Best War On Drugs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 5

“Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.”

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Author:Mel Carnahan

“You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.”

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Author:Graham Hancock

“I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.”

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Author:Marc Maron

“I am here because I am the first judge in this country to say, in 1990, that the war on drugs was racist. It still is and that hasn't changed”

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Author:Pamela Alexander

“The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.”

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Author:L. Neil Smith

“In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.”

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Author:Rodney S. Quinn

“If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender.”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were”

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Author:Tony Hillerman

“More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.”

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Author:Mira Sorvino

“In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that "the war on drugs is lost." But to demand a yes or no answer to the question "Is the war against drugs being won?" is like demanding a yes or no answer to the question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" Never can an unimaginative and fundamentally stupid metaphor have exerted a more baleful effect upon proper thought.”

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Book:Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses

Source: Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses

“Just as Hitler used the Reichstag burning, the U.S. government now uses the so-called two wars, the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism, to fuel fear in the population and establish a police security state.”

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Author:Ralph Metzner

“The war on drugs is a war against the communities.”

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Author:Holly Near

“The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.”

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Author:Michelle Alexander

“Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs”

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Author:Michelle Alexander

“The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.”

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Author:Stefan Molyneux

“The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost everywhere in the world is much closer to Tent City than it is to anything in Portugal. Our laws are built around the belief that drug addicts need to be punished to stop them. But if pain and trauma and isolation cause addiction, then inflicting more pain and trauma and isolation is not going to solve that addiction. It's actually going to deepen it.”

“Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and also demonizing them... The drug war is basically for this - It has nothing to do with drugs, but it has plenty to do with criminalizing an unwanted population and scaring everybody else.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. "Defeat" will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment's role will force a policy review.”

“The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.”

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Author:David Simon

“The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.”

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Book:The Ten Things You Can't Say In America

Source: The Ten Things You Can't Say In America

“Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.”

“Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.”

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Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“I'm actually not in favour of decriminalizing cannabis - I'm in favour of legalizing it. Tax and regulate. It's one of the only ways to keep it out of the hands of our kids because the current war on drugs, the current model isn't working.”

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Author:Justin Trudeau

“The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world”

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Author:Kofi Annan

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