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“There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to encourage small business, to encourage ownership, to expand access to quality health care, to enhance opportunity by making higher education more affordable to American's young people, to have our children live in safe neighborhoods, drug-free, crime-free, and a safe and clean environment, first and foremost to provide for the national defense, to protect and defend the American people, and to have accountability for our budget and for our spending.”

“Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.”

Should Certain Easy Crime Information Higher Drug Possession Minors Petty Surveillance Threshold

Author:Bill Gates

“The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.”

“Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and development than they do on marketing and administration, and afterwards they actually keep more in profits.”

Needs Company Development Higher Cost Drug Research Marketing Profit Administration Research And Development Drug Companies

Author:Marcia Angell

“If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.”

Ifs Needs Hard States Faces Economy Violence Products Source Industry Higher Citizens Drug Corruption Oil Income Dependent Illegal Mexico Collapse Currency Earning Employed Mexican

Author:Charles Bowden

“At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.”

Might Higher Drug Essentials Surreal

Author:Panda Bear

“Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use the drug at higher rates and even though their numbers in the general population are so low. How could that be? The thing is, you place all your resources in communities of color. And if you do that, you're going to arrest black people.”

People Ifs Use Black Community Numbers Policy Color Higher Drug Lows Percent Resources Rate Population Cracks Black People Ninety Arrested Cocaine

Author:Carl Hart

“Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.”

People Shows Study Higher Drug Welfare Users

Author:Rick Scott

“Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.”

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time