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
The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs. — Steven Machat Copy Share Image
If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender. — Bill Hicks 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
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain 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
I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. I've never used marijuana and I don't intend to,… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to… — Milton Friedman 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
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
“All too often the people of our culture think they’re really doing something if they’re out there fighting bad things and getting… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
I'm actually not in favour of decriminalizing cannabis -- I'm in favour of legalizing it. Tax and regulate. It's one of the… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
When you have war, whether it's a war against drugs, war against terrorism, war overseas, the mentality of the people change and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without… — Mel Carnahan Copy Share Image
The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in… — Ron Paul 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
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
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
“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
The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement… — 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
“Many people fear that decriminalization and the controlled dispensing of drugs will lead to widespread substance use among people who are now… — Gabor Maté 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
“Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute 80 to 90 percent of all drug offenders sent… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“So just take a look at the different prosecution rates and sentencing rules for ghetto drugs like crack and suburban drugs like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“At a time when the current and two former US presidents have admittedly indulged, as have politicians of all stripes from Al… — Jeffrey Dhywood 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
“In the cloudy swirl of misleading ideas surrounding public discussion of addiction, there’s one that stands out: the misconception that drug taking… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The accession of not one but three illegal drug users in a row to the US presidency constitutes an existential challenge to… — Jeffrey Dhywood Copy Share Image
Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs — Michelle Alexander 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
Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
