updated Mon. April 8, 2024
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Santa Fe New Mexican
April 29, 2018
One of those alternatives is the Safety First educational program produced by the Drug Policy Alliance. Safety First is an innovative drug education curriculum that serves as a tool for teachers, counselors, prevention specialists and parents to initiate an open, honest discussion with young people aboutÃâà...
The Root
April 29, 2018
... have with a grinding criminal justice system that won't let them go. The arrests can stay on their records for years, and impact their prospects for jobs, loans, housing and benefits. Advertisement. This video put out by the Drug Policy Alliance and narrated by Jay-Z, runs down some of the disturbing stats.
Press of Atlantic City
April 28, 2018
The forum was hosted by the church, along with the Drug Policy Alliance, the Mainland and Atlantic City chapters of the NAACP and the Coalition for a Safe Community. Members of the panel discussed components to consider around legalization, such as where revenue would be directed, prioritizingÃâà...
fox8.com
April 27, 2018
“There is a growing body of scientific literature suggesting that legal access to marijuana can reduce the use of opioids as well as opioid-related overdose deaths,” said Melissa Moore, New York deputy state director for the Drug Policy Alliance. “In states with medical marijuana laws, we have already seenÃâà...
CNN
April 20, 2018
Jolene Forman is a staff attorney at the Drug Policy Alliance. Suchitra Rajagopalan is a research coordinator at the Drug Policy Alliance. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. (CNN) April 20 is a day of celebration for marijuana enthusiasts. The origin of 420 dates back to the early 1970s,Ãâà...
TheFix.com
April 18, 2018
A New York City high school is the testing ground for a new kind of drug education—which, instead of urging kids to “just say no,” tries a safety first approach. The Safety First curriculum, developed by the Drug Policy Alliance, a non-profit that promotes drug policy reform, was introduced at Bard High SchoolÃâà...
BuzzFeed News
April 16, 2018
The New York City Department of Education runs the course, but the curriculum was created by the Drug Policy Alliance, an advocacy group that supports medical treatment over criminal penalties for drugs and the legalization of marijuana. Trump's war-on-drugs rhetoric is nothing new — trying to petrifyÃâà...
Crain's New York Business
April 12, 2018
Miller said his attitude has changed after piloting a new curriculum with his ninth-graders that was developed by the Drug Policy Alliance. The 14-class Safety First curriculum, which began last month and wrapped up this month, is framed as the antithesis of the police-officer-led, abstinence-based D.A.R.E.Ãâà...
Observer
March 30, 2018
Levin, who worked with the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and other criminal justice reform advocates, told Observer that he agrees that the bill is “not enough” but is a “step in the right direction.” “I think having better information, clearer information around who is getting arrested for marijuana possession orÃâà...
OCRegister
March 30, 2018
Compounding this, as groups like the Drug Policy Alliance and the Global Commission on Drug Policy have explained, federal and state officials ramped up efforts against “pill mills” and perceived overprescribing around the same time. These efforts not only haven't altered the trajectory of opioid overdosesÃâà...
The Cannabist
March 29, 2018
Federal law allows for capital punishment in drug trafficking cases involving murder or homicide. But the attorney general also specifically called out one provision that allows for capital punishment in cases involving “extremely large quantities of drugs.” That provision, 18 U.S.C. Ãâç 3591(b)(1), lays outÃâà...
NJ.com
March 28, 2018
Roseanne Scotti, New Jersey state director of the Drug Policy Alliance, who was among those who lobbied to pass the medical marijuana law eight years ago, thanked the governor and commissioner for making changes quickly. "This action will help thousands of patients for whom medical marijuana is theÃâà...
Weed News (blog)
March 27, 2018
“We want to thank Commissioner Elnahal and Governor Murphy for moving so quickly to expand the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act,” said Roseanne Scotti, New Jersey state director of the Drug Policy Alliance. “This action will help thousands of patients for whom medical marijuanaÃâà...
OCRegister
March 23, 2018
He was in line with several hundred other people waiting for free legal advice during an “expungement fair” put on by the nonprofit Drug Policy Alliance. “I just need help to clear it up,” he said. The March 17 event — staffed by volunteers wearing T-shirts that read “Changing lives through changing records”Ãâà...
OCRegister
March 20, 2018
It should not be lost on anyone that more and more people have died due to opioid overdoses following federal and state officials crackdowns on opioid prescriptions, crackdowns ostensibly in the name of saving lives. According to groups like the Drug Policy Alliance the Global Commission on Drug Policy,Ãâà...
WUWM
March 5, 2018
Hannah Hetzer is the Senior International Policy Manager for the New York-based Drug Policy Alliance. She joins Lake Effect's Mitch Teich to talk about harm reduction drug policy, a philosophy on public health that focuses on fact-based drug education and intervention policies meant to reduce the injuriesÃâà...
The Atlantic
December 31, 1999
“The opioid commission was a mixed bag, with some good public-health recommendations,” said Grant Smith, the Drug Policy Alliance's deputy director of national affairs. But “the question now is: How will [those recommendations] stand up to President Trump's punitive approach to the opioid-overdoseÃâà...
Weed News (blog)
December 31, 1999
On Wednesday, April 25th, the Mount Zion Baptist Church of Pleasantville, Atlantic City and Mainland-Pleasantville NAACP branches, the Atlantic County Coalition for a Safe Community and the Drug Policy Alliance will host, “Set the Captive Free: Marijuana, Morality & Money,” at 7:00 pm at Mount ZionÃâà...
The Root
December 31, 1999
File this under “Yeah, We Knew That Already, But Thanks For the Confirmation”: an analysis of police data showed that blacks and Hispanics make up the majority of arrests for marijuana possession — even in areas where the population is mostly white or other ethnic groups. WNYC conducted the analysisÃâà...
