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WikiProject Drug Policy is a WikiProject set up to improve Wikipedia's coverage of drug policy.

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    [edit] Scope

    This project deals with government policy, both official and clandestine, on drugs at the local, state/provincial, national, and international levels. It will also concern itself with not only legal policy but also treatment and prevention, education, supply manipulation, global markets and measurements, and cultural policies.

    [edit] Goal

    The primary goal of WikiProject Drug Policy is to provide a coherent framework for development and organization of drug policy-related articles.

    [edit] Participants

    See: Category:WikiProject Drug Policy members

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    [edit] Articles of Interest

    [edit] Project-wide

    Trying to keep the Project-wide pages categorized in a few functional buckets, rather than regional ones, which are given below.

    [edit] Policy

    Policy includes international conventions, policy, treaty and law, as well as more generic terms and policy.

    [edit] Legal

    Create template showing scheduling status in various regions, especially for more common drugs of use/abuse including Pihkal and Tihkal substances (just did a section in 2C-B and see the need for a template and listing of pages to add it to)

    [edit] Crime

    [edit] Treatment

    [edit] Prevention-Education

    [edit] Eradication

    [edit] International

    [edit] United Kingdom

    [edit] Australia

    [edit] Canada

    [edit] Drug Policy Portal

    When the project reaches critical mass, in that articles must be selected and an organization of them settled upon, along with templates and policies, as well as rating of articles and a decent body of information collected and relevant Categories audited, a Drug Policy Portal will be created, with new templates such as an infobox and portal banner created.

    [edit] Templates

    [edit] Work Log and ToDo's

    Please list what you're up to, what you've done, and any ToDo's you want to keep track of and communicate.

    • Had Project Page (assessed/unassessed) inclusion categories undeleted. Should make things easier to keep track of. Shamanchill (talk) 22:53, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Working through our list of pages above as well as categories we've identified to add project banner to articles, once this is done, we need to rate and begin working. Hopefully adding banners will add to the people part of this.Shamanchill (talk) 22:53, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Create page Uniform State Narcotic Act redlinked in Legal_history_of_marijuana_in_the_United_States
    "By the mid-1930s, marijuana was regulated in every state by laws instituted through The Uniform State Narcotic Act.[1]"Shamanchill (talk) 22:53, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Injecting room was merged with Safe injection site, as this title better encapsulates the topic.
    • Drug injection and Intravenous drug use and Intravenous drug use (recreational) (merge or clarify - see), also add skin popping to article.
    • Clinical/medical research policy for drugs (MK Ultra, ketamine for depression, etc).
    • Economic and foreign policy related to drugs (Opium Wars, Iran-Contra affair).
    • Drug policy (at AfD right now)
    • Redid our organization of articles and included all that have been bannered. I think we've got a good start here - let's get onto rating and editing where appropriate. Some of these categories need to be expanded (Prevention/Education, for example.
    • We need a policy on what gets included in our list, how to approach articles, and how to redo the Wikipedia Categories listed above to ensure that they're audited and relevant/comprehensive.

    [edit] Logo for WikiProject Drug Policy

    I wonder why the project has a logo with a picture similar to a picture of cannabis. Is it possible to change to a more neutral image?Dala11a (talk) 07:52, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

    The image was inherited, but I agree that something more neutral is needed. Anyone who has a chance to look through commons or has a personal image to donate should do so. I'm not sure what a "more neutral" image might be, but would like to stay away from the perception that we're a bunch of stoners trying just working on Marijuana legalization articles. I'd love to get a junky shooting up, or a meth lab, as these images show the reasons for having drug policies and broaden the impression to one of health/harm reduction and /or public safety. Thoughts or suggestions? Shamanchill (talk) 13:12, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
    I must agree with Dala11a's concern. As a drug preventionist and licensed counselor (though currently not practicing), I have a very strong interest in drug policy, but I am not crazy about going around waving big pictures of pot plants. I would assume we have a wide variety of perspectives here, both in WP:WPDP and in our general readership, from hardcore libertarians to prohibitionists (and, if our readership is considered, probably a few Dadah Is Death types).Eauhomme (talk) 01:57, 11 June 2008 (UTC)