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Press Releases
PR: ONE DRUG ARREST EVERY 18 SECONDS IN THE U.S.
Posted by tomangell on Monday, September 14, 2009 (14:00:52) (3367 reads)
NEW FBI NUMBERS SHOW FAILURE OF "WAR ON DRUGS"
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."
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PR: Cronkite Recognized the Drug-War Failure and the Ending Prohibition Solution
Posted by superadmin on Saturday, July 18, 2009 (20:28:26) (3293 reads)
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.”
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PR: UN Report Shows Drug War Has Failed
Posted by tomangell on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 (20:55:13) (2169 reads)
Drug-Legalizing Cops Say Prohibition Is Opposite of Drug Control
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 24, 2009
CONTACT: Tom Angell – (202) 557-4979 or media@leap.cc
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.
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PR: LEAP Statement on New White House Drug Czar
Posted by superadmin on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 (16:21:11) (4571 reads)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 11, 2009
Obama Names Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske As Director of ONDCP
Drug-Legalizing Retired Seattle Chief Norm Stamper Comments
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.
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Congress Threatens El Paso Over Drug Legalization Debate
Posted by leapadmin on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 (17:11:12) (3773 reads)
City Council Upholds Mayor's Veto After Hint of Losing Funds
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 14, 2009
El Paso, TX -- On Tuesday the El Paso City Council voted, 4-4, to sustain the mayor's veto of a resolution calling for a national debate on drug legalization as a solution to the cartel violence problem plaguing sister city Cuidad Juarez, just across the Mexico border.
Three of the four council members voting to uphold the mayor's silencing of the discussion said on the record during council deliberations that they did so only because Congressman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) and the city's state legislative delegation sent letters raising the possibility that El Paso would lose federal and state money should it continue insisting that legalization is a debatable solution to illegal drug trade violence.
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