William F. Buckley, Jr. Quotes About Drugs

Quotes about: Drugs

• The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Lying, Marijuana, Law

• Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Marijuana, Law, People

• Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Jail, Space, Drug

  William F. Buckley Jr.'s Address to the New York Bar Association, www.nationalreview.com. July 28, 2014.

• Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Mean, Drug, Abuse

  Address to the New York Bar Association on Summer 1995. "The War On Drugs Is Lost". National Review Volume 48, No. 2, February 12, 1996.

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