Drug policy Quote by Daniel Waterman

“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

“We are particularly concerned with the question to what degree approval and implementation of an explanatory model minimising collective or institutional responsibility for certain…

— Daniel Waterman

“At a time when the current and two former US presidents have admittedly indulged, as have politicians of all stripes from Al Gore to…

— Jeffrey Dhywood

“Introduction of rational standards to differentiate between acceptable and unacceptable forms of drug related conduct allows us to hold drug users fully accountable for…

— Daniel Waterman

“It's the causes, not the dependent person, that must be corrected. That's why I see the United States' War on Drugs as being fought…

— Chris Prentiss

“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

Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government…

— L. Neil Smith

So many people view the war on drugs as a failure, as something that was perhaps intended and carried out with good intentions but…

— Denise Dresser

Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push…

— Lawrence Lessig

Doctors are directly responsible for hooking millions of people on prescription drugs. They are also indirectly responsible for the plight of millions more who…

— Robert S. Mendelsohn

On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut…

— Anthony Bourdain

“The drug education currently provided broadly amounts to ‘take drugs and you will die’. This lie is so obvious that no-one takes it seriously.”

— Dominic Milton Trott