Quotes on War On Drugs

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and also demonizing them... The drug war is basically for this - It has nothing to do with drugs, but it has plenty to do with criminalizing an unwanted population and scaring everybody else.

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat it.

The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.