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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

Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

As soon as people realize that the majority of people in this country take drugs then the better off we'll all be. It's not…

— Noel Gallagher

If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation,…

— Milton Friedman

The issue is, you do not have to go to either criminalizing and throwing people in prison. I don't think you should do that…

— Kevin Sabet

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

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug…

— Freda Adler

By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out…

— Gary Johnson

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

If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent…

— Juan Manuel Santos

We are having a public health response to this epidemic of prescription opioids. We are looking at treatment options, there are drugs being made…

— Perri Peltz

Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and…

— Milton Friedman