Hamilton Fish Quotes

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.

… satanic music is driven by marijuana, and marijuana smoking by white women makes them want to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and others. It is a drug that causes insanity, criminality, and death — the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.

Drug education is the only vaccine we have against the danger of drug abuse of our children.

Drugs are destroying more people than poverty ever did.

Of course, the primary interest of the Bureau of Narcotics is the enforcement aspect. From this point of view it is very unfortunate that Doctors Allentuck and Bowman should have stated so unqualifiedly that the use of marijuana does not lead to physical, mental or moral deterioration

Your Majesty has not before been thus officially notified, and you may plead ignorance of the severity of our laws, but I now give my assurance that we mean to cut this harmful drug forever.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances

As long as there is a demand [for drugs], there will be a supply.

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.

I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.

Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.

Marijuana doesn’t produce dependence and it doesn’t produce overdose deaths.

Smoking Marijuana does not lead to addiction.

Asking South American peasants to stop growing coca is like asking the Scots to stop growing barley because people on the other side of the world could not hold their drink.

We are very grateful for what Western society has brought us ... but we owe you no gratitude for the traffic of cocaine which is a foreign enterprise ... this problem is the responsibility of the consumer countries rather than the producing countries.

Drugs are wrong. They burn out your brain and they sear your soul.

We know the war on drugs will not be won in Washington DC When the United States of America decides it wants to do something and the people pull together, amazing things can be done.

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

Drugs come to America, not by invasion, but by invitation.

The real drug "kingpin" is the user. It is the casual users who create the profits. But we can't put them all in prison; there isn't any room in the jails.

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

Crack has destroyed more families than poverty.

The Batoka of these parts are very degraded in their appearance, and are not likely to improve, either physically or mentally, while so much addicted to smoking the mutokwane ('Cannabis sativa'). They like its narcotic effects