Letter to the Editor

Drug policy at Penn

To the Editor:

Something is missing at Penn. While students across the country are fueling a powerful grassroots movement to end America's longest war, Penn students have not yet joined the fight. As The Summer Pennsylvanian reported ("Student groups aim to lessen drug penalties," SP, 7/20/2006), Penn does not currently have a chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the country's leading student organization working to end the War on Drugs.

Why should Penn students start an SSDP chapter? As members of the DARE generation, we realize that drug prohibition has done nothing to protect our nation's youth from drugs. In fact, like alcohol prohibition before it, these laws have only made the problem worse.

Students have a unique opportunity to fight counterproductive drug policies on their campuses and in their communities, and these communities have the opportunity to embrace sensible drug policies that value health, privacy, and human dignity.

Micah Daigle

The author is field director for Students for Sensible Drug Policy

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