The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Too many Americans have lost faith in our approach to the war on drugs... — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results — Otto Perez Molina Copy Share Image
We respect and support the example set by President José Mujica of Uruguay in proposing legislation that regulates the cannabis market — Otto Perez Molina Copy Share Image
The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“Until 1988, one year of imprisonment had been the maximum for possession of any amount of any drug.” — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The war on drugs - a big-government product if there ever was one - has been wildly unsuccessful, by any metric. — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
“Art can’t decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it’s a tragic,… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
I am here because I am the first judge in this country to say, in 1990, that the war on drugs was… — Pamela Alexander Copy Share Image
The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Various "wars on drugs" throughout history have killed millions, enslaved millions more, destroyed families, are usually just thin pretenses for mass incarceration,… — Kool A.D Copy Share Image
So many people view the war on drugs as a failure, as something that was perhaps intended and carried out with good… — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
There's the old saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
The War on Drugs is a war on people, but particularly it's been a war on low-income people and a war on… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“We cannot incarcerate ourselves out of addiction. Addiction is a medical crisis that—when it comes to nonviolent offenders—warrants medical interventions, not incarceration.… — Dominique DuBois Gilliard Copy Share Image
“The growing policy-reform movement is a broad church. It includes everyone from ganja-smoking Rastafarians to free-market fundamentalists and all in between. There… — Ioan Grillo Copy Share Image
Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“All the substances that are the main drugs of abuse today originate in natural plant products and have been known to human… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Before we begin our tour of the drug war, it is worthwhile to get a couple of myths out of the way.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“It’s not the drug that causes the junkie it’s the laws that causes the junkie because of course the drug laws means… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
