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General
GENERAL our speakers entered into a career of law enforcement, they pledged to protect and serve. Realizing that their participation in the War on Drugs undermined the fulfillment of that pledge, the men and women of LEAP have joined forces to take action. It requires integrity, passion and bravery for our speakers to rise above the status quo.
MISSION The mission of LEAP is to reduce the multitude of harms resulting from fighting the War on Drugs and to lessen the rates of death, disease, crime, and addiction by ultimately ending drug prohibition.
GOALS LEAP's goals are: (1) To educate the public, the media and policymakers about the failure of current drug policy by presenting a true picture of the history, causes and effects of drug use and the elevated crime rates more properly related to drug prohibition than to drug pharmacology and (2) To restore the public's respect for law enforcement, which has been greatly diminished by its involvement in imposing drug prohibition.
SPEAKERS BUREAU COMPOSITION Incorporated on March 16, 2002, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition has grown from five founding police officers to a membership of over 12,000 and growing daily including over 125 speakers, living in 38 of the United States and in 8 other countries. All LEAP speakers are former drug-warriors; police, parole, probation, and corrections officers, judges, prosecutors, prison wardens, FBI, and DEA agents. LEAP has members and supporters across the United States and in fifty-six other countries.
ORIGIN OF SPEAKERS BUREAU LEAP is a tax exempt, international, nonprofit, educational entity based in the United States that was modeled after Vietnam Veterans Against the War. These Veterans had an unassailable credibility when speaking out to end that terrible war and LEAP has the same credibility when its former drug-warriors speak out against the horrors of the War on Drugs. LEAP's message demands the attention of the media and resonates with members of law enforcement who question current U.S. drug policies.
TOGETHER WE CAN! End the prohibition of currently illicit substances, raise awareness of the harm wrought by the U.S. led "War on Drugs"and educate the public about legalization as a safer more effective measure for dealing with drug use, abuse and addiction.
Movies
"End Prohibition Now" view at http://www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com
"Anyone concerned about the failure of our $69 billion-a-year War on Drugs should watch this 12-minute program. You will meet front line, ranking police officers who give us a devastating report on why it cannot work. It is a must-see for any journalist or public official dealing with this issue."
-- Walter Cronkite
also:
Serpico, Maria Full of Grace, Reefer Madness
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN ANSWERING A QUESTION ON THE WAR ON DRUGS
Books
The New Prohibition: Voices of Dissent Challenge the Drug War, Drug War Facts compiled by Common Sense for Drug Policy, Breaking Rank by Norm Stamper
Heroes
Frank Serpico, Bob Owens, Ralph Salerno, John Perry, Jack Cole, Peter Christ and all the other drug policy pioneers!
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, official page's Details
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, official page's Blurbs
About me: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) is a 12,000-member organization representing cops, judges, prosecutors, prison wardens and others who now want to legalize and regulate all drugs after witnessing and perpetrating horrors on the front lines of the "war on drugs."
ANY citizen can join as a member today for free by visiting http://www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com and entering your e-mail address at the top-left of the page.
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone who believes legalizing all drugs will lessen the rates of death, disease, crime, addiction, and government waste associated with the "War on Drugs."
John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN ) for 6 am. While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA ) was perking, he shaved with his electric razoz (MADE IN HONG KONG ) He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA ), designr jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE ) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA) After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA ) he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO ) to see how much he could spend today. After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN ) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA ) he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY ) filled it with GAS (from Saudi Arabia ) and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB. At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his Computer (made in MALAYSIA ), John decided to relax for a while. He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL ), poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE ) and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA ), and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in AMERICA AND NOW HE'S HOPING HE CAN GET HELP FROM A PRESIDENT MADE IN KENYA Y'all gotta Keep this one circulating, please!
are you excited for addy to move?i wasnt for keifer but i guess yesterday he went to go visit and refused to back to the 2s and stayed with sharen the hole day! i think addy will do fine because she is very sassy so the bigger kids wont pick on her:)she moves monday? you gonna be able to help her out? did you ever start on them online survey things i told you about? i hope you did, i just another check, this was for $237 from 2 weeks ago. if you didn't yet, pshhh, get on it; i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is again:
"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul." ~ Rabbi Harold Kushner ~
Friday night, June 6, 1969. The police came to my house and took me from bed and the arms of the love of my life for being a hippie. I was locked in a jail cell for the next seventeen months, with nothing to read except . . . the Bible. (Coincidence? I think not.) No exercise, no sunshine, no music. Except for the futility of it all, and the monumental stupidity of the folks who’d taken charge of running my life, I had a pretty good time. I was housed right across from Timothy Leary’s one-man cell for a while—he was also in for weed—a real honor. I was getting like three years four months and twelve days life experience for every month I was locked up; a better education for the real world it turned out than college.
Having lost all respect for “the authorities”, when I was released on November 7, 1970, with a five-years-to-life sentence to be imposed if I failed to complete five years formal probation, and knowing there was no way I could go that long without doing something more fun than they thought appropriate, I decided to take off and have as much of a life as possible before they got their misguided hands on me again. So living every day like it could be my last, I ended up having a WAY better life than I probably would have had otherwise. I finally wore out this lucky old body and turned myself in, and with the help of a NORML lawyer, I got totally legal in 2003.
I’d now just like to thank the guy who set me and nine other hippies—including his own younger brother—up for drug sales to get off his burglary, resisting arrest, and assault on two police officers charges. Chuck, I don’t know about the rest of the guys, but except for losing Gerri, you did me a good turn. Heh.
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