Free Talk Live - war on drugs

Judge admits prohibition is all about the money

phonon — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:54:40 +0000

Bryan-College Station Judge John Delaney reported that probation officers in Brazos County had told him that passage of the bill, with its removal of incarceration and therefore of probation, would devastate their offices. Why? Because almost half of the county’s misdemeanor probationers have been convicted of possession of less than two ounces of marijuana. “We live off our under-two-ounce misdemeanor guys. They pay the rent.”

Retired Police Captain Destroys the Failed War On Drugs

Grey — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:18:19 +0000

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.

1 Million Hrs on Pot Arrests?

PC Harris — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:10:09 +0000

In the past 11 years, the NYPD spent more than one million hours making more than 400,000 arrests for low-level marijuana possession, a new report has found. The report raises questions about the use of police resources, which could likely be better spent addressing serious crimes in the high-crime neighborhoods where many marijuana arrests occur.

The Silent Marijuana Majority

alisium — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:16:24 +0000

f you were to put televangelist Pat Robertson, progressive media mogul Arianna Huffington, libertarian billionaire David Koch, and rap/reggae artist Snoop Dogg in a room together, do you think you could get them all to unanimously agree on anything?

Sounds like an impossible task. But actually there is common ground: they all believe our war on marijuana has failed. All of the above public figures believe in either the decriminalization or legalization of marijuana.

MI Cops Used Asset Forfeiture Funds to Buy Drugs, Prostitutes

jeffersonish — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:33:28 +0000

Michigan cops use money seized from drug and prostitution busts... to pay for drugs and prostitutes!

Police execute drug raid at wrong Utah home

Sammy316 — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:20:23 +0000

Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank has issued an apology after narcotics detectives raided the wrong home and pointed a gun at its 76-year-old female resident. Burbank said the woman was not injured when the search warrant was executed late Wednesday night, but one officer was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation. "She's certainly had the event of a lifetime, and one that I am very sorry that she had to experience at all," Burbank said.

DEA stealing the use of a truck and getting their informant killed

geogavino — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:40:04 +0000

The DEA employed an informant, the driver, and the truck of his employer to pose as a marijuana trafficker to catch other traffickers. The employer, who owns the truck, didn't know. Driver gets killed, truck shot up. Out of control DEA. Seriously. For pot.

Chris Christie Calls War On Drugs 'A Failure'

ecigarettes — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:42:57 +0000

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has become the latest leader to condemn the now 40-year-old war on drugs. "The war on drugs, while well-intentioned, has been a failure," Christie said Monday during a speech at The Brookings Institution. "We're warehousing addicted people everyday in state prisons in New Jersey, giving them no treatment." Christie stressed the merits of legislation recently passed by New Jersey state lawmakers that institutes a year of mandatory treatment for first-time, nonviolent drug offenders instead of jail time.