Christmas Match Funding Challenge Starts Today! Double Your Gift And Help End the War On Drugs

The Allen Lane Foundation, for a second year running, haveoffered us an amazing opportunity to get your gift to End the War onDrugs doubled, and it starts TODAY.

Increasing numbers of politicians, policemen, doctors,journalists, and academics are acknowledging that the War on Drugs has failed.Even the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, which is responsible for enforcing thecurrent approach, has identified huge negative unintended consequences of thispolicy.

Deploying military and police to eradicate drug crops, ever morepunitive enforcement activities, and mass incarceration are expensive andinvariably counter-productive. The drug war is having a particularly devastatingimpact on some of the most vulnerable throughout the world. From Afghanistan, to Mexico, to the UK, leaving the drug trade in the hands of violentcriminals is destroying communities, and ensuring drug related heath harmscontinue to get worse. 

Yet, we are now at a once-in-a-generation tipping-pointmoment. This year, we have seen a growing trend towards the decriminalisationof drug possession internationally, and a rising chorus of voices calling for a new approach to drug policy, with public figures such as theGlobal Commission on Drug Policy, (including Kofi Annan and four former headsof state), a former UK Defence Secretary, the editor of the British MedicalJournal, and the serving Presidents of Mexico and Colombia all questioning the war on drugs and calling for reform.

Transform has played a key role in shifting the domestic andinternational debate from the margins to the mainstream, and meaningful reformsare now a very real possibility. We need your help to build on thismomentum and seize this opportunity to end the war on drugs.

If you donate through our website today yourgift could be worth twice as much (and even more with Gift Aid). It's allthanks to the Allen Lane Foundation who will match gifts pound-for-poundonline. And, this year, the pot of matched funding available is worth £70,000 -that means there’s never been a better time to give.

So, please, get your gift doubled right now. And, don'tforget to forward this message to your friends and family too, and help us makethe most of this amazing opportunity to end the War on Drugs and create asafer, healthier world.

We really do appreciate your help. Thank you and MerryChristmas

Caroline Pringle
Chief Executive