“The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in. A prescription drug plan that added enormous amounts to our spending, and the tax cuts at the high end that did not create jobs and create revenue coming.” TwoWarEndsFactsJobsCuttingPlansAmountDrugTaxesIncreaseSpendingEnormousAdministrationEngagedRevenuePrescriptionsTax CutsPrescription Drugs Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.” HumorFunnyStuffEffortQualityDrugMajorsIncreaseProfitHigh QualityPeddling Book:Nothing's Sacred Source: Nothing's Sacred
“The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.” WarWholeCoursesDrugIncreasePoliceOffenseWar On DrugsPretextPersonnelPolice Power Author:William S. Burroughs
“The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison population and more than half of the increase in the state prison population between 1985 and 2000, the period of our prison system's most dramatic expansion.” Has BeensTwoWarStatesHalfPeriodsDrugMassThirdsIncreasePrisonPopulationConvictionDramaticEnginesExpansionWar On DrugsIncarcerationMass IncarcerationPrison SystemPrison Population Author:Michelle Alexander
“In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.” IfsWarWhiteClassMiddleCollegePeriodsDrugPercentIncreasePossessionAlcoholMiddle ClassNeighborhoodMarijuanaTobaccoHoodCampusWar On DrugsCollege CampusEscalation Author:Michelle Alexander
“It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.” WantSeemsConsciousnessDrugIncrease Author:Jerzy Kosinski