Attention Quote by Carl Hart

“With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely if ever] predictive of consequent behavior’…

— Daniel Waterman

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug…

— Gary Webb

The concern now is whether policymakers even understand the meaning of evidence. Whether there is any truth to this descriptor of "fact-free era." Whether…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

“But why, then, do these ideas persist? Why haven’t the scientists with the better and more accurate ideas eclipsed these old theories? Hart tells…

— Johann Hari

“[In late 1989,] a New York Times/CBS News Poll reported that 64 percent of those polled—the highest percentage ever recorded—now thought that drugs were…

— Michelle Alexander

By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out…

— Gary Johnson

For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have…

— Rick Larsen

“A significant factor often overlooked by those considering the failure of drug policy is the general aim of deflecting or assigning responsibility away from…

— Daniel Waterman

Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy -- comes…

— Joel Miller

The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.

— Evo Morales

“the government’s drug laws were at best proven ineffectual every day and at worst were misguidedly focused on supply rather than demand, randomly conceived…

— Piper Kerman

“In the 1990s, the Rand Corporation conducted a study on cocaine use in the United States and various control strategies to reduce that usage...…

— Neal Boortz