The State Organizing and Policy Project of the Drug Policy Alliance combines research-driven advocacy with community-based organizing strategies to win drug policy reforms. The Project’s focus states are currently Alabama, Connecticut, and New York, and various cities and counties within each of these states. The Project is charged with advancing DPA's mission and vision through organizing for policy reform; provoking, instigating, and inspiring vigorous public debates about the failures of the drug war; promoting sensible, effective alternatives; and building a movement to end the war on drugs.

We do this by working with grassroots organizers and activists, local organizations, advocates and other key stakeholders to build strategic drug policy reform campaigns. By partnering with state-based groups, we can regionalize strong advocacy and organizing networks capable of winning long-term policy change. With our state partners, we are building a movement for drug policies based in health, human rights, reason, compassion, and justice.

For more information about DPA’s work in these states, please visit our pages on Alabama, Connecticut, and New York.

Contact

gabriel sayegh
Director, State Organizing and Policy Project
Drug Policy Alliance
(212) 613-8020
gsayegh@drugpolicy.org