Students for Sensible Drug Policy has an ambitious agenda for the 2009-2010 academic year to increase our capacity to do what we do best: recruit and train young people to play a leading role in ending the failed War on Drugs. 

SSDP board members, staff, and alumni at our annual Strategy Summit

• Increase our chapter network from 109 chapters to 285.
• Successfully enact at least twelve sensible policies at campuses nationwide.
• Continue to assist the local, state, and federal lobbying campaigns of allied organizations such as the Drug Policy Alliance, the Marijuana Policy Project, Americans for Safe Access, and others.
• Start chapters at four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
• Host our eleventh annual international conference in San Francisco, with more than 500 attendees.
• Form one new international SSDP network (in addition to existing networks in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Nigeria).
• Organize a global drug policy campaign with the participation of at least three international SSDP networks.
• Increase the number of dues-paying Alumni Network members from 50 to 300.
• Continue to represent the student movement to end the War on Drugs in the news media.
• Continue to lobby Congress to reform drug policies that directly impact students, such the Higher Education Act's Aid Elimination Penalty.
• Continue to utilize innovative online tools, like Facebook and our website, to enhance the ability of our thousands of members to communicate and collaborate.

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