April 7, 2009
I first heard one of LEAP's speakers back in 2006 at the Lawrence Library. Backed with considerable first-hand experience, their indictment of the War on Drugs is definitive and persuasive. Legalize and regulate all drugs. This may seem like a radical idea, but after filtering through all of the propaganda and cultural taboos that push genuine solutions to the side-lines, an honest discussion of the idea reveals it makes a hell of a lot of sense. Fortunately, the debate is finally getting some major air time on the big news networks. I've cataloged some of the best clips here below. Find out why cops want to legalize drugs.
Retired Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper tells Fox News why we should legalize drugs after what he witnessed fighting on the front lines of the "war on drugs."
Retired undercover narcotics officer Jack Cole now says it is time to legalize and regulate all drugs after spending years fighting on the front lines of the "war on drugs."
Retired California Superior Court Judge James Gray says we can hurt gangs and cartels by legalizing and regulating all drugs after spending years locking people up in the "war on drugs."
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alm77 (anonymous) says…
I was so floored when Obama laughed off the suggestion that legalizing drugs would create an income and reduce the burden on taxpayers. I don't do drugs and probably still wouldn't even if they were legal, but I'm still all for the decriminalization of marijuana. It just makes sense.
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MyName (anonymous) says…
I won't say legalization is a completely laughable idea, but it won't fix all of the problems that the LEAP people say it will while moving the problem of dealing with drug addicts away from law enforcement and into the medical professions.
Assuming it lowered the cost of drugs from the black market pricing structure, it would almost certainly reduce the number of petty crimes committed by people who steal stuff to fund their habits. However, drug cartels and street gangs exist because poorly educated urban young people can't get a good job and view turn to crime instead. If they can't make the money selling drugs, they'll find another criminal activity instead.
So simply decriminalizing drugs and calling it good won't do anything but keep the middle class and rich users out of jail. And they're not the ones causing most of the problems or spending the most time in prison in the first place.
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