Kansas City NORML will be protesting against the renewal of Jackson County Question #1, the COMBAT Anti-Drug Tax which has already cost tax payers in Jackson County Missouri over $800,000.  This will be located accross the street from 3 precints in Blue Springs, Missouri at 420 West R.D. Mize Rd, Blue Springs, MO.

For more information on the opposition to COMBAT please visit:

http://kansascitykansan.com/blogs/kansascitynorml

or

http://www.kcnorml.org

The Missouri Jackson County Prosecutor has an old sneaky little pet by the name of COMBAT.  Well let me introduce you to the realities of this anti-drug tax law.  COMBAT is Jackson County's Anti-Drug program that has cost, at least over $850,000 just to put on the ballot for the November 3rd "special" ballot.  COMBAT continues to insist that our tax money and then some more of that tax money (let's call it sales tax), will "quite literally saves lives" and "put hundreds of young people's lives back on track" and my personal pet pieve "Without that money, the detention center would have to close two floors and release some 260 inmates due to lack of supervision, according to the corrections director. The inmates were convicted of violent crimes, sex offenses and other felonies."

[Editor's Notes: Let me start off by stating the obvious, this is a waste of tax money from the beginning and more or even more a blackmail to the tax payers of Jackson County. Coming from a little bit of incarceration experience myself I will say that there is no better job MOST correctional officers have at the Jackson County Correctional Center than blatantly and militantly neglecting the physical and mental health of even jailers awaiting trial. And what a better way to help young offenders than to let them share the same building with violent offenders?Combat is endorsed by the Board of Police Commissioners of Kansas City, Missouri, the GKC Chamber of Commerce, the CCP, Crime Commission, the Raytown Chamber, the Civil Council, J.E. Dunn Construction Company, The Black Agenda Group, ReDiscover, the City Of Independence (this city's name is turning quite into the opposite by this endorsement and law enforcement "rumor record"), and the NAACP whom had held a conference that makes me wonder if they still throw endorsements at COMBAT.]

Please join Kansas City NORML at 420 West R.D. Mize Rd. in Blue Springs, Missouri on November 3rd to protest Question #1, Jackson County COMBAT Anti-Drug Tax Law.  For more information you may check out:  http://www.kcnorml.org