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 Lake
rlake@mapinc.org
Sr. Editor; DrugNews-Digest
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