Drug Quote by Maia Szalavitz Download Open image “The thing about our drug laws is that they're not based on science.” — Maia Szalavitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drug Drug laws Law Science
I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of that. — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions. — Joseph Crowley Copy Share Image
If people believe that marijuana helps their medical issues then they should allow people to indulge in those remedies. It is criminal that we… — Steven Machat Copy Share Image
Science could never get you to make alcohol and tobacco legal and marijuana illegal. Only racism can do that. — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America -… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
“the government’s drug laws were at best proven ineffectual every day and at worst were misguidedly focused on supply rather than demand, randomly conceived… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
I think that there are non-physical laws all right: genuine (if not strict) laws written in the language of biology, economics, and so on.… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets. — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
There's traditionally been two different ways of seeing addiction. Either it's a sin and you're a horrible bad person and you are just choosing… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Marijuana is not not harmful, but is the least harmful psychoactive substance that we have, with the possible exception of caffeine. — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
There is a safe, nontoxic drug called naloxone that can instantly reverse opioid overdose and prevent most of these deaths. But the drug war… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for overprescribing. The… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of that. — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type. — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and they start… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
In order for people to recover, we can't just say 'love is all we need.' — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
If you're worried about a kid and drug use, the safest, best thing to do is individual counseling or family therapy, none of which… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The only way to make sure that the Hand didn't get to you would have been to kill your brother. I could've done it,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
I saw this anti-drug commercial that showed a kid smoking pot in his dad's room with his friend. This kid finds a gun, the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
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