Cops Against the Drug War

David Weigel | August 22, 2006

The great Radley Balko (read his research on no-knock raids here) flags this video from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: 5000 past and present officers of the law united to lobby for reform in America's drug laws. The group's been ramping up its public appearances, and this is a collection of the best stuff. (Warning: The gap between organization quality and website quality will shrink as the group grows in prominence. Hopefully.)

Comments

|8.22.06 @ 12:21PM|#

Thanks to Peter Bagge, I knew that was Norm Stamper before his name popped up.

|8.22.06 @ 12:22PM|#

A new meaning to the term drug war

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1855466,00.html

Warren|8.22.06 @ 12:26PM|#

Amen

L Arnold|8.22.06 @ 1:34PM|#

Hell is freezing over?

It's about thyme.

crazymonk|8.22.06 @ 1:54PM|#

And don't forget about the Question 7 on the Nevada ballot this November; if it passes, it will remove penalties for adults 21 and over to possess and use marijuana in the privacy of their own homes, as well as set up a legal system of cultivation and distribution within the state:

http://www.regulatemarijuana.org

|8.22.06 @ 2:14PM|#

website quality

Wow. The clusterfuck at the bottom of that page really has to be seen to be believed.

|8.22.06 @ 2:45PM|#

Hopefully these guys get as big as MADD and get a national bill legalizing drugs.

|8.22.06 @ 3:16PM|#

<sarcasm>

wrt the incarceration rates of black males under apartheid South Africa and 2004 United States--We're Number One! We're Number One!

</sarcasm>

|8.23.06 @ 12:44AM|#

Everyone of them should shave thier beards and get hair cuts you could bounce a quarter off of.

Seriously my dad is one of those mindless tough on drugs guys and as soon as he sees that pony tail he will not hear another word.

Chris Howell|8.23.06 @ 8:41AM|#

Speaking of no-knock raids and the militarization of civilian law enforcement ... In Michigan they called out the SWAT team to do crowd control at a classic car cruise. Go to the following page and scroll about halfway down the page.
http://www.autoblog.com/2006/08/20/woodward-dream-cruise-2006-the-funny-cars-of-woodward-gallery/

Jeremy Mahler|8.23.06 @ 10:53AM|#

LEAP is an amazing group - I have followed them ever since a rep of theirs spent an hour on one of our local talk stations, completely owning every redneck reactionary caller and making people actually THINK about their stances instead of regurgitating the old "drugs are bad, mmkay" lines.

|8.23.06 @ 11:14AM|#

http://www.jaydyke.com/portfolio/highQ_small.jpg

|8.23.06 @ 11:15AM|#

http://www.jaydyke.com/portfolio/highQ_small.jpg