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“Every friend of freedom... must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.”

“When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in education through vouchers. Those are two things I think are very urgent and important. They're both more important than the harm which Social Security will do.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.”

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Author:Randy Barnett

“Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. Every trial held to prosecute a drug user or seller is court time that could be used to prosecute a rapist in a case that might otherwise have been plea bargained.”

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Author:Randy Barnett

“On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.”

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Author:Michael Badnarik

“Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.”

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Author:Michael Badnarik

“Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.”

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Book:The quality of mercy: an autobiography

Source: The quality of mercy: an autobiography

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

“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.”