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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. (Drug Quotes)
I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I’m on the speaker’s task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face. (Drug Quotes)
As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we’ve said we won’t draft a player: if they’ve been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority. (Drug Quotes)
One of the things that’s often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it’s not a destiny. It’s a journey. (Drug Quotes)
I just want to help people. I’m a helper. For instance, I myself have helped hundreds of people get off drugs. In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It’s called Narconon. (Drug Quotes)
My early research - I’m a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife’s life? (Drug Quotes)
And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, ˜Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area. (Drug Quotes)
Drug smugglers often use juveniles to carry their shipments into the U.S. because they know the juveniles will not be prosecuted if caught. (Drug Quotes)
Tyrone, I think they’re taking to festivals. I don’t know which festivals it will be at. It’s like a buddy picture. It’s a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler. (Drug Quotes)
I didn’t quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football. (Drug Quotes)
Substance abuse is a disease which doesn’t go away overnight. I’m working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I’m prepared to face the consequences. (Drug Quotes)
The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s, none of the victims have been promoted beyond the rank of lieutenant colonel. (Drug Quotes)
When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that’s not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects. (Drug Quotes)
Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The drug trade is responsible for much of that. (Drug Quotes)
Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade. (Drug Quotes)
I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade. (Drug Quotes)
The people in the US Drug Enforcement Department are encouraging drug trade so that they could show performance and get millions of dollars worth of budget. (Drug Quotes)
I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, but it is not clear what we should do. (Drug Quotes)
The War on Drugs has failed, but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties. (Drug Quotes)
Unfortunately, in this Obama Government, we have charges of drug trafficking and terrorism. For Evo, it’s drug trafficking. For Hugo, it’s terrorism. Evo Morales, drug trafficking. Hugo Chavez, terrorism. (Drug Quotes)
When the United States was in control of counternarcotics, the US governments used drug trafficking for purely geopolitical purposes .... The US uses drug trafficking and terrorism for political control .... We have nationalised the fight against drug trafficking. (Drug Quotes)
Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don’t think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else. (Drug Quotes)
Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking (Drug Quotes)
There’s so much more to Colombia than drug trafficking, you have no idea. They’re a bit worn out by the association. (Drug Quotes)
The fight against drug trafficking by the Colombian government has been present, and the Americans themselves are the first to recognize that. (Drug Quotes)
Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. (Drug Quotes)
My stance has always been that there’s no place in our sport for drug users. I’ve always said it’s a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that. (Drug Quotes)
I began to study marijuana in 1967... I had not yet learned that there is something very special about illicit drugs. If they don’t always make the drug user behave irrationally, they certainly cause many non-users to behave that way. (Drug Quotes)
The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn’t enough critical reporting about it and that’s why it’s gotten out of hand. (Drug Quotes)
The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses. (Drug Quotes)