Able Quote by Juan Manuel Santos

We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime! We have…

— Peter McWilliams

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home,…

— Larry Elder

Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual…

— Mel Carnahan

“The story is complicated and contradictory. Sometimes this proclaimed ‘war on drugs’ has followed shifts in military threats; at times it is coloured by…

— Lintus Magnus

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

“War on Drugs...will only be won when we point our thumbs at ourselves and ask the hard question: “How am I contributing to this…

— David W Earle

“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

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot…

— Steven Soderbergh

“At a time when the current and two former US presidents have admittedly indulged, as have politicians of all stripes from Al Gore to…

— Jeffrey Dhywood

On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut…

— Anthony Bourdain

Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will…

— Abbey Hofmann