Leigh Maddox - "Legalize Drugs to Save Cops Lives" - Drug War
Hour 1 - 3
Leigh Maddox retired a Captain from the Maryland
State Police in 2007. She participated in the war on drugs from many angles. In
the 1990’s, she worked as a patrol trooper and supervisor; served in the
Intelligence Division including a long term undercover assignment in which she
infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan; and worked as a criminal investigator,
legislative coordinator, public affairs spokesperson, and academy Instructor.
Leigh later served as the Commander of the Baltimore Washington Metro Troop,
Planning and Research Division, Training Division, and as the coordinator for
the racial profiling Consent Decree related to the drug interdiction policies
of the Maryland State Police. Ms. Maddox says she is tired of seeing good cops
and innocent citizens die because we
insist on continuing the same prohibition policies. “Our failed drug policies
are nothing more than a killing field, battering communities, pillaging
minority families and subjecting generations of Americans to poverty, violence
and a depth of hopelessness from which not even the strongest child can emerge without
scars that serve as lifetime haunts.”