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LEAP: Law Enforcers Say Ending Prohibition Will Improve Public Safety
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 9:05am
By. Law Enforcement Against ProhibitionSacramento, CA -- A group of police officers, judges and prosecutors who fought in the failed "war on drugs" is cheering this Tuesday's upcoming marijuana legalization votes in the California Assembly's Public Safety and Health committees as a sign of increasing public frustration with the harms caused by prohibition and the widespread desire for a new approach.
Judge Jim Gray, who retired last year from the California Superior Court in Orange County and is a speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) said, "The mere fact that there will be votes in the Assembly to regulate and control the sale and distribution of marijuana would have been unthinkable even one year ago. And if the bill doesn't pass this year, it will soon. Or, the bill will be irrelevant because the voters will have passed the measure to regulate and tax marijuana that will be on the ballot this November."
Bill C-15 proposing a mandatory minimum sentence for drug offences
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Sun, 12/20/2009 - 9:59am
Groups opposing the bill claim it is more harmful then helpful
By. Britt Carlsen
So what is Hunter's group proposing? He says his groups aim is a regulated, taxed and legal marketplace for cannabis. Hunter believes that prohibition is causing more dangerous effects to our society than marijuana ever could and he's not the only one. When asked about what he thought of the proposed Bill C-15 Vancouver's so-called Prince of Pot, Mark Emery, said anything that puts people in jail for drugs is going to fill prisons.
Beyond Prohibition Foundation Press Release: Conservative crime bills will not make us safer
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 2:33pm
Minister of Justice Rob Nicholson claimed in the National Post Thursday that his Conservative government's mandatory minimum sentencing bills would make Canada safer. The same day the most comprehensive analysis of United States sentencing and arrest rates for drugs, which are among the highest in the world, was released. Its conclusion: that these harsh sentences have failed to decrease drug use or associated crime; often they have increased it.
“It's absolutely clear from international evidence that harsh laws do not decrease drug use or associated crime” said Jacob Hunter, Beyond Prohibition Foundation Policy Director, “The Minister of Justice has either consulted no evidence or he is intentionally misleading Canadians”
Press Release: Harper would throw John Lennon in jail under C15
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 4:28pmFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 4th, 2009
Beyond Prohibition Foundation
Stephen Harper appeared at the National Arts Centre to preform a Beatles song with Yo Yo Ma last week. Harper, whose government has disregarded overwhelming evidence showing the prohibition of marijuana is an unmitigated failure, sang a song by the Beatles about getting high with his friends. This despite repeated statement by various Conservative ministers including the Prime Minister, that decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana would send the wrong message to children.
"Stephen Harper is singing a song about an act, passing a joint, that would under C-15 qualify him for a 6 month Mandatory Minimum prison sentence for 'trafficking' marijuana" said Jacob Hunter of the Beyond Prohibition Foundation, "This Conservative government wants to throw people in jail for an act as simple as passing a joint, yet has no problem sending it's leader out to sing about it; the hypocrisy of this government is astounding"
UN Office of Drugs and Crime: Stop arresting drug users
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 1:17pmToday the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime released a report calling for the decriminalization of casual and addict drug use and personal cannabis production. After a preface regurgitating the same tired and defunct arguments against repealing prohibition, the Report itself provides significant evidence that a law-enforcement based approach to drugs has failed. The Beyond Prohibition Foundation hopes that this report represents a fundamental and progressive shift in the official position of the international organization and a step away from the failed “War on Drugs” paradigm.
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