aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Marijuana arrests

Will Brady reports that Marijuana Arrests Reached a Shameful New Record:

The War Against Marijuana is at all-time high. Police arrested an estimated 771,608 persons for marijuana violations in 2004, according to the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report, released October 17. That total is the highest ever recorded—a shameful new record. And a closer look at this figure reveals some startling facts about the Drug War. Read on...

Which reminded me that I hadn’t replied to a note from Mike Smithson, speakers bureau coordinator for LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition). He was writing in response to * my * three * posts * on former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper’s OpEd in the LATimes a couple weeks ago.

Mike alerted me to some upcoming events and urged me to join, noting that you don’t have to be in law enforcement to contribute.

I’ll go write him now…