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  • If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.

    Drug   Reform   Might  
    Source: blog.sfgate.com
  • Since you control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2 billion this year, is asking people like you if we should continue with our nation's current drug policy like a person asking a barber if one needs a haircut?

    Years   People   Drug  
    "Is Our Drug Policy Failing? Don't Ask". articles.latimes.com. March 29, 2000.
  • I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

    Strong   Drug   Unions  
  • I never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan. There can't be a rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn't been a performance.

    Missing   Drug   Clinton  
  • My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the conversation, the politicians will join - that is when we can create real change.

    Real   Drug   Tables  
    "Breaking the Taboo" by Sam Branson, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.

    Weed   Marijuana   Law  
    U.S. President in a message to the U.S. Congress, 1977.
  • U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about reducing substance abuse, what is it about? It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.

    Class   Goal   Historical  
    "On the War on Drugs". Week Online interview, chomsky.info. February 8, 2002.
  • We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Republicans: the party that brought us 'Just Say No.' First as a drug policy, then as their entire platform.

    Party   Drug   Firsts  
  • If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the trial of George Zimmerman. We think about the prosecution, when they said "race is not a factor." It's so dishonest.

    Thinking   Race   Play  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana. We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.

    Weed   War   Marijuana  
    "Legalizing Marijuana: Drug Policy Reform and Prohibition Politics". Book by Rudolph Joseph Gerber, 2004.
  • Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

    Witty   War   Marijuana  
    "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World" by Alan Greenspan, Penguin Press, Chapter 4, (p. 87), 2007.
  • Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in a remarkably engaging way. That’s why I turned to Russ when I needed someone to present on the subject to the annual staff retreat of the Drug Policy Alliance. And it’s why I repeatedly recommend him for speaking and media opportunities. He’s good!

  • Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself

    Jimmy Carter (2010). “White House Diary”, p.74, Macmillan
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