• Only 13% of drug users are African American, yet they account for 67% of those sentenced to jail for drug offenses.
• The U.S. has 5% of the world\'s population but 25% of the world\'s prisoner population.
• 48% of the need for drug treatment goes unmet in the U.S.
• A Pew poll found that three out of four Americans feel that the Drug War has failed and can never be won.
• Even after spending more than $50 billion a year on the Drug War, drugs are more available and drug cartels are more wealthy than ever before.
• More than 200,000 students have been denied financial aid simply because they have drug convictions.
  

Students for Sensible Drug Policy is working to find solutions to these problems. Explore our site to learn about our mission & values , chapter network , campaigns , and events .

Please visit the following websites to learn more about the War on Drugs, the organizations working to put an end to it, and the organizations working to maintain the harmful status quo:

LINKS

Facts & Research

Allied Organizations

Prohibitionist Organizations

 

Facts & Research

www.druglibrary.net - DRCNet Drug Library

www.drugwarfacts.org - Drug War Facts

www.mapinc.org - Media Awareness Project: An archive of media relating to drugs and drug policy.

Allied Organizations

www.aclu.org/drugpolicy/index.html - American Civil Liberties Union

www.safeaccessnow.org - Americans for Safe Access

www.csdp.org - Common Sense for Drug Policy

www.dancesafe.org - Dance Safe

www.drugpolicy.org - Drug Policy Alliance

www.stopthedrugwar.org - Drug Reform Coordination Network

www.drugsense.org - Drug Sense: Drug Law Reform

www.famm.org - Families Against Mandatory Minimums

www.flexyourrights.org - Flex Your Rights

www.harmreduction.org - Harm Reduction Coalition

www.hr95.org - Human Rights and the Drug War

www.idpi.us - Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative

www.justicepolicy.org - Justice Policy Institute

www.leap.cc - Law Enforcement Against Prohibit

www.mpp.org - Marijuana Policy Project

www.norml.org - National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

www.november.org - The November Coalition

www.safety1st.org - Safety First

www.sentencingproject.org - The Sentencing Project

Prohibitionist Organizations

www.dammad.org - Dads and Mad Moms Against Drug Dealers

www.dare-america.com - Drug Abuse Resistance Education.

www.usdoj.gov/dea - Drug Enforcement Administration, the government\'s leading anti-drug law enforcement bureaucracy.

www.nida.nih.gov - The National Institute on Drug Abuse

www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov - The Office of National Drug Control Policy. A.K.A. The Drug Czar’s Office.

www.drugfree.org - The Partnership for a Drug Free America

www.undcp.org - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime