The DrugPolicyAlliance, a national group that advocates for less punitive drug laws, is gearing up for a more aggressive campaign, said Gabriel Sayegh, who leads the group's New York operation.
Under the presidency of George Bush, says Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the DrugPolicyAlliance, an American lobbying group, prospects for even modest reform are bleaker than they were under his father's presidency.
And yet blacks are arrested for marijuana possession at twice, three times or even four times the rate of whites in every major county of California, according to the DrugPolicyAlliance, a lobby that wants to end America's war on drugs.