LEAP Becomes Latest Victim of Government Censorship
DATELINE: 8.26.2008
Arlington: Virginia - Retired police detective, Howard Wooldridge, representing Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) was ousted from the National Asian Peace Officers Association (NAPOA) Conference in Crystal City because he was representing a view contrary U.S. government policy.
LEAP is a 10,000-member organization of police, judges, prosecutors, DEA & FBI agents, and others who know ending drug prohibition will reduce death, disease, crime, and addiction, while saving billions of our tax dollars each year.
Omaha, NE and Medford, MA- On July 15, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition will unveil our first-ever ad campaign, which will kick off with a LEAP billboard in Omaha, Nebraska. With this effort, LEAP is looking to prove and increase awareness of the failures of 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!
Many people get caught up in whether one should use drugs or not (some even include alcohol and nicotine) and in the process they lose sight of the question of access and control. One can argue logically that one should not use drugs of any kind recreationally by beginning with a premise that ...
Failed public policy.. Controlled substances harder to get
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 08/14/08
Teenagers say they can now get their hands on prescription drugs more easily than beer, and many say that marijuana is more popular than cigarettes, according to a new survey ...
What is a DRUG?
I have thought for quite some time that semantics and definitions are problematic in many discussions about drugs. Many of the people with whom I’ve spoken refer to drugs as medicine and recreational drugs as dope, and many do not readily accept that nicotine and alcohol are ...
Norm Stamper is a cop who saw it all during his 34 years on active duty. As police of Seattle from 1994 through 2000, he was in charge during violent World Trade Organization protests in the Emerald City.
Scott Voorhees Show, KFAB News Radio, Omaha, Nebraska.
Tony Ryan is with an organization of current and former cops who say it's time to legalize drugs.
08/20/08 - Peter Moskos(download)
Peter Moskos, professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, author of Cop in the Hood and recent US NEWS and World Report article: "Drugs are too dangerous not to regulate - We should legalize them" + Poppygate Report with Glenn Greenway, Terry Nelson with LEAP Report
07/15/08 - Norm Stamper(download)
Special with: Gatewood Galbreath, Norm Stamper, Carl Veley, Sanho Tree, Chuck Thomas, The "Marijuanalogues", Bruce Mirken, Ethan Nadelmann
06/24/08 - Richard Watkins(download)
Richard Watkins a former Texas warden and current member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition + Eugene Fields, reporter with Orange County Register
06/17/08 - Sylvester Salcedo(download)
Sylvester Salcedo, a former naval intelligence officer is running for State Rep as a Democrat in Connecticutt. He's also a spokesman for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
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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LEAP is a U.S. Internal Revenue Service 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization.
If you are a resident of the U.S. your donations to LEAP are tax deductible.
The mission of LEAP is to reduce the multitude of unintended
harmful consequences resulting from fighting the war on drugs and to
lessen the incidence of death, disease, crime, and addiction by
ultimately ending drug prohibition.
Dr. Norm Stamper finished his 34-year police career as chief of police of Seattle, Washington. Stamper believes the drug war causes
untold misery, undermines effective law enforcement, and does not begin to pass any sort of cost-benefit analysis.
"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
"Damage Done
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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