Podcast appearances and mentions of howard wooldridge

In this episode, I sit down with Howard Wooldridge to discuss the idea of legalizing heroin and all other drugs, SAFE banking, descheduling cannabis, and more. Watch the video version of this episode and read the full show notes here: https://chillinois.net/2023/06/08/266-howard-wooldridge-cannabis-cop/

Detective Howard Wooldridge spent years enforcing the War on Drugs. Today, he travels the country advocating for a legal, regulated market for all drugs. What changed his mind and why is he so passionate about reform?

Prohibition is a very constitutional subject, the focus of both the 18th and the 21st Amendments. Howard Wooldridge of Citizens Opposed to Prohibition joins us, again, to update us on his increasingly successful efforts to end the prohibition of marijuana at both the state and – drum roll, please – the federal levels. Yep, you heard that right. Howard thinks that the federal prohibition of the wacky weed will soon end. Join us for a mellow conversation.

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Every year it seems that more states legalize marijuana in one form or another. Could the national government be next? Or have the recent elections stopped the progress of legalization efforts? We’ll speak with Howard Wooldridge, of Citizens Against Prohibition, as well as Scott Chipman, a spokesperson from CALM, Citizens Against Legalizing Marijuana. We'll also hear from Robert Mikos of Vanderbilt University, who spoke to us about the constitutional issues back in 2013.

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D-u-u-u-de! Colorado and Washington State have legalized recreational marijuana! But don't get too excited - the feds still criminalize the wacky weed. So what's a poor Washingtonian or Coloradan to do? We speak with Vanderbilt law professor Robert Mikos about this smokin' hot constitutional issue. We also get the latest from the trenches of the drug wars from Howard Wooldridge of Citizens Opposed to Prohibition (COPs).

Police officers and prison guards hold tremendous political sway.  Their unions support or opposition can make or break a campaign for office.  And their advocacy for better pay, more power, and more jobs has been a major factor in the expansion of the prison industrial complex.  For decades, they've helped build America's build America's criminal justice system. Now that system is changing.  Can law enforcement unions change as well? The program was produced with support from The Puffin Foundation. Featuring: Patrick Lynch, NYC Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President; Chuck Alexander, California Correctional Peace Officers Association Vice president; Pat Quinn, Governor of Illinois; Jerry Brown, Governor of California; Dan Macallair, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice executive director; Darius Charney, Center for Constitutional Rights staff attorney; Rick Hilliard, Southern Illinois Central Labor Council business manager; Alex Friedmann, Prison Legal News Associate Editor; Leroy Gadsen, New York NAACP Legal Redress Committee Esq. Chair; Eric Adams, New York State Senator; Elizabeth Crowley, NYC City Council member and former Congressional candidate; Howard Wooldridge, Citizens Opposing Prohibition lobbyist; Carlton Berkeley, Retired NYPD Detective; Jonathan Simon, University of California at Berkeley Law Professor; Harriet Salarno, Crime Victims United president and founder; Kirk Dutton, AFSCME Local 31 Vice President. For More Information: Prison Legal News https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/default.aspx Private Corrections Working Group http://privateci.org/ 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care http://blacksnlaw.tripod.com/ Ramarley's Call: The official Website to remember Ramarley Graham http://ramarleyscall.org/ Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice http://www.cjcj.org/ CCPOA California Correctional Peace Officers Association www.ccpoa.org/ CCA- Corrections Corporation of America http://www.cca.com/ The GEO Group http://thegeogroupinc.com/ NYC Patrolmen's Benevolent Association http://www.nycpba.org Crime Victims United http://www.crimevictimsunited.com/ Center for Constitutional Rights http://ccrjustice.org/ Citizens Opposing Prohibition http://www.citizensopposingprohibition.org/ Jonathan Simon http://blogs.berkeley.edu/author/jsimon/ Law Enforcement Against Prohibition http://www.leap.cc/ Southern Illinois Central Labor Council http://il.aflcio.org/siclc/ NAACP New York State Conference http://www.nysnaacp.org/ Ney York Police Department http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/home/home.shtml Jerry Brown http://www.jerrybrown.org/ Human Rights Defense Center http://humanrightsdefensecenter.org/ Articles, Reports, Photos, Videos: Gaming the System: How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies Promote Ineffective Incarceration Policies. http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/gaming_the_system.pdf Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration http://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/banking-bondage-private-prisons-and-mass-incarceration Unholy Alliance-How the private prison industry is corrupting our democracy and promoting mass incarceration http://publicampaign.org/reports/unholyalliance Unionizing Prison Guards in an Age of Mass Incarceration by Brian Tierney http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/06/04/unionizing-prison-guards-in-an-age-of-mass-incarceration/ Correcting the Guards-Why the shaky relationship between organized labor and correctional officers is doubly harmful to the American left.    By Adam Doster http://prospect.org/article/correcting-guards Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World's Biggest Prison Corporation http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/ex-con-alex-friedmann-cca-private-prison-rape Officials rally to fight prison closures in Illinois http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci-ZUTlPZ6g Marchers Demand Justice for Ramarley Graham http://www.thenation.com/article/169104/marchers-demand-justice-ramarley-graham# Armed Security Guard The post Making Contact – Undue Influence: the Power of Police and Prison Guards' Unions appeared first on KPFA.

Guests Rev. Eddy Lepp, Howard Wooldridge of LEAP, and Tony King

Guests Rev. Eddy Lepp, Howard Wooldridge of LEAP, and Tony King

Guests Judge Arthur L. Burnett and Vincent Hayden of the National African American Drug Policy Coalition, and Howard Wooldridge of LEAP

Guests Judge Arthur L. Burnett and Vincent Hayden of the National African American Drug Policy Coalition, and Howard Wooldridge of LEAP