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It's Time for an Exit Strategy from the "War on Drugs"

As more people become aware of the devastating consequences of the failed "war on drugs," it becomes apparent that we need to find a new way forward for actually controlling drugs. Many prominent citizens are now calling for the creation of a "Blue Ribbon Commission" to finally take a serious look at real solutions to our drug abuse and illegal drug market problems.

Indeed, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) and several other senators have introduced bipartisan legislation to create a commission charged with conducting an 18-month, top-to-bottom review of the nation's entire criminal justice system and offering concrete recommendations for reform. When asked on CNN about legalizing drugs, Sen. Webb replied, “Nothing should be off the table.”

Please join us by signing the petition below. We will compile the names and present them to Senator Webb in support of his bill, S.714, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act. We will also forward the petition and its signatures to President Obama.








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Original signatories:

Dr. Milton Friedman

Nobel laureate; Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Chicago; Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA

Dr. Joseph D. McNamara

Former Chief of Police, San Jose, CA, and Kansas City, MO; Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA

Herbert Berger, M.D.

F.A.C.P.; F.C.C.P.; Internationally recognized authority on drug treatment, Staten Island, NY

Judge James P. Gray

Orange County Superior Court, Santa Ana, CA

Katherine H. Smith

Founder, Group Resolving Anti-Social Problems (GRASP), Anaheim, CA

S. Clarke Smith, M.D.

F.A.A.F.P.; Board of Directors, California Academy of Family Physicians, Anaheim, CA

Clifford A. Schaffer

Author; Computer Consultant, Canyon Country, CA

Frederick H. Meyers, M.D.

Professor of Pharmacology, University of California at San Francisco; Chairman of the California Research Advisory Panel on Drugs

Harvey L. Rose, M.D.

Author of California’s “Intractable Pain Treatment Act;” Family Practice, Carmichael, CA

John J. McCarthy, M.D., A.B.P.N.

Psychiatrist, Executive Director, Bi-Valley Medical Clinic, Sacramento, CA

Gary Davis, M.D.

Diplomate in Psychiatry, A.B.P.N., American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Citrus Heights, CA

Benson B. Roe, M.D.

Professor and Chief Emeritus of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, CA

Stephen A. Fisher, M.D.

Diplomate in Psychiatry, A.B.P.N., American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Berkeley, CA

Reverend Leonard B. Jackson

First A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles, CA

Reverend J. D. Moore

First A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles, CA

Donald McNamara

Investment Consultant, New York, NY

Richard Arthur

Educator, Former Principal of Castlemont High School, Oakland, CA; Author of Gangs and Schools, Richmond, CA

Howard Levine

Office of the Mayor, Baltimore, MD

Kurt L. Schmoke

Mayor, City of Baltimore, Maryland

George P. Shultz

Former United States Secretary of State, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA





Dedicated to our departed colleagues who courageously spoke out about the destructive policy of Drug Prohibition

Eleanor Schockett

Gil Puder

Whitman Knapp

John Perry

Ralph Salerno

Bob Owens

Eddie Ellison

Martin Haines

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