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A
Message
from
the
Executive
Director
on
What
DRCNet
is
Planning
After
Election
Day
and
Why
We
Need
Your
Help
10/15/04
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/358/message.shtml
David Borden, Executive
Director, [email protected]
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David
Borden
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Three short weeks from now,
voters in the United States will make a choice affecting the nation's course
for decades to come. DRCNet readers span a wide range of the political
spectrum -- Democrats, Republicans, Greens, Libertarians, independents,
none-of-the-aboves -- but all of us agree on this much: The drug
war is a moral and humanitarian crisis harming countless people around
the world and which has failed to achieve its goals.
Between now and Election
Day, roughly 80,000 people will be arrested for nonviolent drug offenses
in that war. And whatever the election's outcome, it is certain that
US drug policy will not change for the better on its own. Only continuing
efforts by individuals like you, and organizations like DRCNet representing
the cause for you in Washington, can make that happen.
That's why I'm asking you
to make a generous donation to DRCNet to ensure our ability to continue
our programs through the end of the year and to hit the ground running
when a new Congress comes to Washington next year. Please visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/donate/
to support DRCNet and the cause of drug policy reform in 2005!
Some background about our
work your donation will support:
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Your donation will support our
acclaimed newsletter, Drug War Chronicle. (Visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/
to check it out if you're not already a subscriber.) Drug War Chronicle
is the leading intellectual publication on the drug war, an in-depth weekly
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reform movement. Drug War Chronicle is read by reporters; is used
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Your donation will support the
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that delays or denies college aid eligibility to students because of drug
convictions, our movement's best chance to repeal a federal drug law in
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states around the country, and our efforts have garnered recent coverage
in the New York Times, National Public Radio, the Boston Herald, the Indianapolis
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and media/ organizing campaign involving students who have lost financial
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Your donation will support our
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itself. (Look for an announcement next month in this area too.)
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free to write me with any questions or comments.
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Issue #358, 10/15/04
A Message from the Executive Director on What DRCNet is Planning After Election Day and Why We Need Your Help |
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Second Medical Marijuana Initiative Faces Tough Fight in Oregon |
Medical Marijuana on the Local Ballot in Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Columbia |
DRCNet Book Review: "Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China" by Frank Dikotter, Lars Laaman and Zhou Xun (Oxford University Press, $35.00 HB) and "Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon" by Barbara Hodgson (Greystone Press, $14.95 PB) |
Newsbrief: VP Hopeful John Edwards Makes Methamphetamine a Campaign Issue |
Newsbrief: AMT, Foxy Methoxy Permanently Placed on Schedule I |
Newsbrief: Congress Votes to Double US Troops in Colombia |
Newsbrief: European Drug Think Tank Rips US on Afghan Opium Policy -- No "Plan Afghanistan," Please, Says Senlis Council |
Newsbrief: Dinosaurs Walk the Earth as Prohibition Party, Independent Candidate Demand Return of Alcohol Prohibition |
Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories |
This Week in History |
Administrative Assistant: Part-Time Job Opportunity at DRCNet |
The Reformer's Calendar
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