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SAFER Launches a New Website · 457 days ago
Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) launches their new website. In an effort to strengthen our cooperation and our shared wish to see marijuana legalized; SAFER and Stop the Hypocrisy have agreed to keep links to each other’s websites up in the links section.
SAFER which is primarily concerned with the legalization of marijuana as a “safer alternative” to alcohol and tobacco has many similarities to Stop the Hypocrisy which is primarily concerned with redirecting tax payer money towards violent crime enforcement and away from drug prohibition. Since Stop the Hypocrisy is based in Colorado Springs CO and SAFER based in Denver CO, it is fitting that our two organizations cooperate on our mutual goal of making marijuana legal.
We Respond to "Legalize Landmines!" · 498 days ago
Daniel McGill writes a response to Greg Reilly’s opposition columnist Adam Brickley. In Mr. Brickley’s article “Legalize Landmines!” he compares drugs to landmines and states that users of drugs are equivalent to walking bombs. Daniel agrees that drug use is dangerous but that is about all he agrees with.
Dear Editor,
Adam Brickley’s recent article titled “Legalize Landmines!” under the heading of “Should Hard Drugs be Legalized” is not only metaphorically verbose but inconsequential and patently false. Adam incorrectly assumes that drugs cause violence when it is more the case that black market economies and gangs cause violence. Our policy of drug prohibition has forced drug markets to carry out illegally, without regulation and at times violently. Under legalization we can not only better control who obtains drugs but also do a better job of educating the general public about its potential health hazards.
The anti-prohibition community’s plan to legalize these substances should not be construed as a wish to give better access to them. Rather it is a plan based around education, treatment, bringing drug abuse under control and limiting access to minors. It is also my hope that with the billions of dollars saved state and federal governments can better service the public who is most victimized by violent criminals not the person who partakes of a hard drug in the privacy of their home.
I will not argue against Adam’s belief that drugs are harmful and dangerous. I however argue against your belief that keeping them illegal is the best method of preventing their use and giving help to those who suffer from addiction. More than 20 years into the war on drugs and around 50 billion now spent annually on drug law enforcement and nothing has improved. What will it require? The drug war proved to be a failure long ago and it is the voting public’s responsibility to realize this and push for something different.
I openly invite a dialogue with anyone who is willing.
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LEAP · 498 days ago
I have begun a running dialogue with a member of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition). A link to their website can be found in our links section of this website. Stop the Hypocrisy and LEAP have almost identical goals and hopefully we will work closely with each other in the future.
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A Short Article endorsed by Stop the Hypocrisy was recently featured in the University of Colorado at Colorado Spring’s paper The Scribe. The article written by Greg Reilly focuses on the economics of the war on drugs to make the point that prohibition doesn’t make economic sense. The message is: legalization will allow for our tax monies to be spent more effectively elsewhere.