Illegal Drugs Quotes

• We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life.

  Jim Bunning

  Drug, Use, Pay

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• Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Addiction, Cover Ups

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.152, New World Library

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• Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

  John Hardwick

  Weed, Marijuana, Addiction

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• Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Weed, Men, Blow

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• Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.

  Grace Jones

  Differences, Drug, Illegal

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Moving, Addiction

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.152, New World Library

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• Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (1949). “The World as I See it”, Citadel Press

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• Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.

  Bernard Hinault

  Running, Cycling, Drug Use

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• Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Insanity, Drug

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• People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.

  Wendell Berry

  Lonely, Hate, Drug Use

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.61, Counterpoint

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• Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself

  Jimmy Carter

  Weed, Marijuana, Drug Use

  Jimmy Carter (2010). “White House Diary”, p.74, Macmillan

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• There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Weed, Women, Marijuana

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• A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Weed, Blow, Marijuana

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• The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Weed, War

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs. It is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Decision, Drug

  "Gingrich Suggests Tough Drug Measure". www.nytimes.com. August 27, 1995.

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• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Numbers, Goal, Priorities

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• Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Funny, Weed, Marijuana

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• The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Technology, Long, Drug

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• Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.

  Jimmy Carter

  Weed, Marijuana, Law

  U.S. President in a message to the U.S. Congress, 1977.

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• By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.

  Andrea Barthwell

  Fun, Children, Medicine

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• I have always been very interested in the issue of drugs, because as much as illegal drugs are prosecuted, if you think of it as a health issue, the real killer are prescription drugs, like over prescribing of opioids.

  Pedro Reyes

  Real, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff. And the disrespect for the possession laws fosters a disrespect for laws and the system in general... On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair style or their ethnic background.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Marijuana, Impact, Hair

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• Marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man.

  Frances M. Young

  Weed, Marijuana, Men

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• All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

  Thomas Szasz

  Humor, Intelligent, America

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• You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Brother, Marijuana, Joints

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