Pedro Reyes Quotes

I do think that we are an overmedicated society.

Well, we got plenty of heroin in my district. We don’t need any more. So I suggest you try it in Queens and Staten Island. They don’t have very much there.

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

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The Drug War is probably the worst scourge that has ever been visited upon this country.

The drug problem in this country is a consumption issue.

We found that we had captured, with the Philippines, an opium problem

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

My home state of Kentucky has been especially hard hit. In 2015, more than 1,300 Kentuckians died after drug overdoses, many with opioids in their system. That's about four per day.

Drugs have ruined Punjab.

Probably because I personally knew at least six or seven people in Ross County who died from overdoses in the last three years. The heroin epidemic is just too aggravating and sad and unsettling for even someone like me to live with and think about for the time it would take to write a book dealing with it.

On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

It's a problem that Congress has really taken on in the last couple of years. We tripled the money that was being - to be spent on opioids. Legislation sort of followed that. Then we doubled that tripling. I think, at some point, there's a limit to how many times we can multiply that in a short period of time, but this is a real problem. In Missouri, more people die from drug overdoses than car accidents.

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

I've lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.

There is a national consensus building here that drugs are doing a great deal of damage to the Bolivian society.

The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction and mental illness and the cost of prescription drugs and healthcare and student debt and all of these things are very personal to people now.

I think that if it is - has to do with global warming, or if it has to do with raising the minimum wage, or if it has to do with lowering prescription drugs for vulnerable citizens - all of those things are people issues, not Democratic issues or Republican issues.

I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, but it is not clear what we should do.

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.