New Haven Conn. – PEOPLE AGAINST INJUSTICE (PAI) PRESENT A DRUG POLICY CONFERENCE ” TOOLS FOR ENDING THE DRUG WAR”

SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2009
11:00am – 4:00pm

(Registration @10:30am)

YALE DWIGHT HALL CHAPEL

67 HIGH ST, NEW HAVEN, CT

(Near Chapel Street)

Free raffle ticket with CONFERENCE PRE-REGISTRATION

barnes66@sbcglobal.net

(203) 387-7858

SPEAKERS:

KEMBA SMITH, IRA GLASSER, RICHARD VAN WINKLER, CLIFF THORNTON, LORENZO JONES, SHELTON TUCKER, SHAFIQ ABDUSSABUR, STATE SENATOR MARTIN LOONEY, ATTY NORM PATTIS, ATTY MIKE JEFFERSON, and

YOUTH RIGHTS MEDIA

Free Public Event

(Refreshments, Film & Raffle)

Efficacy
PO Box 1234
860 657 8438
Hartford, CT 06143
efficacy@msn.com
www.Efficacy-online.org

“THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON”

Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non
profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are
tax deductible

Connecticut – Lecturer Focuses on Possible Legalization of Drugs and Consequences

The president of Efficacy, a non profit organization focused on drug law reform, Clifford Thornton, spoke at the Connecticut Room last Thursday to examine what he believed was the real cost of the war on drugs and possible solutions.

Thornton, a retired management executive of the Southern New England Telephone company, has focused exclusively on drug policy issues since 1997.

As Senate Bill 349 is being debated state-wide, many people have taken a stance of support or opposition to the controversial Marijuana decriminalization act. (The Recorder Online)

Resource:

Efficacy
PO Box 1234
860 657 8438
Hartford, CT 06143
efficacy@msn.com
www.Efficacy-online.org

“THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON”

Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit
501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax
deductible

UK- CURB AIDS AND HIV BY DECRIMINALISING DRUGS, SAY EXPERTS

The use of illicit drugs must be decriminalised if efforts to halt the spread of Aids are to succeed, one of the world’s leading independent authorities on the disease has warned.

In an unprecedented attack on global drugs policy, Michele Kazatchkine, head of the influential Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has told the Observer that, without a radical overhaul of laws that lead to hundreds of thousands of drug users being imprisoned or denied access to safe treatment, the millions of pounds spent on fighting HIV and Aids will be wasted. (Guardian News)

Resource:

Efficacy
PO Box 1234
860 657 8438
Hartford, CT 06143
efficacy@msn.com
www.Efficacy-online.org

“THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON”

Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit
501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax
deductible

Connecticut – “The Real Cost of the War on Drugs”

Clifford W. Thornton

President, Efficacy

“The Real Cost of the War on Drugs”

=  $1 billion for prison expansion in Connecticut

=  billions for incarceration, interdiction, and incarceration

=  public health consequences (HIV, HepC)

=  20 million children orphaned

=  cheap, available street drugs

=  90% policy failure

Central Connecticut State University

lunch time series in the Connecticut Room

on the ground floor of Memorial Hall.

Pizza will be served.

Thursday, April 16th, 12:15 to 1:30pm.

Efficacy
PO Box 1234
860 657 8438
Hartford, CT 06143
efficacy@msn.com
www.Efficacy-online.org

“THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON”   Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit
501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax
deductible.

See related:

Drug War

Connecticut – Decriminalize Pot

The Connecticut General Assembly should follow Massachusetts’ lead and change possession of less than one ounce of marijuana from a criminal misdemeanor to an infraction. Gov. M. Jodi Rell is looking for substantive ways to save money. Here is one. (The Day)

See related:

Drug War

Resource:

Efficacy
PO Box 1234
860 657 8438
Hartford, CT 06143
efficacy@msn.com
www.Efficacy-online.org

“THE DRUG WAR IS MEANT TO BE WAGED NOT WON”

Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit
501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax
deductible

ARO: Ten Wasted Years: UN Drug Strategy a Failure, Reveals Damning Report

The UN strategy on drugs over the past decade has been a failure, a European commission report claimed yesterday on the eve of the international conference in Vienna that will set future policy for the next 10 years. (Guardian News & Media)