Do you think its fair that innocent people should go to prison for 4 years simply for having a small marijuana joint on them? Do you think its worth our tax paying money to fund something that puts innocent people in prison? Also that doesn’t even help? its been 94 years and the “War on Drugs” has not ended, and never will.  L.E.AP also thinks its time to stop the prohibition.

Now law enforcement officers agree that this prohibition for drugs and marijuana is just too costly and even getting to dangerous for them as well. L.E.A.P Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is organization of law enforcement officers that are trying to educate the congressman of the united states of personal experience. The congressman are not the ones who deal with the wasteful “War on Drugs” that’s been going on for 94 years in the United States, but the police officers. Everyday police must maintain public safety and by law fight against drugs for the “War on Drugs”. This organization is progressing well and is getting support all around the world.

A retired policeman and detective Howard Wooldridge of Lansing, Michigan is a supporter of L.E.A.P and has researched and interviewed many senators about the “War on Drugs”.  “U.S. taxpayers do not understand the incredible deception perpetrated on them by the Drug War. You might even term it a “racket” by those who stand in the power corridors of Washington, DC. “  says Wooldridge.

Officer Wooldridge talked with Senator Biden (D-DE) last month. Senator Biden (D-DE) said at a hearing in February 2008 that drug prohibition touches 60 percent of all crime in America. Wooldridge advised to dramatically reduce crime, death, disease and drug use, the U.S. must end the prohibition approach on the 10 most used drugs.

Here are some facts about drug prohibition: 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

Here is a sample of the article:

“Many experts agree that the first drug to become legal and regulated will be marijuana. As DEA law judge Francis Young concluded after an exhaustive study of cannabis: “Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.” Its use has rarely been a public safety issue. One cannot overdose on it. Moreover, its legalization would be a tremendous boost to improve public safety. Why? Road officers spend million of hours searching cars for a baggie of pot. They could concentrate on the deadly DUI and reckless drivers. They would be re-directed to find and arrest the child predators on line looking for a 13 year old girl. Federal agents could completely focus on Al Qaeda and stop wasting time on medical marijuana gardens in California.”

Read the full article here

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 at 11:41 pm

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