WRITING LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WORKS!

September ended with 1,805 letters published in support of drug
policy reform. If the trend continues this will be the largest
number of published letters since 2005. Please click this link to see
the counts http://www.mapinc.org/lte/ as shown in our published
letters archive.

Please check out the Published Letters Awards page
http://www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm and the letter of writers
recognized for the best letter of the week at
http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/weekly.php

We will leave it up to you to speculate as to why there is a surge in
LTE writing this year.

Most drug policy reform organizations encourage writing LTEs, for example:

How To Mount An Effective Letter Writing Campaign
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3464

Letters to the Editors http://ssdp.org/resources/media.php

Letters to the Editor How-To http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=310

How to Write Letters to the Editor
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/activist/howlte.htm

Tips from MAP's most successful letter writers include How to Write a
Letter to the Editor http://www.mapinc.org/resource/how2lte.htm and
Tips for Getting Letters to the Editor Published
http://www.mapinc.org/resource/tips.htm

As suggested by MAP's top letter writers recent newspaper opinion
items make the best targets for your letters. These may be found at
http://www.mapinc.org/opinion.htm Other recent articles which could
be letter writing targets may be accessed from the MAP home page www.mapinc.org

Since you are reading this you have the best tool to write LTEs
already - internet access. Please help sustain the activism
represented by all the reform oriented letters published so far this year.

Your letters to the editor are always helpful. Even if a newspaper
does not publish your letter you have let that newspaper know that
the issue you write about is important to you.