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Norm Stamper believes everything should be legalized and then we can concentrate on treating addiction instead of spending money incarcerating these people.Norm Stamper believes everything should be legalized and then we can concentrate on... more
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Every 18 seconds, an American is busted for drug possession, according to Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) crime statistics released Monday - but is the sum of the costs worth it?Every 18 seconds, an American is busted for drug possession, according to Federal... more
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Former Seattle Police Chief: LEGALIZE MARIJUANA and ALL DRUGS.
Citing Failed War on Drugs, Former Seattle Police Chief Calls for Legalization of Marijuana and All Drugs
Norm Stamper is a thirty-four-year police officer who retired as Seattle's chief of police in 2000. He now supports the legalization of marijuana and an advisory board member of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and a speaker for the 10,000-member Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
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The argument against prohibition keeps getting louder and stronger with every passing week!Former Seattle Police Chief: LEGALIZE MARIJUANA and ALL DRUGS.
Citing Failed War on... more
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Norm Stamper is a cop who saw it all during his 34 years on active duty. As police of Seattle from 1994 through 2000, he was in charge during violent World Trade Organization protests in the Emerald City.
Stamper, who holds a Ph.D. in leadership and human behavior from United States International University, has emerged as one of the most thoughtful and outspoken critics of the war on drugs, which he believes causes untold misery, undermines effective law enforcement, and doesn't begin to pass any sort of cost-benefit analysis. As important, the libertarian Stamper believes that the drug war—and other wars on the behaviors on consenting adults—does great violence to the idea that we own our bodies.
Stamper is the author of the Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing (2005) and now works with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a nonprofit created by former cops to "reduce the multitude of unintended harmful consequences resulting from fighting the war on drugs and to lessen the incidence of death, disease, crime, and addiction by ultimately ending drug prohibition.Norm Stamper is a cop who saw it all during his 34 years on active duty. As police of... more
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