We at Peace & Justice of La Luz are proud to have sponsored Mike Jones at the Otero County Fair. We were able to talk to hundreds of people who were curious about the subject. And if we did not convince them all that prohibition was a failure, we at least started this conversation in our community. Thank you, Mike Jones!
LEAPing to legal drugs
Law enforcement group promotes new way of thinking about ending drug war
Alamogordo Daily News
By Elva K. Österreich, Associate News Editor
Posted: 08/16/2009 12:00:00 AM MDT
(J.R. Oppenheim/Daily News)
Drug warriors from across the country are banding together to ask people to support the legalization of drugs.
Judges, prosecutors, prison wardens, corrections staff and police officers have organized to educate the public about the damage and cost of the war against illegal drugs.
The premise of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, or LEAP, is the war on drugs cannot be won and the benefit of regulating, taxing and controlling these substances far outweighs the cost in tax dollars and human lives trying to suppress them. Read More…
Alamogordo Daily News
By Ken Nicholson, For the Daily News
In spite of the nationwide prohibition of street drugs, New Mexico and Otero County, as well as the rest of the United States, has a persistently growing drug problem with increasing numbers of younger students using drugs and alcohol.
With that is the typically disastrous results of addiction, incarceration, unintended pregnancies, failing grades and school drop-outs. While education and law enforcement are making strides in stopping the illegal drug trade while educating our youth about the consequences of drug use, drug and alcohol use continues to be a devastating problem, suggesting once again that peer-pressure can be a stronger force than education. Read More…
August 08, 2009By: Ken Nicholson Category: Drug Reform
Giving credit where credit is due while holding my nose, Glenn Beck has shown a rare moment of intelligence and sanity in his interview with Andres Rozental, former Foreign Minister of Mexico.
I will, however, question the Fox News statistic stating that US marijuana use is down 24% since 1998.
One of the tenants of capitalism is that the free market will regulate prices for a commodity. I personally don’t think that health should be a commodity, but some do, maybe even yourself.
If consumers get together in the “free market” and decide to start a health insurance cooperative and influence the price of health to the consumers’ advantage by initiating a new payment system, isn’t that capitalism in action?
And if health consumers decide that it would be to their advantage to enlist the aid of government in getting this new payment system in place and making it the law of the land, shouldn’t that be ok and within the functions of capitalism.
This is, by the way what the corporate health insurance lobby did when they wanted government help in deregulating their business. Shouldn’t we be able to do this too? Please excuse my ignorance, but shouldn’t we be allowed to implement a health care payment system that is to our advantage?
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken definition of myth as falsehood.
~ Rollo May, 1991, The Cry for Myth .
