On October 24, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), in conjunction with Willie Nelson\u2019s 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 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. Legalize It<\/em> is 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 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 www.leap.cc\/california-benefit\/<\/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 \u201cwar on drugs,\u201d came to believe that prohibition only serves to worsen substance abuse and violence. More info at www.CopsSayLegalizeMarijuana.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n See you there, and do not miss this opportunity to get your signed copy of “World War D \u2013 The Case against prohibitionism, roadmap to controlled re-legalization” while meeting all the great people at LEAP and Willie Nelson\u2019s Luck Films.<\/p>\n Jeffrey Dhywood<\/strong> I will be available for book-signing on October 24th at the sneak preview presentation of \u201cLegalize It – the movie\u201d On October 24, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), in conjunction with Willie Nelson\u2019s Luck Films and award-winning filmmakers Dan Katzir and Ravit Markus, will host a special screening and discussion panel of the film at … Continue reading “Sneak preview of “Legalize It – the movie\u201d, debate with Judge Jim Grey, Book signing with Jeffrey Dhywood – October 24, Long Beach, CA”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,70,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drug-legalization-2","category-drug-policy-reform","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Long-beach-movie-preview.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","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=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-war-d.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\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 www.leap.cc\/california-benefit\/ <\/a>or contact Diane Goldstein (diane.goldstein@leap.cc or 714.232.3722) <\/a>for more info.<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 LEAP Executive Director Neill Franklin<\/p>\n
\nInvestigative writer,
\nAuthor of “World War D \u2013 The Case against prohibitionism, roadmap to controlled re-legalization”<\/a>
\nFacebook page: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/worldward<\/a>
\nFollow me on Twitter: @JDhywood<\/a>
\nLinkedIn: http:\/\/hk.linkedin.com\/in\/jdhywood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"