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April 3rd, 2008 By: Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director

A new educational and organizing DVD has just been made available for drug policy reformers and the general public to employ, free of cost. Clergy Speak Out Against The War On Drugs is a well-done ‘joint’ production of Common Sense Drug Policy and Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative.

For more than three decades, drug policy reformers and social observers have rightly commented on the need to work cooperatively with the big three Ps to expedite political reforms in drug policy: Police, Physicians and ‘Preachers’

As the drug policy reform movement matures and become increasingly sophisticated, two of the big three Ps, police and physicians, have largely been addressed in recent years, but reaching out to the religious community has been a challenge historically for reformers.

The interesting series of interviews captured on DVD with religious leaders from numerous denominations and faiths nationwide speak with clarity and conviction on the urgent need for alternatives to drug prohibition—and to stop committing expensive and self-destructive domestic war on citizens with health, not moral problems.

Instant Drug Policy Discussion…Insert Disc, Hit ‘Play’
Want to start a serious-minded conversation in your local community (i.e, church, synagogue, school, Chamber of Commerce, Elks, Kiwanis, American Legion, VFW, Lions, Knights of Columbus, PTA, etc…) about drug policy reform?

1) Get free copies of Clergy Speak Out Against The War On Drugs and the ACLU’s new Marijuana, It’s Time for a Conversation, featuring Rick Steves
-Copies of Clergy Speak Out Against The War On Drugs are available by contacting info@csdp.org

2) Organize a local meeting, watch the DVDs, and then…

3) Have a one-hour discussion, and invite local policy makers and media to a follow-up meeting to address your concerns.

NORML thanks CSDP’s Robert Field and Mike Gray for producing and making this important activist organizing and educational aid available.

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