If you haven't seen it yet, WATCH the "House I Live in" on PBS, Independent Lens, on Monday, April 8 at 10 pm. It includes Neill Franklin, Julie Stewart and David Simon. I think it is the best documentary about the war on drugs!
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Thursday, April 04, 2013
Monday, January 30, 2012
Obama again ducks questions on marijuana from American Internet public
Once again the President invites the public to submit questions to him and vote on the most urgent or important ones for him to answer in a live YouTube interview. Once again questions regarding marijuana legalization, the costs of marijuana prisoners, the use of marijuana in medicine, hemp, marijuana and taxes, marijuana and the economy, etc. received far more votes than any other topic. This question from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition was the second highest vote getter.
And once again the President's handlers make sure that the questions are not asked! Indeed, the White House deleted a question from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Open White House? Pathetic!
UPDATE:
John McWorter at the New York Daily News blasts Google and YouTube for not asking about marijuana, noting that New York City Police are making over 50,000 marijuana arrests per year -- even though marijuana possession was decriminalized as a violation with a maximum $100 fine in 1977.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
LEAP asks Obama if "We do big things" on drug policy
Retired Deputy Sheriff McKenzie Allen (Los Angeles County, CA, and King County, WA), a LEAP member, addresses the President in 30 seconds on YouTube to ask if he will consider studying legalization, regulation and control of drugs to reduce violence and save lives.
The President is taking questions from the public such as this to be addressed on Jan. 27, 2011 at 2:30 p.m. EST to be streamed live on youTube. Mr. Allen's video received more votes than any other submitted question in on-line voting.
LEAP is Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Tom Angell, Media Director for LEAP, notes that President Obama has treated previous questions along these lines as a joke. LEAP Executive Director, retired Maryland State Police Major Neill Franklin, noting that close friends of his have been murdered while investigating drug cases, says this is "not a laughing matter, and the president should not treat it as such."
Tune in and see if the White House and the President, when it comes to fixing our failed drug policy, is able to say "We Do Big Things!"
Thursday, August 19, 2010
National Black Police Association endorses marijuana legalization
At their annual meeting in Sacramento, CA on Aug. 19, the National Black Police Association endorsed Proposition 19 and the legalization of marijuana.
This is particularly significant because these cops have historically had to struggle to be taken seriously by their peers in the station house. This action by an organization that represents tens of thousands of active duty police officers is an important step toward establishing marijuana legalization as a legitimate position in the law enforcement community.
LEAP's new Executive Director Neill Franklin, a former patrol officer in Baltimore, Maryland, played a key role in speaking to the NBPA membership.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
The Tea Party: What's brewing on drug policy?
Harvard Professor Jeffrey Miron, the brilliant libertarian economist, advised the Tea Party, in a short a National Review Online column, in June 2010, to take the libertarian path on drug policy.
Amen. Drug prohibition is the paradigmatic government program that fails to deliver what it promises. It doesn't reduce crime, it creates crime. It doesn't protect health, it makes drug use more dangerous. It doesn't hurt drug traffickers, it guarantees that the successful ones will be rich.
The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation is proud to have sponsored several of his papers. This one, in December 2008, was produced for the LEAP-CJPF project on the anniversary of the repeal of alcohol prohibition, and this one, in February 2010, was a state-by-state followup on the potential cost savings and tax revenues.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
LEAP's Norm Stamper on Democracy Now, Mar. 30, 2009
Norm Stamper, the brilliantly articulate former Chief of Police in Seattle, was interviewed on Democracy Now on March 30 about drug legalization.
His analysis would not be new to students of this issue. But he tells how, many years ago, making his first arrest of a 19-year old for possession of marijuana, after breaking into the suspects home), he wondered about the public safety value of the arrest.
Stamper would begin a case by case review of persons in prison on drug charges to release those who would not be a danger to the community.
I very strongly recommend his book, Breaking Rank. It covers many of the important issues in policing and police management.
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