 [23] Drugs, policy (1:375/48)  WORLD.DRUG.POLICY 
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 From : Michael Hess                        1:375/48        Wed 06 Jul 94 15:45 
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Greetings All!

I was looking up some book/references for our new German friend and I collected
these quotes in this order:


Or, in the words of Senator Brookhart, in the Senate, arguing for
stricter enforcement of alcohol prohibition, rather than worrying about
innocent people getting killed by Prohibition agents:

"When we get senators in this chamber talking sense,
instead of all this gush stuff about murders by men
who make mistakes once in a while, we will have a better
attitude toward the bootleg question."
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"Just as many people use drugs in spite of the serious harms such
conduct can cause, many people advocate the use of drug laws in spite of
the savage social and personal harms these laws can inflict."
        -- Randy E. Barnett, "Curing the Drug-Law Addiction"
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"How can you expect your children to respect authorities who will ruin a
person's life for possession of marijuana or put a man in jail for using
a drug with the abuse potential of a cocktail?"
        -- Dr. David Smith
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"If all immoral things should be illegal, let's outlaw LYING and
put all the War-on-Drugs advocates in jail!"
        -- Lazarus
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"Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there
is some ordinance under which you can be booked."
        -- Robert D. Sprecht (Rand Corp)
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"Laws are only words words written on paper, words that change on
society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians,
lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should
always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who
believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or
economic status, is a fool."
        -- John J. Miller, "And Hope to Die"
        (in _Jokertown Shuffle - Wild Cards IX_)
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Phil Ochs lamented in "Small Circle of Friends", 1966:

"Smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer,
But a friend of ours was captured,
And they gave him twenty years."
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Peter Tosh `predicted' in "Bush Doctor", 1978:

"There'll be no more need to smoke and hide,
When you know you're taking a legal ride."
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"I submit that an individual who breaks the law that
conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts
the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice, is in reality
expressing the very highest respect for law."

                            --Martin Luther King Jr.

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