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“When people discuss the drug war, they are usually referring to the one that began in the 1970s, without realizing that this was, at…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

“When I was in college I had a wisdom tooth pulled, and I was given a prescription for a bottle of narcotic pills that…

— Gary Reilly

Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy -- comes…

— Joel Miller

“Society would have much to gain from decriminalization. On the immediate practical level, we would feel safer in our homes and on our streets…

— Gabor Maté

The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I…

— William S. Burroughs

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

“We have a genuine and devastating epidemic of opiate abuse in this country, and it is of critical importance that this problem be addressed.…

— Michael Bihovsky

“At the time the drug war was declared, illegal drug use and abuse was not a pressing concern in most communities. The announcement of…

— Michelle Alexander

Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.  Theodore Roosevelt.”

— Doug Dandridge

“The bottle of morphine is wrapped up and passed to the child over the counter,” a Tennessee doctor wrote. Doctors and pharmacists had little…

— Gail Collins