Pubdate: Tue, 23 May 2000
Source: The Media Awareness Project of DrugSense
Website: http://www.mapinc.org/
Note: The below is a report from the undersigned - not a news clipping. In 
part two, hopefully out on the weekend, I will provide my own overview of 
the conference. - Richard Lake

THE DPF CONFERENCE (PART 1 OF 2) - THANK YOU!

The 13th International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, just completed, 
was an outstanding success!

Thank you, Kerry Hopkins, Anne Dever, Ruth Lampe, and all the others of the 
Drug Policy Foundation for all that you did to make it possible.

And a big Thank You to all the conference speakers - You are the reason we 
attend! - listed in the program at: http://www.dpf.org/CONFERENCES.html

MAP/DrugSense was well represented by board members Mark Greer, Thomas J. 
O'Connell, M.D. , Kendra Wright and Nora Callahan. Plus Matt Elrod, 
Webmaster; Richard Lake, Senior News Editor; Jo-D Dunbar, Membership 
Director; and Mark Petersen, E-mail List Manager. And Editors John Chase 
and Eric Ernst. Plus many, many newshawks and LTE writers. And hundreds of 
folks who use the MAP news clipping service.

The several hundred folks attending the session on the internet were asked 
if they used the MAP/DrugSense services. Over 95% of the folks stood up!

Again, like last year, each of us who attended were constantly being told 
by activists  how valuable our volunteer work for MAP/DrugSense was to them 
personally, and to the drug policy reform effort. It really lifts the 
spirit to know our efforts count!

Thank you to each and every one of you who took the time to say so many 
kind words about our work!

Folks were busy throughout the conference recording each session for, we 
were told, video for the 'net. If anyone has more details as to when and 
where the conference will be placed on line, please drop me a note so that 
we can help get the word out. Without a doubt, there will be many sessions 
that activists could not attend would like to see. I know that there are 
workshops I missed while attending others that I would love to be able to view.

Richard  Editor; DrugNews-Digest
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