Bases Quote by Jimmy Carter

The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison…

— Michelle Alexander

During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S.

— Bill Toomey

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since…

— Henry Giroux

Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the line, we…

— Steve Winwood

Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation),…

— Noam Chomsky

“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests…

— Bryan Stevenson

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

The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other…

— Jesse Ventura

Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light…

— Tom Robbins

I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind of energetic…

— John Trudell

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

“Jails and prisons are unique medical ecosystems. Many of the people who end up there are already in shaky health from drug use, marginal…

— Maryn McKenna