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The following is a brief summary of DRCNet's agenda for 2002:

In the legislative arena (Drug Reform Coordination Network, contributions are not tax-deductible):

• We will continue to mobilize students, educators and other concerned citizens in opposition to the Higher Education Act Drug Provision (http://www.raiseyourvoice.com). Our campaign has sparked a groundswell of opposition to the law, including the endorsements of 82 student governments nationwide, and may be drug reform's first hope for repealing a federal drug law outright.
• We will continue to issue action alerts on the full range of drug policy reform issues. Over 17,000 people have used our write-to-Congress web forms this year alone.

• We will continue to publish The Week Online, our widely-read, in-depth report on drug policy published each Friday -- with nearly 22,700 subscribers possibly the most widely read drug policy newsletter in the world. To the extent that volunteerism or funding is available, we will publish Spanish translations of selected Week Online articles (http://www.drcnet.org/espanol/).
• We will continue our Higher Education Act Educational Campaign, raising awareness of the consequences of the new law stripping students with drug convictions of their federal financial aid. This campaign, in partnership with Students for Sensible Drug Policy, has garnered coverage in major media outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, CNN and many more.
• We will complete our work on the 91,000-page New Jersey Racial Profiling Archive, compiling a comprehensive index to the archive's contents and re-releasing the files in a new, content-based format, on our web site and on CD.
• We will make public, by the middle of the year, a comprehensive "Guided Tour of the War on Drugs," providing introductory essays to 25-30 drug policy issues, along with personal stories, news links and archives, lists of organizations and ways to get involved, and more.
• We will launch our scholarship clearinghouse program, matching students who have lost financial aid for college because of drug convictions with interested scholarship providers.
• We will organize one or more conferences in different regions of the world, to focus on development of the portion of the drug policy reform movement that actively advocates a full end to prohibition, and to discuss relevant issues such as post-legalization regulatory models, organizing against the international prohibition regime and other topics. (Initial funding for this project has just been secured.)
• If funding is secured, we will launch an effort in an important but under-explored area of drug policy, the widespread under-availability of narcotics to patients who need them for relief of severe, chronic pain.

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