scholars and Community Leaders

Drug policy is a national, and even a global, problem but thepractical solutions and political will or reorm emerge rompeople and organizations working at the city and state levels.Te challenge is that those who work locally are typically soocused on day-to-day issues and limited in resources that theyrarely get the opportunity to engage with new ideas and strate-gies. We cant build the drug policy reorm movement withoutbreaking down the barriers and knocking down the silos into

which organizations inevitably compartmentalize themselves.

Tats why DPA has developed a strategic initiative, calledNew Directions, to move the debate orward, using daylongcommunity gatherings as an organizing tool. New Directions is

about connecting the dots between seemingly disparate elementso the drug policy reorm movement. Our aim is to acilitatean evolution in thinking about drug policy and to oster newcollaborative relationships across elds that can help bring aboutlocal reorms.

Following up on the success o the rst New Directionsconerence in New York City in 2009, we organized remarkablegatherings in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., in 2010 andin Newark, New Jersey in 2011.

We convened unlikely allies, especially rom the health andcriminal justice elds who oten dont work together or see

each other as allies in the broader drug policy reorm eort.In Caliornia, we co-hosted the conerence with the CaliorniaSociety o Addiction Medicine. In D.C., we brought togethera broad collection o co-hosts, including the ACLU, AmericanFoundation or AIDS Research, Criminal Justice PolicyFoundation, National Association o Social Workers, NationalBlack Police Association and Physicians or Human Rights.

In Newark, New Directions was co-sponsored by BethanyBaptist Church. Reverend William Howard, the highly re-spected and politically connected minister who leads Bethany,had reached out to DPA seeking help in stimulating new ideasand dialogues in Newark. DPA brought in leading drug policyscholars and activists rom around the country and abroad, whileBethany brought in key local policymakers, including the policechie o Newark and the attorney general o New Jersey whonot only spoke but also stayed and listened or much o the day.

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Te conerences place importance on exposingAmericans to international expertise such as ormerlongtime Swiss secretary o health Tomas Zeltner,Canadian member o parliament Kash Heed, and keyPortuguese ocials involved in implementing the countrysdecriminalization policy.

Its essential that we do all we can right now to build

momentum or reorm. People and organizations arelistening or resh ideas about how to move past the drug

war, and those on the ront lines must be prepared torespond. Similar events are planned or additional cities so keep an eye out or a gathering in your area soon.

DPA Art Auction Brings Together Artists Working for

Drug Policy Reform

DPAs ongoing series o art auctions known as re:FORM represents a groundbreaking partnership between the art

world and the drug policy reorm movement. Tese artauction benets are inspired by artists who have used art asa vehicle or social change and have enlightened others to

join us in stopping the madness o the war on drugs.

Following up on successul events in 2008 and 2009,the third re:FORM was held in New York City in 2010,co-chaired by lmmaker Darren Aronosky, Peter Lewis,George Soros and arts philanthropist Elizabeth Sackler.In February 2011, we hosted the ourth installment inLos Angeles at the Honor Fraser Gallery, co-chaired by DPABoard member and CODEPINK co-ounder Jodie Evans,along with lmmaker Gus Van Sant.

Expanding into Colorado

Colorado is at the oreront o eorts both to legalizemarijuana and to reorm drug policies more broadly. In May2011, DPA ocially expanded into the Centennial State, as

Art Way began work as DPAs rst-ever Colorado Drug PolicyManager. Te state presents a remarkable opportunity tobuild let-right alliances, given its libertarian leanings. Tere

will be an initiative on the ballot to legally regulate marijuanain 2012, which DPA is working on closely with local andnational allies. And we have conrmed that Denver will bethe host city or the 2013 International Drug Policy ReormConerence, so mark your calendar or October 23-26, 2013.

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New Technologies, New Audiences

Have you taken a look at DPAs website www.drugpolicy.org

recently? Not only does it have a new look and eel, but its alsore-structured to provide easy-to-access inormation on a widerange o issues.

DPA has signicantly increased its capacity to exert infuenceonline by broadening its social networking reach and expandingits email messaging program. Our email list has quadrupled inthe past two years to more than 200,000 subscribers signi-cantly increasing our capacity to generate pressure on ederaland state elected ocials. Weve also drawn in thousands moresupporters through Facebook, witter and online video.

Award-Winning Work

While the goal o DPAs work is always to eect change, this yearDPA has also received a number o honors or the prociencyand versatility o our campaigns and advocacy eorts.

You may have noticed rom the new look and eel o DPAswebsite and publications that we have adopted a bold new visualidentity illustrated by the simple, inclusive statement, We are theDrug Policy Alliance. Te idea conveys the tremendous scopeo our struggle, and underscores our conviction that drug policyreorm isnt really about drugs at all its about people. Our visualidentity is enhanced with strong typography, saturated colorand authentic photography, capturing real supporters as they are

engaged in real events. In addition, some brand elements wereintended to be fexible, such as the We are the Drug Policy

Alliance statement transorming into I am the Drug PolicyAlliance when worn on a t-shirt. Te seventh annual REBRAND100 Global Awards recognized DPA as one o the worlds mosteective rebrands. Tis prestigious honor is the highest recogni-tion or excellence in brand repositioning. For more inormation,see: www.rebrand.com/distinction-drug-policy-alliance.

DPA has also been identied by experts as a top nonprot work-ing in criminal justice in the United States. Philanthropedia, anorganization that improves nonprot eectiveness by directingmoney to and acilitating discussion about expert-recommendedhigh-impact nonprots, lauded DPA or smart and innovativeleaders, their emphasis on collaborating with other organizations,and their sincere and unwavering commitment to drug issues.

DPAs 501 (c)(4) aliate, Drug Policy Action, launcheda campaign on television to discourage New MexicoGovernor Susana Martinez rom pursuing her threats to

dismantle the states popular and eective medical marijuanaprogram. Te television ad ran in New Mexico duringOprah and the World Series, and you can watch it at

www.donttakeawayourmedicine.org. Te 2011 POLLIEAwards, which honor achievement in political and publicaairs communications, recognized the Dont ake AwayOur Medicine ad with a GOLD award or the best Webvideo in state and local public aairs. Meanwhile, DPAs ull-page newspaper ad that ran in the Los Angeles imesduringthe Proposition 19 campaign in Caliornia was awardedbest in category.

DPA Organizes Parents to Call for End to Drug War

More and more parents are realizing that the drug war doesnothing to protect their children and even makes their livesmore dangerous.

DPA is collaborating with our longtime grantee, A NewPAH, to launch an initiative called Moms United to End the

War on Drugs. Tis national moms movement seeks to stopthe violence, mass incarceration, disease and overdose deathsthat are the result o current punitive and discriminatory drugpolicies. Tis campaign is also an explicit movement-buildinginitiative that harnesses the moral authority o parents tohighlight the drug wars ailures and to generate mainstream

calls or widespread drug policy reorm.

Moms United has staged rallies and vigils in San Diego,Orange County, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Franciscoand at the state capitol in Sacramento. Mothers, amilymembers, healthcare proessionals and people in recoverygathered to bring ocus to the havoc that our drug policieshave wreaked on amilies. Te rallies also sought to rememberand acknowledge those who have lost their lives, health orliberty to the war on drugs. Names o individuals whoselives have been damaged or lost because o the war on drugs

were added to a abric banner that continues to grow as thiscampaign moves across the nation.

White House Pushes Back on Report

Declaring War on Drugs a Failure

Global War on Drugs a Failure, High-Level

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Foundation Support

DPA received support from twelve local

and national foundations this year. Most

support specific parts of our agenda

that align most closely with their own

organizational prioirites, on issues

including racial justice, prison reform,

human rights, civil liberties, HIV/AIDS

prevention and community health.

Charles Evans Hughes Memorial

Foundation

Honoring the legacy of Supreme Court

Justice and New York Governor Charles

Evans Hughes, this family foundation

supports legal and human rights,

among other important causes. This

year, they funded our work to developa drug policy blueprint for New York

City and State in the wake of the 2009

Rockefeller Drug Law reform victory.

Curtis M. McGraw Foundation

This foundation based in Princeton is

the longest-running funder of our efforts

to expand access to sterile syringes

to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in

New Jersey.

Fund for Nonviolence

The Fund for Nonviolence supportssocial change and provides grants to

create a justice system that treats every

human being with dignity. They are a

key ally in our work to end incarceration

for drug possession in California.

Hugh M. Hefner Foundation

A staunch defender of civil liberties

since 1964, the Hefner Foundation has

provided DPA with general operating

support for many years.

MAC AIDS Fund

Funded by sales from MAC CosmeticsVIVA GLAM lipstick line, the MAC AIDS

Fund is a leader in the field of harm

reduction and one of the largest private

sources of funding for HIV/AIDS orga-

nizations. This year, they funded DPAs

syringe access advocacy in New Jersey

and supervised injection facility advo-

cacy in California.

Open Society Foundations

No other foundation has done more to

advance drug policy reform than OSF,

providing substantial general operating

support to DPA and grants to our allies

in the field. DPAs predecessor organi-

zation, the Lindesmith Center, became

OSFs first U.S.-based project in 1994.

Public Welfare Foundation

The Public Welfare Foundation has beenaddressing the needs of underserved

communities for decades and is among

the most respected criminal justice

reform organizations today. Theyve been

funding DPA since 2008 and currently

support our sentencing reform efforts in

New Jersey and New Mexico.

Rosenberg Foundation

Providing critical funding to advocates

in California, the Rosenberg Foundation

believes that criminal justice reform is

one of the most urgent civil rights issues

of our day. They are a key ally in our work

to end incarceration for drug possession

in California.

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2010-2011 Advocacy Grant

Awardees

The Drug Policy Alliance Advocacy

Grants Program seeks to promote

policy change and advance drug policy

reform at the local, state and national

levels by strategically funding smaller,geographically limited or single-issue

projects. Funded annually at a level

of roughly $1.2 million, the Advocacy

Grants program works to raise aware-

ness and promote policy change

through two vehicles: the Promoting

Policy Change Program and the Rapid

Response Program.

Organizations are national unless

otherwise indicated.

Promoting Policy Change

$50,000

DrugSense

$40,000 to $45,000

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

New York Academy of Medicine (NY)

San Francisco Drug Users Union (CA)

Students for Sensible Drug Policy

The Ordinary People Society (AL)

$20,000 to $35,000

A New Path (CA)

Alabama Citizens for

Drug Policy Reform (AL)

AlterNet

California Society of

Addiction Medicine (CA)

Colorado Criminal Justice Coalition (CO)

Families for Freedom (NY)

Institute for Metropolitan Affairs (IL)

Justice Strategies

Project Lazarus (NC)

VOCAL (NY)

Less than $20,000

ACLU of Mississippi (MS)

CANGRESS (CA)

Direct Action for Rights and Equality (RI)

DRCNet Foundation

Drug Policy Education Group (AR)

Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii (HI)

Drug Truth Network

Families Act! (CA)

Homeless Youth Alliance (CA)

Labor / Community Strategy Center (CA)

Mothers Against Teen Violence (TX)

New Mexico WomensJustice Project (NM)

Partnership for Safety and Justice (OR)

Queers for Economic Justice (NY)

Regional Congregations and

Neighborhood Organizations (CA)

Voluntary Committee of Lawyers

Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (NY)

Youth Justice Coalition (CA)

Rapid Response

$20,000 to $32,000

A Better Way Foundation (CT)

Bethany Baptist Church (NJ)

Students for Sensible Drug Policy

The Ordinary People Society (AL)

$10,000 to $15,000


Addiction Medicine (CA)

Colorado Alliance Marijuana

Education Fund (CO)

Legal Services for

Prisoners with Children

VOCAL (NY)

Less than $10,000

A New PATH (CA)

California Opioid Maintenance

Providers (CA)

Canadian Students for Sensible

Drug Policy

CitiWide Harm Reduction Program (NY)

Colorado Criminal Justice Reform

Coalition (CO)

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (CA)

Institute of the Black World

National Black Police Association

National Justice Initiative

Prevention Point Pittsburgh (PA)

Riverside Church (NY)

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San Francisco Foundation

The Bay Areas leading community

philanthropic organization, the

San Francisco Foundation funded

DPAs effort to organize the

San Francisco Mayors Task Force on

Hepatitis C, a new advocacy coali-

tion to improve hepatitis C prevention,

services and policy.

Syringe Access Fund

This consortium of funders, managed

by AIDS United, has played a pivotal

role in expanding access to sterile

syringes across the U.S. and has

supported DPAs work in California and

New Jersey since 2004.

The Libra Foundation

The Libra Foundation supports orga-

nizations that promote fundamental

freedoms and human rights in the

U.S. and around the world. A long-time

DPA supporter, this year they

funded our national criminal justice

reform advocacy.

Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund

A vital foundation primarily serving the

people of Baltimore, the Krieger Fundhas been funding DPA since 2005,

most recently with a grant for general

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2010 - 2011 Donors

Visionary ($50,000+)Anonymous (4)

Charles Evans Hughes

Memorial Foundation

Sallie BinghamLawrence C. Stanback

Philip D. Harvey

Irwin and Joan Jacobs

JK Irwin Foundation

Peter Lewis

Open Society Foundations

Sean Parker

Public Welfare Foundation

Rosenberg Foundation

Stephen Silberstein

George Soros

The Buchheit Foundation

Philanthropy Fund

The Selz Foundation

H. van Amerigen Foundation

Vital Projects Fund

Robert W. Wilson

Innovator

($20,000 - $49,999)AIDS United

The Atlantic Philanthropies

Director/Employee

Designated Gift Fund

Dick and Marilyn Mazess

National Philanthropic Trust

Redlich Horwitz Foundation

The Libra Foundation

The Zanvyl and Isabelle

Krieger Fund

Working Assets/CREDOWireless

Leader

($10,000 - $19,999)Anonymous (2)

Chapman University

David Geffen Foundation

Jason Flom

Donald Klingbeil

Hugh M. Hefner Foundation

Donald and Janie Friend

Ken Miller & Lybess Sweezy

Carolyn Kleefeld

Richard Ledes and

Kathy JaharisLyle Foundation

Laurie and Andy Okun

The Evenor Armington Fund

Richard M. Wolfe

Champion

($5,000 - $9,999)Beth Israel Medical Center

Curtis W. McGraw Foundation

Bailey GimbelCaleb Kramer

Ellen Rosenbaum

Rene A. Ruiz

Joshua Mailman

The Darwin Foundation

The Jockey Hollow Foundation

William S. Paley Foundation

Advocate

($2,500 - $4,999)Anonymous

Steven Davis

Frederick V. Davis Trust

David Gibbs

Lawrence E. Hess

Homeless Health Care

Los Angeles

Christopher Iovenko

Ian M. Isaacs

Patrick W. Lawing

Daniel R Lewis

The Livingry Foundation

Stuart J. Nerenberg

Leora and Mort Rosen

Chris J. Rufer

Douglas Shaller

Michael R. Uth

Partner

($1000 - $2,499)

Anonymous (2)American Foundation for

AIDS Research

American Civil Liberties

Union - DC

K. T. Andersen

Benjamin Ansbacher

Alan Appleford

Dr. Mett B. Ausley Jr.

Edmond R. Badham

David E. Beeman

Breadpig, Inc.

David C. Brezic

Sanford and Jane Brickner


Addiction MedicineMs. Candace Carroll &

Mr. Leonard Simon

David I. Caulkins

Center on Juvenile &

Criminal Justice

Jonathan C. Coopersmith

Douglas B. Cox

Tom Demarco

Robert Di Stefano

Tim Disney

Marjorie M. Engel

Mark and Joann Fitt

Judith ForsterTheodore Gewertz

Ira and Trude Glasser

Robert A. Granieri

D. G. Gumpertz

Harborside Health Center

Ken and Teri Hertz

Jerry Hirsch

Derek Hodel

Susan Holcomb

Bob Howard

Karen M. Howard

G. Johnson

Michael Johnson

Daniel Kaizer and Adam Moss

Woody Kaplan and

Wendy Kaminer

Michael Kennedy

Douglas Kinney

David C. Lewis

Carol Lewis

Anne Livet

Joseph Lonsdale

Joyce H. Lowinson

Nate McCay

Anastasia Miller

Modzelewski Charitable Trust

Ethan A. Nadelmann

Network for Good

Robert Newman

Pete Nolan

Matthew PalevskyLes Pappas

Pitcairn Trust Company

Meghan Ralston

Alan Reid

The Resnick Foundation

Mr. David Rigsby

Benjamin F. Rush

Brent & Wendy Sandweiss

Dan Sargent

Elizabeth Sarnoff

Philip Schuman

Louisa Spencer

Royce and Mildred Stauffer

Louis Stern

Mary Taft-McPheeTax Reduction Services

The Criminal Justice Policy

Foundation

Walter and Karen Loewenstern

Arthur Vietze

Joanne Weaver

Gary Webster

Irvine Foundation

(Duane Wilder)Hall F. Willkie

Ally ($500 - $999)Anonymous

Rosalind S. Abernathy

Frank Alford

Daniel P. Armbrust

Jonathan Ater

George B. Baldwin

Robert W. Barnard

Pamela Barrer

Henry Bass

Arthur Benavie

Magnus B. Bennedsen

Mrs. Susan B. Bentley Joseph

Dorian Berger

Sara Bettinger

Ms. Caroline Booth

Norman H. Brown

Malin Burnham

Martin and Nancy Buss

Ryan Chavez

Timothy Crawford

Michael Crew

James Crow

Elizabeth Decuevas

Terry Dellmuth

Malcolm Dole

Neal A. Donner

Cornelius and Susanne Dooley

DeDe DunevantKen Dupuy

Norman C. Eddy

Michael Elkin

William Ewing

James Fleming

Richard G. Flor

Edward J. Fritz

George Gibson

George W. Gilman

Robert Ginsberg

Gregory Goodwin

Jerry Greenfield

John F. Greene

Hahn Family Foundation

Mary S. HamiltonWilliam F. Harrison

Paul Herstein

Mark Hrymoc

Joyce H. Huber

Guy Huntley

Douglas N. Husak

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2010 - 2011

Reformers Club Donors

The Reformers Club is

DPAs monthly giving group.

Monthly donations provide a

foundation on which DPA can

build solid, lasting campaigns.

Juha Alakulppi

Margaret Anderson

J. Ayers

Gordon Bell

Robert Billings

Dawn Black-Fox

Eldon Blancher

Henry Bowden

Paul Bradshaw

Becki Brooks

Jim Brunke

Harvey Buchbinder

Mary Burns

Josh Bushner

Devon Canode

Charles Christensen

Robert Clayton

Pola Coggeshall

Richard Cook

Gerard Corcoran

Jack Cowan

Edward Delcroix

Alfred Egendorf

Nelson Eisman

John Farrington

Amado Finales

Nancy Fiora

David Flory

Richard Forster

Michael FranklinJon Frederick

Michael Gibson

Joan Grillo

Forrest Harrington

Angelika Jayant

Ralph Johnston

Brian and Tammy Jersey

John and Kathryn Evans

Foundation

John Jones

Just GiveNorman Kaplan

Jeff Kelly

Roman Kent

Jonathan King

Elisabeth Lafferty

Liberty Hill Foundation

Heather Litman

Charles Livingston

Robert and Anne Louttit

Lowell M. Schulman

Revocable Trust

Tom W. Lyons

Curtis Marder

Justin Martone

E. D. Massey

Warren E. Matthews

David and Karen Mc Auliffe

Jill Mc Dermott

Mr. Donald H. Mehlig

Marilyn Mehlmauer

Roy J. Messelt

Microsoft Matching Gifts

Program

Miller & Vizcaya Foundation

Jeffrey Miller

John Moore

Ann Morris Cockrell

Madeleine Moskowitz

Jeffrey Moskowitz

Joseph Murphy

Theodore C. NagelLee and Mary Niems

Kenneth Obenski

Richard Osborne

Steven Osborne

Paul Papanek

Diane Parker

Jerome W. Parks

Cranston Paull

Joseph Pearl

John C. Petricciani

Robert J. Pflimlin

John Phillips

Lee A. Reynolds

Susan Robbins

Jerry RookeSheldon Rose

Jean Knight

Braxton Koch

Francis Kovalcik

Jane Lusk

Ragnvald MaartmannmoeJoy Maher

Maria Marez

Deborah Matherly

Rose Mayer

Bret Mcdougle

David McGrath

John Meyers

Robert Moore

Richard Partridge

Robert Paulson

Michael Perrone

David Pines

Frank Quale

Ronald Renner

Daniel Saks

Joe Sapone

Mark Sazy

Ruth Sewell

Phillip Shaffer

Peter Sherrod

Elizabeth Simpson

David Stickell

Brian Strand

Michael Subialka

Dale Swinney

Barbara Taylor

Kristin Varnes

Charles Varni

Larry Wise

Stuart Wolff

Charles Young

P.C. Russell

Risa I. Sanders

Francis Sauvageau

Robert Schaffer

Gregory SchorrRoger Scholten

Renata M. Schwebel

Rachael Solem

Jeffrey Soros

Barbara A. Stiefel

Andrew Stone

Laurie Storm

Richard Stratton

William S. Strong

W Sutton

Heather Tehrani

Robert Temple

The Nation Company

Thompson Charitable

Foundation

David Touster

Lili Townsend

Daniel Troob

Thomas J Ungerleider

Daniel Weiss

Stephen Werbe

Jeff Wilcox

Morris Williams

Aletta Wilson

Robert W. Woodhouse

Dana Wright

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DPA Honorary Board DPA Board of Directors

International

Honorary Board

(In formation)

Former Mayor Rocky Anderson

Harry Belafonte

Former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci

Congressman John Conyers, Jr.

Walter Cronkite [1916-2009]Ram Dass

Dr. Vincent Dole [1913-2006]

Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders

Judge Nancy Gertner

Former Police Chief Penny Harrington

Calvin Hill

Arianna Huffington

Former Governor Gary Johnson

Judge John Kane

Former Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach

Former Police Chief Joseph McNamara

Former Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy [1920-2011]

Dr. Beny J. Primm

Dennis Rivera

Former Mayor Kurt Schmoke

Dr. Charles Schuster [1930-2011]

Alexander Shulgin

Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz

Russell Simmons

Judge Robert Sweet

Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker

Christine Downton

Former Vice Chairman and Founding Partner of

Pareto Partners

Jodie EvansCo-founder, CODEPINK

James E. Ferguson, II

Senior Partner, Ferguson, Stein, Chambers Law Offices

Jason Flom

President, Lava Records

Ira Glasser, DPA Board President

Former Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union

Carl Hart, PhD

New York State Psychiatric Institute

Kenneth Hertz

Senior Partner, Goldring Hertz and Lichtenstein LLP

Mathilde Krim, PhD

Founding Chair, American Foundation for

AIDS Research (amfAR)

David C. Lewis, MD

Founding Director, Center for Alcohol and Addiction

Studies, Brown University

Pamela Lichty

President, Drug Policy Forum of Hawai`i

Ethan Nadelmann, JD, PhD

Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance

Robert Newman, MD

Director, Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical

Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center

Rev. Edwin Sanders, DPA Board Secretary

Senior Servant, Metropolitan Interdenominational

Church Coordinator, Religious Leaders for a More Just and

Compassionate Drug Policy

George Soros

Chairman, Soros Fund Management

John Vasconcellos

Former California State Senator

Co-Founder, The Politics of Trust

Richard B. Wolf, DPA Board Treasurer

Chairman of Board, Consolidated Dye

Richard Branson

Founder, Virgin Group

Ruth Dreifuss

Former President of the Swiss Confederation

Vclav Havel [1936-2011]Former President of the Czech Republic

Sting

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DPA Staff

Management Team

Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director

Ryan Chavez, Managing Director, Finance & Administration

DeDe Dunevant, Managing Director, Communications

Stephen Gutwillig, Deputy Executive Director, ProgramsJill Harris, Managing Director, Strategic Initiatives

Clovis Thorn, Managing Director, Development

Communications

Jag Davies, Publications Manager

DeDe Dunevant, Managing Director, Communications

Megan Farrington, Deputy Director, Internet Communications

Jeanette Irwin, Director, Internet Communications

Stefanie Jones, Event Manager

Tommy McDonald, Deputy Director, Media Relations

Kristen Millnick, Internet Communications Coordinator

Tony Newman, Director, Media Relations

Anthony Papa, Manager, Media Relations

Derek Rosenfeld, Internet Communications Associate

Development

Rafael De Arce, Manager, Membership and

Development Operations

David Glowka, Manager, Foundation Relations

Judh Grandchamps, Gift Entry Associate

Clovis Thorn, Managing Director, Development

Finance and Administration

David Abbott, Office Manager

Teresa Barrow, IT User Support Associate

Ryan Chavez, Managing Director, Finance & Administration

Michael Linares, Executive Associate to Ethan Nadelmann

Lina Mingoia, Human Resources Manager

Boris Sporer, Director, Information Technology and

Knowledge Management

Candida Ventimiglia, Controller

Public Policy

Headquarters

asha bandele, Director, Advocacy Grants Program

Yolande Cadore, Director, Strategic PartnershipsJill Harris, Managing Director, Strategic Initiatives

Office of Legal Affairs

Daniel N. Abrahamson, Director, Legal Affairs

Theshia Naidoo, Staff Attorney

Daniel Robelo, Research Associate

Tamar Todd, Staff Attorney

Office of National Affairs

Daniel Z. Brito, Government Relations Manager

Bill Piper, Director, National Affairs

Grant Smith, Federal Policy Coordinator

Maggie S. Taylor, Policy Associate

Jasmine Tyler, Deputy Director, National Affairs

State Policy Offices

California

Aviva Cushner, Administrative Associate, San Francisco

Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, Deputy State Director,

Southern California

Jessica Gelay, Administrative Associate, Southern California

Meghan Ralston, Harm Reduction Coordinator,

Southern California

Marsha Rosenbaum, Director Emerita, San Francisco

Laura Thomas, Deputy State Director, San Francisco

Colorado

Art Way, Drug Policy Manager, Colorado

New Jersey

Amanda Bent, Administrative Associate

Meagan Glaser, Policy Manager

Roseanne Scotti, State Director, New Jersey

Elizabeth Thompson, Policy Associate

New Mexico

Olivia-Belen Sloan, Outreach/Education Associate

Emily Kaltenbach, State Director, New Mexico

New York

Kassandra Frederique, Policy Associate

Evan Goldstein, Policy Coordinator

gabriel sayegh, State Director, New York

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Drug Policy Alliance, a 501(c)(3) Organization

DPA Statement of Financial Position FY2011

June 1, 2010 May 31, 2011

ASSETS

Cash and cash equivalents $ 6,136,126

Grants receivable $ 2,003,998

Accounts receivable $ 37,895

Prepaid expenses and other assets $ 125,603

Deposits $ 81,264

Property, equipment and leasehold

improvements, net $ 120,251

Total Assets $ 8,505,137

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Liabilities

Accounts payable andaccrued expenses $ 703,577

Compensated absences $ 229,775

Total Liabilities $ 933,352

Net Assets

Unrestricted $ 4,578,392

Temporarily restricted $ 2,993,393

Total Net Assets $ 7,571,785

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 8,505,137

DPA Statement of Activities FY2011

SUPPORT AND REVENUEContributions unrestricted $ 9,519,352

Contributions temporarily restricted $ 209,921

Total Income $ 9,729,273

EXPENSES

Program expenses $ 6,217,545

Management $ 1,616,596

Fundraising $ 1,204,645

Total Expenses $ 9,038,786

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS $ 690,487

Net assets, beginning of year $ 6,881,298

Net assets, end of year $ 7,571,785

Drug Policy Action, a 501(c)(4) Organization

Drug Policy Action Statement of Financial Position FY2011

June 1, 2010 May 31, 2011

ASSETS

Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,827,296

Investments $ 0

Accrued interest receivable $ 0

Total Assets $ 2,827,296

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Liabilities

Accounts payable and

accrued expenses $ 31,075

Net Assets

Unrestricted $ 2,796,221

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 2,827,296

Drug Policy Action Statement of Activities FY2011

SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Grants and contributions $ 570,000

Membership $ 5,847

Investment income $ 7,269

Miscellaneous income $ 2,366

Total Income $ 585,482

EXPENSES

Program ExpensesConsulting $ 36,509

Campaign donations $ 195,600

Ballot initiatives $ 15,000

Travel and other $ 376

Insurance $ 799

Miscellaneous $ 7,142

Support Services

Administrative expenses $ 123,515

Professional fees $ 26,109

Total Expenses $ 405,050

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS $ 180,432

Net assets, beginning of year $ 2,615,789

Net assets, end of year $ 2,796,221

Financial Statements

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We are the Drug Policy

Alliance and we envisiona just society in which theuse and regulation of drugsare grounded in science,compassion, health andhuman rights, in which people

are no longer punished forwhat they put into their ownbodies but only for crimescommitted against others, andin which the fears, prejudicesand punitive prohibitions of

today are no more.

Please join us.


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California

DPA Office of Legal Affairs

Berkeley, CA

[email protected]

Los Angeles, CA

[email protected]

San Francisco, CA

[email protected]

Colorado

Denver, CO

[email protected]

District of Columbia

DPA Office of National AffairsWashington, D.C.

[email protected]

New Jersey

Trenton, NJ

[email protected]

New Mexico

Santa Fe, NM

[email protected]

New York

Drug Policy Alliance Headquarters131 West 33rd Street

15th Floor

New York, NY 10001

212.613.8020 voice

212.613.8021 fax

[email protected]

www.drugpolicy.org

DPA Annual Report 2011

Documents

Transcript of DPA Annual Report 2011