Drug Policy

Alliance

Annual Report 2008

 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.

Our mission is to advance those policies

and attitudes that best reduce the harms of
both drug misuse and drug prohibition and
to promote the sovereignty of individuals
over their minds and bodies.

Table of Contents
2 Alternatives to Incarceration The work described herein includes that of the Drug Policy
6 Marijuana: Toward Responsible Regulation Alliance, a 501(c)(3)(h) organization and DPA Network,
8 Reducing Harm, Promoting Health a 501(c)(4) organization that have worked with various
12 Just Say Know: Parents and Teens 501(c)(4) affiliates, including the Center for Policy Reform,
16 Provoking Debate the Campaign for New Drug Policies and Americans for
18 Building the Movement Medical Rights.
20 Conclusion
21 Grants, Donors, Board and Financials
Letter from the President
and Executive Director

For the first time in a long time, we feel the momentum on

drug policy shifting in our favor. The political climate is rapidly
changing – at the state and local level as well as nationally.
The current dialogue on drugs and drug misuse, prevention
and enforcement is becoming more sophisticated. The public
has grown skeptical of the drug war and politicians are figur-
ing out that “tough on drugs” rhetoric is not a real solution.
The Drug Policy Alliance and the growing movement in
which we play a leadership role are fast maturing. The many
accomplishments detailed in this report certainly point to a
shift in tone and tenor.
Ira Glasser Ethan Nadelmann
The biggest possibility for change is in California, where President Executive Director
voters will have an opportunity in November to enact the Drug Policy Alliance Drug Policy Alliance
biggest prison and sentencing reform in U.S. history. DPA put
years of insight and research into drafting this initiative –
the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act or Proposition 5.

If we win, the new law will provide a national model for a
public health approach to substance abuse and addiction.
But California isn’t the only place where reforms are afoot.
As you’ll see, we’ve been busy in Congress and in our other
target states – Alabama, Connecticut, New Jersey, New
Mexico and New York – and in the District of Columbia.
New additions to our U.S. Honorary Board also reflect this
trend of sane and sensible drug policies entering the political
mainstream. One of our newest members, George P. Shultz,
served as both U.S. secretary of state and secretary of the
treasury in two Republican administrations. He’s now been
joined by Russell Simmons, the hip hop impresario, who
played an important role in advancing Rockefeller Drug Law
reform efforts a few years ago.
We know that ours is destined to be a multi-generational
struggle, just like most other movements that advance
individual freedom and social justice. But we feel more
energized and optimistic right now than we have in years.
As we move into a new phase of our work, one that builds
on many of our major state and federal wins, we take pride
in the fact that DPA is a stronger organization now than at
any time in our history.
We hope you enjoy learning about our work over the last
year; please don’t hesitate to call or email our staff to discuss
any of the report’s contents.
Many thanks for your continued support.

We’re also in the process of creating an International Honorary

Board as we re-engage on international drug control issues.
We are proud to tell you that the first two members are
Václav Havel, the famous writer, political dissident and former
president of the Czech Republic; and Ruth Dreifuss, who
played a pivotal role in advancing drug law reform in
Switzerland during her presidency of the Swiss Federal Council.
Today one in 100 adult Americans is
behind bars. DPA is confronting excessive
incarceration directly on several key
fronts: in California, through a major
ballot initiative; nationally, via a campaign
to overturn federal mandatory minimum
sentencing guidelines; in Connecticut
and New Jersey, with legislation and
groundbreaking reports; and in New York,
where innovative work is moving the state
toward a public health approach to drug
policy. As the prison and sentencing
reform movement gains momentum,
DPA is taking full advantage of shifting
public and policymaker attitudes.
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Prison and Sentencing Reform in California
California has emerged as the central battleground in the
fight to replace the ineffective over-reliance on incarceration,
probation and other punitive sanctions with policies of
compassion, treatment and harm reduction for nonviolent,
drug- and addiction-related offenses. The state faces one of
the nation’s most severe prison-overcrowding crises. At
175 percent of capacity, this $10-billion-a-year system is
largely fueled by excessive incarceration of nonviolent
offenders, including many convicted of low-level drug law
violations. Acute overcrowding is exacerbated by the failure to
provide meaningful programs to reduce recidivism, including
addiction treatment and other rehabilitation services.
Since 2001, California’s landmark treatment-instead-of-
incarceration law, Proposition 36, has been addressing this
crisis. DPA and our allies drafted and championed the measure,
approved by a resounding majority of voters. According to
research by the University of California, Los Angeles, Prop.
36 saves $2.50 to $4 for every dollar invested. Since going into
effect, this statewide system of alternatives to incarceration
has graduated 84,000 people and saved taxpayers almost
$2 billion. In spite of Prop. 36’s overwhelming successes, DPA
has consistently needed to defend the program’s $120 million
annual budget against proposed cuts. DPA and our fellow
advocates fought back hard against this year’s cuts and won a
major victory, convincing California’s legislature to maintain
current funding levels for this important treatment program.
But in the end, despite our hard lobbying efforts, Sacramento
slashed this important program by $12 million in 2008. This
steep budget cut means that the state will spend an even
greater amount of money on incarcerating those who merit
treatment rather than prison.
Prompted in part by the persistent challenges of defending
Prop. 36 against funding cuts and other attacks, DPA intro-
duced a new sentencing reform initiative, unprecedented in
scope and magnitude, for California’s November 2008 ballot.
If passed as expected, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation
Act (Proposition 5) will become a national model for reforming
unjust and unnecessary incarceration policies. Within just a
few years, the measure will transform California’s costly
and dysfunctional prison system, significantly reducing the
nonviolent prison population while protecting public safety.
Prop. 5 provides a comprehensive model for a public health
approach to substance abuse, addiction and crime. Crucially,
the measure would expand eligibility for alternatives to
incarceration, shift existing resources from corrections to
treatment and rehabilitation, and lock in funding every year.
The measure would also save more than $2.5 billion by
rendering future prison construction unnecessary. Should it
become law, Prop. 5 would essentially supersede Prop. 36,
expanding access to effective rehabilitation services to tens of
thousands more nonviolent offenders and saving billions in
taxpayer dollars through reduced demand for prisons and
lower recidivism.
Prop. 5 also includes a number of other important provisions.
It reduces to an infraction – equivalent to a traffic ticket –
the penalty for possessing small amounts of marijuana,
effectively eliminating the 40,000 marijuana arrests California
police make each year. To help young people struggling with
substance abuse, Prop. 5 dedicates about $65 million per year
to build a system of treatment – where none now exists – for
at-risk youth. Prop. 5 also dramatically expands rehabilitation
services for people in prison and on parole and provides for
community-based sanctions, rather than prison time, for
nonviolent offenders who commit minor parole violations.
These programs are proven to reduce crime and recidivism,
and their cost will be more than offset by reductions in prison
and parole expenditures.
“Providing treatment,
rather than conventional
sentencing to jail or prison,
not only improves the lives
of individuals and their
loved ones, it also saves
taxpayers vast sums.”
Margaret Dooley-Sammuli
Deputy State Director,
Southern California
USA Today
January 3, 2008
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Striking Down Mandatory Minimums
DPA’s Office of National Affairs is engaged in positive, ongoing
work to change “mandatory minimum” sentencing laws in
Congress. During the 1970s and 1980s, Congress and many
state legislatures passed mandatory minimums, which require
judges to imprison those convicted of drug law violations
for fixed, multi-year terms without eligibility for parole or
reentry programs, regardless of the facts of the case. These
laws effectively shifted the power to exercise discretion in
sentencing from judges to prosecutors.
In December, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unani-
mously to make retroactive a recent amendment reducing
recommended sentences for crack cocaine offenses. The
practical effect is to make up to 19,500 currently incarcerated
individuals eligible for early release. In one of 2008’s
most exciting and encouraging moves, Senator Joe Biden
(D-Delaware), one of the original architects of the modern
drug war, surprised many by introducing legislation to
completely eliminate the law that punishes crack cocaine
offenses 100 times more severely than those for powder
cocaine, leapfrogging more modest reforms put forth by
Sens. Kennedy, Hatch, Sessions and others. Sen. Biden’s bill
to eliminate this sentencing disparity has a number of promi-
nent co-sponsors and marks a turning point of how politically
popular drug policy reform has become among voters.
“Congress is dragging its
Moving New York from
Punishment to Public Health
Following years of advocacy and pressure, DPA’s long struggle
to overturn New York’s draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws –
a set of mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines established
in 1973 – has made important progress this year. Despite
modest reforms in 2004 and 2005, more than 13,000 people –
nearly 22 percent of the prison population – remain imprisoned
for nonviolent drug-law offenses in New York State. More
than 90 percent of these prisoners are African-American and
Latino, even though their rates of illegal drug use and sales are
roughly similar to rates among whites.
State officials now appear to be rethinking the drug problem –
and reevaluating the overuse of incarceration – from a health
perspective. On the Rockefeller Drug Laws’ 35th anniversary
in May, the New York Assembly held unprecedented hearings
to explore a public health approach to drug policy. The hearings
included six different Assembly committees – three from the
field of criminal justice (Codes, Corrections and Judiciary),
and three from public health (Health, Alcoholism and Drug
Addiction, and Social Services). DPA coordinated the majority
of the organizations, elected officials, public health experts
and community and religious groups providing testimony.
Outside one of the hearings, DPA and our allies held a large
rally in support of scrapping the laws altogether. The new
governor, David Paterson, is a longtime champion of drug
policy reform who was once arrested for engaging in an act of
civil disobedience protesting the Rockefeller Drug Laws. We
are hopeful that, under his leadership, New York will become
a national leader in coordinated, sensible and effective drug
policies grounded in public health.
feet over eliminating the
disparity it created in 1986
when it assigned a mandatory
five-year minimum prison
sentence to a person who sells
five grams of crack cocaine.”
Jasmine Tyler
Deputy Director, National Affairs
The Economist
January 11, 2008
Exposing Incarceration’s Hidden Costs in
Connecticut and New Jersey
Two DPA reports, published this year, examined how incar-
ceration is an ineffective and costly waste of public resources
that perpetuates the cycles of abuse, addiction and crime.
In April 2008, DPA commissioned a hard-hitting report,
Diversion Works, from Justice Strategies. With nearly
20,000 people behind bars, Connecticut’s prison population
has never been higher. It increasingly includes people with
addiction and mental illness problems that would be better
handled in alternative, community settings. The report details
how Connecticut can downsize prisons, improve public safety
and save money with a comprehensive mental-health and
substance-abuse approach to drug-related crime. Connecticut
media covered the report extensively and favorably.
member of the Assembly Budget Committee, participated in
the report’s release event and press conference, which also
launched DPA New Jersey’s new sentencing reform campaign.
Cryan praised the report, calling it, “a blueprint of economic
and moral balance.” Media coverage was extensive and
generated numerous editorials calling for the end to
mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offences.
“The state of New Jersey is
wasting, literally, billions.
It is all money that would
have gone into the larger
New Jersey economy.”

New Jersey leads the nation in the proportion of its prisoners Roseanne Scotti
sentenced for nonviolent drug offenses. DPA New Jersey
State Director, New Jersey
Director Roseanne Scotti co-authored a report entitled,
Wasting Money, Wasting Lives. Released in May 2008,
the report tallies the price tag for New Jersey’s overuse of Asbury Park Press
incarceration: hundreds of millions of dollars in direct May 29, 2008
costs plus hidden costs, including lower lifetime wages, tax
revenues and child support. Newark Mayor Cory Booker and
Assemblyman Joseph Cryan, deputy majority leader and a

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 Last year, DPA was at the center of a successful
campaign that made New Mexico the twelfth
state to enact medical marijuana legislation.
Today, hundreds of thousands of people
suffering from serious and debilitating condi-
tions are no longer criminals under state law.

This year, DPA worked with New Mexican

officials on implementation, won strong
support from Connecticut lawmakers, and
fought back against wasteful federal raids
in California and elsewhere. Nationwide,
the appeal of rational and compassionate
medical marijuana laws is growing as the
dire predictions of opponents fail to be
realized and positive public health impacts
are documented.

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Marijuana:
Toward Responsible Regulation
Devising a Distribution System
in New Mexico
Our work in New Mexico entered an important new phase
this year as the state’s medical marijuana law took effect on
July 1, 2007, prompting a political struggle over implementa-
tion. The landmark Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act is
the first law in the nation to require a state production and
distribution system. DPA advocated strongly for a system that
would provide a safe and secure supply for patients. During a
series of public hearings convened by the Department of
Health we gave voice to the concerns of patients, experts and
other allies regarding the need for a patient-centered program.
Redoubling Our Efforts in Connecticut
In Connecticut, this year’s top priority was securing legal
access to medical marijuana, and we came extraordinarily
close to realizing that goal. Together with the local drug
policy reform organization and DPA Advocacy Grants
awardee, A Better Way, we assembled a remarkable coalition
of patients, doctors and racial justice groups in support of
medical marijuana legislation. This coalition won strong
support in both the Connecticut House and
Senate and the legislation passed by a
better than 60/40 margin in both
bodies. But, in spite of a concerted
effort that included letters and
calls from national public
health leaders, Governor
M. Jodi Rell vetoed the bill.
DPA is determining whether
the governor will sign a slightly
revised bill next year while
working to solidify both our
coalition and lawmaker sup-
port for broader drug policy
reform in the coming years.
Putting a Stop to Waste
in Washington, D.C.
Nearly 40,000 violent drug raids take place each year in the
United States, according to a Cato Institute report, Overkill:
The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America. Many lives
are lost, and many more are ruined, by these paramilitary
operations – all in the name of the war on drugs. These
SWAT-style raids undermine state laws and further militarize
law enforcement.
In response to ongoing federal raids on medical cannabis
dispensaries and growers in California and other states, DPA
stepped up our efforts to advance common-sense cannabis
policy in the halls of Congress. DPA fought back against
these wasteful federal raids with the Hinchey-Rohrabacher-
Farr-Paul amendment. The law would have prohibited the
use of federal tax dollars to pay for Drug Enforcement
Administration raids on patients and caregivers in states with
medical marijuana laws. Though our legislation ultimately
failed, we identified new allies on both sides of the aisle and
laid a foundation for our future efforts to get this important
bill passed. We are confident next year’s Congress will present
a more favorable climate for legislation that brings a needed
measure of compassion to our federal marijuana laws.
“[The Connecticut Governor’s veto] guarantees
the continued criminalization of people who are
trying to relieve pain and suffering.”
gabriel sayegh
Director, State Organizing and Policy Project
The New York Times
June 20, 2007
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DPA made significant progress on our harm
reduction agenda this year. We helped get
the ban lifted on D.C. syringe access funding
and forged new relationships with the
recovery community. In New Jersey, we
spearheaded implementation of sterile
syringe pilot programs, and we helped
expand sterile syringe access programs
and pharmacy sales in California. DPA
also issued a national report on the
methamphetamine problem, and worked
with big-city mayors to reformulate drug
policies from a public health perspective.
 Reducing Harm,
Promoting Health
Public Health Prevails in Washington, D.C.
In Washington, D.C., injecting drugs is the leading means of
HIV/AIDS transmission among women and the second-leading
means among men. Overwhelming scientific evidence indicates
that sterile syringe programs – syringe exchange, pharmacy
sales and physician prescription – decrease needle sharing
without increasing drug use and are highly effective in
reducing transmission of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. These
programs also increase the safe disposal of used syringes,
significantly reduce the incidence of needle-stick injuries to
police officers, and connect people who use drugs to treatment,
detoxification, primary health care and other services.
Notwithstanding the scientific consensus, in 1998 the
Republican-led Congress imposed a ban on syringe exchange
funding in Washington, D.C., making it the only jurisdiction
in the nation prohibited from investing – even local, non-
federal dollars – in this proven HIV/AIDS-prevention strategy.
The District of Columbia has a particularly acute need for
advocacy related to treatment and recovery issues. According
to the D.C. Department of Health, lost productivity and
social services associated with substance abuse cost D.C.
$1.2 billion annually. Only 14 percent of the 60,000 people
in the city needing drug treatment currently have access to
services. Funding for the city’s Addiction Prevention and
Recovery Administration has remained flat since the 1980s
while D.C.’s jail and re-entry services continue to be log-
jammed with people addicted to drugs and other low-level,
nonviolent drug law offenders.
“As many as 300,000 Americans could contract
HIV-AIDS or hepatitis C over the next decade
because of a lack of access to sterile syringes. This
essentially makes the national syringe ban a death
sentence for drug users, their parents and children.”
Naomi Long
Director, D.C. Metro Area
and
Bill Piper
Director, National Affairs
The Washington Post
January 27, 2008
DPA’s work with Congress resulted in the lifting in June 2007
of the decade-old D.C. ban. In the wake of that important
victory, we coordinated with local political leaders, community
activists and service providers on renewed efforts to stem the
District’s HIV/AIDS crisis. Elimination of the ban clears the
way for the District to infuse a planned $1 million into local
syringe exchange efforts. DPA was proud to be a part of this
campaign, and our success was punctuated by a powerful
DPA-authored op-ed on the topic in the Washington Post. A
similar Congressional ban that prohibits states from spending
federal HIV/AIDS-prevention funds on syringe exchange
programs is responsible for tens of thousands of wholly
preventable deaths, and DPA is now turning its attention to
the repeal of this national ban.
In addition, DPA co-founded the D.C. Recovery Community
Alliance, a new coalition launched at a public meeting held
with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty which drew more than
200 attendees. The Alliance also co-sponsored the District’s
first-ever commemoration in September of National Recovery
Month, an initiative of the federal Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration. The event brought
together people in recovery, treatment providers, law
enforcement agencies and policy advocates. These events
helped solidify DPA’s strong ties to the recovery advocacy
community in the region, a partnership we intend to pursue
in the coming year.
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Promoting Health
continued from page 9
New Jersey Implements Syringe Access
New Jersey has the fifth highest rate of HIV among adults,
the third highest rate of HIV among children, and the highest
estimated proportion of women living with AIDS in the
country. Injection drug use is the main cause of these infections:
nationally, injection drug use accounts for 25 percent of
infections but in New Jersey it accounts for 44 percent of
infections. In late 2006, DPA successfully won passage of
lifesaving, sterile syringe access legislation in New Jersey – the
last state to provide no access whatsoever to sterile syringes
to prevent the spread of blood-borne diseases, either through
syringe access programs or pharmacy sales. The new law,
championed by DPA, authorizes three-year pilot syringe
exchange programs in up to six cities. The approved cities
began operations this year.
Having taken the lead in promoting sterile syringe access
legislation, we are now helping New Jersey ensure effective
implementation of the law. We created operations and
procedures manuals, arranged trainings and provided an
array of technical support for four cities: Newark, Paterson,
Camden and Atlantic City. We also convened the first-ever
statewide gathering of New Jersey syringe access programs,
an event that provided program staff and state and local
health officials with an opportunity to receive harm reduction
training and to network with each other and out-of-state
experts.
These developments are a major step forward for New Jersey.
In addition to our work on syringe exchange pilot programs,
DPA will continue to provide input on the state’s mobile
methadone and buprenorphine (Suboxone) treatment
programs. Mobile medication units circumvent onerous
regulations and not-in-my-back-yard politics to make an
effective treatment – opioid substitution – more readily
available to those who might benefit. This important
treatment option became available in Paterson in May 2008
and is gearing up to launch in three more cities.
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Expanding HIV-Prevention in California
DPA’s work in California is making tremendous strides on
deregulating and expanding effective syringe-availability
programs. Governor Schwarzenegger recently signed into
law DPA’s bill authorizing local governments to use state
HIV-prevention funds to purchase sterile syringes. In addition
to serving as an important link to drug treatment and medical
care for people who use injection drugs, this law will save
lives and money and ensure appropriate local control and
oversight of HIV-prevention funds.
Since its creation by statewide legislation in 2004, counties
throughout California have also implemented a critical
state harm-prevention initiative, the Disease Prevention
Demonstration Project (DPDP), which allows adults to
purchase up to 10 syringes without a prescription from a
participating pharmacy. Los Angeles County, where an
estimated 135,000 people are infected with hepatitis C,
became the latest to initiate a DPDP. With support from the
California Endowment, DPA helped enroll approximately
300 L.A. County pharmacies, including all Longs, Rite Aid
and Walgreens drugstores, in this effort. As the DPDP nears
its review and reauthorization in 2010, DPA will keep working
hard to generate the community support and advocacy
that are essential to promoting this lifesaving program and
ensuring its effective implementation.
Proposing a New National Policy for
Methamphetamine
Similar to the widespread anxiety about the rise in and dangers
of crack cocaine use in the 1980s and ‘90s, methamphetamine
is a source of growing concern for many communities. DPA’s
new national report on methamphetamine policy, A Four-
Pillars Approach to Methamphetamine: Policies for Effective
Drug Prevention, Treatment, Policing and Harm Reduction,
released in March 2008, advances a strategy that embodies
the best principles of harm reduction applied to this specific
area of drug misuse and enforcement. The report evaluates
current state and federal methamphetamine policies,
recommends major reforms and is the first in the U.S. to lay
out a “four pillars” approach – the Swiss national model –
to addressing methamphetamine abuse. Already in use in
countries including Australia, Canada and Germany, this
approach has resulted in dramatic reductions in street drug
use, overdose deaths and HIV/AIDS and hepatitis infection
rates. The DPA report was featured at a well-attended forum
for congressional staffers and received coverage by major
newspapers in California, New Mexico and Utah.
Protecting the Rights of Pregnant and
Parenting Women
In 2008, DPA’s Office of Legal Affairs joined with National
Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) to defend pregnant
and parenting women from criminal charges related to
drugs and drug addiction. With our support, NAPW litigated
on behalf of Regina McKnight, a South Carolina woman
convicted of homicide in 2001 because her baby was stillborn
and she had used cocaine during her pregnancy.
Friend-of-the-court briefs filed by DPA with the South
Carolina Supreme Court helped debunk the junk science used
to convict Ms. McKnight. Unlike Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and
toxic prenatal exposure to cigarette smoke, which are proven
conditions known to harm fetal health, scientific evidence has
not demonstrated a substantial link between cocaine exposure
and prenatal toxicity. The court ruled in Ms. McKnight’s
favor and ordered her release from prison, garnering national
news coverage and invigorating the discussion about how
best to address drug use among pregnant women.
Charting a New National Course
on Drug Policy
Mayors – particularly those of large cities – are taking the
lead on drug policy reform in an effort to improve the lives
of citizens. At its 75th Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles
in June 2007, the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM)
approved the “New Bottom Line” resolution, which was
drafted by DPA and sponsored by Rocky Anderson, former
mayor of Salt Lake City and DPA Honorary Board member.
In adopting this resolution, the mayors recognize that addiction
is a chronic, treatable medical disorder and are advocating a
policy change in dealing with drug-related crime from a
criminal-justice to a public health approach, informed by
harm reduction principles.
Specifically, the resolution calls for greater access to drug
treatment on demand such as methadone and other
maintenance therapies; eliminating the federal ban on funding
for sterile syringe access programs; establishing local overdose
prevention policies; and directing a greater percentage of
drug-war funding toward evaluating the efficacy and
accountability of current programs. Adopted resolutions
become the official policy of USCM, which boasts more than
a thousand mayors of cities with populations of 30,000 or
greater and promotes best practices on the most pressing
priorities of our nation’s cities.
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 Despite alarmist prevention programs
and zero-tolerance policies, teen use of
alcohol and other drugs remains prevalent.
Increasingly, the country is taking notice
of DPA’s youth policy work, which
promotes drug education that moves
beyond fear-based messages to focus
instead on facts and open dialogue.

This year, DPA launched a new, federally

funded education program in New Mexico;
promoted our Safety First Project;
challenged student drug testing in the
media and courts; and helped cut federal
spending on the drug czar’s ineffective
media campaign.

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Just Say Know:
Parents and Teens

Bringing Quality Prevention Education to Safety First Keeps Growing

New Mexico
In recognition of our honest, effective approach to drug
abuse prevention, DPA received its first-ever grant from
the U.S. Department of Justice in support of our work to
improve methamphetamine prevention efforts aimed at
teens in New Mexico.
In October 2007, DPA and our partners hosted “Building
Positive Communities: A Public Health Approach to Teen
Methamphetamine Prevention.” The conference examined
methamphetamine outside the context of zero-tolerance
and punitive strategies, such as suspension and expulsion –
measures that exclude students from the structured school
environment – in favor of counseling, treatment and other
restorative practices. More than 300 educators, school
officials and community members gathered in Albuquerque to
examine how communities can better protect and educate
young people by emphasizing reality-based education and
community-building rather than oversimplified scare tactics
and “just say no” approaches.
DPA launched a redesigned website for its San Francisco-based
Safety First Project, which provides strategies for parents and
educators to protect teenagers from drug misuse. The revamped
website, www.safety1st.org, connects parents, educators and
teenagers to resources like our seminal publication, Safety
First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens and Drugs. To
date, more than 200,000 copies of this booklet, revised and
re-released this year, have been distributed worldwide in eight
languages, most recently Czech.
DPA also proudly celebrated a major milestone: five years of
working with the California Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
as an official allied agency. Our work over the years with the
California PTA is a sign of the significant progress we’re
making on effective drug-abuse prevention in a critical state.

Additional components of DPA’s Meth Project include

statewide trainings on effective drug-abuse prevention with
teachers, school officials and prevention specialists and a
DVD called Just4Teens: Let’s Talk about Meth and Other
Drugs, which is being made available with a facilitator’s
guide for use with high school students around the state. DPA
plans to distribute the materials to teachers and prevention
specialists throughout New Mexico in the coming year.

“For too long we have relied on a

‘just say no’ approach, which
oversimplifies the complex lives
our teenagers lead. Or worse yet,
we have tried to terrify our youth
with grotesquely embellished
tales of addiction and abuse.”

Reena Szczepanski
State Director, New Mexico

Albuquerque Journal
October 31, 2007
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Just Say Know:
Parents and Teens
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Challenging Student
Drug Testing Propaganda
The singular obsession of the Bush administration’s drug czar
since 2001 has been to promote and expand random student
drug testing, despite the fact that it is invasive, unproven,
expensive and counterproductive.
Bush’s drug czar annually doles out millions of dollars to
school systems for these misguided programs. The drug czar
hosted seven summits this year to promote student drug testing
in Colorado, Florida, Indiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
Washington State and Washington, D.C. At every summit, DPA
staff and/or supporters showed up to share with educators
and the media our concerns that these programs discourage
student participation in extracurricular activities and erode
relationships of trust at school. We placed op-eds in local
papers, distributed literature and posed tough questions
challenging the federal government’s propaganda.
In March 2008, we reached out to school board members
from across the country through our National School Boards
Association Convention presentation in Orlando, Florida.
Youth Policy Manager Jennifer Kern presented on the
potential harms that accompany random student drug testing
programs. Her co-presenter, a school board member of
the Orange Unified School District in California, spoke
about the process her school board underwent as they
considered and ultimately rejected a random drug
testing proposal.
Supreme Court Victory in
Washington State
The Washington State Supreme Court ruled
unanimously in March 2008 that the Wahkiakum
School District’s random drug testing policy
is unconstitutional and violates student
athletes’ rights under the higher privacy
protections of the Washington State
Constitution. Working with the ACLU,
DPA and the Washington Education
Association filed a friend-of-the-court
brief in the case, arguing that random
student drug testing is unsupported by
scientific research, deters students from
participating in extracurricular activities,
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creates a hostile school environment and evokes oppositional
behavior in students, such as trying to “beat” the test, among
other concerns. This important ruling sets a strong precedent
that right-to-privacy laws are squarely on our side on the
student drug testing issue.
Wasteful Federal Media Spending Curtailed
For years, DPA has worked to educate members of Congress
about the failure – as documented in evaluations commissioned
by the National Institute on Drug Abuse – of the federal
National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, which produces
ads such as the outlandish Super Bowl commercial calling
marijuana users “terrorists.” DPA members and other drug
policy reformers have sent thousands of letters to legislators
over the last year demanding that their tax dollars be put
to better use. This year, the pressure DPA brought to bear
on the issue paid off when Congress cut 2008 funding for
this program from $100 million to $60 million. The
unprecedented magnitude of the cut was an important step
in DPA’s ongoing efforts to dismantle this wasteful and
counterproductive campaign.
“Instead of investing in surveillance,
we should spend our time and
resources educating students
through comprehensive, interactive
and honest drug education with
identification of, and assistance for,
students whose lives are disrupted
by substance use.”
Jennifer Kern
Youth Policy Manager
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
January 16, 2008
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 Year after year, DPA marshals the mainstream
press to spread the word and broaden the
debate on common sense drug policy. Our
media relations team generates more than a
thousand stories every year in the U.S. and
international press.

Violence connected with drug prohibition

along the U.S. southern border and abroad
is intensifying and, accordingly, the drug
policy debate must encompass a global
perspective. Executive Director Ethan
Nadelmann also made considerable
waves through his influential writings,
appearances and presentations in the
U.S. and abroad.

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 Provoking Debate

Reaching Millions through Media
DPA reaches millions in the U.S. and worldwide through
quotes in major articles, cover stories, op-eds, letters to the
editor and appearances on local and national television news
programs. DPA’s website, www.drugpolicy.org, features the
latest drug policy news, an action center that enables members
to contact government officials, and activist discussion forums.
DPA also publishes a monthly e-newsletter and electronic
action and advocacy alerts on important drug policy issues.
Our New York-based Lindesmith Library contains more than
10,000 books, reports, government documents, periodicals,
videos and articles on drugs and drug policy.
Sparking International Debate
This year, a cover story penned by Executive Director Ethan
Nadelmann was published in the September-October 2007
issue of Foreign Policy, a highly influential magazine on
international affairs, published in many languages that
commands a global readership. The piece challenge the notion
that the global drug war can be won. The mainstream North
American media took notice. The article was subsequently
republished in the Chicago Sun-Times and the National Post,
one of Canada’s top national dailies. Even FOX News,
known for its conservative perspective, aired a surprisingly
sympathetic report, and John McLaughlin recommended the
article on his influential talk show, “The McLaughlin Group.”
Nadelmann also gave numerous radio interviews, including
to National Public Radio. As part of this media blitz, DPA
distributed thousands of copies of the article to legislators,
columnists and other shapers of public opinion with cover
notes from some of our most distinguished allies.
Three of the six letters DPA had published in the Wall Street
Journal this year were on the topic of drug-related violence in
Mexico, which claimed more than a thousand lives last year.
The San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times ran
a piece by Nadelmann in which he offered a reality-check on
the likelihood of Mexico turning a corner in its fight against
the drug trade. Shortly thereafter, the Los Angeles Times
editorial board sat down with Nadelmann and subsequently
published on their website a lengthy synopsis of their
conversation on the drug war, the collateral damage in the
U.S. stemming from drug prohibition and what should be
done about it.

“It is shocking to think that more Mexicans died last year

due to drug prohibition than did American soldiers in Iraq.
There is nothing in the coca or marijuana plant that
causes those deaths. Rather, it is prohibition that creates
a profit motive that people are willing to kill for.”

Tony Newman
Director, Media Relations

The Wall Street Journal

February 28, 2008

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 This year, DPA launched its presence
on Facebook and accessed a variety of
other new media to bring our message
to younger audiences. We increased
our base of foundation support, and
our biennial international drug policy
conference was the largest and most
inclusive gathering of reformers we’ve
ever assembled.

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Building the Movement
New Orleans Hosts
DPA’s Biggest Conference
In December, we brought together our strongest, most diverse
coalition of people and issues ever for the 2007 International
Drug Policy Reform Conference. Representing almost
20 countries and the full spectrum of our movement, nearly
1,100 activists, researchers, service providers, government
officials and others assembled for the single best crash course
available on drug policy.
Attendees heard from “U.N. Drug Czar” Dr. Antonio Maria
Costa who described the modest progress his office has made
toward acceptance of harm-reduction principles and later
debated an international panel of some of his most prominent
critics. We also heard from Libby Davies, a Canadian Member
of Parliament from Vancouver and outspoken critic of the
drug war, who was there to receive the Justice Gerald Le Dain
Award for Achievement in the Field of Law. In all, eight
awards were presented in recognition of major achievements
in a variety of drug policy reform issue areas.
Our next gathering will take place November 11-14, 2009 in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. For information contact Event
Manager Stefanie Jones at 212.613.8020 or via email at
sjones@drugpolicy.org.
“The people whose quotes we [used in
Membership: New Technologies,
New Audiences
This year, DPA reached out to new audiences in a number
of ways. Nearly 26,000 donors contributed financially to
DPA this year in response to our direct mail campaign.
A highly successful appeal from Walter Cronkite succeeded
in attracting more than 7,000 new dues-paying members.
Targeted electronic action alerts resulted in significant
in-kind contributions made online. More than 57,000
advocacy messages went out from nearly 15,000 of our
supporters to elected officials and other decision makers on
behalf of a variety of urgent drug policy reform campaigns.
And our issue reached millions of new, mostly younger
viewers across the United States when Ethan Nadelmann
made his second guest appearance on Comedy Central’s
(fake) right-wing, news show, “The Colbert Report.” The
interview can be seen at www.drugpolicy.org/colbert.
Since we launched DPA as a Facebook cause, more than
1,500 people have connected with us there. Our own
website, www.drugpolicy.org, boasts an average of more
than 100,000 new visitors each month who visit for
easy-to-find information, news, opinion and drug policy
resources. This year, we launched a new section highlighting
the work of the Lindesmith Library featuring new
acquisitions and recent trends in drug policy research.
our appeal from Walter Cronkite] included
everyone from conservative Republicans to
libertarians to progressives. We wanted to
show a broad range of support for our issue.”
Clovis Thorn
Managing Director, Development
Inside Direct Mail
September 2007
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 Building the Movement Conclusion

continued from page 19

Engaging Young Professionals The ground has never been more fertile for a change to our
nation’s failed drug policies. The folly and waste of the drug
In May, DPA reached out to young professionals with an war becomes apparent to ever more lawmakers and citizens
unprecedented gathering, “Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow each day. We are seeing a broader questioning of America’s
Fonder,” that combined art, activism and absinthe – the only gulag drug policy that fills our prisons and jails and empties
alcohol to be banned in many Western nations in the last our coffers, that severely punishes the use of certain drugs but
century. This event at Gallery 151 in New York drew more tolerates, regulates, taxes and even subsidizes others.
than 500 attendees who came to network and taste the
donated Le Tourment Vert absinthe. The event was timed to Yet even as minds and eyes are opening, the assault on
correspond with the re-introduction of absinthe to the U.S. American citizens continues. In 2008, more than 800,000
Obvious to all were the parallels between absinthe – once a marijuana arrests were made, nearly 90 percent of those for
target of official hysteria – and other drug prohibitions simple possession. Nationwide, almost a half million people
rooted in baseless fear. are currently incarcerated for drug law violations. This is
why DPA’s work is so vitally important: to expose the
daily injustices of this destructive war on our families and
Foundation Support Increasing communities; to pursue justice in the courts, in state capitols
and in the halls of Congress; and to renew hope inside state
Foundations account for an increasing proportion of
and federal prisons, on neighborhood streets, and in our
DPA’s revenue. Most often, grants are dedicated to specific
schools and houses of worship.
state efforts, from expanding syringe access in New Jersey
to advancing sentencing reform in California. This year,
DPA is committed to a more just and humane future, and
21 local and national funders supported our work:
we will not stop until our society and state houses embrace
• Alliance Healthcare Foundation
a fundamentally different way of dealing with drugs and the
• Angelica Foundation
people who buy, sell, make and use them. We’ve never been
• Cafritz Foundation
more hopeful – and we hope you’ll join us in this historic
• California Endowment
struggle for reason, compassion and justice!
• Consumer Health Foundation
• Educational Foundation of America
• Herb Block Foundation
• Hugh M. Hefner Foundation
• JEHT Foundation
• Krieger Fund
• Levinson Foundation
• Libra Foundation
• Livingry Fund
• MAC AIDS Fund
• McGraw Foundation
• Meyer Foundation
• Open Society Institute
• OSI-Latin America
• Rockefeller Family Fund
• Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust
• Syringe Access Fund

Though few of these foundations support drug policy reform

per se, they all recognize that DPA’s work is vital to advancing
their own missions and goals, whether racial justice and
prison reform, human rights and civil liberties, HIV/AIDS
prevention and community health, or economic and civil
libertarian principles.

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2007-2008 Advocacy Grants

The Drug Policy Alliance Advocacy Grants Program seeks to Less than $20,000
promote policy change and advance drug policy reform at the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi
local, state and national levels by strategically funding smaller, Borderwalk Productions (NC)
geographically limited or single-issue organizations and Direct Action for Rights and Equality (RI)
projects. Endowed annually at a level of $1.4 million, the DRCNet Foundation, Inc.
Advocacy Grants Program works to raise awareness and Drug Policy Education Group, Inc. (AR)
promote change through two vehicles: the Promoting Policy Drug Policy Forum of Kansas, Inc.
Change Program and the Rapid Response Program. Flex Your Rights Foundation
Harm Reduction Coalition - New Jersey
Promoting Policy Change In Arms Reach, Inc. (NY)
Institute for Policy Studies, Drug Policy Project
$150,000 Justice Policy Institute
Harm Reduction Coalition Los Angeles Overdose Prevention Task Force
Mothers of the New York Disappeared Project
$50,000 New Mexico Women’s Justice Project, Inc.
A Better Way Foundation (CT) NYC AIDS Housing Network
DrugSense Public Policy and Education Fund (NY)
Harm Reduction Project
National Advocates for Pregnant Women Rapid Response
North American Syringe Exchange Network
Students for Sensible Drug Policy Foundation $50,000
2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference scholarship
$20,000 to $49,999
A New Path (CA) $20,000 to $49,999
Alabamians for Compassionate Care / Alabama Court Watch Center for Working Families (NY)
Benedict Center (WI) Critical Resistance
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition New England Policy Advocate Foundation (MA)
Council for Court Excellence
Drug Policy Forum of Hawai`i, Inc. $10,000 to $19,999
Institute for Metropolitan Affairs, Roosevelt University (IL) California NORML
Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative California Society of Addiction Medicine
Justice Strategies Insite (Canada)
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition JusticeWorks Community / Seven Neighborhood Action
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (CA) Partnership (NY)
Prison Families Community Forum (NY)
Prison Moratorium Project (NY) Less than $10,000
Rhode Island Family Life Center Harm Reduction Coalition
Safe Streets / Strong Communities (LA) Institute for Metropolitan Affairs, Roosevelt University (IL)
The Defender Association Tenderloin Health (CA)
The Ordinary People Society (AL) Vancouver Island Compassion Society (Canada)
UpFront (CA)
Voluntary Committee of Lawyers, Inc.
Organizations are national unless otherwise indicated.

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Honorary Board of Directors
Rocky Anderson Mayor Salt Lake City, Utah (2000-2008).
Harry Belafonte Singer, actor and activist.
Frank C. Carlucci III U.S. Secretary of Defense (1987-1989);
Chairman emeritus, Carlyle Group;
Deputy Director, CIA (1978-81).
Rep. John Conyers, Jr. U.S. Congressman, Michigan (1964-
present); Chairman, House Committee
on Government Operations (1989-94);
Dean and a founding member,
Congressional Black Caucus; Chairman,
Judiciary Committee (2007-present).
Walter Cronkite CBS Evening News anchor (1962-1981)
known as “The most trusted man in
America.”
Ram Dass Beloved spiritual teacher; Founder,
Hanuman Foundation, which developed
the Prison Ashram Project to help
inmates grow spiritually, and the
Living/Dying Project, a spiritual and
educational support for terminally ill
people and their care givers.
Vincent Dole, MD Winner of the Lasker Award (1988)
In Memoriam: “for postulating the physiological
1913-2006 basis of narcotic addition and for
developing methadone treatment for
heroin addiction.”
Joycelyn Elders, MD U.S. Surgeon General (1993-94).
Judge Nancy Gertner U.S. District Court Judge, Boston,
Massachusetts.
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Penny Harrington Chief of Police, Portland, Oregon
(1985-86); Founding Director, National
Center for Women and Policing, a
division of the Feminist Majority
Foundation (1995-present).
Calvin Hill Record-breaking NFL running back for
the Dallas Cowboys (1969-74), the
Washington Redskins (1976-77), and
the Cleveland Browns (1978-81).
Arianna Huffington Nationally syndicated columnist and
author; Founder of the Huffington Post
(www.huffpost.com).
Gary Johnson Governor, New Mexico (1995-2003).
Judge John Kane U.S. Senior District Judge, Denver,
Colorado (1977-present).
Nicholas deB. U.S. Attorney General (1965-66);
Katzenbach Under-Secretary of State, (1966-69).
Joseph McNamara, Police Chief, Kansas City, Missouri
PhD (1973-76) and San Jose, California
(1976-91); Research Fellow, Hoover
Institute (1991-present).
Patrick V. Murphy Police Commissioner, New York City
(1970-73); Police Chief, Syracuse,
Washington, D.C., Detroit; President,
Police Foundation (1973-85); Director,
Police Policy Board at the U.S.
Conference of Mayors (1985-2006).
Beny Primm, MD President and founder, The Addiction,
Research and Treatment Corporation,
Brooklyn, NY (1969-present);
Director, Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment, U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (1989-1993);
U.S. representative on issues of drug
addiction and AIDS, World Health
Organization.

Dennis Rivera Former President, 1199SEIU United
Healthcare Workers East – the largest
local union in the world.
Kurt Schmoke Mayor, Baltimore (1987-99); Dean,
Howard University School of Law
(2003-present).
Charles R. Schuster, Director, National Institute on Drug
PhD Abuse (1986-1992); Director,
Neuroscience Institute, Loyola
University Chicago (2006-present).
Alexander Shulgin, Pharmacologist, chemist, and
PhD psychedelics researcher.
George P. Shultz U.S. Secretary of Labor (1969-1970);
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
(1972-1974); U.S. Secretary of State
(1982-1989).
Russell Simmons Hip-hop pioneer, entrepreneur and
philanthropist.
Judge Robert Sweet U.S. District Judge, New York, New York
(1978-present).
Paul Volcker Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S.
Federal Reserve System (1979-1987).
Board of Directors
Christine Downton
Former Vice Chairman and Founding Partner of Pareto Partners
Jodie Evans
Co-founder, CODEPINK
James E. Ferguson, II
Senior Partner, Ferguson, Stein, Chambers Law Offices
Jason Flom
Chairman/CEO, Capitol Music Group
Ira Glasser, DPA Board President
Former Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
James D. Gollin
Chair, Rainforest Action Network
Director, Angelica Foundation
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
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
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DPA Staff
Management Team
Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director
Derek Hodel, Deputy Executive Director
Ryan Chavez, Managing Director, Finance and Administration
DeDe Dunevant, Managing Director, Communications
Clovis Thorn, Managing Director, Development
Communications
DeDe Dunevant, Managing Director, Communications
Megan Farrington, Deputy Director, Internet Communications
Jeanette Irwin, Director, Internet Communications
Stefanie Jones, Event Manager
Amanda King, Web Content Developer
Ed Kirtz, Librarian
Vera Leone, Internet Communications Associate
Tommy McDonald, Deputy Director, Media Relations
Tony Newman, Director, Media Relations
Anthony Papa, Communications Specialist
Zak Sherzad, Media Consultant
Isaac Skelton, Director, Publications
Development
Rafael De Arce, Membership Coordinator
David Glowka, Manager, Foundation Relations
Judh Grandchamps, Gift Entry Associate
Clovis Thorn, Managing Director, Development
Finance and Administration
Teresa Bonomo, Administrative Associate
Ryan Chavez, Managing Director, Finance and Administration
Rosalyn Fox, Executive Administrative Associate
Lina Mingoia, Human Resources Manager
Candida Ventimiglia, Controller
Malakkar Vohryzek, Office Coordinator
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
Bill Piper, Director, National Affairs
Grant Smith, Legislative Associate
Jasmine Tyler, Deputy Director, National Affairs
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Programs
California
Steven Alvarez, Administrative Associate, Southern California
Gus Collins, Administrative Associate, San Francisco
Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, Deputy State Director,
Southern California
Marisa Garcia, Harm Reduction Associate, Southern California
Stephen Gutwillig, State Director, California
Lynette Hall, Administrative and Policy Associate, Sacramento
Jennifer Kern, Youth Policy Manager
Curtis Notsinneh, Deputy State Director, Sacramento
Meghan Ralston, Harm Reduction Coordinator,
Southern California
Marsha Rosenbaum, Director Emerita, DPA San Francisco
and Safety First Program
Laura Thomas, Deputy State Director, San Francisco
Grants
asha bandele, Director, Advocacy Grants Program
New Mexico
Jeanne Block, Methamphetamine Project Coordinator
Anissa Medina, Office Management Associate
Julie Roberts, Policy Coordinator
Reena Szczepanski, State Director, New Mexico
New Jersey
Meagan Johnson, Policy Coordinator
Roseanne Scotti, State Director, New Jersey
Rachel Shearer, Administrative Associate
State Organizing and Policy Project
Evan Goldstein, Policy Associate
gabriel sayegh, Director, State Organizing and Policy Project
Washington, D.C./Maryland
Naomi Long, Director, District of Columbia Metropolitan Area
Financial Statements

Drug Policy Alliance, a 501(c)(3)(h) Nonprofit DPA Network, a 501(c)(4) Lobbying Organization

DPA Statement of Financial Position FY2008 DPA Network Statement of Financial Position FY2008
ASSETS ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents $ 4,385,147 Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,948,394
Investments $ 384,000 Promissory note receivable $ 400,000
Grants receivable $ 17,421 Accounts receivable $ 61,954
Accounts receivable $ 78,191 Prepaid expenses $ 2,658
Prepaid expenses $ 55,760 Total Assets $ 2,413,006
Property, equipment and leasehold
improvements, net $ 224,750 LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Deposits $ 85,715 Liabilities
Total Assets $ 5,230,984 Accounts payable & accrued expenses $ 129,223

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Net Assets

Liabilities Unrestricted $ 2,283,783
Accounts payable & accrued expenses $ 206,220
Vacation accrual $ 46,659 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 2,413,006
Health and harm reduction $ –
Fundraising $ –
Total Liabilities $ 252,879 DPA Network Statement of Activities FY2008
INCOME
Net Assets Contributions $ 1,144,153
Unrestricted $ 1,752,621 Investment income $ 85,790
Temporarily restricted $ 3,225,484 Special projects $ 125,325
Total Net Assets $ 4,978,105 Total Income $ 1,355,268

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 5,230,984 EXPENSES

Program Expenses
Consulting $ 165,483
DPA Statement of Activities FY2008* Lobbying expenses incurred by DPA $ 82,923
INCOME Campaign donations $ 7,672
Contributions unrestricted $ 8,747,043 Contribution expense $ 41,667
Contributions temporarily restricted $ 3,064,151 Ballot initiatives $ 710,000
Investment income $ 74,029 Advertising and marketing $ 21,730
Conference and other income $ 603,911 Travel, insurance and
Total Income $ 12,489,134 meeting expenses $ 13,787
Miscellaneous $ 5,622
EXPENSES
Program Expenses Support Services
Conferences $ 637,497 Administrative expenses $ 136,591
Communications $ 1,155,351 Professional fees $ 96,737
Health and harm reduction $ 497,882 Total Expenses $ 1,282,212
Public policy and legal affairs $ 2,206,363
Treatment and prevention $ 395,754 CHANGE IN NET ASSETS $ 73,056
Special projects $ 744,902 Net Assets, beginning of year $ 2,210,727
Grants $ 1,460,510 Net Assets, end of year $ 2,283,783

Support Services
Management $ 1,357,938
Fundraising $ 1,453,942
Total Expenses $ 9,910,139

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS $ 2,578,995 * At the end of the FY2008, $3,000,000 in temporary
Net Assets, beginning of year $ 2,399,110 restricted income was deferred toward the following
Net Assets, end of year $ 4,978,105 fiscal year’s program and administrative expenses.
California
DPA Office of Legal Affairs
Berkeley, CA
legalaffairs@drugpolicy.org

DPA Los Angeles Office

Los Angeles, CA
la@drugpolicy.org

DPA California Capital Office

Sacramento, CA
sacto@drugpolicy.org

DPA San Francisco Office

San Francisco, CA
sf@drugpolicy.org

District of Columbia
DPA Office of National Affairs
Washington, D.C.
dc@drugpolicy.org

New Jersey
DPA New Jersey
Trenton, NJ
nj@drugpolicy.org

New Mexico
DPA New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
nm@drugpolicy.org

New York
Drug Policy Alliance Headquarters
70 West 36th Street
16th floor
New York, NY 10018

212.613.8020 voice
212.613.8021 fax
nyc@drugpolicy.org

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