Jerry Garcia Quotes

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 employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

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.

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.

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

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

With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

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

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

The war on drugs has failed. Its failure has been so categorical and self-evident that the statement itself is bromidic. By any reasonable metric of success—addiction rates, violence, the availability of drugs in our schools— it’s clear that our 40-year jihad against certain plants and chemicals has done far more harm than good.

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

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.

Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me.

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want.

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.

By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

Not since the collapse of the attempt to prohibit the ingestion of alcohol has our liberty been in such danger as it now is from the misnamed “war on drugs.”

The Drug War has arguably been the single most devastating, dysfunctional social policy since slavery.

We cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem.

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