Boris Johnson Quotes

The consumption of drugs could be legalized, not penalized.

We cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem.

I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs.

Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?

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

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

The war on meth must be fought with a multi-pronged approach.

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my value system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal

We're becoming drug courts.

I would equate the legalization of drugs to the moral equivalent of genocide.

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

For all our policing, we understand that law enforcement is not the solution to the problem of drugs in our society.

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

The war on drugs is a war on our own families …. We have to move from a system that punishes to a system that treats.

Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It's time for a rethink

Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.

… in light of the president's newfound boldness in speaking out about the unfairness of marijuana prohibition enforcement, he should take the opportunity to significantly reform federal marijuana policy and rearrange the agencies that have mismanaged it for so long.

Drug consumption, production and trafficking should be subject to global regulations, which means that consumption and production should be legalized but within certain limits and conditions.

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

I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. I've never used marijuana and I don't intend to, but it's just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn't succeeded.

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 old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

So many people view the war on drugs as a failure, as something that was perhaps intended and carried out with good intentions but very badly executed.