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Drug Policy:
The ACLU Drug Law Reform Project is a division of the national ACLU. Our goal is to end punitive drug policies that cause the widespread violation of constitutional and human rights, as well as unprecedented levels of incarceration.


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Drug Policy : Publications

Collateral Damage in the War on Drugs (05/01/2002)
A Villanova Law Review article by ACLU Drug Law Reform Project Director Graham Boyd examining the many destructive by products of America's War on Drugs, including record incarceration, the erosion of constitutional rights and racial injustice.

The Drug War is the New Jim Crow (07/31/2001)
An article by ACLU Drug Law Reform Project Director Graham Boyd published in the NACLA Report on the Americas, July/August 2001, examining the destructive impact of America's drug policy, including record incarceration, erosion of constitutional rights, and rampant racial injustice.

This is Your Bill of Rights, on Drugs (12/01/1999)
An article by ACLU Drug Law Reform Project Director Graham Boyd and journalist Jack Hitt published in Harper's Magazine, December 1999. The piece examines how the "War on Drugs" has wreaked havoc on America's Bill of Rights.

Drug Testing: A Bad Investment (09/01/1999)
An in-depth ACLU report providing a critical examination of the excessive cost and dubious efficacy of workplace drug testing.

Against Drug Prohibition (01/06/1995)
An overview of the ACLU's drug policy position and suggestions for reform.

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