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
“Although a million black men can be found in prisons and jails, public acknowledgment of the role of the criminal justice system… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due… — Michelle Alexander 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
Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most… — Maia Szalavitz 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
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
The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving… — Sting Copy Share Image
“People are dying because of ignorance. They are dying because unremitting propaganda is denying them essential safety information. They are dying because… — Dominic Milton Trott Copy Share Image
We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“It made economic sense, if you looked at it from the right angle; it was not in the Clan’s interest for the… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Too many Americans have lost faith in our approach to the war on drugs... — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. — Anonymous 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
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. — Barry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs. — Ethan Nadelmann 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
These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies… — Bob Filner Copy Share Image
I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East,… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
We need to take a hard look at the war on drugs and the number of non-violent offenders who end up getting… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“I actually took them all on quite handily, although I learned when I came to study the issue that I was completely… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for… — Ayelet Waldman 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
“It's the causes, not the dependent person, that must be corrected. That's why I see the United States' War on Drugs as… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
That's what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: "Here's your brain, here's your brain… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Just plain logic says that the war on drugs does not work. It absolutely does not work. We have this highly addictive… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“There has never been a 'war on drugs'! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users… — Sebastian Marincolo Copy Share Image
![“That's what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: "Here's your brain, here's your brain on drugs", "Just Say No", "Why do you think they call it dope?" … And then the next commercial is [singing] "This Bud's for yooouuuu." C'mon, everybody, let's be hypocritical…” quote by Bill Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d7/bill-hicks-970_brain_that-s-what-i-hate-about-the-war-on-drug_2826763.jpg)
