Agency Quote by Michelle Alexander

“The resistance within law enforcement to the drug war created something of a dilemma for the Reagan administration. In order for the war to…

— Michelle Alexander

“As if the free military equipment, training, and cash grants were not enough, the Reagan administration provided law enforcement with yet another financial incentive…

— Michelle Alexander

“Officials in the state’s Department of Public Safety executed an operation that, at a stroke, seized more than $1.6 billion in drugs from organized…

— Tom Wainwright

Many people don't realize that financial incentives have been built into the drug war that guarantee that law enforcement will continue to arrest extraordinary…

— Michelle Alexander

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

— Jerry Brown

“In truth, the U.S.-sponsored international “War on Drugs” is a war on poor people, most of them subsistence farmers caught in a dangerous no-win…

— Gabor Maté

With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level…

— Burke Marshall

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

To make matters worse, federal drug forfeiture laws allow state and local law enforcement agencies to keep, for their own use, up to 80…

— Michelle Alexander

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious…

— L. Neil Smith

States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous war on…

— Ayelet Waldman

Donors need to know what their money is being used for.

— Michel Martelly