Stories by Judy Appel
Judy Appel is an attorney with the Drug Policy Alliance.
Thanks to Prop. 36, California's treatment-instead-of-incarceration initiative, thousands of people will be home for the holidays instead of in jail for drug offenses.
Posted on Dec 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The cycle of addiction can be broken by giving people a chance at treatment, instead of pushing them through the revolving door of prison again and again.
Posted on Nov 18, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Equating drug trafficking and use to terrorism will allow the government to extend the drastically expanded police and prosecutorial powers of the war on terrorism into the war on drugs. Here's how it could happen.
Posted on Feb 21, 2002, Source: Drug Policy Alliance