March 27, 2009: Canadian MP Libby Davies speaks truth to power in her call to stop mandatory minimum sentencing for drug crimes, including the possession of one marijuana plant if it is deemed to be for the purpose of trafficking. Continue...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A group of police and judges who want to legalize drugs pointed to new FBI numbers released today as evidence that the "war on drugs" is a failure that can never be won. The data, from the FBI's "Crime in the United States" report, shows that in 2008 there were 1,702,537 arrests for drug law violations, or one drug arrest every 18 seconds.
"In our current economic climate, we simply cannot afford to keep arresting more than three people every minute in the failed 'war on drugs,'" said Jack Cole, a retired undercover narcotics detective who now heads the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). "Plus, if we legalized and taxed drug sales, we could actually create new revenue in addition to the money we'd save from ending the cruel policy of arresting users."
NEW YORK― Walter Cronkite, America’s trusted broadcaster and father figure to a nation for decades, has died in New York at the age of 92.
Covering the most important stories of his time – including the
assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Doctor Martin Luther
King, Jr., the ups and downs of the Vietnam War, Egypt’s breakthrough
peace treaty with Israel, and man’s first step on the moon – Americas
trusted Walter Cronkite to report the facts the way they were, as
symbolized by his famous sign off, “That’s the way it is.”
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition makes the LEAP to Brazil
Director Jack Cole presented LEAP’s solution to ending the violence to the Brazilian Commission on Drugs and Democracy
Director Jack Cole on TV-Globo from Rio de Janeiro
(In Portuguese)
Brazilian Judges become LEAP speakers
André Luiz Nicolitt
Maria Lucia Karam
LEAP Board Member
Rubens Casara
Three days before LEAP arrived in Brazil, drug gang violence in Rio de Janeiro killed 33, including two Police officers when their helicopter was shot from the sky.
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Sen. Jim Webb Pushes Blue Ribbon Commission to Study the Failed "Drug War"
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LEAP Russian Translation
Thanks to Kyrgyzstan Police Colonel Alexander Zelitchenko, PhD, the republican Police Newspaper, "Statja"
(Kyrgyz Republic) started to publish information about LEAP's goals and activities 20 May 2009 and
continued in their next edition, 3 June 2009. Please view here.
We are sorry but LEAP currently has no Russian speaking staff so comments to us must be addressed in English.
$815,000 Settlement Validating Police Sergeant Jonathan Wender's Right to Speak out Against Drug Prohibition
On what US policy-reform issue could these 6 people possibly agree?
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William F. Buckley, Jr.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Milton Friedman
Howard Zinn
George P. Schultz
Legalized Regulation of all Drugs!
COPS SAY LEGALIZE DRUGS!
ASK US WHY
After nearly four decades of fueling the U.S. policy of a war on drugs with over a trillion tax dollars and 37 million arrests for nonviolent drug offenses, our confined population has quadrupled making building prisons the fastest growing industry in the United States. More than 2.2 million of our citizens are currently incarcerated and every year we arrest an additional 1.9 million more guaranteeing those prisons will be bursting at their seams. Every year we choose to continue this war will cost U.S. taxpayers another 69 billion dollars. Despite all the lives we have destroyed and all the money so ill spent, today illicit drugs are cheaper, more potent, and far easier to get than they were 35 years ago at the beginning of the war on drugs. Meanwhile, people continue dying in our streets while drug barons and terrorists continue to grow richer than ever before. We would suggest that this scenario must be the very definition of a failed public policy. This madness must cease!
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I must confess, I think too much. Whether my thoughts are rational or irrational is another debate, but I do know that I think too much. Sometimes I wish I could vegetate and tune out to the world in front of The Bachelorette or Oprah on TV. Instead, I am cursed with an active brain.
I ...
What is going on in our world when Canadian Church of the Universe Reverends, among others, have their home taken from under them due to proceeds of crime for selling $60.00 worth of cannabis? And when Marc Emery, Canada’s Prince of Pot, is given a minimum five year sentence for selling ...
12/13/09 - Leigh Maddox(download)
Leigh Maddox, former Maryland state police officer and now a speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition + Tony Newman of Drug Policy Alliance with Top Ten drug reform stories of 2009
11/01/09 - Bradley Jardis(download)
Bradley Jardis, a working policeman is under fire for his involvement with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition + Cliff Thornton of Efficacy and extract from PBS program: "Botany of Desire"
09/06/09 - Russ Jones(download)
Russ Jones with 30+ years law enforcement experience and member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition + Abolitionists Moment
08/23/09 - Neill Franklin(download)
Police officer Neill Franklin whose OpEd was in last weeks Wash Post discusses drug war with DTN listeners + Abolitionist's Moment
Jack Cole's presentation "End Prohibition Now!" was selected in 2007 by the International Harm Reduction Association as one of the 50 best harm reduction papers worldwide.
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Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper on FOX News
LEAP in the News
CN BC: Bill C-15 Means Big Hit To BC Budget
The Georgia Straight, 31 Dec 2009 - Liberal senator Larry Campbell claims that Bill C-15 could cost B.C. taxpayers tens of millions in incarceration fees if the Conservative legislation seeking mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences becomes law. "Provincially, I think it could be $30 or $40 million out of the provincial budget for putting people in jail," Campbell told the Straight by phone. "There was a study that suggested it could be up to 1,000 more inmates a year, so figure it out from there."
CN BC: Vancouver Police Department on Wrong Side of Drug Policy
The Georgia Straight, 22 Dec 2009 - Why Is The Vancouver Police Department Trying To Manipulate The Senate Of Canada? On December 8, one day before a key vote, the department issued a statement opposing minor amendments to Bill C-15. The proposed law would create mandatory minimum sentences for certain drug offences. Numerous policy experts have criticized the bill, stating that it will do nothing to address the crime, addiction, disease, and death generated by the black market for illegal drugs.
US MI: Woes Expected in Enforcement of Marijuana Law
Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, 20 Dec 2009 - The state's medical marijuana program -- begun in April -- hasn't created headaches for Livingston County's law enforcement, but likely will as the program grows, said county Sheriff Bob Bezotte. The Michigan Medical Marihuana Program allows patients with debilitating illnesses to grow and possess marijuana for medicinal purposes. Those approved receive cards that indicate their participation in the program.
US MI: A Southwest Michigan Growth Industry: Medical-Marijuana Economy is Growin
Kalamazoo Gazette, 20 Dec 2009 - KALAMAZOO -- A shop specializing in hydroponic-growing equipment opened this month in Three Rivers. In January, classes on soil nutrition and proper lighting will begin in Kalamazoo. By March, a cooperative in Benton Harbor may be doling out ounces of pot to patients.
"Anyone concerned about the failure of our $69 billion-a-year War on Drugs
should watch this 12-minute program. You will meet front line, ranking
police officers who give us a devastating report on why it cannot work. It
is a must-see for any journalist or public official dealing with this
issue."-- Walter Cronkite
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introduces a group of maverick cops - and former cops - who have put in decades fighting the
war on drugs. They may be libertarians, Republicans, socialists or evangelical Christians,
but they all believe strongly that drug prohibition is a terrible mistake and that all
illicit drugs should be controlled by government, not in the hands of criminals.
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