Drug Quote by Maia Szalavitz

The thing about our drug laws is that they're not based on science.

— Maia Szalavitz

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

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

We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.

— Carl Hart

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 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

We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of…

— P. J. O'Rourke

If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.

— Carl Hart

“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

Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go…

— Alex Berenson

“The beliefs in the potency of drugs to heal, diets to strengthen, moneys to secure, are the values or money changers that must be…

— Neville Goddard

I believe that we not only feed the public demand for useless and harmful drugs, but also go far to create that very demand.…

— Richard Clarke Cabot