Drug War Chronicle, Issue #515 -- 12/21/07
Phillip S. Smith, Editor, psmith@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Publication of Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)
David Borden, Executive Director, borden@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"
Students: Intern at DRCNet to help stop the drug war!
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/drcnet_intern****ps_to_stop_the_drug_war
Table of Contents:
1. APPEAL: DRCNET HAS MADE AMAZING PROGRESS IN 2007 AND WE NEED
YOUR HELP FOR 2008
An outline of DRCNet's plans and recent accomplishments and an
appeal for your sup****t to make it all happen.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/drcnets_amazing_progress_in_2007
2. FEDERAL BUDGET: DRUG CZAR'S AD CAMPAIGN TAKES A HIT, DC CAN
DO NEEDLE EXCHANGE, BUT MORE FUNDING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
The 2008 federal budget is a done deal now. The drug czar's
youth anti-drug media campaign takes a well-deserved hit and DC
wins the right to spend its own money on needle exchanges. But
the drug war juggernaut just keeps rolling on along as law
enforcement wins big bucks.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/federal_2008_budget_ondcp_media_campaign_cut_law_enforcement_spending_increases
3. DRUG WAR CHRONICLE BOOK REVIEW: "SNITCH: INFORMANTS,
COOPERATORS, AND THE CORRUPTION OF JUSTICE," BY ETHAN BROWN
(2007, PUBLIC AFFAIRS PRESS, 273 PP., $25.95 HB)
Author Ethan Brown examines the rhyme and reason of the
controversial "stop snitching" movement, and the abuses in drug
law and enforcement that caused it to come to be.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/book_review_snitch_ethan_brown
4. WEEKLY: BLOGGING @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
THE SPEAKEASY
"Drug Dealers Open Fire on Santa Claus Helicopter," "Candy
Flavored Meth is Safer Than Regular Meth," "Congress Just Says
No to Anti-Drug Propaganda," "If You Oppose Harm Reduction, You
Sup****t AIDS and Death," "Dutch Police Insist on Smoking
Marijuana Off-Duty."
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/blogging_at_the_speakeasy
5. STUDENTS: INTERN AT DRCNET AND HELP STOP THE DRUG WAR!
Apply for an intern****p at DRCNet for this fall (or spring), and
you could spend the semester fighting the good fight!
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/drcnet_intern****ps_to_stop_the_drug_war
6. LAW ENFORCEMENT: THIS WEEK'S CORRUPT COPS STORIES
Busy, busy this week, with miscreants in blue popping up all
over the place. A New York City drug squad is under scrutiny,
while a New Mexico drug squad gets back to work, a Boston cop
goes to prison, and cops from Florida, Ohio, and Minnesota get
busted for their shenanigans, as do a pair of Texas jailers.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/law_enforcement_corruption_police_drugs
7. LAW ENFORCEMENT: CHICAGO'S COURTS ARE IN CRISIS, AND THE DRUG
WAR IS A BIG CONTRIBUTOR, RE****T FINDS
Chicago's 26th Street Criminal Court Building handles more than
28,000 felony cases a year, more than half of them drug cases.
That's too much, says a new re****t, which offers some
recommendations for reducing the burden.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/chicago_courts_crisis_non_violent_drug_offenders_appleseed_fund_social_justice
8. SENTENCING: NEW JERSEY MOVES TO SHRINK "DRUG-FREE ZONES,"
COPS PROTEST
New Jersey's governor, all 21 county prosecutors, and the state
sentencing commission all want to reform the state's "drug-free
zone" law, but some New Jersey cops like things just the way
they are.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/new_jersey_drug_free_zone_law_reform_proposed_opposed
9. DRUG TREATMENT: FEDERAL BUDGET PROVIDES SAME FUNDING OR SMALL
INCREASES FOR TREATMENT, PREVENTION PROGRAMS, BUT REDUCES SAFE
AND DRUG-FREE GRANTS PROGRAM
As part of its massive omnibus appropriations bill passed this
week, Congress has, for the most part, funded treatment and
prevention programs at or slightly above previous levels.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/congress_funds_treatment_prevention_programs_2008
10. DEATH PENALTY: MALAYSIA TO EXECUTE MAN FOR MARIJUANA, CHINA
TO EXECUTE MAN FOR METH
Even as the UN General Assembly condemned the death penalty this
week, China condemned one man to death for methamphetamine
trafficking and Malaysia condemned another to death for having
less than two pounds of marijuana.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/death_penalty_malaysia_marijuana_china_methamphetamine
11. EUROPE: FINLAND TO SET GUIDELINES FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA USE
After one patient successfully challenged an agency's stance
that Finnish law absolutely forbids it, the Finnish government
is moving to craft guidelines to allow for medical marijuana
use.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/finland_will_create_medical_marijuana_guidelines
12. MEXICO: MARIJUANA DECRIMINALIZATION BILL INTRODUCED
An opposition deputy has introduced a bill that would
"decriminalize" marijuana possession in Mexico. Instead of jail
time, users would face "informative or educational" sanctions.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/mexico_marijuana_decriminalization_bill_introduced
13. CANADA: THE DRUG BUSINESS IS BOOMING, SAYS MOUNTIES RE****T
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has released its latest
annual re****t on drugs and drug trafficking in Canada. It's
sobering reading for anyone who thinks countries can enforce
their way out of a drug problem.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/canada_mounties_re****t_drugs_business_booming
14. WEEKLY: THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of
years past.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/drug_war_history
15. FEEDBACK: DO YOU READ DRUG WAR CHRONICLE?
Do you read Drug War Chronicle? If so, we need your feedback to
evaluate our work and make the case for Drug War Chronicle to
funders. We need donations too.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/do_you_read_drug_war_chronicle
16. WEBMASTERS: HELP THE MOVEMENT BY RUNNING DRCNET SYNDICATION
FEEDS ON YOUR WEB SITE!
Sup****t the cause by featuring automatically-updating Drug War
Chronicle and other DRCNet content links on your web site!
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/drug_policy_content_syndication_feeds_now_available
17. RESOURCE: DRCNET WEB SITE OFFERS WIDE ARRAY OF RSS FEEDS FOR
YOUR READER
A new way for you to receive DRCNet articles -- Drug War
Chronicle and more -- is now available.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/drug_policy_RSS_feeds_now_available
18. RESOURCE: REFORMER'S CALENDAR ACCESSIBLE THROUGH DRCNET WEB
SITE
Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to
the events coming up the soonest, and more.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/drug_reform_calendar
(Not subscribed? Visit http://stopthedrugwar.org
to sign up
today!)
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1. Appeal: DRCNet Has Made Amazing Progress in 2007 and We Need
Your Help for 2008
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/515/drcnets_amazing_progress_in_2007
Dear DRCNet reader:
StoptheDrugWar.org (DRCNet) is at a very interesting and
promising point, and I am writing to seek your sup****t for our
organization at this time. If you are making charitable gifts to
organizations before the end of the year, I hope you'll include
DRCNet Foundation in that set. If you make non-deductible
donations to sup****t lobbying organizations, I hope you'll
include Drug Reform Coordination Network. Donations can be made
at http://stopthedrugwar.org/donate
online, where information is
also available on how to donate by mail. (Contact us if you'd
like information on donating stocks.)
In brief, first, and then in more depth:
1. We have enormously increased our web site visitation, with
most of the increase being new people who don't read about drug
policy or legalization on a regular basis. We have achieved this
by capturing an audience share on the popular "Web 2.0" sites
like Digg.com where readers nominate and vote on which articles
should go to "the top," the only drug reform group to achieve
this success on an ongoing basis.
2. We have taken concrete steps to expand the range of issues in
which we actively do advocacy including: the explosive issue of
the overuse of SWAT raids in drug cases with the sometimes
deadly consequences (visit http://stopthedrugwar.org/policeraids
for further information); the penalties for drug offenders and
their families in welfare and public housing law, expanding the
major coalition we've already built on the similar college aid
law; and continued work on the college aid law. Initial steps
have been taken to engage the Afghanistan opium issue as well.
3. We have expanded our public education efforts on the drug
prohibition/legalization question itself, with more on the way
(http://stopthedrugwar.org/legalization).
4. We have continued the most im****tant aspects of our program
from before, including the Drug War Chronicle newsletter, and
our leveraging of our programs to benefit the work of other
groups.
5. Further site work in the short- and medium- term pipeline
should have additional major effects.
WEB SITE
As you may know from emails I've sent to the list, our web site
underwent a major redesign during the summer of 2006, plus an
expansion of our publi****ng (adding the daily content model --
blogging, latest news links, daily posting of announcements and
releases and so forth from other organizations) commenced in
Sept. '06. The immediate result was a substantial increase in
our site traffic, with a gradual increase in traffic continuing
most of the time for the next several months following.
Around August this year, things started "going wild," with high
profile links to DRCNet beginning to appear on major web sites,
and more and more often ever since. We literally have had to
have our server upgraded twice in order to handle the traffic,
and are now negotiating a third upgrade. The data appearing
below, unique hosts by month on StoptheDrugWar.org (an estimate
for the number of people), illustrates the trend:
MONTHLY UNIQUE HOST COUNT (estimate for number of people):
June 2005 33,751
July 2005 44,362
August 2005 56,546
September 2005 59,420
October 2005 41,524
November 2005 58,308
December 2005 44,145
January 2006 27,334
February 2006 55,753
March 2006 79,182
April 2006 86,130
May 2006 82,929
June 2006 62,631
July 2006 72,098
August 2006 77,441
September 2006 77,953
October 2006 96,243
November 2006 104,265
December 2006 94,624
January 2007 87,531
February 2007 84,136
March 2007 97,396
April 2007 100,671
May 2007 111,241
June 2007 109,937
July 2007 105,409
August 2007 193,196
September 2007 122,384
October 2007 182,454
November 2007 180,029
I hope you'll agree that we are in a seriously different place
now than before. To provide a flavor for how (in part) this has
been accomplished, we here list "big hits" that
StoptheDrugWar.org has had since fall 2006 -- "big hits" defined
as articles getting 4,000 "reads" or more. (These numbers were
last updated on Nov. 26, so there have been new "big hits," as
well as increases in the totals for the articles listed,
especially the most recent.) The key point is not just how many
times our stories have gone "big," but how much more often it is
happening now compared with a year or more ago. Here they are:
"Big Hits" -- Articles Exceeding 4,000 "Reads" Since Web Site
Upgrade (counts last updated 11/26/07):
9/29/06 Feature: Colorado Marijuana Legalization Initiative
Trails, But the Fight Is On (7,013 reads)
9/29/06 Feature: Nevada Marijuana Initiative Organizers See
Tight But Winnable Race Going Into Final Stretch (5,155 reads)
12/15/06 Feature: Clamor Grows for Freedom for Texas Marijuana
Prisoner Tyrone Brown (20,190 reads)
2/5/07 Feature: The Conviction That Keeps On Hurting -- Drug
Offenders and Federal Benefits (4,570 reads)
2/16/07 The Anti-Dobbs: Winning the War Within Through Drug
Legalization (5,781 reads)
2/23/07 Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Lies, Damned Lies, and
Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the
Office of National Drug Control Policy," by Matthew Robinson and
Renee Scherlen (13,143 reads between two copies)
3/23/07 Feature: "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" Free Speech Case Goes to
the Supreme Court (4,354 reads)
4/13/07 Feature: The War on Salvia Divinorum Heats Up (15,180)
4/25/07 ONDCP Admits Exaggerating Marijuana Potency (10,589)
5/25/07 Middle East: Opium Poppies Flower Again in Iraq (5,356)
5/25/07 Feature: Border Blues -- Canada, US Both Bar People Who
Used Drugs -- Ever (4,046 reads)
6/1/07 Medical Marijuana: Rhode Island Bill P***** With
Veto-Proof Majorities (11,959 reads)
6/8/07 Feature: Canadian Mom Searching for Missing Daughter
Denied Entry to US Over 21-Year-Old Drug Conviction (8,754)
6/25/07 Justices Stevens, Souter, & Ginsburg: Drug Policy Reform
Sympathizers? (8,050 reads)
6/28/07 Editorial: Two Good Reasons to Want to Legalize Drugs
(6,185 reads)
7/10/07 Rudy Giuliani Hates Medical Marijuana, But He Loves
OxyContin 15,090 reads)
7/26/07 Analysis: Who Voted for Medical Marijuana This Time?
Breakdown by Vote, Party, and Changes from '06 (7,227 reads
between two copies)
7/30/07 San Francisco Orders Medical Marijuana Dispensaries to
Sell Fatter Bags (7,438 reads)
8/2/07 New Study: Marijuana Does Not Cause Psychosis, Lung
Damage, or Skin Cancer (49,721 reads)
8/6/07 Press Release: Marijuana Dealers Offer Schwarzenegger One
Billion Dollars (72,302 reads)
8/6/07 Marijuana Dealers Offer Schwarzenegger One Billion
Dollars (48,654 reads)
8/14/07 Police Often Lack Basic Knowledge About Marijuana
(21,612 reads)
8/15/07 Who's Planting All That Pot in the Woods? (6,694 reads)
8/23/07 Drug War Prisoners: 86-Year-Old Alva Mae Groves Dies
Behind Bars (6,821 reads)
8/30/07 Drug Testing Encourages Cocaine, Heroin, and Meth Use
(20,291 reads)
9/26/07 Why Do Police Really Oppose Marijuana Legalization?
(20,994 reads)
10/5/07 McCain and Giuliani Say Terrible Things to a Medical
Marijuana Patient (39,636 reads)
10/10/07 The Truth About Why Republican Candidates Oppose
Medical Marijuana (4,801 reads)
10/16/07 Digg & Reddit Users Want to Legalize Marijuana 16,576)
10/22/07 DEA Director Resigns, Says She Had an Awesome Time
(11,182 reads)
10/24/07 This Man Receives 300 Marijuana Joints a Month From the
Federal Government (40,075 reads)
10/31/07 Cowards: Democratic Front-Runners Reject Marijuana Law
Reform (6,608 reads)
11/2/07 Feature: Can Medical Marijuana Cost You Your Kid? In
California, It Can (15,105 reads)
11/5/07 Drug Scare: Kids in Florida are Getting High by Sniffing
Feces (7,797 reads)
11/13/07 Marijuana Evolves Faster Than Human Beings (27,144)
11/23/07 John McCain's Awful Response to a Cop Who Wants to End
the Drug War (34,950 reads)
11/23/07 Feature: On the Anniversary of Kathryn Johnston's
Death, Poll Finds Most Americans Oppose Use of SWAT-Style
Tactics in Routine Drug Raids 7,183 reads)
ISSUE EXPANSION
As mentioned briefly above, we have begun our first foray into
the explosive issue of the overuse of SWAT teams in low-level
drug enforcement, the kind of practice that led to the killing
of 93-year-old Kathryn Johnston in Atlanta last year. In October
we commissioned a set of polling questions (our first) in a
likely voter poll conducted by the Zogby firm. One of them asked
if police should use aggressive entry tactics in non-emergency
situations. (The text of the question, which recounted the
Johnston tragedy and listed a few specific tactics, along with
other info about the issue including extensive recommendations
of how policy should change appears on our web site at
http://stopthedrugwar.org/policeraids
and our Chronicle article
about it appears at
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/511/two_thirds_oppose_SWAT_raids_kathryn_johnston_zobgy_poll
-- it has continued to get traffic since the data compilation
listed above, and now has almost 10,000 reads.) We got 66% of
respondents on our side, including a majority of conservative
and very conservative voters, politically a strong result.
There's a lot more to say about our issue expansion and our
activist plans in the raids issue -- please email David Borden
at borden@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for further info.
ANTI-PROHIBITION ADVOCACY
Another question included in the aforementioned Zogby poll
asked, "If hard drugs like heroin or cocaine were legalized,
would you be likely to use them?" A mere 0.6% of respondents
answered yes. While the poll should be thought of as more
qualitative as quantitative -- people don't always predict their
future behavior accurately -- the results clearly show that
almost all Americans have strong reasons for not wanting to use
these drugs that are not limited to the laws against them.
Therefore the prohibitionists' specter of massive increases in
addiction and social implosion following legalization isn't a
sound assumption to make.
The web page http://stopthedrugwar.org/legalization
presents
this result, as well as links to our many "consequences of
prohibition" news category feeds. We have also had video footage
from the aforementioned 2003 legalization conference formatted
for the popular YouTube web site, so that people can run the
videos from their own web sites. Videos available so far are
linked from the same legalization main page. A major component
of our strategy is the idea of promoting the voices of respected
leaders who are pro-legalization, in order to use the
persuasiveness of their reputations to ****ft public opinion.
With the web site successes of the past several months, and
certain technical issues being addressed by a web site designer
over the next couple of months, we will also soon be launching
our VIP blogger series, also fitting into this strategy. Other
publi****ng is on the way too.
DRUG WAR CHRONICLE AND SUP****T FOR OTHER GROUPS
One of the particularly gratifying aspects of our web site
success is that at times we have been able to bring other groups
along with us. By this I refer primarily to the use of YouTube
video -- as mentioned above, a way that different web sites can
easily present the same video clips without having to host
copies of the footage on their own servers. Among our "big hits"
articles are blog posts running video footage from Law
Enforcement Against Prohibition (one of their speakers posing a
tough question to John McCain that he answers in an unbelievable
way), the DrugTruth Network (an interview conducted during the
NORML conference with federally legal medical marijuana patient
Irv Rosenfeld), and MPP's "Granite Staters" New Hamp****re
presidential candidates and medical marijuana campaign.
YouTube's stats indicate that roughly a third of the people
visiting our web pages running these videos actually click to
watch the videos (though after a certain amount of time the
YouTube stats start omitting older data).
The stats also indicate that our relative effectiveness for
getting out the drug reform message in terms of number of people
can actually be greater than the most widely visited web sites
that cover lots of different issues. For example, of the 36,000+
readers we had on the aforementioned John McCain story, nearly
13,000 clicked to watch the video itself, accounting for more
than half of the total views the video has gotten. An article
about the encounter on the widely-read Huffington Post blog, by
contrast, garnered not quite 1,400 views for the video. Our post
with the Irv Rosenfeld video on DrugTruth, and our post
featuring outrageous McCain and Giuliani footage responding to a
medical marijuana patient with Granite Staters, both have
garnered over 40,000 reads. Hence, our cooperative approach of
promoting the work of other organizations has extended to the
new web site format, and we are thereby in some cases getting
them a lot of exposure.
Here are a few of the testimonials we've received recently for
how readers put the Chronicle to use:
I read Drug War Chronicle assiduously to be up to date on the
failing drug war.
- Gustavo de Greiff, former attorney general of Colombia, chair
of Latin American drug reform network REFORMA
As LEAP [Law Enforcement Against Prohibition]'s representative
in Wa****ngton, DC I read without fail the weekly Drug War
Chronicle and have for years. This allows me to quickly and
without wasted time know what events and people are shaping
policy. To date I have met with staffers from half of the 535
offices on Capitol Hill. Years of reading the Chronicle have
made me informed and able to speak knowledgeably on all facets
of the New Prohibition. It is an invaluable tool I use
constantly.
- Officer Howard J. Wooldridge (Retired)
The Drug War Chronicle is the first place I send people who want
to know more about what is going on in drug policy today.
- Tyler Smith, Associate Director, Interfaith Drug Policy
Initiative
I'm an award-winning investigative journalist. I've heard about
things on DRCNet that I then turned into articles for the likes
of Rolling Stone and Wired magazines.
- Vince Beiser
Drug War Chronicle is useful for me and my staff to keep us up
to date on issues around drug policy and practice. We hear from
hundreds of DC prisoners caught up in this nightmare and have
little time to keep current on the issues you re****t on.
- Philip Fornaci, Director, D.C. Prisoners' Project, Wa****ngton
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
I find Drug War Chronicle very helpful in doing grassroots
activism. I serve on my county's Substance Abuse Advisory Board
and Substance Abuse Prevention Association and as the community
co-chair for the Wa****ngton State HIV Prevention Planning Group.
I have used information from Drug War Chronicle to bring others
in my community to recognize the need for drug policy reform. As
a member of the Substance Abuse Advisory Board I have been able
to circulate materials to all members of county government.
- Monte Levine
I host a weekly radio program where we discuss issues related to
the failed war on drugs and the prison industrial complex. We
use the DRCNet as a resource every week. DRCNet makes this
activism work so much easier, by providing a resource that is
accessible, not only as a tool for research, but as an
interpreter in this political world. Occasionally, a guest will
need to cancel at the last minute. This hazard is part of live
radio, and our way of being prepared is to have the DRCNet
information in hand, ready to share with listeners.
- Sharon North, Shattered Lives Radio, KZFR, 90.1 FM, Chico, CA.
Here in the Netherlands we use a lot of your paper to write our
own monthly "war in drugs journal" made by the Legalize!
Foundation.
- Has Cornelissen, Stichting Legalize!
I use stories from Drug War Chronicle to lead high school
juniors and seniors in an on-going inquiry into the Drug War as
a model of failed public policy. DWC enables me to track current
issues, update my materials, and stay connected to the drug
policy reform community so I can continue my work of developing
in young people a deep and critical understanding of the world
in which they are coming of age.
- Jeanne Polk Barr, Chair, History Dept., Francis W. Parker
School, Chicago
I am editor of The Liberator Online, a libertarian email
newsletter. With almost 70,000 readers, it is as far as we know
the largest-circulation libertarian publication of any kind. It
is published by the Advocates for Self-Government, a non-profit
non-partisan libertarian educational organization. I use Drug
War Chronicle and DRCNet as a source for information on Drug
War-related issues of interest to our readers. In fact, we have
a story based on a DWC item (Sen. Mike Gravel's sup****t for drug
law reform) in our current issue.
I used information in an article to help form a scholar****p for
those convicted of a drug crime who have lost federal funding
for school. Now, we are aiming to expand the scholar****p to
other universities and community colleges. Thanks for your help!
WEB SITE DEVELOPMENT PLANS
Plans in the works for StoptheDrugWar.org have the potential to
achieve as much for the site's reach and impact as the work
already done has achieved. Along with some needed improvements
and fixes to our logon, commenting, and list subscription
frameworks, we will be executing major improvements to how we
promote our material to the aforementioned "Web 2.0" sites that
have driven so much traffic to our site already. Right now, we
are only doing a good job of promoting our material to the site
Digg, and only for our blog posts. Our minor redesign will make
the Digg links on our pages more prominent, will add them to our
Drug War Chronicle pages and elsewhere, and will add links to
promote articles to other im****tant sites where we've had some
success already, like Stumbleupon, Reddit and Netscape. This is
a logical extension of a strategy that has already been very
successful.
Plans are also underway to dramatically expand the background
information we have available on all the different drug policy
issues, using the technology available through our web site
system to present it in some pretty powerful ways. (Here again,
more later.)
I hope you can tell from the foregoing how excited we are about
the state of DRCNet's work at this juncture, and how im****tant
we feel it is to continue to push forward at full strength. With
your continued sup****t, we will build on our successes reaching
wider online audiences. We will take on the explosive issue of
reckless police raids. We will expand the coalition opposing the
college aid drug conviction penalty to include the similar laws
in welfare and public housing. We will get the message out about
the urgent need for legalization and the impressive people who
sup****t that viewpoint. We will continue to publish Drug War
Chronicle to empower activists throughout the drug policy reform
movement, and to educate the media, policymakers and the general
public. And we will put in place new, im****tant sections of our
web site to increase the reach and impact of our educational
work even further. Thank you for your sup****t and for being part
of the cause.
Sincerely,
David Borden
Executive Director
P.S. Contributions of $50 or more can be credited toward our
first (not-yet-selected) book premiums of 2008. (You'll need to
remind us after we send out the premium announcements next
year.) Remember that tax-deductible donations should be made
payable to DRCNet Foundation. (The amount that is deductible
will be reduced by the retail price of any gift(s) you select.)
Non-deductible donations for our lobbying work should be made
payable to Drug Reform Coordination Network.
P.P.S. In case you would like to donate at this time, I am
providing the information here for your convenience: DRCNet
Foundation (for tax-deductible donations sup****ting our
educational work) or Drug Reform Coordination Network (for
non-deductible donations sup****ting our lobbying work), P.O. Box
18402, Wa****ngton, DC 20036, or http://stopthedrugwar.org/donate
online. (Contact us if you'd like information on donating
stock.)
P.P.P.S. Please feel free to call us at (202) 293-8340 if you'd
like to discuss any of our programs or have other questions or
concerns.
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"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
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