Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Should someone go to jail for just doing drugs? I believe the time has come for that to end.

We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse.

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.

Until we do something about demand, Latin America will never be able to solve the drug problem on its own.

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

We spend billions and billions to fight drugs but, comparatively, spend nothing against alcohol. And alcohol is a drug.

We are never going to lick this problem of the drug traffic until we get the addicts off the streets of this country. They have got to be taken off the streets

The problem of marijuana has assumed the dimensions of a national emergency.

The problem of drugs is a national failure. We do not grow cocoa leaves in Albany.

I can tell you that the formula works, and works pretty well. You avoid criminals and violence, you refuse their mode of money that nourishes the cartels, and that is a great solution to the violence problem. In relation to the health problem, I have not ever heard of anybody dying from an overdose of marijuana.

The song 'Assassins Of Youth'... 'Assassins of youths' is what they used to call drugs in the old days when they first started the anti-drug campaign. And it's kind of an anti-drug record.

If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.

The war on drugs is a joke. We spend $40 billion a year, and the proof that it's a failure is that any kid can get almost any drug they want in any city in America within half an hour.

We are losing the 'War on Drugs,' which means there's a war going on and people on drugs are winning it.

I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.' You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.

I've been in the music business for 15 years. I've seen it all, man. I've just always been scared of coke. When I was on the road and saw some people do it, I was afraid I would really like it. I was afraid of the consequences.

When you take a lot of cocaine powder you tend to take a lot of alcohol with it as well, so for many years really I never went out without at least four or five grams of cocaine powder.

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.

I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.

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.

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.