Drug Quotes
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Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, ‘legal’ drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war? (Drug Quotes)
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true. (Drug Quotes)
I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time. (Drug Quotes)
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don’t think it’s far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials. (Drug Quotes)
No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess. (Drug Quotes)
The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured curl on my head. (Drug Quotes)
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I’d say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism. (Drug Quotes)
I don’t think drugs should be illegal. I’m not an advocate of everybody running out and using drugs, but I think the drug wars are not working, there’s millions and millions of dollars being spent on the drug war that we’re never going to win. (Drug Quotes)
Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela. (Drug Quotes)
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War. (Drug Quotes)
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real. (Drug Quotes)
We won’t win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs. (Drug Quotes)
Considering the fact that I’ve used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don’t view marijuana as a dangerous drug. (Drug Quotes)
Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past. (Drug Quotes)
We all know to feel sympathy for those who’ve suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light. (Drug Quotes)
I’ve always worked on bipartisans, whether it’s on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I’m - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I’m very practical. (Drug Quotes)
For all of life’s discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there’s another drug, and so on. So we’re all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs. (Drug Quotes)
The historian’s rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug. (Drug Quotes)
One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling, ... Before taking a drug, go through yourself, experience yourself, all your hopes and fears in your own time. Before the pharmacology, do the psychology. (Drug Quotes)
Famous like a drug that I’ve taken too much of but I never ever trip, just peace, happiness and love. (Drug Quotes)
The AMA is urging the Federal Government not to classify marijuana as a dangerous drug and do more research. That’s what they said. It’s a big story, yeah. Yeah, that request came not only from the AMA but also from KFC. (Drug Quotes)
I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I’ve heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems. (Drug Quotes)
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you’ve got the future secured. (Drug Quotes)
Internet pharmacies return to consumers the choice promised by supporters of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. That law established federal requirements for drug safety and labeling but exempted prescription medicines from the labeling rules. (Drug Quotes)
I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my (art) against such contamination. (Drug Quotes)
For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken. (Drug Quotes)
I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, ‘We’re learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.’ I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people. (Drug Quotes)
No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public. (Drug Quotes)
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People begin to think that there is no natural process to success, hence the fraudulent nouveau riche (swindlers, drug pushers, 419 scammers etc.) begin to become respected in the society (Drug Quotes)
If you’re trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000. (Drug Quotes)