Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Many police officers are asking the question: if prohibition didn't work for alcohol, why are we in denial about it working for other things? LEAP is a major initiative now, and gaining steam. Check out www.leap.cc for more.

Filmed and narrated by Mike Gray
Produced by Common Sense for Drug Policy

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• War
• Against
• Drugs
• Law
• Enforcement
• Prohibition

[Bdiddly1]

i love the idea of police against prohibition,i grow weed&i dont break any other laws,im a good neighbor,father& citizen,i smoke weed&grow 2 plants for personal,yet im a criminal?hopefully the govt of the world will start to listen to these professionals!

[robertefernandez]

I have never seen such a cornucopia of disconnected comments in my life.

Stick to the topic. The "War" on drugs is a failure, just like prohibition was.

Wake up. If you or you're kid, or a friend was arrested and thrown into prison for holding a joint, you would be thinking.."wait a minute, this should be a personal choice, just like having a Scotch." We made progress with smoking, drunk driving and other things through education...we can do the same with drugs. Decriminalize it.

[tampabayismyhome]

the land of the free, but we can't decide what we put in are body.

[zenstillempty]

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[Bdiddly1]

@LanceHertford -your right,its only dangerous coz its illegal&the profits are vast so the criminals will do anything to protect there profit,legalise it overnight&the wee gangster idiots go away!

[Bdiddly1]

@LanceHertford - 1 of my mates just done a year in a prison in tunisia for having 1 gram of hash on him,he was the only westerner in a jail called morniguia,he was very lucky he isnt dead,this was just last year he was released&he was in during the wars in afghanistan etc,we are scottish&he managed to persuade the inmates he was a scots irishman NOT english/british,anyway prison for posession of drugs is fucked up in itself but imagine a year for a gram.

[Bdiddly1]

@LanceHertford -man that is fucked up,were you in prison for a while?&was it coz of gear?

[Bdiddly1]

@LanceHertford -&she was given diazepam to calm her nerves,she has now been on em for 35 years&she is a bag of nerves,thing is if she takes a smoke she calms down too,so thats another reason i dont trust doctors either,they KNOW cannabis is a miracle drug&know all the lies about thc being evil&causing depression/schizo episodes but they also know about the cbn/cbd &realise that thc on its own is a downer but mix it with cbn/cbd your on to a winning medicine!

[Bdiddly1]

@LanceHertford -man you have my sympathies for your past&that pisses me off too,the fact you have something that can calm those episodes&yet it's still illegal,wtf?a long time ago i was attacked&had to fight to defend myself,i ended up stabbing a guy who had attempted to break into my flat&had attacked my wife too,he died a couple of times on the op table&after that i got flashbacks&nightmares for a cple of yrs,i do sympathize with your situation mate.my mum was also attacked when i was a boy!

[LanceHertford]

@Bdiddly1 The worst thing is, people like me were sexually abused (I was actually raped when I was a toddler), we find something that provides a little respite from the flashbacks (which, by the way, are like a drug trip, themselves), we aren't hurting anyone, and so the government throws us in prison to become a sex slave for hardened criminals, and to submit to rape just to survive. Do you think we come out of that "reformed"? Better? No, you come out of it even more suicidal and crazy.

[LanceHertford]

@Bdiddly1 Basically, the drug war has made it illegal for you to even attempt to be your own doctor. We're so brainwashed.

[LanceHertford]

That's funny what he says about how when he first started off with his stings it was just friendly college students he was busting, but the more they started arresting people, the more it became dangerous gangs with AK-47's. How have people not noticed this? Look at the footage from the hippie movement. Those were the original dealers, back in the day. Do they really look dangerous to you? Unkempt, maybe, but not dangerous.