Abbie Hoffman Quotes

All you kiddies remember to lay off the needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.

I don't like people who take drugs... customs men for example.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.

Having smoked a marijuana joint in 1968 is no big deal.

If its not worth spending everything it takes, it's not a war [on drugs].

The drug problem in this country is a consumption issue.

Uncle Sam is the Worst Drug Fiend in the World Of all the nations of the world the United States consumes most habit-forming drugs per capita. Opium, the most pernicious drug known to humanity, is surrounded, in this country, with far fewer safeguards than any other nation.

We need to repeal the whole war on drugs. It isn’t working. We have already spent over $400 billion since the early 1970s, and it is wasted money

Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.

I hear that opium smoking is strictly banned in England, and so England knows the harm that the drug does. If it does not allow it to poison its own people, it should not allow it to poison the people of other countries.

I'm very fond of drugs.

I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens.

I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.

I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.

The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.