We have now spent 1 trillion dollars waging the drug war since it began. A trillion. Those funds could have been used… — Michelle Alexander 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
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
I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is a safe, nontoxic drug called naloxone that can instantly reverse opioid overdose and prevent most of these deaths. But the… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“In Europe, nobody will bleep you, if you want to say a "bad" word on TV. The idea that some self-righteous little… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end. — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Law enforcement in the United States, thanks largely to the war on drugs; routinely targets people of color often living in ghetto… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today,… — Maia Szalavitz 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
People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government. — Stefan Molyneux 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 War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime!… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“But anyone who believes in the war on drugs is missing a crucial point as to why the war can never be… — Ryan Vanderford Copy Share Image
In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America. — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
