END PROHIBITION NOW

Jack Cole, retired officer, executive director, Law Enforcement Against
Prohibition, spoke at the June 11 meeting of the Drug Policy Forum of
Oklahoma in Stillwater. "We're the richest nation in the world and we've
decided to spend $69 billion per year to destroy rather than save lives."

No local law enforcement nor reporters attended. They will have another
chance when Roger Hudlin, a police officer from Wichita, will travel to
Stillwater to speak to the DPFOK this fall - one in a series of dynamic
presentations from officers with the courage to speak out against the War
on Drugs/Drug Prohibition.

What would happen if drugs were government-controlled and drugs and
treatment were free to those who need them, along with medication,
rehabilitation, improved nutrition and counseling?

Smuggling, dealers and pushers would disappear because there would be no
money in it. And what if drug addiction were treated as the sickness it is
like alcohol addiction? Drug users could rejoin society. No more need for
street crime and prostitution in order to pay for medication.

Drugs would no longer be a cause for diseases, overdoses, possible HIV or
AIDS from unclean needles, malnutrition, family breakup, degraded
neighborhoods and the stigmatization of society.