Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper on Ending the Drug War

Norm Stamper is a cop who saw it all during his 34 years on active duty. As police of Seattle from 1994 through 2000, he was in charge during violent World Trade Organization protests in the Emerald City.

Stamper is the author of the Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing (2005) and now works with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a nonprofit created by former cops to "reduce the multitude of unintended harmful consequences resulting from fighting the war on drugs and to lessen the incidence of death, disease, crime, and addiction by ultimately ending drug prohibition."

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[Neuwo]

I agree with this video 100%.

Wake up America, it's time to embrace truth and liberty.

[cammoguy]

Can we get this guy to run for president?

[legalizeweed420allda]

ron paul is running and wants to legalize weed. if u want weed to be legal, vote for ron paul

[nycemilystromberg]

awsome so he wants seattle to end up like BC ? he needs to research what happens when you drop your drug laws and have drugs out in the open !! we will ruin our city like Vancouver BC has!

[dazinator]

I'd love to see Norm shut Bill O'Reilly up on the O'Reilly Factor.

[BlindMaphisto]

We have American troops in Afghanistan growing heroin and the CIA smuggling cocaine into the country while forging relationships with crack dealers. America will never end the war on drugs because America is the worlds largest drug dealer.

[KnighttVision]

What a cool cop!

[cheefieweefie]

its 2010 and and still no change. Plz stay in law enforcement or politics cause people need a voice such as you.  go seattle!!!!!

[MoCityDon1508]

LEGALIZE IT

[OveryonderStudios]

A great visual accompaniment to Stamper's foreword in, and the book itself, "Marijuana Is Safer" (can be found on Scribd)

by Steve Fox, Paul Armentano and Mason Tvert.