10 Things You Can Do to Help End the Drug War

1. Care - The drug war goes on because too many good people don't do something to stop it.

2. Realize - You are important, and you have the power to do something and cause things to change.

3. Communicate - If you can communicate that caring, hope and power to your family, friends and neighbors and encourage them to do the same, pretty soon we have a critical mass to cause major change.

4. Write - Write letters to newspapers, Congress, governors, people you read about who are doing both good and bad things. Cultivate the feeling that we can win.

5. Study - Know the facts so that you can communicate them clearly.

6. Connect - Find the people in your area who think similarly and spend some time talking, planning and giving each other hope.

7. Be visible - So many people are afraid to even think about what is happening, so when they see some people not afraid, it allows possibilities to grow in their hearts and minds.

8. Be reasonable - The other side is often shrill and robotic, and we generally win just by our calm and reasoned demeanor.

9. Stay clean - The other side has a lot of political power and is just waiting for a chance to squash us.

10. Be in contact - We must never let our elected officials forget that what they are doing is hideously wrong and immoral and that the day is coming when they are going to be out of office because of their mean, hypocritical behavior.