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LEGAL DRUGS GOOD FOR A COUNTRY!
Would you believe Scientific American mag?

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HEADLINE: Portugal's eased drug law is working GREAT 
  (from Scientific American Mag)  In the face of a growing number of deaths and cases of HIV linked to drug abuse, the Portuguese government in 2001 tried a new tack to get a handle on the problem - it decriminalized the use and possession of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, LSD and other illicit street drugs. The theory: focusing on treatment and prevention instead of jailing users would decrease the number of deaths and infections.

Five years later, the number of deaths from street drug overdoses dropped from around 400 to 290 annually, and the number of new HIV cases caused by using dirty needles to inject heroin, cocaine and other illegal substances plummeted from nearly 1,400 in 2000 to about 400 in 2006, according to a report released recently by the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C, libertarian think tank.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=portugal-drug-decriminalization

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SAVE OUR CHILDREN: LEGALIZE DRUGS

By Frosty Wooldridge

I don't hurt anybody. Get stoned on
pot Saturday night. Grow my own.
Grok my  pals and my gal, listen to
some music. We can't afford a week-end
in Las Vegas. Does that make us outcasts?

After the first 12 interviews with my brother Police Officer and
Detective Howard Wooldridge of Lansing, Michigan (retired) concerning the
"War on Drugs," more and more Americans understand the underpinnings of how
the U.S. government protracts a national taxpayer fraud.

At this time, over 10,000 judges, sheriffs, cops and thousands of
citizens belong to www.leap.cc or Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. After
39 years of a failed Drug War policy and 30 million citizens that served
time in prison for simple drug possession, this organization educates
citizens toward a more plausible future for Americans.

"For decades we have seen commercial spots and our police and
political leaders demand more action, more arrests to 'protect our children'
from the scourge of illegal drugs. How can anyone argue with that concept?"
said Officer Howard Wooldridge. "Wait! Is Modern Prohibition/War on Drugs
helping or hurting our young people? Based on my 18 years of police service
and over a decade of examining the issue, led me to the answer NO! To truly
protect and save the lives and futures of our children, we need to
legalize/regulate and tax these illegal drugs now.

"Drugs are readily available to America's youth" states a DEA (Drug
Enforcement Administration) brochure. This admitted fact and failure of
policy means that kids easily buy any illegal drug. Indeed, government
research shows that teens can buy illegal drugs easier than beer. Whereas 40
years ago, one could only find heroin in large cities, today teens can
purchase it easily in small towns like Jefferson, Wisconsin or Twin Falls,
Idaho.

"Modern Prohibition kills our teens. The federal government's newest
research shows that over 900,000 teens are employed - as drug dealers. Many
first join a gang - not a step in the right direction. Every day several are
shot and 1-2 die every week. What kind of country has a policy which offers
a 13 year old employment which starts him on a life of crime or worse, shot
and killed? The United States of America! This is immoral. Teens should
either be making chump change flipping burgers or unemployed. Period!

"Teen drug dealers have become the symbol of success in the barrio and
ghettos of American cities. They have the money, women, cars and respect of
their peers. Even when they are arrested or shot, someone who looks just
like them takes their place. As good ministers and others urge young people
to stay in school and away from drugs and gangs, these symbols undermine
much of their efforts. Why study hard when a youth can make decent money
selling drugs and their employer does not ask for a high school diploma or
where France is?

"And many see little risk in taking illicit drugs." This from the same
DEA pamphlet mentioned above. Due to hard line policies by the prohibition
crowd, our education efforts have completely failed our kids. 'Just say no.'
is a throw away joke line for young people. Worse, they learn that their
DARE officer lied to them that all these illegal drugs will kill them. Now
they experiment not knowing what is fact or fiction. They combine their
parents Valium with a six pack of beer and die of a polydrug overdose. And
as happens every day, even when teens see their friend dying of an overdose,
nobody calls 911 to save the life. They are too scared to get into trouble.
This horrendous situation is encouraged by the likes of "Washington State
Senator Pam Roach who believes it is better for teens to die because saving
them would 'encourage' illegal drug use.

"Of course lives are ruined by a simple possession charge, as that
person finds it nearly impossible to find meaningful employment, obtain a
license, a credit card, housing or a student loan. Worse, when a young
person sells to their friends and are busted, they can end up dead by Rachel
Hoffman a Florida University student that was forced into becoming a narc to
not spend years in prison. My colleagues asked her to buy guns and pills
from real bad guys and they killed her. Another case from 2008 in North
Carolina is yet another of so many disgusting tragedies. Mark Reid was
arrested for minor sale of pot. My colleagues interrogated him and told him
how he would spend years in prison being raped and worse if he did not
cooperate. He could not morally go bust his friends to escape jail. They
scared him literally to death. After he bonded out, he went home and hung
himself. He is forever 18.

"All young people and our society are hurt as we build prison after
prison instead of more junior colleges. Tuition has on average tripled the
inflation rate since 1990, as we have jammed 2.3 million citizens into 6 X 8
cages - 70% because of Modern Prohibition. The trillion + dollars my
profession has spent to arrest 39 million people has been truly a Bridge to
Nowhere.

"As we look into a bleak couple of years, will our politicians (they
are rarely leaders) have the will and courage to do what our grandparents
did in 1933? Will they end this Prohibition Two which will save the lives
and futures of our teenagers? It can go either way. Tell your politicians
how you feel. Call, write, email or send a smoke signal. Our teens deserve
better."

LEAP cops in their own words: "Tell your member of Congress to
support hearings on whether the war on drugs is an
effective drug control strategy. Urge your local city or
county government to pass a resolution, asking for a national conversation
on drug prohibition. Ask yourself what have been the benefits, the positive
outcomes for our country during the 38 year Drug War?

The mission of LEAP is Today, my brother Howard Wooldridge heads up a
task force in Washington, DC to educate and enlighten congressmen at the
highest levels. He works for a better future for all Americans. He can be
reached at: Education Specialist, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition,
www.leap.cc, Washington, DC. He speaks at colleges, political clubs, Rotary,
Kiwanis and Lions Clubs across America. LEAP speakers in 36 states address
this issue to citizens around the country to bring an end to the Drug War.
Check out the web site and join.

We need to reduce the multitude of unintended harmful consequences
resulting from fighting the war on drugs to lessen the incidence of death,
disease, crime, cut down on that gigantic prison population, and on all those
children's lives ruined by  BEING in prison for long periods. Let us
end marijuana prohibition.

"Envision a world where crime is cut in half, terrorists don't make
money selling drugs and kids are not employed in the drug trade," Wooldridge
said. "Envision a world where the police focus on DUI, child predators and
terrorists. Imagine a world where if you have a drug problem, you see a
doctor not a judge. All are possible, when we find the courage to end our
Prohibition."

I use weed as a sacrament. Chant, do
yoga, pray, envision, affirm. Pot
helps me reach a universal mind
which is more evolved than my own.
I have amazing thoughts, really
correlate on psychological and
phenomenological planes! I turn into
a mix of Mother Teresa and Sigmund
Freud! You should try it once.

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