I am pleased to announce that LEAP has a new daily blog! The new blog is hosted on Blogger, a service that is free, user friendly and full of great features. Please click here to visit the new blog.
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I must confess, I think too much. Whether my thoughts are rational or irrational is another debate, but I do know that I think too much. Sometimes I wish I could vegetate and tune out to the world in front of The Bachelorette or Oprah on TV. Instead,
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What is going on in our world when Canadian Church of the Universe Reverends, among others, have their home taken from under them due to proceeds of crime for selling $60.00 worth of cannabis? And when Marc Emery, Canada’s Prince of Pot, is given a minimum
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The author of The Thinking Policeman blog was kind enough to accept a guest post from me. Inspector Leviathan Hobbes (a pseudonym) is a police inspector from the UK. As a serving officer at the management level, he's chosen to publish his blog anonymously,
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(From Norm Stamper's NYTimes.com Room For Debate blog) Any law disobeyed by more than 100 million Americans, the number who’ve tried marijuana at least once, is bad public policy. As a 34-year police veteran, I’ve seen how marijuana prohibition breeds
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CNN has an article about drug addicts manipulating dentists into prescribing painkillers. In the article Kenny Morrison, a former addict, states, "I kind of found out on my own that a dentist will prescribe you painkillers over the phone, instead of a
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By James E. Gierach, South Town Star (IL) July 9, 2009 "Weekend sees rash of killings," the headline read Tuesday in another Chicago newspaper. The paper reported that Chicago violence led to 11 people being killed within 30 hours. As a former Chicago
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I read a book recently called, "Addiction is a Choice," by Jeffrey Schaler. He suggests that addiction is not a disease, and that people actually choose to use drugs. He points to the fact that although people might have a genetic predisposition to becoming
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An interesting observation about criminal laws and, specifically, drug laws: notice that most laws actually make certain conduct illegal. Murdering, burglarizing, assaulting, etc. Drug laws, by design, still make an action illegal (possession, sale, etc.);
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A report released on September 15, 2008 by U.N. special envoy on extra-judicial killings, Philip Alston, shows that Brazilian police carried out a significant proportion of the 48,000 murders that swept Brazil in 2007. According to the report, police
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The Marijuana Industry on Display The THC Expo was a high energy event, full of interesting people. Brian Roberts and Todd McCormick, the event organizers brought together the international marijuana industry for a full weekend at the LA Convention Center
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In part 4 of a multi-part series on prescription drug abuse, Eric Sterling was asked the question, Prescription drugs are legal, but drug dealers are still selling them on the street. How would legalizing drugs fix that? Here is his response: Thank you
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The Los Angeles Times has a story today about Mexican legislation that will decriminalize possession of small amounts of drugs. The bill, which has passed the Mexican Congress and currently sits on the desk of President Felipe Calderon, seems like a small
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Russ Jones provides his ideas regarding the problem of prescription drug abuse as it relates to drug prohibition: 1. In the 1970's we had a team in the narcotics bureau that investigated the diversion of legal drugs into the illegal market. The problem
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Michael Gilbert was asked the question, Prescription drugs are legal, but drug dealers are still selling them on the street. How would legalizing drugs fix that? Here is his response: There is no perfect system to control access to drugs; but, there are
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