This month’s program: “Law Enforcement Against Prohibition”

Carlis McDerment, Jr. is deeply concerned about the effects of drugs on individuals and the effects and costs of drug prohibition on society.

An only child who grew up in the Columbus, Ohio area, he became interested in law enforcement through the 1970s cop shows of his youth. Although he added to his career talents before entering law enforcement, he has spent the last nine years as a Deputy Sheriff for the Fairfield County Ohio Sheriff’s Office, thus returning to his earliest interests.

It’s during this time, working in the jail and while on patrol, that he saw firsthand that our drug policies are catastrophic failures on many levels: public safety, police safety, economic, and targeting sick people with health problems.

McDerment is passionate about helping society to see the whole picture: “Drug prohibition is a bad policy, wrecking lives and the nation and creating more problems than it attempts to solve.”

Join us at 12:30pm for pizza in the meeting room; the meeting begins at 1pm.