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Thank you for helping the campaign to repeal New York State's draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. You can dramatically increase your impact by calling your Assemblymember and Senator on the phone -- hit back on your browser if you haven't already written down their phone number or address, or visit http://assembly.state.ny.us/ and http://www.senate.state.ny.us/ to look up that and further information.

For More Information

William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice, one of the organizations spearheading the Rockefeller repeal campaign
ReconsiDer Forum on Drug Policy, statewide membership organization
Background on the Rockefeller Drug Laws, from the New York State Criminal Justice Alliance
New York State of Mind, study of higher education vs. prison funding, by the Justice Policy Institute and the Correctional Association of New York
The Lindesmith Center
Partnership for Responsible Drug Information, organization promoting an informed debate on drug policy

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