“Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.” WorldWayKindDifferentTodayGivenNationsEnvironmentModernConditionsMankindDrugDiseaseDegreesMajorsConcernConcernedYesterdayOur WorldDifferent KindsOrganismsPlagueOur EnvironmentHazardsScourgeCholeraSanitationSmallpoxInfectious DiseasesLiving Conditions Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy -- comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.” NationsSimpleLibertyCrimePolicyDrugNecksStringsPublic PolicyNarcoticsStrings Attached Author:Joel Miller
“American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?” PeopleMindWarReasonEarthNationsBecomingDrugEatingInnocentFakeExceptionalJunkJunk FoodPharmaceuticalObeseExceptionalismAmerican ExceptionalismWaging War Author:Gerald Celente
“Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from severe mental illness have not improved despite the availability of apparently effective therapies such as antipsychotic drugs.” WorldHas BeensWarNationsCommonDrugAnxietyRateIllnessMental IllnessRecoveryDespiteTherapyWar Of The WorldsSevereSecond World WarCommon ManAvailabilityDepression And Anxiety Author:Richard Bentall
“The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system. And can we just say gender equality and the end of mass incarceration and the final shedding of the vestiges of a slave-based nation? Can we have that, too? Can I have it all?” EndsUseNationsDrugApproachMassMental HealthSlaveFinalsGenderCompassionateGender EqualityPublic HealthProliferationIncarcerationDrug UseMass IncarcerationHealth System Author:Ayelet Waldman
“America is a sovereign nation. And as President Trump has said all along, made a centerpiece of his campaign from day one, we have to stop the flow of people and drugs over our borders.” PeopleMadeSaidAmericaNationsPresidentTrumpDrugFlowCampaignsBordersSovereignCenterpieces Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict is rendered. Harsh mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses were passed by Congress in the 1980s as part of the war on drugs and the "get tough" movement, sentences that have helped to fuel our nation's prison boom and have also greatly aggravated racial disparities, particularly in the application of mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine.” GivingShouldPersonsWarNationsMovementJudgingAmountDrugToughPrisonCongressSentencesGuiltyFuelCracksApplicationMinimumOffenseHarshCocaineDiscretionWar On DrugsVerdictDisparityAggravated Author:Michelle Alexander
“Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.” PeopleIfsFeelsStatesSeemsWould BeAgeCoursesLostNationsBlackRaceFiguresDrugComfortablePercentMovedAfrican AmericanUncomfortableJailBlack PeopleOffenseVeilsArrested Author:Michelle Alexander
“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.” NationsHealingDrugDestructionDrinkingAlcoholPotWeedMarijuanaAlcoholismHippieCocaineHerbsDrunkennessDrugs And AlcoholDrinking AlcoholCannabisReggaeFunny AlcoholAlcohol DrinkingSmokersDrinking FunnyHempAlcohol AddictionAlcohol And LifeMedical MarijuanaJamaicansSmoking WeedReggae MusicFunny MarijuanaFunny WeedStonersFunny DrugHippiJamaican MusicSex DrugsSmokin WeedGreat WeedMarijuana LegalizationCigarettes And AlcoholMedicinal HerbsSmoking Dope Author:Bob Marley
“While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.” ValuesNationsSupportFocusDevelopmentCostDrugResearchImportanceWealthySeniorPrescriptionsPharmaceuticalResearch And DevelopmentPrescription DrugsGreat Value Author:Michael K. Simpson
“In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.” ThinkingWorldCountryHelpingTodayNationsDrugDiseaseCrossesAccessDevelopingBordersAllowingHealthcareReincarnationGenericToday's WorldDeveloping CountriesShort SightedInfectious DiseasesDeadly Diseases Author:Ron Wyden
“Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.” PeopleWorldLooksSaidDifferentRealityNationsOne ThingGroupsThis WorldDrugPerceptionSkinsTownsChaosMessDesertDeceivingPerception Reality Author:Ted Dekker