Los Angeles, CA: A former police officer and founding member of the organization Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) is embarking next month on a cross-country trek to raise awareness to the harms caused by criminal drug prohibition.
Howard Wooldridge, a 16-year veteran of the Bath Township, Michigan police force, will be traveling by horseback from Los Angeles to New York City on a speaking tour promoting alternatives to current US drug policies. “By fighting a war on drugs the government has increased the problems of society and made them far worse,” says Wooldridge. “A system of regulation rather than prohibition is a less harmful, more ethical and a more effective public policy.”
A coalition of national and grassroots drug law reform organizations, including Oklahoma NORML, the November Coalition, Americans for Safe Access, and Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, are assisting Wooldridge with his effort, which is scheduled to begin on March 5, 2005.
For more information, please contact Norma Sapp of Oklahoma NORML at 405-321-4619 or email: ekco@swbell.net