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Get
Involved!!!
(SSDP Wants to Hear Your Voice)
Fall 2009
Welcome to SSDP@Columbia! To get in
touch with us, email
ssdp@columbia.edu.
Columbia SSDP is working overtime
to push back ill-conceived drug laws!
Because we can't even keep drugs out
of prisons, nevermind closing a 15,000 mile-long border
of a FREE and OPEN society!
WE BELIEVE that the war on drugs is
a waste of resources and allows moralistic crusaders
with dogmatic political and religious agendas to abuse
the 20 million Americans who use "politically incorrect"
drugs every year. While drug abuse has a significant
number of disturbing consequences, 30 years of an escalating
"drug war" has led to absurd investments in
law enforcement and "zero-tolerance" measures.
Tolerating drug use and investing the $60 billion a
year in jobs or in treatment would do more to reduce
substance abuse than all of the supply-side enforcement
in the world.
WE CAN DO BETTER!
LOCKED UP: DRUGS, PRISONS and PRIVELEGE
New York's Rockefeller drug laws are a DISGRACE, and
we're proud to welcome David Soares, the underdog who
in 2004 beat the Albany County Democratic machine and
their pro-Rockefeller incumbent DA candidate to the
fold. The election of Soares was one of Columbia SSDP's
major initiatives in the 2004-2005 school year.
Arresting cancer and multiple sclerosis patients
for using marijuana is DESPICABLE. Our chapter has protested
at the departement of Health and Human Services in Washinton,
and we're also working with NEW
YORKERS FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE to get the support
of the New York State Legislature for SAFE ACCESS for
patients to a QUALITY supply of medical marijuana!
Other issues that we are interested in include:
- Barriers to Higher Education (HEA Drug Provision)
- Marijuana Policy/ Medical Marijuana
- Prison Industrial Complex
- US Drug Policy and Plan Colombia
- Environmental Protection and Crop Fumigation
- Harm Reduction and A Public Health Approach to Drug Use
- Racial Discrimination and Racial Profiling
- Police Practices
- Civil Liberties
- Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
- Realistic Drug Education (Just Say No to DARE!)
SSDP National was started only seven
years ago but today we are one of over 200 nationwide
SSDP chapters. What is at the bottom of our rapid growth?
We believe that the "War on Drugs" is a War on Youth.
We see our own communities negatively affected and many
of our members personally affected by injust drug policies.
Drug policy issues resonate within the student communities
of this country because the very policies that were meant
to protect us are hurting us now more than ever!
Check out National SSDP.
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