[1] They focus on the adverse effects of the War on Drugs including how it has disproportionately impacted low income and minority communities, specifically African Americans.
[3] CNDP initiatives also practice the Four Pillars Drug Strategy first established in Europe, which focuses on four principles: harm reduction, prevention, treatment, and enforcement.
[5] Commentary on the group described it as part of a phenomenon where "clergy in many denominations, beginning with Unitarian Universalists, have recognized that the war [on drugs] is lost, and that new strategies are needed" including harm reduction.
Consequently, founded in part on Protestant Christian doctrine through Reverend Sharp, the organization takes a strong stance against the institutional racism present in the War on Drugs and continuing into everyday society within the United States.
[10] In this regard, clergy members cite the Bible and the Qur'an[11] among many other pieces of Holy Scripture to argue against the inherent inequalities created by the unfair enforcement they feel is present in modern-day American drug policy.