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Thanks to all of you who participated in our special three-day offer this week. We have decided to continue with one that's almost as good, for five more days -- donate $25 or more for a regular DRCNet membership, and receive a free copy "Drug War Addiction: Notes from the Front Lines of America's #1 Policy Disaster," an incisive volume by one of Colorado's top law enforcement officials, Sheriff Bill Masters. Just visit http://www.drcnet.org/specialoffer/ to donate $25 or more by noon EST on Tuesday, December 24 -- send your check or money postmarked by Tuesday to DRCNet, P.O. Box 18402, Washington, DC 20036 -- and we'll ship your copy out early next year! (See "And the Winners Are..." below for the lucky ten who won personally autographed copies in our recent contest/survey.)

Besides getting you this important work by a respected law enforcement leader, your donation will provide needed support for DRCNet's work changing US and international drug policy -- so visit http://www.drcnet.org/specialoffer/ to sign up today! Some of the work your donation will help make possible:

• We will bring anti-prohibition advocates from throughout Latin America together for our February 12-15 conference in Mexico, "Out from the Shadows: Ending Drug Prohibition in the 21st Century," and we will continue to organize the Out from the Shadows campaign and conferences around the world -- Europe, Canada and the US all coming up!
• We will continue to mobilize students, educators and other concerned citizens in opposition to the Higher Education Act Drug Provision, which strips college financial aid eligibility from students with drug convictions. Our campaign has sparked a groundswell of opposition to the law, including the endorsements of 100 student governments nationwide and the sponsorship of 68 members of Congress for a bill to repeal it -- 10 of whom spoke at our press conference at the US Capitol last May. The HEA Campaign is drug reform's first hope for repealing a federal drug law outright since 1970.
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• We will continue the John W. Perry scholarship fund, matching students who have lost financial aid for college because of drug convictions with sympathetic scholarship providers.
• If funding is secured, we will launch an effort in an important but under-explored area of drug policy, the widespread under-availability of narcotics to patients who need them for relief of severe, chronic pain.

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Read our January 2002 interview with Sheriff Masters at http://www.drcnet.org/wol/220.html#billmasters in the Week Online archives.

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