Drug Quote by Kool A.D

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

The War on Drugs is a war on people, but particularly it's been a war on low-income people and a war on minorities. We…

— Cory Booker

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

— Holly Near

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

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

America is a former slave state and a blatantly racist society, so the war on drugs, which is managed by white supremacists, was and…

— Douglas Valentine

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

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a…

— David Simon

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

The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world

— Kofi Annan

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

Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave…

— John Hickenlooper