“In the year 2000, no one will be arrested for drugs and that sort of thing.”— Mick Jagger, rayconnolly.co.uk
“Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.”— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com
“Kima: Fighting the war on drugs...one brutality case at a time. Carver: Girl, you can't even think of calling this shit a war. Herc: Why not? Carver: Wars end.”— David Simon, Ellis Carver, Seth Gilliam, imdb.com
“Letting moms enjoy cannabis — ideally once they've stopped breastfeeding — seems like a no-brainer. And yet it's still frowned upon thanks to some bogus war on drugs prohibition-style brainwashing.”— Kristi Pahr, theweek.com
“You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.”— Ron Paul, chron.com
“The Trump administration will not declare a public health emergency on the opioid epidemic, dismissing the top recommendation his own blue-ribbon commission called for a week ago. The commission argued such a declaration was critical to unlock emergency funding and expand treatment.”— David Dayen, Ryan Grim, theintercept.com
“In many ways, the so-called war on drugs was a war on communities of color, a war on black communities, a war on latino communities.”— Angela Davis, imdb.com
“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black [people]. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt their communities.”— Unknown Official of the Nixon Administration, imdb.com