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600 Churches Call For an End to the Drug War
The New England Conference of United Methodist Churches recently voted in favor of a resolution calling for an end to the drug war.
LEAP co-founder Jack Cole worked with the assembly to pass the resolution, which ends with a statement of support for LEAP.
The full resolution can be viewed here.
LEAP board member and former prosecutor Dr. Inge Fryklund authored this article for the US Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute on the Special Inspector General’s quarterly report to Congress, noting that the U.S. goal of opium poppy prohibition is both unachievable and a contributing factor in the continuing instability of Afghanistan. Click here to read
Click here to read LEAP’s “Proposed Amendment of United Nations Drug Treaties”,
submitted to United Nations representatives in 194 countries, NGOs and drug policy reform partners,
and presented in Vienna at the 57th Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in 2014.
View LEAP’s letter to world leaders introducing the “Proposed Amendment of United Nations Drug Treaties” here, and
LEAP’s MoveOn.org petition to support the Treaty Amendment can be signed here. Spanish edition: click here
LEAP co-founder Jack Cole shares his chilling history as an undercover narc as he reveals the destructive history of the drug war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbxI6QcM33s
LEAP speaker and former federal jailer Regina Hufnagel bore direct witness to the inequities, futility, and racism of the War on Drugs while her federal prison released child abusers and kept pot users inside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMie8OSOuR4
LEAP's Executive Director and the former President of Colombia strip away any last possible reason to support drug prohibition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ZrBuGCHKY
Leap's Stephen Downing talks to the Real News when the federal government temporarily suspended the perverse incentives of civil asset forfeiture, a program that has since been reinstated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Zc3kU-7MQ
Jack Cole at the NYC Cannabis Parade
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She had to set child abusers free while pot users remained in jail
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Neill Franklin speaks to The National on CBC
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LEAP takes on The Waters of March
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Stephen Downing on the Real News in Baltimore
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