witchlinblue
06-21-2005, 08:49 PM
LEAP ( Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ) is made up of current and former members of law enforcement (from various parts of the world) who support drug regulation rather than prohibition.
http://www.leap.cc/
Its a very informative site to visit and a real eye opener when you realize these are member of the police who have this view.
You can also join as a 'Friend Of Leap' and show your support.
On this site you can also find a great list of upcoming events that may interest you including various interviews on the radio and other events that you can attend to show your support. http://www.leap.cc/events/events.php
Also, there are various audio and video files you can view and listen too. The player to view or listen to them has a link on the page if you dont already have it. http://www.leap.cc/audiovideo/index.htm
A quote from Leap web site:
'After nearly four decades of fueling the U.S. policy of a war on drugs with over half-a-trillion tax dollars and increasingly punitive policies, our confined population has quadrupled over a 20 years period making building prisons this nation's fastest growing industry. More than 2.2 million of our citizens are currently incarcerated and every year we arrest an additional 1.6 million for nonviolent drug offenses more per capita than any country in the world. The United States has 4.6 percent of the population of the world but 22.5 percent of the world's prisoners. 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!'
http://www.leap.cc/
Its a very informative site to visit and a real eye opener when you realize these are member of the police who have this view.
You can also join as a 'Friend Of Leap' and show your support.
On this site you can also find a great list of upcoming events that may interest you including various interviews on the radio and other events that you can attend to show your support. http://www.leap.cc/events/events.php
Also, there are various audio and video files you can view and listen too. The player to view or listen to them has a link on the page if you dont already have it. http://www.leap.cc/audiovideo/index.htm
A quote from Leap web site:
'After nearly four decades of fueling the U.S. policy of a war on drugs with over half-a-trillion tax dollars and increasingly punitive policies, our confined population has quadrupled over a 20 years period making building prisons this nation's fastest growing industry. More than 2.2 million of our citizens are currently incarcerated and every year we arrest an additional 1.6 million for nonviolent drug offenses more per capita than any country in the world. The United States has 4.6 percent of the population of the world but 22.5 percent of the world's prisoners. 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!'