Acceptance Quote by Rick Doblin

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

To be blunt, we need to remove the administrative barriers preventing legitimate research into medical marijuana, which is why I've decided to roll out…

— Orrin Hatch

There's a school of thought that says if you legalize drugs it will solve the problem. We're all good liberals, we said let's do…

— George Pelecanos

It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you…

— Jerry Garcia

The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.

— Jesse Ventura

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching…

— Mark Walport

Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it’s because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an enormous black…

— James Morcan

I definitely believe in legalizing drugs. It does take the mystery away. It takes the money away, so suddenly there are no drug wars.…

— Winona Ryder

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

Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of war on…

— Kofi Annan

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

— Maia Szalavitz

“But why, then, do these ideas persist? Why haven’t the scientists with the better and more accurate ideas eclipsed these old theories? Hart tells…

— Johann Hari