Diane Goldstein spent her career in policing. She enforced the drug laws. Her brother Billy was convicted under them. After 20 years in recovery and losing his job, Billy relapsed and was arrested. Drug charges made him unemployable, and being unemployable made him uninsurable. So Diane brought him home. She gave him work, structure, a place to belong, love with no conditions attached — everything a family can give someone, he had. It wasn't enough, because a family cannot write a prescription or clear a record.

Billy died of an accidental overdose in 2007. He was 47.

Diane joined LEAP's board and has been our Executive Director since 2021. Everything she's done since is an argument that drug use is a health issue, made by someone who once policed it as a crime.

Saturday, July 18th is her 65th birthday. Billy would be 66. Diane was born the same year the world signed the treaty that built the drug war, and she has spent her life on the other side of it.

We're asking for $65. One dollar for every year of Diane's life.

Our speakers give the day. $65 covers the ground.

LEAP's speakers aren't paid. They're people who spent careers enforcing the drug war and now spend their own time arguing against it. When one of them goes out to speak, we budget $60 for the day, so that showing up doesn't cost them money out of pocket.

We're asking for $65. The extra is the birthday.

Give $65. Or give $6.50, or $650. We're counting gifts, not dollars: 65 of them, one for each year of her life. Every one moves the number the same.

Want to ask your friends and family? Start a page and write three sentences about why you're in. The story's already written, so all it needs is you. Ten minutes, and the first 48 hours are where the money is.

Give $65 for Diane's 65th

She's getting 65. Billy got 47.

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