ANOTHER CALL FOR DRUG LEGALIZATION PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE DrugSense FOCUS Alert #318 - Monday, 5 December 2005 On Sunday, Dec. 4th the Seattle Times picked up an OPED written by former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper in which he makes a firm declaration that we need to end our current policy of drug prohibition. His suggestion? Replace prohibition with a legal, regulated distribution system for all in-demand drugs. Stamper's opinions mirror those of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition http://leap.cc , the international group of police, judges and others with long experience fighting the drug war who believe that drug prohibition should be replaced with legal regulation. Please consider writing a short, succinct Letter to the Editor of the Seattle Times letting them know of your support for Stamper and for his position on ending drug prohibition. In Addition, you can help us get this important OPED placed into other newspapers. See below for details. Thanks for your effort and support. It's not what others do it's what YOU do The Seattle Times OPED can be seen here: US WA: OPED: Legalize Drugs -- All of Them URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1901/a05.html Contact: Additional suggestions for writing LTEs are at our Media Activism Center: http://www.mapinc.org/resource/ You are welcome to join MAP Media Activism Facilitator Steve Heath and other LTE writing friends of MAP this Thursday evening, Dec. 8th at 9 pm EST (8 pm CST, 6 pm PST) for a roundtable discussion of how to write LTEs that get print and how to best respond to this Focus Alert. See: http://mapinc.org/resource/paltalk.htm for details on how you may participate in this important meeting of leading minds in reform. Discussion is conducted with live Voice (microphone and speakers are all that is needed) and also via text messaging. The Paltalk software is free and easy to download and install. The password for this gathering will be: welcome-pal (all lower case) HELP US get this and other important drug policy reform-minded OPEDs into print in other newspapers across North America. Contact Steve Heath at for details of how to work with us in our Drug Policy Writers Group project. 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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