Doug Stanhope Quotes

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

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

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 still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens.

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.

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

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.

The drug problem in this country is a consumption issue.

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

I used crack cocaine probably in one of my drunken stupors

The effect of the [opium prohibition] edict was electrical. Farmers stopped cultivation with little resistance. Smokers abandoned the habit by millions; it became unfashionable to smoke in public; and the young were constrained not to acquire the habit…

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization. We'd rather work ourselves into a screaming fit of puritanism and then go home and take a pill.

I'm very fond of drugs.

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

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

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.