You can’t get rid of the War on Drugs unless you end Prohibition

Video from the NAACP Criminal Justice Summit in Chicago, thanks to LEAP:
We cannot duck this issue. I couldn’t duck it any more. I couldn’t sleep, if I wasn’t out advocating getting rid of the War on Drugs. You can’t get to end the War on Drugs that the whole bureaucratic institution of the United States of America has declared, unless you end prohibtion. They couldn’t do it with alcohol, and you can’t do it with drugs.
—Alice Huffman, President, California NAACP
Here’s the video:

If the basic incentive stands, if you can still make a living out on the street doing you-know-what, instead of going to learn how to fix air conditioners, going and getting your community college loan, or any number of other things that you do, then the problem stays. Has to be the complete elimination of the War on Drugs.
—John McWhorter PhD, Author
The voice of experience:
In 1970 we spent $100 million on the War on Drugs, in 2003, $70 billion. This is the kind of money that needs to be going to education, not making criminals out of people who choose to use a drug. We should be teaching them to make better decisions.
—Major Neill Franklin (Ret.), Executive Director, LEAP
There’s more in the video.

LEAP has a petition you can send to your national elected officials.

We can also help stop the War on Drugs by refusing to have a private prison in Lowndes County Georgia. Spend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education.

-jsq