Legalize Marijuana to Stop the Drug Cartels

Wow, this is a great appearance by a wonderful spokesman I had not seen before on the “Just Say Now” side. Please try to ignore the MSNBC anchormodel who betrays more than he knows when he says in the intro, “I just want to get it in the simplest of terms….” Gotcha, buddy.

by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger

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Major Neill Franklin, the Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, talks with us about the panel on marijuana policy at Netroots Nation, California’s Proposition 19, and the prohibition of cannabis.

We call it the war on science when Republicans do it. When Democrats do it, does that make it okay?

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Students use Cinco de Mayo to draw attention to drug war violence in Mexico and call for an end to marijuana prohibition to put drug cartels out of business.

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