Confusion Quote by Daniel Waterman

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

— Milton Friedman

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

— Rhys Ifans

“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

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

— Lawrence Durrell

Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“The war mentality represents an unfortunate confluence of ignorance, fear, prejudice, and profit. ... The ignorance exists in its own right and is further…

— Gabor Maté

“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

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

— Gore Vidal

There is pain in prohibition

— Anonymous

Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our…

— Milton Friedman

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this…

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

— Pope Benedict XVI