By NORML | December 12, 2012 United States Representatives have introduced bipartisan legislation in Congress — House Bill 6606, The Respect States’ and Citizens’ Rights Act of 2012 — to amend the US Controlled Substances Act to provide that federal law shall not preempt state marijuana laws. The measure is sponsored by Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado, and [...]
By Dean Becker | Published in DrugTruth.net What have we derived from the policy of drug prohibition that offsets the horrible blowback? Is it possible to ignore the 70,000+ dead and the tens of thousands disappeared in Mexico? How about the more than 40 millions US citizens, whose futures are forever constrained, saddled with a [...]
“Attorney Melinda Haag’s warped application of federal tax, forfeiture and asset seizure laws against landlords who rent to legal marijuana dispensaries in the sovereign state of California has sadly become typical behavior from a horribly misguided and intellectually corrupted Department of Justice.” – Former LAPD Deputy Chief S. Downing, current LEAP Speaker. By Americans For [...]
As the number of innocent people who continue to die in Mexico because of the failed war on drugs rises to 71,000 , the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD) has announced that it will lead a month-long “Caravan for Peace” across the United States to draw attention to the misguided drug war policies that have caused [...]
By Meiko Hester-Perez | Published in Joeysmom.blog.com Friday May 25,2012 Walking into the Autism One conference 2012 held in Lombard, IL with a friendly face by my side. James Gierach Board Chairman-elect of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) who I had met on my Autism & Cannabis journey 3 years ago while speaking at various medical & drug [...]
http://youtu.be/-oSxeReRUkQ By Steve Collett for Congress | Posted by ElectCollett.com Retired LAPD Deputy Chief Stephen Downing, LEAP Speaker, also worked with Steve Collett on the Regulate Marijuana Like Wine Initiative
In honor of these mothers, I ask you this year to support the passage of a very modest reform, Senate Bill 1506, introduced by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and currently before the state senate: to revise simple drug possessions (not sales or distribution) to be punished as misdemeanors in California, just as is done [...]
Daily Pilot Editor’s note: Judge James P. Gray (Ret.) was a speaker Feb. 16 at the closing banquet of an international forum titled “Drugs Unbalanced — After a Century of Their Prohibition.” The forum was sponsored by Mexico United Against Delinquency, and was held at the Anthropological Museum in Mexico City. The following is a summary of his comments. By Judge [...]
By LEAP | Published in Cops Say Legalized Drugs Pat Robertson created a firestorm when he first called for the decriminalization of marijuana in December 2010, causing even his Christian Broadcasting Network’s own publicist to deny that that’s what he actually meant. Well, in a March 1 segment of “The 700 Club” that went largely unnoticed, Dr. Robertson is [...]
In an effort to unite the competing 2012 California cannabis ballot initiatives, the University of Southern California Chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) has announced a statewide forum this Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 12:00pm. The event is scheduled for three hours and aims to seek unification behind the various initiatives as time [...]
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