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Sign theHoover Resolution

Since it was launched last year in a meeting at Stanford's Hoover Institution, the Resolution for a Federal Commission on Drug Policy (popularly known as the "Hoover" Resolution) has enjoyed stunning success, Signed by luminaries as former secretary of state George P. Shultz,, Novel laureate Milton Friedman, and Mayor Kurt Schmoke of Baltimore, the Resolution has done more perhaps than any other project to demonstrate the political vitality of the reform movement. Spearheaded by Clifford Schaffer, Judge James P. Gray, and Clark and Catherine Smith, the Resolution has been signed by judges, police chiefs, doctors, big-city mayors, ABC newscaster Hugh Downs, the entire District Attorney's office of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and thousands of others. In this article Clifford Schaffer explains the strategy behind the Resolution and how others can use it to win support for reform:

(For the list of signers only, you need only send Cliff a self-addressed, stamped envelope with two dollars in postage. The text of the resolution and the list of original signers is included at the end of this issue.)

Activist Mark Drake has a packet which explains how he obtained an endorsement of the Resolution from the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors. If you are interested in pursuing similar endorsements from governmental bodies in your area and would like to see how Mr. Drake did it, send a self-addressed, stamped manila envelope ($0.52 postage) to:

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