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Recording the Police: Is Citizen Journalism against the Law?
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Noon -EST

Featuring Neill Franklin, Executive Director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition; Joseph I. Cassilly, State's Attorney, Harford County, Maryland; and David Rittgers , Legal Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.

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FIVE WAYS THE DRUG WAR HURTS KIDS: A CONVERSATION WITH NEILL FRANKLIN OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION

Retired Police Captain, and LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) co-founder Peter Christ systematically destroys the notion that the Drug War is at all, effective.

Opinion piece about Brad Jardis and LEAP. Author opines that Brad Jardis was right to refuse to arrest medical marijuana users and LEAP was wrong to chastise him on it.

Miami Herald opt-ed page about the war on drugs and LEAP

In the space of under one week, we have seen multiple terms we have asked our readers and Alex Jones Show listeners to popularize shoot to the top of these rankings, leap frogging the mindlessness that usually permeates, and bringing important issues to a wider audience.

Police Union Director Jokes on Facebook About Two Women Being Sexually Assaulted by a Police Officer

A Texas state trooper charged with sexually assaulting two women during a traffic stop was providing them with "customer service," says Dale Roberts, the executive director of the Columbia Police Officers Association (CPOA) and a professor at the University of Missouri. (The CPOA is a part of the Fraternal Order of Police, one of the country's largest police unions.)

"By enforcing policies that suppress the use of addictive drugs like marijuana, we are affirming our ultimate respect for freedom and liberty by ensuring that fewer Americans get trapped into a life of addiction." --Bruce Grant, Director, Florida Office of Drug Control

This three-minute animation by Haik Hoisington contrasts a society that legally produces and consumes a pleasure- giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and prohibited. The animation reflects on the social and economic costs of marijuana prohibition.