Pothead Quote by Anonymous

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

— George Will

“The percentage of drug arrests that result in prison sentences (rather than dismissal, community service, or probation) has quadrupled, resulting in a prison-building boom…

— Michelle Alexander

In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country in the…

— Sam Branson

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last…

— Barry McCaffrey

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since…

— Henry Giroux

“In truth, the U.S.-sponsored international “War on Drugs” is a war on poor people, most of them subsistence farmers caught in a dangerous no-win…

— Gabor Maté

“We have more prisoners locked up on drug charges than the continent of Europe has in total prisoners. It’s”

— Andrew Heaton

The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison…

— Michelle Alexander

“The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in 100 American…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

— Bernie Sanders

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by…

— Jeffrey Archer

“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the primary reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million…

— Piper Kerman