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...
Drug-Legalizing Cops Say Prohibition Is Opposite of Drug Control
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A group of police, prosecutors, judges and corrections officers who fought on the front lines of the "war on drugs" reiterated their call for legalizing and regulating all drugs after today's release of the United Nations World Drug Report 2009, which begins with an attempted refutation of legalization arguments – on page one of the report.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Vice President Joe Biden announced the Obama administration's nomination of Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske today as the nation's next "drug czar," formally known as director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
December is the 75th anniversary of when America's leaders had the good sense to end alcohol prohibition. Today, we have another ineffective, harmful and expensive prohibition, the "war on drugs." LEAP has made it easy for you to take action and let your legislators know that we can't afford prohibition in these tough economic times. Visit www.WeCanDoItAgain.net for more information
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Sen. Jim Webb Pushes Blue Ribbon Commission to Study the Failed "Drug War"
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$815,000 Settlement Validating Police Sergeant Jonathan Wender's Right to Speak out Against Drug Prohibition
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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!
In part 4 of a multi-part series on prescription drug abuse, Eric
Sterling was asked the question, Prescription drugs are legal, but
drug dealers are still selling them on the street. How would
legalizing drugs fix that? Here is his response:
Thank you very much for asking this ...
The Los Angeles Times has a story today about Mexican legislation that will decriminalize possession of small amounts of drugs. The bill, which has passed the Mexican Congress and currently sits on the desk of President Felipe Calderon, seems like a small step in the right direction, but will ...
Russ Jones provides his ideas regarding the problem of prescription
drug abuse as it relates to drug prohibition:
1. In the 1970's we had a team in the narcotics bureau that
investigated the diversion of legal drugs into the illegal market.
The problem was minor compared to the illicit ...
Tom Angell, media relations director for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, asks White House "Drug Czar" Gil Kerlikowske what he thinks of all the recent discussion on drug legalization.
Retired Baltimore narcotics officer Neill Franklin debates President Bush's former DEA administrator, Asa Hutchinson, on the issue of legalizing marijuana.
Retired police captain Peter Christ wants to enlist you in the war against the "war on drugs." Peter, co-founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, shows you how you can get a cool LEAP badge lapel pin by donating just $5 at http://www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com/badge
Retired Baltimore narcotics officer Neill Franklin tells a local news station why he thinks we need to legalize all drugs after he spent decades fighting on the front lines of the "war on drugs."
06/28/09 - Peter Moskos(download)
Prof. Peter Moskos, LEAP speaker, former Baltimore cop and author of "Cop in the Hood" + Doug McVay interview of Amsterdam cannabis pioneer Bernard Bruining and Phil Jackson
04/12/09 - Terry Nelson(download)
CNN Power Lunch with Rob Kampia of Marijuana Policy Project, Soros production on UN Drug Policy + Terry Nelson of LEAP on Al Jazeera and with Anderson Cooper
03/25/09 - Terry Nelson(download)
UN Drug Conference NGO's speak in Vienna, with Professor Fredrick Polak, Terry Nelson of LEAP, Lennice Werth, Chris Conrad and Mikki Norris, courtesy Vienna Public Radio
03/15/09 - Russ Jones(download)
Russ Jones, a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition with more than 30 years experience as a cop and DEA agent + Terry Nelson of LEAP reports on the UN conference in Vienna
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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Silver Resigns From San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, Cites Unjust Drug Prohibition
Carol Ruth Silver, Directing Attorney at Prisoner Legal Services for the Office of the Sheriff, San Francisco, will resign from her position effective February 21, stating that she cannot justify prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. She intends to campaign for the repeal of drug prohibition. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition holds the highest admiration for Ms. Silver’s integrity as a person who would leave a job she truly cares about because she disagrees with the war on drugs and its harmful consequences.
Please read Carol Ruth Silver’s resignation letter here.
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US: Web: Progressives Push Against Drug War: Will Dems Listen?
Huffington Post, 02 Jul 2009 - It's official. We can now talk openly about what the great majority of us have known for a long time: drug prohibition isn't working, and never will. It's time to try something different. News organizations are awash in stories about the failure of the "drug war." Latest issues of three of the most influential progressive magazines have feature stories on the topic. Mother Jones puts drug policy on its cover -- under the headline "Totally Wasted" ( as in, money and lives ) -- as part of a package including at least 10 separate pieces on topic.
US CA: Column: Time to Fly White Flag on War on Drugs
The Modesto Bee, 23 Jun 2009 - This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Nixon's start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won. "We've spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs," Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle, told me. "What do we have to show for it? Drugs are more readily available, at lower prices and higher levels of potency. It's a dismal failure."
CN BC: Speakers Tackle Medical Marijuana Issue At Forum
Grand Forks Gazette, 24 Jun 2009 - Current drug enforcement laws and a government system for the provision of medical marijuana are failing Canadians, residents heard from an expert panel last week. Rielle Capler, of the Centre for Addiction Research B.C., and Tony Smith, from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, presented information about medical marijuana, regulations governing it, and problems within the current legal system to the crowd of over 40 people ranging in age from 20 through 80 at the Thursday, June 18 meeting. The forum was hosted by the city at a cost $1,100. Capler spoke about the use of medical marijuana in treatment of symptoms related to specific conditions, methods of use and possible harms before delving into the current regulatory process for legal access to medical marijuana and the development of compassion clubs as a response to gaps in the current system.
US OK: Officials' Solution to War on Drugs: Legalization
The Ada Evening News, 22 Jun 2009 - Ada -- A group of both current and former law enforcement officials want to end the war on drugs. "The issue has to be addressed," said Wes Johnson, a Tulsa defense attorney and former Tulsa police officer.
"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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