Dear friends,

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Happy holidays!

As 2025 enters its final week, I am reaching out to seek your financial support for our work for another year. Your donation -- whether before the end of the year, recurring throughout the coming year, pledged for a future time, something you're still thinking about -- will make all the difference.

• We continue to seek support to bring Drug War Chronicle and our longtime writer Phillip S. Smith back to full-time.
• We are seeking donations to do the second-ever study on the characteristics of armed robberies of state-legal marijuana stores (following up on the first-ever study on this topic, which we also did!). The new study will bolster efforts to secure banking and payment services for cannabusinesses under federal law, which we believe will advance the effort to eventually enact legalization federally. (We are also offering sponsorships!)
• Our Rule of Law in Drug Policy program is working to gather evidence to assist future prosecutions for the Trump administration's strikes on alleged "drug boats," and to clarify in the public discussion over the drug strikes that they are indeed extrajudicial killings, e.g. murders.
• Our Rule of Law in Drug Policy program is working with Filipino allies to support the ICC's prosecution of former President Rodrigo Duterte for his extrajudicial drug war killings, while raising awareness of other extrajudicial drug war killing situations, the parallels between the Duterte killings and the Trump drug war killings, and how this fits into the fight to save global democracy.
• We continue to engage with drug policy efforts at the United Nations.

We would be deeply grateful for tax-deductible grants or donations to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit, DRCNet Foundation, or non-deductible donations to our 501(c)(4) public welfare nonprofit, Drug Reform Coordination Network. Thank you if you are willing and able to help at this time. (But if all you can afford to send right now are good wishes for us in the effort, we appreciate those too!)

Note that our online donation system, along with accepting one-time donations of course (via credit card, PayPal or bank ACH), also has a range of recurring donation options that you can use if you wish to make that commitment. People mainly use these for monthly or annual gifts to our organization. But our donation system can also accommodate gifts scheduled weekly, biweekly, every four weeks, quarterly, and twice a year. (Click here if you'd like info on contributing by mail or making a gift of stock.)

Sincerely,

David Borden, Executive Director
StoptheDrugWar.org
P.O. Box 9853, Washington, DC 20016
https://stopthedrugwar.org