{"id":1656,"date":"2011-08-09T13:23:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/you-cant-get-rid-of-the-war-on-drugs-unless-you-end-prohibition.html"},"modified":"2011-08-09T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T17:23:32","slug":"you-cant-get-rid-of-the-war-on-drugs-unless-you-end-prohibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/you-cant-get-rid-of-the-war-on-drugs-unless-you-end-prohibition.html","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t get rid of the War on Drugs unless you end Prohibition"},"content":{"rendered":"Video from the NAACP Criminal Justice Summit in Chicago,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leap.cc\/\">\nthanks to LEAP:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca-naacp.org\/about-leadership-bios-alice-huffman.php\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.ca-naacp.org\/images\/header_02_alice_huffman.jpg\"><\/a>\nWe cannot duck this issue.\nI couldn&#8217;t duck it any more.\nI couldn&#8217;t sleep, if I wasn&#8217;t out advocating\ngetting rid of the War on Drugs.\nYou can&#8217;t get to end the War on Drugs\nthat the whole bureaucratic\ninstitution of the United States of America\nhas declared, unless you end prohibtion.\nThey couldn&#8217;t do it with alcohol, and you can&#8217;t do it with drugs.\n<br>\n&mdash;Alice Huffman, President, California NAACP\n<\/blockquote>\nHere&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DnLaTnfwJVA&#038;feature=player_embedded\">the video:<\/a>\n\n<!--more-->\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DnLaTnfwJVA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<blockquote>\nIf the basic incentive stands,\nif you can still make a living out on the street doing you-know-what,\ninstead of going to learn how to fix air conditioners, going and\ngetting your community college loan, or any number of other things that you do,\nthen the problem stays.\nHas to be the complete elimination of the War on Drugs.\n<br>\n&mdash;John McWhorter PhD, Author\n<\/blockquote>\nThe voice of experience:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DnLaTnfwJVA&#038;feature=player_embedded\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/DnLaTnfwJVA\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nIn 1970 we spent\n$100 million on the War on Drugs,\nin 2003, $70 billion.\nThis is the kind of money that needs to be going to education,\nnot making criminals out of people who choose to use a drug.\nWe should be teaching them to make better decisions.\n<br>\n&mdash;Major Neill Franklin (Ret.), Executive Director, LEAP\n<\/blockquote>\nThere&#8217;s more in the video.\n<p>\nLEAP has <a href=\"http:\/\/org2.democracyinaction.org\/o\/5663\/p\/dia\/action\/public\/?action_KEY=7331\">a petition<\/a> you can send to your national elected officials.\n<p>\nWe can also help stop the War on Drugs by refusing to have a private prison\nin Lowndes County Georgia.\nSpend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video from the NAACP Criminal Justice Summit in Chicago, thanks to LEAP: We cannot duck this issue. 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