Courtesy of the Agitator here is a video clip about Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a group discussed in this post. The clip is not only persuasive in its argument (i.e. that the War on Drugs is useless, counterproductive, and breeds violence) but also moving in its display of law officers’ honesty.
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This November, voters in both Colorado and Nevada will be able to decide on an amendment that legalizes the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana for individuals over the age of 21. The movement to get the question on the ballot in CO was led by SAFER Colorado (Safer Alternatives For Enjoyable [...]

“Plan Columbia,” which was instituted by the Clinton Administration as an attempt to eradicate cocaine supplies in Columbia by fumigating coca farms, has resulted in a near zero change in the price and purity of the drug on American streets, according to a New York Times story. Overall, there is as much coca being grown [...]

Thanks once again to Pete Guthier’s Drug War Rant, I’ve been directed to an AP story on Yahoo news that points to the all-time high amount of opium cultivation that is currently taking place in Afghanistan.
According to the article, the West has spent millions in counternarcotics money, only to see opium cultivation go [...]

The negative outcry in response to the DEA exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry has finally reached the mainstream media, as a recent article about it has appeared in the Washington Post.
The wave of criticism of the exhibit has relied in part upon traditional arguments connecting the ineffective War of Drugs to [...]

The DEA Exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry has come under fire recently by both anti-prohibitionists and non-activists alike for being a blatant piece of propaganda that offensively and spuriously links the failing War on Drugs to terrorism.
Click here for a press release put out by DrugWarRant, which also offers detailed [...]

Finally! Pete Guthier of Drug War Rant recently got his letter to the editor of Central Illnois paper “The Pantagraph” published online. I say “finally” because it is about time that sensible opponents of irrational drug policies get their voices heard in the mainstream media. Unfortunately, the only people who visit these [...]

A recently revitalized drug enforcement training course for MA police has been criticized by Jack Cole, former NJ state trooper and founder of Law Enforcement Officers Against Prohibition (LEAP), for being a “total waste of money.”
LEAP calls for the legalization of drugs on the widely-known grounds that the War on Drugs has been both unsuccessful [...]

According to report from the Colorado Daily, 22-year old Michael Wilson died last weekend after being shot by a police officer with a Taser gun. Wilson was running from police and the “Boulder County Drug Task Force,” who had suspected him of growing marijuana in a nearby field.
Of course, Wilson is a [...]

A Radley Balko article on FoxNews presents an interesting list of suggestions for lessening the damages of the failed War on Drugs (which, as Balko points out, has not changed the drug use rate, has filled the jails while doing nothing to affect the dropping price of illegal drugs, and has had no effect on [...]