USA TODAY'S CANNABIS POLICY OPINIONS PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE DrugSense FOCUS Alert #308 - Wednesday, 18 May 2005 Today USA Today printed an editorial about our marijuana policies and laws, and an OPED response by John Walters. You may read the editorial 'War on Drugs Gone to Pot' at http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05.n800.a03.html and the OPED 'Marijuana Policy Just Right' at http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05.n800.a04.html Both links have the USA Today email address for writing LTEs: With a circulation of just over 2.3 million copies, the largest circulation newspaper in the United States, the value of even one printed letter in terms of what it would cost to buy the same space as an ad is in the range of $10,000 or more. Please consider sending the paper a LTE today. Someone is very likely to have their letter printed. It seems likely that more than one will be printed. You can help give the USA Today editors a choice of quality letters to print, but only if you write. Writing letters now to any newspaper about the push by the Drug Czar and Congress to escalate the war on cannabis users is likely to meet with success. Another good target for your letters is the Washington Post OPED printed Tuesday, May 17th titled 'The Right Drug to Target' at http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n799/a03.html For more about the efforts in Congress see http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/ctt.asp?u=1876&l'536 Thanks for your effort and support. It's not what others do it's what YOU do Additional suggestions for writing LTEs are at our Media Activism Center: http://www.mapinc.org/resource/ Or contact MAP Media Activism Facilitator Steve Heath for personal tips on how to write LTEs that get printed. You may join in discussions with successful letter writers on ways to improve your success in the DrugSense Virtual Conference Room. See http://www.mapinc.org/resource/paltalk.htm The schedule for the letter writing sessions is at http://www.mapinc.org/resource/pal_sched.php PLEASE SEND US A COPY OF YOUR LETTER Please post a copy of your letter or report your action to the sent letter list () if you are subscribed, or by E-mailing a copy directly to if you are not subscribed. Your letter will then be forwarded to the list so others can learn from your efforts. Subscribing to the Sent LTE list () will help you to review other sent LTEs and perhaps come up with new ideas or approaches as well as keeping others aware of your important writing efforts. To subscribe to the Sent LTE mailing list see http://www.mapinc.org/lists/index.htm#form Prepared by: Stephen Heath, MAP Media Activism Facilitator =

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