Legal Debate

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition has launched a campaign to oppose an amendment that will legally prevent the government from discussing the legalization of drugs. On its website, the Massachusetts-based group has created an online petition urging people to put their names down in opposition to Senator Grassley’s amendment of S.714 which would prohibit the National Criminal Justice Commission from even considering drug legalization or decriminalization. It says: “As soon as this Thursday, November 5, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee could vote on an amendment that will legally prevent some of the government’s top advisers from even discussing the idea of legalizing or decriminalizing drugs as a solution to the failed ‘war on drugs.’ Yes, you read that right. The Senate just might censor its own policy advisers from giving science-based advice.”