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Drug
War
Chronicle's
Phil
Smith
Featured
in
New
Book
--
"Under
The
Influence"
Available
as
DRCNet
Premium
2/4/05
Dear Drug War Chronicle devotee: In case you were not already aware, I wanted to let you know that Drug War Chronicle's own Phillip S. Smith was featured in the new book Under The Influence: The Disinformation Guide to Drugs -- Phil wrote two of the book's nearly 50 fascinating articles and essays, including an especially provocative one, "Imagining a Post-Prohibition World."
Thanks to support by readers like yourself, and a generous grant received late last year from the Educational Foundation of America, DRCNet Foundation has now raised $36,000 toward Drug War Chronicle's expenses in 2005. However, we are expecting the Chronicle's total costs to reach about $67,000 as they have for each of the past two years. That means we have $31,000 to go. If you are one of the many who have helped us with this campaign so far, thank you. If you have yet to donate or pledge for 2005... please understand that we need your help to do this right. We need your support or we will have to downscale the newsletter and cut back our activist programs. Please click here to make a one-time donation to Drug War Chronicle, or click here to sign up to donate monthly. Or, send us an e-mail at drcnet@drcnet.org to let us know how much you are pledging and for when.
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is absolutely the best way to keep abreast of the issue. It's just
a phenomenal resource -- full of interesting stories and links."
"I've covered the drug story
for years, in many places and on many levels. Your coverage of the
drug scene has been a vital resource for us. You provide a continuous
flow of information that isn't available from any other media source."
"I thought you'd like to
know that I follow your bulletins religiously for the simple reason that
the Canadian press says little about drugs. So when you have drug
news, it has very often not been reported here. I flag items for
my editor -- we've had a number of stories that started that way.
In fact, Pastrana's call for a world conference was a recent example of
just that. So, your work, based on my experience, is helping making
waves even when you don't realize it."
Activists: "I use [Drug War Chronicle]
as a source for information I disseminate to the chapter's local members
use the information in conversations and more formal talks about drug policy,
as well as in letters to the editor."
"Your newsletter has been
an invaluable source of information to us as far as keeping up to date
on all of the latest issues surrounding addiction and drug policy.
I read every issue as thoroughly as I can, and reprint and pass along many
articles to my colleagues and associates. I also have used [Drug
War Chronicle] in my monthly meetings and also in Patient run support groups."
Policymakers: After we ran a story in June 2003 about the cancellation of a NORML/SSDP fundraiser in Billings, MT, following a threat by DEA agents to prosecute club owners under the controversial "RAVE Act," our story was forwarded by a constituent of a member of Congress to one of her staffers, who then contacted us for information. The staffer is working on monitoring the Act to prevent abuses, and subscribed to our list. A prominent agency head in South America wrote: "Our work is well known in Brazil and I serve on government committees as well as present at most of the conferences here. [Drug War Chronicle] has been a major source of information and has helped shape our treatment programs as well as influenced many policies and conferences, where the only other sources have been the official USG and UN policies."
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