National Projects

• Safety First  
• Marijuana Law Reform  
• National Affairs
• Legal Affairs  
• State Organizing and Policy Project  
• Health Policy  
• International Efforts  

U.S. federal, state and local governments have spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to make America "drug-free". Yet most of this effort has been costly, ineffective and extraordinarily counterproductive. America's zero-tolerance approach has made our drug problems worse, not better. Nearly half a million people in the U.S. are behind bars for drug offenses. That's more people than western Europe, with a bigger population, incarcerates for all offenses. The war on drugs has become a war on families, a war on public health and a war on our constitutional rights. We can do better. The Drug Policy Alliance promotes realistic alternatives based on science, compassion, health and human rights.

State Offices

• California
• New Mexico
• New York 
• New Jersey
• State Organizing and Policy Project 

Working in tandem with our 501(c)4 affiliate, the Drug Policy Alliance Network, DPA focuses on changing public attitudes and promoting legislative drug policy reforms on the state level. DPA has played a pivotal role in more than twenty successful ballot initiatives concerning medical marijuana, asset forfeiture reform and treatment instead of incarceration for nonviolent drug offenders.

DPA's State Organizing and Policy Project (SOPP) directs our efforts in states where we do not have a physical office.