By starting a Students for Sensible Drug Policy Campus Chapter, Community Chapter, or becoming an SSDP Ambassador in your area, you can join the youth movement to end the War on Drugs. SSDP provides training, guidance, materials, and support to empower current youth activists and future thought leaders and changemakers.

Becoming an SSDPer takes a little work, but it isn’t prohibitively difficult or time-intensive, and is a great way to help serve your community. Unlike most chapter-based student organizations, we do not charge our chapters any dues or fees. We also have tons of free, useful resources to help you build your chapter, spread the word, lobby for key issues, and actually change drug laws at the local, state, and federal level (see our active campaigns here)

The steps below outline the typical process of starting an SSDP chapter. Every school, chapter, and chapter leader is different, so take this more as a general guide than hard requirements. Stay in touch with SSDP as you go through the steps and keep us up to date on your progress so we can help with any snags that may come up along the way. We’re here to be a resource for you!