LEAP Scotland

Law Enforcement Action Partnership
Lives, families and our communities continue to be destroyed by our drug laws. We aim to help change this failed approach.

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For decades, we have repeated the same failed messages on drugs.

Just Say No. Scare campaigns. Criminalisation. Stigma. Silence. None of it has saved enough lives.

Addiction does not start with drugs. It starts with what we ignore.

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We knew they would fly. Get yours before it's too late. https://t.co/E9IjRXCMLe

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In an important episode of Talking Walking Football, Men Matter explains why mental health, suicide and peer support are subjects we should all discuss more.
https://t.co/HM2kQODVAs

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An important episode of Talking Walking Football. A visit from Men Matter, explaining why mental health, depression, and suicidal thoughts need to be discussed. https://t.co/Dv8FQ0eDgz

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With host Davie Mackinnon, Ex Rangers and Jags man, guest Tom Wood, former Deputy Chief Constable , and lots of stuff going on. Few seats left. https://t.co/RzqJDHqjzL

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Hosted by former Pro Footballer, CEO and author Davie Mackinnon, special guest Tom Wood (former Deputy Chief Constable) with signings, readings and banter. Limited space, book early. https://t.co/E9IjRXCMLe

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Only available at the Pre-Launch price at https://t.co/E9IjRXCMLe

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Choose Better. Because This Isn’t Working. #tartantalesmedia

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Never forget the victims. #tartantalesmedia #crimetimeinc

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The working title is actually 'Two sides Of The Same Story'. coming soon on SunnyG and #TartanTalesmedia.

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Great afternoon on air with Tam Cowan at Sunny Govan Community Radio.
Football. Glasgow humour. And the odd war story.
If you like real stories told properly, subscribe at
https://t.co/RzqJDHqjzL

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Why is one acceptable and the other despised? #tartantalesmedia

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now it's official. What's What's Your Favourite True Crime Podcast? - YouTube

[The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) @PoliceForReform]

We send our unconditional and unlimited support to the campaign day of June 26 - #SupportDontPunish

Please view the website and follow @IDPCnet and @SDPcampaign for updates and information. Let’s strive for better and make life-changing reforms.

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NORML
"It's Time To End Marijuana Prohibition"
Since its inception, cannabis prohibition has been predicated on deception, stigmatization, and outright lies. After nearly nine decades of cannabis bigotry and criminalization, it's time to end marijuana prohibition.

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✍️ 'Scotland’s Parliament too often finds itself constrained, its ability to act hindered by Westminster’s overreach' // Former Serious Crime and Drugs Squad Officer Simon McLean

Read more - https://t.co/njqso3Moei

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At LEAP we were proud to work with Peter and share platforms with him whenever possible. His direct action, not words, helped us create the UK's first Safe Consumption site in Glasgow. A fantastic legacy. RIP.

[Peter Reynolds @TweeterReynolds]

OBITUARY. The #drugspolicy campaigner Peter Krykant, who has died suddenly aged 48, advanced the cause of the harm reduction movement through a transformative act of civil disobedience. https://t.co/NZY8FtjfND

[Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @HRCA_info]

We say there is a war on drugs, but it is only a war on some drugs. We all use drugs. However, the state approved and taxed drugs really dont want any competition - they have a strong and powerful privileged position. They dominate the market, and those who benefit from the Drug Wars (and there are so many diverse groups) will do anything to keep it this way.

We’ve identified eighteen key stakeholders:

1. It provides the Banks with massive investments from money laundering.
2. It provides an attractive and unquestionable dogma for moral crusading groups to ‘say no’ to drugs, avoiding the complexities of science, reason and rationale, and indeed avoiding the contradiction in respect of other psychoactive substances sugar, caffeine, tobacco and alcohol.
3. It provides a much-needed distraction from the serious problems caused by the more harmful, addictive and culturally embedded legal drugs – alcohol, tobacco, sugar and pharmaceuticals. It provides the police with powers to easily stop, search, arrest, interrogate and prosecute almost anyone.
4. It protects the market share and status of the privileged, promoted and culturally embedded legal psychoactive drugs. Essentially ethanol; caffeine; tobacco; sugar and pharmaceuticals enjoy market protection.
5. It allows governments to deflect attention away from the key structural drivers behind most chronic addiction (inequality, stigma, exclusion, poverty and blocked opportunities) and instead, misleadingly shift attention towards the supposed devastating power of the illicit drug.
6. It provides politicians on both sides with a societal scapegoat, and the chance to rally support and votes by getting ‘tough’ on a socially constructed enemy within: the ‘addict’ hooked and controlled by the ‘demon drugs’.
7. It provides the news media, TV and film industry with easy, cheap sordid stories, dramas and images illustrating the horrors from ‘drugs’ – without ever questioning the social and political drivers for drug harm.
8. It provides excellent opportunities for the state to disproportionately target, monitor, control and punish the poor, indigenous people and minority ethnic groups.
9. It successfully attracts significant additional funding for police, armed services, customs officials and security services, and additional resources for the police/state through the seizure of assets.
10. It provides justification for military action, espionage and invasion of other countries.
11. It provides excellent business opportunities and a ready supply of victims for the ever-burgeoning penal industrial complex.
12. It provides opportunities for new technology development and sales, in the invasive and expanding drug testing industry.
13. It provides considerable opportunities for new technology development and sales, in the underground avoidance of drug detection industry.
14. It provides the drug rehabilitation business with an endless supply of illicit users, who are required to always abstain, and forever be in recovery.
15. Internationally, it rallies otherwise disparate nations together by finding common ground to fight a shared war against a global enemy, ‘drugs’.
16. It provides researchers and academics with a constant and reliable stream of funding sources for endless research to uphold prohibition propaganda - such as reefer madness, gateway theory, crack babies and krokodil.
17. It provides a lucrative illegal market that enables gangsters and drug cartels to make incredible untaxed profits.
18. It provides excellent careers for drug enforcement officials and drug policy entrepreneurs and careerists, facilitating debates, inquiries, international travel, networking and conference events, particularly via the United Nations.

It is clear there are a lot of groups that benefit from prohibition!

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Keep up the great work. You represent so many and we will see change.

[Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control @anyoneschild]

In 2015 families devastated by failed drug policies formed Anyone’s Child. We delivered a letter to 10 Downing Street, calling for legal regulation of the market to stop others from suffering like we have.
Vowing to come back every year until we saw change.
On Tuesday we return!

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