Community | April 23, 2008 | 3 comments

Superior Court Judge Jim Gray on the futility of the war on drugs.

source: http://www.libertarianalternative.org

Hawkmang
"Following his career as a federal prosecutor and a trial judge, Gray, now a California Superior Court justice, is struck by the revelation that the so-called war on drugs was "wasting unimaginable amounts of our tax dollars, increasing crime and despair and severely and unnecessarily harming people's lives... the worst of all worlds." He effectively documents a growing coalition of often conservative lawyers, legislators and justices who view the drug war's impotent dream of national abstinence as folly and its shadow effects (from imprisonment of nonviolent offenders to diversion of law enforcement resources) as dangers to liberty."

"Jim Gray not only communicates the devastation wrought by a war he witnessed from the frontlines as a trial judge and federal prosecutor, but he displays... the moral courage it takes to cry out that the emperor wears no clothes."
—Arianna Huffington, syndicated columnist and author of How to Overthrow the Government

"Judge Gray's thorough and scholarly work, based as it is on his personal experience, should help considerably to improve our impossible drug laws. [His] book drives a stake through the heart of the failed War on Drugs and gives us options to hope for in the battles to come."
—Walter Cronkite

Judge Gray's book website
http://www.judgejimgray.com/index.html

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Superior Court Judge Jim Gray discusses the futility of the war on drugs. He makes a great argument in this 29 minute video. Great content, kind of tacky production.


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3 comments // Superior Court Judge Jim Gray on the futility of the war on drugs. // Video

  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • This is the most ridiculous of the wars we are fighting. The war on drugs is a for profit venture and it keeps law enforcement in business through illegal seizures of personal property.

    • 3 years ago
  • Hawkmang
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      Hawkmang  

    • Thanks, Enjoy_Cannabis! I'm glad that you enjoyed it. I was also surprised when this didn't get much attention. Nice to see a Superior Court Judge logically dismantling the ridiculous war on drugs.

    • 3 years ago
  • Enjoy_Cannabis
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