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The War on Drugs Revisited
February 12, 2003
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Before Ronald Reagan became President, the United States spent less than a billion dollars annually on the so-called drug war. Today we spend over $20 billion. How effective is the U.S. policy on drugs and what is the human cost of this war?
On this Special Prison Desk edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the impacts of the so-called war on drugs.
Featuring:
Ted Shaw, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.; Kurt Schmoke, Howard University School of Law; Daniel Abrahamson, Drug Policy Alliance; Malika Sadda Saar, Rebecca Project for Human Rights; Terrance Stevens, director of In Arms Reach: Parents Behind Bars, Children In Crisis; Sanho Tree, Drug Policy Project of the Institute for Policy Studies.
For more information :
Institute for Policy Studies
Drug Policy Project
733 15th St., NW, Suite 1020
Washington, DC 20005
202-234-9382
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
99 Hudson St. 16th Floor
New York, New york 10013
212-219-1900
www.naacpldf.org
Howard University
School of Law
2900 Van Ness St., N.W
Washington, D.C 20008
202-806-8000
www.law.howard.edu
Drug Policy Alliance
717 Washington Street
Oakland, CA 95607
510-208-7711; legalaffairs@drugpolicy.org
www.drugpolicy.org
Rebecca Project for Human Rights
316 F Street, NE, Suite 106
Washington, DC 20002
202-544-5790
www.rebeccaproject.org
In Arms Reach: Parents Behind Bars Children In Crisis
City College
P.O. Box 559
Triboro Station
New York, New York 10035
info@inarmsreach.org
www.inarmsreach.org