Cannabis Quote by Jack Nicholson

Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important…

— Ken Kesey

I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is…

— Russell Brand

“The critical point is that thousands of people are swept into the criminal justice system every year pursuant to the drug war without much…

— Michelle Alexander

The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior,…

— Raymond P. Shafer

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

— Bill James

The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many…

— William S. Burroughs

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

Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to these idiots.…

— Gus Van Sant

We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Also, what I like about it is that the villains in 'Narcos' are not just only the drug dealers, but it also poses the…

— Teresa Ruiz

Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and…

— Milton Friedman

If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.

— Carl Hart