Activity Quote by James Carriger Paine

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

When you consider America, there are hundreds of millions of people who have smoked marijuana illegally.

— Ayelet Waldman

The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful.

— Jesse Ventura

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

— Milton Friedman

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of…

— Franklin P. Adams

There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the…

— Bill Bryson

The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

— Laozi

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

I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.'

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.

— Ron Paul

The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.

— Barack Obama