Danny Sugerman Quotes

Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.

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

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

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.

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.

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

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.

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

I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.

If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.

I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.

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.”

It was when the upper middle class was threatened.... Until then nobody really cared about the war on drugs.

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

We've been fighting this war on drugs for 60 or 70 years and haven't gotten anywhere yet.