Dear Friend,
We are building a better world with fewer people dying of drug overdose … fewer people being arrested for drug possession ... and millions of lives saved from being derailed by a drug arrest ... and we’re making all that possible by ending the criminalization of drugs.
At this critical moment in our history, the momentum we have gathered is especially significant. And today we are more committed than ever to our mission.
We need your support to help fuel our movement of change and build a society in which the use and regulation of drugs are grounded in health, autonomy, and compassion. That’s why we are excited to announce a special opportunity to have every gift we receive until December 31 MATCHED!
For more than 50 years, elected officials and leaders lied to us—the war on drugs is NOT about safety. It’s about the strategic targeting of already-marginalized communities through surveillance and incarceration.
With your help, we’re fighting for holistic reform to remedy the drug war’s vast and rippling effects in our daily lives. From education, healthcare, and housing to immigration and employment, the devastating impacts of the war on drugs have infiltrated almost every other system with severe consequences, trapping people in poverty, robbing them of their homes, depriving them of their wages and job opportunities, and separating them from their families.
You can make a gift that will be MATCHED—up to $150,000—to help the Drug Policy Alliance build momentum to end the war on drugs and promote new policies that help instead of punish.
Ending the war on drugs tomorrow will not right the wrongs it has caused overnight. It will not erase the pain experienced by so many millions of people, including the more than 450,000 people who are behind bars in U.S. prisons and jails for drug offenses as we speak. It will not restore the economic, educational, and career opportunities they have been robbed of or give them back the time they have lost with their loved ones.
Ending the war on drugs will allow us to build an alternative approach and a better future. One wherein, through decriminalization, legalization, and restitution, long overdue justice becomes the new status quo. And we need your help to do it.
Please make a gift that will double today to help DPA fight for drug policies that end punishment and instead focus on the health, safety, and well-being that all of us deserve.
Together, we can reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition and give people rights over their minds and bodies.
Thank you for all that you do to help us end the war on drugs.
Drug Policy Alliance
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