“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.” StatesUnitedLibertyVisionUnited StatesCitizensDrugEvidenceArmyFilledLibertarianAlcoholJailCampsUsersLibertarianismEmpoweredCasualFreedom And LibertyProhibitionFreedom LibertyDrug ProhibitionArmed Citizens Author:Milton Friedman
“I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.” LooksUseAgeSpeakResultsCommonFiveGroupsDrugEvidenceSacredAddictionCalmFleshPreparationSicknessFortyMarijuanaSaneDependenceBorrowedGood HealthLiverDrug AddictionMushroomsDrug AddictHallucinogensHashish Author:William S. Burroughs
“A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use.” UseCertainClearGroupsDrugBehaviorEvidenceAttributesDrug UseDruggies Author:Virgil Miller Newton
“I do think that if you were to be scrupulous and research into it you would find that certain types of natural psychedelics have, if anything, anti-addictive properties. And all the evidence really points towards that. But you have the people who are running these drug rehab situations, they demonized all the drugs.” PeopleIfsThinkingRunningCertainNaturalSituationTypeDrugResearchEvidencePropertyRehab Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.” PeopleIfsNeedsTwoDoneEnoughStudyDrugLimitsModelsStandardsResearchEvidenceDoctorsTreatsAddictionScalesTherapyArtificialDoctor WhoReplacementsLarge ScaleOpioidsResearch StudyMethadone Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.” PlayAgePowerfulDrugEvidenceFactorsMost PowerfulAgeingVisitorsDementia Author:Geoff Mulgan
“Pharmacogenomics holds great promise to shed scientific light on the often risky and costly process of drug development, and to provide greater confidence about the risks and benefits of drugs in specific populations. Pharmacogenomics is a new field, but we intend to do all we can to use it to promote the development of medicines. By providing practical guidance on how to turn the explosion of pharmacogenomic information into real evidence on new drugs, we are taking an important step toward that goal.” ImportantRealUseLightTurnsProcessGoalStepsGreaterRiskInformationFieldsDevelopmentPromiseDrugBenefitsEvidenceMedicinePopulationPracticalsGuidanceProvidingShedExplosions Author:Mark McClellan
“I have come to doubt whether the FDA rules should apply to cannabis. There is no question about its safety. It is one of humanity's oldest medicines, used for thousands of years by millions of people with very little evidence of significant toxic effects. More is known about its adverse effects than about those of most prescription drugs.” PeopleShouldYearsLittlesUsedHumanityKnownMillionsDoubtEffectsDrugEvidenceSafetyMedicineSignificantToxicPrescriptionsCannabisAdverseFdaPrescription DrugsAdverse Effects Author:Lester Grinspoon
“It seems madness to say, 'We're worried that they're going to become addicted to marijuana' -- there's no evidence whatever that it's an addictive drug, but even if it were, these people are dying, what are we saving them from?” PeopleIfsSeemsDyingDrugEvidenceMadnessSavingWorriedMarijuana Author:Carl Sagan
“What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals have come across no better evidence of burgeoning "right-wing extremist" violence than a drug-taking, self-described "agnostic" who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who proclaimed, "Science is my religion." That sounds more like Bill Maher than Rush Limbaugh.” YearsSelfPoliticalLeftSoundViolenceDrugProveEvidenceBillsWingsCurrentsObsessionDespiteCuriousThrownAgnosticRight WingExtremistMichiganMilitiaFranticDrug Taking Author:Ann Coulter