Drug Prohibition Quotes
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Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.
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On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no steel," because of the murderers, "Would there were no night," because of the thieves, "Would there were no light," because of the informers, and "Would there were no women," because of adultery.
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The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.
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There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.
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Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
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Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
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Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
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Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.
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While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. Every trial held to prosecute a drug user or seller is court time that could be used to prosecute a rapist in a case that might otherwise have been plea bargained.
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
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Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
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Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety.
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When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
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Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.
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