Illegal drugs Quote by Johann Hari

Now take a look at the way the Drug War is conducted over the past 40 years. It goes back farther, but start from…

— Noam Chomsky

The problem we are trying to solve is that of drugs that would have never seen the light of day for reasons that have…

— Vivek Ramaswamy

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

— Gore Vidal

The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to…

— George Jung

Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.

— George W. Bush

It's important that public funds be spent in research directions that are pushing market frontiers rather than working in existing areas. This means funding…

— Mariana Mazzucato

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.

— Graham Hancock

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

Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of war on…

— Kofi Annan

I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal…

— Bernie Sanders

I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than…

— David Harsanyi

Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance…

— Rick Doblin