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LEAP stands in stark contrast to the browardpalmbeach.com browardpalmbeach.com BY CHRIS JOSEPH Florida Sheriff’s Association, which is also ay Strack worked as a U.S. made up of law enforcement agents but Customs special agent on JFK whose position is to keep marijuana illegal. TS | TS International Airport’s drug Strack is aware of the opposition and what N squad in New York during his he calls its “cherry-picking” of stats to try to TE 27-year career. He constantly prove its case. But Strack believes that more N O busted people — two per day on average — and more police officers and law enforce- C R who were attempting to smuggle narcotics ment agents agree with LEAP’s message into the country. But today, the now-retired over the Florida Sheriff’s Association’s. Strack is working to get drugs legalized. “Rank-and-file law enforcement officers | PULP | PULP | As a spokesperson for Law Enforcement want these laws to change,” Strack says. “I Against Prohibition (LEAP), a nonprofit guarantee you that. Law enforcement agen- EWS EWS organization founded in 2002, Strack is cies and governmental organizations profit N part of a movement of police officers and on the war on drugs, and the Florida Sheriff’s Y | government agents who decry the coun- Association is largely made up of good ol’ DA try’s failed drug policies . Prohibition, boys with a large bureaucratic entity that they say, only increases the value of illicit profits off making sure marijuana remains substances and creates incentive for deal- illegal. But I think the majority of current ers to profit. It does nothing to stop drug cops protecting the streets of our state want use, yet criminalization sends too many the laws to change. But they’re doing what GE | NIGHT+ A people to jail and destroys families. Permit- they’re told. They’re doing their jobs.” T S ting drugs while closely regulating them, LEAP has plans to spread its message with LEAP posits, would free up resources for town hall meetings in the coming year, with officers to instead tackle violent crime. As Shutterstock Strack speaking for the group at these events. Florida grapples with the possibility of legal- inal element that controls drugs and bringing it Much like groups such as Regulate As for the prospect of marijuana legalization in izing marijuana in the coming year, LEAP back to regulated reforms that benefit us all.” Florida, which is pushing to get the legaliza- Florida, Strack realizes it’ll be an uphill battle. is looking to get into the conversation. Strack, age 56, says that while he worked as tion of recreational marijuana onto the 2016 But he believes the tide is turning. “I believe ULTURE | ART | | ART ULTURE “I came across LEAP after retirement and a customs agent, he felt defeat was inevitable ballot, LEAP preaches the importance of that we, as a state, will prove the naysayers C liked what they were doing because their theory in the “war on drugs.” When he was assigned regulation over prohibition. People are al- wrong that say Florida would never pull this and social construct is powerful,” Strack says. to Florida, he felt the futility of trying to inter- ways going to get their hands on weed, Strack off, that legalization is possible in certain “LEAP is not about free rein of having drugs le- cept every single drug boat that came into the reasons, whether legally or illegally. The progressive states only,” Strack says. “My core galized willy-nilly but about removing the crim- country. Some Florida municipalities — includ- answer, he says, is to control that access and beliefs on drugs have never changed. What’s ing Broward County — are developing poli- to regulate it. That, in turn, would eliminate changed is how can we diminish the nega- cies that fine people rather than arrest them drug dealers and save the state millions. tive effects of drugs through regulation.” READ MORE NEWS DAILY AT for marijuana violations.