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Who are we ?
Diane R. Fornbacher, Executive Director
Eventually, Diane was fired from BUZZ because the publisher disagreed with her frank observations regarding the drug culture and exposure of the appalling inhumanities caused by the War on Drugs. After being fired, the majority of the staff quit their paying jobs in protest. Diane's former Editor-in-Chief then began a political magazine SPITE. Diane took on the drug education column. Diane also began working with Dr. Julian Heicklen, (PSU Professor Emeritus of Chemistry) by organizing his Anti-Drug War protests and for three years (once every week), she helped him with press releases and media appearances. She has also written innumerable letters-to-editors of newspapers and magazines. Over the span of 6 years, Fornbacher has addressed dozens of public demonstrations, festivals and was the opening speaker at the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania State Convention in 2001. Diane currently resides in the Philadelphia area and organized anti-drug war vigils/demos at the Liberty Bell, William J. Green Federal Building, and is currently working within the tri-state area (DE, NJ, PA)to be the foremost regional resource for education and action to resolve the conflicts caused by the War on Drugs. POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS: - The November Coalition (TNC), Regional Coordinator
He is the author of Drug Testing Legal Manual, Drug Testing Legal Manual and Practice Aids and co-author of Drug Law: Strategies and Tactics, all three published by Clark Boardman Callaghan. He served as editor of Drug Law Report for Clark Boardman Callaghan from 1983 to 1998. In addition, he is the author of Drug Prohibition and the Conscience of Nations. He is the editor of Friedman and Szasz On Liberty and Drugs and has edited numerous books on drug policy and manuals on criminal defense. Mr. Zeese has written for newspapers and journals on a range of drug issues, including a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the Colombian drug war. He has also appeared on every major television network as a commentator. He served as a consultant to Walter Cronkite for the Discovery Channel special: The Drug Dilemma: War or Peace? He has spoken at nationally recognized legal seminars and testified before Congress on drug related issues. Kevin Zeese has litigated a variety of drug policy-related issues. Among these are the medical use of marijuana, the use of the military and national guard in domestic drug enforcement, the spraying of herbicides in the United States and abroad on marijuana, drug testing of government workers and the right to privacy as it relates to marijuana in the home. He has been a legal advisor to needle exchange workers prosecuted for their anti-AIDS efforts, buyer's clubs who distribute marijuana to the seriously ill and medical marijuana patients prosecuted for the medical use of marijuana. Mr. Zeese facilitates the Alliance of Reform Organizations (ARO), a network of all the major reform organizations in the United States. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Harm Reduction Coalition. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Drug Policy Forum of Texas and is a Board member emeritus of the DrugSense. Mr. Zeese is a co-founder of the Drug Policy Foundation, where he served as Vice President and Counsel, and is a former Executive Director and Chief Counsel of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Zeese served on Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke's Mayor's Working Group on Drug Policy Reform and serves on San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan's Harm Reduction Council. Both are efforts to implement a model urban drug policy. More recently, Zeese has been involved with advocacy related to: the fatal shooting of Esequiel Hernandez,the legal rights of patients, doctors and their caregivers in California and the UN special session on drugs. In 2000, Kevin Zeese was the recipient of the Richard J. Dennis DrugPeace Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Drug Policy Reform from the Drug Policy Foundation at their 13th Annual International Conference on Drug Policy Reform. Robert E. Field, Member of the Board Oberlin College, University of California - Berkeley, BA '59 with major in economics / history. Semi-retired long time investor, builder and operator of apartment complexes and hotels. Executive produced and helped distribute award winning motion picture "Liquid Sky". Involved in management of state-wide Republican senatorial campaign and county wide referendum campaign - both successful. Adviser to son Richard who develops real estate and operates auto dealerships in Central Europe. Co-founder with Melvin R. Allen of Project Forward Leap, a decade-old program for providing overnight academic enrichment summer camp to inner city youngsters of promise. Co-founder and president of Central Pennsylvania Syringe Exchange. Co-founder with Kevin B. Zeese and Melvin R. Allen of Common Sense for Drug Policy. Mr. Field is a firm believer that an accurately informed public will make sound policy decisions about drug policy over the long run. Dr. Julian Heicklen, Member of the Board
Instead of preaching to those who think like himself, "Doc", as he is affectionately referred to at Penn State, takes his case to courts and into the voting booth. Currently, he holds the position of tax collector in State College, Pa. He was originally elected for five offices but he wasn't allowed to hold them all at the same time. Dr. Heicklen has been personally involved in 34 trials (15 criminal and 19 civil), of which Heicklen tried 19 independently. JUSTICE REFORM ACTIVITIES President, Upstate New York Region of Senior Judea, 1948-49 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University Judy Wicks, Member of the Board
Judy is best known for combining food, fun and social activism. Founded in1983, the White Dog Cafe has a four-part mission of serving customers, community, employees, and the natural environment. Educational and community-building programs of the Cafe focus on economic & social justice, peace & non-violence, prison and drug policy reform and community arts. The Café sources all produce in season from local organic family farms. All meat and poultry is humanely raised, and seafood is sourced primarily from sustainable fisheries. All employees make a “living wage,” and 100% of electricity comes from wind power. Ten percent of profits are donated to the White Dog Cafe Foundation, which supports building the local economy and family farm system.
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Diane Fornbacher first got involved with the drug policy reform movement while at Pennsylvania State
University campus in Altoona, Pa in 1996. She then moved to State College, Pa and began
writing for a Knight-Ridder entertainment weekly called 'BUZZ' including a weekly drug
education column. Her articles covered warrantless searches, drug reform news and included satirical
comics drawn by the BUZZ Staff. 
Kevin B. Zeese
is President of Common Sense for Drug Policy. He is one of the nation's
foremost authorities on drug policy issues. He has worked on a wide array
of drug related issues (Curriculum Vitae) since he graduated from George
Washington University Law School in 1980. 
Dr. Julian Heicklen has been a human rights advocate almost his entire life. A staunch supporter of freedom, Heicklen maintains that good Americans are compassionate and responsible.
Founder and President of White Dog Enterprises, Inc.,