Jacob Sullum Finally Has Some Good News to Cover. Give Us Money So We Can Send Him to Places With Legal Weed!

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lives, in exchange for you giving us your money—$200,000
of it before the witching hour tomorrow, we hope! 

Today’s example of what we bring to you, the beautiful people:
Senior Editor
Jacob Sullum. Since 1989 (!) Jacob has been helping people calm
the Fletch down about drugs. His books, Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug
Use and For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and
the Tyranny of Public Health are must-reads for
anyone whose panties are starting to feel bunchy about individuals
choosing to ingest, inject, or inhale substances of their own
choosing (without causing harm to anyone else).

Sullum has been banging the anti-prohibitionist drum for
decades, sometimes nearly alone. So imagine our surprise and
delight when we realized that we could actually send our P-word
correspondent to a place where recreational marijuana was legal. In
the U.S. and A., of all places.

What he sent back was a super detailed, scrupulously fair
account of
what’s working (whoo Colorado),
what’s not working (ahem, Washington state), and also what’s in
store for all of us as legalization fever spreads. (While in the
line of duty, Jacob did manage to overdo
it a little on the gummy candies, but valuable lessons were
learned and shared.)

We need your donations so that we can keep
sending Jacob to cover the slow, bleary American awakening from the
War on Drugs in real time.

Sullum doesn’t just preach to your choir about intoxicants. He
writes columns for Forbes about
the
bad facts and
bad faith that
plagues the debate as well.

And though he’s arguably the best drug-war reporter in the
country, that is hardly Sullum’s only beat. Just think of how much
clarity he brought to the crazy-making journalistic discussion over

Trayvon Martin’s killing and “Stand Your Ground” laws, for one
of many examples. If you want scrupulously fair readings of law,
politics, and Salvia-smoking, we challenge you to name someone
better at it than Jacob damned Sullum!

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