Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999
Subject: “The Nation” Magazine Devotes Issue To Drug Policy Reform
DrugSense FOCUS Alert # 125 September 15, 1999
“The Nation” Magazine Devotes Issue to Drug Policy
Reform
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DrugSense FOCUS Alert # 125 September 15, 1999
“The Nation” Magazine Devotes Issue to Drug Policy
Reform
This week’s issue of The Nation features a number of articles on drug
policy reform. Activists will find many ideas to support, while they
may also find a few ideas they would like to challenge. Either way we
need to let editors at the publication know that we appreciate the
broad coverage offered on these important issues.
Several of the articles are now available at the MAP archives. Use the
links below to read some or all of the articles. Then please write a
letter to The Nation generally thanking them for shining a spotlight
on reform issues. Feel free to praise any articles you found
particularly good, or to criticize any articles you feel were off base.
Thanks for your effort and support.
WRITE A LETTER TODAY
Don’t Think About it – Just DO It! You CAN Make a
Difference
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CONTACT INFO
Source: Nation, The (US)
Contact: letters@thenation.com
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Pubdate: 20 Sep 1999
Source: Nation, The (US)
Copyright: 1999, The Nation Company
Contact: letters@thenation.com
Website: http://www.thenation.com/
Note: This list should make finding the articles in our archives easier.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n963.a03.html
THE NATION – SPECIAL ISSUE “BEYOND LEGALIZATION – NEW IDEAS FOR ENDING THE
DRUG WAR”
Editorial: Beyond the Drug War
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n954.a12.html
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It’s Time for Realism Michael Massing
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n957.a01.html
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Life of a Scandal Peter Kornbluh
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n958.a04.html
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Perils of Prohibition Mike Gray
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n958.a03.html
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Yes, Treatment, But…
Elliott Currie
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n955.a03.html
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Michael Massing Responds
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n955.a02.html
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An Old City Seeks A New Model –
Baltimore Moves Toward “Medicalization”
Joshua Wolf Shenk
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n957.a02.html
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Does Europe Do It Better? Lessons From Holland, Britain and
Switzerland Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n955.a01.html
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George Soros’s Long Strange Trip A Philanthropist Defies Drug War
Orthodoxy Russ Baker (posted in two parts)
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n959.a11.html
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n962.a06.html
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Marijuana Made Easy Armies of Experts Sell a Little White Pill Cynthia
Cotts
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n962.a05.html
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The Road to Reform Activists Need Fresh Strategies to Win Carol A.
Bergman
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n958.a05.html
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SAMPLE LETTER (sent)
Dear Editor,
Hearty congratulations for your in depth coverage of the debate on our
failed drug war. An open dialogue on alternatives to this wretched
policy is precisely what is needed to move us back in the direction of
a sane drug policy.
I was very surprised, however, that your articles completely missed
mentioning two of the deepest, most popular, and most informative web
sites on drug policy available on the web.
http://www.drugsense.org/
The DrugSense web site, offers a vast array of information and what
may be the most informative weekly newsletter and news synopsis on
drug policy developments in the world.
http://www.mapinc.org/
The Media Awareness Project (MAP) web site also offers a huge
information database including more than 25,000 news articles on drug
policy from all over the world all completely searchable on any
subject in seconds. It also offers an archive of more than 2,000
published letters to the editor and opeds on drug policy.
Missing these sites when writing about drug policy was tantamount to
writing about book sales on the Internet and not mentioning Amazon.com
Mark Greer
Executive Director
DrugSense (MAP Inc.)
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