MAP has played an extremely vital role in influencing the public
debate about the need for drug policy reform. Like no other group, MAP
has changed the balance of information available to the public,
ultimately creating a better informed electorate.

By making news items and opinion pieces easily available to us that we
would otherwise miss, MAP has increased public awareness tremendously
about the many goings on in the world related to drug policy. It has
empowered untold thousands of people, transforming them into frontline
activists, by alerting and encouraging them to write letters to the
editor to news outlets around the world. This puts us in the ballgame,
so to speak, enabling us to confront policy and opinion makers who
have ready access to news media.

Thank you, MAP, for providing this invaluable service to the people
and society. Without you, we might still be in the dark ages of drug
policy reform. You have shed much light onto the issues, and enabled
organizations and activists armed with much-needed information to make
progress in our varied efforts toward creating a freer and more just
world.

I commend you for a job well-done, and wish you continued success in
the future.

Mikki Norris, Director

Cannabis Consumers Campaign www.cannabisconsumers.org

Coordinator, Human Rights and the Drug War www.hr95.org

Co-author, _Shattered Lives: Portraits from America's Drug War_

Co-author, _Human Rights and the Drug War_