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“As the so-called ‘war on drugs’ enters its fifth decade, we need to ask whether it, and the approaches that comprise it, have been truly effective.”
“It would be one thing if the drug war was draconian and it worked…but it’s draconian and it doesn’t work.”
“There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.”
“The war on drugs, while well-intentioned, has been a failure.”
“I’d like to see empirical evidence be used in our shaping of public drug policy, so people will have more respect for a policy they know is not capricious.”
“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. The whole thing is crazy.”
“I don’t care what brings the change about, whether it’s a moral outrage or whether it’s an economic crunch, I think that it’s time… it’s way past time.”
“After 40 years of concentrating on one approach that has been
unsuccessful, we should be willing to take a look at other ways of
working to solve this pressing problem.”
“We have not been very successful in incarcerating our way out of the drug problem. We’ve created a bigger problem.”
“Let’s return to the focus on prevention of crime. How do we prevent people from becoming drug addicts? How do we prevent people from being incarcerated?”
“More kids die from obesity, from alcohol use, from traffic accidents. How many people have died from marijuana? Tell me.”
“This approach has not worked, just as our national experiment with the prohibition of alcohol failed.
“What we need to do is to treat drugs as a health problem, not as a criminal problem.”
“You have never had so many people on the same side in this issue. Because
we’ve fought a war and we’ve been unsuccessful.”
“It’s about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don’t hurt anybody.”