After three decades of fueling the US war on drugs with over half a trillion tax dollars and increasingly punitive policies, illicit drugs are easier to get, cheaper, and more potent than they were 30 years ago. While our court system is choked with ever-increasing drug prosecutions our quadrupled prison population has made building prisons this nation's fastest growing industry, with two million incarcerated - more per capita than any industrialized country in the world. Meanwhile people are dying in our streets and drug barons grow richer than ever before. We must change these policies. Current and former members of law enforcement have recently created a new and important drug-policy reform group called LEAP. Founded on March 16, 2002, LEAP is an organization that believes the United States' drug policies have failed and that to save lives, lower the rate of addiction, and conserve tax dollars, we must end drug prohibition.