some recent testimonials from Drug War Chronicle readers:

• I read Drug War Chronicle assiduously in order to be up to date on the failing drug war.
  -- Gustavo de Greiff, former attorney general of Colombia and chair of Latin American drug reform network REFORMA

• I find the Drug War Chronicle very helpful in doing grass roots activism. I am an active member of my geographic community serving on my county’s Substance Abuse Advisory Board and Substance Abuse Prevention Association. I also serve as the community co-chair for the Washington State HIV Prevention Planning Group. I have used information from the 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 have materials circulated to all members of county government.
  -- Monte Levine

• I’ve been a programmer at KZYX Philo and KKUP Cupertino since the 80’s, and find the information which you provide to be extremely valuable to our listeners.
  -- Verge Belanger

• I read, as often as possible, and when relevant, forward information to 100s of activists in Kentucky and elsewhere.
  -- Don Pratt

• and one longer one from a seasoned DPR activist:
  

  I have, at least, skimmed every issue of the The Drug War Chronicle since 1997 when it was called the Week Online. You know that sense of excitement when your favorite television show is about to come on? That's what I feel on Friday mornings when I see the The Drug War Chronicle in my box. It's like an old friend.

  Over the last 10 years I have spent about six of them working full time in drug policy. I definitely read it closer when drug policy is my job, but I still skim it and read one or two articles when I have had other professions. As associate director of the Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative it plays a critical role in my work. We are a small organization that focuses narrowly on bringing the faith community into the movement and getting them to contact their legislators in key policy efforts.

  That means we rely on MPP, DPA, MAP, and DRCNet for the knowledge that we act on and share with our community. MPP and DPA email alerts serve a vital purpose for us since our main goal is to help them with their legislative efforts. MAP is useful because it is an easy way to find out what is being reported in the major media. But the Drug War Chronicle serves a uniquely valuable purpose. It is original hard-hitting reporting that isn't skewed to the perspective of one drug policy reform group's perspective. When I tell people what is happening broadly in drug policy, I am mostly telling them what I read in the Drug War Chronicle.

  Every week our views are challenged by the conventional wisdom. The editorial each week is an immediately relevant refresher on the big picture of why I get up every morning...to end the human suffering caused by drug prohibition.

  If the Drug War Chronicle where to disappear, the obvious tangible value it brings would be lost. But one thing that might be overlooked is the inspiration it gives to people fighting the good fight and the morale boost that happens when people realize that great work is being done on this front by people of conscience all over the world.

  --Troy Dayton, Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative