LEAP of faith

I was pleasantly surprised to find an email from Mike Smithson, speakers bureau coordinator for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. I'm sad to find out that they finally have a speaker in Northampton just as I'm leaving town for good but I'm glad to see the Smithies have finally discovered drug policy reform. They just started an active chapter of SSDP there this year. Hope they can spread that energy through the 5 college system. It's ridiculous really with something like a million students within a 15 sq. mile radius, that we don't have a stronger voice here for the cause.

That aside, if LEAP comes to your town it's well worth attending the event. These guys do more for reform in a day than I could hope to do in a year. Current dates on the calendar include,

Jan. 24th-May 1st, 2005 - Former police captain Peter Christ in the Scranton, Lancaster and Philadelphia triangle.

Jan. 31st to Feb. 12th, 2005 - Judge Eleanor Schockett tours central and southern Ohio.

Feb. 15th-17th, 2005 - Judge Jim Gray at Smith College in Northampton, MA, then Brown University in Providence, RI and then Wesleyan in Middletown, CT.

March 12th-17th, 2005 - Judge Gray in NYC.

Check the site for details.