{"id":1070,"date":"2012-10-05T01:21:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T17:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2012-10-05T02:50:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T18:50:39","slug":"leap-willie-nelsons-legalize-it-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/2012\/10\/05\/leap-willie-nelsons-legalize-it-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAP and Willie Nelson’s Luck Films present Prop. 19 Documentary “Legalize It” on October 24 in Long Beach, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pro-Legalization Law Enforcement Group Screens Prop. 19 Documentary<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Special Preview and Panel Discussion Planned in Long Beach<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES, Calif. \u2013 As debates over ballot measures to legalize marijuana heat up in Colorado, Oregon and Washington, a group of cops, judges and other law enforcement officers calling for an end to the war on drugs is holding a special sneak peek at\u00a0Legalize It<\/em>, a new documentary about Prop. 19, the 2010 California campaign to legalize and regulate marijuana like alcohol. On October 24, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), in conjunction with Willie Nelson’s Luck Films and award-winning filmmakers Dan Katzir and Ravit Markus, will host a special screening and discussion panel of the film at the Art Theatre of Long Beach.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Legalize It<\/em>, a documentary about the Prop. 19 campaign
\n\u2022 Wednesday, October 24, 2012 7-10pm
\n\u2022 Art Theatre of Long Beach, 2025 E. 4th Street, Long Beach
\n\u2022 Tickets are available online and start at $10. There are also a number of sponsorship packages available. Please see the website\u00a0www.leap.cc\/california-benefit\/<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>or contact Diane Goldstein (diane.goldstein@leap.cc or\u00a0\u00a0714.232.3722<\/a><\/span>)\u00a0for more info.<\/p>\n

For the documentary, filmmakers followed members of the campaign for eight months, documenting the unlikely alliances that developed and the minor victories and setbacks of the first serious effort to legalize marijuana in the United States.\u00a0Legalize It<\/em>\u00a0is a sensitive and humorous behind-the-scenes look at a colorful campaign, the unlikely people running it and the disparate groups who both opposed and endorsed it. Several LEAP speakers appear in the film.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn any battle, the people who go in first are going to take one hell of a beating. In the fight to legalize marijuana, the Prop. 19 campaign folks were those people. If and when ballot measures in other states succeed, it will be because these folks cleared the way.\u201d
\n\u2013 LEAP Executive Director Neill Franklin<\/p>\n

After the film, a discussion panel including a former LAPD deputy chief who appears in the documentary, drug policy reform advocates, local dignitaries and one of the film\u2019s producers will discuss the Prop. 19 campaign as well as the current political outlook for similar efforts at reform.<\/p>\n

See more about the film and its Long Beach screening at\u00a0www.leap.cc\/california-benefit\/<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) represents police, prosecutors, judges, corrections officials and others who, after fighting on the front lines of the “war on drugs,” came to believe that prohibition only serves to worsen substance abuse and violence. More info at\u00a0<\/span>www.CopsSayLegalizeMarijuana.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pro-Legalization Law Enforcement Group Screens Prop. 19 Documentary Special Preview and Panel Discussion Planned in Long Beach LOS ANGELES, Calif. \u2013 As debates over ballot measures to legalize marijuana heat up in Colorado, Oregon and Washington, a group of cops, judges and other law enforcement officers calling for an end to the war on drugs … Continue reading “LEAP and Willie Nelson’s Luck Films present Prop. 19 Documentary “Legalize It” on October 24 in Long Beach, CA”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Legalize-it_header.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}