Reason’s Nick Gillespie talked with LEAP’s Executive Director Neill Franklin, a retired major in the Maryland State Police. As Franklin explains, he was one of the most bellicose drug warriors around until a comrade was killed during an undercover operation. The best way, argues Franklin, we can pay tribute to his fallen friend – and all the other people whose lives have been laid waste by a war on drugs that has caused far more bad than good – is to turn away from prohibition and embrace regulation and control similar to that used for alcohol.

Shot by Jim Epstein and Joshua Swain, who also edited.

For more videos and information about drug policy, go tohttp://reason.com/archives/2011/06/15/the-price-of-prohibition

For more information on LEAP and to read “Ending the Drug War: A Dream Deferred,” go to http://www.leap.cc/40years/

Why The Drug War Is A HUGE Failure; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/drug-war-is-huge-failure.html