Paul Armentano, NORML AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 1, 2008. You can learn a lot about the merits of a proposal by taking a good, hard look at who's lobbying against it.
Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet. November 1, 2008. Californians have chance with the NORA initiative to reject decades of fear mongering and try alternatives to jail for drug abuse.
Matthew Palevsky, AlterNet. October 30, 2008. Treatment graduates ask CA voters to give others the opportunity they had, to get treatment and turn their lives around.
Marsha Rosenbaum, AlterNet. October 29, 2008. The NORA initiative would invest $65 million annually into developingdrug treatment programs for at-risk California youth under 18.
Jan Frel, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. October 28, 2008. Instead of just locking people up for harmless offenses like drug possession, Prop 5 pushes for rehabilitation.
Jan Frel, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. October 24, 2008. Jeanne Woodford supports overhaul reform for CA's Prop 5 that would radically alter how non-violent offenders are treated.
