DPA Network focuses on marijuana law reform in an effort to end marijuana prohibition in the United States and elsewhere. Based in New York, the project brings together public education efforts, strategic litigation, media outreach and federal and state legislative drafting and lobbying to reform prohibitionist marijuana policies.

Focusing on positive developments in marijuana law at home and abroad, DPA Network works with legislators and their constituents to end arrests and criminal prosecution related to marijuana. We work with allied organizations, defending -- in the courtroom, the workplace and elsewhere -- the rights of those unjustly targeted because of their marijuana use, exposing the harms of marijuana prohibition and the excesses of the federal government's war on marijuana.

Protecting the rights of medical marijuana patients and their providers is a key component of DPA Network's marijuana law reform efforts. Since the passage in 1996 of Proposition 200 in Arizona and of Proposition 215 in California, we have worked with activists, advocates and other allies to provide legal representation for patients, doctors, and growers of medical marijuana who have been targeted by the federal government. As the DEA continues to raid medical marijuana hospices in California and threaten the safety of seriously ill patients around the country, DPA Network fights to protect patients' access to medicine, and doctors' rights to discuss marijuana with their clients