“Our system has arrested, imprisoned, and eliminated from the market the stupid, disorganized, and less violent drug traffickers and smugglers, thus leaving this phenomenally lucrative market open to offenders who are smarter, better organized, and more violent.”
— Judge James P. Gray
“The U.S. has spent 100 years and over $1 trillion trying to eliminate drug supply and drug demand by force. Yet we can’t even keep drugs out of jails and prisons.”
— Christina Dent, End It For Good
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“The great majority of serious #crimes in California are drug related; that is to say, caused not by the perpetrator’s ingestion of drugs, but by his or her need to obtain the large amounts of #money necessary to purchase drugs on the street.”
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“We’ve seen with tobacco that there are much more effective ways to combat drug use on a large scale. We know that we can effectively send a social message without #prohibition and #criminalization.”
— Christina Dent
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“Every time you see a report that a ton, or ten tons, or a hundred tons of cocaine have been seized, see it for what it is. It is not a victory but merely a symptom of the depth of the problem.”
— Judge James P. Gray
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“Illegality creates obscene profits that finance the murderous tactics of the drug lords and leads to the corruption of law enforcement officials.”
— Dr. Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics
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300 Americans die every single day thanks to the #WaronDrugs—totaling nearly 2 million deaths since 1988. The time for honesty and action is now.
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“In a legal market, drug suppliers would be pressured to supply quality products and would face economic and legal consequences if they did not.”
— Dr. Benjamin Powell, Economist
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“If the goal is to bankrupt the underground market and get people to stop using contaminated drugs, legal access has to be viable and competitive with the underground market.”
— Christina Dent, End It For Good
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“When #government coercion is used to promote virtue, there cannot be #liberty.”
— Dr. Walter E. Williams, Economist
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“When national Alcohol #Prohibition ended, many localities passed their own bans on liquor. Bootleggers sometimes financed the campaigns to ban liquor. Their profits depended on liquor being illegal.”
— Dr. Thomas Sowell, Economist
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“#Truth is the first casualty of #war, and the #warondrugs is no different. Every day both the print and broadcast media bombard the public with a perspective and narrative which has proved to be devastating.”
— Dominic Milton Trott
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“People #overdose because under #Prohibition they don't know if the heroin is 1 percent or 40 percent. Just imagine if every time you took an aspirin, you didn't know if it was 5 milligrams or 500 milligrams.”
— Ethan Nadelmann
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“Thanks to the #WaronDrugs, most #police departments in America now possess weapons systems that an infantry battalion would not employ in an enemy city with civilians present.”
— Dr. Michael Hicks, Economist
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“Death, disease, crime, addiction, broken families, devastated lives. Prohibition causes or incentivizes all of these, but it has gone on for so many decades that it feels like the natural state of things.”
— Christina Dent, End It For Good
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“Now is the time for ministers of Parliament to start writing rules for the new legal market, so we can finally take back control from the #criminal #gangs.”
— Nick Clegg, former UK Deputy Prime Minister
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“Penal reformers have long claimed that ‘#prisons don’t work.’ This is only partly true: for drug #cartels, #prison works brilliantly. #Jails provide a place to hire and train new members.”
— Tom Wainwright
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“#Cartels looking to find potential employees could hardly come up with a more perfect solution than a #prison: a place full of #criminals, with nothing much to do and no job lined up for after their release.”
— Tom Wainwright
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“The statistics are clear: this is a #war on the #poor and #minorities.”
— Noam Chomsky
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“#Druguse, legal and illegal, is principally a #health problem which is best dealt with not by driving it underground with #prohibition tactics, but by having it out in the open to allow for #treatment and #education.”
— United States Court of Appeals Judge Juan Torruella
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“I have estimated statistically that the #prohibition of #drugs produces 10,000 #homicides a year. It’s a moral problem that the #government is going around killing 10,000 people a year.”
—Dr. Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics
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“It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of #crime in this country is closely connected with #Prohibition.”
—Albert Einstein
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“Drug consumption rooms have the potential to offer information about #harmreduction and #treatment, to decrease #overdose [and #disease], and reduce the negative impact on neighborhoods.”
—Dr. Matthew Frei and Dr. Alex Wodak
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“It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of #crime in this country is closely connected with [Prohibition].”
—Albert Einstein
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“Instead of being shielded, our children are being recruited into a lifestyle of drug selling and drug usage by the current system.”
—*Judge James P. Gray, Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed*, p. 2.
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“Until there is a radical change in strategy, business conditions for the mafia will remain promising. Half a century after Nixon’s war was declared, sadly there has never been a better time to run a drug cartel.”
— Tom Wainwright
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There’s really nothing funny about the #WarOnDrugs or #DrugProhibition, but we’ve utilized the artistry at our disposal to illustrate this #immoral issue nonetheless.
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