Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Guatemala commends the visionary decision of the citizens of Colorado and Washington — Otto Perez Molina Copy Share Image
Now take a look at the way the Drug War is conducted over the past 40 years. It goes back farther, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
“The process occurs in two stages. The first step is to grant law enforcement officials extraordinary discretion regarding whom to stop, search,… — Michelle Alexander 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
“In October 1982, president Reagan officially announced his administration's war on drugs. At the time he declared this new war, less than… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous… — Ayelet Waldman 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 war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he… — David Simon 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
“Before the war on drugs, the war on terror, or the war on cancer, there was the war on female sexual desire.… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
The war on drugs has gone on for about forty-five, fifty years - and it's been a complete failure. If you had… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“New Mexico Governor Gary E. Johnson, a Republican and tri-athlete, has stated publicly that “Our present course is not working. Our War… — James P. Gray 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
“It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of legislative authority," the Federalist tell us. And… — Gene Healy Copy Share Image
“In another twenty to twenty- five years this plant will be legalized and taxed in the state of California—leaving countless ruined lives… — Paul Allih Copy Share Image
Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Drugs flow as effortlessly through the harbour as through los esteros, but the government and the DEA view drug trafficking as more… — Anonymous 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
