Policemen and judges found a club against drug bans

LEAP: Law enforcement officers against drug bans organize themselves in Germany
The German Hanfverband welcomes today's founding of "LEAP Deutschland". At last, police, judges, prosecutors, and other law enforcement officials are joining forces to put an end to the madness of prohibition.

Policemen and judges organize themselves. Image: Jiri Hera - fotolia

For many years, the US Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) organization has shown that prosecutors, judges and police officers are also opposed to drug bans and criminalization of
Pronounce consumers. Today, after a long struggle, the German branch of this very strong grouping in the USA is founded.

In addition to the chairman and former police chief of Münster, Hubert Wimber, there are also other familiar faces. Frank Tempel, former drug investigator and now drug policy spokesman for the Left Party, Andreas Müller, the "toughest juvenile judge in Germany", Wolfgang Neskovic, former judge at the Federal Court, Lorenz Böllinger, the lead criminal justice professor in the prohibition-critical resolution to the Bundestag, and some other people from the Law enforcement will get involved in the organization.

Originally LEAP Germany should already be founded in November 2014. The designated chairman Hubert Wimber, at that time active police president of Münster, received however from its former superior a prohibition to participate in the establishment. Initially, this was denied by the Interior Ministry NRW, but later Interior Minister Ralf Jäger then gave in a statement to the parliament clearly, however, that an official and clear instructions were issued.

After Hubert Wimber has retired, LEAP Germany can now be founded without politically motivated influence on the part of the rulers.

Georg Wurth of the German Hanf Association:
"I am very happy about this support from the prosecutors. Following the well-known resolution of a large number of German criminal law professors, led by Professor Lorenz Böllinger, practitioners of criminal law now also have their say. Especially these people see daily in their work the ineffectiveness and harmfulness of drug bans. That some
Organizing it now is very welcome and will certainly have a strong impact on the whole debate in the coming years. All prohibition-critical people in the field of law enforcement should now think about joining LEAP Germany and thus increasing the pressure on politics in Germany. "(Pm)