Alcohol Quote by Rodney S. Quinn

In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled…

— Owen Jones

The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government…

— Kurt Schmoke

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we…

— Drew Carey

The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful.

— Jesse Ventura

When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was…

— Terence Winter

Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave…

— John Hickenlooper

The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many…

— William S. Burroughs

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but…

— James Carriger Paine

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

The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to…

— George Jung

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market…

— Michael Badnarik

We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime! We have…

— Peter McWilliams