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Change We Can Believe in: NY's Rockefeller Drug Law Reform Takes Effect

Gabriel Sayegh, AlterNet. October 9, 2009.
Jail for drug offenses is no longer mandatory in New York: judges can send people suffering from addiction into a range of programs, such as treatment and mental health services.

Last Minute Effort by NY Republicans, Prosecutors to Block Rockefeller Reform Is Dead in the Water

Phillip S. Smith, DRCNet. June 5, 2009.
How the mighty have fallen! Until recently, opponents of drug law reform in New York were successful using fear-mongering and demagoguery.

A New Approach to Drugs Would Save New York Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

Gabriel Sayegh, AlterNet. December 2, 2008.
Let's stop spending over $500 million every year on ineffective and wasteful policies like the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

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