{"id":2228,"date":"2011-04-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/consider-ending-drug-prohibition-stop-the-hypocrisy-frank-serpico.html"},"modified":"2011-04-05T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T13:00:00","slug":"consider-ending-drug-prohibition-stop-the-hypocrisy-frank-serpico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/consider-ending-drug-prohibition-stop-the-hypocrisy-frank-serpico.html","title":{"rendered":"“consider ending drug prohibition” “stop the hypocrisy.” –Frank Serpico"},"content":{"rendered":"One of our readers doesn’t believe Frank Serpico is for legalization of drugs, despite what\n filmmaker Connie Littlefield\nand LEAP say.<\/a>\nFair enough: that’s circumstantial evidence.\nLet’s see what Serpico himself says.\n

\nFrank Serpico in his blog,\n\n27 March 2007:<\/a>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nDAMAGE DONE\n
\nTHE DRUG WAR ODYSSEY\n
\nTHE FILM\n
\nTHE COPS\n
\nTHE FILM MAKERS\n

\nAfter 30 years of drug war, illegal narcotics are decreasing in price,\nincreasing in purity and demand continues to surge. The heroes of\nthis film are veterans of the drug war and they urge us to consider\nending drug prohibition. They have had a complete revolution in their\nthinking. Now they are working to end the War on Drugs. Find out what\nhappened to change their minds.\n

\nhttp:\/\/www.drugwarodyssey.com\/<\/a>\n<\/blockquote>\nSerpico\n\nquoted in the website for the film he recommends:<\/a>\n

\n\n<\/a>\n

\n“I think Prohibition is causing the public to lose their respect because\nthey’re enforcing laws that basically aren’t hurting anybody. I think\nwe have to stop the hypocrisy.”\n<\/blockquote>\nThat website’s\n\nsummary of the film:<\/a>\n\n\n
\nViewing this film may change your answers to these questions: Should law enforcement officers be expected to enforce laws that don’t make sense? What happens if the police don’t believe in the laws? What if nobody believes in them? Does drug prohibition actually do more harm than drug use?\n

\nOur primary characters, all current or former law enforcement officers, say that as much as 80% of all felony crime is caused by drug addiction prohibition. “Legalize, regulate and tax” is their mantra now. Our heroes believe that all illicit drugs should be under the control of government, not left in the hands of criminals.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<\/a>\nFrank Serpico \nis one of those primary characters<\/a> in this film he recommends on his blog.\nAnd the first filmmaker listed on the film’s site is\n\nDirector Connie Littlefield.<\/a>\nLooks like she knew what she was talking about.\n

\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of our readers doesn’t believe Frank Serpico is for legalization of drugs, despite what filmmaker Connie Littlefield and LEAP say. Fair enough: that’s circumstantial evidence. Let’s see what Serpico himself says. Frank Serpico in his blog, 27 March 2007: DAMAGE DONE THE DRUG WAR ODYSSEY THE FILM THE COPS THE FILM MAKERS After 30 […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,1113,19,72,20],"tags":[4786,3780,4785,4783,4784,8710,3129,79,82],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-history","category-incarceration","category-law","tag-drug-prohibition","tag-drug-war","tag-drug-war-odyssey","tag-frank-serpico","tag-hypocrisy","tag-law","tag-legalization","tag-prohibition","tag-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-zW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}