#prohibition

The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world. ↗

— Sebastian Marincolo

#drug #drug-policy #drugs #legalization #marihuana

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now. ↗

— Drew Carey

#crime #gang #led #liquor #now

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#cruel #dignity #either #ground #individual

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices. ↗

— Danny Sugerman

#crime #criminals #inflated #market #most

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#could #done #even #ever #every