Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-07-10 Jul 10, 2001After 20 years on the bench I have concluded that federal drug laws are a disaster. It is time to get the government out of drug enforcement.~ Judge Whitman KnappBecause law enforcement resources have been concentrated on the street drug trade in minority communities, drug arrests of minorities increased at 10 times the rate of increase for whites.~ Los Angeles Times Jul 9, 2001The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.~ Edwin M. Schur[When a victimless criminal] is treated as an enemy of society, he almost necessarily becomes one. Forced into criminal acts, immersed in underworld-related supply networks, and ever-conscious of the need to evade the police, his outlooks as well as behavior become more and more anti-social.~ Edwin M. Schur Jul 6, 2001It's gotten to where defense attorneys in federal drug cases can do their clients about as much good as Dr. Kevorkian can do his -- quietly shepherd them through to the least painful end.~ Dan BaumThe country's first drug ban explicitly targeted the opium of "the heathen Chinee." Cocaine was first banned in the south to prevent an uprising of hopped-up "cocainized Negroes.~ Dan Baum Jul 5, 2001Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.~ Anjelica HustonEvery form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.~ Carl Gustav JungIf you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert, and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.~ P. J. O'RourkeCocaine habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know, I've been using it for years.~ Tallulah Bankhead Jul 4, 2001We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, ... That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.~ Declaration of Independence Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print