STOP Drug Prohibition

Drugs are inanimate objects, so we're really waging a civil war against our own people. We believe in personal freedom & agree with Albert Einstein when he said that prohibition only makes the problems it claims to help much worse. Our approach to the drug problem is what sets up apart from those waging a counter-productive war on drugs. Our approach is designed to efficiently manage the drug problem based on logic & science. Those fighting the war on drugs only know of brute force & control with no regard for the data that says prohibition is counter-productive. They seem to have little regard for the harm they're doing to their society. SDP is in favor of drug legalization with reasonable regulations & restrictions. Again, this does not mean that we condone drug use, but rather we oppose current drug policies because they make the drug problem exponentially worse. Believe it or not, many of our goals are very similar to what the drug war was meant to accomplish, but was unable to achieve. However, we are an organization for anyone who is in favor of any amount of drug reform because anything is better than what we're doing to our society now!

Think legalizing drugs would be a crazy solution? This following video features LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) members who have a great deal of experience fighting in favor of the drug war in their past. Their experience led them to the conclusion that our drug war is the cause of most drug related problems. They believe the best solution to our drug problem is legalization & in this video they describe several of the benefits that legalizing drugs would have:

Many people have been led to believe that drug legalization or even decriminalization would result in pure pandemonium. This is completely ludicrous as most of America's history there were no laws against drugs. Countries that have experimented with decriminalization & other large reform programs have seen amazing results. Just like alcohol prohibition, the drug war has created many many many times over the very problems it was supposed to reduce. With alcohol prohibition they at least considered our individual rights by amending our Constitution, but haven't done so with drug laws. The mass media, legal drug corporations, & special interest driven government have led a campaign to portray the drug war positively & decriminalization or legalization as "crazy." They need the masses to believe that even decriminalization would result in chaos because otherwise they would have no logical ground to support their catastrophic war. If you go beyond the surface you'll see firsthand how the drug war's counter-productive & inhumane approach exponentially increases the harm it was meant to stop. Drug legalization is the only way to accomplish or come very close to achieving all of our goals. Goals that would make American society a much better & safer place. We believe that educating the public & continually exposing the flaws in our current drug policies will eventually lead the way to large drug reform movements. All that we ask is that you think objectively about the information we present & the case we make for our different goals, including legalization. We understand that legalization is not the end-all solution, but only a more promising beginning.