The Drug Policy Alliance is the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs. We aim to reduce the harms of both drug misuse and drug prohibition and to promote drug policies based on science, compassion, health and human rights. Our organization has played an important role in legislation and ballot initiatives to make marijuana legal for medical purposes, and to require treatment instead of incarceration for drug possession offenders, and to curtail the asset forfeiture powers of police and prosecutors. We've also been involved in efforts to reduce HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and overdose fatalities through innovative harm reduction measures.