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' 4yFe�12t . <br />l <br />�I` Res . — • 'too <br />4 F_r PRON <br />121 Mystic Avenue, Medford, Massachusetts 02155 - <br />BOARD OF DIRECTORS <br />Updated April 11,2010 <br />Jack A. Cole <br />Executive Director - Massachusetts <br />"End Prohibition Now!" <br />Peter Christ <br />Vice - Director - New York <br />By Retired Narcotics Undercover Officer, Jack A. Cole, <br />John A. Gayder <br />Secretar - Ontario Canada <br />I represent LEAP (law enforcement against prohibition) an international <br />Ton R <br />nonprofit educational organization that was created to give voice to all the <br />Treasurer - Arizona <br />current and former members of law enforcement who believe the war on drugs <br />James Anthon <br />is a failed policy and who wish to support alternative policies that will lower <br />Director Projects - California <br />the incidence of death, disease, crime and addiction four categories of harm <br />Terry Nelson <br />that were supposed to be alleviated by the war on drugs but which in truth were <br />Director Training - Texas <br />made infinitely worse by that war. We went public with our speakers' bureau in <br />Judge Jerry Paradis <br />Director Media - British Columbia <br />January 2003 and have grown from our five founding members to over 10,000. <br />LEAP has 85 speakers; a powerful and respected Advisory Board, made up of a <br />ADVISORY BOARD <br />U.S. Governor, four sitting Federal District Court judges, a sheriff, five former <br />police chiefs, a Canadian Senator who is retired from the Royal Canadian <br />Senator Larr Campbell <br />Former Mayor of Vancouver, Canada <br />Mounted Police, the former Attorney General of Colombia, South America and <br />and Ro Canadian Mounted Police <br />from the United Kingdom, a former Chief Constable. <br />Libby Davies <br />Member of Canadian Parliament <br />The first thing I need to tell you good people is that the U.S. policy of a <br />British Columbia. Canada <br />"war on drugs" has been, is, and forever will be, a total and abject failure. This <br />Mr. Hans van Duijn <br />is not a war on drugs, this is a war on people our own people our <br />Retired Chair of Nederlandse Politie <br />Bond, Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands <br />children, our parents, ourselves. <br />Jud warren W. n <br />I j oined the New Jersey State Police in 1964 and six ears later joined their <br />y <br />US District Court. Co <br />Connecticut <br />narcotic bureau. I started working in narcotics at the beginning of the war on <br />General Gustavo de Greiff <br />Former Attorne General of <br />drugs. The war has been one of the least partisan policy determinations in the <br />Colombia, South America <br />history of US politics. Every president since Nixon has escalated this war and <br />Governor Gar E. Johns <br />its unintended consequences but the term "war on drugs" was coined and <br />Former Governor of <br />The State of New Mexico <br />created by Richard Milhous Nixon in 1968 when he was running for president. <br />Jud John L. Kane <br />Mr. Nixon believed a "tough on crime" platform would garner a lot of votes but <br />US District Court. Colorado <br />if he could be in charge of a war wow! Of course as we all know, it worked. <br />Sheriff Bill Masters <br />Mr. Nixon was elected President and by 1970 he had convinced Congress to <br />Sheriff, San Miguel County, Colorado <br />ass legislation giving massive funding to an p olice dep artment willing hire <br />P g g g g YP A g <br />Chief Joseph McNamara <br />officers to fight his war on drugs. To give you an idea of how large those grants <br />Retired Chief, San Jose PD. California <br />were, in the New Jersey state police during 1964 we had 1,700 officers and a <br />Chief Norm stamper <br />Retired Chief, Seattle PD, Washington <br />seven man narcotics unit. That number had always seemed adequate for the job <br />Mr. Eric sterlin <br />we needed to do. Six years later, when I was trying to join the narcotics unit we <br />President. Criminal Justice Policy <br />still had the same numbers. Then overnight in October 1970 we went from a <br />Foundation, Washington. DC <br />seven man narcotics unit to a seventy -six person narcotics bureau. All paid for <br />Judge Robert Sweet <br />US District Court, New York <br />by federal tax dollars. And that program was replicated in police departments <br />Chief Francis Wilkinson across the country. When an organization is increased by eleven times it sets up <br />Former Chief Constable. Gwent Police <br />Force, South Wales, UK <br />