Bill Hicks Quotes

If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender.

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 there is a good case to be made for the illegalization of drugs, there is a better case to be made for the illegalization for tobacco and alcohol.

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

The war on drugs has gone on for about forty-five, fifty years - and it's been a complete failure. If you had a business that was failing so badly, you would change course. And it's just incredible that governments continue along the same course.

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

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.”

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're becoming drug courts.

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

We cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem.

There is absolutely no difference between alcohol prohibition and drug prohibition except the drug being prohibited.

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

Up with hope, down with dope

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

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

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

What governments decide is illegal is not always based on science. Drugs that are legal cause at least as much damage, if not more, than drugs that are illicit.

The consumption of drugs could be legalized, not penalized.

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

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

We have lost the War on Drugs. We cannot arrest our way out of it….It’s a public health problem, not a crime problem.

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.

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.