MAPTalk-Digest Saturday, February 18 2012 Volume 12 : Number 005
001 Re: MAP: LEAP: Cop's Marijuana Legalization Question Gets First Place i
From: Tom Suther <>
002 LEAP's Peter Moskos on MSNBC's “Up with Chris Hayes”
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Subj: 001 Re: MAP: LEAP: Cop's Marijuana Legalization Question Gets First Place in White House
From: Tom Suther <>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:42:12 -0800
I am afraid he will ignore the issue again.
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>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 29, 2012
>CONTACT: Tom Angell - (202) 557-4979 or
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>Cop's Marijuana Legalization Question Gets First Place in White House
>Video Contest
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>President Obama to Answer Top-Voted YouTube Questions on Monday
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>WASHINGTON, DC -- A question advocating marijuana legalization from a
>retired LAPD deputy chief of police won twice as many votes as any other
>video question in the White House's "Your Interview with the President"
>competition on YouTube this weekend. President Obama is slated to answer
>some of the top-voted questions on Monday.
>
>The marijuana question, submitted by Stephen Downing, a board member for
>Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), is as follows: "Mr.
>President, my name is Stephen Downing, and I'm a retired deputy chief of
>police from the Los Angeles Police Department. From my 20 years of
>experience I have come to see our country's drug policies as a failure
>and a complete waste of criminal justice resources. According to the
>Gallup Poll, the number of Americans who support legalizing and
>regulating marijuana now outnumbers those who support continuing
>prohibition. What do you say to this growing voter constituency that
>wants more changes to drug policy than you have delivered in your first
>term?" The question can be viewed at
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0IpiATxdR4.
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>Downing's question came in first place for video questions and ranked
>second out of all questions (with the overall top spot going to a text
>question about copyright infringement). Many of the other top-ranking
>questions are about marijuana policy or the failed "war on drugs," as
>has been the case every other time the White House has invited citizens
>to submit and vote on questions via the web. For example, in last year's
>"Your Interview with the President" competition, another LEAP member's
>question came in first place overall, prompting President Obama to reply
>that drug legalization is "an entirely legitimate topic for debate."
>That exchange can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB7AK76TF-k.
>
>Voting in the YouTube contest wrapped up Saturday at midnight EST. In
>addition to the top-voted marijuana and drug policy questions mentioned
>above, there were a number of other similar questions that received
>thousands of votes but were mysteriously deleted after being marked
>"inappropriate."
>
>More information about the contest and the top-voted questions can be
>viewed at http://www.youtube.com/whitehouse. The Gallup poll referenced
>in Downing's winning question can be found online at
>http://www.gallup.com/poll/150149/Record-High-Americans-Favor-Legalizi.
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>Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) represents police,
>prosecutors, judges, FBI/DEA agents and others who want to legalize and
>regulate drugs after fighting on the front lines of the war on drugs and
>learning firsthand that prohibition only serves to worsen addiction and
>violence. More info at http://www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com.
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># # #
>
>Tom Angell, Media Relations Director
>Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
>http://www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com
>phone: (415) 488-6615 or (202) 557-4979
>e-mail:
>AIM: ThisIsTomAngell // GChat: tomangell
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Subj: 002 LEAP's Peter Moskos on MSNBC's “Up with Chris Hayes”
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:56:57 -0800
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up-with-chris-hayes/46439131/#46439131
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