Sign the Resolution for a Federal
Commission on Drug Policy Sign the Resolution for a Federal
Commission on Drug Policy
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Whereas, the overall situation regarding the use of drugs in our society and the crime and misery that accompanies it has continued to deteriorate for several decades; and
Whereas, our society has continued to attempt, at enormous financial cost, and loss of civil liberties, to resolve drug abuse problems through the criminal justice system, with the accompanying increases of prisons and numbers of inmates; and
Whereas, the huge untaxed revenues generated by the illicit drug trade are undermining legitimate governments world-wide; and
Whereas, the present system has spawned a cycle of hostility by the incarceration of disproportionate numbers of African-Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups; and
Whereas, the number of people who have contracted AIDS, hepatitis, and other diseases from contaminated hypodermic needles is epidemic under our present system; and
Whereas, in our society's zeal to pursue our criminal approach, legitimate medical uses for the relief of pain and suffering of patients have been suppressed.
Therefore be it resolved that our society must recognize drug use and abuse as the medical and social problems that they are and that they must be treated with medical and social solutions; and
Further be it resolved that an objective commission be immediately empowered by the President and by Congress to recommend revision of the drug laws of these United States in order to reduce the harm our current policies are causing.
Name: __________________________________________
Title: ____________________________________________
Organization: _______________________________________
Address: _________________________________________
City: ______________________ State: ____ Zip: ___________
Please send to:
Judge James P. Gray
Orange County Superior Court
700 Civic Center Drive West
Santa Ana, CA 92701
and send to: President Bill Clinton, White House, Washington, DC
Make copies and encourage your friends to do the same.
Partial List of Signers
Dr. Milton Friedman Nobel laureate; Professor Emeritus of
Economics, University of Chicago; Senior
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford,
CA
Dr. Joseph D. McNamara Former Police Chief of San Jose; Fellow, Hoover
Institution, Stanford, CA
Herbert Berger, M.D. F.A.C.P.; F.C.C.P.; Internationally recognized
authority on drug treatment, Staten Island, NY
Judge James P. Gray Orange County Superior Court, Santa Ana, CA
Katherine H. Smith Founder, Group Resolving Anti-Social Problems
(GRASP), Anaheim, CA
S. Clarke Smith, M.D. F.A.A.F.P.; Board of Directors, California
Academy of Family Physicians, Anaheim, CA
Clifford A. Schaffer Author; Computer Consultant, Canyon Country, CA
Frederick H. Meyers, M.D. Professor of Pharmacology, University of
California at San Francisco; Chairman of the
California Research Advisory Panel on Drugs
Harvey L. Rose, M.D. Author of California's "Intractable Pain
Treatment Act"; Family Practice, Carmichael, CA
John J. McCarthy, M.D., Psychiatrist, Executive Director, Bi-Valley
A.B.P.N. Medical Clinic, Sacramento, CA
Gary Davis, M.D. Diplomate in Psychiatry, A.B.P.N., American
Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Citrus
Heights, CA
Benson B. Roe, M.D. Professor and Chief Emeritus of Cardiothoracic
Surgery, University of California at San
Francisco, CA
Stephen A. Fisher, M.D., Diplomate in Psychiatry, A.B.P.N., American
Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Berkeley, CA
Reverend Leonard B. Jackson First A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles, CA
Reverend J. D. Moore First A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles, CA
Donald McNamara Investment Consultant, New York, NY
Richard Arthur Educator; Former Principal of Castlemont High
School, Oakland, CA; Author of Gangs and
Schools, Richmond, CA
Richard "Gibb" Martin Owner, Marbros Construction Co., Garden Grove,
CA
Howard Lavine Office of the Mayor, Baltimore, MD
*Kurt L . Schmoke Mayor, City of Baltimore, Maryland
*George Shultz Former Secretary of State; Fellow, Hoover
Institution, Stanford, CA
Frank Jordan Mayor, City of San Francisco, CA
Susan Hammer Mayor, City of San Jose, CA
Elihu Harris Mayor, City of Oakland, CA
Robert R. Nolan Mayor, City of Upland, CA
Assemblyman John Vasconcellos Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means,
California State Assembly
Senator Rebecca Q. Morgan California State Senate
Representative Greg R. M.P.H., Hawaii House of Representatives
Buckwalter
Senator Joseph Galiber New York State Senate
Marc Martin Fire Chief, Fullerton Fire Department,
Fullerton, CA
Arlo Smith Esq. District Attorney, San Francisco, CA
Harriett M. Wieder County Supervisor, County of Orange, CA
Emma Bonino Deputy Speaker, Italian Chamber of Deputies;
Secretary, Radical Trans-National Party, Rome,
Italy
Alan H. Dodds Foreign Service Officer (Retired), U.S.
Department of State
James J. Gormley Foreign Service Officer (Retired), U.S.
Department of State
Jim Toledano Former Regent, University of California
J. Tilman Williams Councilman (Retired), Garden Grove, CA
Daniel H. Ninburg, M.D. Commissioner, Orange County Human Relations
Commission, Orange County, CA
Mike A. Nisperos, Jr., Esq. Director, Mayor's Office of Drugs and Crime,
Oakland, CA
Ellen Lorman Deputy City Attorney, Children and Family
Services, San Francisco, CA
Senator Marian Bergeson California State Senate
Thomas F. Riley Orange County Board of Supervisors, Orange
County, CA
Senator Robert Presley California State Senate
Anne Rudin Former Mayor, 1981-1993, Sacramento, CA
Donald M. Fraser Mayor, Minneapolis, MN
Illa Collin Sacramento County Supervisor, Sacramento, CA
William Von Raab* Former Commissioner of Customs under Presidents
Reagan and Bush, Orange, VA
Anthony Ribera Chief of Police, San Francisco, CA
Lou Cobarruviaz Chief of Police, San Jose, CA
Bob Nichelini Acting Chief of Police, Oakland, CA
Michael Hennessey Sheriff, City and County of San Francisco, CA
Nicolas Pastore Chief of Police, New Haven, CT
Alfred Blumstein, Ph.D. Carnegie-Mellon Foundation; Pres. Amer
Association of Criminologists
Robert G. Le Conte President, National Association of Veteran
Police Officers, Austin, TX
**Central Conference of Contact: Rabbi Joseph B. Glaser, New York, NY
American Rabbis
California Democratic Council Rita Hodgkins, President, Sacramento, CA
The Libertarian Party of Washington, DC
America
San Francisco Drug Advisory Board, San Francisco, CA
Berkeley City Council Berkeley, CA
Board of Directors, California Academy of Family Physicians
The California Society of Addiction Medicine
The Cbief of Police and the entire staff of the District Attorney's Office in
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
The entire stafff of the San Bernardino County Probation Department
Twenty-three chaplains from Rikers Island Prison in New York
Michael L. Sorg Former Police Chief, San Clemente, CA
R. H. Hessing Chief of Police, Rotterdam, Holland
T. Reitsma Police Chief, Rotterdam, Ruenmond, Holland
Nancy Foutts (Former) Supervisory Patrol Officer, US Customs
Service, Orange County Grand Jury, Garden
Grove, CA
Gregory L. Morgon Lieutenant, Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department, Los Angeles, CA
Sidney Mills Captain (Retired) Los Angeles County Police
Department, Los Angeles, CA
Joel Fort, M.D. Former Director, National Instiute on Mental
Health
Mario Lap Netherlands Institute on Alcohol and Drugs
Nia Van Oosten Netherlands Institute on Alcohol and Drugs
Frans Jansen Netherlands Institute on Alcohol and Drugs
Melvyn L. Sterling, M.D. President, Orange County Medical Association,
Orange, CA
Frank Amato, M.D. Past President, Orange County Medical
Association, Orange, CA
Jonathan Weisbuch, M.D., MPH Medical Director, Department of Health
Services, County of Los Angeles; Delegate of
the American Medical Association, Los Angeles,
CA
Reverend Bruce Larson Co-Pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, Garden
Grove, CA
Father Joseph Ganssle OFM, President, Religious Coalition for a Moral
Drug Policy, Denver, CO
Pastor Andrew L. Gunn President, Clergy for an Enlightened Drug
Policy, St. Luke's United Methodist Church,
Washington, DC
Marjorie H. Cherry District Chief, Jail Mental Health Services,
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
Russel C. Ewing, M.D. Former President, Orange County Medical
Association, Santa Ana, CA
Harold Amer, M.D. Director, Pediatric Critical Care, Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA
Joseph R. Rowan President and CEO, Criminal and Juvenile
Justice International, Roseville, MN
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