Dear MAP:

Congratulations on 100,000 articles archived! MAP is an essential
service for our drug policy reform movement and has had enormous
influence on the media and the Internet. MAP is an example of the old
adage, "the truth shall set you free." By disseminating news articles
and opinions on the drug war, MAP gives empowering knowledge to the
masses.

I am happy to have "hawked" many articles and been here since even
before the beginning of MAP. I began compiling news articles on
marijuana and hemp and posting them on Usenet newsgroups in 1992. In
1994 the world-wide web was born and, soon thereafter, I was contacted
by a fellow named Jim Rosenfield, who asked how I obtained these hemp
news stories. Jim introduced me to DRCnet, which started the first
international drug policy email list, DRCtalk. When DRCtalk went down
for a while, then Matt Elrod began what was at first a backup email
list to DRCtalk. Later, Mark Greer and Matt Elrod started MAPinc.org,
which formed and developed an international volunteer network of news
compilers and people to write letters to the editor for drug policy
reform, then DrugSense.

Today MAPinc hosts both the CRRH and THC-Foundation's web services,
except for our video server.

MAP's service is both useful and informative. Thank you to Mark, Matt,
Richard and all MAP newshawks and activists!

Yours truly, D. Paul Stanford Director, CRRH & THCF www.crrh.org
www.thc-foundation.org