Look before you LEAP

The perfect idiom to describe how our politicians need to open up their minds so they can analyze and debate marijuana prohibition. Americans need to realize and accept the fact that our criminal justice system is broken. The United States can't expect to house 25% of the worlds incarcerated population and maintain its status as a world power.

Marijuana policy reform would be a great start for our country in its efforts to emphasize drug problems as a public health issue, treating it as a criminal offense has failed far too long. I think if more people knew that LEAP also stood for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, or visited their website they just might start to believe me.

“Marijuana Prohibition dramatically reduces public safety,” Officer Howard Wooldridge said. “Except for a hand-full of die-hard prohibition cops, most will admit that fact, at least in private. A solid majority of cops would legalize/regulate it today. Why? Most cops will put in 30 years and never respond to a call generated by the USE of marijuana.

Howard Wooldridge works for LEAP and offered that opinion to his brother Frosty, during a series of interviews. That opinion caught me off guard, surprising me more than his picture, but I couldn't agree more with how the last statement in the article.

“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.”

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