Drug Legality Group to Use ‘Traffic’ Clips
A New York-based foundation that proposes legalizing drugs to halt “the current criminal drug market” has launched a Web site using images from the Oscar-nominated movie “Traffic.”
The organization, which says it has permission from USA Films to use the images on StopTheWar.com, features a game in which users fight a war on drugs, only to find that conventional strategies fail.
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12:00 a.m. Feb. 15, 2001 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Thursday February 15, 2001 Home Edition Calendar Part F Page 60 Entertainment Desk 2 inches; 61 words Type of Material: Correction
Drug policy--A story in Wednesday’s Calendar about a foundation that launched a Web site related to the film “Traffic” mistakenly characterized the group, the Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation, as favoring the legalization of drugs. While the foundation is critical of existing U.S. drug policy and does advocate decriminalizing marijuana, its reform proposals stop short of taking that position with regard to other drugs.
“Millions of people who have seen the movie ‘Traffic’ are suddenly questioning the futility and destructiveness of our nation’s drug war,” said Ethan Nadelmann, director of the Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation. “The movie got people stirred up and got them thinking; we hope to inspire them to get involved.”
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