5 New Year Resolutions to End the War on Drugs
Getting involved with SSDP is a fantastic New Year resolution! Below are our top 5 New Year’s Resolutions to end the War on Drugs. To get involved with SSDP in 2025, please use this form, and learn more about our chapters here.
- Help develop accessible and sensible drug education
SSDP is updating and modernizing our Just Say Know (JSK) drug education program, first launched in 2016, providing a comprehensive and evidence-based curriculum to fight against the often misinformed and fear mongering drug education that schools provide. Before we launch, we need your feedback. Tell us what you think about drug education and what you want to see from JSK. Fill out these surveys and share them around!
- Students and Youth: Fill out this survey
- Parents/Guardians, Teachers, School Staff, Health Provider, or Other Individuals Closely Involved in Students’ or Youths’ (25 and under) Lives): Fill out this survey
- Industry Professionals: Fill out this survey
If you’re a chapter member or ambassador, here are some ideas on how you can engage with Just Say Know during Back to School.
- Learn and practice harm reduction strategies
Harm reduction is one of the most important ways we fight back against the War on Drugs by keeping each other safe. In 2024, we provided overdose prevention training at festivals and conferences all over the country and distributed hundreds of doses of life-saxing naloxone and fentanyl test strips. In early 2025, keep a lookout for SSDP’s Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention Education (HOPE) Training Program to learn how to use harm reduction tools like testing strips and naloxone, and how to advocate for and educate on harm reduction. In the meantime, get involved in your local harm reduction organizations and advocate for resource access!
- Advocate for cannabis justice
2024 was a big year for cannabis justice, with SSDP mobilizing the largest bipartisan coalition of cannabis advocacy, industry, and grassroots organizations in U.S. history to lobby in Washington D.C., where we met with every single office in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. We partnered with organizations like Green Thumb Industries, Freedom Grow, Blaze Responsibly, National Cannabis Festival, and Ascend Co-Lab for Social Equity and hosted four expungement fairs. SSDP led the effort for cannabis rescheduling—of the 42,925 public comments submitted on marijuana rescheduling, 24% of them (10,327 total public comments!) came through SSDP’s public comment tool, a significant number of which were submitted by SSDP members and alumni! (Read SSDP’s public comment here) In 2025, we want to keep this momentum going. We hope you join us from April 29th and May 1st for our Cannabis Lobbying Day and other cannabis justice actions in Washington, D.C.! Visit this link to complete our interest form.
- Support psychedelic science and research
SSDP continues to be at the forefront of championing psychedelic research. We were the only organization to challenge the DEA’s attempt to add DOI and DOC, two research chemicals not used recreationally, to Schedule I of the CSA. This next year, do your part to support psychedelic science by attending the Psychedelic Science in Denver this summer, and look out for more information on how to join SSDP’s Scientific Policy Committee! If you are interested in participating in PS2025, please complete this form.
- Donate to SSDP
The best way to help end the War on Drugs this new year is to support SSDP students and activists in our efforts to advocate more sensible drug policies. We rely on generosity from supporters like you to continue our hard work each year. Need more convincing? Check out our Top 5 reasons to give to SSDP from 2024, or click here to donate.
