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Kirk Tousaw, lawyer and former NDP candidate The federal New Democrats lost another B.C. candidate Friday, the second to quit in a matter of days. Vancouver-Quadra candidate Kirk Tousaw, a civil liberties lawyer and former campaign manager for the B.C. Marijuana Party, resigned Friday afternoon. Tousaw has been a long-time advocate for the legalization ofRead More

My stay at California s Taft Penitentiary changed me in many ways, but also exposed how terrible the US prison system healthcare crisis really is.

Entering its fifth year of existence, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) continues to expand its message to North America and beyond. Our raison d’etre (“reason to be”) is education. LEAP is made up of criminal justice professionals speaking out against the failed war on drugs.

The Marijuana Policy Project, the Drug Policy Alliance Network, NORML and hundreds of US activists are achieving remarkable success in getting Democrats and Republicans in the statehouses to put forth legislation that undoes some the terrible wrongs of the Drug War. Legislation from Congress in Washington has been uniformly prohibitionist for two decades, and consequently the prisons have exploded with hundreds of thousands of drug-war victims.