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Writings by Religious Leaders
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Promoting Peaceful Alternatives to the War on Drugs by Charles Thomas, Executive Director of the Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative, Fellowship Magazine, May/June 2004 Issue

Drug War Addiction by Reverend Arnold W. Howard of Enon Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland

Friendly Fire, Rethinking the War on Drugs from a Quaker Perspective by Eric Sterling, President of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, Haverford Alumni Magazine, Spring 2000


Drug Laws are Immoral by Father John Clifton Marquis, S.T., U.S Catholic, May 1990

Getting Off Drugs: The Legalization Option by Walter Wink, Friends Journal, February 1996

Beyond 'Just Say No', by Eric Sterling, Sojourners Magazine, May/June 2004

NAACP Press Statement by Reverend Julius C. Hope, Director of the NAACP's National Department of Religious Affairs, September 21, 2004

United Methodist Church Urges Congress to Repeal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing by Jim Winkler, General Secretary of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society, September 21, 2004

Statement for the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA by Reverend Brenda Girton-Mitchell, Associate General Secretary for Justice and Advocacy

Civil Rights Religious Leaders Drug War Pronouncement signed by Rev. James Lawson, Jr., Rev. C.T. Vivian, Rev. Will D. Campbell, Diane Nash, Rev. Bernard Lafayette, & Rev. James Bevel, February 15, 2003

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