APPEAL: Help Us Respond to the Opportunities and the Crises

Dear reader,

As I wrote last week, this is a good time and a bad time in drug policy. Marijuana reform continues to have 2019 momentum [9]. Presidential candidates are debating criminal justice and drug policy more than ever [10]. But politicians are still ready to file new and bad sentencing bills -- so quickly forgetting lessons they claimed to have learned -- and international human rights [11] in the drug war are in full blown crisis.

We need your help to stay on the move at this important time. Can you make a generous donation for our work at this time? [12] Visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/donate [12], and click on the tax-deductible donation link or the non-deductible donation link, whichever kind you wish to make. Our donation form accepts credit card, PayPal, and bank ACH.

We especially need help with non-deductible donations [13] to our 501(c)(4) nonprofit. Because our newsletter reports on political candidates, we cover the substantial cost of our web site server and email list service fully with non-deductible funds. This is to protect our tax-deductible 501(c)(3) nonprofit, which can't afford to be implicated, rightly or wrongly, in candidate advocacy. Most of our current funding is of the tax-deductible kind, especially the larger grants and gifts.

Can you make a non-deductible donation to sustain our newsletter through the campaign season? [13] Or a tax-deductible donation for our campaign to stop Duterte's drug war killings in the Philippines? [14] Our web site supports both one-time donations and recurring ones, on cycles including monthly, quarterly, annually, and other options. Visit our Candidates archive page [10] and our Philippines campaign page [11] to see why this is important.

Donations can also be sent by mail. For a non-deductible donation, make your check payable to Drug Reform Coordination Network, and send to P.O. Box 9853, Washington, DC 20016. Tax-deductible donation checks should be payable to DRCNet Foundation, same address.

Visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/about#donations [15] for information on other donation options like stock shares, or to read more about our work. Also visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/global [16] and https://stopthedrugwar.org/philippines [11] for more about what we're doing.

Thank you for your support, and enjoy the rest of your summer.

Sincerely,

David Borden
StoptheDrugWar.org
Washington, DC
"US and UN Drug Policy Reform"
https://stopthedrugwar.org [17]